Now Open: Green Table Artisan Kitchen & Bistro

Green Table Artisan Kitchen & Bistro opened its doors to the public yesterday in the small space that Whisk Gourmet called its home for several years. As we wrote in November, owner Monica Rios created a menu using mostly local and organic ingredients. These days, those words get thrown around…

Blog Watch: Pubbelly, Trucks and Fried Pickles

Beached Miami posts a recap of the Emerge Miami Food Truck Frenzy bike ride.Food for Thought reviews Pubbelly.South Florida Food and Wine visits Le Tub for the first time.A visit to Gotham Steak over at Savoring South Beach.A lot more food trucks coming soon to Miami. [Burger Beast]The French Fry…

LeBron, Lil Wayne, Dwyane, and Pitbull Get Cakes at Divine Delicacies

​Ever since LeBron James posted a picture of his gigantic birthday cake on Twitter, everyone has been making a big stink about it. The people behind the showy, five-tier cake work at Divine Delicacies Custom Cakes, a family-owned company that opened in Miami in 2001.Most of the company’s business comes…

Burger Beast Introduces Street Food Fridays

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Food trucks, food trucks, food trucks. You may be tired of hearing about them, fatigued from keeping up with their every move and still trying to figure out…

Blog Watch: Top This and Top That

Top bites of 2010 at Food for Thought, The Chowfather and Miami Restaurant Power Rankings.Sakaya Kitchen’s blog rates the bloggers that wrote about the restaurant in 2010.Chadzilla prepares fried tripe.Redland Rambles writes about a new documentary about organic foods.French Fry Fairy samples fries in Minnesota.South Florida Food and Wine interviews…

Miami’s December 2010 Restaurant Openings and Closings

Well, it’s the last day of the year and it’s safe to say Miami saw some great additions to its restaurant scene, including a few notable ones in the last month of 2010. Following are notable openings and closings in December (or before and not included in our November restaurant…

Jimmy’z Kitchen Wynwood Locale Opens Wednesday

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Good news: Jimmy’z Kitchen is crossing over from South Beach to Wynwood at 2700 N Miami Ave, Miami (ground floor of the Cynergi building). The second location of…

Blog Watch: Best Bites and Berries

Well it’s the last week of the year and there aren’t as many “best of 2010” lists out on the South Florida food blogosphere yet. Maybe next week. In the meantime, here’s the best of the food blogs. Food for Thought lists his top ten bites for 2010.South Florida Food…

Gastronaut Jones: A Food Blog by Jarrett Hann of Animal Tropical

Ever since we discovered the food blog Gastronaut Jones, we’ve been intrigued. Not only do we love the name, the blog chronicles some interesting kitchen experiments. Think pork skin cannoli, pig’s tongue confit and more approachable dishes like butternut squash gnocchi. The man behind it all: Jarrett Hann, vocalist and…

Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog Tells All About His Stint at El Bulli

Frozen peas served in a dish at the famed Catalonian restaurant El Bulli? Apparently so. In an interview with Lisa Abend, author of the upcoming book “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: A Season in the Kitchen of Ferran Adria’s El Bulli,” Miami chef Jeremiah Bullfrog talks about the frozen peas and more…

Blog Watch: Yuca Latkes and Rangpur Limes

Here are the highlights from the past week in South Florida’s food blogs.Redland Rambles tells us all about rangpur lime.Food for Thought makes yuca latkes and brings out the kitchen chemistry set.A short and sweet ode to fat at Gastronaut Jones.The Genuine Kitchen recaps opening day at the Roots in…

Tonight: $5 Craft Beers at Books & Books Café in Coral Gables

The Café at Books & Books is holding a happy hour tonight featuring its new menu of craft beers. Starting at 4 p.m., Heineken and Amstel Light types will cost $3, while craft beers such as Magic Hat # 9, Holy Mackerel Panic Attack, Lagunitas Pale Ale and Brooklyn Brewery…

It Takes a Gingerbread Village to Get Into the Christmas Spirit

It seems like the cold snap got Fairmont Turnberry Isle pastry chef Chelsey Hawks into the Christmas spirit. She spent 150 hours building not a gingerbread house (like last year), but a whole village complete with an elf pub. Hic! We wonder how long it’ll be before someone tries to…

Miami Needs An Ethiopian Restaurant For Christmas

Some of the bloggers at Short Order are creating a holiday wish list for Miami’s food scene. Also on the list is better service and a good deli.Querido Niño Dios, I’m going to make it easy on you. What I’d really like this Christmas is for an Ethiopian restaurant to…

The Blue Piano Brings Wine, Tapas and Music to Buena Vista

The small strip on Northeast Second Avenue between 45th and 46th Street just became livelier. Not only do you have Buena Vista Bistro, Buena Vista Deli and Lemoni Café. Now there’s a place to get a glass of wine and listen to live music. I stepped inside The Blue Piano…

Roots in the City Market Reopens Today

The first Miami farmers market to double the value of food stamps reopens for the season this afternoon in Overtown. Launched in April, the Roots in the City Market is also the first market in Miami wholly operated by local farmers…

Hedy Goldsmith’s Chocolate Cremoso Recipe

As reported yesterday, pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith will be hosting a cooking demo at the Coral Gables Whole Foods this Thursday. Goldsmith will show participants how to make her popular chocolate cremoso. To help you prepare in advance, here’s Goldsmith’s recipe. If you plan to attend, remember to call 305-421-9421…

Tonight: Food Truck Gathering on Biscayne Boulevard and 109th

While it’s good to have food trucks in different locations around town, we like this idea of having them in one spot once a week, especially when that spot is close to home. More than anything it’s a chance to try trucks we haven’t come about. It wasn’t too long…