Back in 1989 Martin Lynch, a waiter at Christy's Restaurant, and John Slarke, a banquet guy at the Biltmore got to thinking. "We noticed that every city in America has an Irish pub and Coral Gables didn't. So we started one, and 20 years later we're still here." says Martin. "Martin Lynch and John Slarke, that's how you make John Martin's, it's a combination of the two names y'see."
I called John Martin's to find out about their Irish Brunch on Sundays. As far as I knew, an
The Burger Beast is a South Florida eating machine chewing his way through fried-food-America and blogging his reviews of various establishments at BurgerBeast.com. Most of his posts center on Dade and Broward, but they also cover cities as far as Atlanta, where he recently found himself, and soon Minneapolis, where his compadre the Ayatollah Bromeini will send dispatches from. According to Beast's blogger profile "The Burger Beast was originally started as an ode to burgers, but has since p
Jacob Katel
No tax payer dollars were used, nor special favors called upon, in the making of this series"The New Times never calls me," Mayor Don Slesnick grumbled to a certain food writer one evening not long ago. And if can I recall correctly, that same food writer quickly replied, "That probably means you're doing something right!"Well in case you didn't get the memo, it's Coral Gables Restaurant Week until June 14. So we present a multimedia series of culinary escapades wi
Jacob Katel
A lot of drops together make a flood. Here are some local blog posts from over 4th of July weekend 2009.Tonight at John Martin's in Coral Gables the Burger Beast takes over; this means food & drink specials.Tinkering With Dinner makes blueberry banana ice cream and chicken eggplant croquettes.Chef Michy cuts rhubarb in Minnesota.And The Eggs has a Chinese guest blogger talking hot woks, chopsticks, and dumplings.Food Of Miami has raw oysters and free wi-fi at the Quarterdec
Jacob KatelCarlos Miller from nbcmiami.com interviews the "Burger Beast" Sef Gonzalez while family and friends look on. BurgerBeast.com is a first-person eater, as in Sef Gonzalez (not to be mistaken with Australian murderer Sef Gonzales) blogging his way across every burger he eats. Last night John Martin's Irish Pub & Restaurant in Coral Gables introduced the Burger Beast menu.General Manager Cristina Moguel says "Sef's a regular. His first time in, he said he was gonna try every burger on
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Herald staff, writers and local twitterati at Crazy Pianos in Coconut Grove.
If tweetups were a burrito, the South Florida social media scene would be bursting at the tortilla. This past week was crazy busy and the rest of the month isn't going to calm down.
Miami Herald Tweetup
On Thursday, the Miami Herald held its second tweetup at Crazy Pianos in Coconut Grove, with my twitter gal pals Lori Todd (@loritodd) and Mallory Colliflower (@mallcoli) at the door greetin
