Nicole Lopez-Alvar

6 days ago | miaminewtimes.com | Nicole Lopez-Alvar

Certain balmy nights in Miami feel like a scene from a movie. The patio glows with golden-hour light and a fresh breeze. A live band's drum beat creates waves across Biscayne Bay. Clinks of pisco sours and laughter fill the air. Bistro lights blend in with the skyscrapers and the stars.

1 week ago | miaminewtimes.com | Nicole Lopez-Alvar

Groovy's Pizza & Grill, the greasy yet weirdly beloved dive on 27th Avenue, has officially been evicted — and depending on who you ask, it's either the end of an era or long overdue. Located between Coral Way and U.S. 1 on 27th Avenue, Groovy's wasn't known for gourmet fare or pristine conditions. In fact, it was kind of the opposite. The pizza was notoriously oily, the kitchen questionably clean, and the floor always suspiciously sticky.

1 week ago | miaminewtimes.com | Nicole Lopez-Alvar

After a two-year hiatus that left local brunch devotees wandering the Design District, missing it dearly, beloved café OTL is finally making its much-anticipated comeback. And not just anywhere. The brunch spot has officially reopened in the newly reimagined Moore building (built in the 1920s!), setting up shop in the cultural heart of the neighborhood it helped define. If you know, you know: OTL wasn't just another trendy café when it opened in 2017.

1 week ago | miaminewtimes.com | Nicole Lopez-Alvar

If you've recently walked through Coconut Grove and thought, "Did that adorable olive green RV with rows of yummy-looking pastries just smell like warm croissants and brown butter?" Well, you're not dreaming. That was Ophelia, Miami's latest soon-to-be viral bakery that technically isn’t a storefront bakery at all. (New Times has an amazing history of helping — or making — bakeries go viral.

1 week ago | miaminewtimes.com | Nicole Lopez-Alvar

Just one day after New Times broke the story that Flanigan's Seafood Bar & Grill was teasing followers about a new location, the restaurant has officially announced the next location. Thursday's Instagram Reel announcing the Cutler Bay location featured a short video interview with the mayor of the Town of Cutler Bay, Jim Meerbott, and Jimmy Flanigan, president and CEO of Flanigan's.