No, I don’t know what breed it was. Yes, I know I’m disgusting. It tastes mostly like overcooked lamb. The worst part is actually the mushy gray fermented shrimp sauce that smells like a bowl of anchovies left to bake in the sun for six months. Now that your basic…
The fried chicken at Pack Super Market in Little Haiti isn’t something you’d find easily on the island. Kernizan Philias, who with his family opened the bare-bones market and counter-only eatery on NW 2nd Avenue 16 years ago, said the recipe is based on griot — fried chunks of pork…
The savory scent of pork-filled GAB Studios on Sunday afternoon as a group of Miami’s most notable chefs joined forces for P.I.G. 4, the swine-heavy feast led by Jeremiah Bullfrog. During these all-you-can-eat extravaganzas, food enthusiasts like to crown the top dish — the so-called bite of the night. But…
A breakfast sandwich is not a complicated thing. Eggs, cheese, and meat are cooked and then stuffed between toasted bread. But in Miami, there aren’t any classic versions of this dish…
Since its inception in 2009, chef Jeremiah Bullfrog’s P.I.G. (Pork Is Good) celebrations have ballooned from solo shows to fetes with Miami’s best chefs. For its fourth rendition, the Gastropod owner and personal chef to Rick Ross is planning an unusual move. He’s letting other chefs upstage him…
During a recent visit to Palatino Jamaican Restaurant, my entr�e took longer to make it to the table than it took Food Network’s Sandra Lee, Anne Burrell, and Melissa D’Arabian to cook full meals onscreen. At this small Jamaican restaurant, there was more than an hour wait for lunch. During…
About a month ago, Panya Amporn, the owner of North Miami Beach’s Panya Thai, asked his ex-wife to come back to work for the restaurant. “An employee quit, and he called me,” Judy Khuanthong says. Back in 2003, when the pair was still married, she helped her husband open the…
Kevin Danilo does a good job keeping his chin up as work continues inside the 5,300-square-foot space in Brickell that will in a few months open as Batch Gastropub. See also: Batch Promises Brickell a Real-Deal Gastropub…
Moments after taking your seat inside Etzel Itzik Deli a barrage of food in small white plastic bowls clacks down on your table. There are hot, fluffy pitas, a beet salad, pasta salad, tart shredded cabbage, and shucked corn in a cream sauce. A green chalkboard sign above the kitchen…
In a shock to attendees, frita fanatics and the Miami Twitterverse El Rey de las Fritas’ Cuban hamburger bested the creation of Ortelio Cárdenas, El Mago de las Fritas, at Burger Beast’s first ever Frita Showdown at Magic City Casino Wednesday night. See also: Miami’s Top Ten Fritas Cubanas…
Miami Spice is imminent and if you haven’t already taken the time to peruse the menus of participating restaurants it’s high time you do so. Here’s a couple quick pieces of advice: You’re looking for menus that offer a wide array of choices for each of the three courses. You’re…
Ladies and gentlemen, Bee has left the Beach. See also: Khong River House Review: Boat Noodles, Cool Digs, and Hot Hooch in SoBe…
There’s no shortage of glamour at Makoto Okuwa’s Bal Harbour restaurant. It hits you before you step inside the dimly lit, black and light brown space. You’ve schlepped yourself clear across town for a chance to taste the Morimoto protégé’s fare at a reasonable price. Miami Spice is that oh-so-special…
Every door inside the former home of the slain fashion icon Gianni Versace was unlocked. Now on the auction block after its owner filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, the opulent 23,000-square-foot manse now known as Casa Casuarina was an open house this week as a team of lawyers, auctioneers,…
Ismael and Gisela Soriano liked El Palacio de los Jugos — the Calle Ocho and Coral Way shrines to chicharrones and batidos — so much they decided to open two of their own in Homestead and Hialeah, calling them Zoe El Palacio de los Jugos, according to a recently filed…
At Preservation in Sunny Isles jars of Jersey Gina’s Gems are for sale just next to a sprawling L-shaped bar. The pickle recipe comes from chef Ryan Harrison’s mother. He says they contain garlic, dill, white vinegar, salt and sugar, but he won’t name the ratios. The more than 30-year-old…
Downtown burger-and-tater tot standby The Filling Station & Garage Bar is adding a few more pumps. In doing so it’s also closing Reggae Tacos, a Jamaican spot that opened in late 2012 filling tortillas with curried goat and jerk chicken. No one answered phone calls at the restaurant, and as…
Chanivia Broussard may be one the best female basketball players to ever pass through the University of Miami. By the time she left in 2003, she had scored 1,482 points (7th all-time for the Hurricanes). She holds the same rank for field goals (621) and is ranked 10th for rebounds…
Gene Devaney did what any 21st Century Bro would do when one of his buddies, in this case David Boyce, needed help: He took to the Internet to tell his story and ask for support, not expecting much in return. Yet the Internet responded, putting up thousands of dollars to…
Remember El Rancho Grande? That quasi-stereotypical Mexican/Tex-Mex restaurant hidden just off Lincoln Road behind SushiSamba? About a year and a half ago, as the restaurant neared its 20th year in business, owner Jose Ortiz had to shutter it because “the rent went crazy.” Declining to give numbers, he adds, “There…
The truth is James Gandolfini, who died Wednesday at age 51 of a heart attack, had a career that extended well beyond the hit HBO show The Sopranos. There was the time he played Winston, a gay hit man, in The Mexican. It made 90 minutes with Brad Pitt and…
Imagine you want to open a Chinese restaurant. The idea is to take standard, Americanized Chinese food; add a few epicurean ingredients like foie gras, pork belly (a Chinese favorite for centuries), and yuzu; and offer it all in a graffiti-covered, mostly take-away building that straddles Wynwood, Overtown, and the…
