A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Starters, excepting soups and salads, range from $14 to $20; the two pastas are $18 and $24; excepting chicken and salmon, entrees run $38 to $50. Diners don’t expect to get up from the table at a…
You gotta be a special kind of hungry to put something in your mouth that you get from a stranger on the streets of Manhattan. ~Jake Johannsen, on New York hot dog standsBeing overweight is something that just sort of snacks up on you.A preacher goes to a nursing home…
Assuming that you are in one of the contiguous 48 states in the USA: In what spot would you be farthest from a McDonald’s, and how far away would that be? Blogger Stephen Von Worley has done the necessary calculations and come up with the answer:”Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets…
“It’s a hell of a lot better than Miami Spice”, is the brash assertion that begins a promo for Wine69’s 3-course, $29.95 “MiMo Spice Dinner”. Diners are promised a “more substantial dinner, not the reduced portions of Miami Spice”. Whoa — them’s fightin’ words!The MiMo Spice meal at this popular…
Yum and Yummer: Mr. Yum serves fresh Thai and Japanese food on Miami’s Calle Ocho
After just a four-month stint, executive chef James Figueroa-Perez of Ideas Restaurant has been replaced. New head chef at this Coconut Grove restaurant is Jorge L. Sanchez, from Avila; his new fall menu premiers tomorrow night, but he promises to retain old favorites such as the cochinillo (suckling pig). Ideas,…
One doesn’t think of Holland as home to the world’s finest vodka. Nor does one necessarily associate Vincent Van Gogh with being a vodkaphile; seems more like an absinthe sort of guy. Then again, I’ve got a hazed purple bottle of Jimi Hendrix Vodka on my shelf, so I’m not…
Beginning next Monday, September 28, A Fish Called Avalon on Ocean Drive will be offering a half-price discount on food and drink to members of the hospitality industry.This translates to full size appetizer plates such as Bang Bang shrimp and pan-seared diver scallops for $8; yellow tomato gazpacho with cucumber…
Panzanella, that rustic Tuscan bread salad we have all come to love, is ideal during the summer months, when tomatoes are at their peak. But weather-wise, at least, it is always summer in Miami, and panzanella with wine makes a light and refreshing meal any time of year. Or so…
I was sad to learn that Professor Marcel Escoffier passed away last Tuesday. Escoffier was associate professor of Management at Florida International University’s School of Hospitality Management. He taught courses in Food and Beverage Operations and Control, and wrote several books, including co-authoring the influential Management by Menu text. He…
Christian Sanders, bartender at The Living Room Bar in the W Hotel South Beach, took home top prize at Bombay Sapphire’s “Inspired Bartender Search” last week at the Palms in Las Vegas. Here is our own local, inspired mixologist’s winning recipe:The Garden Sour Hour1 1â„2 parts Bombay Sapphire Gin1/3 part…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week — Mr. Yum Asian Cuisine on Calle Ocho.Pad Thai, the dish that launched a million lovers of this cuisine, validates its’ popularity via a flawlessly balanced tangle of flat rice noodles, tender chicken, scallions, sprouts, ground peanuts,…
Lox, Stock, and BagelYo: Brooklyn Bagels is slated to open this December in the “$2.3 billion urban lifestyle neighborhood of Midtown Miami.” Actually, the press release announcing this was written awhile ago — by now it’s probably just a $1.7 billion urban lifestyle neighborhood. Owner Ashraf Sahaltout promises “a quality…
A man walks into a bar with a duck on his head. The bartender says, “What can I do for you?” The duck says, “Get this man out of my ass!”Two cannibals were eating a clown. One said to the other “Does this taste funny to you?”Grasshopper walks into a…
Kareem Zarwi, manager and beverage director of Au Pied de Cochon recently sent a very gracious email in which he thanked me for the “clear assessment” of Pied in the New Times review. But the real reason he was writing was to let me know that he had “come across…
Went to renew my drivers license at the Coral Gables DMV the other day. The office is located right by Village of Merrick Park, and so is a branch of La Estancia Argentina. The lunch menu looked tempting, with some decent deals on hand — grilled skirt or flank steak…
Charlotte Bistro’s Enchanting Web
I generally let criticisms of my writing go unanswered, the attitude being that everyone has a right to gripe. Plus sometimes the criticisms are correct, and those that aren’t can be especially fun to read. I fully expect to raise a bit of a fuss when I write a post…
I don’t know that every single American feels compelled to consume food while sitting in a movie theater — only that every one that ends up seated next to me does. It is apparently too much to expect a person be capable of watching a film for two hours without…
Starting this evening at 7:00 p.m., with nightly performances at the same time running through Sunday, Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant will be showing The Harder They Come as the feature in the Film at Tap Tap series. Screenings are free to the public, and start promptly — those who come…
“Begun in 2006 as a series of intimate, word-of-mouth chef gatherings at restaurants all across South Florida, Chefs Club Miami — now boasting a membership of more than 30 of the town’s culinary innovators and restaurant industry honchos — is proud to announce its recent partnership with Whole Foods Market…
Mexican Independence Day takes place this Wednesday, September 16, and Rosa Mexicano is celebrating all week. Starting today and running through Sunday, September 20th, the Mary Brickell restaurant will be offering a three-course prix-fixe dinner menu “inspired by the patriotic holiday celebrated in plazas throughout Mexico and by Mexicans all…
