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Just how many branches of a restaurant does it take before the place becomes impersonal? Hard to say, but Balans has passed it. Which isn't to say the establishment... More »
Sitting like a South Beach-y black sheep in laid-back and pub-heavy South Miami, RA Sushi is less about raw fish and more about tempura, cooked seafood, kiwi, and jalapeo±os. Take... More »
Simply, chef/owner Carmen Gonzalez's new place is the most exciting restaurant to open in South Florida in years. The eatery is actually three distinctly different... More »
Just how many branches of a restaurant does it take before the place becomes impersonal? Hard to say, but Balans has passed it. Which isn't to say the establishment doesn't have its... More »
Executive chef/co-owner Jean Paul Desmaison was born in Lima and studied culinary arts in Peru, so he's pretty darn confident he can whip up a mean pisco sour and... More »
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You know how you can tell you’re in a relationship? It takes you longer to pick a place to dine out than to actually sit down and eat. “What do you feel like eating?” “Oh, I don’t know. How ’bout you?” “I chose last time.” “No, you didn’t. I did.” And on and on until the prospect of picking up some Mickey D’s seems like the only...
Eating at Balans is like buying clothes at the Gap. It's like reading a novel by John Grisham. It's like being a Blue Dog Democrat. In a word: meh.
This occurs to me while using a fork to move about a bland nugget of chicken breast, pushing it this way and that on a plate packed with other pieces of poultry, red peppers, bamboo shoots, onions, and basil leaves in the sort of simple...
If you want to feel like a tourist in your own town, go to Balans.
It's on Lincoln Road, for god's sake. When was the last time you hung out there, oozing along with the flow of bug-eyed Midwesterners in their neatly pressed shorts and Tommy Bahamas, elegantly dressed Latins, baseball-capped party dudes, and the occasional slumming businessman, as obvious as a turd in the punch bowl in his...
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