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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
3413 Main Hwy | Website | InstagramBy Eric Barton | April 9, 2025The first time I went to Los Félix in Coconut Grove, I wanted to love it. I really did. The place had everything you’re supposed to admire: corn grown by Mexican farmers paid living wages, nixtamalization done in-house, a soundtrack you’ll be plugging into your Spotify as you sip a an old-fashioned down with brown-butter cognac and kombu and pretend that counts as hydration.
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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
By Eric Barton | April 8, 2025If you’ve spent enough time eating through Charleston restaurants, you’d be mistaken for assuming the city already occupies pages upon pages in the Michelin Guide. This is a city that treats its chefs like royalty, where good restaurants are landmarks, and where dining trends begin. But the Michelin guide? Not yet.
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19999 W Country Club Dr | Website | InstagramBy Eric Barton | April 8, 2025If you’ve ever thought, “I wish I could spend every summer afternoon on a waterslide, eating ice cream and acting 12 years old again,” as most of us have, Tidal Cove has just the thing. The waterpark, tucked inside the JW Marriott Miami Turnberry Resort & Spa in Aventura, is launching what it calls the Seasonal Passport of Fun, a $595-per-person pass that buys unlimited access from April 30 to August 30.
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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
By Eric Barton | March 31, 2025The Michelin Guide has never expanded to New Orleans. The reason? It’s just what you might think: it’s about money. What that means for those of us who rely on Michelin to point us to a city’s finer restaurants is that we have to look elsewhere when traveling to the Big Easy. Which is why I set out to find the New Orleans restaurants worthy of a Michelin star.
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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
3255 NE 1st Ave | Website | InstagramBy Eric Barton | March 28, 2025By now you’ve probably been to Maty’s, Valerie Chang’s Peruvian ode to her grandmother that every food magazine in the country has drooled over.
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158 NW 24th St | Website | InstagramBy Eric Barton | March 26, 2025Wynwood has everything—until about 10 p.m., when the craft cocktails turn into half-finished Negronis and people start googling where to go next. Now, three nightlife veterans with résumés full of velvet ropes and bottle parades think they’ve solved that problem. Opening April 4, LunaSol is a new 5,000-square-foot lounge and nightclub from Derek Gonzalez (Goat Hospitality Group), Keith Paciello, and Ryan Van Milligen.
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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
61 Biltmore Ave | Website | InstagramBy Eric Barton | March 24, 2025On paper, Wildwood Still sounds like the kind of place you’d expect to find on the roof of a hotel in downtown Asheville. It’s in the Moxy, a Marriott brand with mood lighting, pink neon, and lobby cocktails that were likely designed with bachelorette photos in mind. So naturally, you'd expect the restaurant up top to play the hits: a Caesar, a ribeye, maybe a poke bowl so nobody gets mad.
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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
Photos by Sebastian Lucrecio 156 NE 41st St | Website | InstagramBy Eric Barton | March 24, 2025There’s a new Japanese restaurant in the Design District, but don’t expect the usual omakase suspects or a DJ booth wedged between tables. Matsuyoi is the latest from the Nami Nori crew—Lisa Limb, Taka Sakaeda, Jihan Lee, and Pharrell Williams—the same team that gave us that cheerful temaki party downstairs. This one’s upstairs, moody, hushed, and deliberately slow-paced.
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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
By Eric Barton | March 21, 2025My grandmother, like a lot of Italian grandmothers, was convinced the only way to express love was through food. Holidays? We skipped turkey for lasagna. A random Tuesday? If we weren’t eating pasta, we were at an Italian restaurant, arguing about whether the sauce needed more garlic. And when it came to celebrating anything—birthdays, anniversaries, my first speeding ticket—we went out for red sauce and chicken parm.
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theadventuristmagazine.com | Eric Barton
By Eric BartonMrs. Provencher took my entire journalism class to Martha’s Exchange for lunch, way back when Nashua had just one high school. I ordered a burger, wrote my first restaurant review, and—unsurprisingly—thought it was brilliant. That was the start of my career in food writing, and yes, I still have a soft spot for Martha’s. Back then, it was the only good restaurant downtown.