Jackie SayetThe Oriental Ceviche battle: La Cofradia (top,) Jaguar (bottom)They're taking over Miami, one lime-cured corvina morsel at a time. You know what I'm referring to... The dish of the moment is ceviche! We are a town obsessed with piles of lipsmacking, citrus-cured seafood goodness. Even if a restaurant isn't traditional Peruvian, they've got at least one ceviche on the menu - even the Cuban cafes (rather unsuccessfully!) are getting into the act! So we wee
Jacob KatelScallop On The Half Shell @ BLT SteakThis week marks the release of the Miami New Times Best Of Miami 2009. Thanks to the powers of the global information super highway you can actually leave your opinion in the form of a comment on each and every entry. Short Order encourages any and all feedback, humor a plus. Here's what you may have missed this week:Ask Travis Bickle about a real rain gonna come. Monday brought you a sink or swim report for South Beach.Chef Cindy Hutson and Chef D
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"Country Cobb" at Giardino Gourmet Salads
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"Florida Sunshine Cobb" at Salad CreationsCue the workforce lunch crowd. All together now... "Hallelujah!" Miami has finally gotten its fair share of salad mixing chains, transforming noon-time question marks into exclamation points. For this installment of Plato Royal, we thought we'd take on interpretations of the Cobb salad from a pair of major franchise players in town.
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But will you work for a job, wash for soap, cut hair for scissors, or just smoke for weed?
From the strip mall outposts of our suburban wastelands to the grimy corners in the heart of the city, our fast-food bread lines form their motorized queues and serve our doom 99 cents at a time. While our president shills for Five Guys, real mom-and-pops shut down for good, and master electricians push carts at Home Depot. Things are getting ugly, so a healthy breakfast
Jackie SayetFrom the top: part of the raw bar at The Biltmore Hotel, and at the Four Seasons Hotel Miami​Have you ever had the feeling that you've bitten off more than you can chew? Try sizing up a brunch buffet, and you'll have the metaphor made literal. Die-hard brunchers have it down, and they're a fiercely loyal group with All Clad allegiances. We're talking protective over their preferred turf like "mama bear" wannabe Sarah Palin guards her cubs. For this Plato Royal, which is
Jacob Katel​Verbal exchange of the week: Last night at Taste The Nations charity event at the Ritz Carlton on Key Biscayne, toward the end of the event, 9:43 p.m., I approach Chef Cindy Hutson of Ortanique, she's slidin' off the wine in her drinkin' glass. I mumble something about shooting the kitchen of her restaurant:
Cindy: Do you cook?
Me: No.
Cindy: Bitch, I'mma put you to work.Here's what you may have missed last week:Behind The Line at Mahogany Grille award winning neo-classic soul kitc
Jewel's new album Lullaby​Although Jewel became commercially successful at the age of 19 after releasing her thoughtful, melodic, and grrrly brand of Americana folk Pieces of You in 1997, she had already attained a lifetime of experience to draw from. Since her days hobo-ing around (she carried a knife and would totally cut you) to her angel-of-rock (albeit rock of the softer variety) status, she's released six albums since Pieces, has been n
