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July 30, 2009
Bengal Modern Indian Cuisine's All You Can Eat Lunch Buffet In Pictures
Jacob KatelBengal Modern Indian Cuisine (2010 Biscayne Boulevard) serves up authentic Bangladeshi and North Indian cuisine with a modern twist 7 days a week. And from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. they have an all you can eat lunch buffet for $11.95. Short Order has been to it before, yesterday we went again ... More >>
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August 3, 2009
Weekend Blog Watch: Food That Rhymes
Jacob KatelWelcome to another edition of Weekend Blog Watch, where Short Order links to recent posts from other Miami food blogs. This week we present our roundup in a rhymeup, but to kick things off, here's a food haiku:Some eat just to liveOthers simply live to eatMe, I photographHere's the blo ... More >>
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August 3, 2009
Larry Dogg Films Disco Rick Telling Local DJs to Start Breaking Records, Stop Sweating Celebrities
Jacob KatelIf you've never seen or heard of Larry Dogg, he claims the title of "Underground King of Comedy in South Florida." He's also got a website that documents his interactions with white families in massage chairs at the mall, big girls getting freaky at the club, rappers, singers, and cele ... More >>
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August 11, 2009
Patty King's Gas Station Jamaican Patty
Jacob Katel"Red Dot" Jamaican patty, that means spicy beef.Plastic cube, metal tongs, yellow pies with colored dots. Gas station patties are a South Florida staple. We picked this one up at an Amoco on 34th and Biscayne. It is a Patty King meat pie. Their product is pretty much everywhere and we ... More >>
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August 17, 2009
Behind The Line at DiLido Beach Club on South Beach With Top Chef Jeff McInnis
Jacob Katel The Ritz Carlton South Beach's DiLido Beach Club (One Lincoln Road) is an oceanfront restaurant that serves food inspired by South Mediterranean and North African cuisine. Top Chef Jeff McInnis runs the kitchen. He is shown above filling up on liquid nitrogen. What could he possibly n ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Video: P.A.T.H. Hip-Hop Summer Camp at the Miami Light Project
Two weeks ago, Crossfade video master Jacob Katel and I dropped in on the last day of the second annual P.A.T.H. hip-hop summer camp run by Brimstone127 and Amit Regev. The week-long workshop was held down the street from the Miami New Times offices, at the Miami Light Project. was like a consciou ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Philosophy
Jacob KatelEveryone has to eat to live, some out there live to eat, Short Order lives to eat what other people are eating after they've already eaten it, or get there before them and eat it first. Here's what you might have missed throughout the week.The cult of Ikea extends to their food c ... More >>
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August 31, 2009
Raul Hurtado Catering at Univision's Viva El Sueño Party
Jacob Katel What do you feed a bunch of hungry Latin American tv executives celebrating the launch of a new reality tv mega show? That's what Raul Hurtado's gourmet catering company must have asked themselves while planning their service for a launch party for Univision's new Sunday night show Vi ... More >>
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September 11, 2009
Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Inevitable
Jacob KatelStay tuned. Next week Short Order goes Behind The Line at MIA at Biscayne.Did you know that there's a Miami Police Department Café...and that back in 08' they caught a restaurant inspection violation for "identity of food product misrepresented?". According to WPLG10 it was for mislab ... More >>
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September 11, 2009
Top 5 Reasons To Work In a Strip Club Kitchen
Jacob KatelAmire - a former strip club cook.Short Order has always thought highly of strip club kitchens. Not necessarily the food they produce, just the fact that there is an entire staff of people working them whose job it is to cook at a place where girls dance naked for money.Late last year w ... More >>
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October 15, 2009
McDonald's Guerrilla Art In Wynwood
Jacob Katel If I find one more fucking eyeball in my cheeseburger....! This eyeballed up cheeseburger bus poster was seen this morning in Wynwood. We look forward to seeing more of this type of art work. Not that we endorse it. It's illegal, and wrong, very, very, wrong.We're gonna have to ... More >>
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October 23, 2009
Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Angus and Brangus
Jacob Katel Stay tuned. Next week Short Order tries to buy a walking hamburger.Like beef? We do. So stop by next week -- we're gonna try to buy us some. Here's what you might have missed over the last week. From the people who made Jaguar a cash cow, Talavera, now open. Two Chef ... More >>
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October 30, 2009
Kitchen Prank: Server Gets A Red Hot Spoon For Breaking Cook's Demi Glace
Jacob KatelA Halloween kitchen.Kitchen pranks go back to the days when cave people pissed on each other barbecues for laughs, and they haven't gotten any less funny with time.Long time sous chef Kyle Foster from Talula (23rd and Collins, Miami Beach) tells this funny story:"We cooks joke around a ... More >>
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November 4, 2009
Short Order Samples World's Strongest Beer, Survives
Doesn't the dude above (video by Jake Katel) just look-and sound- like the human embodiment of a Boston-brewed beer with a whopping 27% alcohol content? All he needs is one of those colonial get-ups and, like, a drunk horse by his side.Sam Adams brewmaster Bob Cannon invited Short Order to a "beer d ... More >>
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November 5, 2009
Monster Energy's Java Monster Drink Reviews
Jacob KatelMonster in the parking lot.Yesterday we exited the New Times building and saw a raised up Monster Energy truck pulling up. We figured it meant free drinks in our future so we stopped and asked what they had for us.One of the broads handed me a couple of cans while the other took a pict ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Lord's Prayer
Jacob KatelWhen life gives you lemons....go to a restaurant, enjoy a meal, and have lemon curd for dessert. Though work's not gone, thy week is done, in the city, the suburbs, and rurals. Give us this our daily blog. And go get us some wings, as we go get us some pitchers. And lead us not into an ... More >>
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November 30, 2009
Lunch Eater: Camila's Brazilian Food All-You-Can-Eat Buffet in Downtown
Jacob KatelEat like a Brazilian.Camila's Brazilian Food Restaurant (129 SE 1st Ave) is a real Brazilian restaurant populated by real Brazilians eating real Brazilian food, watching Brazilian tv, and talking in Portuguese. That has been the case each of the 5 to 9 times over the past few years we' ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Europa Cafe, Upscale Coffee Shop Stashed in a Gas Station on Biscayne Blvd
Jacob KatelShot from Southeast corner of Biscayne and 61st street. Quickfast breakfast options from the Biscayne corridor south through Buena Vista, Little Haiti, Wynwood, and Omni are severely limited. The offerings open up around downtown, but other than that the market is wide open for a cheap ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Brooklyn's Clever Collective Bake Sale for Art Basel Miami 2009
Jacob KatelClever girlThe Clever Collective is an art consortium from Brooklyn who we saw set up in the driveway of a house on 29th Street between North Miami Avenue and NW Second Avenue selling cookies, lemonade, and custom bags.The bake sale benefits the Clever Collective and the girls procured ... More >>
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December 7, 2009
Chicken-N-Ribs Mobile BBQ Pop Up For Art Fair Week
Jacob KatelMiami's art fair week 2009 saw a world of pedestrians on the streets of Wynwood; and where there're tourists, there's money, so no surprise that enterprising mobile BBQs left a trail of rib-smoke all weekend.Friday night, we found Chicken-N-Ribs on the Southeast corner of 22nd Street a ... More >>
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December 9, 2009
Lemoni Café: New Menu, New Look, New Beer and Wine License
Jacob KatelChicken/avocado panini: garlic mayonnaise, bacon, lettuce, tomato, onions ($8.75)Lemoni Café is the Cheers of panini shops. When you walk in, you feel like family.Since March 2008, when Eugenia Pelati and Assia Dahrouch opened just north of the Design District in the Buena Vista neigh ... More >>
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December 11, 2009
Weekly Wrapup: The Friday Time Warp
Jacob KatelHave a drink on us, tonight, New Times tweetup at Waxy's On The River. #NTTweetUpSome 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 >>
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December 17, 2009
Kitchen Pranks: The Old Oven Knob In The Jello Trick
Jacob KatelLook at my knob."You see this knob? It's precious to a lineman, especially when it gets real busy, cause you're struggling to turn everything on. They come right off see? One thing cooks will do just to mess with each other is steal em', and hide em'. I remember being in a kitchen wher ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
Lunch Eater: Morgans Restaurant Now Open for Breakfast and Lunch
Jacob KatelHouse Club: Oven roasted tender free range chicken breast, tomato, bacon, lettuce, basil mayo, and fries -- final bill $10.50.Her name is Morgans. She is a big purple house on 29th Street between North Miami and NE Second Avenues -- actual address: 28 NE 29th Street. She has been aroun ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
100 Favorite Dishes: Mozzarella, Tomatoes, and Eggplant at TIMO
100.Jacob KatelWarm bufala mozzarella with clay baked roma tomatoes & eggplant....$9As a countdown to the Best of Miami 2010, Short Order is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your own nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.TIMO in Sunny Isles does Italian right. Take ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
100 Favorite Dishes: Calzone Brooklynese from Pizza Volante
Jacob KatelCalzone Brooklynese - ricotta, speck, basil: $10.00As a countdown to New Times' "Best of Miami" 2010, Short Order is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.
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January 19, 2010
100 Favorite Dishes: Everglades-Style Frogs' Legs at Coopertown Airboats
Jacob KatelIt does taste like chicken.As a countdown to New Times' "Best of Miami" 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.
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January 21, 2010
Spuntino Bakery's $3 French Toast Breakfast In Downtown Miami
Spuntino is the bakery and catering arm of a restaurant group that includes Spris on Lincoln Road, and Mai Tardi in the Design District.They also run a breakfast and lunch joint at 1112 North Miami Ave.Jacob KatelFrench Toast: 4 slices, $3.
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January 26, 2010
100 Favorite Dishes: Side of Bone Marrow With Your BLT Steak
Jacob KatelBone marrow.As a countdown to New Times' "Best of Miami" 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com
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January 27, 2010
100 Favorite Dishes: Swordfish at The Oceanaire Seafood Room
Jacob KatelBrazilian Broadbill Swordfish "Au Poivre" with grilled asparagus & cabernet demi-glace.As a countdown to New Times' "Best of Miami" 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.
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February 11, 2010
Jamaican Food, Jamaican Groceries, Kingston Delight in North Miami Beach
Jacob KatelCurry Goat with Cabbage and Peas & Rice.We get a lot of credit for being a Latin stronghold, but as most who've been here (and left South Beach) know, the MIA is truly a Caribbean gateway, and Jamaican food is all over Miami. Only eat jerk chicken once a year at the Bob Marley Fest ... More >>
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February 18, 2010
Miami Street Food Fest Rolling Into Town this Spring
Jacob KatelThe Burger Beast is a brain ninja.The Miami Street Food Fest could one day be bigger than the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, but it'll have to get its wheels on the road first.This spring, the first annual Fest will welcome carts, trucks, vendors, tents, and the people who love th ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
Cool Restaurant Interiors: Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant
The festive ambience that characterizes Tap Tap starts outside, where a colorful, painted bus usually sits welcoming you to the restaurant. Inside the restaurant, everything serves as a canvas. From the bright blue floors decorated with yellow motifs, to walls that depict bright, colorful scenes of ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
The Alibi Inside Lost Weekend Makes Real Philly Cheese Steaks
The Alibi is a restaurant in a corner by the bar at South Beach drinking hang Lost Weekend. On the menu are authentic South Philly cheese steaks with Amoroso bread rolls flown in from the Rebel Capital, pizza, burgers, veggie sandwiches, shrimp po boys, wings, a pulled pork sandwich, handcut fries a ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
Calle Ocho 2010 Street Food In Pictures
Jacob KatelPigs on sticks.Calle Ocho 2010 brought fire to the streets of Little Havana on a hot Sunday in Miami. Stands built into the sea of people sold everything from meat on a stick to empanadas, Mexican, Honduran, Cuban, Spanish, Jamaican, and many other nation's specialties.The roast pork p ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Weekend Blog Watch: Buy Local, The Good Life, Topless Photo, Smoked Out
Jacob KatelStay tuned....tomorrow Short Order goes Behind The Line at Gibraltar on Grove Isle.It's been too long since we've highlighted recent posts from other local food blogs, eons in web time, so here's a roundup from just some of Short Order's many contemporaries.New farmers market in the he ... More >>
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March 29, 2010
Contest: Sounds of Ultra 2010 - Name That Artist, Win a Prize
Jacob KatelWere you one of the 75,000 ticket holders at ULTRA 2010 on Saturday? If so, then you may recognize the following clip from a major and influential electronic act. Correctly name the artist and DJ and you can win a random prize from Crossfade. Here's the audio we recorded, good luck. ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
The Food of Ultra Music Festival 2010, Because You Can Only Eat So Many Drugs
Jacob KatelA festivus for the restofus.For those not into clicks, beeps, and bass, Ultra Music Festival was a two-day electronic dance music festival that brought a sold-out crowd of 75,000 ticket holders a day to Bicenntenial Park's festival grounds.From 3 p.m. to midnight the throngs of hungry, ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
Oceanaire Sold to Landry's
Photo by Jacob KatelOceanaire's kitchen.Oceanaire Seafood Room, a premium restaurant in Mary Brickell Village that has drawn solid reviews, has been purchased by a large national chain, the Nation's Restaurant News reports. Landry's, which owns Rainforest Cafe and Chart House among other res ... More >>
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May 3, 2010
10 Steps To Great Food Pics With Your Point and Shoot
Jacob KatelChef Sean Bernal, swordfish samurai.Anybody can take great food pics!Most people don't have expensive cameras with detachable lenses, filters, reflectors, and light kits.You don't need any of that stuff to take great photos.With food photography booming as it is on the internet these d ... More >>
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May 11, 2010
Pastelitos 101: Cuban "Capuchino" From La Gran Via Bakery
Jacob KatelWelcome to Pastelitos 101, a noob's eye view on Latin American pastries.This morning we visited La Gran Via Bakery, a 24-hour joint on Calle Ocho in Little Havana.Inside the bakery display shelf, among various frosted, drizzled, and flaky crusted items, some burnt-end yellow cones caug ... More >>
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May 18, 2010
Burger Beast Burger Month Party at Q American Barbeque
Jacob KatelThe Burger Beast threw a National Hamburger Month party at Q American Barbeque last night. Despite an evening thunderstorm that dropped lighting from Buena Vista west, a crowd still came through eat, and have drinks.The menu featured a whole lotta burgers, like The Benedict, with Canad ... More >>
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May 28, 2010
Last Chance Saloon: A Keys Memorial Day Weekend Stop
Jacob KatelThe only window in the bar.For lots of South Florida folks an annual Memorial Day weekend pilgrimage to the Keys marks the beginning of summer. Hell yeah. One Dade County stop we recommend on that journey is the Last Chance Saloon in Homestead. On your way south, the adjacent package l ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Where to Party for Brazil World Cup in Miami
Jacob KatelWhere we at?Miami is full of Brazilians, and Brazilians love to party. Especially when they win futebol matches. Yesterday Brazil squeezed by North Korea 2-1 in its first game of World Cup 2010. We hit up a few local spots while the game was on to find somewhere good to watch the next ... More >>
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August 5, 2010
Street Dreams
Jacob KatelWhere we at?Miami is full of Brazilians, and Brazilians love to party. Especially when they win futebol matches. Yesterday Brazil squeezed by North Korea 2-1 in its first game of World Cup 2010. We hit up a few local spots while the game was on to find somewhere good to watch the next ... More >>
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October 19, 2010
The Wino & Gold Jersey Drive Successfully Clothes Miami's Skid Row With LeBron Jerseys
Driving around Downtown from now on, you may notice that seemingly every homeless person is now wearing a LeBron James-themed jersey, T-shirt, sweatshirt, wristbands, sneakers, or embroidered blanket. Yeah, that was us.
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November 9, 2010
Sugarcane Now Serving Brunch
Jacob KatelThey've already got the bacon.Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill has launched a weekend brunch. Starting at 11:30 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, and running until 5:00 p.m., the a la carte menu will include:*Whole wheat pumpkin pancakes with housemade vanilla bean ricotta and seasonal fruit ($8). ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Bee Heaven Farms Is the Place This Sunday!
Jacob KatelNothing to do this Sunday? Need something constructive for the kids? Jump in the car on a road trip south, and fill up on seasonal organic produce, heirloom tomato plants, dried fruit and raw honey. Bee Heaven Farms is turning this Sunday December, 19th into "Farm Day." Between ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Sneak Review: Sawa Restaurant & Lounge
Photo by Jacob KatelA small, Japanese-Mediterranean bite from this week's Cafe review:Sawa is a variety show of a restaurant. Diners are treated to an Ed Sullivan-like procession of sushi, kebabs, tapas, soups, salads, entrees, hookahs, belly dancers (accompanied by ear-splitting music), LED ligh ... More >>
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December 31, 2011
Miami's Ten Best Dive Bars: Where to Spend New Year's After The Party Ends
After the party winds down and clubs start closing, you still need a place to go to finish off the night before passing out with a half-eaten, gas station egg salad sandwich in your hand. Thank God for dive bars. It's hard to pin down exactly what a dive bar is, you just know it when you step into ... More >>
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