Jell-O Desserts

Coconut Grove Goes to the Dogs at Spankyfest Pub Crawl

Miamians sure do love their pets. On Lincoln Road, hundreds of pampered pooches (and an occasional cat, monkey, or iguana) can be seen wearing designer duds. There they are, strolling on rhinestone leashes (in some cases, maybe even diamonds) and having a snack at an outdoor café.Yet for every dog ... More >>

Recipe: Fado's Guinness Bloody Mary for St. Patrick's Day Breakfast

The days leading up to St. Paddy's Day are a free-for-all when it comes to boozy beverages. And frankly, the Jameson gets old after awhile. Luckily, there are other ways to enjoy your favorite Irish bevvies besides via shot glass. The folks at Brickell's Fado Irish Pub were nice enough to share th ... More >>

Miami Cocktail Company's Low-Cal Concoctions

Move over, Bethenny Frankel, and take your Skinny Girl swill with you. There's a tastier, stronger low-cal cocktail company in town. And P.S.: The makers are better-looking than you too. The dudes at Miami Cocktail Company are now plying the 305 with their zero-sugar, zero-carb, 99.9 percent natura ... More >>

Irish Car Bomb Jell-O Shots for St. Patrick's Day: A Recipe (Photos)

St. Paddy's Day is around the corner, and we're so over the same tired traditions that get trotted out every year. Green beer, corned beer and cabbage, shamrock shakes, yadda-yadda-yadda. Where's the originality? This year, think outside the boozy box and delight your alcoholic friends with these e ... More >>

Holy Ship!! 2013, Day One: Major Lazer, Justice, and Surprise Guest Skrillex!

On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, AKA Holy Ship!! (There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.'s Hard Events.) The ... More >>

Go With the Flow

Hotel Transylvania: A Comic Dracula Still Kills

Big-Butted Black Ants and Cow Foot Jell-O, Yum!

When my co-worker brought in edible "presents" to the office from his Colombian mother-in-law, it wasn't your typical box o' chocolates or salt water taffy; instead these souvenirs were hormigas culonas, or big-butted Colombian ants and gelatina de pata de res -- cow foot gelatin.Most of the reactio ... More >>

Florida's weirdest proposed laws: Purple trees, barking frogs, and slow golf carts

Down and Derby

Florida's Eight Weirdest Bills: Pecan Crime, Lifeguard Beatdowns and Trees Painted Purple

​Every year, Florida lawmakers propose more than a thousand bills. Some of them are admirable and important changes designed to make our streets safer, our schools better, and our citizenry healthier. Then there are the other 92 percent. Here are the eight most awesomely befuddling and obscure bil ... More >>

Jellied Moose Nose, Baby Mice Wine, and More: Eight Foods Better Than Cannibalism

Our soul sister blog, Riptide, recently described a man who allegedly murdered a man and proceeded to consume his brain and eyeball. Hannibal Lecter would have at least added fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti.As a response, here's a list of eight things that would probably be even worse t ... More >>

Pig 05049 Follows Piggly-Wiggly Right Into Your Shopping Cart

​Generally speaking, being vegetarian is a choice. I am all for those who forgo meat for health reasons or just for the sake of feeling healthier and leaner. But keep me away from fashion-conscious tree huggers who look at us carnivores with disdain, while stomping around in leather shoes and chom ... More >>

Classic Jell-O Shots: From Harry Potter to a Tom Collins

Running PressCookbook author Michelle Palm is reinventing our notion of the Jell-O shot with a new cookbook that explores the joy of consuming classic cocktails that wiggle. After friends and family were wowed by Palm's gelatin prowess at a backyard barbecue, she started up a blog, the Jelly Shot Te ... More >>

Cos Play

Bin Laden Still Sucks: Five Patriotic Foods to Honor Our Armed Forces

Patriotic cupcakes​Late last evening, President Barack Obama announced that elite U.S. troops had killed Osama bin Laden. After almost ten years of searching for the man behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks on our country, Navy SEALs killed bin Laden in a brave operation that took years to deve ... More >>

Burlesque Bambi's Winning Recipe for a Burly Figure

​Burlesque, that sexy, sultry, but not-quite-so-naked performance, has seen a resurgence in the past few years. The literary definition of burlesque is "a dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing serious work." In the 1940s however, popular variety shows that featured ri ... More >>

Drink to Benefit the Chron's & Colitis Foundation

​Who says drinking doesn't have its merits? This Saturday drink and give back to the Chron's and Colitis Foundation at The Gutsy Pub Crawl. Event organizers Michelle Rodriguez and Gaston Ruiz will guide lush philanthropists through six hours of drinking around Coconut Grove. That's a lot of drinki ... More >>

Rorschach testing at Seven Seas

Huxtable in the House

Pisco Bus goes wild in Miami

Miami Spice Is Getting Annoying

Be careful or you could end up with a meal like this.Miami Spice started as a discount deal that was meant to promote dining out during the traditionally sluggish month of August. Then it was officially lengthened through September, and the following year restaurateurs unofficially jumped the gun an ... More >>

A Spoonful of Fun

Finding Your Cure got what we need

Aim for the Head

Kick it with the homies at WAKA.

Tasty Morsels

Missy and Flo Rida Show Up at Sunset Place

No More Pudding Pops?

Bill Cosby has a lot on his mind, but it’s comedy tonight.

French Seafood Satisfies

SoBe’s new Maison d’Azur is a welcome arrival.

Review: Blue Man Group at Universal Studios

Blowfly

Mood Indigo

Blue Man Group paints the Gables red

A Japanese Gem

The menu is dementedly extensive, and the food is insanely good

Borderline Mexican

Food at On the Border is off the mark

The Fever Rages On

Super Grrlz

Night&Day

Polly Doesn't Want a Cracker

It's better to drink your way through Parrot Jungle than eat

Diner Might

The booth, the bacon sandwich, the easy bucks: They're back!

What the Doc Shoulda Ordered

Could there be anything worse than hospital fare? Nope.

BEST ROCK CLUB

Churchill's

Taste Matters

And it should, when you have to lick and lick and lick

Becoming Bistro

Biscayne's new bistro has a bit of everything, from books and deli to good and not so good

Tapas All Nippon

Yakko-San

Letters to the Editor

From the issue of June 21, 2001

Pizza Cubano

Montes de Oca

Menus by the Book

What's in a menu? Usually the success of a restaurant.

Seitanic Request

Suzanne's Vegetarian Bistro

Navel Maneuvers

A fat guy who swam in Jell-O, a Grand Canyon of female cleavage, and enough Wesson oil for a fried-chicken cookoff. We watched it all so you wouldn't have to.

Rotations

Over and Out

After three months of giddiness and glory, The Jim and Steve Show goes to that great broadcast booth in the sky