Gables’ Green Table delivers healthy food with a gourmet touch
The next freshest thing to driving to the Redland and picking your own produce may be Coral Gables’ Green Table, which tosses salads with locally grown greens and serves only organic chicken and grass-fed beef.
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Cured meats and much more at Midtown’s charming Salumeria
Teams of fast-paced entrepreneurs are angling for the inside track in Miami’s Italian restaurant competition, and Angelo Masarin has put the pedal to the metal with his gleaming Salumeria 104.
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Entretapas brings the flavors of Spain to Weston
When we walked into the dining room of Entretapas, the romantic strumming of a Spanish guitar filled the room. We breathed in the savory aromas of sizzling garlic, sausage and onions. And like clusters of other customers, waited for a table on a busy Friday night.
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See ya, Joe: Morgans on the Beach creates new expectations
Morgans on the Beach doesn’t have the charming porch of the original Morgans in Miami’s Midtown neighborhood. Nor does it have the consistent comfort of Joe Allen, which occupied the same squat space for 13 years as an iconic respite from South Beach glam.
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Upscale Mexican street food at South Beach’s Lolita
<span class="bold">The goods:</span> Lolita Cocina & Tequila Bar is a seductive, noir-ish taco joint in the old Nemo space operated by CB5 Restaurant Group (sister restaurants are in Massachusetts and Connecticut).
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No fancy-hotel stuffiness at Four Seasons’ welcoming Edge
Edge, Steak & Bar at the ever-elegant Four Seasons has done everything it can to dispel that fancy-hotel vibe of stuffy inaccessibility and make itself welcoming, especially to locals.
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Food a better match for view at Key Biscayne’s Rusty Pelican
For years, it mystified me that a restaurant that boasted such appealing views served such appalling food as the Rusty Pelican. The contradiction kicked in with management, and the place is now reborn with new décor, hip ambient music, a bar serving the requisite trademark cocktails, a kicking wine list and a hot new chef. If once The Rusty Pelican was the place where one took guests who would value the wow factor and ignore everything else, today’s restaurant is much improved but a work in progress.
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Picture-perfect Peruvian at North Beach’s Mixtura
There is much to love about Peruvian cuisine, from its bracing ceviches to its bountiful potato dishes, but it is the exquisite sauces made with the uniquely flavored ají chile that most captivate me.
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Blue Collar: Miami's newest restaurant
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Calle Ocho’s Kopas geared to dance-and-drink crowd
Gastro-pubbed and tapas-plated out, we were eager to start the new year at Kopas, a Peruvian-Japanese restaurant on Eighth Street, especially since vaunted Spanish chef Ferran Adria and other world-trotting foodies call this South American country’s cuisine The Next Big Thing.
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