Michael Bloise

Little Lotus In Downtown Miami Says Its Under Siege From Vindictive Landlord

Sari Maharani had barely opened the doors to her downtown Miami restaurant Little Lotus when she says her landlord was already trying to find a way to kick her out without just cause. Now the former paralegal of Indonsesian descent is locked in an epic legal fight with Abram Aminov, a millionaire Ru ... More >>

Michael Bloise Joins Area 31 as Executive Sous-Chef

Area 31 executive chef E. Michael Reidt has announced that Michael Bloise has joined his culinary team as executive sous-chef. Reidt and Bloise have a longstanding relationship, forged in 2001 when Bloise worked under Reidt at Wish. Reidt said he handpicked Bloise for the position at Area 31 because ... More >>

Sick People Are Cooking Your Dinner

"Backed into the Corner" is the provocative name of a new research report that found almost nine out of 10 Miami restaurant workers do not receive any paid sick days and that nearly 50 percent of these employees have gone to work sick. An even larger majority -- 63.6 percent -- said they had no acce ... More >>

82. Wagyu Gunkan at SushiSamba Dromo

It's that time of year again when we count down to New Times' Best of Miami 2012 issue in June. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.​82. Wagyu Gunkan at SushiSamba DromoS ... More >>

Despite Fears, Adrienne Grenier Triumphed On Chopped Last Night

​Planning a meal in seconds with limited ingredients, based upon a food mystery in a basket, is no easy feat, even for a seasoned professional.Last night on Chopped, Adrienne Grenier beat out a bunch of guys with more experience, who talked a lot of trash, each claiming with bravado that he was c ... More >>

Nothing Says Holiday Celebration Like a Caipirinha Throwdown

Lesley ElliottAll in favor of decapitation, say "aye." ​When you think of a bunch of the city's top chefs getting together to celebrate the holidays, what do you picture? A whole roasted pig and caipirinhas? No? Well, at Sugarcane in Midtown, Timon Balloo pulled out all the stops Monday evening to ... More >>

SushiSamba offers more Peruvian/Japanese/Brazilian substance than meets the eye

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When Great Chefs Flop: Bloise, Hales, Ruiz, and Others Name Menu Hits & Misses

Photo by Jackie SayetChocolate soup is a big hit at Charlotte Bistro.​A restaurant menu is the blueprint for a chef's imagination, a compilation of creations assembled with the hope that ingredients and descriptions will prove popular with diners. Regardless of the type of restaurant -- from hot d ... More >>

Samba Sinks Competition With "Battleship" Sushi & New Happy Hour

​We previously tweeted with Executive Chef Michael Bloise of Sushi Samba Dromo about his departure from American Noodle Bar, but when we sat down with him to try out Samba's newest menu items, called Gunkan sushi (which translates to "battleship" in Japanese), we just had to ask what it was like t ... More >>

Twitterview Two: Chef Michael Bloise of Sushi Samba

Bloise' bright cuisine now has a space to match.As explained in yesterday's introductory Michael Bloise Twitterview part one, the following "twitterview" is an unedited back and forth between the Sushi Samba chef and me in queries and answers of 140 characters or less.It's sort of like a regular int ... More >>

Miami Spice 2011: The Good, The Great, and The Grudging (Miami Beach)

Does 1500 Degrees deliver on its Miami Spice menu?​Miami Spice 2011 begins in five days. Each year, we like to take a look at the menus being offered and share our take on them. Some restaurants, as most already know, embrace this annual $35, three-course promotion with more enthusiasm than others ... More >>

American Noodle Bar "Closed for Remodel"

Photo by Alexandra Leon​American Noodle Bar, the diminutive restaurant nestled inside a MiMo motel at 6730 Biscayne Blvd., closed last week for remodeling.Chef Stephen Cataldo, who took over after former Wish chef Michael Bloise left in April, has also left the establishment. After hearing of his ... More >>

Chef Marco Ferraro No Longer at Wish

​Will Chef Ferraro wish to stay in Miami? Only time will tell.​We suspected something was up when Chef Marco Ferraro was replaced at Wynwood Kitchen recently (though, truly, we felt the caliber of his food was markedly better at Wish), but it still came as a surprise when an insider told us he h ... More >>

Best Of Miami Teaser: Best New Restaurant

1500° at the Eden Roc The tomato salad at 1500°, made with local burrata.​Next Thursday, our New Times Best of Miami edition will once again name more than 350 of the finest restaurants, hottest clubs, most delightful diversions, and top places to shop till you drop dead as a zombie."The ... More >>

Chefs Against Cancer

Miami's Harper's List of Weird Numbers: From Andalus to McNuggets

Photo by Jacob Katel13 is Philippe Ruiz' number​30 Average number of minutes that Americans spend cooking -- least in the world, according to a report issued last month by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.74 Average number of minutes that Turks spend cooking -- most in the ... More >>

Midtown Is Miami's Best Dining Neighborhood

Coming to midtown...​As Waylon Jennings might have put it, we were looking for Miami's up-and-coming dining scene in all the wrong places. Like, for instance, the Design District. When Michael's Genuine Food & Drink took off, followed by Fratelli Lyon, Michelle Bernstein's Sra. Martinez, and J ... More >>

American Noodle Bar: tasty and affordable

Sneak Review: American Noodle Bar

Michael Bloise, who looks nothing like Franz Kafka​Just a sip from next weeks bowl of restaurant review:As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic pork belly...

Cornucopia Utopia

Food Paradise in Homestead

Snapshots From Last Night's Signature Chefs & Wine Event

Last night's Signature Chefs and Wine Extravaganza at Jungle Island to raise money for the March of Dimes is deserving of some commentary, so without further ado: Photo by Riki AltmanThe award for the most unexpected dish goes to Michael Bloise from American Noodle Bar (ETA early November) for his y ... More >>

Noodle Bars Rise Following Pokemon, Snapple, and Wasabi Everything

Carissa Chesanek​We have been seeing a lot of Asian noodle bars open recently. These trendy little places like Gigi, Sakaya Kitchen and the American Noodle Bar are the latest lust for the Miami area. Michael Bloise, owner and chef of the American Noodle Bar at 6730 Biscayne Blvd, says the increase ... More >>

Michael Bloise, Gonzalo Rivera, Michelle Bernstein Share Hurricane Food Wish Lists

Photo by Jacob KatelGonzalo Rivera, executive chef at La Marea at The Tides.​If Miami had the rotten luck to get hit with a major storm and power was knocked out, what would chefs want in their hurricane pantries? From Michael Bloise, chef/owner of [soon open] American Noodle Bar:Fish sauce. It's ... More >>

Coming Soon: Michael Bloise's American Noodle Bar

​After years of working in high-end restaurants, former Wish chef and South Florida Rising Star, Michael Bloise, is turning to something more casual at his soon-to-open restaurant, American Noodle Bar."I've done upscale food for a while now and I kinda found that the food that I was cooking was sp ... More >>

Dinner in Paradise 2010 Schedule

Jacob KatelA lazy Sunday lunch at Paradise Farms in South Dade.​Dinner in Paradise is a celebration of gourmet farm dining and was created in 2005 by Gabriele Marewski of Paradise Farms and chef Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink.The $165.50 cost of each dinner (there will ... More >>

Interview: Sean Brasel Gets The 10

Sean Brasel​Sean Brasel is the chef/co-owner of Miami Beach's sultry steakhouse known appropriately as Meat Market. The restaurant sits in the space formerly occupied by Jonathan Eismann's Pacific Time [You know it's now in the Design District, right? Yeah. Thought so.] and, seemingly, being there ... More >>

Newcomers and Some Oldies Shine at Iron Fork 2009: Critchley Victorious, Whisk and Others Raise the Bar

Jackie Sayet​The Presidente flowed as Chef John Critchley laid the culinary smackdown on Giancarla Bodoni for the 2009 Iron Fork title. Critchley is on a winning streak, with his seafood-celebrating Area 31 having been recently named one of Esquire magazine's best new restaurants this year.Our foc ... More >>

Sunday In Paradise

The latest monthly installment of Dinner in Paradise takes place this Sunday, February 8th. Set outdoors amidst the picturesque rural setting of Gabrielle Marewski's Paradise Farms in Homestead, an organic, multi-course meal is prepared by a varying set of three top local chefs -- and this upcoming ... More >>

South Beach's Wish Restaurant

Good food at high prices.

New Chef At Wish

Food News Flash: Bloise Leaves Wish

Food News Flash: Bloise Leaves Wish

Paradise Found

Paradise Found

Wishful Shrinking

One of the Beach’s best is just getting by

Michael Vick is NOT Inhumane

Dinner in Paradise Hosts its Best Chefs Yet

Martha and the Mondavis

The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival will be honoring both Martha and the Mondavi winemakers at its annual tribute brunch this Sunday, and the aforementioned honorees are preparing the meal.

Letters from the Issue of August 10, 2006

"The victims will never get justice"

Foie Wars

Force-feeding amounts to either animal farming or grotesque torture, but do our chefs give a duck?

Tin Chefs

The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

New Year's Eve Listings

Still Savory After All These Years

Side Dish

Ceviche masters and the return of Johnny V