Sean Brasel

Top Five Eats & Drinks This Week: Chefs Storm SoBe, $10 Off Culinary Tour

Another Monday has come and slapped us in the face. This week's caffeinated fantasy includes a bedside espresso machine and beer bongs rigged to dispense chilly cold-brew coladas as we hit the snooze. If coffee is merely the "how" in our our start to the week, we must lean hard on the "why" to get ... More >>

Thanksgiving Recipe: Gouda Tater Tots From Meat Market's Sean Brasel

Thanksgiving is only a week away. Friends and family are making the trek to Miami for a little well-needed sunshine and you're tasked with preparing a fabulous dinner. Don't stress because Short Order's got your back. We've asked Miami's hottest chefs and bartenders for tips and recipes to make your ... More >>

Halloween on Lincoln Road: Where to Eat With Your Ghoul

Though there were a bunch of Halloween parties this past weekend, the big one is on Lincoln Road. We've seen it all -- drag queens in full regalia, space aliens, zombies, slutty nurses, and hairy Hooters girls that look more like Tom Selleck than someone named Bambi. The best way to see this night o ... More >>

Iron Fork: Food, Cocktails, and Two Incredible Battles (Photos)

Thousands of hungry and thirsty people converged upon Grand Central Miami last evening to eat, drink and be merry at New Times' fifth annual Iron Fork.  Over three dozen of Miami's hottest restaurants served up some fine eats while a host of open bars attended to the liquid needs of party goers ... More >>

Miami's Top Ten Dog-Friendly Restaurants

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Miami® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.They're everywhere. Four-legged fur babies are out and a ... More >>

Meat Market Starts Its Cocktail Renaissance With Mixologist John Lermayer

Meat Market's Culinary & Cocktail Dinner with Mixologist John Lermayer Where: Meat Market When: Monday, June 25, 2012 Cost: $65 per person (plus tax and gratuity) Rundown: World-renowned mixologist John Lermayer, who has lived in Miami for the past six years while spearheading cocktail p ... More >>

Schwartz, Carmellini, and Other Chefs Force-Feed Readers With Weak Foie Gras Logic

"Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relati ... More >>

Memorial Day Grilling Tips From Miami's Top Chefs at Edge, Meat Market, Tudor House and More

What's Memorial Day without the barbecue? Millions of us will fire up the charcoal and throw some steaks on the grill, beer in hand, as celebration of the unofficial start of summer (and in remembrance of our troops). But how many of us can successfully navigate our way around the fire pit without r ... More >>

Meat Market's Sunday Supper Mixes Tradition and Style

South Beach has many distinctive qualities, however traditional and affordable are not the first ones that come mind. And generally the carnivorous Lincoln Road hot-spot, Meat Market is neither.But every Sunday, Meat Market dishes out wood grilled, slow roasted slabs of prime rib for $38.Plan on it ... 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 >>

STK Steals New Executive Chef From Meat Market

Photo courtesy of STK Miami/The One GroupSTK's Aaron Taylor. ​STK has finally replaced Ralph Pagano (who left the top toque position in October to take over at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale) with new executive chef Aaron Taylor. He's worked at Pierre's restaurant in Islamorada, and the Keystone Ra ... More >>

Common Threads World Festival (Photos of Big Names!)

All photos by Laine DossMichelle Bernstein with Common Threads students Cireh and Arieile.​Last evening some of Miami's best chefs shared cuisine from around the world at the second annual World Festival Miami to benefit Common Threads.The event at the Cruz Building in Coconut Grove featured great ... More >>

Common Threads Benefit: Exclusive Menu Preview

Michelle Bernstein will host the World Festival to benefit Common Threads​Coconut Grove's Cruz Building (in the old Christabelle's Quarter space) will turn into the United Nations for the second annual World Festival Miami tomorrow, November 15 to benefit Common Threads.Chef Michelle Bernstein wil ... More >>

Area 31, Meat Market, Quattro Gastronomia: Halloween Menus and Drink Specials For Foodies

Area 31The "Formula 31" cocktail.​Okay, so you're unwilling to don a blue wig, feathers or leather, and have zero desire to party big on Halloween. And you're too old to trick or treat. What to do on Monday? Take advantage of the Halloween-themed menu specials at restaurants with other foodies who ... More >>

Meat Market to Open Brickell Location ... or Not

Meat Market in Brickell? Maybe.​Meat Market on Lincoln Road is set to expand to the mainland with a restaurant at the newly announced BrickellHouse ... or is it?Short Order received a press release from BrickellHouse's representatives stating, "Among the earliest retail tenants is Meat Market Stea ... More >>

Wine Dinner Line-Up: DB, The Setai and Meat Market's Last Stand

db Bistro ModerneChef Verbiak's "pressee" of poultry and foie gras.​There seems to be an abundance of wine pairing dinners happening both on and off the beach, providing a glorious opportunity to do a little high-end boozing. Sure, these prix-fixe gatherings can get a little expensive, but since t ... More >>

Area 31 Dinner Benefits Common Threads (Updated)

Foie gras fluff​Chefs E. Michael Reidt of Area 31, Sean Brasel of Meat Market, and Kris Wessel of Red Light are teaming up next week to raise money for Common Threads, an organization that teaches low-income children how to cook and eat healthy.The three chefs will prepare a five-course meal ... More >>

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United Way Miami Wine & Food Festival Kicks Off Tomorrow Night

A juicy buffalo tenderloin with chili-espresso mole butter from Meat Market. ​If you prefer giving back while enjoying the finer things in life, you're in luck. This week the United Way will host its 16th annual Miami Wine & Food Festival, featuring flowing wine and whiskey and tons of fantast ... More >>

12 Top Miami Chefs Who Were Not Too Big To Fail, Part One

Chef Sean Brasel missed with his fatal KISS​Financial institutions are too big to fail. Chefs are not. Almost all of our highly regarded toques have wiped out in spectacular fashion at one point or another in their careers. We present a dozen such flops, in alphabetical order. Young chefs, heed th ... More >>

A Stupid, Fake Event: Battle of the South Beach Steakhouses Chefs

​Firstly, it took place as a way to celebrate Whole Foods Market's 3rd year in Coral Gables. Which begs the question: Who the fuck throws a birthday party for a grocery store? And then there is the awkwardness of the name: Steakhouses Chefs? But worse is that it wasn't a real competition, just a p ... More >>

Sunbox Eleven Winemaker Dinner at Meat Market

Photos by Jacquelynn D. PowersSmoked, pan-seared scallop with coconut "caviar," griddled corn cake and hazelnut pesto. ​Last night, Meat Market hosted a winemaker dinner with Sunbox Eleven, a local winery. While Sunbox Eleven is based in Miami, the boutique company creates small-batch artisan wine ... More >>

A Rub, a Marinade, and an Herb Cure for July 4

Chef Sean Brasel​Meat Market chef/owner Sean Brasel shares his secrets for great rubs, marinades, and cures for home cooks. Among them is a chili-espresso rub: "I've always found that bold spicing can bring out amazing flavors in even the most unexciting cuts of beef," Brasel says. "I use th ... More >>

Feelin' Groovy: Beaujolais Nouveau Luncheon at Au Pied de Cochon

​Another year, another Beaujolais luncheon, another boast that the current crop is the best in years. "You get a vintage like this every century. Last one as good was 1947," insisted winemaker Stéphane Queralt. I didn't want to say this to Stéphane, but in spite of a positive spin on the 2008 vi ... 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 >>

Critchley, Bodini Finalists for New Times' Iron Fork in October

Executive chef and Iron Fork finalist John Critchley of Area 31.​Last night, New Times held the pre-chef challenge for its Iron Fork event at La Cuisine Gourmet in Coral Gables. Four chefs competed: executive chef Maria Manso of the Blue Door at the Delano, executive chef John Critchley of Area 31 ... More >>

Chefs Club Miami & Whole Foods Market: An Unholy Alliance

​"Begun in 2006 as a series of intimate, word-of-mouth chef gatherings at restaurants all across South Florida, Chefs Club Miami -- now boasting a membership of more than 30 of the town's culinary innovators and restaurant industry honchos -- is proud to announce its recent partnership with Whole ... More >>

It's a Mango Tango for Brasel, Hoffmann

Brustman Carrino PR The dynamic duo, muy delicioso at Meat MarketWhat could be sexier than two of Miami's hottest chefs cooking up original dishes for your pure and utterly unadulterated indulgence?  When they do it together, of course.That's what you have to look forward to this Wednesd ... 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 >>

A Cut Above

Climate and clientele meld into one dizzying, effervescently sexy scene.

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 >>

Behind The Line - Meat Market on Lincoln Road - Kitchen Pictures

Chef Sean Brasel from Meat Market on Lincoln Road in South Beach says: "This is a modern steak house to the next level. We've got a crudo bar up front. We get oysters and stone crabs on a daily basis. There's nothing better in the world than 12 oysters and a steak. It gets packed in here, this is ... More >>

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