Archive Diver: Tavern In The Grove New Times Ad From 1988

Back in 1987 the Tavern In The Grove was established at 3416 Main Highway. Twenty two years later it is still there. How many nights of reckless diversion and mornings of blind consumption have started and ended at the Tavern is anybody’s guess. Damn near guaranteed are plenty of butt…

America’s Most Wanted Recipes in Miami

America’s Most Wanted Recipes takes a simple precept, that people love mass produced corporate formula food, and exploits it. You gotta give credit to author Ron Douglas who has been profiting off our shackles to the chains through his website RecipeSecrets.net since 2003. His previous published works contain copycat recipes…

PPR101 Miami Rap Music Conference and Showcase In Pictures and Video

PPR101 is a rap industry conference and showcase that tours the country giving paying entrants an opportunity to ask questions of music industry professionals from DJ’s to PR experts, to print and web based media representatives. Registered artists also get the opportunity to perform in front of the panel. PPR101…

Fruit Tree Giveaway for Green Miami Campaign

Ever wanted a mango, avocado, lychee, or tamarind tree? Here’s your chance to get one for free. The City of Miami will be giving away 750 fruit trees on Saturday July 25th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at Robert King High Park (7025 West Flagler Street). Experts will be…

Behind The Line at Michy’s in Miami’s Upper Eastside

Chef Michelle Bernstein says “The first place I worked as a cook was Janjo’s in the Grove for Chef Jan Jorgensen. At the end of my shift he’d say ‘here’s half a lime. Go clean the stove.’ I said ‘Can I get a whole lime?’ and he said ‘No. Too…

Weekend Blogwatch – Miami Food Photography Phase II

Food photography is a hell of niche. Plenty of highly paid, professional, top-model type camerafolk can’t shoot so much as a sandwich with 50 gigs and an hour. A lot of us in the food blogosphere are using consumer level point n shoots, and we’re getting to be fuckin’ awesome…

Free Pizza Tonight at Piola in Brickell from 5 – 7 p.m.

According to their website, “Farofa Nation is a design and t-shirt company dedicated to helping the unfortunate and poor kids of Brazil.”They donate 10% of the proceeds from the sale of every t-shirt to TASK Brazil, an organization that saw a  major cash infusion from Led Zeppelin rock icon Jimmy…

Weekly Wrap Up: The Friday Sauce

This week, the cover of our print product depicts hand sewn, plush, homemade Star Wars dolls. On the web front, Short Order wrote a week’s worth of hopefully entertaining, informative, insightful, and humorous posts that had almost nothing to do with the grim realities of life in Miami in the Summer…

Top Ten Ways to Eat a Coconut Now With Coconut Recipes

According to wikipedia “The only states in the U.S. where coconut palms can be grown and reproduced outdoors without irrigation are Hawaii and Florida.” Wether you get yours straight off the tree or on a plate at Red Lobster there’s plenty of ways to consume one. Here are Short Order’s…

G-String Theory

Seriously, guys, there’s more to life than donk Chevys on 30-inch rims. There are also hot girls, muscle cars, custom bikes, and luxury whips with built-in Jacuzzis. This Friday, the people who brought you Car Warz, Sinbad Sports, and Klutch Customs are inviting you and all of their celebrity friends…

South Florida Karaoke King Armando Saenz

Here’s a brand new upload from Armando Saenz’s KaraokeKing youtube channel. This dude is hilarious. Click here for his website, and here goes info on all his weekly live appearances and how to book him for your next party……

Guy Gets Naked On Table In Packed Restaurant For $15,000 Watch

Short Order recently met James, a veteran waiter with more war stories than a hundred year old soldier. Here’s a funny story:”I was working at Capital Grille at the time and this table of guys are eating dinner. One of em’s got on this $15,000 watch, one of those Pierre…

Worst Customer Ever Calls Waitress “Lying Bitch” On Christmas Eve

As part of Short Order’s continued efforts to expose the less glamorous realities of restaurant work, we’ve been asking workers about their lives. Here, Mary Edwards (fake name) from “some restaurant in Miami” (to protect the identities of the innocent) gave us this story about a particularly bad customer: “Christmas Eve…