Restaurants

Making the rounds at South Florida restaurants and food festivals, you’re likely to hear the name L’Artisane Creative Bakery more than once.

Acclaimed chef José Andrés has won many accolades for his culinary expertise. Now, he may receive one of the world’s greatest honors — and it’s for being a human.

Over the last year José Ramírez-Ruiz, the chef-owner of Brooklyn’s now-closed, Michelin-starred vegetable-forward restaurant Semilla, quietly moved to Miami and worked a corporate consulting job as he conceptualized his next endeavor. Last week, he quit that job to throw himself headlong into his next project: a Miami-based evolution of Semilla using a palette of ingredients previously unseen in the tasting menus that regularly drew crowds to his 465-square-foot restaurant.

Donna Mare in the Cadillac Hotel pays homage to Italy’s classic comfort food.

When Time Out Market opens off Lincoln Road in February 2019, some of Miami’s most beloved chefs will operate kitchens under one roof, including Norman Van Aken, Jeremy Ford, and Giorgio Rapicavoli.

From the Aventura Mall and Downtown Dadeland, to Lincoln Road and the Design District, here are five restaurants worth losing a few hours of shopping for.

Here are the best spots serving up Black Friday brunch. Specials take place Friday, November 23 unless noted otherwise. Prices do not include tax or gratuity.

If you’re searching for a little Christmas spirit in your spirits, head over to Wynwood. Miracle, the Christmas-themed holiday pop-up bar, is finally bringing its special blend of magical cocktails to Miami.

Luciana Lamont was doing her best to make ends meet as a cook at North Miami’s King Jerk. Yet the Dixie Highway spot that boasts some of the city’s best jerk chicken wasn’t paying anywhere near enough and wasn’t giving Lamont, who is 41, the training she needed to move…

The president traditionally pardons a turkey every year, but that compassionate act doesn’t have to be limited to the chief executive. Anyone can spare a turkey’s life by opting for a meatless Thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving dinner is famous for turkey, but we’re really in it for the pie. In fact, some people actually forgo the rest of the meal and skip to the delicious dessert. Whether you’re a traditionalist who loves pumpkin pie or you opt for a Miami-style key lime variety, you need at least one pie on the holiday table.

The setting is a Los Angeles nightclub, where chef Wolfgang Puck is slow dancing with a woman he just met. The young Austrian immigrant tells her cooking is what he does for a living, and the minute the tune is over, the woman is gone from his arms. The…

In Miami Beach, the Nautilus hotel is behind two new weekend experiences: the Feast Hotel California Saturday brunch buffet and a bottomless rosé Sunday brunch.

This weekend, Vista opens its rooftop bar in Upper Buena Vista, New Times’ Tacolandia returns to Soho Studios, R House extends its drag brunch to Saturdays, and the Miami Book Fair offers events for foodies. Vista Opens Rooftop Bar. This weekend, Buena Vista will get its first rooftop bar. Located…

This Saturday, November 17, find Miami’s best tacos in one place when New Times’ Tacolandia takes over Soho Studios. While the day focuses on feeding your inner taco lover with unlimited food from a host of restaurants, there’s so much more including music, mariachis, jugglers, and plenty of hot sauce…

It was 5 p.m. Thursday, October 25, the day before Vagabond Sushi was to open, when Amir Ben-Zion addressed a group of employees finishing a wine and food tasting as part of their training. Ceramic cup of sake in hand, he told the two dozen servers and bartenders sitting around…

The Cat Café South Beach opens its doors Friday morning, serving up freshly roasted coffee, treats, and cuddly kitties.The 2,900-square-foot space will offer a good selection of coffee drinks, along with sweet and savory items from local vendors like Honeybee Donuts and Cindy Lou’s Cookies.

Vista’s rooftop bar will debut Friday, November 16, with more than 10 cocktails, a tapas menu, and live music.

Thanksgiving is really what you wish to make of it. If you’re craving an early feast this year, you’ll be happy to know that many Miami eateries are hosting tasty options of turkey brunch on November 22 and over the weekend. Here are the best spots serving up special holiday menus. Brunch specials fall on Thanksgiving Day unless noted otherwise. Prices do not include tax or gratuity.

Latin Cafe 2000 has, in a way, seen it all. Two decades ago, the Edgewater neighborhood where it resides was a different place. Few ventured to Biscayne Boulevard at night. There were only a few residents and high-rises dotting a landscape that now sees developers buying land for tens of…

Seed Food & Wine Week, the nation’s first plant-based food and wine fest and a signature Miami event, just marked a milestone: year five. The festival, named one of the top three wine festival in the U.S. by USA Today, has grown exponentially since its inception, expanding to include an LA edition…