Tickets for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale today.If you attended last year’s event you might recall Anthony Bourdain’s Wheel of Death, Paula Deen riding Robert Irvine, or Guy Fieri making pizzas for one thousand of his closest friends. Relive these moments and make new memories…
Philippe by Philippe Chow, which closed at the Gansevoort Hotel in July, will reopen at 36-40 Ocean Drive on November 16.The 6,000-square-foot space will feature an open kitchen complete with hanging Peking ducks, private wine room for 35 guests, and a U shaped bar. But what feature will have diners…
B.C. Tacos defeated Jefe’s Original Fish Taco and Burger in last night’s Fighting Food Trucks Taco Tangle at Miami New Times’ fourth annual Iron Fork at Ice Palace Film Studios in Wynwood.The tangle pitted Jefe’s Jack Garabedian against B.C. Taco’s Bret and Rick Chiavari in a battle royale hosted and moderated by…
View photos from Iron Fork 2011 here.New Times’ fourth annual Iron Fork at Ice Palace Film Studios in Wynwood brought more than 1,600 people out to eat, drink, and enjoy some friendly competition between chefs.The weather couldn’t have been more perfect as attendees sipped Bacardi rum cocktails and Guinness stout,…
Recently, Short Order was invited to sample the food and farms of Jamaica. In this three-part report, we shared a visit to several farms and the Bob Marley museum. If you missed the first two parts, you can read them here and here. In our last installment, we’re going to…
Girls Gone Wild, the series and website devoted to showing wholesome college co-eds drunkenly stripping and making out with each other is coming to Miami Beach to film..and if you’ve got some mad bartending skills, you can be part of the action. If, however, you’re a drunk co-ed willing to…
We’re kicking ourselves for not thinking of this first: an ice-cream truck filled with hot chicks. Yes, it sounds like the makings of one of those coming-of-age movies starring models and pubescent boys, but this is real. And it’s here in Miami, complete with stripper poles and girls in your…
Here’s an exclusive photo of chef Andrew Carmellini on Today set. Earlier this morning, Carmellini showed Al Roker how to make cider glazed pork with wild rice and quinoa pilaf. Carmellini’s secret for the pilaf? Add dried cranberries soaked in Earl Grey tea and whiskey. Here at Short Order we…
Bagatelle, the pretty little Key West restaurant on the 100 block of Duval Street has been in the news twice this week, and it’s only Wednesday. So do you want the good news or the bad news?OK, good news first:The Florida Keys Keynoter reported the happy news that Jack Terry,…
If you’re a fan of growing (legal) herbs in your backyard or you want to start, check out Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Edible Garden Festival this weekend.The garden will open its gates on Saturday and Sunday to amateur gardeners with ongoing lectures and cooking and gardening demonstrations.Don’t think that the…
The nomination process is open for the 2012 James Beard Awards and everyone, including non-members can vote for their favorites. There are 21 categories, including Best Chef: South (which includes Florida), Outstanding Pastry Chef, Outstanding Bar Program, and Outstanding Wine Program.Registration is required to nominate a chef or restaurant in…
Short Order was recently invited to tour Jamaica, where we visited parts of the island not usually on the tourist radar. Yesterday, we shared our experience on a coffee plantation in the Blue Mountains. Today, we’ll visit a few farms and the Bob Marley Museum (where we found quite an…
New Times’ Fourth Annual Iron Fork is this Thursday at Ice Palace Film Studios in downtown Miami from 7 to 10 p.m., so we gotta ask — are you prepared for the awesomeness of watching chefs do battle in head-to-head competition?Have you trained to get your stamina up so that…
Andrew Carmellini has a lot on his plate, so to speak. In between trips to Miami to oversee the build-out of his SoBe outpost of The Dutch and visit local farms like Teena’s Pride and Paradise Farms, Carmellini is going on Today to plug his cookbook, American Flavor.The 336-page book,…
White Castle obsessed Harold and Kumar are celebrating the pre-release of their new movie, A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas by rolling out to college campuses in their very own munchie truck.The truck is set to roll out to Miami on October 28, delivering early Christmas presents to wasted…
Short Order was recently invited to join a diverse group of food bloggers to tour some of the more out of the way places in Jamaica. Today, we’ll share a visit to a coffee plantation in part one of a three-part tour of the road less traveled in Jamaica…
Dark skies and rain this past Saturday didn’t deter thousands of beer enthusiasts from enjoying Grovetoberfest in Coconut Grove’s Peacock Park.As the weather shifted from cloudy to drizzly to full-on pour, beer drinkers gathered under the giant tents to sample hundreds of beers and ales, watch cooking demos and eat…
What was the impetus behind the departure of executive chef Daniel Ganem from Kane Steakhouse in South Beach? Matthew Glazier, president of The Glazier Group and co-owner of Kane, candidly told Short Order, “We weren’t happy with what was coming out of the kitchen. We saw the need for an…
Pinecrest’s the Joint Bar & Grill is celebrating its first anniversary with a beer pairing featuring Dogfish Ale products. On October 20, from 8 to 10 p.m., enjoy a special four-course dinner featuring seasonal ales and beers.Since, technically, we’re well into the fall season (what? you don’t feel the chill…
Howl at the moon tonight, salsa till you drop tomorrow as food trucks roll out to some interesting and exotic parties and festivals this weekend. Here’s the deal:Friday, October 14Tobacco Road is hosting the Downtown Full Moon Party tonight from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. The Road encourages everyone to…
The restaurant world can almost be boiled down to two basic kinds of restaurants — restaurants that serve simple dishes and restaurants that have menus that read more Cirque du Soleil than food.Consider Miami’s own Barton G. restaurant. Dishes include cheeky monkey mahi, lobster pop tarts and coconut-crusted voodoo shrimp…
Joe’s Stone Crab will open for its 98th dinner season tomorrow. (Lunch service, by the way, begins Tuesday.) If you can’t wait that one extra day (or you forgot to get in on Google’s deal last week), you have one last shot at being the first kid on your block…
