It’s the most delicious time of year — the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Each year, the five-day event attracts many of the nation’s best in the food-and-beverage industry, from wine and spirits professionals to chefs and culinary personalities. Since its inception, the fest has morphed into a world of dinners, seminars, spirits and wine tastings, brunches, lunches, and late-night, celebrity-filled parties.
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) returns February 21 through 25 with more events than ever before. When all is said and done, more than 70,000 attendees will have enjoyed nearly 100 parties, dinners, seminars, and tastings. The annual fete, which has raised more than $26 million to date for Florida International University’s Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management, focuses the world’s culinary eyes on the sands of Miami Beach as hundreds of the planet’s most talented chefs converge on the city to cook, mingle, and celebrate food.
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Even though the South Beach Wine & Food Festival began as a humble wine dinner, it has grown into a full-fledged spirited affair. With the rise of craft cocktails nationwide came some of the staple events that make the fest a must-do. This year’s edition will be no different, with many favorite spirits-centric events back on the roster for attendees to enjoy in the form of brunches, happy hours, and late-night bacchanals. Here’s the lowdown on the booziest events at this year’s SOBEWFF.
Football Sandwich Shop, the beloved old-school sub shop that paid tribute to the Miami Dolphins through deli meat, has closed.
At Zuma in downtown Miami, weekend brunch is a mouthful. The experience, offered Saturday and Sunday from 11:30 a.m to 2:30 p.m., unites unlimited samplings of Asian-inspired food, bottomless cocktails, and live jazz performers. It comes at a sizable cost, though.
If your brunch game is strong, you don’t want to miss New Times’ Out to Brunch, Miami’s best brunch event that features South Florida’s top restaurants serving their finest bites.
Ghee Indian Kitchen has recently introduced an affordable, fast, and photogenic midday dining option for those wanting real food in a crunch. The meals are served in Indian lunch boxes called tiffins: three or four stacked stainless-steel containers sealed with clips and a lid with a handle for carrying.
Ingrid Hoffmann knows what it’s like to be an immigrant in a new country. You wouldn’t know it by her fluent American English and her infectiously sunny disposition, but the gorgeous superstar food celebrity, who hails from Colombia, remembers vividly the challenges of fitting in.
Late-night taco cravings are real. That’s why Beach Taco is whipping up Mexican street food in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood until 1 a.m. weekdays and 5 a.m. on weekends. The fast-casual joint, located less than a block from Story Nightclub, is behind a heap of well-priced food items made with fresh vegetables and antibiotic- and hormone-free meats.
For years, Hedy Goldsmith was known throughout Miami for her intricate, balanced desserts at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink. She moved to the West Coast to start a new path with wife Heidi Ladell in 2015 but forever holds an honorary place in the South Florida culinary community.
Fort Lauderdale’s plant-strong paradise just earned another honor for one of its culinary creations: Sublime Restaurant & Bar’s coconut cake was named “Best Vegan Sweet Treat” in the nation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
When Joan Nathan wrote her most recent cookbook, King Solomon’s Table: a Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking From Around the World, she traveled to El Salvador for research. One evening, she spent Shabbat dinner with a local family. A few minutes after she sat down, she looked at the table and noticed a peculiar plate of latkes.
Homa Khakpour will never forget the aroma of rice perfuming her neighborhood in Shiraz, in southwestern Iran, each day on her way home from school. “As you’re walking, you can smell it pouring out of every house, and the saffron, there’s nothing like it,” says the 66-year-old owner of Rumi…
Long before “plant-based” became a hot topic in the culinary world, Amanda Cohen has been making magic with vegetables. Her award-winning NYC hot spot, Dirt Candy, was the first of its kind, an eatery committed to vegetables in a sea of steakhouses and sushi dens.
Nine months after debuting a grab-and-go market inside Aventura Mall, Pubbelly Sushi has moved into a larger and more permanent space within the mall’s 350,000-square-foot expanded wing.
Angie Mar, chef and owner of New York City’s West Village restaurant the Beatrice Inn, wants to change the dialogue surrounding women in the kitchen. Mar, who has mastered the art of whole-animal butchery and runs a restaurant revolving around meat, is bone-tired of addressing her feelings about being a female in the culinary world.
Wynwood Yard founder Della Heiman and restaurateur Ken Lyon are opening a new health-conscious food hall this spring. Jackson Hall, located in the Civica Center at Jackson Health District, will offer five different food concepts and a small marketplace in its 10,000-square-foot space. In addition, the third floor of the space is being planned as a hydroponic garden by Cincinnati-based 80 Acres Farms.
On the edge of Miami Beach’s Sunset Harbour, a new Italian-based gelato shop called Bio Bio serves made-from-scratch Italian ice cream. It’s the newest opening in the neighborhood, joining a host of successful restaurants and bars including Pubbelly, Stiltsville Fish Bar, NaiYaRa, and Purdy Lounge.
