Drink and dine this Saturday, April 10 at the 7th Miccosukee Tribe of Indians Coral Gables Wine & Food Festival. For $50 you can sample foods from 30 restaurants and drink the grape from 20-plus wineries. Grey Goose vodka and Martini vermouth — sponsors of the event — will also…
Easter Sunday is not only about Easter bunnies, egg hunts and Hallmark greeting cards. It’s also a time for festive meals in the company of family and many local restaurants have created special menus to celebrate the occasion. We’ve selected the best around town.(In alphabetical order) Angelique Euro CaféThe a…
This is Part Two of our interview with Altamare pastry chef Crystal Cullison. You can read part one here.What’s your favorite dessert to make? My favorite thing to make is my favorite thing to eat is ice cream, it is, ice cream and sorbet and really all frozen desserts. I…
If you haven’t heard of pastry chef Crystal Cullison, you might begin hearing more about her now. Her milk chocolate and salted caramel semifreddo and other desserts on the menu of the recently opened AltaMare are already gaining fans.Cullison, a 27-year-old Orlando native, got her start young at Emeril’s in…
What we love about The Lost & Found Saloon’s interior is its quirk, charm and personality. With its cowboy inspired décor, it looks like something that could come out of a Western save the flat-screen TVs behind the bar showing surfing movies. The design is the work of the four…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
Feeling like you’re on vacation without leaving town is always a good thing. And you can definitely feel like you’re on vacation when dining under the sun at a nice hotel on Ocean Drive. La Marea at the Tides South Beach launched the “Lazy Breakfast” menu last week, and Short…
Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower will host a lunch this Friday, March 26, to commemorate Women’s History Month.Lunch in the Garden will take place at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden and is part of the annual Women’s Exhibit Conference and Expo, an event started by the mayor. The featured chefs…
Chefs Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink and Zach Bell of Café Boulud in Palm Beach were the only Florida chefs to move onto the James Beard Awards nominees short list.While 11 chefs from Florida — four from South Florida — were named among the semifinalists in the…
Area 31’s interior is one of understated elegance. Subtle details like iron spherical chandeliers and wood ceiling beams and furniture enhance the mostly beige, clean-lined room on the 16th floor of the Epic Hotel designed by Cheryl Rowley…
With a ratio of food tents to beer tents of about one to five, it was obvious that food wasn’t the priority at the John Martin’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration last night. Short Order knew that but still swung by to check out the food and drink a Harp in…
Ever wanted to brew your own beer? Hey, many great brewers made their own beer at home before making it big. Why not you? We could use a few more locally made beers around here anyway. Fertile Earth Foundation is hosting a beer-making class this Sunday, March 21 from 1…
About 80 people gathered at Bee Heaven Farm bright and early Saturday morning for a bike tour of four Redland farms. The jaunt was organized by Slow Food Miami. First on the tour was Fancy Koi farm, followed by Going Bananas, Teena’s Pride, and Bee Heaven Farm. The 7.5-mile ride didn’t…
Now that the weekend is over and the St. Patrick’s Day parades have passed, it’s time to celebrate in earnest. This Wednesday, forget it’s a school night, don your favorite green duds, and drown in emerald beer at one of these Miami celebrations. Erin go bragh! Brickell St. Patrick’s Day…
Some 12 chefs came together last night at the InterContinental Miami to raise funds for International Firefighters Assistance in Chefs with a Purpose: Haiti, hosted by Channel 4 and the InterContinental. While some of the toques advertised, like Tim Andriola and Cindy Hutson, were not in the room, there were…
When you’re not a wine connoisseur it’s refreshing to have someone explain wine to you without pretense and with humor, instead of turning their nose up when you struggle to pronounce gewürztraminer. Mark Oldman, the author of Oldman’s Guide to Outsmarting Wine, taught a seminar on pairing comfort foods with…
In his brief time at Soleá, Marc Vidal has captured the palates of critics and diners with what he describes as classic Spanish flavors with a modern touch. Now the restaurant with the 32-year-old at its helm has earned a James Beard nomination for Best New Restaurant. Vidal started young,…
Urbanite Bistro is holding its monthly dinner this Friday at 8:30 p.m. For $40 plus tax and gratuity, you’ll enjoy six courses paired with six different beers selected by Chris Montelius, regional manager for Fresh Beer. Dave of South Florida Beer Blog will be co-hosting the dinner.If you’re a beer…
The website Where the Locals Eat wants people to pick “America’s favorite food” through an online game that pitches 64 dishes like burgers, sushi, pizza and nachos head-to-head against each other in brackets. You know, like they do for the NCAA basketball tournament except there’s no real playing of any…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
Four food-related movies — two of which you’ve probably never heard of — are up for an Academy Award on Sunday in various categories.Meryl Streep’s performance in Julie & Julia, the movie based on Julia Child’s book My Life in France and Julie Powell’s novel Julie & Julia, is nominated…
Sugarcane Raw Bar & Grill has received a lot of praise for its food since opening in Midtown Miami, but there’s also something to be said about its unique architecture. Designed by award-winning firm CetraRuddy, the 4,200-square-foot interior was inspired by South America’s colonial, Spanish-style architecture. We love the restored…
