Place: Ra Sushi 5829 SW 73rd St., South Miami305-341-0092rasushi.com Hours: Monday through Saturday 3 to 7 p.m. Late-night happy hour Sunday 8 p.m. to closing. Deals: Half off select sushi and appetizers and drink specials on Kirin Sake bombers ($6), wine and specialty drinks ($5), well drinks ($4), domestic beer…
Place: Titanic Restaurant & Brewery5813 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables305-668-1742 titanicbrewery.com Hours: Daily 4 to 8 p.m.Deals: Discounts on all house brews. Scene: Located less than a block from the University of Miami campus, Titanic Brewery and Restaurant would seem like a student stronghold with the accompanying mayhem and debauchery…
One hundred bucks for a dinner for three at an upscale Miami restaurant? Never going to happen. You’d know that if you’re from Miami. But if you hail from Colorado, that might not be so obvious.It wasn’t for Dorene Miller when she dined at Azul inside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel…
Place: Monty’s Raw Bar and Grill2550 S. Bayshore Drive, Coconut Grove305-856-3992 Hours: Monday through Friday, 4-8 p.m. Deals: Half off all cocktails and beer discounts. $3 Stone Crab claws and $2 for two shrimp, oysters or clams from raw bar. Scene: You haven’t lived through a real happy hour until you’re caught…
The days when humans had to eat every single piece of the animals they hunted to survive are long gone. But somebody forgot to tell that to the jokers who enjoy ingesting the following list of meat products. Some come straight from the cow, pig, sheep, and even moose. Others…
“Chew with your mouth closed.” Everybody’s been slapped with that phrase and not only because of the mess in our pie holes. We don’t want to hear it. The following list of obnoxiously loud foods won’t be silenced with just closed-mouth chewing. You need a muzzle to quiet these bad…
His heart seems to be in the right place, but Wyclef Jean’s political aptitude is tone deaf. Don’t get us wrong, welcoming President Jean to office would be pretty cool, but he might not exactly know how to help a nation that lost 220,000 of its residents and most of…
Place: Democratic Republic of Beer255 NE 14th Street, Miami305-372-4161www.drbmiami.com Hours: Monday through Friday, 4-7:30 p.m. Deals: Special six-pack beer menu with varying prices. Scene: One minute you’ll be drinking a German Kostritzer at the Democratic Republic of Beer (DRB) and the place will be empty and five minutes later three…
If we hear the phrase “best chicken wings in Miami” one more time, we just might dunk our heads in a deep fryer to drown out the hyperbole. Every restaurant this side of Cuba that hawks drummettes, wings, or any other part of a fried bird claims to have the…
Hialeah haikus. Chew on that idea for a moment. And before you commit harakiri at the thought of the pairing, just focus on the words, short and purposefully constructed to elicit a strong visceral reaction. Isn’t that the essence of a haiku? You know, it makes sense in a Hialeah…
Place: Scotty’s Landing3381 Pan American Drive, Coconut Grove305-854-2626Hours: Open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. No happy hour.Deals: None needed.Scene: Scotty’s Landing on the waterfront in the Grove does not have a happy hour. Having said that, every hour…
Harvey’s Smokehouse BBQwww.harveysmokehousebbq.com20218 Old Cutler Road, Cutler Bay 33189(305) 233-1227 Harvey Alexander is not your usual southern grill master. Firstly, he’s not from the south, even though he opened Harvey’s Smokehouse Barbecue way down south in Cutler Bay. He grew up in Delaware. And B, Harvey has got his own…
Did you really think Lindsay Lohan was going to do any hard time for breaking probation yet again? There’s better chances of her staring in Freaky Friday II. Sadly, her short-lived incarceration will just hasten what seems more and more likely to be her ever-shortening life. The thing is, if…
Hialeah Haikus … Chew on that idea for a moment. And before you commit harakiri at the thought of the pairing, just focus on the words, short and purposefully constructed to elicit a strong visceral reaction. Isn’t that the essence of a haiku? You know, it makes sense in a Hialeah…
Try to imagine a Nicaraguan Million Dollar Baby and you have La Yuma, a film about a woman in Managua who dreams of getting inside a boxing ring a la Hillary Swank. It’s the first Nicaraguan feature film made in two decades, and it’s exactly the kind of movie that…
Place: The Sports Exchange45 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables.305-774-1222www.sportsexchangemiami.com Hours: Monday through Friday, 5-8 p.m. Late-night 11 p.m. to closing Deals: 2 for 1 specials, $5 well, $3 domestic, and $3 house wine drink specials, as well as half-priced appetizers and $5 pizza specials. Scene: Sometimes happy hour coincides with a…
Place: Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant1201 Brickell Avenue, Miami786-425-1130www.gordonbiersch.com Hours: Monday through Friday, 4-6:30 p.m. and late night happy hour is everyday from 10 p.m.-closing. Deals: $1 off all house lagers, $2 off wines by the glass and $5 cocktails during happy. Select appetizers also go for $5 to $7. Scene:…
Not since Beelzebub was dumped from Heaven by the Big Guy himself has somebody been so deserving of losing his job as BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. The greasy executive will officially step down October 1, and his imminent departure got us thinking about other famous firings in history. Take it…
The Place: Black Point Ocean Grill24775 Galloway Road, Homestead305-258-3918 The Hours: Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Deals: $1 off all drinks. From 3 to 6 p.m. happy hour menu. The Scene: One has better chances of stumbling upon a Black Hole than Black Point Marina and…
Coral Gables founder George Merrick envisioned a southern paradise with a bustling downtown surrounded by citrus plantations when planned out the City Beautiful. And good ol’Merrick was well on his way to his dream city before the Great Depression and the 1926 hurricane wreaked havoc on his plans. He was…
There’s been a lot of leaking lately. First, it was Mel Gibson’s heavy-breathing tirade, and now something that is just a tad more relevant — WikiLeaks’ releasing thousands of pages of allegedly classified documents pertaining to the War in Afghanistan. It’s official. The leaks are gushing. It’s time to honor other seminal moments…
The Place: John Martin’s Irish Pub and Restaurant 253 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables305-445-3777www.johnmartins.com The Hours: Monday through Friday 4-8 p.m. The Deals: Half off all house wines, liquor and 20-oz imported drafts. The Scene: Owner Martin Lynch runs his bar like any good Irishmen, with the star of the show being…
