Restaurants

Chris Paciello and Mio Danilovic are set to open a beach club next to Jungle Island.

The Miami food scene lost a lot this year.

Cuban-American restaurateur Jason Odio is set to open his first Miami Beach concept in early January 2020: Bebito’s Casa de Cafecito.

Time to put on the Ritz: After a multiyear renovation, the Ritz-Carlton South Beach will finally reopen in late January.

Brothers Assaf and Tal Hadad missed the food from home. Born in Hadera, Israel, a 40-minute car ride north of Tel Aviv, they moved to Ariel, a settlement in the occupied West Bank, when Assaf was 12. There they grew up surrounded by a rainbow of cuisines.

It’s hard to believe that something as simple as a salad could garner a rabid fan base. However, anyone who has eaten at Sweetgreen knows why this fast-casual salad shrine has a cult-like following. Next year, Miami will get in on the action when Sweetgreen locations open in Coral Gables and Coconut Grove.

Miami’s five best desserts to take to holiday parties this season.

For years there’s been a slow creep of traditional Chinese cuisine into Miami. Much of it has taken place in the western part of the county where, thanks to a campaign by University of Miami and Florida International University to recruit Chinese students, there is a growing population who simply couldn’t live without the flavors. After all, who should be expected to?

7y One Restaurant & Coffee serves a variety of Venezuelan dishes in Miami Beach.

Here we are at the tail end of 2019, and there’s little time to waste. No more explaining is needed about the cultural mashup that is modern-day Miami, nor do we need to talk any further about the glut of food halls. But on the noisy strip of Bird Road that links Coral Gables and Westchester, a trio of side-by-side fast-casual restaurants has taken root, bringing together three seemingly unrelated styles of eating.

The new shop serves ice-cream cupcakes, cakesickles, macaron ice-cream sandwiches, and other frozen treats.

From the death of a beloved fixture on the local food scene to the elation of worldwide recognition for a bartender who’s a mentor to many in the industry, these are the moments that weave the fabric of the culinary community in Miami.

When Michael Schwartz visited Singapore this fall, he skipped all of the fine-dining restaurants for hawker stalls and mom-and-pop joints. It was in the streets and night markets of Southeast Asia that the James Beard Award-winning chef found the inspiration he sought for his new concept inside the Como Metropolitan Miami Beach.

Miami is in the midst of a fresh pasta revolution.

Over the summer Thiago and Elena Gamoeda opened the aptly named Sfiha’s House specializing in their homeland’s ubiquitous Arab-Brazilian snacks alongside some more of Brazil’s familiar grab-and-go bites.

Chef Allen Susser has a murderous intention. The venerable chef wants to put an end to lionfish, the invasive species that has been taking over reefs in Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean. “They’re currently desecrating our reefs, and we need to rid ourselves of these lionfish.”

Semilfort St. Hubert was born into coffee. Raised on his family’s farms in St. Louis du Nord on Haiti’s northern peninsula he spent the years from youth to adulthood picking and processing coffee on his father’s 35 acre farm. Yet no matter how hard they worked the money large brokers paid was never enough.

Miami’s busy season has arrived, bringing a slew of visitors to our city. With the tourists, Miami Art Week, and Art Basel come new restaurants. This month, Timon Balloo opened Balloo: Modern Home Cooking, a delightful little eatery that offers a rotating menu of soulful dishes. Lorena Garcia opened Chica,…

Sometimes a restaurant’s vibe is as crucial to its concept as the food. Such is the case with Orilla Bar & Grill, which opened this month inside Urbanica the Euclid Hotel in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood. The eatery offers global cuisine in a stylish, laid-back setting that complements its surroundings.

No stranger to gathering talented chefs for a single culinary purpose, Jeremiah Bullfrog has brought several successful tasting events to Miami, including Duck Duck Goose, Pop Ramen, P.I.G. (Pork Is Good), and the recently announced Chefs Cook Keto.

For years, Miami diners have known Timon Balloo as the partner of the slick and sexy Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill in Midtown. The pan-Asian concept, offering small plates and refined cocktails, has opened outposts in Brooklyn and Las Vegas and is poised to continue growing.

La Fontana in Doral serves meats, Italian specialities, and a robust cocktail program in Doral.