Inside an ordinary bleach-white warehouse in Little Haiti, three aproned workers covered in flour carefully line up warm batches of freshly fried dough. Anna Davis, a 29-year-old blonde with wide ocean-blue eyes, nervously stands over a silver tray of 24 doughnuts. Her trembling right hand hovers a centimeter from a…
Inside a nondescript strip mall, Arabic writing and trite photos of Indo-Pak cuisine are plastered across an obscure, darkly tinted storefront. Zaika Grill, located in a quiet Pembroke Pines neighborhood, is one of the area’s only restaurants specializing in Indo-Pak cooking, a blend of Indian and Pakistani influences. The restaurant…
When rent became too expensive for Leo Barragan and his wife Maricel Zambrano’s Wynwood-based production studio, the two set out to find a new warehouse to call home. They quickly found the perfect space, but there was a catch. Instead of a simple, wide-open warehouse, they found themselves in a…
It was an unseasonably hot and humid winter day in 2009 when Chelsea Marando dug up the last pennies and dimes she could find buried within her cousin’s pickup truck. She used those 69 cents to buy a poster board on which she wrote “Farmer’s Market” with a black arrow…
Picture a tropical-looking tiki bar, with a few stools and a large hut, situated on a slab of wood. Now imagine it floating in the water. No, this isn’t an ill-advised escape attempt by the stranded crew of the SS Minnow. It’s the Cruisin’ Tiki that’s been sailing down the…
For Marando Farms’ Chelsea Marando, access to fresh fruits and vegetables should be a basic right, regardless of income. “When someone goes from making money to losing their job, they get concerned about how they’re going to feed their family,” she says. “Whatever your situation is, we want to give…
At first glance, Hyde Beach Kitchen + Cocktails appears mysterious. The two-story building is too small for a hotel, but too large for just one restaurant. It looks slightly misplaced in its quiet, Hallandale Beach neighborhood, oozing a South Beach vibe with its swanky design and neon-colored lights. The oceanside building includes…
The who’s who of gastronomy are nearing their Miami takeover once again for the 15th-annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Hundreds of chefs will serve their best creations as more than 80 events sprout up across South Florida — basically the best 96 hours of a die-hard foodie’s year…
Brunch is easily the most anticipated and beloved meal of the weekend. Falling on Saturdays and Sundays between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., the breakfast-lunch combination usually includes hearty plates, mixed with rich, indulgent dishes like creme brûlée stuffed French toast, huevos rancheros, and grilled skirt steak tacos, washed down with daytime…
The feeling of when Disney’s Cinderella famously slid her foot into the glass slipper is how Rebecca Fell felt when she was told the Buckskin Declaration, an age-old document the Seminoles used to declare their sovereignty more than 50 years ago, was found after years of being lost. At the time,…
They’re a cross between a French fry and a baked potato, with a crisp outer shell and a mushy center texture. They’re served hot, often sizzling from being submerged in a pot of oil. Tater tots have been around for more than 50 years, and to no surprise, Americans consume…
It was the Monday after Christmas, 2014. Night had fallen, and the air was crisp. In front of the Hollywood Beach Theatre — a pale-yellow concrete bandshell located where Johnson Street meets the ocean — a crowd of a few hundred people danced to a cover of Duke Ellington’s 1940s…
When Kimon Korres’ friends came into town, the first thing they wanted to do was go boating. “Find a boat online, and I’ll take care of the rest,” Korres told them. But finding an affordable, reliable, and convenient boat was no easy feat. To rent a boat for the day…
For anyone with a bike and a USB cable, your life is about to get a little easier. South Florida resident Nicolas Zamora is an engineer with a passion for cycling. He combined those two elements and created The CydeKick — a device that hooks on to the wheel of…
