Merry Christmas, Miami. Make last-minute reservations for Christmas dinner tonight, or head to the Broken Shaker for a Chrismukkah Chinese takeout pop-up. And if you’re interested, there’s also a bounty of bars open today Then pregame New Year’s this Thursday with a curated Macallan whiskey tasting.
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.
Merry Christmas weekend, Miami. Get in the holiday spirit with a coffee cupping crawl at Panther Coffee, or a festive market at Goombay Plaza in Coconut Grove. Don’t forget to make last-minute Christmas dinner reservations, too.
Brickell will get a pop-up beer garden tonight with the debut of the Brickell City Centre Biergarten. Spend the evening sipping local brews, nibbling on bites from food trucks, and listening to live music performances, all produced by Prism Creative Group.
This week, Spanglish will take over the Broken Shaker, Key West by Nikki Beach will open, and a Christmas-Themed pop up bar invades Fado Irish Pub.
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.
This weekend, meet-and-greet with chef Nobu Matsuhisa, participate in a beer crawl and scavenger hunt mash-up, and visit the Miami Flea’s festive-themed holiday bazaar.
Now that cooler temperatures have swept in, it finally feels like the holidays, and the Magic City is ready to celebrate. Good thing New Times’ Sips and Sweets is tonight, December 14. Think of it as Miami’s ultimate holiday party, with treats, drinks, and enough yuletide music to get you in a giving mood.
The concept of a temporary restaurant dates to at least the 1960s. In supper clubs and closed-door restaurants, chefs cooked off-the-wall meals for in-the-know customers, sometimes in the chefs’ homes. Today, Miami sees multiple pop-up eateries throughout the year. Some last a few weeks, and others stick around for more than a year.
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.
This week, the Museum of Ice Cream will open in the Faena District, Kosher Food & Wine will return to Turnberry Isle, and New Times will host Sips and Sweets in North Miami.
More than 100 food and beverage vendors will unite at Turnberry Isle in Aventura for the fifth-annual Kosher Food & Wine Wednesday, December 13.
Art Basel is in full swing, and with it comes a host of creative food and drink events are happening in Miami this weekend. Highlights include cocktail demos at Mana Wynwood, the plant-based burgers at the Standard, a champagne pop-up at Kyu, an ice-cream social at Superfine!, Michael Schwartz’s Amara at Paraiso pop-up, and a bubbly brunch at the Lowe Art Museum.
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…
This week, Books & Books Café at the Arsht Center will host a Frida Kahlo-themed farm-to-dinner meal, chef Jeremiah Bullfrog’s Square Pie City will pop up at Boxelder, chef Michael Schwartz will preview his soon-to-open Amara at Paraiso, and Yardbird will host a four-course truffle dinner.
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 weekend, the Salty Donut will celebrate its first anniversary with the release of a birthday-themed croughnut, Cvi.che 105 will open at Aventura Mall, and Wynwood Brewing Company will host a fourth-anniversary block party.
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.
It’s been more than a year since Shuji Hiyakawa announced the opening of his first solo venture, Wabi Sabi. The restaurant, which will offer fast-casual omakase dining and a juice bar, is expected to debut on NE 79th Street in Miami before the New Year.
Before Janine Booth and Jeff McInnis were Miami restaurant royalty, they set sail on a fishing trip from South Beach late one sunny afternoon in fall 2013. The day went brilliantly. After laying anchor a mile south of Key Biscayne, McInnis hauled in a hefty snapper and a small grouper…
