Pisco

Cecci's Italo-Peruvian in SoBe: Try Lomo Saltado Pizza (Scrumptious Photos)

Before opening Cecci, a small 36-seat eatery on Washington Avenue at 15th Street, Daniela and Octavio Salerno launched a pasta and pizza restaurant 30 minutes outside of Lima, in Chaclacayo. They also operate a traditional Peruvian restaurant in a yacht club on Peru's coast from January through Apri ... More >>

SoBeWFF's Pescado & Pisco: Gastón Acurio Coming to Miami

At least once a year there is a new national cuisine that makes it ways into the larger global culinary scene. Some kind of drift in and quickly fizzle out. Others tend to make a larger impact on food culture for the long term. Peruvian cuisine had been kind of a big deal for a while now and it does ... More >>

10 Sexiest Cocktails in Miami for Valentine's Day

According to an Open Table survey recently published, 51 percent of respondents plan to head out to a restaurant for a romantic Valentine's Dinner.Most every Miami spot is planning a decadent multi-course extravaganza (and we've got a great list of fantastic options). Before you sit down to your mea ... More >>

Super Bowl Watch Parties in Miami

The big game is this Sunday in New Orleans and the Big Easy is filled with fans lining the streets to celebrate Super Bowl XLVII Mardi Gras style.Sure, fans lucky enough to have scored a ticket to the game get to see the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers go head-to-head in person, but the ... More >>

SoBe Wine & Food Fest Tickets Now On Sale For Everyone

Everyone can rejoice! South Beach Wine & Food Festival tickets are now available for everyone who didn't (or couldn't) get in on the Mastercard privy access. Hooray! We peons are now able to choose from the wide variety of events to take place February 21 - 23, 2013. We here at Short Order realize ... More >>

Cypress Hill and Action Bronson Coming to "Get You High" at Grand Central Miami

Y'all ever miss the days when a Jansport full of Phillies, a quarter-pound of Grand Daddy Purp, and a cassette copy of Cypress Hill's Black Sunday was all you needed in life? Us too. Now we're stuck with shit like smartphones and complimentary fast-access Internet inside highway service plazas. Ne ... More >>

Four Best Things to Eat and Drink in Miami This Weekend

Ready for the weekend? It's been a long work week and you deserve some wining and dining. Lucky for you, we have a list of restaurants participating in Miami Spice over the weekend.If you're up to a ladies-only afternoon, on Saturday, there's an event for that, too. And if you're just looking to un ... More >>

Wynwood Kitchen & Bar Adds A Large Dose of Childhood Sazon to the Menu

See also: Wynwood Kitchen & Bar Plays With Porton Pisco Miguel Aguilar grew up eating sopa de frijoles negros and tropical salads -- and now he's out to give others a taste of his Venezuelan childhood by completely reworking the menu at Wynwood Kitchen & Bar. The executive chef's recently a ... More >>

Five Cocktail Trends To Look Out For

If the Tales of the Cocktail conference in New Orleans last week taught me one thing, it's that your liver can take five days of abuse as long as you feed it lots of red beans and rice. (Oh ... coconut water and cat naps work well, too.)Seriously, there was much to learn at Tales of the Cocktail. Wi ... More >>

Fourth of July Star-Spangled Pisco Punch Recipe

If you're looking for a last-minute punch to prepare for July 4th guests, look no further: This Pisco Punch is distinctive, pretty to present, and it refreshes in a light, lemony fashion. Plus this is, after all, Miami, where pisco is particularly popular among our Peruvian populace.

Wynwood Kitchen & Bar Plays With Porton Pisco

Earlier this week, we met with a pisco master distiller from Peru, Johnny Schuler. Schuler is one seriously passionate man when it comes to his pisco. For two hours we talked, drank, and smelled like nothing more than pisco.This was all before 2 p.m., of course.He left us with a bottle of his signat ... More >>

At Jean Paul's House, Peruvian Bistro Fare Comes With a Smile

View a slide show of Jean Paul's House.

Top Five Ceviches in Miami: An Orgasmic Fusion of Flavors

​There was a time in Miami when good ceviche was hard to find. Fortunately, nowadays you can't walk two blocks without discovering the fresh raw fish marinated in lime and/or lemon and spiced with chili peppers, onion, salt, and cilantro, among other things.In Peru, which is most often associated ... More >>

Art Basel Food Guide: Downtown Miami, Wynwood, and Design District (Updated)

​Art Basel is about to capture the minds and imagination of Miami. The self-billed "most prestigious art show in the Americas" showcases work by more than 2,000 artists. Crazy stuff is literally everywhere -- on the sides of buildings, in parks, in tents and galleries, and at the Miami Beach C ... More >>

Friendly Food Fights and Fun at Last Night's Iron Fork

All photos by Laine Doss​View photos from Iron Fork 2011 here.New Times' Fourth Annual Iron Fork at Ice Palace Film Studios in downtown Miami brought more than 1600 people out to eat, drink and enjoy some friendly competition between chefs.The weather couldn't have been more perfect as people sipp ... More >>

Segafredo Pairs Cocktails With People

All photos by Laine DossEach of these models represented a new Segafredo cocktail.​Segafredo L'Originale on South Beach hosted an unusual and lively reception that paired their new collection of cocktails with people. Six drinks were showcased, each represented by a costumed model that personified ... More >>

Johnny Schuler's Passionate About Pisco

​Master Distiller and restaurateur Johnny Schuler is the preacher of pisco.He's dedicated to bringing the fragrant Peruvian spirit to the states. Working hard on a marketing campaign to make his this dream a reality, he's learning how to navigate the different state laws regulating alcohol, about ... More >>

El Gran Inka's Pisco Sour Recipe

Photo by Riki AltmanThis drink's good for you because, uh, it has eggs in it.​Want to celebrate a successful day in the kitchen? After downing some ceviche and your avocado reina with rocoto pepper aioli -- you know, that recipe we shared yesterday?--you will probably be ready for a few sips of a ... More >>

The Eats of San Francisco, Part Two

Lee KleinYesterday we touted the Ferry Terminal Market, Chinatown, chocolates, dungeness crabs, public transportation, and tasty salted pig parts. Today we cover a few more recommendable spots to enjoy.Castro Theater Sing-a-Long"Boo Hitler. Hiss the Countess..." read the promo, and we knew we had to ... More >>

Yelp Throws a Party at Moore Building (and You're Invited)

​Yelp is throwing a party for the public, and it's the best kind of party: Free. The erstwhile bloggers and friends will be whooping it up on Saturday, August 21, from 8:00 until 10:00 p.m. at the very historic and extremely brick Moore Building in the Design District. Noshes are being provided by ... More >>

Slideshow: Gran Sierpe Pisco Bus Tour

Photo by Jipsy​Miami's lack of public transportation makes bar hopping a bit more complicated and sometimes even illegal. So when Gran Sierpe Pisco offers a bus to take a few locals from bar to bar for the purpose of consuming free drinks, we say, where do we sign up? Last night, the bus took pass ... More >>

Gran Sierpe Pisco Punch Recipe

Photo courtesy of Artisan Brands​In keeping with our quest to help quench the desperate thirsts of a sun-soaked Miami populace, we drunkenly -- I mean proudly present this recipe for a sprightly pisco punch. Pisco is a 300-year-old spirit distilled from grapes and hailed as a national drink in Chi ... More >>

Cocktail Culture at Mondrian's Sunset Lounge for the Serious Happy Hour Drinkers

Fresh fruit makes for cool happy hour at Mondrian's Sunset Lounge.​The Place: Sunset Lounge at Mondrian1100 West Ave., Miami Beach 305-514-1500mondriansouthbeach.com The Hours: Thursday and Friday 6-9 p.m. The Deals: "Innovated Classics" cocktail list is $8 (at least half, if not more, what ... More >>

Pisco Bus goes wild in Miami

Mike Torrey, Machu Picchu Photog, Talks Food in Peru

via Mike TorreyGet high in the Andes.​Mike Torrey is a San Diego based architectural photographer with a new book out called "Stone Offerings: Machu Picchu's Terraces of Enlightenment."Mike will be in town for the Miami International Book Fair and will be on a panel with a National Geographic phot ... More >>

Ingrid Hoffmann Gets the 10 Questions

Ingrid Hoffman​Now here's a chef who knows the meaning of caliente. For those of you who may not recognize this hometown girl (which rock have you been living under, huh?), she's the host of Food Network's Simply Delicioso, as well as Galavision/Univision's hit series, Delicioso, and she's authore ... More >>

FatKingBulla Brings the Bulla to the Van Dyke, This Saturday

​From the land of the pisco sour comes a new, and even more intoxicating Peruvian export--FatKingBulla. Okay, perhaps that's a bit of a bold statement. Pisco sours are some strong stuff. Just ask my ex-neighbor about that morning I woke up on his lawn cradling his garden gnome (nothing happened Ge ... More >>

FatKingBulla Brings the Bulla

Does Miami Ceviche Keep Mosquitoes From Biting? Try The Rocoto

image via lacofradia.com Clouds of screaming devil birds rise from their birth-swamps and descend on the flesh of the city to feast on the blood of our people. Mosquitoes suck.I came up with the totally unfounded idea that a good ceviche from Miami will keep them from biting. I started calling Peruv ... More >>

Booze Hound: Jaguar Ceviche Spoon Bar and LatAm Grill

Elyse Wanshel Where the party happens. Typical Groveites (or Grovinians? Grovitines?) wears shorts and flip flops. They always seem to be walking a dog, clutching a plastic cup, and most likely drive a Mini Cooper. Their typical night's itinerary usually includes pigging out on fish tacos at ... More >>

Three Jacks Save The World, Starting With Pisco, Peru

image via myspace.com/thethreejacksonlineJacks Plus Barb & The Breffnis, Dancers on the "Angels With A Mission" Tour of Peru The Three Jacks are an amazing Irish/Celtic/Folk/Rock band, a Dade County Dropkick Murphy's with better musicians. Their singer/guitar player Henk Milne recently met New T ... More >>

Bali Hai Preview with Chefs Oscar del Rivero and Sean Brasel

Jackie Sayet Chef Oscar del Rivero of Jaguar mixing his Peruano ceviche. This Sunday, April 5, will mark the 15th annual Bali Ha'i event, an outdoor soiree of culinary delights from restaurants around Miami to celebrate the Kampong. On Thursday, I set out to get advance tastes of one fish d ... More >>

Miami's Dining Scene Goes Big League

In 2008, our city's gastronomic curve trended sharply upward.

Christine's and New Times Hosts Artisan Brands Pairing Tonight

Tonight, New Times and Christine's Restaurant  are presenting a complimentary tasting and pairing for Artisan Brands, a distributor of small batch, artisan spirits that's just moved into South Florida. Christine's chefs  Bill Bruening and Tom Repetti will be throwing down a spread of passe ... More >>

Under Pressure?

Mellow out with cocktails and ceviche at Jaguar.

Three Jacks Walk into a Bar ...

And the resulting Irish rock act winds up heading to Peru to benefit earthquake victims.

Post-Post Depression Syndrome

Never order an entrée whose description begins with “airline”

Fat Geese for Fat Cats

That foie gras would sure taste good on someone else's dime