If you crave Sugar Yummy Mama’s cupcakes during non-food truck hours (and we’ve been known to hoard a few for those emergency moments), you now only have to drive to a participating Sir Pizza restaurant.Sugar Yummy Mama cupcakes are now available at seven Sir Pizza locations throughout Miami, with more…
If you’re a Sugar Rush fan, you know the you should get to the truck early to avoid a sell-out of your favorite cupcake flavors (this has happened to us before). After all, whether you choose a taco and your friend opts for a pork bun at the roundup, chances…
Three armed men robbed Joey’s around 8 p.m. yesterday, according to a witness.Open Miami Media reported that Sara Ataie, a diner at the time of the robbery, said three men with bandannas covering their faces walked in, showed their guns, and demanded everyone lie on the floor. One man played lookout while the…
Ago, the Italian restaurant tucked in the back of the Shore Club, will become the Shore Club Terrace this Thursday.According to manager Stefania DiFelice, Ago’s lease was up at the end of August, and the restaurant decided not to renew. Morgans Hotel Group, owner of the Shore Club, will take…
Ex-employees of De Rodriguez Cuba at the Astor, which closed in February this year, are picketing De Rodriguez Cuba on Ocean, located in the Hilton Bentley Miami Beach Hotel on the corner of First Street and Ocean Drive in an attempt to settle back pay claims.Saturday evening, about a dozen…
View more photos from Burger Beast App Party here.Sixty food trucks celebrated Burger Beast Sef Gonzalez’s food truck iPhone App release this past Friday evening at Tamiami Park. From the long lines to get into the park to the throngs of people, one would have thought the fair came to…
Chef Ze Carlos Jimenez is planning to expand the MexZican Gourmet as a brick and mortar restaurant in South Miami.At first, Jimenez was planning to expand by opening another food truck but decided on a small restaurant instead. When he passed by a vacant restaurant in South Miami, he knew…
Midtown’s Sustain Restaurant + Bar sure likes its booze. Beverage Director Daniel Toral creates and crafts unusual cocktails with handmade elixirs extracted from rare herbs and flowers with names like Pickpocket, The Minister, Old Smuggler, and The Flapper.Beers are curated with the same care. Almost two dozen beers on the…
If you’ve been feeling jaded by the food truck roundups that offer a mere two dozen mobile eateries, we feel your pain (and your ADD). How about 60 food trucks (well, technically 59 food trucks and one cigar truck) tonight? Will that make you happy?Pretty much every food truck on…
Hurricane Irene may be missing us, but she might have made it difficult for Top Chef heartthrob Fabio Viviani to get here from California because his Prosecco and Popcorn Movie Night, scheduled for this evening at Coral Gables’ Miracle Theater has been postponed until September 7. Admission is free, but…
Update: Tonight’s food truck roundup has been cancelled due to inclement weather.If you’re in the mood to try a new food truck or two, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is hosting two trucks from out west — and by out west, we mean Tampa. Greek Brothers and Wicked…
Mercadito Midtown’s chef/partner Patricio Sandoval was on hand Tuesday evening to unveil the latest in the Tacos for Strength menu, along with the creation’s guest chef, Andrew Balick, who was last seen as head chef at the Cadet Hotel’s 30-seat restaurant, Pied a Terre.The taco has a Mediterranean theme, with…
Andrew Balick has been named the new Chef de Cuisine at the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, replacing Josh Becker, who was with the DiLido since November 2010 and with Ritz-Carlton for nine years. Becker is said to have left to pursue other avenues.Balick starts his duties…
Troy Thomas is a quiet force on the Miami food truck scene. He lets the edibles from his truck, the Rolling Stove, do the talking for him. Then he lets the accolades come to him.James Cunningham, host of Cooking Channel’s Eat Street, recently put together “Ten Great Places to Feast From a Food…
When chef Joshua Marcus opened Chow Down Grill in Surfside about a year ago, people marveled at two things: the size of the restaurant (small) and the size of the flavor (large).And when Marcus announced he was opening a second Chow Down Grill in South Beach, at a former laundromat,…
If you’re like us, your favorite competitive sport consists of two chefs engaged in kitchen combat. We’re talking sharp knives, open flames, and meat — this is one dangerous battle to the finish. The best part: You get to eat the spoils of this particular warfare, along with delicious bites…
For over 30 years, Islas Canarias has been serving authentic and well-priced Cuban fare to the people of Miami. Somewhat of an institution, Islas Canarias is bright, loud and perpetually busy. Now, Islas Canarias has added a food truck to their original restaurant and the newer bakery/cafe, bringing their croquetas…
Humans, it seems, will eat just about anything. We eat cows, pigs, ducks, chickens, and fish all the time and think nothing of it. In other countries people eat insects, lizards, snakes, rodents and even our family pet, the dog.Since Travel Channel launched No Reservations and Bizarre Foods, the practice…
When the World Trade Center was hit by terrorist attacks, I was living in New York City. I remember the horror and mass confusion of that beautiful summer morning that turned so terribly wrong. Like so many others, I had friends and colleagues who perished that day (and some who,…
Anthony Bourdain has a big mouth and everyone knows it. In last week’s TV Guide, Bourdain restated his disdain for certain Food Network stars, including:Guy Fieri (“I look at Guy and I think, Jesus, I’m glad that’s not me.”) Rachael Ray (“Does she even cook anymore? To her credit, she…
Kim Kardashian and her instant fiancé, Kris Humphrees, married this past weekend at a Montecito, California estate in front of 450 friends and relatives (including staff from People and a camera crew from E!).The reception, which was catered by Wolfgang Puck, left us wondering where all the money went. Well,…
Every Friday evening for almost 20 years, wine educator Barry Alberts has been hosting a weekly wine tasting series, making it one of the longest ongoing wine tastings in the country. Is this weekly gathering of wine and the people who love it in Napa? Paris? New York? Nah, it’s…
