After a series of fits and starts that have characterized Miami restaurant openings for as long as there have been Miami restaurants, Chef Laurent Tourondel will finally debut his BLT Steak at the Betsy Hotel next Wednesday, March 25th. The original BLT premiered in Manhattan in 2004, its casual take on the American steak house taking that city by storm. Now there are more than a dozen BLT Steaks, BLT Burgers, BLT Fish, and BLT BLT's in America, Puerto Rico, and Hong Kong. Actually, I'm just kid
Jacob KatelBLT Steak Miami Beach chef de cuisine Sam Gorenstein, 25, shows Off his meat's marbling. BLT Steak Miami Beach takes Chef Laurent Tourondel's formula for success and applies it to Dade County. Read Lee Klein's New Times review of the joint here and Victoria Pesce Elliot's Miami Herald review here.BLT Steak Miami Beach's Chef De Cuisine Sam Gorenstein says "I was born in Colombia and I went to Kropp High School in Miami. I started cooking at a young age, I'm 25 now, at 17 I decided to
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This baby's on the menu and on the June 2009 cover of Food & Wine(To the tune of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America")God Bless BLT Steak,Inside The Betsy Hotel.Paying homage, to its patriot.A menu to delight one and all.Four special courses, it's a prix fixe, "Ocean Drive" cocktail, spiked with rum! God bless BLT Steak, your home meat home.Who: Chef Laurent Tourondel (well, probably his sous chef Sam Gorenstein, if we're talkin' in person...)What: Special Ind
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For a while there, when Michy's, Michael's, Fratelli Lyon, North One 10, Pacific Time 2 and Red Light were all newish news, it looked as though Miami was on its way to becoming a cool food town -- the sort with a community of chefs who open restaurants that reflect their vision, and that, taken together, form a gastronomic montage of the tastes and cultures of the city.
But at this point, it appears to have been just a temporary surge by a group of brave and seasoned chefs. Miami's cur
