I purchased The Art of Grilling: A Menu Cookbook, the followup to author Kelly McCune’s best-selling Grill Book, when it first came out in 1990. I can’t say exactly what prompted me to do so, but looking back at the recipes now, (after years of not having done so), they seem…
Short Order received an email from a reader concerning a disappointing Spice dinner experience at Scarpetta. Seems as though he went expecting yellowtail and bone-in sirloin and instead the menu offered mackerel and tenderloin. He wasn’t crazy about the portions either. The suspicion seemed to be that Scarpetta might have…
The Naked TruthNaked Pizza is gearing up for an opening on Washington Avenue. The debut can’t come too soon, because South Beach residents are really hungry for yet another pizza chain outlet.No Hormones, No Steroids, No AsterisksLime Fresh Mexican Grill, a Florida-based company, has become the first restaurant chain to…
A small but nutritious bite of next week’s restaurant review:The cuisine is tagged as “the pure essence of taste,” which is the sort of boastful appraisal better left, I think, to restaurant critics. No denying, however, that the menu is chock full of healthful culinary concoctions. It also serves as…
Sub as in the Subway Sandwich shop on Collins Avenue in South Beach.Sub as in the breakfast Subway special now being touted by the chain.Sub as in my coming here being a substitute for my original dozen or so choices. Like I thought Oliver’s Café on West Avenue might be…
… at World Resource Café from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Choice of 11 full-size rolls at $5 each. The Sazanami roll (to the right in photo) is composed of white tuna, kanikama, asparagus, avocado, spicy mayo, scallions, and a wasabi tobiko topping. The other roll has eel, scallions, cucumber, and mayo…
In 1987, Todd Wilbur of Orange County, California, started his Top Secret Recipes website, on which he dissects well-known name-brand foods and creates original recipes that clone their appeal. The site has been “undergoing construction” for quite some time, but the recipe section remains — with everything from Aunt Jemima’s…
Best of Miami Spice 2010
Restaurants close every month, but since our last roundup of doom in May, a handful of very popular, longtime establishments has gone to Guest Check Heaven. Plus the ice-cream shop Jack Frost melted in minutes. The roll call for our departed 11 follows…
I received this copy of Nuevo Latino, which was first published in 1995, when I visited Douglas Rodriguez’s former Aqualina restaurant in the San Juan Hotel, Puerto Rico. It was a press junket, and I got the book for free — price says $29.95. The 168-pager has lots of Rodriguez’s…
Out Through the In DoorSean Bernal has left the Oceanaire Seafood Room and headed for Fairview, Texas. Jonathan Wright is skipping the Setai for Barbados. Usually the sign of a restaurant city becoming robust is the influx of talented chefs from elsewhere — not the fleeing of chefs for greener…
The Setai’s executive chef Jonathan Wright has accepted a position at Sandy Lane Resort in Barbados, and will be exiting the hotel on September 3. He had served three-and-a-half years at the Setai and in the process established himself as one of Miami’s best chefs.The Setai is said to be…
We are into Day 9 of Miami Spice, yet menus for the following 20 restaurants still have not been posted on the Spice website. Here, then, in alphabetical order, are the slowpokes:A Fish Called AvalonAgoBistro One LRCavalier Crab ShackD Rodriguez CubaIl Mulino OLAPelican CaféSmith & Wollensky…..
ABC News Nightline ran a fascinating feature Friday night about a rooftop-to-table restaurant about to open in New York City. Bell Book & Candle is the name of the place, and it’s located on West 10th Street in Manhattan. Chef/owner John Mooney walks six flights up the brownstone steps to…
I just got off the phone with a manager at Talula. Earlier this morning, a reader wrote the following into our comments section:I guess they were lying about not being for sale, because their PR person just emailed me when I requested a reservation that they just sold the restaurant…
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) sure doesn’t think so. The courageous congressman should be applauded for having introduced legislation aimed at preventing businesses from writing off advertising of junk food targeted towards children. Specifically, congressional measure HR 4310 would prohibit any company from claiming a tax deduction for expenses derived from…
Phase One of the Capital Grille’s summertime Master Wine Tasting Event, which runs through September 5, includes Napa Valley wines such as Bancroft Ranch Merlot from Beringer Vineyards; a Cabernet Sauvignon from Sella & Mosca Marchese di Villamarina; and Pinot Noir along with other varietals from Villa Maria Cellar Selection…
Salsa Fiesta has launched delivery service spanning a three-mile radius around the restaurant. Specifically: north to 54th and Biscayne, south to 15th and Brickell, west to I-95, and to Jackson Memorial Hospital exclusively. Delivery is available seven days: 305-400-8245…
Yelp is throwing a party for the public, and it’s the best kind of party: free. The erstwhile bloggers and friends will be whooping it up Saturday, August 21, from 8 to 10 p.m. at the very historic and extremely brick Moore Building in the Design District. Noshes will be…
660 at the Angler’s: Loud but tasty
We have spent the past couple of weeks going over Miami Spice menus and categorizing each as being either a deal (a bargain at $50 after tax/tip/etc.) or no deal (usually because of inferior menu selections or just not any real break from regular menu pricing). Links to the nine…
“the same cicadas sang in Caesar’s reign,upon the walls the same sun clings and climbs.”–Vladimir NabokovAny cookbook that opens with a Nabokov quote promises tobe something special. A Table in Provence turns out to be just that. It was first published in 1987 as a follow-up to author/illustrator Leslie Forbe’s…
