One of our goals with the Cobaya dinner group is to provide an alternative to the typical restaurant experience, but even so, most of the t...

Almost exactly four years ago, we did a Cobaya dinner with Chef Deme Lomas at Niu Kitchen , the small, Catalan inspired restaurant he ope...

For Cobaya Experiment #78 , we had an out-of-town chef who came to Miami to immerse himself in the local flavors. For Experiment #79 earl...

Sometimes it takes an outsider to see the things you don't always see in yourself. José Ramirez-Ruiz was a New Yorker through and t...

It was exactly ten years ago to the day that Steven (a/k/a Chowfather), Steve (a/k/a Blind Mind) and I hosted our first Cobaya "u...

For years, Chef Carlos Garcia ran what was generally regarded as one of the top dining destinations in Latin America in his hometown of...

We've been on a bit of a hiatus at Cobaya for a while, but returned to action last month with a return visit to Pao at the Faena Hote...

I'm a big fan of collaborations. When you put two creative minds together, good things are bound to happen. Yet many "collaborati...

Let me just get this out of the way: Norman Van Aken has always been something of an idol of mine. One of my formative food experiences w...

When I first heard that Upland was opening in Miami Beach, the place was something of an enigma to me. I thought of Justin Smillie as a ...

"Abandon care and enter light-hearted ... for this is the Poodle Room, the exquisite tongue-in-cheek room, and here life is ...

Cobaya 's been on a long break, but we came back strong. Monday night, Chef Michael Beltran let us take over his Coconut Grove restau...