A disproportionate amount of my time and energy writing here is devoted to higher end dining (leading some people to think I actually eat th...

I was surprised when I heard that pasta master Michael Pirolo of Macchialina  was opening an Asian-inspired restaurant – Bazi . Pirolo...

We encourage chefs to think of a Cobaya dinner as a chance to do something different, something they typically couldn't otherwise pu...

I still have little hope of keeping up with the pace of Miami restaurant openings, but lately I've made a small dent in the list. Saturd...

For Cobaya experiment #47, we returned to the site of experiment #30 , almost exactly two years ago: Khong River House , just off Lincoln R...

So let's say you want to eat at Bazaar South Beach , but you don't have the patience to wade through 4,000 words and 19 footnotes...

If it wasn't the most eagerly anticipated restaurant opening in Miami, The Bazaar was certainly the most long-awaited. Speculation t...

Uh oh. Only three weeks into the CSA season and I'm already a full week behind in posting. Not an auspicious start. This is no fault of ...

If I were opening a new restaurant in Bal Harbour, I'm not sure it would be a Japanese place. I say that primarily because Bal Harbour i...

It was almost exactly a year ago that we did our " Cobaya in the Night Kitchen " midnight dinner at Sakaya Kitchen . At that point...

It's always an interesting experience planning these Cobaya - Gourmet Guinea Pigs dinners. The mission statement for the chefs is a si...

PubBelly styles itself an "Asian inspired gastropub," but I'm not convinced that's entirely on the mark.  With its semi...

Fish is the new steak, and Asian is the new burger. Consider: the past couple years brought us the openings of a multitude of high-end steak...

[Sorry, this restaurant has closed "for remodeling"] I drive down Biscayne Boulevard to work every morning. As a result, I hav...

The last time we mentioned a "truck party" here, it was a two-part taste test featuring the gastroPod and Latin Burger . That was...

[sorry, this restaurant has closed; but check out Josh's Deli , at the same spot with the same owner, which I've reviewed here ] ...

" Did you ever hear of Micky, how he heard a racket in the night and shouted and fell through the dark... " Forty guinea pigs wer...

I have long been intrigued by the menu at the Restaurant at the Setai - a curious amalgam of several Far Eastern cuisines - but there was a...