This weekend, pre-game Christmas dinner with a champagne-fueled brunch. Miami restaurants are stocked with everything from red bean and chocolate babka French toast, to fried green tomato Benedicts, avocado and caviar toast, coffee banana pancakes, and all-you-can-drink Whispering Angel rosé. Here are five brunch experiences that are sure to impress your out-of-town relatives.
Unless you’re picky, religious, or allergic to everything, there is no better way to dine than at the chef’s discretion. And in Miami, restaurants have slowly begun to offer such options to diners who are increasingly willing to turn themselves over to the whims of the city’s ever-growing stable of talented cooks.
From caviar and champagne to drag queens to a Viet-Cajun mashup of flavors, these are Miami’s best brunches of 2017.
No holiday celebration is complete without an assortment of cookies. These sweet gems capture our fondest holiday memories — the cathartic rolling of dough, the glimmer of colored sugars, and the inimitable excitement of leaving a plate of goodies and a glass of milk for Santa.
Miami is a city of stories. Immigrants, drugs, love, death. This city has them all in spades. And this past year, those tales have been particularly powerful. The culinary community was rocked by the untimely death of a Wynwood pioneer and an explosion that changed the life of a chef. A hurricane blew through, one restaurant burned, and the homes of the best drag brunch and late-night bites closed.
Enjoying a steaming bowl of pho is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Oodles of noodles swim alongside meat and veggies in a hearty, flavorful broth. Now picture having pho delivered to your office when you need the food equivalent of a warm hug. Enter Pho Mi, a “ghost restaurant” from the couple behind Phuc Yea, offering pho and bánh mì delivered to your door, beginning today, December 18.
Choices Café, Miami’s onetime vegan chain, has closed its Upper Eastside location. The NE 79th Street spot had been open about four years, but the building’s recent owner decided to sell, and because of declining sales, the Choices team opted to shut the doors.
The Palace Bar, the long-standing mecca of food, drinks, and entertainment in Miami Beach, has reopened in a new home right on Ocean Drive.
Soul Tavern, Sunset Harbour’s long-awaited vegetarian gastropub, opened this past summer. Locals have embraced Soul’s commitment to offering a meat-free and entirely vegetarian menu, as well as serving a bounty of vegan items.
In 2017, Miami gained some fine eateries, but also lost some of its most beloved — including three markets that were iconic institutions for people who like to eat outside the box.The reasons behind the closures ranged from retirement to Hurricane Irma to rising rent in a city where the real estate market is relentless.
Situated on the ground floor of the luxury beach club, which is located in Miami Beach’s South of Fifth neighborhood, Key West has the vibe of a rustic seaside bar, with whitewashed walls, beach furniture, and blue and white accents.
Feeling a little hung-over? No Name Chinese’s dim sum brunch with bottomless Riesling just might make you feel alive again.
For more than 13 years, Roger Borges was an entertainment reporter for Univision with a steady following. He moved on to Telemundo’s morning talk show, Un Nuevo Dia, but left a year later, deciding to shine the spotlight full-time on his growing French brownie company, Oh Chocolat!
Michael Schwartz’s Genuine Pizza is now open at Aventura Mall. The debut officially marks Schwartz’s rebranding of Harry’s Pizzeria, which is expected to expand with 18 new locations, from the Design District and Miami Beach to Atlanta and Cleveland, in the next three years under its new name, Genuine Pizza…
Wynwood’s Gramps is expanding to a location on the Miami River. Owner Adam Gersten received approval by the Miami River Commission Monday to begin building a two-story bar and restaurant at the 5th Street Marina. A ground-breaking date has not yet been announced.
For years, Lime Fresh Mexican Grill was the go-to place for South Beach locals to enjoy an inexpensive — yet fresh — meal.The restaurant, founded by restaurateur John Kunkel of 50 Eggs in 2004, was something of a unicorn at the time — an independently owned, fast-casual restaurant serving quality food by an attentive staff. The one-off Mexican restaurant grew to multiple locations and in 2012 sold to Ruby Tuesday Inc. for a reported $24 million. The original 800-square-foot Miami Beach location remained unchanged for a while, then was shuttered to make way for several other Kunkel ventures including BTW and Spring Chicken. Now, Lime returns to where it started — with the same recipes but new ownership.
Welcome to autumn in Miami. The air is crisper, streets are festooned with holiday decorations, and street artists are painting murals on every bare piece of wall in Miami. Thanksgiving is over and the city is electric with anticipation for Miami Art Week, Art Basel, and the holiday season. With that comes a frenzy of restaurant openings. November saw the openings of Norman Van Aken’s Three, the Wharf, and 1-800-Lucky. Beloved deli, Stephen’s, closed for a revamp and the last Miami-Dade World of Beer poured its last brew.
Art Basel and the holidays are coming, and Miamians will get crazy busy. That’s why this weekend is a good time to call a friend and have a leisurely lunch or dinner before the madness ensues. Whether you want to meet for a croissant or check out Wynwood’s new Asian food market, there’s plenty of good food in store.
This past November, the upscale seafood emporium, which has a sister restaurant in Fort Lauderdale and is one of 13 eateries owned by the Atlanta-based Buckhead Life Restaurant Group, rolled out a Miami Spice-style, three-course brunch chock full of hearty entrées.
This weekend marks a year since the Salty Donut settled into a permanent location at the Wynwood Arcade.
This Friday, December 1, Cvi.che 105, a popular Peruvian restaurant in downtown Miami and South Beach, will open on the ground floor of the new three-level wing. The eatery will offer indoor and outdoor seating and a large bar stocked with wine, beer, and spirits.
“Food porn” took on a new meaning this week when Zak the Baker’s Zak Stern posted a video with internet sensation Bread Face. The footage, filmed in Stern’s Wynwood bakery and posted on Instagram, shows him and the anonymous woman squashing their faces into two loaves of cinnamon babka. The video has garnered more than 43,000 views so far.
