Pizza

New Times Best of Miami Readers' Poll Now Open: Who Will Win From the Top Five?

Think Gabriel Orta is Miami's best bartender? Vote for him. Does Andiamo have the best pizza in town? Which is better: Yardbird or Blue Collar for best fried chicken? With our most exciting issue quickly approaching, we at Short Order are gearing up for the epic Best of Miami 2013 Readers' Poll ... More >>

Sosta on Lincoln Road Closes

With all the new pizzerias opening, it looked like Miami would become the new Manhattan, where every street corner sells hot and savory pies in one form or another. Which is why it's surprising to learn that the Lincoln Road pizzeria Sosta Enoteca & Pizzeria quietly closed Sunday, April 21. Read ... More >>

Stanzione 87 Opens in Brickell: We Get a First Bite (Photos)

Vide Napole e'po umore translates to "See Naples and then die." At Stanzione 87, this is the language. If you've been to Naples and had true Neapolitan pizza, you can die happy. Or at least owner Franco Stanzione believes so. The good news for locals is we don't have to go all the way to Naples to e ... More >>

Stanzione 87 to Open in Brickell: Government-Certified Neapolitan Pizza

"It's not just pizza, it's an art," says Franco Stanzione, the ambitious 23-year-old who's opening Miami's first truly "authentic" Neapolitan pizza shop. "It's so easy to mess up. It only takes a minute." That's because the pizza at this soon-to-open place takes only 30 seconds to a minu ... More >>

Pizzarium in Downtown: Almost Like the Pizzarium in Rome

In Rome, in the Prati neighborhood located a short walk from the Vatican, there is a pizza al taglio (pizza by the slice) joint named Pizzarium. The restaurant is tiny, there are no chairs, and there is a ridiculously long line at lunchtime. There are craft beers and a choice of fritti -- all things ... More >>

Lucali in SoBe: Miami's Best Pizza

In a city jammed with outposts of overhyped New York restaurants, Lucali in South Beach is an exception. At the pizzeria on Bay Road, just a few steps from the Pubbelly mecca, pizza-makers wearing white T-shirts roll out doughs with empty wine bottles, cut porcini mushrooms with a mandolin slicer, a ... More >>

Bill Telepan Pop-Up at Harry's Pizzeria

Bill Telepan, chef at the Upper West Side restaurant Telepan in New York City, dedicates his time outside the kitchen to Wellness in the Schools, an organization focused on inspiring nutritious eating and fitness in public schools across the country. You may have seen Telepan, alongside the organiz ... More >>

Thea Pizzeria: Hospital Area's Cafe for Lunch

Thea Pizzeria: Hospital Area's Cafe for Lunch

At Thea Pizzeria and Café, rays of sunlight filter through a floor-to-ceiling glass wall. They warm the petite 38-seat café and illuminate scattered pizzas sprinkled with emerald leaves of baby arugula. Across from the window, a 30-square-foot, 210,000-piece glass mosaic mural made in Italy by lux ... More >>

Harry's Pizzeria To Offer Brunch Starting January 6

Harry's Pizzeria, the casual pizza joint owned by James Beard award-winning chef Michael Schwartz, will be launching a new brunch service starting Sunday, January 6. The brunch menu, spearheaded by chef de cuisine Manny Sulbaran, is short but sweet. It features only six dishes, in addition to weekly ... More >>

Dubfire Talks Deep Dish Retrospective, SCI TEC Label, and Future of EDM

From the mid '90s to the mid noughties, there were few electronic dance music acts as big as Deep Dish. The Washington D.C. power duo of Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi helped lift house music from the underground to the mainstream via glossy pop production value and infectious vocal hook ... More >>

Pizza Rustica: Iconic Miami Pizzeria Signs Leases In Middle East

Pizza Rustica is a Miami original. First opened in South Beach, the popular pizzeria made a name for itself with large rectangular slices packed with toppings. Success spawned expansion to 20 locations worldwide, and now under a master franchise agreement, Pizza Rustica has signed its first two leas ... More >>

Thea Pizzeria Brings Affordable Charcuterie and Espresso Granitas to a Spot Near Overtown

Thea Pizzeria has quietly been trying to get into the swing of things before going on a full-fledged frenzy to promote its new digs. Owned by former partner of Joey's in Wynwood, Thea Goldman, the quaint space in Overtown offers a simple menu of affordable, Italian-inspired café cuisine. You can ... More >>

Harry's Pizzeria: My Favorite Miami Restaurant

"What's your favorite restaurant?" That question, recently batted around at our weekly editorial meeting, got us all thinking. If we had to choose one favorite at gunpoint, what would that restaurant be, and why? Each week, a different Short Order blogger will celebrate his or her favorite eatery -- ... More >>

Pizzarium Brings the Roman Art of Pizza to Downtown

Italians know their way around a pizza. Hundreds of years before the first NYC pizzeria was hocking slices to harried commuters, Italy's poor were eating it in the streets. In fact the citizens of this European country are so serious about the craft that they have their own authority on all things p ... More >>

Kings County Pizza Sells Da Real Brooklyn Slice

Brooklyn is located in Kings County, New York, and Kings County Pizza is located in North Miami Beach. The small slice of a restaurant is owned by a couple with roots in Queens and Long Island, but the pizza is touted as "Brooklyn's Finest." I'm not sure I'd go that far, but Kings' certainly serves ... More >>

Human Fingertip Discovered in Florida Man's Salad

Here's another reason why you should never order a salad from a pizza place: a Florida man claims that he discovered an employee's fingertip in his salad at a downtown St. Petersburg pizza joint. The kicker: he only discovered it after it had already been in his mouth.

Free Tickets: Harry's Pizzeria Hosts Greenhouse Pizzeria Pop-Up UPDATED

​Michael Schwartz is hosting another popup at Harry's Pizzeria. The fourth dinner, in what is turning out to be a much-celebrated series in Miami, features Cleveland's Jonathon Sawyer taking over the restaurant for a one-night-only meal Wednesday, April 4.Sawyer, Food & Wine Magazine's 2010 Be ... More >>

Free Tickets: Harry's Pizzeria Hosting James Beard Winner Marc Vetri Pop-Up (Updated)

​We're not sure if Michael Schwartz is having more fun as chef or host at Harry's Pizzeria, but we say whatever makes him happy, makes us very happy (and hungry).As an early kick-off to the parties and festivities of the 2012 South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Harry's Pizzeria is hosting anothe ... More >>

Pucci's Pizza Under a Buck in SoBe

​Tommy Pooch is hell-bent on digging Miami out from its economic woes -- one slice at a time.The pizza mogul/restaurateur has announced a new recession-busting menu at his Pucci's Pizza South Beach location. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day, Cheese slices, spinach rolls, sausage rolls, and even a ... More >>

Lil' Anthony's Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria Closing Friday

​Lil' Anthony's Restaurant and Pizzeria, the pizza staple for Miami lawyers, judges and police known for its Italian menu of pizzas, sandwiches is closing for good. Its last day is Friday.Strategically-placed across the street from the Stephen P. Clark Government Center and one block from the Miam ... More >>

Miami's Best Pizza: Joey's, Fratelli la Bufala, and Rack's

Lee KleinRack's puffy crust makes the grade.​I am not one of those New Yorkers who go on and on about how you can't find a decent slice of pizza in this town, and how the pies they serve here would be banned from the borough of Brooklyn, and how they are so very very disgraceful that they might ev ... More >>

Michael Schwartz to Take Over Restaurant at the Raleigh Hotel

Photo by Ben FinkMichael Schwartz to take over F&B operations at the Raleigh Hotel.​The Raleigh Hotel has confirmed that Michael Schwartz is on board to create a new restaurant concept for the iconic South Beach hotel.In addition, Schwartz will oversee all food and beverage operations at the p ... More >>

Best of Miami: Food & Drinks

Sarah Palin and Donald Trump's Summit: Goose Liver and Lilly White Pizza

New York Post Trump and Palin: taking cheesy politics to a whole new level.​During a New York City stop along her bus tour, Sarah Palin met with Donald Trump in what could be deemed either reality show heaven or political reality hell. During the meeting, they chowed down at Famous Famigli ... More >>

Jonathan Eismann Shares His Secrets

Photo by Riki AltmanChef Eismann takes quality control seriously.​Last week we told you about the pizza-making classes chef Jonathan Eismann hosts at Spartico (Have you signed up yet?), but now we'll delve a little deeper, both into the chef's personal story and his pizza-making background.Let's f ... More >>

Sosta Satisfies Both Regular and Junk Foodies

Photo via mango&lime​If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here's a taste of what you're missing. Click here to subscribe.You're a person of food who thinks a slab of lush, buttery foie gras on fresh-baked brioche is one of mankind's finest achievements. Your ... More >>

So Long, Pizza Volante

We'll miss seeing this little guy parked on N. Miami Avenue​Pizza Volante, what was left of Jonathan Eismann's mini-restaurant empire in the Design District, has shut its doors. Less than two years after opening, the small pizza place on North Miami Avenue followed the fate of its siblings, Pacifi ... More >>

Pizza, Bagel Joints Feud Over Holy H2O

Lee KleinOriginaly Brooklyn Water Bagel Company coming to Miami Beach​Water is at the center of a legal food fight between a Delray bagel shop and a Lake Worth pizzeria. But it's not South Florida water that heating up. It's the New York tap H2O that does miracles for pizza and bagel dough. Or so ... More >>

Miami's Best Pizza? Time for a Name Change.

​Miami's Best Pizza, a 40-year mainstay on South Dixie Highway near University of Miami, is always packed. There're children with noses smudged up against a glass partition watching cooks spin dough in the air, children playing on video game machines that line the walls, children huddled by their ... More >>

Fratelli La Bufala Celebrates Five Years on South Beach

Courtesy of Fratelli La Bufala​The dream of three brothers from Italy has turned into an international brand serving Italian food, namely pizzas, that only use fresh and natural ingredients, including cheeses, imported from the motherland. Because of FDA restrictions, the buffalo meat used cannot ... More >>

Competitive eating, pickle style

John Selway Talks Musical Experimentation and His Eclectic Side Projects

​NYC-based DJ, producer, label owner, and all-around renaissance man John Selway is easily the hardest-working dude in electronic dance music. Ground-breaking and career-making accolades like having co-produced the 1992 debut release by house superstars Deep Dish hardly begin to define Selway's ta ... More >>

Miami's Vegan Pizza Options Are Limited

​The coolest thing I heard this week is that Bill Clinton is now eating a mainly vegan diet. Not only that but he's doing it right -- vegan protein shakes in the morning and a eating well-balanced, colorful range of foods. You go, Bill, the whole vegan community is rooting for you.The second best ... More >>

City Life Readers' Poll Winners

Dubfire

Another Solo Spin by Dubfire, This Time at Mansion on April 24

via myspace.com/djdubfireIt seems like the guys of Deep Dish are spending more time apart than together now, but the musical results as they diverge are more and more interesting. The clear maverick of the duo made up of Sharam and Dubfire, is the latter. Born Ali Shirazinia, the Iranian-American gr ... More >>

Of Luna and Lunatics

Gun on a plate? THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!!​My post last week about Luna PIzza's opening party and the entertainment provided by students from The Miami Charter School generated quite a strong reaction. I think crazy strong. Here is, in its entirety (I've added CAPS to a few words I think might have been ... More >>

Tarry at Mai Tardi in the Design District

Casale in Miami Beach is a pizzeria with hearth!

Another Huge DJ Booking For Broward: Sharam at Gryphon This Saturday

via myspace.com/sharam​Sharam Tayebi - known to the dance community as just Sharam, for short - first made a name as half of the progressive house duo Deep Dish. As an individual producer, though, Sharam's style has sort of been the yang to partner Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia's ying. While the Dubfir ... More >>

Home and Abroad: Jonathan Eismann Dishes on Steel Drum Squid, White Russians and Spaghetti

Jonathan Eismann, Chef/Owner Pacific Time and Pizza VolanteBest Squid in Ho Chi Minh City, cooked over a fire in a old steel drum in the street, Best Pork Chops in history there, too.  Saigon Killer Pork Chops!Best Chinese and Dim Sum at a place right next to the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok.B ... More >>

Plato Royal: Casale Pizzeria Mozzarella Bar vs. Pizza Volante

Jackie SayetTop to bottom: Margherita at Casale, Margherita at Volante Do you sometimes feel like you live in Pizzami? Well, if you've been following the munchings and musings of local food bloggers and Twitterites lately, it's hard not to. But I can't blame 'em.  There's been a flood -- er, fi ... More >>

Nic Fanciulli

Burgers and Pies

Primo Pizza and Fatburger cater to late-night snackers on the Beach.

Marinara Masters

Good and cheap Italian food in SoBe — imagine that

Viva Italia!

Hoagie Home

Revisiting the classic mega sandwich

Slice of Apple Life

Is it truly New York pizza? Who cares, it's truly good.

The Staple of Naples

Blú: La Pizzeria del Sole