Coffee

Panther Coffee Now Serving a Blue Collar Dessert

Panther Coffee is all the rage these days; Blue Collar, Daniel Serfer's working class American comfort food joint in MiMo, serves it by the thermos. Panther Coffee is now returning the favor, so to speak, by carrying Blue Collar's Butterscotch Heath Bar Bread Pudding in its shop.

Starbucks Puts Dead Beetles in Frappuccinos

​Which would you rather drink: chemical coloring, beet juice, or dead bugs?Apparently, Starbucks thought you'd pick that last option.In an effort to remove artificial ingredients from its menu, Starbucks recently replaced the food dye in its Strawberry Frappuccinos with a "natural" substitute: bee ... More >>

Miami's Best Cuban Coffee: Five Places to Fuel Up

​It's the crack of dawn and somehow you are hearing roosters crow though you are nowhere near a farm. You have a crazy morning ahead dealing with an especially difficult client and you realize the rooster you hear crowing is actually your brain periodically sobbing inside your head. A cup of coffe ... More >>

Art Basel Food Guide: Downtown Miami, Wynwood, and Design District (Updated)

​Art Basel is about to capture the minds and imagination of Miami. The self-billed "most prestigious art show in the Americas" showcases work by more than 2,000 artists. Crazy stuff is literally everywhere -- on the sides of buildings, in parks, in tents and galleries, and at the Miami Beach C ... More >>

Yelpers Tricia and Johanna are Coffee Snobs

​Back in June, we were treated to the inner world of that most annoying breed of restaurant-goer -- the Yelper. In Funny or Die's parody, we're treated to Tricia and Johanna Yelping about everything from the disappointing sunset to their own apartment ('weird smell, cat not attentive").

Sustain and Cigar City Brewery Team Up for Six-Course Dinner Pairing

Photo by billwisserphoto.comNext Wednesday, local food meets local booze.On August 24, Tampa's Cigar City brewery will team up with locally sourced restaurant Sustain for a six-course pairing dinner inspired by Cigar City's unique brews."It's about as Florida a beer as you can get. It definitely res ... More >>

Kaña Coffee: The Cuban Starbucks?

​Craving café con sabor? That's exactly what Kaña Cuban Coffee Roasters will offer when it launches its new chain of coffee cafés with its first location in downtown Miami.Occupying a prime spot at the corner of Flagler Street and Miami Avenue, Kaña will offer more than ten varieties of coffee ... More >>

Get Your Panther Coffee Starting This Saturday

Paula Niño​The wait is over. After temporarily opening during Art Basel and Wynwood art walks, Panther Coffee will open for good this Saturday, June 11. Permitting delays kept owners Joel and Leticia Pollock from permanent operation of their coffee shop earlier this year as planned. The P ... More >>

Havana Spice Cafe: A $19 Steak and Good-bye Hangover

John ZurHavana Spice Cafe's cure for the common hangover: pan con bistec. ​You know the feeling. You wake up dehydrated from the inside out, disoriented, and.... hungry. You need of a hearty meal and strong cup of coffee to knock last night's alcohol intake out of your system.You're in luck. Locat ... More >>

The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. Opens Tomorrow

One bagel please, hold the Larry.​Authentic bagels will finally be available in South Beach starting tomorrow, when The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. debuts at The Shops at Alton & Fifth in South Beach. The first 50 folks to show up at opening time -- 6 a.m. -- will receive six free b ... More >>

Cuba Running So Low On Coffee Castro Orders Chickpeas Mixed Into Grounds

​Cuba was once among the world's great coffee exporters. Nowadays it's running so short on beans and importing so much joe to feed the nation's cafecito habit that Raul Castro has ordered state roasters to mix coffee beans with chickpeas to save cash.Mmmm, the bitter, chickpea-infused taste of com ... More >>

Rick Scott's Staff Gets Bitchy With Reporters

Why must Rick Scott's Coffee Talk be ruined? ​Former Gov. Charlie Crist gave out his personal cell phone number to journalists and kept their favorite beers stocked in his office. In stark contrast, current Gov. Rick Scott and his staff seem to have an unhealthy amount of disdain for the press cor ... More >>

Spilling the Beans

Why must Rick Scott's Coffee Talk be ruined? ​Former Gov. Charlie Crist gave out his personal cell phone number to journalists and kept their favorite beers stocked in his office. In stark contrast, current Gov. Rick Scott and his staff seem to have an unhealthy amount of disdain for the press cor ... More >>

Pasion Del Cielo Supplies Discerning Gables Caffeine Addicts With Quality Product

​Panther Coffee is definitely a welcome addition to Wynwood, and discerning caffeine addicts (ourselves included) patiently wait its arrival. In the meantime, though, it may be worth heading southwest in the quest for a quality brew. For the past couple years, coffee aficionados familiar with mark ... More >>

Christmas Leftover Recipe: Ham with Redeye Gravy

Then again, there's always this option instead.​Too early to post a after-Christmas Day recipe, you say? Be prepared is how I counter. Plus I'm not going to be blogging the day after Christmas, so you might as well tuck away this really easy, absolutely tasty recipe for ham steaks with redeye grav ... More >>

Tea for the Bambinos

Then again, there's always this option instead.​Too early to post a after-Christmas Day recipe, you say? Be prepared is how I counter. Plus I'm not going to be blogging the day after Christmas, so you might as well tuck away this really easy, absolutely tasty recipe for ham steaks with redeye grav ... More >>

Hosteria Romana: $40 Dessert for Two

via www.southbeach-usa.com​Española Way can transport you out of South Beach and into a cozy European setting. Hosteria Romana anchors the street with its own Caesar hailing pedestrians. Sunburned Italian waiters swoon over daughters, mothers, and grandmothers in the street. On a recent night, a ... More >>

The Five Best Coffee Ventanillas in Miami

Photo by Miamism The coffee ventanilla is as quintessentially Miami as traffic and humidity. It's our Starbucks, political town hall, and fast food counter rolled into one. But not every window is created equal. The perfect ventanilla, like a precisely measured cafecito, requires the right rat ... More >>

Blue Mountain Coffee Now at Starbucks

Lee KleinWe're spilling the beans on this offer​On this, the morning after a frolicking July 4th weekend, you might find yourself in want of a good cup of coffee. Or maybe you crave something better than that, like a cup of coffee made from some of the world's most heralded beans -- those from Jam ... More >>

Little Beard, This Heart Electric, Deaf Poets, and GWIP this Sunday Night

Music is a science. It is like Geometry. It makes us feel really good, or really sad. Music is like Astronomy or gravity or electricity. You know it is there but you just can't see it. It can give you life. It can kill you. I just drank a whole pot of coffee while watching Miami's This Heart Electri ... More >>

NY Times Takes Web Tip From Herald

Screenshots of NYTimes.com and Herald.comTwinzies! In their never ending quest to figure out the Internet, newspapers (us included!) are trying lots of new things. Well "new" to them anyway. The New York Times has a prototype for an "Article Skimmer" up. Headlines and ledes are placed in a grid, and ... More >>

RACKS Is Whack

Another day, another European-style new age trattoria/old world Italian bar/outdoor marketplace/espresso bar/chic urban pizzeria getting set to open. Welcome to RACKS Italian Bistro And Market, owned by Gary Rack, who evidently didn't like the sound of the name GARYS. Mr. Rack, founder of Boca Raton ... More >>

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And Another...

Rybak's Café premieres tonight at at 177 SW 7th Street (at the bottom level of the Latitudes building, just off Brickell Avenue). The 204-seater is being billed as "a laid back, uniquely hip bistro, featuring creative, moderately priced international cuisine, a classy bar/lounge, live entertainment ... More >>

Herald Health Tips

Rybak's Café premieres tonight at at 177 SW 7th Street (at the bottom level of the Latitudes building, just off Brickell Avenue). The 204-seater is being billed as "a laid back, uniquely hip bistro, featuring creative, moderately priced international cuisine, a classy bar/lounge, live entertainment ... More >>

Week's Top Food-Related Headlines

Rybak's Café premieres tonight at at 177 SW 7th Street (at the bottom level of the Latitudes building, just off Brickell Avenue). The 204-seater is being billed as "a laid back, uniquely hip bistro, featuring creative, moderately priced international cuisine, a classy bar/lounge, live entertainment ... More >>

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Cuppa Joe And Beef Stir Fry? Yup

Just kick it at Segafredo Brickell for your Eurocup fix.

Cuppa Joe And Beef Stir Fry? Yup

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Pricey Coffee, Free T

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When Corruption Ain't Corrupt

Just kick it at Segafredo Brickell for your Eurocup fix.

Mariana Martin

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