Short of Rick Bayless opening up shop in Miami, Talavera enters the local restaurant scene to fill a much needed void, authentic Mexican cuisine. In the capable hands of Mexican-born Executive Chef/Owner (and Chile Master, as far as we’re concerned) Oscar Del Rivero, Owner Eduardo Durazo, and Partner Martin Moreno,…
Although he calls Miami his home, we don’t often hear much about what Chef Douglas Rodriguez is up to locally. Sure, he still owns and operates OLA in the Sanctuary Hotel (among other restaurants in Philadelphia and New York City,) but you probably saw him most recently on the boob…
Being shown the door by Gordon Ramsay is like facing the martial arts whoopass of Jackie Chan in Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour series, only a bit more brutal.Josh Wahler, a former contestant of Hell’s Kitchen 3 (quite possibly its best season on record,) survived one such exit rather elegantly, and…
Hot dog and mustard? Psychotic chef? A cluster of grapes? Food freaks were out in full force Saturday night as hundreds of thousands converged on Lincoln Road for one of the largest – if not most colorful – Halloween costume pedestrian parade in the country. Patrons piled into sidewalk seating…
Last night in an Upper East Side event space called the Coverings Showroom, Slow Food Miami’s membership met for its annual conference. With a musical booth buffet orchestrated by Chef Kris Wessel of nearby Red Light Little River, the evening was less structured meeting and more pre-Thanksgiving pause. It was…
American mall food court fare leaves some — er, many — things to be desired. But venture across the border or overseas, and as cultures change, so does the fast food game, usually for the better.So when we first heard that young entrepreneurs and husband-wife pair Cesar Olivo and Adriana…
Health care reform may not yet be a slam dunk for the President, but sinking was a theme on the menu at the Democratic Party fundraiser last night at the Fontainebleau Hotel on South Beach.A source present at the affair reports that guests enjoyed a three-course dinner, including tomato and…
Despite the fire that ravaged Barton G’s warehouse on Monday night with millions in props and other non-food-related damages, Barton G. Weiss, the seasoned showman that he is, addressed an impressive crowd of media and industry VIPs Wednesday night in a pre-launch event for his new Adrienne Arsht Center restaurant,…
Forget everything you expect from and dislike about Chinese takeout. If you’re having trouble, let us shed some light… Greasy, saucy, gloopy, wilted, and one-note flavor. Now imagine a menu with light options like crisp salads, low oil stir fries, noodle soups, finger-licking edamame tossed in a creative selection of…
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 focus, however, was the side show…
A great dinner at Red Light (7700 Biscayne Blvd., Miami; 305-757-7773) the other night of “crushed pepper seared sea scallops, roasted corn spoon bread and spicy orange drip” inspired this home-cooked riff. Zesty lemon and lime-marinated sea scallops, giant and plump, meet rich, nutty sweet corn. It comes together fast…
Everyone’s buzzing on bacon. Drinkable (like in the case of “Bakon” vodka) and munchable, is there ever an occasion when getting some belly in your belly is not ok?My Achilles’ heel is particularly, and often, pierced in Hedy Goldsmith’s pastry station at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, where fatty slabs…
Gulas sound like something you’d more likely find lurking in your neighborhood on Halloween than on your dinner plate. But last night at Xixon, the Coral Way Spanish tapas restaurant with a New Times Best Of to its name, that’s exactly where they were — swimming in a boiling cauldron…
Bogus Beef: Miami restaurants say it’s Kobe, but it’s really American Wagyu
Keep it simple, stupid. Words to live by when it comes to food, especially the classic lunch combo of a soup and sandwich. This pair of places answers the question “What should I have for lunch?”, serving up bread with fix-ins and blends in bowls in their finest forms. Try…
Inspired by the Late Summer Vegetable Salad dish recently devoured at Sra. Martinez, (soon to be named one of Esquire magazine’s 20 best restaurants of 2009,) we whipped up this tasty take in about an hour. Suffice to say that mere minutes after that hour, a crumb and a puddle…
Twenty-five dollar hot dogs? $30 hamburgers? That’s what Prime 112 charges for what it calls Kobe beef.The problem is, the high buck meat isn’t always what is advertised. It’s not the product of cattle raised in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan that in some cases drink beer and receive sake…
During a complimentary press dinner Tuesday night at Solea, we were treated to a dip in humidity and a pistachio semifreddo that signaled talent was making pastries in the W South Beach Hotel kitchen. The man behind this cooling and creamy lime green mound, topped with olive oil ice cream…
Welcome to October, y’all. New fall menu items are rolling out today at Michelle Bernstein’s South Florida restaurants. Suckers that we are for nostalgia, it was time to relish some last bites of summer at Sra. Martinez last night, including the curtain call for her Miami Spice menu. Favorites included…
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