For the past year, Ali Lauria has been the “forager” at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink. She doesn’t like the word. She describes herself more as a good buyer. “It’s not like I’m out there hunting for mushrooms,” she says. Lauria, a 30-year-old native of Argentina, began working at Michael’s…
Escape to Homestead this Sunday for good food, bubbly and live music. The Miami chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier will present a bountiful table at their annual Tropical Brunch. The event benefits the ladies’ many community projects and will feature dishes prepared by the group’s chef, farmer, and hospitality members…
Last week, the Roots in the City Farmers Market in Overtown announced it would close owing to a code enforcement violation notice. Now the sponsors say they will resume business tomorrow. It seems the permit issues with the city have been smoothed over, and the market will likely continue to operate through…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 63…
Time for our monthly wrapup. Of note, local favorite Hiro’s Yakko-San moved to larger (and not as charming) new digs, but the food is still as good as always. There’s also a new sushi bar in town: Makoto. Here are the notable openings and closings in March (or not mentioned…
If today were a typical Wednesday, the Roots in the City Farmers Market in Overtown would be ready for business by noon. But today there will be a demonstration in place of the market, which was shut down last week by the city of Miami code enforcement office.”We were doing…
This evening at the Biscayne Triangle Truck Round-up look for a different kind of vehicle. Seriously Organic, a foraging company that launched last summer with the mission of connecting farmers to chefs and consumers, will bring its refrigerated truck to the gathering. It will be packed with fresh Florida organic…
Chef Sean Bernal has left Lincoln Road’s Sushi Samba to start his own restaurant. Bernal left a comment on a Short Order post saying: “Just an FYI I am no longer at Sushi Samba. I have left to open my own restaurant. Coming soon!!!” Reached by email, Bernal said that…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 69…
Zach Bell of Café Bouloud in Palm Beach is the sole Florida chef nominated for a 2011 James Beard Award. Finalists for this highest honor in the culinary world were announced today in Portland, Oregon and on Twitter by the James Beard Foundation.Bell is a finalist in the Best Chef:…
Brickell is turning out to be the hub for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Tobacco Road will host more than 20 food trucks and vendors this Thursday during the Brickell Shamrock Festival.The bar will serve green beer, and a live band and DJ will keep the party going.Participating trucks include the…
Time again to get sloshed on green beer. St. Patrick’s Day is next Thursday, March 17 so don your best green outfit and head out to one of these Miami celebrations. St. Patrick’s Day Irish FestivalOn Saturday, March 12 get a taste of Irish culture. The South Florida Emerald Society…
Who says drinking doesn’t have its merits? This Saturday drink and give back to the Chron’s and Colitis Foundation at The Gutsy Pub Crawl. Event organizers Michelle Rodriguez and Gaston Ruiz will guide lush philanthropists through six hours of drinking around Coconut Grove. That’s a lot of drinking but you…
Twitter was inspiration for several South Florida food bloggers last week. The Chowfather concludes that Twitter is killing his blog, so he sums up all of his 140-character food and restaurant thoughts for 2011 in one post. Over at Chadzilla, author Chad Galiano shares compilations of 140-character recipes posted by…
Everyday a new truck, it seems. The latest restaurant to hop onto the food truck bandwagon is the popular El Rey de las Fritas, best known for its Cuban hamburgers — or fritas.”We’ve see how it’s been crazy with everyone doing a food truck,” co-owner Mercedes Gonzalez told Short Order…
It’s time again to list the restaurants that have opened and closed in February (or those not included in our January roundup). A notable loss is Pizza Volante, but we’re happy to see life again at the old Pacific Time location, now occupied by Andalus. Let us know what we…
Only 75 kids got the chance to sit in Jamie Oliver’s presentation at Kohl’s Fun & Fit as a Family Saturday at Jungle Island. At 12:30 p.m. a line already snaked outside the room where Oliver’s 1:30 p.m. presentation took place, but to some parents’ discontent, most didn’t get in. Several…
When we arrived at Dim Sum & Disco at The Setai last night, guests lined up around the restaurant’s open kitchen to taste the small bites prepared for the evening, but as the clock ticked past midnight the party moved to courtyard where people danced to ’70s tunes and sipped…
Los Angeles’s Umami Burger, a group of “fine-dining fast food” restaurants focused on that fifth savory taste, is setting up shop in Miami’s Design District at a new development called NE40th. Umami founder and CEO, Adam Fleischman, who’s in town for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, told Short…
There was more shine than swine at last night’s Original Moonshine Shine & Swine party at the W Hotel. Not that we needed much more food after stuffing ourselves at the Burger Bash, but anyone expecting much food likely left disappointed. There was plenty to drink, however, as the W’s…
Pizza Volante, what was left of Jonathan Eismann’s mini-restaurant empire in the Design District, has shut its doors. Less than two years after opening, the small pizza place on North Miami Avenue followed the fate of its siblings, Pacific Time, Q, and Fin, even though it seems to have fared…
Most people know Bryan Voltaggio from his participation in season six of Top Chef. But by the time he landed on the show, Voltaggio already had a pretty impressive culinary resume. He started cooking when he was 14 in Frederick, Maryland, and after attending the Culinary Institute of America, went…
