October Openings

Hope you’re hungry – pizza, burgers, tapas and more set up shop this month

• Circo Barcelona brings some Spanish flavor to the Grove courtesy of hot and cold tapas and an extensive Spanish-Mediterranean menu. Slip into the rustic space and feast on the likes of gazpacho, chorizo, salads, beef & salmon carpaccio, tortilla, albondigas, ceviches and cocktails a plenty.
• The burger craze hits the Gables (again) with the opening of Bijan’s Burger Joint. The menu skews simple, yet a bit more expansive than some of its recent competitors. Salads come in Cesar & mixed green varieties, snacks skew towards fried mozzarella, burger sliders and mini corn dogs, burgers come in 8on & 1lb beef, veggie and turkey varieties and sides are what you’d expect – regular & sweet potato fries, onion rings, etc. Bijan’s gets a bit creative with blackened, grilled or fried mahi sandwiches and Colombian favorites like the pineapple burger & hot dog – each topped with mozz, lettuce, tom, ketchup, pink sauce, green sauce, grinded potato chips and crushed pineapple.
• Barton G brings a bit of culinary theater to the Arsht Center with the opening of Prelude. The sweeping space offers diners $39 three-course dinners and $23 two-course lunch/brunches before, during and after performances. For dinner, choose three items including butter poached shrimp salad, smoked salmon brown bread panzanella salad, skirt steak, short ribs en croute, duck confit, Prelude sundae and crazy for chocolate. Brunch repeats many options with additions like Barton’s mini burgers and a crispy chicken club sandwich.
• Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza extends its grip on Miami this month with the opening of its fourth Dade location in Miami Lakes. ACFP brings its signature “well done pizzas” (sizzled in an 800-degree coal-burning oven) and oven roasted chicken wings.

This story was originally published October 22, 2009 at 10:10 PM.