If you’ve never visited our restaurant database we have hundreds and hundreds of listings with addresses, telephone numbers, websites and other info for restaurants all over Dade County.From time to time Short Order uses that information to conduct random surveys. We recently asked a few joints about the cheapest things…
This week in 1988 Blue Oyster Cult came to South Florida and played a show at Summer’s in Fort Lauderdale. According to people who like telling stories, at some point in the history of the club New York hardcore band Murphy’s Law played a show there. Some kid let off…
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…
Ok, so Padma Lakshi isn’t really the owner and head chef of a failing Miami restaurant, but according to a snarkotrafficking television blog she does have a development deal for a half hour comedy from a major network. Our headline is one of five suggestions the tv blog has for…
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 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…
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…
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…
B & M Market has been open at 219 NE 79th street since 1980. According to Nafeeza Ali, it is one of the first and longest running West Indian grocery stores in Miami. In 1990 Nafeeza and her husband Sheir bought the place from her uncle. They’ve been selling authentic…
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…
DJ R&R “The Visual Sinister” brings you this video via his Gas Face Films production company. The track is produced by Hala-X and performed by “The Apex,” UB the Underboss.Log on to GasFaceFilms.com for more info and “real political hip-hop.”…
Short Order’s giving away 15 pairs of tickets to the International Bullriding Challenge at the Davie Rodeo Grounds (4271 Davie Road) so that you can sample all the best in American fair foods, Brazilian churrasco and beer, glorious beer, all without paying the $15 admission fee. The event is billed…
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…
Burton Dale is a frequent and insightful commenter and Short Order so I emailed him some questions. Check out this awesome story, the first in a series.”What is my experience with organic foods? I worked as a chemist for Space Science Services that used to be in Philips Park in…
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…
In this video, CNN’s Larry King interviews James Brown and they talk about Henry Stone, the man who made Miami a global musical force. Stone was the first person to sign James Brown, and among the first people to record Ray Charles. As a major distributor of black music in…
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…
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…
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……
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…
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…
