Gordon Ramsay

Avoid Amy's Baking Company Freakout: Five Tips From PR Guru Larry Carrino

Yesterday, the Internet completely blew up with the story of the war between Amy's Baking Company owners Amy and Samy and everyone on the planet earth (with the possible exception of some cats). The Scottsdale, Arizona, restaurateurs have the dubious distinction of having Kitchen Nightmares host Go ... More >>

Iron Fork's Tonight! Food Truck Competitors Alfredo Montero and Robyn Almodovar Say It's War

Robyn Almodovar and Alfredo Montero are normally very good friends.  After all, they have a lot in common. Both of their food trucks, Mr. Good Stuff and Palate Party, have won countless awards for their creative menus and delicious foods and  both chefs have been featured on television (Mo ... More >>

Ralph Pagano To Open Alba at Sole on the Ocean

When Ralph Pagano left STK Miami to head food and beverage operations at Gulfstream Park, it seemed like a match made in heaven. At the time, Pagano told out sister blog, Clean Plate Charlie, that he only moved to south Florida for the racetrack.But a gambling man can never turn down a good bet. And ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Watch Party Tonight at Tobacco Road With Cheftestant Robyn Almodovar

Palate Party chef/owner Robyn Almodovar has been battling for culinary supremacy since the June 4 premiere of Hell's Kitchen.Hell's Kitchen is the cooking show that pits chefs not only against each other in a series of culinary challenges -- but also against Gordon Ramsay, the potty-mouthe ... More >>

Lorena Garcia, Robyn Almodovar on Hell's Kitchen, Top Chef Masters

For decades, talent scouts and filmmakers have scoured our tropical city in search of beautiful faces attached to perfect tanned bodies. It's true that Miami has more than its fair share of perfection in human form. But we also have talent and brains to go with that beauty.Take local chefs, Robyn Al ... 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 >>

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 >>

Tracy Kontos, of MasterChef Season Two, Talks Gordon Ramsay and Her Best Dish

via FacebookMasterChef season two contestant Tracy Kontos​MasterChef season two contestant Tracy Kontos, of Coral Springs, took time out of her busy cooking schedule -- and fending off Gordon Ramsay -- to talk with Short Order about her experience on the Fox reality cooking show. One of six contes ... More >>

Symcha's: solid but pricey

Michael Flores Interiano: Food Scientist

Michael Flores Interiano: Always ready with his knife and fork.​At the age of 21, Michael Flores Interiano is a sous chef at Cavatelli Italian Trattoria. He  demonstrates culinary technique to students at Johnson & Wales University, and has prepared a turkey club sandwich for President Ob ... More >>

1500 Degrees: bland decor, carefully crafted cuisine

Sneak Review: 1500 Degrees at Eden Roc

Lee KleinAnswer to last week's Where It At?- 1500's olive-oil poached swordfish​A small slice taken from next weeks meaty Cafe review of 1500 Degrees at Eden Roc.Executive chef Paula DaSilva spent a decade as Dean James Max' chef de cuisine at Ft. Lauderdale's 3030 Ocean, and, even a greater testa ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Casting in Miami November 15 & 16

Photo by Brian Bowen Smith/FOXGordon Ramsay: The devil in disguise.​Does the thought of being calling incompetent and stupid on national TV turn you on? Do you enjoy being told repeatedly you are doing it wrong? Like the idea of crying in front of your colleagues? Yes? Then make sure to attend the ... More >>

La Riviera's Chef Pierre Sudre On Why the French Do It Better

Chef Pierre Sudre​Here is part two of our interview with La Riviera's chef, Pierre Sudre. You can read Part One of the interview here.New Times: So why do French chefs always think they are the best?
Pierre Sudre: We are.Wow. You didn't even crack a smile when you said that.They are the true lea ... 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 >>

Eden Roc Steakhouse -- Let's Name It!

​Come this fall, the Eden Roc Renaissance Miami Beach will be premiering a "farm-friendly steakhouse" co-conceptualized by Seth Greenberg, my dentist. Wait -- sorry, that's just a coincidence. This Seth Greenberg is a hospitality impresario from the Northeast. "Earth, fire, water, air and space" w ... More >>

Chef Paula DaSilva Leaving 3030 Ocean For New Eden Roc Restaurant

​Paula DaSilva, chef de cuisine at Dean Max's 3030 Ocean, will leave the Fort Lauderdale seafood restaurant in June to head a new restaurant at the Eden Roc. If you don't know DaSilva from 3030 Ocean, you may remember her for coming in a close second in season five of Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitche ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival highlight reel

Behind the Scenes: MasterChef Casting Call, Miami

Jacob Katel​Gordon Ramsay is an asshole -- that's why he's fun to watch. So let's all watch him make amateur cooks feel like shit about themselves and their crappy food.MasterChef is new to FOX, but the program is already a UK and Australia phenomenon that has broken television viewing records in ... More >>

Weekly Wrapup: The Friday Time Warp

Jacob KatelHave a drink on us, tonight, New Times tweetup at Waxy's On The River. #NTTweetUp​Some weeks run faster than a lobster from a hot pot of water, a chicken from a cleaver, or a pig from a bottle of Mojo. That's what this one did to us. Here are some posts you might have missed over the we ... More >>

American Idol for Amateur Cooks: Casting Call in Miami Announced for New Gordon Ramsay Series, Master Chef

Fox BroadcastingDo you have the bollocks?​First there was the original kitchen battle from Japan, Iron Chef.  Then came Food Network's Iron Chef America, Fox's Hell's Kitchen, and Bravo's Top Chef series; Top Chef Masters soon followed.  You would think the pot has boiled over, but no!&n ... More >>

Eric Ripert, Jacques Pepin Talk Abusive Chefs, Favorite Foods and the State of Fine Dining at Arsht Celebrity Chef Series

Photo by Juan MoninoOn stage at the Arsht Center: Jacques Pepin, Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert.Jacques Pepin showed Eric Ripert a thing or two in a friendly cook-off at the Arsht Center Celebrity Chef series Friday night. With nine minutes to go on the 30-minute clock, Pepin, who found time to ma ... More >>

Ingrid Hoffmann Gets the 10 Questions

Ingrid Hoffman​Now here's a chef who knows the meaning of caliente. For those of you who may not recognize this hometown girl (which rock have you been living under, huh?), she's the host of Food Network's Simply Delicioso, as well as Galavision/Univision's hit series, Delicioso, and she's authore ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Alum Joshua Wahler Now Executive Chef of Kung Fu Kitchen at Catalina

David LisznaThe new executive, without donkey, at the Catalina on Halloween. A clever nod to Ramsay's favorite curse word?​Being shown the door by Gordon Ramsay is like facing the martial arts whoopass of Jackie Chan in Brett Ratner's Rush Hour series, only a bit more brutal.Josh Wahler, a forme ... More >>

Renzo's of Boca Makes A Miami Dolphins Football Meatball

According to their website, Chef Gordon Ramsay said that Renzo's of Boca is one of the best pizzerias in the world. Here's a video by Renzo's of Boca where Chef Renzo shows you how to make his brand new Miami Dolphins Football Meatball.The Football Meatball gets its name from it football as oppos ... More >>

Luna Changes Names, Kobe Comes Back, Fleming Gets Gordon, and so forth

​Luna Cafe, at 4770 Biscayne Boulevard, is now called L'artista Restaurant. Ownership is the same, meaning Tom Billante is still  involved. Besides the name change, the menu has been tweaked upwardly towards a more fine dining experience than the casual Luna Cafe. Seems a curious move at ... More >>

Lessons Learned on Set at Pinecrest Gardens with Gordon Ramsay and a Kitchen Nightmare called Fleming: a Taste of Denmark

Jackie SayetLast time I was at the "Parrot Jungle," I was in diapers. Can you guess what the re-launch stunt was? You're gonna have to, because my lips are sealed. Fox has been pretty adamant about what we can and can't reveal prior to the first airing of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares: F ... More >>

Gordon Ramrod Ramsay Filming Kitchen Nightmares at Fleming: a Taste of Denmark

Fox BroadcastingThe Sun-Sentinel reports that Gordon Ramsay is in town visiting three South Florida restaurants for Kitchen Nightmares, his popular restaurant intervention series on Fox. The world renowned chef/multinational restaurant owner, cookbook author and TV personality is known for animated ... More >>

"Opinionated About Dining" Survey Disses South Florida

Opinionated About Dining (OAD) released results of its second annual survey of dining establishments in the United States and Canada. The ratings cover over 900 restaurants ranging from fine dining to inexpensive. The only South Florida restaurants to make the grade were, perhaps to no surprise, the ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Looking For Local Restaurants to Embarrass on National TV

There are so many reality tv shows on network television these days, that I've really lost track. Apparently the Fox television network allows this ornery British chef Gordon Ramsay to have not one, but two reality series run on it's airwaves. This second one which I've never heard of until now, "Ki ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay to Chastise Video Gamers this September

Hot Scoops On The SoBe Wine & Food Festival

Hot Scoops On The SoBe Wine & Food Festival

White on White: An Iconic British Chef Dishes It Out

White on White: An Iconic British Chef Dishes It Out

Pure and Demure

Food talks, good food shouts, and great food whispers

The No Show Chef

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