Alton

Traffic Hell: Alton Road Reconstruction Begins Today

Remember the traffic nightmares a few years back when workers were tearing up and reconstructing a portion of Biscayne Boulevard through Omni and Midtown? Well, it's South Beach's turn now. The Florida Department of Transportation begin a 28-month project to refurbish Alton Road in South Beach today ... More >>

Picnic on South Beach: Healthy and Easy Alternatives for Your Basket

It's January in the Magic City. The sun is shining, the weather is sweet, and it's perfect picnic time. And since it's a new year and you're probably very much committed to the universal resolution of eating healthy and losing weight, Cheetos puffs and croquetas can't be on your basket's menu. Unfor ... More >>

American Burger Closes

About a month back, Short Order reported on a name and location switcheroo being played out in South Beach. Read Also: American Burger Replaces 8 oz. Burger Bar on Alton; 8 oz. To Open New Lincoln Road Location8 oz. Burger Bar on Alton Road had mysteriously turned into American Burger and the Alton ... More >>

South Beach Will Be a Police State this Weekend: Here's What to Expect

In a $1.8 million effort to control crowds (and, lets be honest, discourage Urban Beach Week festivities from happening in the future), South Beach will resemble nothing short of a police state this weekend. Though, The Miami Herald's Miami Beach reporter David Smiley tweets that "projected Memorial ... More >>

52. Carolina Piggie Platter at Austen's

It's that time of year when we count down to New Times' Best of Miami 2012 issue in June. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.As one of South Beach's newest eateries, many hav ... More >>

SoBeWFF is Too Expensive: Here's What $225 Will Buy Outside of the Festival

​It's Friday... and that means the chaos of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival is officially underway. Foodies and winos from all over the world have flocked to our sandy beaches to take part in one of the biggest festivals in the country. You, however, are tired of hearing about it.You're s ... More >>

Christmas vs. Hanukkah: Which is the Better Foodie Holiday?

via SodaHeadFire burns tree. Fire wins?​The other day in a meeting, the Short Order bloggers got into a tizzy about which holiday had the better bites: Christmas, AKA Santa's birthday -- or is it Rudolph's? -- or Hanukkah, the eight days of lights not being turned off or something. This actually g ... More >>

Chow Down Fridays Start December 2 at Chow Down Grill SoBe

Courtesy of Chow Down Grill Chow, drink and be merry​Chow Down Grill announces yet another reason to be there almost every night of the week (not that we're complaining). In addition to Sweet & Low Tuesdays, Munch Wednesdays, TakeOut Thursdays, and once a month Dig Sum Dim Sum Burlesqu ... More >>

South Beach transsexual's interesting traffic court defense

U-Haul-Careening Transgender Woman Bashes Blood Bank Bus, Makes Strange Defense In Court

Jozy goes for a Sunday drive​"I'm a hot, sexy chick, and I don't like people fucking with me." Such is the battle call of "Jozy" -- born Ira Deford -- a preop South Beach transsexual who this month took a historic stand in traffic court after bashing the side mirror of a blood bank's bus. J ... More >>

Christ In The Publix Deli Department

Lee KleinI'll have some Christ with that bologna please.​​Have you heard this one? A Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian walk into the deli section at the South Beach Publix supermarket. As they go to take their numbered tickets from the red dispenser, they see that it is perched atop a rotating disp ... More >>

Make A Shake To Open in SoBe Tonight: A Mooooving Sign Intrigues Us

Moo?​"Moooving" along Alton Road, we spotted this upside down cow. Intrigued, we ;walked over for a closer inspection.What's behind it? U.K. sensation Make A Shake is debuting its very first American store today on Alton and Lincoln in South Beach, with a planned 7 p.m. opening.According to ... More >>

Pizza Fusion: Organic Doesn't Necessarily Mean Good

Lee KleinFusion's individual pie​Guess it's time to admit I'm just not a New Age pizza guy. I wasn't crazy about the product at Naked Pizza when I sampled it last summer, although the crust of grains, nuts, roots, and "heat-resistant probiotics" was pretty good. In retrospect, I liked Naked's pizz ... More >>

The Overthrow Hijacks Ultra Week With Black Magick and the Ivory Tower

​By the spring of 2010, parties thrown by local creative collective the Overthrow were already legendary. The now-defunct Black Sundays series at Bella Rose became, possibly, the only weekly party on South Beach to regularly stage faux murders, scoring a few Best of Miami nods from New Times. Its ... More >>

The Overthrow and Trouble & Bass's Black Magick Miami Party at the Castle March 26

Miami Beach's Biker Vigilante Is Filming Your Terrible Driving

​It's late on Super Bowl Sunday when a sedan barrels through the bike lane on 16th Street at Alton Road, right at cyclist Ken Bereski. Bereski slams on his handbrakes and swerves. The car squeals to a halt inches from his tire. "Learn to drive!" Bereski hollers. "You got a problem?" a rotund ... More >>

Rosa Mexicano South Beach: More Than Just Margaritas

All photos by Laine Doss Chef James Cawley reminds you that yes, there's an entire food menu, too.​If you're thinking Rosa Mexicano is just about a killer margarita and a big bowl of guacamole custom-tailored to your liking, think again muchacha. Yes, Rosa Mexicano serves up a mean margarit ... More >>

Needless Records' Adam Gersten Talks Jimmy Buffett, and His Need for an Intern

Adam Gersten is a hard-living lawyer who runs a record label.​Currently living what sounds like the premise of a television legal drama, Adam Gersten is a dude from Miami Beach who's found himself with the seriously serious job of being a Key West lawyer. Though Matlock and Sam Waterston do inspir ... More >>

All New: Jimmy'z Kitchen, Pizza Fusion, Segafredo, & Critchley Cooking Demo

Pizza Fusion tosses its pie into the South Beach ring​Mo' Mofongo Jimmy'z Kitchen, the little, lovable, Latino hole-in-the-wall on South Beach, has the signs up for a second location coming to the ground floor of the Cynergi Miami Condos at N. Miami Avenue and 27th Street in Wynwood. You can check ... More >>

Quarterdeck (Which Wasn't Really a Quarterdeck) Closes in SoBe

Ben Wagman's farewell​I drove by Quarterdeck Seafood Bar on Alton Road in South Beach yesterday and noticed that the sign had been taken down and the windows were papered over. I put in a call to Frank Zaffere, who is partner of Quarterdeck Restaurants (seven outlets in Broward and Palm Beach) wit ... More >>

Let's Talk Chef Shoes, Part 2: What The Pros Wear

Friday's opening shoe post was mostly about my own experiences with kitchen footwear. Today we find out what Miami's real chefs wear when they're working -- and why.Michelle Bernstein, Michy's, Sra. Martinez: Clogs, as they not only help me from falling on my back side but they also give me those co ... More >>

Atchana's East West Kitchen Takes Part in Rehabili-Haitian Event

Courtesy of Atchana's East West Kitchen​When the earthquake in Haiti shocked the world with the widespread death and destruction, a group of people from South Beach pulled together to raise over $10 million in aid through a community group that was later named 1st & Alton. They'll hold an even ... More >>

Original Nazi -- er, Original SoupMan Soups Now Available at Publix

Photo courtesy of 5W Public RelationsDon't worry, this man won't be behind the counter.​You may not have been aware that February is national soup month, or that The Original SoupMan soups are now available in frozen form at your favorite Publix -- assuming your favorite Publix isn't the brand new ... More >>

Help a Real Haiti Earthquake Relief Effort: Send A/C Units to Port-au-Prince

The folks who set up the Haiti earthquake relief donation site at First Street and Alton Road by Carl KruseRelief supplies boxed up and ready for delivery to Haiti​in Miami Beach need to raise $50,000 to send air-conditioning units and generators for the Project Medishare hospital being set up in ... More >>

Fieldtrip To A Certified Organic Soil-Grown Microgreens and Wheatgrass Farm In Pictures

Jacob KatelLouis and Kim Duncanson of Green Garden Organics Inc.​Green Garden Organics Inc. supplies all Florida Whole Foods Markets with wheatgrass they grow themselves, certified organically, on their indoor farm in an industrial warehouse in a strip of others like it near Miami International Ai ... More >>

News Roundup

LocalSome guy hijacked a taxi on Alton, then drove west up the eastbound lanes of the MacArthur Causeway. Police shot him. He's dead. The road was shut down. [SunSent] The Herald and CBS4 are so hungry for Cat Killer fodder that they've sued to get sealed information about the arrest released. [Hera ... More >>

Minor Legal Problems of the Rich and Famous

Booze Hound - Doraku

Zombies Storm South Beach

Lincoln Road is the scene for the living dead.

Miami Restaurant News: Ins & Outs

Miami Restaurant News: Ins & Outs

Bike Lane Bureaucracy

Bike Blog: Happy Friday

Bulls on Parade

Beach Mayoral Candidate Blasts "Adam and Steve"

The World Naked Bike Ride Cometh

Drink 'n' Blow

A hurricane hits and a guy’s leg is severed. What else is new?

Letters from the Issue of May 25, 2006

"Better a couple of scratches on my Bentley than a broken rear window"

Cheap Thrills

Communal interaction at Sylvano’s lends the meal a sense of vitality

Letters from the Issue of March 2, 2006

Lenny Kravitz will be around much longer than the Toiletbowla of Rock

In the Belly of the Best

It takes more than hips and bangles to shimmy to the top

BEST MOVIE THEATER

Regal Cinemas South Beach 18

The 900 Club

Don't call this Alton Road restaurant simply Argentine, call it pan-Latin tasty

Miracle on 41st Street

Mid-Beach endures a blackout

Diner Might

The booth, the bacon sandwich, the easy bucks: They're back!

Yo Quiero Mi MTV

To reach Latin American kids, MTV first has to invent Latin America

Take It Away, Carne!

Whaaa? More than bad bagels to take away in mid-Beach?

The Anti-Club

For a good time, try talking to someone

High Lonesome Hardships