Check, Please! South Florida Season 9
Host Michelle Bernstein returns with fifteen new reviewers, offering restaurant picks from Jupiter to the Florida Keys. Season 9 digs up a barbecue joint hidden amongst the downtown Miami high-rises, travels North to Jupiter for a tropical waterfront treat, and heads south to the Florida Keys for a visit to some colorful locals’ joints.  Prepare your palate for an exciting new season of South Florida flavor. 

 

 

Episodes:

Show #904 –Airs 2/4
Featuring: Lazy Days, Islamorada; Chef Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant & Wine Bar, Kendall; and Mrs. Mac’s Kitchen, Key Largo

Show #905 –Airs 2/11
Featuring: Mai Kai, Ft. Lauderdale; Café Centro, West Palm Beach; and Sushi Thai Bistro, Boca

 

About Michelle Bernstein, Host of WPBT2's Check, Please! South Florida
Chef, restaurant owner, culinary consultant, author, and TV personality, Michelle Bernstein, has been pleasing palates for over twenty years. A Miami native of Jewish and Latin descent, this passionate culinaire has dazzled diners and critics alike with her sublime cuisine and a personality as bright and vibrant as the Florida sun. “My food is luxurious but approachable,” says Bernstein, a James Beard Award winner (Best Chef South 2008) and author of Cuisine a Latina (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2008).   In April 2011, she launched her vibrant new collection of cookware and cutlery sets, “Michelle B.”

Experience in the kitchen has made Michelle one of the most sought-after chefs in the television industry. For two years, Bernstein co-hosted The Food Network’s Melting Pot, where she introduced many Americans to the art of Nuevo Latino Cuisine. Bernstein would return to the Food Network years later to battle Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America, from which the Miami chef emerged victorious. Currently the host of WPBT’s Check, Please! South Florida, Michelle still manages to make appearances on a variety of national television shows.

Diners can sample her signature haute cuisine served up in a warm, unpretentious setting at her namesake restaurant Michy’s, which opened in the “upper east-side” of Miami in 2005. Michy’s is what Bernstein says she has always dreamed of owning; a cozy and approachable restaurant with her husband David Martinez. The neighborhood haunt was quickly dubbed one of the “Top 50 Restaurants in the Country” by Gourmet and “Best New Restaurant 2006” by Food and Wine. Just a few blocks away, Crumb on Parchment, offers a casual, cozy cafe serving breakfast, lunch, and mouthwatering baked goods handmade by her mother, Martha.

Alongside her restaurant ventures, Bernstein has managed to launch the Miami chapter of Common Threads, an after-school program dedicated to teaching underprivileged kids ages 8-11 to cook, socialize, and eat healthy, one recipe at a time. Bernstein was recently named one of “The 25 Most Influential Women” by People en Español (October 2011), in the issue honoring Hispanic women who have risen to the top of their fields.

 

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