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Free Panther Coffee at New SoBe Location Today: A First Look

At 6:59 a.m, the first customer was already waiting at the door. As of today, Panther Coffee's second location is up and running. They're calling it a soft open, which means gently feeding the caffeine frenzy while working out the kinks. Aside from a couch on the way and some missing pastries, these ... More >>

Miami's Five Best Eats and Drinks this Weekend

This weekend, everyone's favorite junior high read The Great Gatsby will be opening up for the second time in theaters. Naturally, Miami thought it was only appropriate to curate a few cocktail- and Roaring Twenties-themed parties and affairs at a few of our local establishments. Ladies, throw on ... More >>

Umami Burger to Open This Friday

Umami Burger, the California chain with an impassioned fan base, is opening the doors to its first Miami Beach location at 1080 Alton Road this Friday, May 10 at 11 a.m. This Umami will not only be the first in South Florida, it will also be the first Umami on the east coast. Umami was voted "Bur ... More >>

WD555: A New Bottle-Fed Bistro on Fifth and Jefferson

Located at 555 Jefferson Ave., Miami Beach, WD555 is a revamped South Beach gem soon to be a local hot spot. The former Wine Depot is under new ownership and has undergone a vibrant redesign with a fresh feel. Driving up, one spots a boring box of a building, but a right turn reveals the first of ma ... More >>

Cochon 555 is Back: Brooks, McInnis, Balloo, Thomas, Zapata to Compete

Pork lovers rejoice! Cochon 555, a porktastic event, is coming to town! The 10-city culinary competition and tasting tour was created to promote the sustainable farming of heritage breed pigs - so that we may eat them better, my dear. Five local chefs compete in each city, preparing a menu using a ... 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 >>

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 >>

Pasha's Promotes Healthy Eating With 50% Off Entire Menu

Pasha's, the healthy fast food alternative for Mediterranean cuisine, has been serving up waist and wallet-friendly options since 2003. With seven locations now spanning Miami, one can get their fix just about anywhere, from Aventura to Coral Gables. Although all locations offer the same menu, selec ... More >>

Khong River House: Beat the Clock for Thai New Year

In Thailand, New Year's is celebrated very differently than in Miami. As part of the multiday festivities, Thai people clean their houses, avoid cursing, apologize to friends and family for bad behavior, and splash water on each other (very respectfully, we're told). Miamians, by contrast, generally ... More >>

Tervis Tumblers: Ten Reasons They Are the Best Invention Ever

The human body is approximately 65 percent liquid, which means we inevitably do a lot of drinking to keep that waterlogged equilibrium. Whether it's the recommended allowance of H20 or copious quantities of booze, there's lots of the wet stuff constantly flowing down our gullets. So proper drinkwa ... More >>

Pinecrest Total Wine: Cans for Craft Beer Class Begins April 25

Serious beer drinkers might have a bit of a bias toward cans. After all, they tend to evoke memories of Natty Light, PBR, and long drunken days in college. But it's a new day for brews, and cans are emerging as a viable vessel for some of the nation's hottest crafts, from Cigar City to Oskar Blues. ... 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 >>

Food Stamp Debacle: Meet the One Governor Who Botched Public Aid Worse Than Rick Scott

Ah, government. It protects and serves. Floridians spent last year lamenting Gov. Rick Scott's bright idea for welfare recipients: a ludicrous plan to drug-test every single person on state aid. (The courts later threw that idea out the window.)Believe it or not, there's now a governor whose food st ... More >>

Freshko Gourmet Espresso Bar Serves Healthful, Cheap Eats Downtown

Downtown still isn't a prime dining destination, yet there's a substantial need among the area's vast working population for good places to eat. So why is it that besides Ceviche 105 and a few other notables, there's not much buzz? That could be changing with some business owners who saw ... More >>

Sweetness Bakeshop to Open Second, Larger Hialeah Location

Everyone loves a good cupcake. But when maple-bacon donuts, homemade Oreos, ginger-glazed chicken melts and craft beer are also on the menu - even better. That's Sweetness Bakeshop & Cafe in a nutshell, a South Miami favorite since its inception in 2010. Now, thanks to their increasing popular ... More >>

Red Restaurant in Kendall Serves "Fast Food"

When you think of fast food, you usually think of burgers, fries, hot dogs, pizza, and tacos. Red in Kendall carries most of those items, but it also serves a wide array of options for all types of appetites. The Mex is a burger topped with jalapeños, pepper jack cheese, pico de gallo, and cilantr ... More >>

Taste of Brickell Food & Wine Festival: Get Half-Priced VIP Tickets

The Taste of Brickell Food & Wine Festival takes over Miami Circle for two days of good food, great wine, and entertainment.On Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, March 24, from noon to 10 p.m., more than 40 local restaurants will entice you with their fare as you sample hundreds of fine wines and s ... More >>

Food Network's CityEats Bringing Text Alerts to Restaurant Wait Times

In the age of instant everything, restaurant-reservation technology still hasn't caught up. Most of the time we're forced to wander aimlessly while carrying a blinking red brick or hover within 20 feet of the hostess stand so our table isn't given away. Seriously, it's like the Stone Age. But lucki ... More >>

Sweet Saloon: Get Chocolate Wasted With Cocktails and Dessert Treats

Sugar and booze are an intoxicating combo (some studies say it gets you drunkety drunker). If so, then Sweet Saloon should leave us all kinds of buzzed. The newest addition to the mezzanine level of Moonchine Asian Bistro, this spot serves sweet treats, cocktails, and jazzy beats Wednesday and Satu ... More >>

World of Beer Dadeland's Anniversary Bash: Brew Discounts, Loyalty Perks

Anniversaries are awesome, particularly when they're celebrating the dawning of a world inhabited by beer -- as opposed to the annual renewal of a played-out relationship. So get stoked about World of Beer Dadeland's one-year anniversary this Saturday. It means free food for loyalty club members, ... More >>

SoBeWFF for Free: Satellite Events Around Town Offer Gratis Food and Drinks

Sure, SoBeWFF is expensive -- if you can even scrounge tickets for the mostly sold-out festival. But there are ways to have some SoBeFun without the SoBEWFF sticker shock.Each year there are events and freebies all around the festival -- some "official" and some not. Frankly, it doesn't matter ... More >>

Miami's Best Fish Markets

It was a warm Sunday afternoon, and Brickell's high-rises loomed on the hazy horizon beyond the nearby Miami River. Quaint fishing boats bobbed on the water's rippling surface, and rays of sunlight glimmered upon the soft waves. But a few steps from these quiet waters, dozens of shoppers elbowed ea ... More >>

Loveliest Edible Gifts for Valentine's Day

Valentine's day is here.What are you going to do? Where are you going to go? Who are you going to be with?Lucky for you, Short Order has all the answers for the romantic holiday. We've already given you a guide to restaurants doing Valentine's dinner, foods to make you a stallion in the sack, and th ... More >>

BSweet Bakery Opening in the Design District

There's a new game in town for Miamians on the hunt for baked goods. Welcome BSweet Bakery, a cozy little eatery tucked away in the Design District. This new spot, doors down from Egg & Dart, will be offering baked goods, sandwiches and soups - as far as we can tell from peeking in their window, a ... More >>

Shake Shack Introduces New Dogs, Drink, and Dessert

Restaurateur Danny Meyer's Shake Shack has released four new items nationwide and we were invited to the Coral Gables location to try them out. The first item is the blood orange lemonade ($2.50 - $3.15). It tastes more like a punch than a lemonade, but you can definitely taste the lemonade influen ... More >>

Momi To Open 24 Hours and Open New Location...Maybe.

Momi Ramen's recent opening in Brickell has caused a noodle wave effect in the Magic City. Everyone is asking about Jefrrey Chen and his oodles of noodles. Yet, on a Saturday night at 2 a.m., when the neighborhood is packed with loads of drunk civilians, we are the only ones sitting around the woode ... More >>

10 Superfoods to Make You a Stallion in the Sack

Valentine's Day, the one day of the year that obligates Americans to get all sexy and romantic, is a week away. Whether you've been with your little honey pot for a few weeks or a few decades, the holiday can be a great excuse to use "more than words to show [him or her] how you feel," as the wise r ... More >>

Leonardo DiCaprio Spotted in Wynwood; The Social Lubricant Lounge To Open During Art Walk

Mark Dorfman, along with father-son duo Igor & Fred Niznik is giving the Wynwood community and its lovable hipster culture a place to get loose. It's a 1927 single-family home that's been conserved till now, like a fine bottle of wine. TSL or The Social Lubricant lounge will have its grand openi ... More >>

Halo-Halo: The Story Behind the Filipino Shaved Ice Dessert

Halo-halo isn't your typical shaved ice dessert. If you consider Panama's raspao, Italy's granita, Dominican Republic's frio frio, or United States' snow cone, then you already know none of these look anything like a layered, vibrant bowl of halo-halo. It might look more like Malaysia's ais kacang ... More >>

Burger King Drops Supplier Linked To Horse Meat

Miami-based Burger King is cutting ties with a United Kingdom meat supplier found to be using horse meat to 'beef up' its products. Burgers from processors Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods in Ireland and Dalepak Hambleton in Britain tested positive for horse DNA, according to Reuters. Part-horse ... More >>

"Don't Shoot!" New York Restaurants Don't Want You "Foodstagramming" Their Eats

When you consider the food-related restrictions in New York, you should cry fat, giant tears of joy that you live in Miami -- a city that considers rules and regulations mere trivialities of no concern to locals. Restaurants in the Big Apple have instituted an "unofficial" ban on food photography, f ... More >>

Five Sexy Beers for Valentine's Day: From Vixen to Little Sumpin'

As much as we love canoodling and chocolate, Valentine's Day isn't complete without beer goggles. So this year, why not make with the brews and add some modern sex appeal to your celebration? From chilies to chocolates, craft brewers have concocted all sorts of creations that are sure to up your mo ... More >>

Bloom's Dim Sum-Days: Bites and Sake on Sundays (Photos)

Dim sum was a favorite weekend treat where I grew up in New York. On Sundays, we would head over to Chinatown and feast on tiny steamed dumplings, egg rolls, meat-filled buns, fried shrimp, and the occasional chicken foot.Little steamers on carts would be wheeled around the dining room, allowing you ... More >>

Get Wasted for $10 In Tallahassee

To the surprise of many Miamians -- the confines of Florida stretch above and beyond the 305. And while the rest of the Sunshine State might be a little more, ahem, rural, than we're used to, other cities do have their unique charms. Take Tallahassee, for example. Our illustrious state capital, al ... More >>

Bonding: Asian Fusion and Romance

In only a few weeks, Bond Trisransi, the man behind Calle Ocho's Mr. Yum and 2B Asia Bistro, has transformed a South Miami Avenue space sandwiched between Tobacco Road and the River Seafood & Oyster Bar into another of his whimsical, romantic fusion eateries. This time, Trisransi said he wanted ... More >>

Five Food Traditions to Ring In the New Year

While mentions of food around New Year's are often limited to diatribes about holiday overindulgence and plans to forego various edibles in the coming year - food also plays a pivotal role in the cultural introduction of a dawning year. Various countries and cultures around the world have specific ... More >>

New Year's Day 2013: A Miami Brunch Guide

January 1st: the only day of the year when the government sanctions our hangovers with paid time off. After overindulging in bottles of cheap champagne and a river of Red Bull vodkas, there's nothing better than an oversized midday meal to soothe your aching head and rumbling tummy. And if your cra ... More >>

Watch "The 12 Days of Leftovers," This Year's Greatest Video About Gross Old Holiday Food

Christmas is over, but if you went to mom's for dinner, you probably were sent home with a Tupperware full of uneaten food. Depending on who's cooking, there could be anything from ham to lasagna in that container and let's face it -- chances are you took the leftovers home to "be nice."Then, in a f ... More >>

The Five Things We Hate About Christmas (or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa) Dinner

As a general rule, we're big fans of the holidays. Why? Because they involve eating gut-busting quantities of homemade food, scoring paid time off from work and drinking what would generally be unacceptable amounts of booze. But let's be honest - there are certain things about the holiday season t ... More >>

Last-Minute Gifts from Sushi Samba and Schnebly's

We're so close to Christmas the countdown is about to switch from days to mere hours. If you're one of those who gets shopping done early, pre-Thanksgiving early, then give yourself a pat on the back and get out of our sight. You're making us feel guilty.For the rest of us scrambling to check off th ... More >>

Gift Guide: Ten Tech Gifts For Foodies

If you're not sure what to get the chef who has everything, check out Short Order's list of the latest and greatest tech gear. We compiled a thoughtful list of ten tech products designed to keep your favorite foodie on the cutting edge of culinary trends while streamlining their work in the kitchen. ... More >>

Ten Best Christmas Gifts For Women Who Love Food & Booze

Christmas is only a week away, friends. That means if you haven't shopped for the lovely lady in your life, you'd best get into high hustle mode.If you're shopping for someone into food and drink there's that slippery slope on what to get her. While an fire engine red Le Creuset cookware set might g ... More >>

Crown Royal Goes Maple: Media Tasting And Mixing Contest At The Broken Shaker

Unlike vodka drinkers, Whiskey lovers tend to be somewhat traditional in their choice of libations. You don't come across Raspberry Jameson or Bushnell's Citrus, for example. But this past year, the tried and true traditions of whiskey making have taken a turn.First came the onset, and almost immedi ... More >>

Beer, Bacon, Spam, and Pickles: Ten Wacky Xmas Ornaments

For foodies like us, the holiday season is all about eating, drinking and well, eating some more. Seriously, it's why we wear stretch pants for the entire month of December. To carry the tradition past the table -- there are all kinds of funky food and drink themed decorations to give your home tha ... More >>

Latkes for Hanukkah: Joshua Marcus of Josh's Deli Shares His Recipe

If you want to make latkes like Joshua Marcus of Josh's Deli, then you must first make chicken soup. After you have made chicken soup, then you must cool it in the refrigerator. After a few hours, a white, pasty substance will rise to the brim of the surface. Skim it off with a spoon and reserve. T ... More >>

Gramps Bar's Gator Show at Soft Opening

This weekend saw approximately 10,378 Basel-related events. And despite the attraction of porn-as-art; an erotic candy-themed carnival ride and pop-ups galore - one of the most talked about attractions was an old school Florida tradition: the gator show. Read also: - Art Basel: The Most Artistic Co ... More >>

Jonathan Cheban and Kim Kardashian Lunch While He Awaits the Opening of Sushi MiKasa

Kardashian pal, reality television personality, and restaurateur Jonathan Cheban is putting the final touches on the South Beach outpost of his Brooklyn eatery, Sushi MiKasa.The restaurant, which was slated to open in time for Art Basel, isn't quite ready, but the Brooklyn flagship did mention that ... More >>

A Caribbean Thanksgiving: Kris Wessel Shares His Recipe for Pigeon Pea Rice

It's a muggy, hot afternoon in mid-November and Santo Domingo's congested streets are packed with whizzing motorcyclists and banged-up taxis. Sidewalks are lined with vendors selling dried-up holiday pine trees. Across the bustling Caribbean city, eateries offer a variety of catered Thanksgiving din ... More >>

Parts Unknown: Anthony Bourdain Previews New CNN Show (Video)

Though Anthony Bourdain has closed the door on his relationship with the Travel Channel (and burned all bridges with rants about the interweaving of Cadillac ads into his final No Reservations episode), he's opened a wide terrace with his new CNN gig.Parts Unknown, premiering in spring 2013, has Bou ... More >>

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