Cape Cod

Key Biscayne Beach Named One of America's Top Ten Beaches

​Sure, saying you're taking your talents to Cape Florida State Park Beach doesn't have much of a ring to it, but the stretch of sand on Key Biscayne is apparently the best Miami-Dade has to offer, and one of the best in the country. The annual list put out by Stephen Leatherman, director of Florid ... More >>

Hall Pass: Owen Wilson and Christina Applegate get raunchy

De Rodriguez Ocean misses the boat

Big Name Consulting Chefs Make Reputations Smaller

​It is neither unusual nor unseemly for chefs to provide their names and consulting expertise to restaurants when they ultimately won't play an integral role. Nobody, for instance, really expects to see Wolfgang Puck twirling pizza dough in the kitchen of one of his 50 Wolfgang Puck Express restau ... More >>

Top 10 Lines From New Times 2010 Restaurant Reviews

Sugarcane draws babes, blokes, blades, and Belkys Nerey​Eater.com recently compiled New York Times critic Sam Sifton's 15 best "burns, barbs and zingers" from his 2010 reviews. It strikes me reading these that over the past twelve months, Mr. Sifton's reviews have been meaner than mine (this is me ... More >>

Why The Feast's Rankings Are So Messed Up

​It sure took a long time for The Feast Miami to get its website together, enough to take off the BETA tag, but apparently it wasn't long enough to figure out how to rank restaurants properly. I mean, when P.F. Chang's and Norman's 180 take up two of your top three "epic" restaurant spots, somethi ... More >>

Black Friday Deals for Foodies

Courtesy Romanico's ChocolatesThe Miami Sushi chocolate and candy box from Romanico's Chocolates​Here are some Black Friday deals for those who have a hankering for specialty food products or for those hoping to get the perfect gift for the foodies in their life. Even better: none of these deals r ... More >>

Pumpkin Beer for Thanksgiving? Crazy, Man!

​What do Thanksgiving and beer have to do with one another besides pumpkin 'n' spice and everything nice? It is well documented that the Pilgrims landed in Cape Cod in 1620 because of numerous hardships - rough seas, stormy weather and sickness. Back then, water was certainly not the drink of ... More >>

Restaurant Roll Call - September

photo by billwisserphoto.comQ is no more.​It's hard to keep up with all the eateries that come and go, but last month, Miami had some notable losses. There were also some good additions. Here's our restaurant roll call for September.*ClosingsCape Cod Room, 5937 Collins Ave., Miami Beach Luna Corne ... More >>

Vampire Weekend and Beach House at the Fillmore Miami Beach, October 13

Photo by Ian Witlen​Check out the full 30-photo Vampire Weekend slideshow.Vampire WeekendWith the Very Best and Beach HouseWednesday, October 13, 2010The Fillmore Miami BeachBetter Than: Madras cocktails and self-loathing at a WASP family gathering. (Probably?)Enough verbiage has been devoted to p ... More >>

Chef Gabriel Fenton Talks Jerk Chicken Wings & Bourbon Steak

Photo by Lee Klein​The Miami Heat plays its first preseason game this coming Tuesday, October 5. That same evening, executive chef Gabriel Fenton from Bourbon Steak Miami will be introducing his own new heat excitement via "super hot jerk chicken wings" -- a new bar item on a new bar menu. Guests ... More >>

Cape Cod Room Is Doomed

John ZurMaybe now Fratelli can borrow a lamp from the Cape Cod Room​As in kaput. Clammed up. Dead. And, quite frankly, not to be missed. Ken Lyon's Bath House folly was overpriced and underwhelming in terms of food, service, and decor (although other than that it wasn't too bad). The Room's former ... More >>

The Most Obnoxiously Noisy Foods

mattfred via flickr Stuffing your face with noisy food. Not pleasant.​"Chew with your mouth closed." Everybody's been slapped with that phrase and not only because of the mess in our pie holes. We don't want to hear it. The following list of obnoxiously loud foods won't be silenced with jus ... More >>

Yelp Eats! 2010 Prix Fixe Meal Deal Starts Monday

​Looking for bargain dining? We are still a few weeks away until Miami Spice, but cit-crit (I learned that word yesterday thanks to Lee Klein) site Yelp is dolling out the price cuts thanks to its annual Yelp Eats! event. For a week, area restaurants offer a prix fixe three-course deal for the pri ... More >>

10 Steps To Great Food Pics With Your Point and Shoot

Jacob KatelChef Sean Bernal, swordfish samurai.​Anybody can take great food pics!Most people don't have expensive cameras with detachable lenses, filters, reflectors, and light kits.You don't need any of that stuff to take great photos.With food photography booming as it is on the internet these d ... More >>

Where to Eat in Miami This Valentine's Day

If you ask us, showing off your culinary skills for your loved one is much more romantic than a dinner out, but we understand it's not always easy. If you're looking for where to eat out this Valentine's Day, here are some options. ​Area 31 at the Epic Hotel Your choice between two four-course pri ... More >>

Cape Cod Room Makes Some Changes

​New deals, new meals, new squeals at The Cape Cod Room, all going into effect next Wednesday, February 10:A new bartendar, Kim Arkell, has come on board to lead Happy Hour from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday through Friday. Cocktails will go for $6 during this time, which you can match with 2-for-1 oyster ... More >>

The Cape Cod Room opens in Miami Beach

Sneak Review: The Cape Cod Room

A bite-size morsel of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Starters are too pricey (most go for $12 to $24); entrées are too prissy! Why go to all the trouble of decorating your restaurant Cape Cod-style and rack up the expense of flying distinctive fish from Massachusetts and Maine, only ... More >>

Scotch at Chop House, Jazz at Cape Cod Room, Cadbury Buried by Kraft?

​Do You See Double From Too Many Single Malts?Next Tuesday, January 26, at 6 p.m., Chop House Miami will hold a Glenlivet Scotch Dinner. Outstanding single-malt Scotch whiskies will be paired with appropriately exquisite cuisine and fine Mederos cigars. Bobby Figgs of Chop House will host the fest ... More >>

Miami Dining 2009: Online for a better future

Top Ten Most Important Miami Restaurants of the Decade

Photo by Simon HareMichael's Genuine pioneered fine dining in Miami's Design District.Let's end the year with a bang-bang look at the most important restaurants of the decade. Caveat: It must still be in business. And we're skipping those historically important places (like China Grill, Joe's Stone ... More >>

News Cafe and Area 31 Return; Two More New Year's Eve Options

ReopeningsRemodeling is finished, and the iconic News Cafe on Ocean Drive has returned to serving informal fare 24/7. The water supply at downtown Miami's Epic Hotel has been cleared and Area 31 is back in biz -- with seatings left for New Year's Eve: Cocktail reception, five-course meal, champagne ... More >>

Baseball agent Juan Ignacio Hernandez Nodar returns to Miami after 13 years in a Cuban prison

Chef Cooks Lobster To Death, Feels No Mercy, Here's Why

Jacob KatelChef Jorge Cardenas.​If you've ever heard a lobster's scream as it's cooked alive in boiling water or recognize the sound of claws hammering at the plate glass and steel of an oven door then you may have worked in a restaurant kitchen. The last time Short Order saw it happen was at Ken ... More >>

Behind the Line at Cape Cod Room

Cape Cod Room (5937 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) at the Bath Club is Ken Lyon's, the caterer and restaurateur, new northeast American seafood house specializing in what he calls comfortable, familiar food in a vintage room for a retro dining experience. Jacob KatelScallops​Lyon says, "A lot of peo ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch: Shrooms, The Cape, Bacon, Supper, and Peppers

Wow, look at all those blogs.​Is it really 52 degrees out right now? That's damn near freezing. What's next, snowballs on South Beach, ice chains on the Turnpike, county workers salting down US1, sledding down Mount Trashmore, ice skating in Kendale Lakes? Cold weather's for the birds, and our str ... More >>

Loire Valley Wines at Two Chefs Restaurant

Photo by Lee KleinLobster mushrooms​Last Thursday afternoon, Two Chefs Restaurant hosted a wine tasting of Sauvignon Blancs from the Loire Valley in France. Loire Valley Wines are produced over a wide swath of the country, and so of course as one travels from east (Touraine) to west (Sancerre, Pou ... More >>

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Machine

Jacob KatelStay tuned...next week Short Order goes Behind The Line at Waxy's on the River.​In the future we'd like to see a pizza vending machine that lets you order pies through your cell phone. When you dial the number and your payment goes through the machine activates its pizza software and de ... More >>

Ken Lyon To Open Cape Cod Room

The Bath Club on Miami Beach (59th St. and Collins Ave.) has long been a private, membership-only establishment with its' own intimate, members-only restaurant. But starting Sunday, November 1st, the fully restored 1920s Mediterranean-style clubhouse restaurant will be open to the public. It will be ... More >>

Letters from the Issue of June 26, 2008

"How many times have we heard the expression 'look for trouble hard enough and you'll find it'? What an a**hole."

Donald "Party Hearty" Harding is Looking for Some Laughs

The Sail Bike

Top Chef

The hullabaloo over Bouley’s Evolution is justified. And then some.

Metal Magic

Loud rock music, sleight of hand, and life in a trailer. What a combo!

From Hedge Funds to Handbags

Every Second Counts

Exploring the timeless art of appreciation

Letters from the Issue of March 24 , 2005

Nightclub shuffle, Overtown hustle, Wynwood bustle

Sensoria

The difference between Club Zno and King Stable

Artburst

The art scene in Miami is ready to detonate, and Robert Chambers wants to light the fuse

BEST PIANO MAN

Eddie Higgins

Best Park Manager

Lee Niblock

Best House Band

The Don Wilner Quintet

The Catastrophe of Success

Something Cloudy, Something Clear

The Frill Is Gone

Atlantic

Return to Sender

News of the Weird

A New Kind of Old Heave-Ho

For one local gay Coast Guardsman, military justice was not an oxymoron

The Old College Try

Cape of Good Hope