Lee Schrager

Geoffrey Zakarian's Star-Studded SoBeWFF Radio Broadcast Airs Tonight

The tents have been taken down for another year and the 2013 edition of the South Beach Wine and Food Festival is but a memory. There is, however, one way to relive the magic made when you get some of the world's funniest and most talented chefs together in one city and add some alcohol.During the f ... More >>

Florida Cookery: Great Food, Poor Service

SoBeWFF Southern Brunch: "Best Food of the Festival," says Schrager

People often say Miami isn't quite part of the South. Yet Magic City chefs put out the best food at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Southern Brunch at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel late Sunday morning, even if they didn't have the longest lines. A little more than an hour into the event Em ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Guy Fieri Mingles While Ziggy Marley Rocks the Closing Party

If last night was any indication, SoBeWFF proud papa Lee Schrager might have to rename the festival the South Beach Wine, Food & Reggae Festival, because Ziggy Marley rocked the tents with a full-length concert that appealed to everyone of every age and degree of sobriety during Guy Fieri's ... More >>

SoBeWFF's Burger Bash: Bobby Flay Wins, Knocks Michael Symon Off Winning Streak

Victory is sweet for those who've patiently waited for the spotlight. Bobby Flay threw an accomplished fist in the air as Rachael Ray announced the people's choice first place winner -- his green chile burger won. The burger, which Flay made in the name of his New Jersey restaurant, Bobby's Burg ... More >>

Geoffrey Zakarian Talks Star-Studded Radio Show, BBQ, and a Miami Restaurant

Chef, restaurateur, and Food Network personality Geoffrey Zakarian is working hard -- and playing hard at this year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Zakarian, who makes the trip to Miami each year with his wife, Margaret, is appearing at multiple festival events, hosting a magnificent A-list i ... More >>

Ten Twitter Handles to Follow During SoBeWFF

Can't make it to this year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival? We hear ya. Tickets are kind of expensive. Fret not. Luckily, Twitter allows complete strangers to pry into the lives of those who live publicly, like Cooking Channel and Food Network idols, for instance. This year, experience SoBe ... More >>

Anne Burrell's Miami Dine-Around

Anne Burrell sure gets around. The Food Network celebrity is finishing up filming a new season of Chef Wanted, which has the chef flying all over the states to visit restaurants in need of a new head of the kitchen.The final stop for filming was Miami Beach, where Burrell filmed on location at Nikki ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein Creates Wine & Food-Inspired Havaianas

Truth be told, you live, breath and sleep food -- so why not wear it, too? We're not talking Lady Gaga meat-suit or Katy Perry lollipop bra. Instead, you can now rock flip flops made for foodies. Miami celeb chef Michelle Bernstein has created a series of custom pins for what are arguably the world ... More >>

Juvia Franco-Brazilian Brunch to Kick off Lee Brian Schrager's Culinary Cinema

With the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) right around the corner, our collective mouths are officially watering for Lee Brian Schrager's inaugural Culinary Cinema, where we'll get to indulge in three flicks hand-picked for foodie film buffs. And to make sure the audience is happy and well ... More >>

Taste of Brickell Valentine: Score Cheap VIP Couple's Pass Here

Come March, memories of the South Beach Wine & Fodd Festival (SOBEWFF) will be fading fast -- and you'll need some new bacchanalia to look forward to. Luckily, the third annual Taste of Brickell Food and Wine Festival is bringing eats, drinks, and entertainment to the Miami Circle on March 23 an ... More >>

Lee Brian Schrager's Culinary Cinema to Debut at Miami International Film Festival

The closer we get to the South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SoBeWFF), the more you're bound to hear the name Lee Schrager. And in addition to his tireless work promoting our city's celeb-studded ode to consumption -- he's lending his talents to the 30th anniversary edition of the Miami Internationa ... More >>

Food & Country Festival Bringing the Wild West to South Dade

While techno beats and Cuban food might seem more South Florida-style than twangy tunes and barbecue -- we can all use a return to those country roots every now and then. Hence the idea behind the South Dade Food and Country Festival, bringing homegrown good times and good eats to Homestead this Sat ... More >>

Lee Schrager on SoBeWFF, Mixology and Where He Eats in Miami: Hip and Hot, Part Two

One of the hottest things right now, according to Lee Schrager, is mixology -- the skill of blending cocktails with a focus on quality ingredients and innovative flavor combinations. "There's so much emphasis on cocktails right now," he says. To reflect what he calls the "big explosion of mixology, ... More >>

More Beer, Rock Shrimp, and Chilaquiles: Final Notes on the SoBe Fest

​So we close the page on another South Beach Wine & Food Festival -- or, as we like to call it, the Annual Four Day Gastro-Intestinal Challenge. The following list consists of personal observations and reflections gathered over the weekend.- I've been to so many Festivals that I've gotten to k ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Best Thing I Ever Ate Serves Late-Night Munchies (Photos)

All photos by Laine DossGetting down at SoBeWFF.​It's a fact. Most nights spent dancing and partying wind down in the local diner or coffee shop. Over some soggy fries and a tepid greaseburger, you wish that there was some place open where you could get some stone crab claws ... or Peking duck ... ... More >>

SoBeWFF: Andrew Zimmern Talks Street Food and Miami Bites

​You probably know Andrew Zimmern as the guy who eats eyeballs and bats on the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods. You might not know that Zimmern, a trained chef and journalist with a love of street food, is an annual participant in the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. This year he'll host the o ... More >>

Cocktober and Aphrodisiac Ice Cream: Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Week in Florida

By Carlos AcostaAndrew Zimmern at Cobaya Azul​I have to thank Bizarre Food's Andrew Zimmern for making it to Miami. I'd originally dropped a grapevine hint that he'd soon be in town only because I recently noticed his Twitter conversation with Chef Geoffrey Zakarian about visiting Tudor House.But ... More >>

Heinz Unveils New Flavor, SBWFF Tix On Sale, and Tap Water Rules

​​​​​A look back at some food-related events that transpired over the past week:South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2012 tickets went up for sale on Monday. The three-day event runs February 23 to 26, and tickets tend to go fast. Very fast. Paula Deen's Sunday Brunch and the Anta Banderas ... More >>

Top Five Food Festival Etiquette Faux Pas

Lesley ElliottThe tents at last year's South Beach Wine & Food Festival. ​It seems premature to say that the South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already a subject of talk about town, but they recently released the 2012 line-up, and we already spoke to Lee Schrager to get the inside scoop ... More >>

SBWFF 2012: Antonio Banderas, Andrew Zimmern, and Plenty of Food Carts

Lee KleinWe spoke by phone with Lee Schrager this week about upcoming new events at the 2012 South Beach Wine & Food Festival (February 23 through 26). Monday was part one; today we talk about BubbleQ losing its Bubble, the one-of-a-kind affair at 1111 Lincoln, and the grand closing party that l ... More >>

SBWFF 2012: Salsa at Sea, Geoffrey Zakarian, Brunch at the Botanical Garden

​I start my phone conversation with Lee Schrager by telling him about a recently unearthed 1991 issue of Food Arts magazine that featured the Miami dining scene of the time. "Did you say 1991?" he asks, as though he's heard me wrong. I add that he merited mention, and quotes about South Beach and ... More >>

Gilt City Tequila Dinner at Kane Steakhouse: Meat, Booze and Lee Schrager

All photos by Laine DossLee Schrager curated a dinner at Kane Steakhouse...sans gossip.​Gilt City chief lifestyle adviser, Lee Schrager, hosted a tequila tasting dinner at Kane Steakhouse Tuesday evening, as part of his curated dinner series for the lifestyle website. Co-hosting the dinner was Kan ... More >>

South Beach Dining 1991: A Look Back (Part One)

Greg SchneiderLeft to right: Aran Tantana (Thai Toni); Norman Van Aken; Johnny Circharo (Johnny's); Louis Leichter (Lucky's)​"The Beach is a trendy place," says Lee Brian Schrager. "Who knows what will be in vogue next year or even next month?""It's like Cannes and Nice in the Forties," adds Tony ... More >>

SBWFF 2011: Parting Impressions

Lee Klein​Another year, another booze-and-food drenched four day bacchanal. Here are a few last thoughts:Let Them Eat Cake: Flawless. A fantastic party. Hard to imagine this not being the high point of the Festival.BubbleQ: The last dance for this particular event was well orchestrated. There was ... More >>

Dispatches From South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2011

Photo by Jose D. DuranIce sculptors at SoBe Wine & Food Festival's Let Them Eat Cake event. ​It's over. The gluttonous celebration of food known as South Beach Wine & Food Festival is now in the books. History books? Maybe. Cookbooks? Absolutely.Yep, the festival celebrated its 10th annive ... More >>

Miami Book Fair Clueless On Cookbooks

​The food industry is hot hot hot. Chefs are hot hot hot. Restaurants are hot hot hot. Food networks and food festivals and food anythings are hot hot hot. Cookbooks are hot hot hot. Seems as though every chef in the world has written one this year - except for those who are writing one next year. ... More >>

Lee Schrager: South Beach food genius speaks

Sneak Review: Lee Schrager Interview

Lee KleinSchrager at Michael's​This week's Cafe column will contain an interview with Lee Schrager, best known locally as being the man behind the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. In the talk we discuss the upcoming SBWFF as well as the new SBWFF cookbook, which Schrager will be discussing in ... More >>

Blog Watch: Fabada, Cupcakes and Flat Stanley

​The latest from the South Florida food blogosphere ...A cupcake order goes bad for ... And the Eggs.Redland Rambles tells us about the opening of the Pinecrest Gardens Market.The Chowfather has Sol Kitchen cater his NFL Sunday.Jeff Eats visits Buena Vista Deli. The Burger Beast reminds us th ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival Tickets on Sale October 25

​Get your wallets ready! Tickets for the 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale Monday, October 25.The festival, which takes place February 24 to 27, 2011, will be celebrating 10 years. Ten years since Lee Schrager took over the one-day wine festival that started at FIU, moved it to ... More >>

Behind Restaurant Tweets, Part Two

​Since it opened in Midtown Miami, Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill has been well known in the local "twitterverse" for its interaction with followers and diners. Responses are so immediate and personalized you have to wonder if someone's hiding somewhere in the restaurant monitoring it all. No on ... More >>

Lee Brian Schrager Talks South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2010, His New Book, and Millions of Dollars

Jacob KatelLee Brian Schrager working at his desk at the world headquarters of Southern Wine & Spirits of America.​ Lee Brian Schrager is the South Beach Wine and Food Festival's driving force. Almost ten years into its existence he's got a book written (manuscript seen above), has expanded it ... More >>

Weekend Blog Watch - Beer, Duck, Seedlings, Shots, Pigs, Chavez, and Ag

via pondspider's flickrWho you lookin at?​ October: season of growth and change. Sure, we don't have a typical American autumn, but here it's always fall as long as the coconuts do. Let the recent heatwave suffuse your being with the chaotic energy of the city, and let our food reflect it. We're a ... More >>

Miami Babylon Details SoBe Wine & Food's Lee Schrager's Guilty Past

​Gerald Posner has a new book out called Miami Babylon. In it, he details Lee Schrager's having pled guilty to insurance fraud. Lee Schrager is the local, socially-networked promotions powerhouse behind the success of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Our paper-product recently profiled Lee ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Lee Schrager, Top Chef, and Bacon Camp

Man wants tacos so bad he's willing to kill for them.....maybe he'll like the ones in prison...if they find him. [Herald]Mayor Daley from Chicago says "I'm moving to Miami, where there are no taxes on food and no state income tax." [ChicagoTribune]Lee Schrager talks about getting asked to unclog toi ... More >>

Lee Brian Schrager knows show biz and the South Beach Wine & Food Fest

Weekend Blog Watch

Jacob KatelActual kitchen picture. Read full blog to see the original imageShort Order respects our contemporaries in the blogosphere for their perspectives, photos, reviews and everything they bring to the table. Here's what's been going on.Lee Schrager goes out to eat 10 million times a week.Grape ... More >>

Petit Rouge French Bistro

image via ralphunden's flickr Petit Rouge is a French Bistro in North Miami headed up by Chef Neal Cooper. Lee Schrager, founder of the South Beach Food and Wine Festival recently tweeted during a dinner there "Lee_Schrager: Enjoying my dinner in Miami at Petit Rouge. Best profiterols I've eve ... More >>

Recession Be Damned!

Eat, drink, and spend at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

Bourgeois Binge

The gastronomic caravan known as the South Beach Wine & Food Festival has pulled into town

The No Show Chef

What fun would a festival be if top international chefs like Gordon Ramsay behaved themselves?

Miamian Beauty

Naked breasts and rose petals in the name of WTC relief

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Self-love, self-loathing, it's all pretty much the same thing in clubs. Paragon, the seven smoky circles of hell at three a.m., and it's like a Homo High production of West Side

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