Richard Hales’s Sakaya Kitchen was a pioneer in both locale (midtown, then a ghost town in terms of eateries) and concept — affordable, chef-driven, Asian-inspired small plates (pre-Gigi, Wok Town, Pubbelly, etc.). Hales was also right at the intersection of the original food truck courts; his Sakaya Kitchen Truck, then Dim…
The Dutch at the W South Beach, opens to the public today with lunch and dinner service (breakfast to follow).Chef Andrew Carmellini decided to start the Dutch in Miami Beach after success with his two New York restaurants, Locanda Verde and the Dutch. With the Dutch Miami, chef Carmellini has…
Foodstock: One Night of Peas and Music is tomorrow, so break our the love beads, your suede fringe jacket and get ready for an evening of great street food from 30 of your favorite trucks. In addition, Foodstock will feature vintage wearables, crafts, and art for sale, a DJ spinning…
At the beginning of this week Tokyo Bowl closed in North Miami. A sign on the door reads “Thanks for your patronage.” The drive-thru window is what made this sushi place unique. It was a savior for rumbling stomachs in search of fast sushi on the busy intersection of NE…
Sure, a Burger King was nearly robbed by guy with a sock, but it’s not all bad news in the fast food world. Sonic opens its second South Florida location in Fort Lauderdale at 5 p.m. today, with a menu of specialty items and a bar serving beer and wine.This…
Ever since I wrote my first articles about juicing in Miami, people have come to me asking how to get started with their own at-home, fresh, organic juice routines. Their first questions are invariably about which juicer to buy.There are lots of options out there. Some cost as little as…
El Vato Tequila and Taco Bar: Downtown Miami taqueria offers fresh Mex snacks and top-shelf tequilas
On November 9, 2009, Latin Burger and Taco tweeted: “We’re here”, and rolled onto Miami streets. The food truck scene in Miami was new, and people were intrigued by this pink and black truck that sold burgers designed by Food Network celebrity chef, Ingrid Hoffmann.Latin Burger’s owner Jim Heins always…
His passion for a woman brought him to veganism. After five years, his passion for culinary art brought him back to beef.Okay, so maybe that’s packaged a little too neatly. Timothe Crandall, the relatively new sous chef at Red the Steakhouse, never enjoyed eating meat as a child. “I hated…
Hogzilla’s Inspired Barbeque opened this past Sunday in the former digs of Bar-B-Q Beach on South Beach. Ron Garcia (Burger & Beer Joint) and Raul Rodriguez (“BBQ master”) are the owners of this sprawling two-room, two-bar space, which is packed with TV screens and will feature live music (and a…
This past weekend we set back the clock one hour. This coming weekend, we’re setting the clock back even farther … to 1969, a time when hippies chanted “make love, not war,” traded love beads and ate street food. Let’s put it this way, hippies were the OWS of their…
As in: LouLou Le Petit Bistro is the answer to last week’s Where It At? The plates shown in that post were veal tongue gribiche and a dodine of salmon in tarragon beurre blanc.In fact, there is a lot of really genuine and well-prepared French fare being served nowadays at…
If you go into any juice bar worth its wheatgrass, you’re bound to find spirulina on the list of available “power-ups” you can choose to boost the nutritional value of your smoothie.It sounds so weird that it must be good for you. But what exactly is this superfood, and where…
Vic & Angelo’s Italian Restaurant, the newest kid on the Ocean Drive block in South Beach, had its official opening on Friday, November 4. They’ve been open for a while but last night was the big night.On hand for the festivities was none other than George Clooney’s former main squeeze,…
Homestead Main Street organized Homestead al Gusto, a food truck festival this past weekend that included a chef’s challenge. Local farmer’s donated veggies from their first crop and the food truck chefs picked out which ones they wanted. Then they had exactly one hour to prepare a dish worthy of…
Banana & Leaf is a no-frills sushi place offering basic rolls at insanely cheap prices. This is a great new spot for downtowners in need of a quick raw fish fix, and it’s by the same crew behind Little Lotus, experts at making a restaurant something out of nothing (if…
Though no one’s going to accuse all food trucks of serving seriously health-conscious eats, many owners make an effort to use fresh and local ingredients.Jefe’s Original Fish Taco and Burger owner Jack Garabedian, for instance, goes down to the Redland during the growing season to pick his own vegetables, and…
Terence Gerchberg is fit to be tied. Literally, fit to be tied. In June, he and four friends tied themselves together and ran the God’s Country Marathon in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, breaking the Guinness world record for “fastest marathon completed by a linked team,” with a time of 3:26:15.He will likely…
Yardbird Southern Table & Bar might be onto something. The restaurant, which features home style Southern cuisine, a lively bar filled with bourbon and beer selections, and hot your chef Jeff McInnis, might just have become the new industry hot spot. We’ve been there only three times since the restaurant…
Sean Grimburg’s Wellington burger is topped with bleu cheese and a foie gras-truffle-onion sauce. At BGR, his place in the Gables, they also serve a crisp pint of nutty-coffee flavored Maduro Cigar City Oatmeal Brown Ale. Try ’em this evening for BGR The Burger Joint’s first ever Artisanal Beer Tasting…
For months we’ve been watching a mystery restaurant on Florida Avenue in Coconut Grove. The butcher paper on the window gave no indication of what was to be — restaurant or club? Locally owned or another Cheesecake Factory?Yesterday, the paper was gone from the windows and, as if by magic,…
Gourmet Diner and La Cigale: French food two ways
