Yesterday, we highlighted Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home cookbook. Today we share two recipes for Provençal Tomatoes — one from each star culinarian. The book is filled with useful tidbits of advice. Here are just a couple culled from the Provence recipes, which follow the jump.Julia on using a…
Fin and Q American Barbeque shine
[jump] Crêpe cravings have apparently seized me, as I only recently touted savory ham and cheese crêpes at Otentic on Washington Avenue. And now I’m back to share my enthusiasm for A La Folie’s Nutella crêpe. The batter here is made with buckwheat flour, which lends a better flavor than…
This is a companion volume to the PBS series of the same name. An obviously very generous friend of mine gave this autographed copy to me as a gift, and it’s one of the best cookbooks I own. Mr. Pépin and Ms. Child offer complementary recipes for appetizers, soups, salads,…
This post has nothing to do with food, but it might give you something to chew on:As we all know by now, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has offered to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the proximity of Ground Zero, a purportedly generous gesture to help build trust…
A group of Ohioans has offered to send LeBron James’s former Cavaliers jerseys to the homeless of Miami, a purportedly generous gesture to help clothe poor folks. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has offered to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the proximity of Ground Zero, a purportedly generous…
After recently writing a goofy post about imaginary pot-food pairings, I received an email from the pseudonymous William Breathes, one of two medical marijuana critics for our sister paper Westword, in Denver, Colorado. He expressed gratitude for being mentioned in the post and disappointment in not being invited to my…
Consumer Reports recently polled 28,000 online subscribers and asked them to rate hamburgers from 18 fast food restaurants around the country. Those surveyed were asked to rate each burger from 1 to 10, the scale going from least delicious burger ever eaten to the most delicious. McDonald’s finished at the…
Sutter Home is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Build a Better Burger contest by holding its high-stakes burger cook-off on September 23, at Collins Park in South Beach. The prize money this year has doubled to $100,000 for the most creative, best-tasting burger — but you are too late…
Mo’ Mofongo Jimmy’z Kitchen, the little, lovable, Latino hole-in-the-wall on South Beach, has the signs up for a second location coming to the ground floor of the Cynergi Miami Condos at N. Miami Avenue and 27th Street in Wynwood. You can check out the progress on Jimmy’z Flickr page.Mo’ PizzaSignage…
A little bait to hopefully hook you into reading next week’s Cafe review of Eismann’s two:Fin:A fisherman would consider our experience here extremely successful: All the big ones were hooked, even if some small fries got away — meaning main plates of grouper, halibut, and striped bass were fresh, adeptly…
Put on your jammies this Saturday and head to Coconut Grove for the Great Grove Bed Race and Pajama Pub Crawl. Featured stops on the comfortable crawl will be Grove Spot, Sandbar Sports Grill, Tavern in the Grove, GreenStreet Cafe, Bice Bistro, Crazy Pianos, Taurus, Mr. Moe’s, Barracuda Raw Bar…
This little 16-seater has been tucked off the corner of Bay Drive and 69th Street in Normandy Isles for the past four years. During this time, the all-female crew (kitchen and dining room) has been cooking up some of the best Thai food on the Beach. The recently updated menu…
72nd Bar & Grill in South Miami
Publishers don’t generally send me cookbooks, but once in awhile one ends up in my mailbox. That’s how I came upon Latin Chic: Entertaining with Style and Sass in 2005. The book, co-authored by Carolina Buia and Isabel C. Gonzalez, is bright with colors and photos, and stocked with all…
Joumou Cafe opened two weeks ago in what looks to be a former house on NE 2nd Avenue. This quaint and colorfulHaitian/Caribbean restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner seven days a week. We stopped in around 1 p.m. and took advantage of a ridiculously great deal: Salad, choice of a…
That’s Right Lebron, I’m Talkin’ To YouAs reported by Lesley Abravanel, LeBron James gave Barton G. some tweet love, writing that it “has the BEST presentation of food, drinks and dessert I’ve ever seen in my life”.Listen up, LeBron: I’ll go one-on-one against you in restaurant reviewing anytime, anywhere. I’m…
Zuma has made a splash in downtown Miami since opening on the ground floor of the Epic Hotel. The menu presents quite a few Japanese food options — robata grilled meats, tempura vegetables, rice hot-pots, and so forth. One of our Zuma favorites, however, comes from the sushi bar: Unagi…
New Barbu and decades-old Siam Lotus Room have each met the same fate. The latter, South Miami’s answer to Boston’s Green Monster, lured drivers on South Dixie Highway with its lima-bean paint job and owner Atchana Capellini’s famous coconut shrimp — along with other Thai dishes derived from her family…
We reported Friday (see post below) that chef Jeff O’Neill had left Grove Isle Hotel & Spa for the Villa by Barton G. So the obvious question becomes: Who takes over at Grove Isle? A manager at the hotel informed me that the new executive chef is Rafael Melendez from the…
Gibraltar’s loss is the Villa’s gain: Jeff O’Neill has been selected as the new executive chef of Barton G’s elegant restaurant in Casa Casuarina. O’Neill opened Gibraltar last January and earned raves for his Mediterranean fare there. His background includes six years of work in the kitchen of Daniel Boulud and…
The original Segafredo — or Segafredo L’Originale as the company likes to put it — celebrates its 10th anniversary this Sunday evening with a bash on Lincoln Road. Starting at 5 p.m., music by DJ Mr. V and Miss Patty will spark the block party into action. There will be…
