Beer of the Week: Lagunitas Hop Stoopid

Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Short Order will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you have…

Destination: Food… Chicharron tacos @ Tacos al Carbon

Each week on Destination: Food, Short Order pays tribute to the restaurants – dives and chichi joints alike – that serve South Florida’s “go-to” meals. These are dishes that you think about when you’re toiling at work; that you still taste in your mouth hours after you’ve finished them; that…

Beer of the Week: Rogue Morimoto Hazelnut

Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Short Order will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you have…

Over the Weekend: Homebrew Fest at BX Beer Depot

It was an afternoon filled with beer, beer, and more beer as Lake Worth’s BX Beer Depot hosted its first Homebrew Fest, an intimate gathering where members of BX’s Lagerhead Brewers Club shared their handcrafted creations with the public. There were nearly a dozen homebrew beers on tap at the…

Beer of the Week: Lakefront Brewery’s New Grist

Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Short Order will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you have…

When Good Meals Go Bad

I fancy myself an intrepid cook, one who strives to try out new ingredients and push my own boundaries on a regular basis. Every so often, I’ll pick some dish I’ve never made before — flour tortillas, berry sabayon, cote du boeuf — and I’ll set out to do it…

Weapon of Choice

Long before it was the norm for comedians to redefine themselves with dramatic roles, Robin Williams was getting crap for it. Some people just couldn’t get over this guy moving them to tears in films such Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, and The Fisher King. Despite a laundry list of stellar…

Whistling Dixie

There are few songs as commanding as “Sweet Georgia Brown.” No matter where you are or who you are, when you hear those mercurial, whistling notes, you are almost insatiably driven to pick up a basketball and roll it over your shoulders from one arm to the other, before popping…

Extended Play

See if this makes you uncomfortable: Picture Andy Griffith — lovable, huggable, grandfatherly Griffith. Next to him is Liz Sheridan — you might remember her as Jerry Seinfeld’s doting mother Helen on the hit series Seinfeld. The two are floating in a sea of plush pillows atop a round bed…

Still Time for Free Pancakes

Just a reminder that today is National Pancake Day, a should-be-sanctioned holiday that is already more important than Presidents’ Day and Arbor Day combined. The International House of Pancakes started doling out free shortstacks this morning at 7, and they’re not stopping until 10 tonight. ‘Course, IHOP hopes that in…

Winners and Losers at the SoBe Wine & Food Fest Grand Tasting Village

Saturday and Sunday marked the South Beach Wine & Food Fest’s premier event, the Grand Tasting Village, which cordoned off a huge strip of South Beach the size of three or four football fields and filled it with hundreds of restaurants, distributors, wine vendors, and wineries, all flinging so much…

Paul and Young Ron Take on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival

Inveterate radio jocks Paul Castronovo and Ron Brewer of Big 105.9 and 97.9 got all up in the SoBe Wine & Food Fest’s businazz this morning, hosting an Iron Chef style cooking challenge live from the Fontainebleau (holy crap, did I spell that correctly?). The pair tested their cooking skills…

Uniquely Miami

Miami-based Tasha and Monica López De Victoria, known as the TM Sisters, have already garnered national acclaim for their eclectic art: 2-D, video, and interactive pieces that wed an indie aesthetic to an almost retro approach to futurism. But with “Ideal Tonight,” the TM Sisters’ first institutional solo show, opening…

Superfans

They serve your food. They sort your mail. They man the ladder trucks. They are your accountants. Your nurses. Your personal trainers. But when they are finished cooking your food and bagging your groceries and driving your children home from school, they become something bigger: a heavily armored stormtrooper, battle…

Free Is the New Black

Only two days after the Super Bowl, Denny’s restaurants gave away a free Grand Slam breakfast to all comers across the nation, going so far as to advertise its intentions during the Big Game. The result: Folks queued up for hours in the longest lines ever to form outside of…

Valentine’s Recap in Pictures

Many of you probably spent a romantic Valentine’s Evening at a fine restaurant, supping on foie gras and fine wine. And that’s all good. But here’s an alternate view of Valentine’s Day – a less expensive option for leaner times. This simple meal of salad, cheeses, good olives, fresh bread,…

Impressions of the Delray Beach Garlic Festival

I decided to spend Valentine’s Day – at least the day part of it – at the Delray Beach Garlic Festival, a weekend-long ode to the clove going down at Old School Square. The fest had a lot going on: there were vendors aplenty, hocking garlic-based sauces, dips, spreads, and…

Office Food Thieves Beware the Anti-Theft Lunch Bag

Daily CandyThe Anti-Theft Lunch Bag, perfect for fooling troglodyte food thieves. Long-time readers of Short Order may remember that the New Times offices weren’t always a safe and happy place. There was a time long ago when terror stalked our cubicles — when unsuspecting men and women fell pray to…

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The words Friday the 13th conjure up images of dudes donning hockey masks and wielding giant machetes to cleave up promiscuous teenagers. This Friday is February 13, and although said promiscuous youths will likely get to keep their nubile limbs intact, there will be dudes running around with hockey masks…

New Website Discovers the Cure For Obesity

meadowlandsparkinglotThe Jabaconageburger with cheese, a cheeseburger topped with sausage and bacon and sandwiched between two Jamaican beef patties. Urg. Food porn is all the rage these days. There are entire sites devoted to the obscene pleasures of voyeuristic foodie-ism, and they’re growing in number each day. Just this week, food…

More Broward Places to Get Your Mexican Fix

John LinnFresh grilled Mahi Mahi finds a home in tacos and burritos at The Whole Enchilada in Fort Lauderdale. According to Gail Shepherd’s Dish column this week, Palm Beach County residents have at least one more joint where they can sate their cravings for authentic Mex (though Ameri-Mex fans should…