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Best Restaurant In North Miami-Dade

What started out in April of 2008 as an all-vegetarian Chinese restaurant and bubble tea emporium in North Miami has grown into an all-purpose Chinese restaurant with noteworthy Taiwanese specialties -- and bubble tea emporium. You can still get convincing faux-meat appetizers such as BBQ pork and chicken egg rolls, drumsticks and nuggets. And e...

The namesake Ho knows his Asian fare, having served as dim sum chef at the Setai for several years before opening this place of his own in Sunny Isles Beach last September. Dim sum is the star here; on weekends it gets rolled out on carts, rest of the time it comes from the kitchen. Either way, it's the best dim sum this side of Tropical Chinese...

Timo represents that rare merging of two partnering owners who each excel in their respective fields -- or, more specifically, in their respective rooms: Rodrigo Martinez in the dining room, Tim Andriola in the kitchen. The 90-seat Sunny Isles dining room is warm and cozy, with lots of wood and a light brick wood-burning oven. Delectable pizzas ...

How much do we love thee, Bourbon Steak? Let us count thee ways: Best Steak House (2008); Best French Fries (2008); Best Fried Chicken (2009); Best Hamburger (2010); Best of our Top Five Steak Houses (2011). Michael Mina's Aventura branch in The Fairmont Turnberry Resort is about all-natural certified Angus beef, American Kobe, Japanese A5 Kobe,...

Owner Scott Fredel is an avid fisherman, talented chef, and evidently a savvy businessman. After all, his Aventura eatery Pilar has managed to maneuver the shark-infested restaurant world since 2004 as successfully as Ernest Hemngway might have navigated real waters in his boat -- that was named Pilar. Thing is, Fredel skillfully merges his twin...

What started out in April of 2008 as an all-vegetarian Chinese restaurant and bubble tea emporium in North Miami has grown into an all-purpose Chinese restaurant with noteworthy Taiwanese specialties -- and bubble tea emporium. You can still get convincing faux-meat appetizers such as BBQ pork and chicken egg rolls, drumsticks and nuggets. And e...

The namesake Ho knows his Asian fare, having served as dim sum chef at the Setai for several years before opening this place of his own in Sunny Isles Beach last September. Dim sum is the star here; on weekends it gets rolled out on carts, rest of the time it comes from the kitchen. Either way, it's the best dim sum this side of Tropical Chinese...