Seems as though just about every restaurant is offering some sort of Miami Spice-type “deal” throughout this season. This is a good thing, but not always quite as good as it looks. Take I Corsini’s recent offer for a three course meal, including a glass of house wine, for $33…
Located across the Miami River on the ground level of NEO Lofts (10 SW South River Drive), River Gourmet Bistro and Market was recently debuted by Miami natives Alina Portuondo-Freyre and Teresa Alexandria-Hernandez (the same women behind For the Love of Food Catering). The menu is a potpourri of familiar…
The stately whitewashed building served for decades as the Buena Vista post office. More recently, it was home to Domo Japones, Amir Ben-Zion’s restaurant in the nascent Design District neighborhood. Ben-Zion has become accustomed to success (Miss Yip Chinese Café, Bond Street Sushi), so when Domo faltered last year, he…
Michael Moran, culinary director and chef/instructor at the FIU School of Hospitality, along with his small army of FIU student/volunteers, were able to recover more than 800 meals from events at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and have donated them to the Daily Food Bank. The meals, culled…
We’re referring to Mario Batali being “up there” on stage at the SBWFF’s Wines and Food of Spain dinner. You’ve probably heard that he dropped a couple of F-bombs in front of the royal company. And speaking of F-bombs: What the fuck was he even doing on that platform welcoming…
Friday’s Trade Tasting event at the Grand Tasting Village on the Beach brought out salespeople, restaurateurs, and a barrage of folks tenuously tied to the food and wine industry — a frolicking fellowship of flaks, frauds, food bloggers, and so forth. There was no shortage of beverages — coffee drinks,…
It is early Wednesday morning, and I am standing in a kitchen area in the Miami-Beach Convention Center, watching some 50 FIU students getting to work on food prep for Friday nights’ Perrier-Jouët BubbleQ event at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. I am not the only one looking…
Eating an oyster is like taking a spiritual log flume ride. The thrill of the plunge takes place within, not outside, the body. An über-plump Island Creek oyster at Area 31, misted with a light sheen of golden balsamic vinegar and olive oil and dotted with specks of alligator peppercorns,…
The Mandarin Oriental, in tandem with TRU Organic Spirits, has launched the first “all-organic cocktail menu” in Miami. Two of the tastiest-sounding tipplers are the Mandarin: TRU Organic Vanilla Vodka, organic tangerine juice, brown sugar and a splash of heavy cream (pictured above). And the Basil Melon: TRU Organic Lemon…
Expecting oysters, foie gras, and caviar to carry you to Valentine’s Day ecstasy is like waiting for Santa to come down the chimney on Christmas Eve. Worse: If you’re not used to eating these rich, luxe comestibles, you may find them working their way through your gastrointestinal tract faster than…
Nearly four inches long, the sand dune oyster from Prince Edward Island was so plump it was bulging out of its shell “like a large breast in a small brassiere,” as Rodney Clark, owner of Rodney’s Oyster House in Toronto, puts it. Intensely briny and wonderfully sweet, the fat beige…
First thing you do is drive to East Kendall. Yes, I know that’s not exactly Miami, but would you have read this if I said “Best Indian food in East Kendall?” I didn’t think so.Next you head to Ayesha’s Kitchen to learn how to cook the best Indian food in…
Champagne and chocolates constitute the dynamic duo of no-brainers for Valentine’s Day. Peterbrooke Chocolatier at 227 Aragon Ave. in Coral Gables has come up with a novel way to team the two: A chocolate-dipped champagne bottle. Now through February 14, customers can bring in their favorite bubbly — or wine…
As Short Order reported last week, Gaia Ristorante, the latest venture of seasoned restaurateur Tom Billante, has opened at 101 Ocean Drive (Hilton Bentley Hotel)– which I erroneously cited as the site of Billante’s last Ocean Drive venue, ViVi. In fact, Prime Italian has moved into that space, and Gaia…
The barrage of burgers continues unabated. Two more Five Guys are poised to proffer their patties to the public — one in the old Dogma space at Washington Ave. and 15th Street in South Beach, the other in Aventura Mall. But a bigger burger banner headline is that Govind Armstrong…
Between frenzied flings with wasabi foam, foie gras ice cream, and other frivolous foods, diners regularly return to the safe and steady steak house. They do so for the sidecar martinis, shrimp cocktail, and oysters on the half-shell; for gargantuan steaks, Buick-size baked potatoes, and wodgy wedges of iceberg lettuce…
Tomorrow evening, February 5th, the Delano Hotel and its’ new executive chef Maria Manso will debut the late-night brasserie Plat Bleu. With its’ oversized tufted camelback sofas, etched mirror floor lamps, and Carrara marble-topped tables, the space is meant to evoke a 1940s French salon. The brasserie moderne menu has…
The latest monthly installment of Dinner in Paradise takes place this Sunday, February 8th. Set outdoors amidst the picturesque rural setting of Gabrielle Marewski’s Paradise Farms in Homestead, an organic, multi-course meal is prepared by a varying set of three top local chefs — and this upcoming feast boasts one…
O Bacalhau Restaurant (804 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables) celebrates its’ grand opening this Wednesday, February 4th, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Guests will get to sip sangría and wine while sampling Chef Fernando Santos’ authentic Portuguese cuisine — including 16 different bacalhau dishes (o boy!). The restaurant is…
Sushi SoBe landed in the lobby of Loews Miami Beach Hotel with less razzmatazz than one might expect — especially in light of the menu having been developed by one of just six Master Sushi Chefs in the United States. That would be Fuji Fujita, executive sushi chef for Loews…
Gaia Ristorante opens today at the Hilton Bentley Hotel at 101 Ocean Drive in South Beach. This is the latest venture from Tommy Billante, the man behind Carpaccio, Luna, and a whole bunch of other successful Italian places. Gaia moves into the space formerly occupied by Vivi, one of Billante’s…
National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus earlier this week recommended that D’Artagnan Inc. discontinue certain advertising claims regarding its’ Artisan foie gras — specifically that “the liver is not diseased, simply enlarged”, and that the animals are hand-raised “under the strictest of animal care standards.”…
