Subject: Clay Conley

• Michael Vick is NOT Inhumane

  August 22, 2007

• Reds, Whites, and Green

  November 12, 2007

• Edible Basel

  December 5, 2007

• Reds, Whites, and Green

  November 12, 2007

• New Times Iron Fork at the Miami Science Museum

  August 13, 2008

• Azul: The Magazine

  September 23, 2008

• Clay Conley Shoots Down A Rumor And Serves Up A Recipe

  In yesterday's Short Order I suggested that a major unnamed chef would be shortly leaving a major unnamed restaurant. I was alluding to Clay Conley of Azul, in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. When I contacted the chef to see if the rumor was true, he started off by stating "I'm not leaving." This seemed a fairly straightforward denial, until he added "I mean obviously I'm always looking around as a chef. But no plans yet." While I had one of our most talented toques on the phone, I asked if he woul

  November 26, 2008

• Cindy Hutson, Waxy O'Connor, and Sierra Nevada

  Waxy O'Connor's South Beach, hitherto a humble pub, is getting all classy on us. This coming Wednesday, January 21st, marks the restaurant's first foray into celebrity chef beer dinners. Cindy Hutson, chef/owner of Coral Gable's beloved Ortanique on the Mile, will be cooking up a four-course dinner matched with appropriate brews. Menu includes steamed mussels with Sierra Nevada Pale Ale; beer-brined pork tenderloin crusted with Blue Mountain coffee and cocoa-mesquite, glazed with spiced honey, a

  January 16, 2009

• Sunday In Paradise

  The latest monthly installment of Dinner in Paradise takes place this Sunday, February 8th. Set outdoors amidst the picturesque rural setting of Gabrielle Marewski's Paradise Farms in Homestead, an organic, multi-course meal is prepared by a varying set of three top local chefs -- and this upcoming feast boasts one of the best trios of the season: Sean Brasel (Meat Market), Clay Conley (Azul), and Michael Bloise (we're waiting for his next gig). The night begins at 5:00 p.m. with cocktails, foll

  February 4, 2009

• Behind The Scenes For SoBe Food Fest Prep

  It is early Wednesday morning, and I am standing in a kitchen area in the Miami-Beach Convention Center, watching some 50 FIU students getting to work on food prep for Friday nights' Perrier-Jouët BubbleQ event at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. I am not the only one looking on -- FIU chef-instructor Michael Moran, chef and culinary coordinator of the Festival, is keeping a close eye on things. He is, at the same time, on the phone going over innumerable details with a host of peo

  February 19, 2009

• Bali Hai Preview with Chefs Oscar del Rivero and Sean Brasel

  Jackie Sayet Chef Oscar del Rivero of Jaguar mixing his Peruano ceviche. This Sunday, April 5, will mark the 15th annual Bali Ha'i event, an outdoor soiree of culinary delights from restaurants around Miami to celebrate the Kampong. On Thursday, I set out to get advance tastes of one fish dish and one meat dish, from two talented and charming chefs, Oscar del Rivero of Jaguar and Sean Brasel of Meat Market who will appear at Bali Hai. A quick drive down Main Highway, and I met Mexican-b

  April 3, 2009

• Enter Kitchen Stadium

  Miami New Times hosts a cooking competition of its own.

  October 30, 2008

• Heaven Is in Homestead

  February 8, 2007

• Crazy Delicious

  March 2, 2006

• Selected Events for the Week of October 6

  October 6, 2005

• The Azul Experiment

  March 24, 2005

• Chefs Club Miami & Whole Foods Market: An Unholy Alliance

  ​"Begun in 2006 as a series of intimate, word-of-mouth chef gatherings at restaurants all across South Florida, Chefs Club Miami -- now boasting a membership of more than 30 of the town's culinary innovators and restaurant industry honchos -- is proud to announce its recent partnership with Whole Foods Market. To celebrate that partnership and the beautiful Coral Gables location's two-year anniversary, the members of Chefs Club Miami are turning out for a series of exclusive events at the stor

  September 14, 2009

• Friendly Competition, with Knives

  September 17, 2009

• Newcomers and Some Oldies Shine at Iron Fork 2009: Critchley Victorious, Whisk and Others Raise the Bar

  Jackie Sayet​The Presidente flowed as Chef John Critchley laid the culinary smackdown on Giancarla Bodoni for the 2009 Iron Fork title. Critchley is on a winning streak, with his seafood-celebrating Area 31 having been recently named one of Esquire magazine's best new restaurants this year.Our focus, however, was the side show -- edible offerings of 40 South Florida restaurants through which crowds mowed.  Here are some highlights:- Whisk's fall-off-the-bone pork with golden honey cider b

  October 16, 2009

• Interview: Sean Brasel Gets The 10

  Sean Brasel​Sean Brasel is the chef/co-owner of Miami Beach's sultry steakhouse known appropriately as Meat Market. The restaurant sits in the space formerly occupied by Jonathan Eismann's Pacific Time [You know it's now in the Design District, right? Yeah. Thought so.] and, seemingly, being there has provided some good juju in weird economic times. But Brasel hardly needed any luck, voodoo, or any of that because he has a reputation in Miami Beach few can match. Perhaps you remember him

  November 17, 2009