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Last Night: Anthony Bourdain at the Arsht Center

This man loves Mac's Club Deuce. (Reason No. 293 why we love this man.) Better Than: Pounding cheap beers between a soul-crushing double on the saute station. The evidence, plainly, is undeniable: the best-selling books, the top-rated Travel Channel Show, the Top Chef judging gigs. Hell, even t ... More >>

An Interview With Ted Allen

C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

Say It to His Face

We drooled when we tasted Jeff McInnis' sublime mango sorbet. One spoonful and suddenly he was the "hot chef of our dreams," knocking Bobby Flay down to number two. So when we found out that he was going to be a contestant on our favorite culinary reality show, we made a date with him each Wednesday ... More >>

Slideshow: Amstel Light Burger Bash at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach

Logan FazioTasty, tasty T-shirt.The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already in full swing, and last night, everyone's favorite quasi-cook and abbreviator, Rachel Ray, hosted the third annual Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. Our cameras caught all the beefy action, i ... More >>

Swelter 11

Logan FazioTasty, tasty T-shirt.The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already in full swing, and last night, everyone's favorite quasi-cook and abbreviator, Rachel Ray, hosted the third annual Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. Our cameras caught all the beefy action, i ... More >>

You Can Be Good as Gold

But you’ll never be Oscar.

Wine and Food Fest Pops the Cork

SoBe’s culinary extravaganza gets under way.

Fame Game

Chef Adrianne overachieves everywhere except the kitchen

Inside Edition

Behind the line at Miami’s hottest new restaurant

Bourgeois Binge

The gastronomic caravan known as the South Beach Wine & Food Festival has pulled into town

Krome, Sweet Krome

Mexican food is plentiful in Homestead

Cookbooking with Gas

Mexican food is plentiful in Homestead

This Week's Day by Day Picks

Mexican food is plentiful in Homestead

Flower Power

Orchids tease, titillate their legions

The No Show Chef

What fun would a festival be if top international chefs like Gordon Ramsay behaved themselves?

Closed Doors

Who's Blue Door's new chef?

Fine Wining & Wining

Just sobering up from the holidays? Here's a way to stay drunk another month.

Here Comes the Neighborhood

Just sobering up from the holidays? Here's a way to stay drunk another month.

Calendar for the week

Just sobering up from the holidays? Here's a way to stay drunk another month.

Bobby Flay Says El Rey De Las Fritas Makes Best Burger In Florida

image via Hearst Magazines On May 5th, Food Network Magazine will hit newsstands with a feature declaring Miami's own El Rey De Las Fritas as maker of the best hamburger in Florida; and that's according to celebrity chef Bobby Flay (and food critics across the country).In a recent Short Order ... More >>

Enagic's Kangen Water is Ionized Right Here In Miami. Get Your PH Up

Jacob KatelSpray-on hydration. Enagic USA is a company in the water industry that specializes in sales and manufacture of ionizing machines. What the hell are those and what exactly do they do? It's difficult to understand, but supposedly it's good for you. Basically it processes water in a way that ... More >>

Video: Best Frita on Calle Ocho? Ask The Burger Beast

A few months back when the Food Network's Bobby Flay named the 50 best burger joints in America, Little Havana's own El Rey De Las Fritas was awarded best burger in Florida. But Sef Gonzalez, the dude behind BurgerBeast.com, says he knows better and recently suggested a Calle Ocho frita crawl to pro ... More >>

Plato Royal: Po' Boys at Bulldog BBQ and The Spot

Jackie SayetTop to bottom: Jerk Fried Shrimp Po' Boy with seasoned fries at The Spot and Shrimp & Oyster Po' Boy with sweet potato fries at Bulldog BBQ​From a pizza invasion to po' boy sandwiches.  Ok, it's not quite an invasion yet, but down home Louisiana cuisine seems to be surfacing i ... More >>

Call Your Cardiologist: "El Mago de las Fritas" Debuts New Double-Frita

El Rey de las Fritas. Don Pan. Versailles. For some reason, Cuban joints in Miami have really boastful names; it takes a restaurant with cojones to actually prove it. ​For 25 years, "El Mago de las Fritas", located at 5828 SW 8th Street, has shown Miami that its bark matches its del ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein Wins in Food & Wine's 25 Best Cookbooks 2009

​Congratulations to Michelle Bernstein for winning a spot on Food & Wine's top 25 cookbooks of 2009.According to Publishers Weekly, "Every year, about 24,000 new cookbooks hit bookstore shelves." Michelle Bernstein's book Cuisine á Latina is available at all major retailers and online.Big ups ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Super Bowl Miami, Fergie and Duhamel Do STK, Man vs. Food, Don Shula, and Dan Marino

Fergie from Black Eyed Peas and husband Josh Duhamel eat dinner at STK with her father for friends and family opening. [People]Travel Channel's Man vs Food show to take on Shula's 48 oz steak challenge. [AllHeadlines]Philadelphian recommends Bobby Flay's "Miami Burger" for a cold day. [PhillyBurbs]2 ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food FIU Student Interview: Caroline Karlberg

South Beach Wine and Food Fest Grand Tasting Village.​Last year, the more than $2 million generated by the South Beach Wine & Food Fest was handed directly to FIU. The university has been a partner in the event with Southern Wine & Spirits since the beginning and has continued to reap ... More >>

Top 10 Hypothetical South Beach Wine & Food Fest Media Disasters

http://www.flickr.com/photos/london/ / CC BY 2.0Ze paparazzi will be out in force.​The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is almost here, and that means an orgiastic horde of mostly out-of-town drunks on the shores of Miami Beach concerned with nothing but food, drink, sex, celebrity, their ... More >>

Looking to Attend the SoBe Wine & Food Fest? You Still Can

​Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend over Miami next week for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival from February 25 to 28. You locals should consider yourself lucky: In years past, you'd be hard pressed to find a ticket to any ... More >>

Looking to Attend the SoBe Wine & Food Fest? You Still Can

​Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend over Miami next week for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival from February 25 to 28. You locals should consider yourself lucky: In years past, you'd be hard pressed to find a ticket to any ... More >>

Interview With Erik Peters, Club Med's Corporate Chef, Founder of the Club Med Wine & Food Festival

Erik Peters​Erik Peters left college to become a "ski bum," but after a bad man-versus-nature accident, he reverted to cooking, a hobby that always came naturally. His first job with Club Med was as an assistant sous chef in Copper Mountain, Colorado, and his next gig took him to Playa Blanca in M ... More >>

Short Order's Comments of the Week, 8/16-8/20

Courtesy of Wikimedia​We have reached the end of another long week Short Orderers. And we would like to thank you for commenting on our stories. Here's some of the best blather from the past five days. For some reason, the noteworthy comments this week shared a male chauvinism theme. Thanks a ... More >>

STK Miami: Ralph Pagano, Former Reality Show Contestant, Takes the Helm

Former Hell's Kitchen contestant Ralph Pagano takes the helm of STK's Miami outpost.​Out with the old and in with the new...STK has just made a switch in its culinary department. The ONE Group and Chef Alberto Cabrera have parted ways and are now welcoming Chef Ralph Pagano to the team. No strange ... More >>

Food Feat

Former Hell's Kitchen contestant Ralph Pagano takes the helm of STK's Miami outpost.​Out with the old and in with the new...STK has just made a switch in its culinary department. The ONE Group and Chef Alberto Cabrera have parted ways and are now welcoming Chef Ralph Pagano to the team. No strange ... More >>

The Bourbon Steak Pastry Chef Who Wouldn't Eat Sugar

Pastry chef Andrea Sans Araiza's got one in the oven.​Born in Miami to Cuban parents, Chef Andrea Sans Araiza left the city years ago to study pastry at the French Culinary Institute. The Fates must've been pacified, for right out of school she got a job working for Bobby Flay in both of his New Y ... More >>

Flayed Out

Pastry chef Andrea Sans Araiza's got one in the oven.​Born in Miami to Cuban parents, Chef Andrea Sans Araiza left the city years ago to study pastry at the French Culinary Institute. The Fates must've been pacified, for right out of school she got a job working for Bobby Flay in both of his New Y ... More >>

SBWFF 2011: Dufresne, Conant, Burrell and Others Spotted at Star-Studded Scarpetta Soiree

Photo by Riki AltmanMelissa D'Arabian, Scott Conant, Anne Burrell, Sunny Anderson, and Maile Carpenter, editor in chief of Food Network Magazine.​The 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival didn't officially start until this morning, but Food Network magazine snuck in a star-studded soiree last ... More >>

SBWFF 2011: Michael Symon Wins Burger Bash Again, Celebrity-Sightings Abound

He hit the B Spot again.View more photos from the Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach here.​"Last year it was pastrami. This year it's salami. It's meat on meat, baby!" is what Michael Symon had to say last night as he accepted his second consecutive People's Choice Award at l ... More >>

SBWFF 2011: Bubbles, BBQ and Big Shots at BubbleQ

All photos by Laine Doss BubbleQ's host, Bobby Flay​The BubbleQ is one of The South Beach Wine and Food Festival's premiere events. It's the one that people talk about - and who wouldn't? To be honest, any event that offers free-flowing Perrier-Jouet and meat cooked by celebrity chefs shou ... More >>

America's Next Great Restaurant: A Quick Review

The judges.​Quick impressions on last night's episode of America's Next Great Restaurant: I didn't catch the beginning of the show, because frankly I had no intention of watching it. Just happened to turn a channel and there it was.Bobby Flay, Steve Ells (CEO of Chipotle), Melbourne chef Curtis St ... More >>

Worst Cooks in America: Handicapping the Miami Hopefuls

We wouldn't eat this for a million dollars.​View photos of Friday's casting of Worst Cooks in America at the Epic Hotel.Friday, Food Network's Worst Cooks in America brought hosts Bobby Flay and Anne Burrell to Miami's Epic Hotel to audition contestants for Season 2. People came from as far a ... More >>

Ralph Pagano, Former Iron Chef Contestant, Leaving STK Miami

Former Hell's Kitchen and Iron Chef contestant Ralph Pagano to leave STK for Gulfstream​Rumor has it that celebrity chef Ralph Pagano, who's been chef de cuisine at South Beach's swanky STK restaurant inside the Gansevoort Miami Beach for the last year, just put in his two-week notice on Monday. T ... More >>

NYC Marathon: Chefs Richard Blais, Nate Appleman, and Joe Bastianich Bite From the Big Apple

​The New York City Marathon is the weekend and for the first time in years, I didn't make the uber competitive lottery and won't be running it (here's my not-too-swift race history).There's something life changing about the marathon that extends far beyond the simple fact that one has run 26.2 mil ... More >>

Sandra Lee's Ten Most Epic Holiday Fails

Food NetworkSandra Lee and the Kwanzaa Cake. Epic fail for all seasons.​Sandra Lee: Satan's spawn or hapless purveyor of crap television? We're not sure. On the one hand, this drunken Barbie could very well be the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it, with her semi-homemade recipes, ... More >>

SoBeWFF Trade Seminars: Celebrity Chefs Offer Insight for Insiders

Food NetworkBobby Flay moderates a panel discussion on winning a televised cooking competition.​While thousands of people will be flocking to the South Beach Wine and Food Festival's Grand Tasting Village for some wine and a glimpse at a celebrity chef, those same chefs will be sneaking across the ... More >>

Priciest SoBeWFF Tickets and Cheaper Alternatives

Skip the tribute dinner -- wait for Bourdain at the Deuce.​Now that Super Bowl is over, we can concentrate on the next big event at hand - The South Beach Wine and Food Festival, which opens February 23. Like the big game, the Festival offers lots of opportunities to max out your credit card on pa ... More >>