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The 8th Annual Coral Gables Restaurant Week Presents the Ultimate Foodie Paradise

By Justina Coronel Three weeks of over 40 restaurants offering three-course meal menus? This is the ultimate foodie galore! The 8th Annual Coral Gables Restaurant Week presented by Bacardi USA is showcasing new eateries and returning old favorites while offering several courses served at a total, discounted price. Foodies will have three weeks, from June 8th-28th, to taste their way through Downtown Coral Gables. Downtown Coral Gables is a unique and sophisticated destination that has a variety of restaurants that have an array of fine cuisine. This mouthwatering event will kick off on Thursday, June 4th, and guests can come together for the “Taste of the Gables” launch party. At the Westin Colonnade, 180 Aragon Avenue, from 6:30-8:30pm, foodies will be able to taste samples of Restaurant Week and then vote to select the winner for “Best Taste of the Gables.” The general admission prices are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. But if you are wanting more, look at what VIP has in store. For $55 online or $65 at the door, VIP ticket holders will have access to all General Admission areas, enjoy the Bacardi rum open bar and additional food stations, and will receive a glorious goody bag to take home. This event is 21 and over, so make sure to pair those meals with the official cocktail of Restaurant Week, which is the classic Bacardi rum and Coke. You don’t want to miss this three-week fun-filled adventure where you can frolic around and devour delicious food. To date, these are the 40 restaurants participating: Anacapri on Ponce Angelique Euro Café Bellmont Spanish Restaurant Bread + Butter Counter BrickTop’s Bulla Gastrobar Café at Books & Books by Chef Allen Caffe Abbracci Caffe Vialetto California Pizza Kitchen Christy’s Restaurant Cibo Wine Bar Divino Ceviche Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar Fratellino Ristorante Fritz & Franz Bierhaus Ikura Sushi Lounge JohnMartin’s Irish Pub & Restaurant La Dorada Restaurant La Taberna Giralda Le Provencal The Local Craft Food & Drink Maroosh Mediterranean Restaurant Miss Saigon Bistro Morton’s The Steakhouse OBBA Sushi Open Stage Club Ortanique on the Mile Pardo’s Peruvian Cuisine Randazzo’s Little Italy Red Koi Thai & Sushi Lounge Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse Seasons 52 Spritz of Coral Gables Sushi Maki SUSHISAMBA Swine Southern Table & Bar Talavera Cocina Mexicana Tarpon Bend Raw Bar & Grill Threefold Café Uvaggio Restaurant & Wine Bar Vicolo Italian Kitchen   For more information to purchase tickets, visit www.coralgablesrestaurantweek.com

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Whole Foods Market Opens its Doors to Downtown Miami

By Nycole Sariol Downtowners, rejoice! That unrealistic New Year’s resolution you made about losing twenty pounds in three months may be realized after all! Whole Foods Market, the eponymous marketplace of all things fresh, is slated to open right off of Southeast Third Street in Downtown Miami on Wednesday, January 16th. To kick off the long-awaited inauguration befittingly, the market will host a bread breaking ceremony at 8:45 in the morning, whereby a downpour of customers will oscillate through the countless isles harboring only the freshest in natural and organic delights. The recent Downtown addition is one of four locations set to open this year and the twenty-second to open up in Florida. Exclusive Whole Foods offerings will include an in-house Sushi Maki and La Churrasqueria stations – to name a few – mirroring the schematic of other South Florida locations. Adding to the list of locally sourced produce and fresh seafood, this particular Whole Foods will be the first of its kind to open up a Jugofresh shop within its sliding doors. That’s right, health nuts – all whom fancy Chef Laszlo’s bottled concoctions can now get their juice fix on in store. No word on other Jugofresh and WFM collaborations to popping up. Parking will also be a luxury at the Downtown spot: an 140-spot garage will be designated exclusively for Whole Foods shoppers, and will be color-coated by local street artists. But here’s the real reason why you should camp outside of Whole Foods on the eve of the opening: the first five hundred customers in line will receive “mystery gift cards” of five, ten, or twenty dollars. One lucky customer will also receive the mother-load of gift cards at a value of five hundred dollars. And for anyone familiar with organic groceries and their merciless price points, that’s like hitting the jackpot!

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