Food and Cooking

Unhappy Meal: 91 Percent of Kids' Plates Unhealthy

The nutritional content of children's food at restaurants should be government-regulated. As I've said before, I believe there's no need to give in to "your whiny brat's tirade." The National Restaurant Association's Kids LiveWell menu standards, a voluntary initiative, recommends meals for children ... More >>

Catch Miami: Cool Scene, Middling Cuisine

Hardy Hill is a man of many vests. They hide beneath his tailored suits, both lustrous and gray. He has a strong chin and coiffed George Clooney-colored hair. He favors vintage Porsches, was once listed among Extra's Most Eligible Bachelors, and rose to momentary fame after appearing on the CBS real ... More >>

Eating House Hosts Special 420 Dinner

Legend states that every day at 4:20 p.m., a group of teens in San Rafael, California met to search for an abandoned cannabis crop. The teens code named the plan, "4:20 Louis" in honor of the statue of Louis Pasteur where they hung out. The code was shortened to "4:20".  4:20 was later adopted ... More >>

Zen Sai at Essex House: Secret Sushi on SoBe

Literally hidden in plain sight, the terrace is tucked behind a wall of foilage, safeguarding this hidden gem from the cliches of Collins Avenue. Soft sounds and colored lights set a serene tone as you cross onto the veranda. Much like a child stumbling upon a secret garden, I knew I had discovered ... More >>

Tongue & Cheek Opens Today

Tongue & Cheek opens today in tony SoFi after months of planning and one long weekend of tweaking. The restaurant, a collaboration between Jamie DeRosa and Michael Reginbogin, will offer an eclectic menu comprising American classics and dishes inspired by chef DeRosa's travels. The 150-seat dini ... More >>

Krups Best Brew: Eternity Coffee Roasters and Tinta y Cafe Vie for Title

The Magic City takes it coffee seriously. Many Miamians will tell you it's not blood, but thick, syrupy colada, that runs through their veins. Now the time has come to choose who will win the coveted title of "Best Brew," and two coffeehouses have risen to the top.Voting for the 2013 Krups ... More >>

Stanzione 87 to Open in Brickell: Government-Certified Neapolitan Pizza

"It's not just pizza, it's an art," says Franco Stanzione, the ambitious 23-year-old who's opening Miami's first truly "authentic" Neapolitan pizza shop. "It's so easy to mess up. It only takes a minute." That's because the pizza at this soon-to-open place takes only 30 seconds to a minu ... More >>

DrinkSkool.com: Learn Bartending from the Comfort of Your Couch

As the mixology world grows increasingly complex, crafting concoctions can be intimidating, both for budding bartenders and at-home drinkers. Juniper sugar? Gelatin cubes? Bacon-infused bitters? Where the hell are you supposed to begin? But the dudes behind the uber-prestigious Beverage Alcohol Res ... More >>

Restaurant Michael Schwartz to Open at The Raleigh April 22 (Photos)

We first heard that Michael Schwartz was taking over the restaurant at the Raleigh Hotel back in 2011. Now, about 1.5 years later, the opening date (and name) for the endeavor has finally been released.Restaurant Michael Schwartz will open Monday, April 22, at the iconic South Beach Art Deco hotel a ... More >>

Michael Schwartz Dishes About Cypress Room and New Projects

Michael Schwartz has a lot on his plate.While the paint has barely dried on his new Design District restaurant, the Cypress Room, the chef and restaurateur is working on finalizing his place at the Raleigh Hotel in South Beach and is planning an eatery at the new SLS Hotel in Brickell, schedule ... More >>

Miami's First Dishcrawl Next Wednesday In Brickell

Four restaurants in one night? Miami residents might be familiar with the pub crawl, a night of organized drinking in which participants walk from bar to bar and are offered drink specials and usually a free shot or drink at each stop. How about a dish crawl? These are already taking place in other ... More >>

Frenchie's Diner in Coral Gables: A Lovely, Uncontrived Affair

View the slide show "Closer Look: Frenchie's in Coral Gables."

L'Entrecote de Paris: Authentic Steak Frites Coming to Brickell

Have you ever been to a restaurant where there are too many choices? Did you ever wish you could just walk into a nice bistro where they would bring you a well-executed plate of food and a glass of wine -- like in those movies where people never seem to actually peruse a menu or order, but a meal s ... More >>

Gigi Springs New Seasonal Menu Items

Spring has officially sprung, and with the change of seasons comes the change of seasonal dishes. Locally grown produce and sustainable eating has become a permanent trend in the Magic City. More restaurants are converting daily to this way of life, and we love it. What we don't love is the sudden c ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Inexpensive Restaurants

Miami is a city laden with restaurants of little value. There are stylish joints, the kind where mediocre $24 tuna tartares and $30 chicken breasts, filled with fontina and foie gras, are the norm. There are hackneyed Asian concepts, the type where $20 sushi rolls are packed with fried shrimp, douse ... More >>

Frenchie's Diner in Coral Gables: A Lovely, Uncontrived Affair

The croque-monsieur at Frenchie's Diner is not meant to be neat. The ham sandwich is smothered in a rich, viscous béchamel and crowned with blistered, bubbling Gruyère. Its center is soft. The bread is soaked in the milk gravy, infused with slivered garlic and fresh bursts of lemon juice. It has a ... More >>

A $40 Burger: Shake Shack, BurgerFi, Soyka, and db Bistro

We here at Short Order know that sometimes you want candlelight and cloth napkins... and other times you just want to tuck a paper napkin into your collar and chow down like you were raised in Polk County. So where should you go when you've got forty bucks burning a hole in your pocket and want a bu ... More >>

Tiny Taqueria Serves Miami's Most Authentic Carnitas

See the slide show "Closer Look: Con Sabor a Mexico in Little Havana."

Wok Town Opens on Alton Road, Plans Expansion Across Miami-Dade

Two years ago, Daniel Venegas and partner Jose More purchased the original downtown Wok Town from founder Shai Ben-Ami. Ben-Ami opened the Asian-fusion restaurant in 2009 and, before then, helped run other Miami joints such as Miss Yip and Domo Japones. Since its debut, Wok Town has garnered a favo ... More >>

Veritage Miami Craft Beer Tasting Event: Get Half-Priced Tickets With Voice Daily Deals

Veritage Miami is the multi-day wine and beer event that features notable chefs, prestigious wineries, and craft brewers all coming together to benefit the United Way.Veritage Miami, formerly the United Way Wine & Food Festival, is celebrating its 18th year with an impressive roster of events wh ... More >>

See? Food!

Five Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches for National You-Know-What Month

Every edible item has its day of celebration: popcorn, burritos, even Fig Newtons (January 16, in case you were wondering). But some foods are so special, so memorable, so irresistible they get a whole month of commemoration. Grilled cheese is one such food. And April is its month. After all, who d ... More >>

Bloom Begins Lunch Service Today

Bloom, the Wynwood restaurant that elevates Asian and Latin American street-food concepts, is opening for lunch service, beginning today.Bloom's co-owner Sebastian Stahl tells Short Order that he has noticed an increase in foot traffic in Wynwood over the past few months. "I saw there were more peop ... More >>

Bracha, Swine, and Sweetness: Three New Brunches to Try This Weekend

Miami can never have enough brunch options. Ever. Because who doesn't live for the buzzed bantering of a weekend afternoon with BFFs? Pair that with fattening foods and it's the high point of our week. Luckily, the brunch choices just keep coming. Three local hotspots have recently introduced new b ... More >>

Celebrate O, Miami With the Mot Juste Cocktail at the Betsy (Recipe)

It's that time of the year where celebrate the big O, Miami. No, not that "Big O" -- O, Miami, the Miami-Dade literary event produced by the University of Wynwood, that celebrates poetry with parties, salons, and exhibits.And, since most of history's great poets were also great drinkers, BLT St ... More >>

Edge Steak and Bar Holds Monthly Pop-Up Cooking Classes

Culinary school is expensive. And for most of us, Mommy and Daddy laughed their heads off when we said we wanted to pursue a career in the industry. Rude. So we became lawyers. And bankers. And writers. Still, every now and then, we dream of what could've been had we gotten a little proper training. ... More >>

March 2013 Restaurant Openings and Closings

The term "March Madness" applied to the restaurant scene in Miami in March. Several heavily anticipated venues by some heavy hitters arrived:Jeffrey Chodorow of China Grill Management has opened Biscayne Tavern at the b2 hotel in Downtown Miami. Though the restaurant is still in its "soft opening" p ... More >>

Chef Nilton Castillo Takes Over Kitchen at the Dome

On a busy restaurant street, the Dome Restaurant & Caviar Bar hides between monsters Hillstone and Graziano's. The quaint eatery seats no more than 40, but that's enough for an executive chef who's been around the kitchen block. Good news, then, that a new executive chef has been appointed ... More >>

A Late-Night Menu and Extended Hours at Blue Collar Are Just What Miami Needs

Ever worked at a restaurant? It's kind of the worst. Terrible hours. Crazy customers. Second-degree burns all over your hands and forearms. The restaurant industry doesn't play around. So Danny Serfer wants to help, and that's why he's officially kicked off a late-night menu and extended week ... More >>

Casablanca on the Bay: Stunning Views, Underwhelming Dishes

Casablanca Seafood Bar & Grill on the Miami River has been highly successful for more than 20 years, so it's almost surprising it took this long to open another location. Now the Doubletree Hilton near Biscayne Boulevard and the Venetian Causeway is home to Casablanca on the Bay, overlookin ... More >>

My Ceviche Brickell Opens Today: Sam Gorenstein Reveals What's New (Photos)

Certain things make ceviche taste better: the crunch of spiced popcorn, the piquant flavors of chili peppers, the burst of citrus from a squeeze of orange or lime. But the menu at the new My Ceviche has something else -- something beyond the red onions, herbs, and aji. At the S. Miami Ave. location ... More >>

Mister Collins Does Nothing Radical, but That's the Point

View the slide show Closer Look: Mister Collins in Bal Harbour

Free Drinks: New Times Happy Hour App Party at Shots Miami

Friday is only a day away, and you and your co-workers are already trying to figure out where to celebrate the end of yet another workweek. The problem is finding a place that's new and affordable. How about free -- as in free drinks courtesy of Miami New Times? This Friday, March 28, from 7 to 9 ... More >>

Wine and Dine

Five Things You Didn't Know About Wine from Books & Books Wine Instructor Patrick Alexander

Let's face it: there's probably a lot you don't know about wine. Unless you're a professional sommelier, it's nearly impossible to master the wide world of vino. It spans centuries, continents and even religions. Everyone loves the grape juice. Though we'll likely never know it all, we can certainl ... More >>

Miami Restaurants Make OpenTable's Top 100 Dining Hot Spots

OpenTable has just released its annual Top 100 Dining Hot Spots list, and 14 South Florida restaurants made the cut, including nine in Miami-Dade. The list, which came out today, has the state of Florida outranking New York in the number of "hot spot" restaurants, with 18 winning establishments ... More >>

Mister Collins Does Nothing Radical, but That's the Point

If Mister Collins were a man and not a restaurant, he'd be the kind to give red roses -- but never yellow tulips or a single orchid. He'd favor ocean views and tea lights over cityscapes and Dixon lamps. He'd drink Manhattans. He'd wear black leather loafers, lavish women with compliments, and occas ... More >>

Tikl Closes: Perfecto Mediterranean Restaurant to Open in its Place

Tikl, Raw Bar and Grill, a small-plates restaurant in Brickell by the AltaMare team, has closed. The restaurant, which opened in August 2012, closed without much fanfare with executive chef Simon Stojanovic citing a lack of momentum, according to Miami.com.In a review last October, Zachary Fagenson ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Chefs

Chefs love talking about one another. They discuss talent. They obsess over who cooks better, who lacks integrity, who sold out, who travels looking for recipes to replicate. They talk about hype. They chat about expectations. They know what their colleagues are cooking. They have opinions about eve ... More >>

My Ceviche Brickell Opens March 29

Brickell residents can look forward to reasonably-priced fresh seafood when My Ceviche opens its doors this Friday, March 29.The original 240-square-foot location opened a year ago and quickly became a hit with locals and tourists alike despite the small size and limited seating area. After all, who ... More >>

Michael Schwartz to Open the Cypress Room March 27 (Photos)

Michael Schwartz is not a white-tablecloth kind of restaurateur. Michael's Genuine Food & Drink, his flagship place, uses placemats. Harry's Pizzeria, a neighborhood pizza shop, has bare tables. But his fourth restaurant (his third is an outpost of Michael's Genuine in Grand Cayman) has many white ... More >>

With Oak Tavern, David Bracha Takes Root in the Design District

See also: "Closer Look: Oak Tavern in the Design District"

BrickTop's Casual American Cuisine Coming to Coral Gables

With the arrival of Swine Southern Table & Bar, Pao Town, and the soon-to-open SushiSamba, the Coral Gables restaurant scene is rapidly expanding. Which is awesome, 'cause you can never have too many options when it comes to lunch, dinner, or happy hour in the City Beautiful. The newest addition to ... More >>

Sony Open: Best Eats and Drinks

Play began at the Sony Open Monday, March 18, but everything really heats up this weekend. The tournament continues through March 31, and many tennis fans double up on day and evening sessions. That makes for a long day of tennis and some hungry people.Thankfully, the Crandon Park Tennis Center ... More >>

Brickell Food & Wine Fest: Don Julio Cocktail Competition, Ceviche Sampling, Free Kids' Zone

If it were up to us, every weekend would entail a food and wine fest of some sort. After all, you can never have too much food/booze/revelry. So we're pretty stoked about the third annual Brickell Food & Wine Festival, hitting the Miami Circle this weekend. The festival will feature sampling from m ... More >>

Miami's Best Argentine Restaurants: For Pope Francis's Installation

In the more than 2,000-year history of Catholicism, the religion has stretched its tentacles all over the world. Today there are about as many Catholics in Central and South America as in the rest of the world combined. With the installation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the first pope from the Americ ... More >>

Kouzina Greek Bistro to Open Thursday

A month ago we jumped some plants to get a better view of the old Tapas & Tintos in midtown. This Thursday, the space will open as the Greek bistro Kouzina. Guys with strange names moved here from Greece to open the first of what they promise to be many food establishments. Kouzina will be their o ... More >>

With Oak Tavern, David Bracha Takes Root in the Design District

Oak Tavern's wooden tables are worn -- their faded chocolate surfaces fashioned out of reclaimed lumber, their corners burnt with the logo of a majestic oak. Outside, a courtyard envelops the eponymous tree. Inside, red brick walls guard a precarious past. In less than a decade, the Design District ... More >>

SushiSamba's Chef Cara Thompson on Chopped Tonight: Restaurant Hosts Watch Party

Another Miami chef is facing off on Food Network's Chopped.SushiSamba sous-chef Cara Thompson will battle three other chefs in an episode titled "Redemption Intention." Each contestant has been a runnerup on the popular cooking competition, which features picnic baskets filled with freaky foods desi ... More >>

Cecci's Italo-Peruvian in SoBe: Try Lomo Saltado Pizza (Scrumptious Photos)

Before opening Cecci, a small 36-seat eatery on Washington Avenue at 15th Street, Daniela and Octavio Salerno launched a pasta and pizza restaurant 30 minutes outside of Lima, in Chaclacayo. They also operate a traditional Peruvian restaurant in a yacht club on Peru's coast from January through Apri ... More >>