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Sunday, June 4, is National Cheese Day, and because cheese makes everything taste better, New Times scoured the Magic City for the best and brightest dishes offering gooey goodness.
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Daniel Serfer's latest eatery, Mignonette Uptown, offers a traditional cruise dinner for less than $40.
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It's been more than two years since Taquiza's Steve Santana got his lava rock grinder going, turning corn into the dough called masa at his South Beach taco spot while ushering in a new wave of places dishing out better versions of tortilla-wrapped meat and vegetables than the city has ever seen.
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The 40th-annual Calle Ocho Festival featured some sizzling dishes, fruity cocktails, and ended with a grand croqueta eating competition with professionally ranked eaters.
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If you're looking for a dish that's sweet, savory, rich, and piquant, look no further than the hallaca. Hallacas are the Venezuelan equivalent of tamales. A smoked banana leaf is filled with a mixture of ingredients to form a filling meal. Cornmeal dough is stuffed with meat, chicken, or pork, but hallacas add European-inspired flavors of capers, olives, and raisins. Also, the ratio of dough to meat differs: Hallacas go all out with filling, whereas tamales have more dough.
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In addition to Indian cuisine, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese specialties appear on the menu at Jaya. The new restaurant’s name pays homage to the Setai’s award-winning Indonesian designer, Jaya Ibrahim, who died suddenly several months before the eatery’s opening. Jaya also means “victory” in Sanskrit.
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