This past Saturday, high above the city, in the penthouse of a Midtown condo, thirty or so South Florida foodies got together to eat at the whims of Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog.The Cobaya Gourmet Guinea Pigs are a web enabled network of adventurous eaters who are looking for unconventional fare not…
Is it really 52 degrees out right now? That’s damn near freezing. What’s next, snowballs on South Beach, ice chains on the Turnpike, county workers salting down US1, sledding down Mount Trashmore, ice skating in Kendale Lakes? Cold weather’s for the birds, and our streets are already starting to flood…
Here’s a quick video we shot of the world famous Pointer Sisters at last night’s opening party for Prelude, Barton G’s new restaurant at the Arsht.The Pointer Sisters have sold a lot of records for songs like “Slow Hand,” “How Long (Betcha Got a Chick on the Side),” and of…
Barton G, ringmaster, restaurateur, attention getter, giraffer? Yes. He said he would do it and he produced. What hundreds of pound of free food, hundreds of bottles of free drinks, a concert stage with a great opening band and the Pointer Sisters headlining cannot do, a giraffe on Biscayne Boulevard…
What’s a Design District exhibition space got to do with liquid nitrogen aided cooking?Everybody has to eat; especially starving artists, moreso ones with money. Food is universal.Last night, Chef Jeff McInnis from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach held a cooking demo and Q&A at Locust Projects…
Fourteenth Street is the Janis Joplin of Downtown. She came into some money, her legs are wide open, everybody’s welcome, and she’s down to party. Here’s a new notch in her belt. DRB Miami (255 NE 14th Street, between NE Second and Biscayne) is a bar and restaurant that just opened…
Like beef? We do. So stop by next week — we’re gonna try to buy us some. Here’s what you might have missed over the last week. From the people who made Jaguar a cash cow, Talavera, now open. Two Chefs, still impressing critics after all these years. $7 Dirty Martini at…
Suck an egg daily metro!This week’s Miami Herald food & wine calendar presents factual errors regarding Bollywood Nights at Indian Palate.Bollywood Nights at Indian Palate goes down Thursday, October 29 at 2120 Salzedo Street in Coral Gables; not tonight, as the Herald reports.That’s according to Chef/Owner Jay Mariadoss who said,…
Cameroon is a country partially on the West coast of Africa that is bordered by Nigeria. The name of the country originates from the portugese Rio dos Camarões, which sailors, for its abundance of prawns and crayfish, called the Wouri River when they sailed into it in 1472.According to Wikipedia,…
Will there be electric pumpkins, DVDs covered in seed slime, dinosaurs eating pie, or pre-historic creatures making you laugh like they do on celluloid?According to a 20th Century Fox representative, no.But that doesn’t mean it won’t be worth checking out the pumpkin patches at The Little Farm (13401 SW 224…
Web enabled eating is here and a Miami upstart is taking the industry by storm.Fresh Diet Inc. is a gourmet meal delivery company founded on the fair shores of the 305 by a dude named Zalmi Duchman. The company currently operates kitchens and deliveries in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,…
It begins as a slight tingling, develops into a burning sensation, and then erupts with an oozy fervor to match your frustration. No, we’re not talking about your last STD; we’re referring to the ailment known as Nintendo thumb. And if you’re a real gamer, you play until your dried…
Here goes a video of Miami live-band-hip-hop-improvisation group The Cornerstoners playing a party at the 2am Warehouse.The audio is mastered low on this video so you’ll have to turn your speakers up, but the mix is nice, with a great stereo field. Listen with headphones, you’ll be right there with…
Food, Halloween, funny, these are three things we here at Short Order live for. In honor of that we’ve rounded up our Top 10 funny Halloween food and candy videos. Enjoy.10. Space Ghost at the Waffle House – Hey, a superhero’s gotta eat…
A federal judge in Miami ruled that $97 million ordered paid by Dole Food Inc. to 150 Nicaraguan workers who claim to have suffered sterility and other injuries due to pesticide cannot be upheld in the U.S.The injuries allegedly stem from use of dibromochloropropane (DBCP) pesticide on Dole banana farms…
“It was just a massive combination of flame, smoke, and ashes, it was an extraordinary sight to see.” That’s what Donisha Prendergast told the Miami Herald when they interviewed her about the Barton G warehouse fire that she both witnessed and caught on video.The fire occurred at 400 NE 67…
College isn’t all about beer bongs, orgies and smoking like the Everglades. It’s also about learning stuff. Miami-Dade College’s School of Community Education is all about advancing your knowledge. Anybody can sign up, and you don’t need any stupid high school diploma either.Wolfson Campus (300 NE Second Avenue, Miami) has…
America’s Favorite Cities is an annual Travel+Leisure reader’s poll. The 2009 results are in and Miami is ranked number one for hottest people and number 29 (out of 30) for intelligent ones. As far as food and dining goes, we ranked eighth for Big Name Restaurants, sixth for Ethnic Food,…
This week we bring you an event write-up in an old section of the Miami New Times called The Wave. The above promotion is for a 1988 barbecue that served chicken and ribs in memory of a murdered cop, and to benefit the Buoniconti Fund to Cure Paralysis.Detective Cheryl Weiner…
Grill smoke carries barbecue flavors through the air as beer, sauce and music flow freely.Ribfest is coming November 7 and 8 to Homestead Air Reserve Park (Moody Drive and SW 122 Avenue).Local ribbers Huckleberry Hillbilly and Smoke & Spice battle out-of-state touring barbecue teams like Big Boned BBQ in the…
Who is Brad Paisely? He is a country music star with seven recorded studio albums, all of which have gone at least gold.According to Wikipedia, Brad Paisley graduated high school in West Virginia. That’s about as country as it gets, except for the graduating high school part. Paisley is currently…
The Cookie Diet, and the Miami bakery where it’s from, make eating Cookie Diet cookies mainstream. [HealthJackal]Now Hiring seasonal workers at Fisher Island Beach Club private island. [CBS4]2 for 1 drinks, dollar beers, appetizers, and food at The Cove in Doral for live comedy Wednesdays. [MMDnewswire]”Umami tastes aren’t found as…
