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  • Riverside Market: Owner Julian Siegel reaches for a cold one.

    Beer Academy begins June 25

    From food trucks to gourmet cupcakes, culinary trends take their sweet time reaching South Florida. The craft-beer boom is no exception, but Julian Siegel wants to help us get up to speed.

  • Deals: Oak Tavern, WKB, RA Sushi

    Oak Tavern, 35 NE 40th St., Miami, is offering daily specials five days a week: Sunday, meatballs, sausage and rigatoni with Sunday gravy ($18); Monday, duck confit with braised cabbage and duck fat fries ($15); Tuesday, Bahamian-style fried snapper with Scotch bonnet vinaigrette ($21); Wednesday, fried chicken with mashed potatoes, collard greens, biscuits with gravy ($18), and Thursday, beef short rib pho with green papaya salad ($18); 786-391-1818.

  • Deals: Sardinia, MPP, Dunkin’ Donuts

    Sardinia Enoteca Ristorante, 1801 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach, is offering a three-course menu through July for $39 at dinner (Sunday-Thursday), $23 at lunch (daily). On Tuesday nights, bottles of designated wines are discounted 40 percent; 305-531-2228.

  • Palette to palate: Artist Santiago Rubino collaborated with Wynwood Kitchen & Bar chef Miguel Aguilar.

    Wynwood Kitchen launches chef-artist series May 29

    Wynwood Kitchen & Bar, 2550 NW Second Ave., Miami, hosts the first in a series of chef-artist dinners Wednesday with a menu created by WKB executive chef Miguel Aguilar and Miami artist Santiago Rubino, whose graffiti-inspired work is featured on Wynwood Walls.

  • Charity chow-downs: RA Sushi, Florida Cookery, Mercadito

    RA Sushi, 5829 SW 73rd St., in South Miami, host its ninth annual Nicky’s Week fundraiser Sunday through June 1, with 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of edamame, Tootsy Maki, shrimp nigiri, pork gyoza and other designated items going to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital; 305-341-0092.

  • Deals: Smashburger, PB Steak, Cecconi’s, Temaris

    Smashburger outlets are giving away Classic Smash burgers to anyone with “burger” in their name on Tuesday, which is National Burger Day; smashburger.com.

  • Bernstein demos; Reidt departs; Lil Chefs cook

    Miami chef and Macy’s Culinary Council member Michelle Bernstein presents a free cooking demonstration at 7 p.m. Thursday at Macy’s Aventura, Culinary Kitchen, Level 2, 19535 Biscayne Blvd., Aventura. Reservations are available at 305-577-1818.

  • Bernstein

    ’Check, Please!’ returns Monday

    Check, Please! South Florida, the WPBT-PBS2 dining show hosted by chef Michelle Bernstein, kicks off its 10th season at 7:30 p.m. Monday. Here are the restaurants Bernstein and her citizen-critics will review:

  • De Rodriguez, Tuyo on ‘hot spot’ list

    Miami Beach’s De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean and Miami’s Tuyo made Gayot’s 2013 list of Top 40 Hot Spots; gayot.com.

  • Raise a glass at Gables Museum, Gotham Steak, Steak 954

    The Coral Gables Museum, 285 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables, celebrates the 500th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s Florida encounter with a presentation on the history, culture and architecture of Granada accompanied by “a generous sampling” of Spanish wines. Tickets are $30 at 305-603-8067.

  • Spacious: The new Icebox Cafe seats 100 inside and 20 outside.

    Icebox Cafe moves north

    Lincoln Road pioneer Robert Siegmann relocated his Icebox Cafe this week to Sunset Harbour Shops, 1855 Purdy Ave., Miami Beach, where he’s serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and weekend brunch in an indoor-outdoor space that’s twice as big as the old digs. There’s an expanded menu, full bar and “400 reasonably priced covered spaces” in the adjoining parking garage; 305-538-8448, iceboxcafe.com.

  • Openings & updates: Kouzina, S3, My Ceviche

    Openings

  • Trade corks for discounts at Devon

    Devon Seafood + Steak, 11715 Sherri Ln., Kendall, is offering Monday diners $1 off their bill for each natural wine cork they bring in (up to $20 per table, minimum purchase $50). The restaurant has partnered with a program that recycles corks into footwear; 305-275-0226.

  • Brunch spots make OpenTable Top 100

    OpenTable.com, the restaurant-reservations website, reports that four South Florida restaurants made the top-100 “best brunch” list in its 2013 Diner’s Choice Awards: 94th Aero Squadron, Miami; the Biltmore Hotel, Coral Gables; Mister Collins, Bal Harbour; and Peacock Garden Café, Coconut Grove. You’ll find a list of Mother’s Day specials at local restaurants at Miami.com.

  • Deals & doings: Turnberry, Marola’s, Umami Burger

    Turnberry Isle, 19999 W. Country Club Dr., Aventura, hosts Havana Nights with salsa and merengue music, Bacardi mojito specials and cigar rollers from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays at its Onyx Bar; 305-932-6200.

  • Updates: Shake Shack, Bimini Boatyard, Dunkin’ Donuts, Morton’s, Pollo Tropical

    Through May, Shake Shack, with locations in Miami Beach and South Miami, is offering guests who donate $2 or more to Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign a card good for a complimentary hand-spun shake on their next visit; shakeshack.com.

  • Maricel E. Presilla

    Presilla joyful over Cookbook of Year honors

    Miami homegirl Maricel Presilla — Cuban immigrant, MDCC/FIU grad and medieval-scholar-turned-restaurateur — has scored a culinary trifecta. Photo Gallery Available

  • On the menu: Calamari alla Piastra (octopus salad) is an appetizer option on Toscana Divino's EATaly menu.

    $39 deals at 12 Italian restaurants

    EATalian Restaurant Weekend, a promotion sponsored by the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce Southeast, brings us three-course, $39 dinner menus featuring “light yet satisfying authentic Italian dishes” at a dozen restaurants Friday through Sunday.

  • Pastries from Mercato, MC Kitchen's new market.

    Openings: Whole Foods in North Miami, Mercato in Design District

    The Whole Foods Market at 12150 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami, opens for business at 9 a.m. Wednesday, with free continental breakfast for those in line from 8 to 9 a.m. and free goodie bags for the first 500 shoppers. Reservations for Monday sneak-preview tours are available at northmiami.wholefoodsrsvp.com. Five percent of opening-day net proceeds will go to the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art; 305-892-5500.

  • Le Cordon Bleu chef-instructor Cole Kraft

    Le Cordon Bleu soup sale benefits Boston bombing victims

    Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts has come up with a way for South Floridians to eat well and do good on behalf of Boston bombing victims: Chef-instructor Cole Kraft and his students will make 30 gallons of New England clam chowder, and sell it to benefit the One Boston Fund. Stop by the school’s Technique Restaurant, 3221 Enterprise Way, Miramar, between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friday to pick up a $6 pint or $10 quart, or just fork over the money and ask that your soup be donated to a Boston homeless shelter; 954-628-4400.

  • Essensia executive chef Julie Frans

    Heart of a Chef at Fairchild, invasive-species dinner at The Palm

    Heart of a Chef, an annual fundraiser for the Florida Heart Research Institute, is 3-7 p.m. Sunday at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, 10901 Old Cutler Rd., Coral Gables, with a 6 p.m. cook-off between chefs Todd Erickson of Haven South Beach and Aaron Brooks of Edge Steak & Bar. Also on tap: a vegan cooking demonstration by Ellen Kanner, Herald Edgy Veggie columnist and author of Feeding the Hungry Ghost. Tickets — $30 in advance, $40 at the door — admit one adult and two children; heartofachef.org. Photo Gallery Available

  • Deals: WD 555, Terrazza, Serafina

    WD 555, 555 Jefferson Ave., Miami Beach, has added a Pink Friday promotion with $1 tapas, $5 glasses of rosé and a DJ from 5 to 10 p.m. Fridays; 305-672-6161.

  • The Michael's Genuine crew came ready to rumble last year, but were bested by Michelle Bernstein.

    Cochon 555 Sunday at Four Seasons

    It will be hog heaven Sunday as Cochon 555, a traveling culinary competition and heritage-pork tasting event, rolls into town. Beginning at 5 p.m. (4 p.m. VIP) at the Four Seasons, 1435 Brickell Ave., Miami, you can watch chefs Aaron Brooks (Four Seasons), Timon Balloo (Sugarcane), Jeffrey McInnis (Yardbird), David Thomas (The Bazaar) and Cesar Zapata (The Federal) each have their way with a whole hog in hopes of winning the chance to represent Miami at the Cochon finals in June. Tickets are $125, $200 VIP at cochon555.com.

  • 4-day VeritageMiami this week

    VeritageMiami (formerly the United Way Miami Wine & Food Festival) gets underway Wednesday with a craft beer tasting at Wynwood Walls, 2550 NW Second Ave., Miami. Admission is $55 (7 p.m.), $75 VIP (6 p.m.).

  • Rum festival returns

    This year’s Miami Rum Festival is Saturday and Sunday at the Doubletree by Hilton Miami Airport Convention Center, 711 NW 72nd Ave.. From 2 to 7 p.m. both days, you can sample and learn about more than 150. Daily admission is $50. For $65, VIP ticket holders get in at noon and have access to a lounge where free cocktails and light bites will be served; 877-855-3378, miamirumfest.com.

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