Every Sunday, drag queens in colorful costumes take over the sidewalk outside Miami Beach’s Palace Bar to bust moves and belt out pop songs for hungry patrons and passersby. It’s not just brunch. It’s drag brunch — one so hot it’s been ranked among the finest in the nation, according to OpenTable, which yesterday released its annual “100 Best Brunch Restaurants in America.”
You might not have had the chance to go to this year’s Coachella, but you can still drink like you were there. Miami’s Bar Lab recently partnered with Xicama, a jicama-based food and beverage line based in Los Angeles, to create the world’s first jicama-based cocktail. The result: Xicamix (pronounced HEE-kah-mix) a…
GKB Wynwood chefs Rafael Perez Cambana and Philip Harbin are the duo behind Miami’s newest burger restaurant, That’s Mine Craft Burgers and Beer, which is set to open Monday, April 22, in North Miami Beach. The pair partnered with digital marketing and brand development guru Juan Allen, who has created…
Fast-casual, Cuban-inspired eatery Caja Caliente is opening a second location in Coral Gables next month.
A pop-up burger restaurant that’s been hitting the streets of Miami since October, USBS (United States Burger Service) was inspired by a brainstorming session among friends Dave Bailey, Agustin Gamboa, and Michael Mayta.
Winter is coming to Miami, and you’re going to need a drink. This Sunday, April 14, the long-anticipated start of the eighth and final season of the HBO series Game of Thrones begins and once more, viewers will be thrust into a land filled with war, betrayal, honor, dragons, and…
Just Salad, a New York-based fast-casual restaurant all about eating healthy on the go, is coming to Florida. The chain is more than just salads, however. The menu also offers customizable, made-to-order wraps, bowls, and smoothies as well as salads. One of its most popular menu items is the “toast box”:…
Brick Bar, a Lego-themed pop-up bar is headed to Miami for two nights this October. The idea — according to the pop-up’s website — is to appeal to Lego fans of legal drinking age. Similar bars have already debuted in Australia thanks to Viral Ventures, the Sydney-based company behind the…
How would you like to have a meet-and-greet with your favorite athlete, a private shopping experience at a luxury fashion house, or tickets to the Cannes Film Festival? For Barnabas Carrega, cofounder and CEO of Miami-based GR8 Group, which coordinates VIP and luxury experiences, making dreams a reality is part of a…
Thursday Since its 2009 inception, Miami Beach Pride has simply been a blast. The 2019 edition looks like it won’t buck that trend. After attracting more than 145,000 people to its events in 2018, Pride this year will boast special events, social mixers, a VIP gala, a two-day festival, and…
Local hospitality industry veteran Gabriel Urrutia has penned a book highlighting Miami’s cocktail culture and history.
A new egg-centric breakfast, brunch, and lunch eatery from the creators of the Butcher Shop Beer Garden in Miami and West Palm Beach is headed for downtown Miami. The Egg Spot — the third restaurant from father-and-son restaurateurs Igor and Fred Niznik — is scheduled to open this spring at 228 SE First St.
At Richard Sandoval’s Toro Toro, located inside the InterContinental Miami hotel, pork lovers can “go ham” on a new dish. The restaurant has just introduced a monster-sized, 32-ounce cut of porcine goodness known as the chuleta — a giant meat Mohawk of pork loin, ribs, and a strip of pork…
This week, J. Wakefield Brewing owner-brewer Jonathan Wakefield will be celebrating the fifth-annual release of his signature beer, DFPF. Officially dubbed DFPF Day, the release will take place at noon this Saturday, March 23.
When Life House Little Havana opens its doors as the neighborhood’s first boutique hotel next week it will also offer locals and guests a first look at Parcela, the brand’s signature veggie-forward cafe.
Miami’s newest brewery, Beat Culture, will celebrate its official grand opening on Saturday, March 16 with something special: a triple bottle release as well as a limited number of bottles of their already popular pink guava mead.
Not many people know how Shawn Palacious — one of Miami’s most legendary queens — received her drag name. “It was because of my long, claw-like nails,” says Palacious, whose alter ego is the edgy feline queen Kitty Meow. Those nails are just one small nod to her iconic style…
Broken Shaker co-creator and Bar Lab cofounder Gabe Orta remembers when the most creative cocktail in South Beach was a frozen mix margarita with an upside-down Corona bottle as both garnish and floater. “Just a few years back, there wasn’t anywhere to get a good cocktail in Miami. It was…
This year, Funky Buddha Brewery will be selling one of its most popular beers in cans as part of its 2019 special-release schedule.
Doral will welcome its second brewery when Tripping Animals Brewing opens this month.
You can sample Tallahassee-based Proof Brewing’s 2018 Hunahpu award-winning Blue Raspberry Evil Kiss, Triple Crossing’s Waxing Poetic passionfruit-and-guava Berliner, and Southern Prohibition’s All My Joy coconut, almond, and chocolate stout when Grovetoberfest returns to Miami this weekend.
A new brewery specializing in farmhouse-inspired wild ales has found a home in Miami. Later this year, Unseen Creatures Brewing & Blending husband-and-wife cofounders Marco and Vicky Leyte-Vidal will offer Miami-Dade a new kind of brewery in the heart of the Bird Road District. More than two years in the making, the Unseen Creatures brewery and taproom will be located off SW 45th Court in a 5,300-square-foot building just blocks from Lincoln’s Beard Brewing.
