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…
The Ritz Carlton South Beach’s DiLido Beach Club (One Lincoln Road) is an oceanfront restaurant that serves food inspired by South Mediterranean and North African cuisine. Top Chef Jeff McInnis runs the kitchen. He is shown above filling up on liquid nitrogen. What could he possibly need that for? Check…
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 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…
Green Garden Organics Inc. supplies all Florida Whole Foods Markets with wheatgrass they grow themselves, certified organically, on their indoor farm in an industrial warehouse in a strip of others like it near Miami International Airport. Louis Duncanson says “I grew my first tray of grass 31 years ago.” Duncanson,…
The Cascata Grille at The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort (19999 West Country Club Drive, Aventura) serves an Italian menu that infuses every dish with ingredients direct from its on site rare fruit and herb garden. Resort Chef Daniel Buss and restaurant chef Devin Broo showed us around and introduced us…
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…
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…
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…
Ever had a termite sandwich? The bread’s hard as wood and when you get done there are insect legs stuck in the cracks between your teeth. Here at Short Order we don’t wanna see that happen to anyone, unless that’s what you ordered. Here’s a roundup of recent violations from…
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…
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…
In light of our current economic turmoil going-green is rooting out the red tape as conscientous local governments realize the benefits of urban farms on public property. Today the AP released a story that details the explosive growth of community agriculture and volunteer farms that is occurring across urban areas…
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…
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…
It used to be that people rented a hotel room, ate dinner, got drunk and screwed. Now that people have gone back to doing that at home, it’s the hotels that are getting screwed.Morgans Hotel Group Co. owns or has an ownership interest in properties around the world including The…
Closing time at a restaurant usually means that servers and bussers have gone home for the night, cooks have cleaned their stations, and the dishwasher is scrubbing pots, spraying mats, sweeping, mopping, and taking out the trash. The dishwasher may well be the only person in the kitchen, and the…
How’s that Chipotle burrito taste? Is there enough possibility of slavery in it? Care for a side of exploitation? Need a little extra sub-poverty wages in that?Strange that Chipotle, a company whose corporate persona is built on their slogan of “food with integrity,” refuses to partner with the Florida farmworkers…
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…
Back in August 1988 South Florida had a pretty good line-up of shows at venues from the Hollywood Sportatorium to the James L. Knight Center to the Kendall Town and Country Mall to the Fontainebleau back up to the Button South.The Dope Jam brought together Eric B and Rakim, Doug…
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…
Did you know that Zephyrhills is a city in Pasco County, Florida? Short Order always thought it was somewhere in Switzerland, where mountain folk make water out of melted snow far away from cars and people. Shoot, Zephyrhills is hardly a stones throw from Tampa. The Zephyrhills Water Corp was…
