Don’t beat (up) your own meat — give it all the tender loving care it desires. (That’s steak, perv.) At 1 p.m. Saturday, September 10, Shula’s Steakhouse chef Patrick Lapaire will be at Bloomingdale’s giving a cooking demo, imparting all of his steak-house secrets to keep you from beating your…

Thish ain’t yer daddy’s schpelling bee, schweetheart. This is the Drunk’n Spelling Bee, this Sunday at 10 p.m. at SoBe’s funky and exceedingly well-lubricated Purdy Lounge. Throw your name into the ring and see if you remember anything from third-grade English class. For every word you spell correctly, you must…

You might not be able to pronounce oye, but you probably can pronounce 25 percent off. Beginning last week and lasting through fall, Pinecrest’s OYE Cuban Grill will give any student with a valid ID 25 percent off any menu item, whether to-go or eat-in, plus free Wi-Fi. Who knows,…

Dinner and a show just got a bit more affordable with the launching of Di+Sh, a program that offers 15-percent off dinner at select North Miami Beach restaurants before or after a show at Miami Beach’s Byron Carlyle Theater. Getting your meal deal is easy—though Halloween, just present a ticket…

Forget your vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. During Rosa Mexicano’s 2011 Ice Cream Festival, which ends September 4, we’ll all scream not for boring old ice cream but for newly created flavors such as Mexican corn truffle (huitlacoche, toffee bits, and chocolate); Negro Modelo (beer, salted cajeta, and candied bacon); and…

“Lights Out Miami” isn’t the story of FPL incompetence, it’s a night in October when more than 100 local restaurants will literally turn out the lights and serve a multicourse, wine-paired dinner in the dark. If you don’t feel like waiting until then or for a hurricane to trash the…

If Miami Spice threw any more chef events, we’d have to call it Miami Spice Cabinet. Still, for free cooking tips from some of the area’s best chefs, you can’t beat ’em with a whisk. Coming up at Macy’s in Dadeland Mall on Saturday is chef Edgardo Lopez of Morton’s…

He’s soooo faboolus. That would be fabulous Fabio Viviani, Top Chef season five fave and California chef-restaurateur, who’ll visit Coral Gables’ Miracle Theatre Thursday, August 25, to work all kinds of cheffy miracles on popcorn to be washed down with Prosecco (Italian bubbly) during a screening of the Audrey Hepburn…

North Miami isn’t exactly Piedmont, but for a couple of hours on Thursday, August 25, it will be the next best thing when Total Wine & More holds a seminar and tasting of Italian wines from all over the country, including the superlative Barolo from the Piedmont region. You’ll taste…

Wine, cheese, meats… High school was never like this. One of the few advantages of being all grown up is that now you can attend classes like the ones held by wine maven Henry Barrow, who’ll spend two hours filling your head with info about the wines of the world…

Spend a couple of hours in Italy without being molested by pervy TSA agents or spending 14 hours in an aluminum sausage. Get to SoBe’s De Luca Food & Wine, where this Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m., chef Tracey McIlwain and De Santis Selection Imports will dish and pour…

The heat is on at the Coral Gables Whole Foods Market come Wednesday when the two winners of WF’s Fill the Grill cooking competition go mano-a-mano to see whose cuisine really does reign supreme. Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill chef Timon Balloo and Miami Heat top toque Michael Jacobs will get…

Every serious wine drinker loves a generous pour, so you might want to be showing a little love to Capital Grille, which from now through September 4 is hosting something called the Generous Pour Wine Event. What that means in your glass is the chance to taste nine boutique and…

If you think cooking is a tough business, try boxing. Former WBA light-heavyweight champ and chef-restaurateur Marc Randazzo won’t serve you a knuckle sandwich at the Coral Gables Whole Foods Market on Thursday. But he will cook up the hearty, soul-satisfying Southern Italian cuisine that’s made his Randazzo’s Little Italy…

Wave the flag and eat well at Coral Gables’ cozy Angelique Euro Café, where from Tuesday, July 5, to Thursday, July 21, they’ll be offering a two-course dinner for $17.76 in honor of American and French independence days. Apps include gruyere gougeres and vichyssoise, while among the featured entrees will…

The wines of Domaine Faiveley, the almost 200-year-old Burgundy vintner now in it sixth generation of family ownership, will be paired and poured with a four-course dinner prepared by chef Jarrod Verbiak at Miami’s smokin’ hot DB Bistro Moderne. Reception begins on Tuesday, with diner commencing a half-hour later. DB…

If you and your honey ever spent an evening whispering sweet nothings over a brace of stone crab claws while taking in the Miami skyline across a shimmering Biscayne Bay from your table at the Rusty Pelican, the final chance to see the old girl as you remember her (the…

Four hundred wines. Fifteen countries. Two days. That’s the deal at this year’s Florida International Wine Challenge, where a panel of wine-swilling judges will pass out medals and you can pass out too, tasting your way through all of those wines, winners or not, this Friday and Saturday, July 8…

Treat your favorite person to a meal fit for a queen – or king – at the swanky Meat Market on Tuesday. The four-course wine dinner, which kicks off the return of the restaurant’s monthly wine series, features dishes that will impress your date and get you in a good…

At Miami Beach’s De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean, things get happy every weekday at 5 p.m. During the “$5 at 5” happy hour, a selection of mojitos cost only $5. Prefer sangria? Also five bucks a glass during happy hour. Pair those cocktails with tasty tapas. We’re talking patatas bravas,…

Isn’t embracing things of the past the new thing? In Key Biscayne, the Rusty Pelican is rewinding to 1972 – the year it opened – with a “Summer of 1972” menu. Start with your choice of soup or salad and follow with an entrée for, you guessed it, $19.72 (plus…

Those guys over at Beached Miami blog are a creative bunch and they certainly know how to throw a party. To celebrate the launch of Sketchy Miami, an ambitious project that seeks to make a portrait of every person in the Magic City, the duo behind the blog is hosting…