La Placita Puerto Rican restaurant will open New Year’s Day under literal controversy. Celebrity owners failed to get permission to paint it like a Puerto Rican flag. A petition hopes to save it.
The owners of La Placita, a new Puerto Rican restaurant in the MiMo district, commissioned an artist to paint the building like the Puerto Rican flag. The city of Miami says they didn’t go through a historic board.
This edition of the Sick and Shut Down List includes some chains (Wendy’s, Chipotle, Einstein’s Bagels), a country club (Woodlands) and the usual roaches, rodents, unwashed hands and objectionable odors.
Soyka restaurant, part of a Mark Soyka development which helped revitalize the neighborhood across from Morningside, has been sold after 19 years. The new owners, the 50 Eggs restaurant group, plans to revamp the menu.
A short Thanksgiving week means a short sick and shut down list of two restaurants, Bagel Tree in Delray Beach, FL, and Hong Kong City BBQ in Tamarac, FL. Both had rodent problems among other issues.
A Pollo Tropical is among the 11 Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe county restaurants on this edition of the Sick and Shut Down List, a listing of restautrants closed after failing state inspections.
Here’s a list of grocery stores open on Thanksgiving in Miami. Also, what restaurants are open, what do do with leftover grease and why you should never deep fry a frozen turkey.
Pincho Factory co-founder Nizar Ahmad has been named a 2019 Forbes magazine 30 under 30 in the food and drink category. He is also an early investor in Night Owl Cookies.
Violations from no restrooms for customers because one’s being used as an office to flies on croissants, got 13 restaurants in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties shut down over two weeks.
Wynwood Yard, the popular culinary incubator and event space that’s been open at 56 NW 29th Street since 2015, remains open and has several events scheduled through the spring of 2019. Then it is moving to a new location in Doral.
A Smoothie King was among the four Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe county restaurants closed by state inspectors for violations ranging from rodents to flies to water dripping on food.
Tickets to February 2019 South Beach Wine & Food Festival went on sale Oct. 22 to the general public. We pick our top events from the dozens available.
Problems with rodents, restrooms under renovation and sewage on floors got a Boston Market and three other Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe county restaurants closed after inspection.
A fire gutted Delicias de España, a beloved Spanish restaurant, market and bakery at 4016 SW 57th Avenue in Miami. They have two other locations but hope to rebuild the South Miami original, across from Coral Gables.
Celebrity chef Norman Van Aken, the Florida-based chef who coined the term fusion cuisine, turned down an invitation to cook for President Donald J. Trump and his son Eric at a Mar-a-Lago event.
Rodents, roaches, ants, bad coolers and turned off hot water got seven restaurants in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach shut down last week and on our Sick and Shut Down List
Fish Restaurant of Naples, FL, paid $50,891 in back pay and liquidated damages after not paying earned overtime to 57 employees, the Department of Labor announced.
A Pollo Tropical was among the restaurants in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Monroe counties that got shut down by state health inspectors last week.
