Hey eaters, guess what, while you’re off in the dining room eating spaghetti at your favorite restaurant there’s a whole universe of drama spinning in the kitchen. An entire Greek tragedy may have played out over your plate as it went out. One great tradition is the kitchen prank. Short…
According to Wikipedia, Debbie Gibson holds the record for “youngest female artist ever to write, produce, and perform on a Billboard # 1 single.” That’s for her song “Foolish Beat,” which is a pretty shitty song.Thanks to a shared producer, Debbie Gibson also sang back ups for legendary hardcore punk…
If locally sourced agricultural products don’t immediately come to mind when you hear Intercontinental Hotel West Miami it’s no surprise to Executive Chef Darren Lee. That’s why he’s working on an experimental menu to integrate locally grown products into the Doral hotel’s repertoire.The hotel recently invited Short Order to their…
This week Archive Diver brings you the ads for three South Beach restaurants as they ran in July 1988. Does anybody remember a joint called The Tropics International in the Edison Hotel at 10th and Ocean? It’s now Mango’s Tropical Cafe. What about a French place called Heritage Cafe in…
Feverish Ice Cream’s founder Felecia Hatcher drives a Scion XB ice cream truck while updating her company twitter as to nightlife events and various other functions where she’ll be serving gourmet flavors, old school classics, and specialty items she procures for the adult ice cream market. Hatcher says “It’s just…
South Beach is full of tourists. Here’s a video depicting the foot traffic between 10 and 11 p.m. last Friday on Lincoln Road Mall at four points between Jefferson and Drexel. The camera spent 15 minutes at each location, with a couple minutes break to record a security guard toss…
New Times contributor, music author, and Prunk TV mastermind Jason Handelsman has taken multimedia to a new level of depravity. Check out his site FilthySouth.com for all his latest new-media work.Here’s what he had to say on his blog about this video. “The song was recorded in December of 2005,…
Short Order introduced you to the Sidewalk Chef, Shashank Agtey, back in May. Since we last spoke, the restaurant he was working at, Crocco’s in Ft. Lauderdale, went out of business. He’s now a private chef for a wealthy family in Broward. He has a cookbook deal in the works,…
Wemerge Magazine is a burgeoning, free, local arts & entertainment magazine. It’s new, and it’s printed on real live glossy paper, made from real dead trees. Take that, stupid internet! Page 1 of issue #5 contains a screed on the virtues of celery and takes up the banner of celery…
Crying about the economy? Want some cheese with that whine? Don’t go looking for it at the artwalk. The days of your bourgeois snack conventions are as dead as Michael Jackson. Food offerings at the July 2009 Wynwwod and Miami Design District second Saturday artwalk were sparse, and limited to…
Short Order’s mousefinger is strong like bull thanks to all the local blogs that keep us clicking. Here are some weekend highlights from around town. Food Of Miami checks out Kafa Cafe in Mid Town, eats with hands. Miami Dish serves up scenes from the Mango Festival, Nice shots. Chowfather’s…
Here’s a video where globally known DJ Mark Knight says that his best gig in America so far was right here in Miami during WMC. What party? Watch the video and find out. He’s playing New York, Vegas and L.A. in August, but no stop in Florida. What an asshole…
File under just another day at the office. Cristina Moguel, general manager of John Martin’s Restaurant and Irish Pub, relates this story of a memorable drunk.”This chick took our toilet seat out of the handicapped stall and ran out with it. She was wasted. I had to chase her out…
Most sharks have to stay moving to stay alive. Short Order is a shark. Here’s what you might have missed last week.Cindy Hutson, chef/owner of Ortanique, loves pizza from a town called Neck Newark.O Bacalhau is no longer offering salt cod 16 different ways. They’re out of business.Find out how…
Miami’s The Cereal Bowl took a college student’s observation that people love customizing their cereal experience and made a global corporation out of it.The company just inked a deal with Global Brands, a Qatar based company, to expand to the Middle East.The Cereal Bowl leveraged the success of its flagship…
Here’s a video of Miami’s own Hemlock playing a song called “Sweet Sweet Music,” and sounding like a disco version of the Allman Brothers. The movie appears to be a shoddy film to digital transfer. Click the HQ button at the bottom of the player to watch it in high…
On July 13th there will be dancing on Calle 8, to French music. That’s because July 13th the Alliance Francaise of Miami is celebrating Bastille Day (historically celebrated the morning of July 14th).Bastille Day is similar to our 4th of July. It is a French national holiday that commemorates the…
Saw this over at the Sun Sentinel food blog, Sup. Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares is looking for diners to eat at the remade Fleming: A Taste of Denmark, across the street from The Falls.If you haven’t seen the show, Gordon Ramsay goes to a failing restaurant, yells a lot, makes…
This post is not about fast food it’s about a food fast. Yesterday, at the YWCA in Overtown, Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones and members of local faith-based, and anti-violence organizations along with community members came together for a press conference in response to a recent Overtown birthday shooting.Pastor Richard P. Dunn…
Alonzo Mourning is to Miami what athleticism is to basketball — what achievement is to schooling or what inspiration is to art. So give thanks that Zo is also a leader and that his former running mate, D-Wade, recognizes a good thing when he sees it. A straight-up tradition at…
Here’s Derick G’s behind the scenes video for the new Pitbull song “Hotel Room Service.” This video is presented in HD. Holy fuck are cameras getting good now. The actual music video is directed by David Rousseau and the location is the Epic Hotel downtown…
The lychee is a fruit native to China that grows well in humid, subtropical climates free of frost. No wonder that a simple drive around Miami-Dade County reveals many “Lychees for Sale” signs at roadside stands, outdoor markets, and grocery stores. Tropical fruit season is here, so now is the…
