Yardbird Southern Table & Bar might be onto something. The restaurant, which features home style Southern cuisine, a lively bar filled with bourbon and beer selections, and hot your chef Jeff McInnis, might just have become the new industry hot spot. We’ve been there only three times since the restaurant…
For months we’ve been watching a mystery restaurant on Florida Avenue in Coconut Grove. The butcher paper on the window gave no indication of what was to be — restaurant or club? Locally owned or another Cheesecake Factory?Yesterday, the paper was gone from the windows and, as if by magic,…
Calling all flour children (pun intended). Get out the tie-dye and love beads for Short Order’s Foodstock: One Night of Peas and Music this Saturday at 6 p.m. at 2100 NW Second Ave. in Miami. Indulge in delights from 30 food trucks and update your hippie-dippy wardrobe with the help…
Just as the rest of the country gets ready for a deep freeze, Florida starts its growing season. To celebrate the fact that while our friends up north are breaking out the down coats while we’re breaking out the vegetables, 1500 Degrees executive chef Paula DaSilva is hosting a five…
Coral Gables is getting to the meat of the matter tomorrow at its inaugural Burgerlicious Festival. The event, held at Fred B. Harnett/Ponce Circle Park, will showcase burgers from over 20 different Gables restaurants including Por Fin, the Local Craft Food & Drink, the Biltmore Hotel, Route 9, Seasons 52,…
Beer. It’s what’s for dinner. And every other time of the day. It’s one of the oldest and most universally loved beverages in the world. Plus, it gives you a buzz.On November 12, come out to the 14th Annual New Times Original Beerfest at Fort Lauderdale’s Esplanade Park and celebrate…
Michael Schwartz’s new 150 Central Park restaurant on Royal Caribbean’s mega-ship Oasis of the Seas opened for dinner this past Saturday. The only catch is that in order to dine at the restaurant, which features fresh produce from Swank Farms, you must buy a week-long voyage with rack rate cabin…
Leave it to Richard Hales to present Miami’s first food truck online deal. Google Deals is offering $10 worth of food from Dim Ssäm à Gogo for only $5. The deal, available on the Google Deals website, can be purchased through tomorrow and the offer is good from November 3,…
Red the Steakhouse chef/partner Peter Vauthy invited Short Order into his kitchen to watch the arrival of about 90 pounds of Wagyu beef. We asked him to explain Wagyu versus Kobe and why we should pay top dollar for the Wagyu experience.Vauthy gets his meat from Lone Mountain Ranch in New Mexico, which has…
Sakaya Kitchen’s downtown restaurant is still being worked on, but owner Richard Hales let Short Order have a sneak peek at the location and, most importantly, the kitchen where Baketress Vanessa Paz is already busy working on items that both surprise and delight.Sakaya Kitchen Downtown, located at 125 SE Third…
The season four premiere of Food Network’s The Next Iron Chef is October 30 at 9 p.m. Alton Brown hosts the weekly chef-on-chef competition.This year’s contestants read like a culinary who’s who, with ten celebrity chefs battling for the title, including Anne Burrell, Michael Chiarello, Elizabeth Falkner, Alex Guarnaschelli, Chuck…
Break out your love beads and appetite because Short Order is bringing you Foodstock: One Night of Peas and Music in the Wynwood Arts District on November 12.Be prepared to rock out to live bands and DJs, shop for vintage clothing and arts and crafts and eat from 30 food…
The Dutch has snared pastry chef Joshua Gripper to head its baking operations in South Beach.Gripper’s long resume includes Michelin two-star restaurant Oustau de Baumanniere, db Bistro Moderne, Butter, Cafe Boulud, and, most recently, Gotham Steak in Miami Beach.Gripper will be charged with creating the Dutch’s desserts and pies, as…
Meat Market on Lincoln Road is set to expand to the mainland with a restaurant at the newly announced BrickellHouse … or is it?Short Order received a press release from BrickellHouse’s representatives stating, “Among the earliest retail tenants is Meat Market Steakhouse, which will debut its first mainland Miami location…
Last week we previewed Miami’s hottest food truck, Aphrodisiac Ice Cream, the truck that features beautiful models on stripper poles selling you frozen treats — because you’re going to need something to cool you off after you see them.We spoke with co-owner Justin Price last week, who told us that…
Halloween is almost here and you have a dilemma. There’s a pumpkin on your doorstep ready to be carved, but what do you do? Sure you can do the standard Jack O’ Lantern, but how boring is that? Why not turn that giant orange gourd into a work of art? …
The first lady has written a cookbook with gardening tips. The 256-page book, American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities, is scheduled to be released April 10 in both print and e-book editions. (Pre-order it at randomhouse.com.)The book is Mrs. Obama’s first. (Her husband, the…
McDonald’s announced it was re-releasing it’s mystery-meat sandwich the McRib at all of its stores through November 14. Immediately, people went wild on Twitter to comment on the sandwich that causes such a devoted frenzy whenever the fast-food giant takes the pork-like sammy out for a spin. In fact, #McRib is…
There are two schools of thought in the eating game.On the one hand, there are the people who want to eat clean and healthfully. Thinking of their bodies as temples, they look for buzzwords like organic, local, and farm-to-table. They want to know how many days of sunshine graced their…
Halloween is next Monday, and with it comes trick-or-treating and candy. Candy, by its very existence, is sweet, delicious, and created solely to make you feel good. So, of course, some genius decided that if you can mold candy into, say, a teddy bear, you can mold it into a…
People strolled through Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Edible Garden Festival this past Saturday and Sunday to be entertained and informed about planting their own gardens.There was something for everyone. Kids got to pick their favorite pumpkin, adults sampled fall beers and ciders, and everyone enjoyed the gardens, which were decorated…
Krispy Kreme is more than a doughnut; it’s an obsession to some people. Don’t believe us? Bring a dozen Krispy Kremes to your office and watch grown men and women turn into sugar junkies as they push each other out of the way in an attempt to nab a warm…
