The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its long anticipated happiness ratings last week. The study, using data collected from 1.3 million people across the country over the past four years, found that the happiest folks tended to live in states with a high quality of life. No surprise…
Dinner at these establishments will cost at least $500-plus for you and your loved one. With apologies to China Grill, Grass, and Naoe, all of which just missed the cut at $200 per person.The Setai: Dom Perignon dinner, six course wine dinner, string quartet. Cash bar after 11! $450Blue Door…
Fruit Basket Review has just released a detailed photo comparison chart of the top eleven fruit basket providers in the United States. No, we are not making this up — bear with us. Fruit basket companies, you see, spend a lot of money paying stylists, photographers, graphic designers and the…
Alphabetically except for the last:Alvaro Beade of Ideas Restaurant. His contemporary take on the cuisine of Castilla y León was exquisite. Not sure where he is now.Carmen Gonzalez of Carmen’s The Restaurant. She merged modern American cuisine with traditional Puerto Rican. Then her eponymous restaurant burned down. Last we heard…
The day after a man lost his wife in a scuba diving accident, he was greeted by two grim-faced policemen at his door. “We’re sorry to call on you at this hour, Mr. Wilkens, but we have some information about your wife.””Well, tell me!” the man said.The policeman said, “We have some…
A snippet of the New Times restaurant review for next week:Take the two salsas that jump start diners — one red, one green, both pureed to the sort of seamlessly smooth consistency that would satisfy the most stringent of French chefs. There are those (including myself) who generally prefer their…
OpenTable has released its 2009 Diners’ Choice Awards for Restaurants with the Most Vibrant Bar Scene. Our congratulations go to Miami’s very own, um….gee, that’s surprising. Hmm…well, who cares that we didn’t make the stinking list. We’re not bitter, and indeed offer our heartfelt congrats to Bootsy’s in Cincinnati, and…
That would be Jason Sheehan, whose Dirty Cooking made Time Magazine’s just-released list of ten best nonfiction books of the year: “A great tell-all by the Anthony Bourdain of greasy-spoon kitchens.” Sheehan, a James Beard winner, just this week moved from being the restaurant reviewer for Westword, our sister publication…
Pamela’s Delicatesen brings Chile to Miami
Look at those golden potatoes and nicely cooked onions. An impeccable pommes lyonnaise. But where it at?We’ll acknowledge the correct answer in the comments section if someone gets it. If not, we’ll let you know where it at next week…
After nine years of packing them in at 1223 Lincoln Road, AltaMar’s Claudio Giordano has partnered with chef Simon Stojanovic to open a sister venture ALTAMARE just steps away. The restaurant, due to debut sometime around the middle of next month, will be triple the size of the current space…
A fun time was had by all at the Jonathan Eismann restaurant tour last week. The event was held in cahoots with Friends of the James Beard Foundation as a means of raising funds for the organization as well as to showcase new developments on the west side of the…
After the Epic Hotel’s specially installed filtration system removed most of the chlorine from city water, three guests fell ill from Legionnaires’ disease and the hotel has been temporarily closed. That means the award-winning seafood restaurant Area 31 is as off-limits as Area 51 until things get back to normal…
Support Miami’s Schoolchildren The Design District will be celebrating Family Day tomorrow, December 12, and proud daddy Jonathan Eismann will be taking part by: Exhibiting beautiful artwork by the talented students of South Pointe Elementary school at Pacific Time.Exhibiting pizza-making demos and giving out free espresso (presumably for the parents)…
Mandolin Set To Play Turkish/Greek CuisineIt is a white-washed 1940’s house with blue trimmed windows. There are bougainvillea boasting bright colors, greek oil canisters turned into flower vases, traditional taverna chairs at wooden tables beneath a lantern-lit tree. Mandolin Aegean Bistro, serving rustic dishes authentic to the villages of Greece…
A snippet of the New Times restaurant review for next week.Pamela’s Delicatessen is a combination mini-market/bakery/cafe/full service Chilean restaurant. The first three are housed in the front room: dry food imports on the shelves, breads and wines in wooden racks, a smattering of tables clustered before glowing display cases of…
D-Rod Cuba, as we like to call it, opens in the Hotel Astor on South Beach tonight. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. daily, and through the month of December all first-time diners will get choice of mojito or daiquiri on the house. Tapas encompass traditional bites such as ham croquetas…
His new Q and Fin restaurants in the Design District are getting set to open. Short Order be taking a peek tonight and reporting it tomorrow, but we wanted to at least find out one or two things about those new ventures beforehand, and Jonathan obliged.New Times: Could you give…
Stone Grill 95 in Surfside has a rocky start
What it is: A pizza pie with prosciutto di Parma, baby zucchini, rocket greens, and burrata cheese.But there are so many pizza joints in this town that might make a pie that looks like this.Where it at? Feel free to take a guess. If you get it right, we’ll acknowledge…
Ivy at the Grove, which has taken over the 535 seats of the three-story former Christabelle’s Quarter, is being billed as “British-style” — not a very nice thing to say about a restaurant! (More specifically, it will feature “modern American and British comfort food.”) The ground floor will feature a…
Miami has long been considered the place where restaurant service comes to die. It seems that still holds true. According to the recently released Zagat 2010 Miami/So. Florida Survey, 77 percent of diners cite service as the number one restaurant complaint. Slightly better news is that 26 percent say they’ve…
