Argentines, Cubans, and Colombians, please accept my apologies. Your empanadas pale in comparison to Venezuela’s beef-, bean-, and sweet-plantain-filled empanadas de pabell�n. Yes, your empanadas are delicious. Their flaky crusts, either baked or fried, are tantalizing. The savory fillings — from Cuban picadillo to the cream, chicken, and walnuts in…
Home cooks know all too well the woes of cheap kitchen equipment. There’s the Dutch oven whose enamel begins chipping after only a few forays into a 300-degree oven; the saut�e pan with the hot spot that burns part of your omelet and leaves the other half just barely cooked…
At AQ by Acqualina, the Sunny Isles Beach restaurant helmed by famed chef Dewey LoSasso, the two-page menu is constantly being adjusted. Surprisingly, few items on the seafood-centric bill of fare crest the $30 mark. There’s the clever Spaghetti “O” With a Kick and grilled salmon with horseradish mashed potatoes…
After leading Miami’s desegregation in the ’60s, surviving the race riots of the ’80s, and persevering despite a pickup truck slamming through its front and killing two customers in 2012, the legendary Liberty City soul food spot Jumbo’s will close its doors Wednesday. Bobby Flam, who took over the restaurant…
Dewey LoSasso likes to have fun. At AQ by Acqualina, the stylish restaurant that opened in a towering, Venetian-style Sunny Isles Beach hotel-condo this past April, the mustached chef plays with dishes such as green eggs and ham. A 20-minute wait precedes a bubbling martini glass layered with sweet mascarpone…
Former Taperia Raca chef de cuisine Ryan Harrison took to Twitter last night, lashing out at his former boss and Eating House owner Giorgio Rapicavoli after Harrison left the MiMo tapas joint earlier this month. See also: Taperia Raca Offers Easy-to-Enjoy Tapas in MiMo…
The feuding owners of Seasalt and Pepper have nearly reached a deal where real estate developer Carlos Miranda would buy out nightclub designer Stephane Dupoux’s half of the business for an undisclosed sum. According to state corporation documents filed in late April, Miranda made a request to remove Dupoux’s name…
A growing group of South Florida chefs offers wildly expensive, lengthy, creative meals to a new generation of Miami diners who demand sophistication and off-menu experiences. In doing so, chef Gregory Pugin of the Biltmore Hotel’s Palme d’Or, Michael Shikany of Wynwood’s Shikany, and others are moving Miami into a…
After a few years of owning a small chain of local sandwich shops, Tom Wills decided he needed more. So the longtime Redlands man started traveling to Georgia and South Carolina to learn barbecue. He bought a trailer, started smoking baby back ribs, briskets and chicken wings, and winning competitions…
Perfectly ironed white tablecloths are topped with open glass orbs holding fresh-cut roses floating in water. The stems are twisted and tied around delicate blooms, creating bows that rise from the bowls. The rich cherry hardwood floor of Palme d’Or — the opulent, awarded-winning French culinary temple in Coral Gables’…
Too bummed to keep watching the World Cup because your team is a pack of chumps save for one bearded messiah? Suck it up, amigo. Practically every match this tournament has been a nail biter, and they’re only getting better today with two intraregional matchups sure to bring the ratchet…
As soon as you sit down at Naked Taco in South Beach, a bubbly waiter toting a frosty shaker measures out two grapefruit-tequila shots in heavy, preplaced glasses. “You have to be a little mad to have fun with us,” he says while shaking out the last drops of the…
Buns & Buns, a six-month-old South Miami restaurant, aims to return bread to the prominence it once enjoyed at the dinner table. Long ago, a fresh loaf was as important as the main protein and vegetables, and it still is in many countries, chef Reuven Sugarman says. “We want to…
As soon as you sit down at Naked Taco in South Beach, a bubbly waiter toting a frosty shaker measures out two grapefruit-tequila shots in heavy, preplaced glasses. “You have to be a little mad to have fun with us,” he says while shaking out the last drops of the…
After at least a year and a half of delays due to struggles with permitting, N by NAOE, Kevin Cory’s follow up to his striking, 12-seat omakase restaurant that in 2012 moved from Sunny Isles to Brickell Key is now open next door to his lauded restaurant. What N is,…
Buns & Buns established its affinity for the misogynistic era of the 1950s early last summer when it released a minute-long teaser video that opened with dozens of women’s tanned, oiled backsides sunbathing on an unidentified beach. “Incontestably, we all like our buns hot and steamy,” it said before cutting…
The unmistakable snapping of rice in a superheated stone bowl hints at what’s to come. The heavy gray-and-white-flecked basin typical of Japanese eateries seems misplaced at first in a Peruvian restaurant. But the nutty, charred scent of crisping grains soon dispenses any concerns about eating a Korean-Japanese mashup of sweet…
The South Beach outpost of L.A.’s Umami Burger closed over the weekend. A restaurant spokeswoman cited that dusty Alton Road construction made it impossible to continue operating. “We are thankful for our Umami fans in Miami, and we look forward to announcing a new location soon,” Umami’s Veronica Rathbourn wrote…
The unmistakable snapping of rice in a superheated stone bowl hints at what’s to come. The heavy gray-and-white-flecked basin typical of Japanese eateries seems misplaced at first in a Peruvian restaurant. But the nutty, charred scent of crisping grains soon dispenses any concerns about eating a Korean-Japanese mashup of sweet…
The Daily Creative Food Co., a Biscayne Boulevard mainstay for sandwiches and people-watching, will open a second location, on South Beach, sometime in the late fall or early winter. Owner Adam Meltzer and partner Alan Benjamini, who run the day-to-day operations at the existing location, have leased three adjacent spots…
New Times’ Best of Miami 2014 issue is here. To celebrate, Short Order is paying tribute to Miami’s culinary all-stars. These people forged our city’s food scene into what it is today — a thriving amalgam of tastes and cultures. Through their insight and talent, they’ve given the city a…
A handful of former Seasalt and Pepper employees are suing the riverside hotspot saying they were unjustly fired when tensions arose between partners Carlos Miranda and Stephane Dupoux. Former assistant manager Christophe Chalange filed a lawsuit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court on June 2 alleging Seasalt broke a six-month contract and…
