For Good Chinese, Fill up at Philippe Clad in white elegance and black lacquer floors, this two-level, 400-seater in the Gansevoort Hotel is as debonair as one might expect from a...
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By Lee Klein
Published: August 21, 2008
Kris Wessel's Red Light Shines Kris Wessel is this towns most daring and enigmatic chef. The lanky, easygoing Big Easy native was in 1995 the original pioneering partner...
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By Lee Klein
Published: August 07, 2008
Ten Bucks, Good Food Ten bucks will buy three pairs of multicolored clown eyelashes or two bargain-bin "best of" CDs by your favorite Sixties bands or a used copy of...
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By Lee Klein
Published: July 31, 2008
Georges Farge Forges Ahead in the Grove Georges Eric Farge charges through the loud, jam-packed room in a Gallic gallop, frantically waving his arms like a drowning man — except...
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By Lee Klein
Published: July 24, 2008
Por Fin Is Fine Por Fin: "At Last." As in: At last, five years after owner Carlos Centurion purchased the property, and two and a half years after breaking...
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By Lee Klein
Published: July 17, 2008
Purdy Good Bartolome Grill & Restaurant's 54-seat dining room is handsomely attired in black (tables, chairs, linens, pillars, bar, lofty industrial...
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By Lee Klein
Published: July 10, 2008
Recession Busters Recent articles have explored some of the revenue-enhancing measures that restaurateurs have undertaken to counter rising food costs —...
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By Lee Klein
Published: July 03, 2008
Still Lazy After All These Years Baleen was an instant hit when it debuted at the Grove Isle Hotel & Spa in March 1999, and for good reason: The heavenly outdoor patio, with...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 26, 2008
Raw Deal If vegans are a "Hezbollah-like splinter faction" of the vegetarian movement, as Anthony Bourdain once wrote, then raw foodists would be that...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 19, 2008
Kobe Raises the Steaks Jeffrey Chodorow, head of the China Grill Management restaurant empire, has always brought a Ziegfeld Zeitgeist to the table. Sure, he hopes...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 12, 2008
Flapjack Flip-Off VIII In the spirit of this pugnacious presidential primary season, we proudly present a special Kitchen Sink Edition of the eighth annual Flapjack...
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By Lee Klein
Published: June 05, 2008
Value Veal Ristorante Fratelli Milano's umbrella-shaded tables are tightly clustered together on pinched, pedestrian-clogged SE First Street. Two dozen...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 29, 2008
Andú Lounges The new Andú's retro-futuristic design dares to depart from the restaurant world's recent tilt toward timid, if tasteful, taupe-toned...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 22, 2008
Mint Leaf Makes Debut A cacophony of chatter and clatter greets diners as they enter Mint Leaf, which has sprouted in the spot once occupied by Darbar Indian...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 15, 2008
The Unreal Deal Food is fashion: Halter tops and haute French one day, bling and sushi the next. American-Chinese restaurants began to fall from favor about the...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 08, 2008
Macho Tacos "De sus amigos de 'Taco Loco,'" reads the sign over the storefront window at Maya Grill. The Mexican restaurant opened six months ago on West...
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By Lee Klein
Published: May 01, 2008
Tasty Morsels Miamians in the mood for Mexican in other corners of the county might consider these solid south-of-the-border joints:
Burritos Grill...
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Published: May 01, 2008
Viva Vita! When a couple dined at a high-end establishment in the chivalrous days of yore, it was not unusual for the gentleman to be handed a menu with...
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By Lee Klein
Published: April 24, 2008
Tasty Morsels Mediterranean cuisine is the toast of South Beach. Over the past few years, more than a half-dozen hoity-toity restaurants have opened, serving...
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Published: April 24, 2008
Too Will Do Eleven years ago, a pair of Danish chefs, Jan Jorgensen and Soren Bredahl, opened Two Chefs restaurant in South Miami. Bredahl returned to his...
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By Lee Klein
Published: April 17, 2008
Tasty Morsels North Miami isn't exactly a hotbed of cuisine, but a short ride up the Biscayne corridor does yield a couple of gems:
North One 10
Cream-colored...
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Published: April 17, 2008
Doug Rodriguez Is Back Michelle Bernstein and Doug Rodriguez were recently announced as nominees for the James Beard Foundation's best chef in the south award. The...
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By Lee Klein
Published: April 10, 2008
Tasty Morsels If you feel funny about plunking down big bucks for oxtail and plantains gussied up in the guise of Nuevo Latino, here are a couple of viejo...
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Published: April 10, 2008