Miami hip hop group Flow Official has just released a new album, the Architects LP, which features Itagui from Locos Por Juana, Malverde, !Mayday!, and L.M.S. What Up Kid is a song off the new album. The members of Flow Official are Omniscient, Emo, A Priest Classik, and Sic Vic,…
Yes, this post is full of Dolphin pictures, but first:Chef John Critchley has made a strong impact on the local dining scene since joining up with Kimpton Hotel Group to head up all food operations at The Epic Hotel in downtown Miami. Area 31 was recently named an Esquire Magazine…
Saturday night in Hollywood at Quickie’s Burgers & Wings, Miami’s own Burger Beast attempted the restaurant’s signature four-pound burger challenge. The bout was hyped in a Miami Herald Tropical Life cover story on the Beast, his blog, and the new webovision show he’s doing on generation-n.com.The four-pound burger included meat,…
Sunday, New York City, the world; literally hundreds of people will read the newspaper that made newspapers famous.Good thing they have a website.Yesterday’s Sunday Times Magazine, in a pre-preemptive strike on Art Basel madness, featured Miami, our restaurants, hotels, spas, dives, and clubs.Here are their food highlights (as determined by…
Over 20 empty restaurant spaces in the Grove are available for lease, but who will take them? [Grapevine]Frodnesor joins a CSA, picks up first batch of farm-fresh vegetables, and makes something. [FoodForThought]”Just bake and then serve with warm tortillas and refried beans for a super simple dinner, breakfast or brunch.”…
Here’s video of Pitbull’s recent performance in Istanbul, Turkey, where he’s famous, and where he claims he had the album of the year for 2009, “Not 305. Not Miami. Not Dade County. Not none of that shit. Turkey. Pa que sepa. Internacional.”…
Last year, Janine Zeitlin wrote an article for New Times called “Ignored and Cheated: Farm Workers Earn Nada in America’s Greenbean Capital.”Yesterday, South Dade-based Short Order reader Michelle contacted us with her exclusive images from the green bean fields of rural Dade county in the Redlands. Here is the report…
The Wynwood Cafe District is a zoning effort on the part of business leaders, residents, artists, real estaters, and local government to promote foodlife and nightlife in Wynwood by allowing liquor license clusters, and waiving parking requirements. Before the Wynwood Cafe District was founded, liquor licenses had to be a…
If you were driving south on North Miami Avenue around 2:30 p.m. a couple days ago between 14th and 11th Streets you might have seen Short Order eating a sandwich off the trunk of a dirty Toyota Corolla.We were checking out Spuntino Bakery & Catering, and they close around 2…
Cheese may have been discovered accidentally by nomadic Turk tribes in Central Asia when milk stored in a container made from an animal’s stomach turned to curds and whey thanks to the rennet in the guts. Rennet refers to the complex of enzymes that all mammal stomachs produce to digest…
Lizard King Jim Morrison, one of the most influential American rock singers ever, was born in Melbourne, Florida on December 8, 1943.He went to UCLA film school, graduated, and hung out on Venice Beach, where he and Ray Manzarek started The Doors.There’s a famous incident that took place at Dinner…
One time grandma’s dentures got caught in the turkey drumstick she was eating at Thanksgiving dinner. She pointed at me with the drumstick for laughing, the teeth flew off the leg and hit me in the face. I still have the old lady’s bite marks on my forehead. She had…
Here’s video of convicted Cuban beísbol trafficker Juan Ignacio Hernández Nodar landing at Miami International Airport after serving 13 years of a 15-year prison term in Havana. Nodar was caught red handed with immigration papers for Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez and Germán Mesa on August 12, 1996. (Hernandez, brother of…
What’s a four-pound burger to a monster? Nothin’. Who can pick a restaurant up by its fry chimney and shake out all its fast food through the drive thru window and into their mouth? The Burger Beast. Who else do you know that can scare a bull into pushing his…
If you’ve ever heard a lobster’s scream as it’s cooked alive in boiling water or recognize the sound of claws hammering at the plate glass and steel of an oven door then you may have worked in a restaurant kitchen. The last time Short Order saw it happen was at…
Beware! Strange European techno dancing may erupt in the streets of West Palm Beach for Dynamix II at the Respectable Street Cafe on Wednesday, November 25, 2009.According to the YouTube description for the above video, “The Techno Vikings themselves return to our local stomping ground after a well deserved break…
Josh Woodward was arrested in the suspicious death of his girlfriend’s unborn child, a 13 week old fetus. There was talk of a mysterious white powder found in her underwear.According to TMZ, police investigators had cause to believe that the powder may be Misoprostol, which is used to treat gastric…
Say cheese!French cheese ambassador Cecile Delannes is on a Whole Foods America tour giving out samples and educating consumers on behalf of The French Cheese Club, “an association of five family owned French Fromageries specialized in the production of traditional French cheeses.”We ran into Cecile yesterday while researching an unrelated…
Get ready for real homecooked food in Wynwood. Morgan’s Restaurant is a conversion from a house built in the 1930’s that offers two stories worth of direct views into a neighborhood on the rise. Windows face west to North Miami Avenue club The Electric Pickle, North into 29th street and…
They’ve got stank cheese, foreign cheese, mild cheese, and bold cheese, cheese with meat, cheese with friends, and more cheese than you can shake a cheese at. That’s right, The Cheese Course (3451 NE 1st Ave, suite 100) is open in Midtown Miami, right next door to the new Primo…
Christmas music ain’t for everybody. Some people even think it sucks. But, a lot of people like it, even Bob Dylan, who just cut a whole album of Christmas songs.One thing’s for sure, there are plenty of places in South Florida where a guitar-playing, holiday-music strumming, Santa-hat wearing drunk is…
Coffee gum. It sounds like a million dollar idea. Miami’s Gregory Paul Inc. tried to capitalize on it back in 1988 by advertising in the New Times.The company’s ad reads, “Each delicious piece of coffee flavored chewing gum contains caffeine equal to 1/2 a cup of coffee. Now you can…
