Restaurants

New Times signed up for Instacart, Shipt, and Amazon Prime Now and ordered the same list of essentials from each. Then we sat on our keister and waited.

Though Miami’s hospitality community has been hard hit by the pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders, local restaurateurs feel compelled to help local hospital workers by keeping them fed.

This year, Per’La is taking its coffee concept overseas to launch a second location, in the quaint town of Newbury, England, about an hour and a half outside London.

John Martin’s, a fixture on Miracle Mile since 1989, when childhood friends Martin Lynch and John Clarke opened a traditional Irish pub in Coral Gables, has permanently closed.

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The restaurant’s management and staff have teamed up to keep the kitchen operating in order to feed the community.

Punch Bowl Social, with 20 U.S. locations, appears to be among the first corporate casualties of the coronavirus pandemic.

Jose Mendin and his team at Pubbelly Sushi have come up with the perfect snack to fuel your tiger-induced feeding frenzy: the Tiger King roll.

New Times has postponed its annual Out to Brunch event until August 22, 2020.

This week, the Miami Downtown Development Authority launched the initiative “Go Local, Go Direct” to encourage downtown residents to stay home while also helping local restaurants save on fees charged by delivery services like Uber Eats and Postmates.

The City of Miami Beach is now allowing local restaurants to operate their kitchens past midnight for delivery.

You may not be able to rally your friends for a mimosa-fueled brunch out this weekend, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy guava pancakes and crispy bacon in the comfort of your home.

Workers idled by the coronavirus pandemic have encountered difficulties in filing for unemployment, and help from the federal government’s stimulus plan is likely still weeks away. So Miami’s culinary community is stepping into the breach.

To lure customers and help their fellow human beings, at least four Miami establishments are throwing in a roll of toilet paper with every food purchase.

“These are items that people want and need and I can provide them,” says Alter’s chef/owner Brad Kilgore. It’s a whole new world.”

Coronavirus has made it more challenging to dine, find ingredients, and cook. Home meal delivery services are stepping into the gap.

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So to mark the company’s third opening, the Salty Donut has decided to rebrand into “the Salty.” The decision has been more than six months in the works, according to the owners.

A highly anticipated new concept will bring fine dining to Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood. Leku, a restaurant offering Basque cuisine at the new Rubell Museum location, has confirmed that it is on track to open at the end of April as planned and that the coronavirus pandemic has not affected its opening timeline.

Miami-Dade County has issued an order closing all restaurant dining rooms and bars in an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus.

If you decide to spend more time at home — which local, state, and federal governments are all but mandating by shutting down almost every aspect of public life — you can still eat well. It’s easy to fill your pantry with products from the multitude of purveyors who’ve cropped up around the city in recent years.