Allen Susser

Miami's Best Eats and Drinks this Weekend

We can bitch and complain all we want about our laborious weekdays at work, but when it comes to the weekend, the bitching needs to stop. Ain't nobody got time fo' anything besides chocolate festivals, beer festivals, and Calle Ocho. So quit your complaining and start planning your sure-to-be-awes ... More >>

Free Grilled Cheese at the New Times Daily Melt Meetup This Friday

If you're not a fan of melty, golden, cheesy goodness pressed between two slices of toasty bread, you're probably not human. So why are you reading a food blog, android freak? This widespread love for the classic childhood sammie means Miaimians should be stoked for the Daily Melt, the newest addit ... More >>

Jamie DeRosa, Michael Reginbogin To Open New Restaurant

Jamie DeRosa, former executive chef at Tudor House and Michael Reginbogin, former general manager of Estiatorio Milos are teaming up once again to develop a new restaurant.Reginbogin and DeRosa worked together at Tudor House before going their separate ways.Reginbogin went to Milos, where he was nam ... More >>

Norman Van Aken Cooks at Whole Foods Coral Gables Tonight

Norman Van Aken wears many "toques". He's been coined the father of New World cuisine and was one of the "Mango Gang", a group of chefs including Douglas Rodriguez, Allen Susser, and Mark Militello who turned Miami's culinary vista from diners and early bird specials into an interesting and cultural ... More >>

Iron Fork: Food, Cocktails, and Two Incredible Battles (Photos)

Thousands of hungry and thirsty people converged upon Grand Central Miami last evening to eat, drink and be merry at New Times' fifth annual Iron Fork.  Over three dozen of Miami's hottest restaurants served up some fine eats while a host of open bars attended to the liquid needs of party goers ... More >>

Iron Fork: New Chef Announcement and Half-Priced VIP Ticket Offer

The fifth annual Iron Fork competition, set for October 18 at Grand Central, has a new chef lineup for its featured competition. In it, two of Miami's top chefs battle in a gladiator-style competition of wits and skill using knives, fire, and raw meat as their weapons of choice. Only one will remain ... More >>

Iron Fork Competitor Daniel Serfer On How He's Prepping for Battle

As you all know, the best fall food event, Iron Fork, is fast approaching. On October 18 at Grand Central, chefs Daniel Serfer (Blue Collar) and Kenny Gilbert (Top Chef alum and Swine Southern Table and Bar) will battle to the death in a cooking competition worth sweating over. And of course, we wi ... More >>

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Makes Mangoes Exciting This Weekend

Picture a man and a woman, knives in hand, working their way through a jungle. The tree cover is so dense there's barely any sunlight, and the air is rich with the scents of rain and greenery. After what seems like hours, they reach their prize. Is it a hidden temple filled with gold statu ... More >>

Taste of the Nation Celebrates 25th Anniversary on July 19

Taste of the Nation, the event that brings together Miami's best chefs to benefit Share Our Strength, is celebrating its silver anniversary with a stellar lineup of food and drink.On Thursday, July 19, over three dozen restaurants will offer their best bites to sample at the Turnberry Isle Miami. So ... More >>

SoBeWFF Burger Bash: Michael Symon's Three-Peat

​View photos of Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach here.Although we had grand dreams that a local chef would take the prize, Symon's B Spot Burgers claimed the People's Choice Award yet again this year at last night's Burger Bash (that's a third consecutive win for him). Fellow Iron Chefs ... More >>

Miami food scene 2011: food trucks, great chefs, and real coffee continue the culinary ascent

New Times' Iron Fork is Thursday, Are You Prepared?

Iron Fork is coming...are you prepared?​New Times' Fourth Annual Iron Fork is this Thursday at Ice Palace Film Studios in downtown Miami from 7 to 10 p.m., so we gotta ask -- are you prepared for the awesomeness of watching chefs do battle in head-to-head competition?Have you trained to get your s ... More >>

Fourth Annual Iron Fork October 20

Miami New Times presents Iron Fork: a duel with knives and fire.​If you're like us, your favorite competitive sport consists of two chefs engaged in kitchen combat. We're talking sharp knives, open flames, and meat -- this is one dangerous battle to the finish. The best part: You get to eat the sp ... More >>

Tomorrow: Books & Books Holds Readers Circle Lunch

Will Michael Schwartz make a surprise visit to Books & Books?​Books & Books is bringing its cafe and book shop together with a Readers Circle Lunch on Thursday, August 11th at noon at the Coral Gables location.Entitled: What Are You Reading?, the lunch will give book lovers a chance to s ... More >>

What Chefs Can't Live Without in a Storm

Red the Steakhouse executive chef Peter Vauthy plans an Italian-themed hurricane party.​You know the old game where you're asked the question, "If you're stranded on a deserted island, what couldn't you live without?" Most people answer with their favorite book, a musical instrument, or volleyball ... More >>

The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co.: Egg Creams Yes, Bialys No

Lee Klein​We first wrote about the planned South Beach branch of

April 2011 Restaurant Openings and Closings

Chef Allen's​Quite a few restaurant doors opened and closed in April. We had some surprises like the quiet opening of Michelle Bernstein's new cafe/bakery in the atrium of the building across from Sra. Martinez and the arrival of La Sandwicherie to Brickell. In closings, chef Allen Susser closed h ... More >>

Miami Culinary Institute Is New Breeding Ground for Talented Cooks

Photo by Jackie Sayet​The Miami Culinary Institute, the culinary arts school of Miami Dade College, celebrated the opening of its 34,000-square-foot green building April 14. The school, which took its first group of students in January, will try to change culinary education by training students to ... More >>

Chef Giovanni Arias Won't Kill Diners at Canyon Ranch

Photo by Riki AltmanHe promises you'll survive.​Every chef is concerned about things going wrong in their restaurants -- after all, they can't always control every detail. But executive chef Giovanni Arias has to be extra vigilant in his kitchen at Canyon Ranch Hotel & Spa Miami Beach because ... More >>

Eden doesn't tempt

Short Order Awards 2010 Nominees Are In... Vote Now!

​Last month, we revealed that at this year's Iron Fork event on October 21 we'd be handing out our first ever Short Order awards. While Best of Miami is picked by an ominous "editorial board," the blog awards work a little differently. We asked a group of local chefs, food bloggers, and our own Sh ... More >>

Save the Date for Fairchild's Mango Culinary Conference

Paula NiñoMango varieties at the Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden Mango Brunch​Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden will open this year's Annual International Mango Festival with a Mango Culinary Conference, a day of panel discussions that pairs Fairchild's tropical fruit experts and local chef ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival highlight reel

Sugarcane Raw Bar & Grill Coming to Midtown via Sushi Samba Creators

The raw space for Sushi Samba presents Graffiti Gone Global for Art Basel Miami '09.​The Sugarcane Raw Bar and Grill is a new concept from the creators of Sushi Samba that will premiere during Art Basel 2009 in Midtown Miami and function in coercion with the Sushi Samba presented Graffiti Gone Glo ... More >>

Holy Moly! World Record-Breaking Guacamole Event this Sunday

Photo by Lina PabónChef Michael Schwartz working with John A. Ferguson Senior High School students to perfect their guacamole entry for Sunday's competition.It's fall in South Florida, This mean your neighbors with hundreds of ripe avocados have you under siege. "Take one." "Take one" "Take one." J ... More >>

Critchley, Bodini Finalists for New Times' Iron Fork in October

Executive chef and Iron Fork finalist John Critchley of Area 31.​Last night, New Times held the pre-chef challenge for its Iron Fork event at La Cuisine Gourmet in Coral Gables. Four chefs competed: executive chef Maria Manso of the Blue Door at the Delano, executive chef John Critchley of Area 31 ... More >>

Chef Allen Once Took Julia Child Stone Crabbing, and Guess Who Pulled the Traps?

Marsha TalianoffU.S.S. Julia​Chef Allen Susser, Chef/Owner Chef Allen'sTalking about Food was one of Julia's favorite subjects. She was always involved. But Julia never saw food as an armchair discussion. She wanted to get right into the middle to experience the foods, the flavors, and the culture ... More >>

Chef Allen Gets A Facelift

Taking Relief Efforts by Storm

Selected Events for the Week of October 6

The World According to Norman

At Mundo, the food is bueno

Last Bites

So long, Miami -- Lee Klein goes north to Broward

Air Fare

Serving up crap at MIA - it doesn't have to be so tasteless

Cheesecake Survivor

La Valentina takes on the Big Cheese in the Aventura Mall -- and holds its own

South Beach North

On the South Beach of the Carolinas -- Southern charm, water views, no alcohol ...

Emperors of Ice Cream

South Florida offers a veritable world tour of frozen goodness

Selling Miami Spice

Reasons why Miami should be the food and wine fest capital

Taste, the Final Frontier

There is a limit to how many culinary charities you can donate your way through

Food Fight!

Dishing it out at the Wine & Food Festival

Miamian Beauty

Naked breasts and rose petals in the name of WTC relief

Dish TV

Karetnick is convincing in this miniseries

Dish

Cooked Up in Miami

Night & Day

January 14 - 20, 1999

Night & Day

September 3 - 9, 1998

Med Fly in the Ointment

Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

Swelter 22

Posh Nosh

Hail to the Chef

Baci's Glorious Revival