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Recession Be Damned!

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

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

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

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?

You Wish!

Online, there's a virtual culinary gift for everyone

Miamian Beauty

Naked breasts and rose petals in the name of WTC relief

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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

Letters

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

Swelter

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

Swelter

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

Swelter

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

Swelter

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

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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Forge Unveils Its New Façade

Photo by Jacquelynn D. PowersShareef Malnik and Michael Gongora at The Forge's unveiling. ​Last night, The Forge officially announced their opening with a low-key, streetside event with friends, media and City of Miami Beach officials in attendance. Forge owner Shareef Malnik was presented with a ... 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 >>

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 >>

Lee Schrager: South Beach food genius speaks

​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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>