Our Best of Miami issue is published this week, and a Washington Avenue staple took top honors in the brunch category. Here's what we had to say:

Beurre d'Isigny is no ordinary butter. And the brunch at La Gloutonnerie, the French restaurant in South Beach, is no ordinary brunch. The churned cream is among the best Franco-butters out there, and this Sunday meal is also unsurpassed. For $45 a pop, patrons get more than good butter slathered on fresh baguette. This brunch is a feast. Diners sip on two sparkling wine drinks. There's a cold appetizer section with oysters, charcuterie, marinated cheeses, and salads; a meat carving station; and an opulent dessert division with macarons, chocolate-covered strawberries, fruit tarts, layer cakes, and treats of all shapes, forms, and sizes. If the quality of a restaurant can be measured by its butter, well, we'll just say this: La Gloutonnerie serves the tastiest French butter around.

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Macchialina is the best restaurant in South Beach. Joe's Take Away makes the best fried chicken. Bread + Butter has the best pan con lechón.

Best of Miami 2013 is here, cousin, and you will enjoy it.

It includes not only all of our favorite picks, but also yours -- almost 100 Readers' Choice items around Miami-Dade County selected by thousands of New Times readers. Call it our version of Yelp. Or maybe don't. Whatever you call it, it's our annual guide to all things good, new, and unique about our fair city.

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Say what you will about Guy Fieri, but when he visited Scully's Tavern in Miami for Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, the dude was onto something. The bar food is excellent, including popular darlings such as escargots and the potato-chip-encrusted dolphin sandwich ($12.25) -- but the French fries end up being stars in their own right. Never soggy or floppy, always delicious. The golden brown color is an invitation to crunch away. There's no need to toss them in spices or dunk 'em in some aioli or another. You'll just require the perfectly salted French fry, your mouth, and the interpretive happy dance that's sure to follow.

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New Times' Best of Miami issue is published tomorrow. This week, we will preview a few of the winners to get you really excited. And we hope you are hungry.

At first glance, you might think the Latin Burger & Taco's Latin Macho burger ($8) is a slovenly sandwich. After all, once you unwrap the foil it rests in, you'll find a jumble of bun-oozing cheese, juice, and caramelized onions. As you try to figure out how to tackle this meat monster without wearing most of it, you flip up the bun and discover a veritable puddle of molten Oaxaca cheese combined with a slightly piquant red pepper mayo and plenty of onions.

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Codik

Housemade s'mores. They do exist.

Your buddies just don't understand.

You had an earth-shattering rossejat at the Bazaar. You loved the place -- that is, until you heard some tragic news. Your pal once had a bad bao con lechón there. Now that guy's never going back.

Disgruntled patrons rarely forget a dinner done wrong. Strokes of luck -- and, yes, misfortune -- often determine how Magic City restaurants are assessed.

New Times' Best of Miami issue arrives June 13 and, in honor of the forthcoming awards, I've compiled a list of our town's prime dining spots. These restaurants are great. But be warned: These are personal picks. So don't tell me about about your burnt-croqueta-this, and your scorched-snapper-that. Because, more likely than not, those were flukes.

These places, no matter the haters, are good.

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Biltmore Culinary Academy

Fancy cooking lessons at the Biltmore.

Listen up, gourmands: Favorite restaurants no longer indicate status. Sure, you may have a special table at Michy's. You can list past James Beard winners by heart, schmooze with top chefs, and toady up to sommeliers. But, really, no one cares anymore.

Today's epicureans must exit restaurant dining rooms and step into the kitchen. They must cook with ghee, debone a chicken, and fire up a wok.

What follows is a list of Miami's top five cooking classes. Enroll in these lessons. Fillet a fish, make gnocchi, churn your own ice cream. Build your street cred as a legit bon vivant.

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You can't hate on democracy if you haven't yet done your part to participate. At 11:59 p.m. our Best of Miami 2013 Reader's Poll will close down and a tally will be taken to determine a winner.

So what's it gonna be? Is the best inexpensive restaurant in Miami La Camaronera Fish Market? Is Miami's best chef Michael Schwartz? Danny Serfer? Todd Erickson? Who makes the best burger? Do you think it's Shake Shack?

It's up to you to choose a winner from the top five candidates (which you nominated, by the way). It's going to take 10 minutes from your day and all you need to do is have a My Voice Nation username (which takes less than two minutes to get)..

Go vote, vote, vote!

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Leah Gabriel

Sanguich: it's what's for lunch.

Do you often wonder what the hell a sanguich is? Are you tired of downing the same Publix sub every day? Do you consult your Spanglish dictionary every time co-workers rave about the ensalada César from the corner spot? Sounds like you need this: a re-initiation into all things lunch.

So put down the Amy's Kitchen Cheese Lasagna. (Really, that thing reeks.) Stop stinking up the office kitchen with frozen dinners and start taking folks out to lunch. Consider the networking possibilities! You might even make new work cronies AKA a staunch printer-jam support system.

Lunch can be a beautiful thing. Here are the top ten spots to score a good one.

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Azucar Ice Cream Company via Facebook

Helado de mamey? Yes, please.

Hey there, tour guide. Looking to show your out-of-towners a good time? Frozen drinks at Wet Willie's sure sound like fun. How about Cuban sandwiches at Versailles and Sunday brunch on Lincoln Road? Or, perhaps, a drive to the Everglades for fried alligator. Yes, it's gamey. Yes, it tastes like chicken. But no. Please, no!

With tourists in tow, stop by La Camaronera. Venture to Homestead. Sip on a milk shake while sitting by the petting zoo at Robert Is Here. A scoop (or two) of Azucar Ice Cream's Abuelita Maria flavor -- with cream cheese, Maria cookies, and guava -- is also in order. Cocktails at Broken Shaker, beers at Wood Tavern, late-night sandwiches at La Sandwicherie, and chicharrones at El Palacio de los Jugos: all part of the good host's to-do list.

If these places sound unfamiliar, fret no longer! We've compiled a foolproof list of the top ten places to take out-of-towners. Here's where to go for all unique things food and drink.

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Think Gabriel Orta is Miami's best bartender? Vote for him. Does Andiamo have the best pizza in town? Which is better: Yardbird or Blue Collar for best fried chicken?

With our most exciting issue quickly approaching, we at Short Order are gearing up for the epic Best of Miami 2013 Readers' Poll battle.

We sifted through the "your mom" nominees and a few duplicates. We checked and checked again to ensure each person still belongs to the establishment you lined them up with. We called to make sure places are still open and services are still the same.

Basically, we've put together an entirely new poll of the top five candidates that received the most votes and nominations and put them on one convenient page for you.

But now the ball is in your court.

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