Zachary Fagenson
Miami New Times
Miami, FL, United States
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Miami Restaurant Selling Wine Bottles During Coronavirus Outbreak
To help fill some of the yawning gaps arising from their forced closure, many restaurants are selling their wine supplies at retail prices, which are significantly cheaper than the three times wholesale markup you usually find on a wine list. → Read More
Coronavirus Pandemic Is the Time for Miami Purveyors and Home Cooks to Shine
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 from the multitude of purveyors who've cropped up around the city in recent years. → Read More
Miami's Egg Yolk Colada King Buys Into Cuban Pollo Frito Spot Caporal Chicken
One is best known for a beard of biblical proportions and whipping egg yolks into sugary coladas. The other has been carrying a decades old Cuban fried chicken recipe that traveled from the Caribbean to New York City and back down to Miami. Now, the two are working together to preserve that poultry legacy spanning thousands of miles. → Read More
Filipino Dessert Halo Halo Coming From Family Behind Lan Pan-Asian Cafe
Soon the family behind South Dade's long standing Lan Pan-Asian Cafe will open Lan Halo Halo Snack Shack offering the multicolor treat. → Read More
Mike Bloomberg Visits Miami's Little Havana on Super Tuesday
Mike Bloomberg visited Little Havana businesses the morning of Super Tuesday. → Read More
El Bagel, Miami's Most Anticipated Bagel Shop, Is Now Open
Matteson Koche's long-awaited Biscayne Boulevard "bagelería" has finally debuted. → Read More
Miami Chinese Restaurants Fight Coronavirus Fears
Miami hasn’t been exempt from the xenophobic rushes to judgment that has left Chinese restaurants, businesses, and neighborhoods across the world quiet and near faltering following the outbreak of the coronavirus. → Read More
Ghee's Niven Patel to Open Wood-Fired Orno and Island-Style Mamey in Coral Gables
James Beard Award-nominated chef Niven Patel is set to open Orno early this summer in Coral Gables' upcoming Thesis Hotel. Pablo Zitzmann, former chef of South Miami's shuttered No Name Chinese, will be the executive chef. → Read More
Wynwood Miami Japanese Spot Hiyakawa to Open in March
Shuji Hiyakawa is set to open his namesake restaurant next month in the Cynergi Building on North Miami Avenue at NW 27th Street, adding a variety of cooked dishes to established omakase and poke bowl operations at his Wabi Sabi by Shuji. → Read More
Wynwood Sushi Spot Omakai Is a Step in the Right Direction
Oftentimes high-end sushi — the shimmering bites passed to diners seated at a counter for a chef's choice, or omakase, progression — is perceived as overpriced, unapproachable, or simply bewildering. → Read More
Caracas Bakery in Doral Miami Offers Fresh Venezuelan Breads and Pastries
As luck would have it, the father and son independently found a passion for sourdough bread, and their disparate paths merged this month at the new Caracas Bakery. → Read More
Miami's Ten Best Chicken Wings
If you're on a quest for Miami's best chicken wings, there are a few things to keep in mind. First is to order the smallest available portion at each restaurant, because this is a marathon, not a sprint. → Read More
At Super Bowl LIV, Dayanny De La Cruz Is the Woman in Charge
How do you feed more than 25,000 people in the span of a few of hours? Ask Dayanny De La Cruz. The effervescent 47-year-old executive chef for Centerplate, the catering company at Hard Rock Stadium, at this very moment is in the midst of planning how to feed legions of rabid football fans before and when Super Bowl LIV kicks off Sunday, February 2. → Read More
Peruvian Sandwich Spot Mr. & Mrs. Bun Is Opening a Downtown Dadeland Location
Mr. & Mrs. Buns is moving into the Downtown Dadeland development space currently occupied by Niven and Shivani Patel and Tim Piazza's Erba. → Read More
Doral's La Coriana Slings Some of Venezuela's Regional Arepas
Oscar Inciarte never meant to sell arepas. He attended Zulia University in his hometown of Maracaibo to become an agronomic engineer but moonlighted as a cook at night to help cover living expenses and sold arepas to boozed-up revelers looking for a steadying bite. → Read More
The Miami Guide to Bacon: Miami Smokers and Babe's Meat & Counter
Miami Smokers' James Bowers and Babe's Meat & Counter's Jason Schoendorfer explain the bacon-making process and what to look for when you shop for bacon. → Read More
Hadekel 1 Shows Off the Technicolor Side of Israeli Cuisine
Brothers Assaf and Tal Hadad missed the food from home. Born in Hadera, Israel, a 40-minute car ride north of Tel Aviv, they moved to Ariel, a settlement in the occupied West Bank, when Assaf was 12. There they grew up surrounded by a rainbow of cuisines. → Read More
Will Crandall Finds Redemption at the Helm of Groot Hospitality's Gleaming New Papi Steak
Less than four months after a controversial incident led chef de cuisine Will Crandall to resign from Michael Mina's Stripsteak at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, Grutman has hired the 33-year-old in a similar role at Papi Steak, which Grutman and friend David Einhorn opened on South Beach earlier this month. → Read More
Wabi Sabi Offers Omakase Ahead of Wynwood Opening
Though the opening of Shuji Hiyakawa's eponymous Wynwood restaurant is still a few months away, the soft-spoken chef whose recently reopened his 79th Street eatery, Wabi Sabi by Shuji, expanded it with a six-seat counter dishing out a 15-course omakase menu. At $120 per person (plus $12 of taxes and... → Read More
Sala'o Chef Jorge Mas Turns the Desperation of Cuba's Pantries Into Joy
At Sala'o Cuban Bar & Pescaderia in Miami, chef Jorge Mas is taking the misery of eating under a Communist regime and turning it into a joyful celebration. → Read More