NOTE: This week’s MIAbites features Miami’s 10 Top Black-Owned restaurants via Starex Smith ( aka The Hungry Blackman). Please visit and support all of these restaurants as we continue to navigate Covid. They need our support as do ALL of Miami’s independent restaurants. Dine-in, takeout, delivery or purchasing gift cards are a good way to help them.
Read MoreThe Miami restaurant scene has been quite different since March 2020. Many friends and followers have asked me my opinion about what restaurants I have felt comfortable going to that have good food, good service and still feel like a fun night out. Here are 14 restaurants I have been to personally and feel COVID safe.
Read MoreWhile the circumstances this holiday season are not ideal due to COVID-19, your Thanksgiving menu doesn’t have to suffer. Take a look at our favorite spots to share your gratitude over a tasty and memorable meal at home or at the restaurant. And please Stay Smart. Stay Safe. Stay Healthy!
Read MoreMIAbites and Food Rescue US Miami continue to support and fund our local restaurants and chefs to prepare and provide free meals to local residents, homeless, healthcare workers, and food insecure individuals and families.
DONATE to us so we can continue to fund this program through the 2020 Holiday season.
Read MoreThe COVID crisis has certainly taken its toll on our economy and none are more impacted than the restaurant and bar community, with closures, curfews, restrictions, and low tourism. Miami Beach real estate broker Howard Chase and his wife, Liliana Chase, wanted to bring traditional BBQ to Miami and felt the timing and location with plenty of outside dining worked regardless of the crisis.
Read MoreBy Popular Demand: As part of the Food Rescue US Miami Community Kitchen program , Stanzione87 will be providing free pizzas to those in need at their location on 87 SW8th St/Brickell City Centre on Tuesday 10/27 to furloughed, laid off, unemployed hospitality employees, local charities and anyone in need of a meal for themselves or their family.
Read MoreSTARTS TOMORROW! COVID-19 continues to disrupt the entire restaurant industry and many of Miami’s favorite food-driven events have been canceled or rescheduled.
The much-anticipated annual culinary event with stops in cities across the United States, COCHON555 will return to Miami Tuesday, September 22- Sunday, September 27, 2020 offering a creative pivot: CARRYOUT WITH COCHON555 presented by Citi, a virtual and interactive feast featuring five of the city’s top talents.
Read MoreRED South Beach is back and bigger and better and with outdoor dining! Partners, Executive Chef Peter Vauthy and Managing Partner Aaron Hammer, of Bisteca Hospitality Group, are excited to open their new location at 801 South Pointe Drive, in the South of Fifth neighborhood.
Read MoreRaise your hand if you can’t wait for 2020 to END? The Jewish calendar actually has a NEW YEAR starting on September 18, so let’s celebrate 5780 in style. Chef Danny Serfer of Blue Collar, Mignonette and Viniagrette has a complete Rosh Hashanah feast to take home and share.
Read MoreOn the 19th anniversary of September 11th, 2001, Food Rescue US-Miami and MIAbites will join Chef José Andrés World Central Kitchen and 911Day.org to provide 911 meals to local Miami hospital workers, first responders, and police and firefighters.
Read MoreCelebrate restaurant reopenings and indoor dining! As a thank you to the loyal locals, Chef Michael Pirolo’s Miami Beach favorite, Macchialina presents their incredibly popular $10 Pasta Monday 8/31 through Thursday 9/3.
Read MoreWhen COVID 19 Miami-Dade guidelines required all businesses to close down end-March, L’Artisane Creative Bakery Chef/Owner Carolina Molea was forced to lay off all of her employees and close the doors to her French-inspired Vegan Bakery and café on Collins Ave in North Beach.
Read MoreWhen we first approached James Beard nominated Chefs Luciana Giangrandi and Alex Meyer of Boia De to be part of our MIAbites/Food Rescue US-Miami Community Kitchen Meal Distribution, we never anticipated the amazing response from our hospitality friends, the Little Haiti and Buena Vista neighbors or from the chefs themselves in support of the free meal program.
Read MoreIn this time of COVID, MIAbites wants to highlight the good work being done by our restaurant community and various non-profits.
Longtime Miami favorite Pincho (aka Pincho Factory) has been offering discounts to local hospital workers and first responders through a generous 50% off program.
Read MoreNEW DATES ADDED! Editors Note: MIAbites is proud that their philanthropic program with National non-profit, Food Rescue US has been able to support so many during this crisis in our industry. By funding independent restaurants to put their staff back to work while feeding those out of work, over 35,000 meals have been distributed.
Food Rescue US – Miami has been selected by The Miami Foundation in partnership with The PepsiCo Foundation to receive a $50,000 grant that will be designated to launch community kitchens within the Little Haiti area.
Read MoreIn partnership with MIAbites, Food Rescue US Miami, Carol City Middle School Principal, Derek Negron, local resident, and District 8 candidate, Linda Julien and funded by Mr. Dan Lewis, the fifth no-contact Community Kitchen opens in Miami Gardens this Wednesday 6/24 with host restaurant, Shuckin and Jivin.
Read MoreIt was a sunny and steamy day mid-April at the third day of our MIAbites Food Rescue US-Miami Community Kitchen at Alter in Wynwood.
Read MoreFood Rescue US-Miami and Café La Trova partners with Ascendant Insurance Solutions and LAAIA to Offer Free Meals to Little Havana Residents on Wednesday, June 24th, 3-5 pm.
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