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Food news and dining guides for Miami.

With everything from soju and skewers to boozy slushies, these restaurants are the wildest, most fun in America.

Michelin-starred restaurants say that the guide causes a run on reservations and enables chefs to make price hikes.

Gulf News editor's first-hand travel account with some surreal and fun-filled experiences

Seth Browarnik/WorldRedEye.com For restaurants, 2021 has brought some degree of hope. As workers — and diners — get vaccinated, restaurant dining rooms are beginning to more closely resemble pre-pandemic scenes. But the costs of 2020 linger. Many restaurants are struggling to hire staff. Months worth of deferred rent payments now due could push more to close for good; scores of restaurants already have. And then there’s Major Food Group, the powerhouse restaurant group that’s on an expa...

Photo by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images Winter is always high season in Miami. But this year, the combination of loose restrictions in Florida, tight restrictions elsewhere, great weather, a rise in domestic travel, and pent up demand has led to a major boom in the hospitality industry, or what Eater Miami editor Olee Fowler is calling “our season on steroids.” Eater’s Digest podcast, we talk to Fowler about the influx of big name players to Miami right now and what it means for the lon...