Restaurants

Paon Eatery offers Mediterranean and Latin American plates pared down to their simplest form.

The folks who brought Lolo’s Surf Cantina, a Baja California-inspired restaurant, to the Marriott Stanton South Beach are behind Miami’s latest sushi restaurant, Azabu.

Inside the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale, find Burlock Coast Seafare & Spirits, a restaurant, café, market, and bar concept that includes an artisanal goods marketplace, a small-batch rum retail shop, and a cigar bar. On Saturdays and Sundays, the restaurant opens for a seaside brunch focused on meats, seafood, and seasonal produce. Overseen…

After 50 days at Jackson Memorial’s Ryder Trauma Center, chef Ralph Pagano is going home.

The Fort Lauderdale outpost of 50 Eggs’ Spring Chicken quickly closed on Tuesday night, blindsiding some employees who showed up for work yesterday morning to find they no longer had jobs. “It seems like they came in the middle of the night and just gutted the place,” former general…

While Miami Spice is a smorgasbord of multicourse deliciousness, it’s also big on meat, dairy, and eggs. Veg eaters can feel left out, to say the least. Luckily, among the hundreds of participating restaurants there are plenty of options for herbivores — so they can indulge along with every other Miamian. Many of the selections below are vegetarian but can be made vegan upon request. Be sure to ask your server in advance; some spots recommend vegans order off the regular menu. Prices for Miami Spice run $23 for lunch and $39 for dinner.

The newest food truck to pop up inside the Wynwood Yard is Food Dude, a Latin-Jamaican grill concept. The truck first debuted in 2013, after Alex Torres, a Johnson and Wales alum, was laid off as a corporate chef. A few months later, he and his wife Erica bought a black truck and hit the road. Stocked with jerk chicken, rice, and tostones, the two cruised across Miami, serving culinary mash-ups rooted in culture and tradition.

A lawsuit filed against Delray Beach-based Delivery Dudes last week in federal court claims the service is paying its drivers sometimes as little as 50 to 75 cents per delivery while requiring them to work between 50 or 60 hours per week.

When the Miami Dolphins take the field on August 10 against the Atlanta Falcons, fans at Hard Rock Stadium will enjoy much more than football. Visitors will be treated to more improvements and new experiences in price ranges for everyone — from a new standing-room-only section to a luxury Aston Martin…

Michael Schwartz’s Amara at Paraiso restaurant will open sometime in November at the Paraiso Bay complex in Edgewater. The restaurant’s large, 4,500-square-foot dining room, designed by Meyer Davis Studio, features indoor and outdoor seating that opens to Biscayne Bay, offering striking views.The main dining room and bar will seat 150, with an additional 70 seats on the waterfront deck.

The good news is Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Matador Room at the Miami Beach Edition is participating in Miami Spice. The bad news is its $39 three-course, prix-fixe dinner menu isn’t offered on Fridays or Saturdays. Regardless, the light and bright Spice menu is the perfect antidote for the Miami summer doldrums.

Jezebel, a cozy food and drink lounge in Miami Beach, is now open. Located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Lincoln Road, this dimly lit, orange-hued space serves cocktails prepared tableside and upscale comfort food like flaming s’mores and truffle popcorn. The restaurant took over the former Bacaro space, a short-lived Italian…

Hidden in the corner of the Avant Gallery at the Epic Hotel sits LaMuse Cafe, a tiny European-inspired bistro replete with croissants, tartines, and thousands of dollars worth of contemporary art.

As temperatures soar, Box Coffee in Wynwood cools down with a unique lineup of java mocktails.

Miami Spice is here. From now through September 30, close to 240 of the city’s best restaurants will offer $23 prix-fixe lunches and $39 dinners with some adding a $23 weekend brunch to the mix. While you have close to two months to experience as many menus as you can, choosing from over 200 establishments can still be daunting. To make it easier, New Times is sharing some guides to help you along the way.

If you still haven’t had the chance to try two of Brickell’s hottest restaurants to open in the past year — Bazaar Mar and Fi’lia — Miami Spice is the time to do it.

This weekend, Lightkeepers, the swanky waterfront restaurant inside the Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, will debut two distinct brunch experiences Saturday, August 5, and Sunday, August 6.

Miami-based online dessert business MdoughW, known for freshly baked cookie cups and a wildly popular Instagram feed, is now offering its treats at Sugar Factory on Ocean Drive. Beginning today, August 3, a selection of dough treats is available, as is a limited-edition milkshake collaboration between MdoughW owner Margo Wolfe and Sugar Factory’s pastry team.

A closer look at what Cecconi’s Miami Beach is offering during Miami Spice 2017.

By the end of the summer, Donutty, a new doughnut shop, will open in Kendall about a block from Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant & Wine Bar. The small store will specialize in the classic glazed variety rather than heavily garnished, trendier sweets.

This fall, the MKTplace at Goombay Plaza, a pop-up food and entertainment complex, will open in Coconut Grove on the corner of Grand Avenue and Douglas Road.

Michael Solomonov sees a bit of Tel Aviv in Wynwood. “The vibrancy, the excitement, the energy — there are a lot of synergies between them,” the James Beard Award-winning chef says. That’s the reasoning behind Solomonov bringing his Philadelphia-based Dizengoff to Miami.