In 2001 she opened the restaurant Azul at the Mandarin Oriental
. She was a co-host of the
Food Network series
Melting Pot and once won a battle on
Iron Chef America versus
Bobby Flay. She has appeared as a guest judge on
Top Chef. She has hosted a PBS weekly television series,
Check, Please! South Florida. In 2005, Bernstein and her husband, David Martinez, became business partners and left Azul to open Michy's in Miami. In May 2006, Bernstein became a consulting chef for
Delta Air Lines. Bernstein won the
James Beard Foundation Award for best chef in the South in 2008. Bernstein's third restaurant arrived in 2008, called SRA. Martinez, a tapas restaurant in the Miami Design District. Bernstein operates a Miami chapter of
Common Threads. In 2011, Bernstein opened Crumb on Parchment, a café in the
Miami Design District. In April 2015, she debuted her TV show "SoFlo Taste." ==References==