“PHOTO BLOG” POST: Vagabond Restaurant (Upper Eastside, Global/International)

I really debated whether to write this blog post or not. I visited the Vagabond for Easter brunch with my family and a lot of family friends. Yes some of you may be noticing from the date just above that I am writing this in September (and late September at that)… I got pretty backed […]

Mixing up the traditional and the nontraditional for brunch- The Publican (West Loop, Chicago, Outside Trips)

Brunch! I knew Chicago was a pretty great brunch city, so I was excited for the Sunday morning of my trip. Miami has some decent breakfast and brunch places, but the brunch culture just isn’t there like it is in Portland, Chicago, New York, etc. There were a few brunch places that came up in […]

Reconnecting with old friends, one of which is a restaurant- La Moon (Colombian, Brickell)

After an Art Basel event at Vizcaya (recap included in longer Art Basel post here), my friends from college who were in town and I were pretty hungry. They had spent the first part of their trip in South Beach and so I thought Brickell or the Grove would be cool places for them to […]

Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita (Brickell, International)

On Friday my friends and I went to dinner at Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita- very long name but a good restaurant. Dolores sits right in the middle of Brickell in what was once a Miami fire house, but a beautiful Mediterranean one at that. I’ve always admired the architecture of the restaurant […]

Needs No Catchy Tagline- Crazy About You (Brickell, International)

My friend Katie had her golden birthday yesterday and she had a birthday dinner at “Crazy About You” in Brickell. I had always heard good things about “Dolores But You Can Call Me Lolita” (check out my later review of that restaurant here) and knew Crazy About You was run by the same people, but […]