News Cafe Will Not Be Open 24 Hours A Day August 17 – 19th

Ocean Drive. 8th street. 3 a.m. Need hamburger, fries, cold drink, stat. Your old standby may be News Cafe, but not today suckafish, or tomorrow, or August 19th for that matter.The iconic South Beach restaurant is seeing a renovation to its property that includes a new interior for the restaurant…

Weekend Blog Watch – Stay Hungry

Not a whole lot of activity in the world of local food blogs lately. Guess everybody’s on vacation. Well, not everybody. Here are some recent posts from the local food web.Will Jog For Food talks buffalo wings and hits La Marea for Miami Spice.Miami Dish interviews Chef John Critchley of…

Blood Fusion Plays Tonight at Tom’s In Miami Springs

Blood Fusion are at core a couple of brothers who make music together, but they have a crew of on and off affiliates. They are also members of the YouTube-famous Smokenprofits crew, who recently got an account banned again. Blood Fusion often provide the soundtracks for video projects. Tonight they…

Weekly Wrap Up – The Friday Relativity Theory

Two days from now yesterday will be tomorrow. Think about it. Time is just a matter of perspective. Here’s what you might have missed this week.Lobsternomics 101 explores the bottom line on bottom dwellers in Miami, Cuba, and the world.What’s Rush Limbaugh’s diet got to do with Bill Clinton, the…

Kosher Subway Restaurant Set To Open at North Miami JCC

What do you get when you cross kosher meats, non dairy cheese, and the largest buyer of Florida tomatoes in the world? Kosher Subway, that’s what.According to the Jewish Tribune, Ghazi Faddoul, a Lebanese Christian, opened the first kosher Subway in Cleveland in 2006. Later this month, the Michael-Ann Russel…

Farm Share, Food Charity, Faces Closure Due To County Budget Axe

What happens when a government starves its people? Dade County will find out the hard way if it axes Farm Share from its budget as proposals suggest.Farm Share is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization that provides food directly to at least 6,500 Miami-Dade families a month. They also supply 250…

Half Off Rare Pussy

Like interspecies erotica? Then you’ll love the liger, offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. And Jungle Island has one. His name is Hercules, and he stands 11 feet tall and weighs 900 pounds. (That’s one fat pussy.) There’s also an albino croc, African pygmy goats, and all…

Lil E Interviews Shoehead from Carver Ranches On Da Lighthouse Show

Watch this video for inspiration. Lil E has a show where he records interviews with underground rappers from Lighthouse Studios. It’s called Da Lighthouse Show and in this segment he interviews Shoe aka Shoebox Head a.k.a Shoehead. Shoe is from the south side of Broward County. He talks about how…

Lobsternomics 101: The Lobster Economy From A Seafood Market Perspective

Lobsternomics 101 is a Short Order series delving into lobster economics via voices from the local lobster community. Not the lobsters themselves, but the people who catch, sell, and buy them.Today we introduce you to Steven Torres of Captain’s Tavern Seafood Market, Pinecrest’s best kept secret since 1971. Steven is…

Top Ten Home Remedies Using Food For South Florida Conditions

10. Garlic for a scorpion sting – Sure you city folk probably don’t have scorpion problems, but in rural Dade they do. The sulfur in garlic might neutralize toxins if you get stung. 9. Mango for heat stroke – You been outside lately? It’s scorching hot. Quench your thirst and…

Ra Sushi Introduces “Fins Roll” for Dolfans, But Is It Worth $12?

What’s teal and orange and goes down easy? No, unfortunately we’re not talking about the Dolphins cheerleaders, we’re talking about the new “Fins Roll” at Ra Sushi.It’s an eight-piece spicy lobster roll topped with fresh salmon and avocado, drizzled in spicy mayo sauce and it costs $12. Umm, that’s $1.50…

Patty King’s Gas Station Jamaican Patty

Plastic cube, metal tongs, yellow pies with colored dots. Gas station patties are a South Florida staple. We picked this one up at an Amoco on 34th and Biscayne. It is a Patty King meat pie. Their product is pretty much everywhere and we trust and enjoy it.  Sometimes we…