The crab-off brewing on Miami Gardens Drive ended before it began. We decided to check out two dueling crab restaurants — Tali’s Crab Shack and Capt. Crab’s Takeaway — but when it came to the crab, it wasn’t much of a contest. It was obvious why after the first step…
Hedy Goldsmith screwed Kellogg’s. How did she do it? It started when your average, hungover Miamian sought the comforting Sunday morning breeze and sunshine on the patio of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink. Amongst the fried, eggy and meaty brunch treats visitors saw homemade Pop-Tarts filled with jellies and jams…
Every day every caliber of Miami restaurant heads to Craigslist to seek the help they need. You can just as easily find the Genuine Hospitality Group staffing up for the onslaught of tourist season as you can a nameless Kendall pizza joint looking for a prep cook and dough stretcher…
You won’t find tostones at Azucar on Calle Ocho. Nor will you turn up flan, at least not in its usual form. Suzy Batlle’s ice cream shop, inspired by the memory of her abuela — hand-makes ice cream and yogurt every day. The flan comes in three different flavors; pumpkin,…
The eating world is paying more attention to food’s origin than ever. Yet the locavores’ work is far from done. There’s been plenty of debate on whether locally grown and raised food is the answer to crises like hunger and obesity, but that’s not what’s important. What matters is that…
Update: Panther Coffee co-owner Leticia Pollock said the Sunset Harbour shop received its certificate of occupancy from Miami-Dade County Thursday morning. They’ll be soft opening on Monday May 13 at 7 a.m. Construction atPanther Coffee’s long-awaited Sunset Harbour store at 1875 Purdy Ave. on Miami Beach has wrapped and the…
If you are what you drink, then most of South Florida’s beer snobs are fruits or just plain bitter. Hoppy, pungent IPAs and light, easy-drinking pilsners infused with berries or citrus garnered the longest lines at the Miami New Times’ Brew at the Zoo on Saturday night at ZooMiami…
Since 2009 David Rosendorf — better known as Frodnesor on Twitter or by his blog, Food For Thought — has offered even-keeled commentary on Miami’s ever-changing scene. As a co-founder of Cobaya, Miami’s not-so-underground underground-dining group, he and co-conspirators have helped set the city’s gastronomic agenda while offering a one-of-a-kind…
After two years of delays, Alberto Cabrera has found a space for his long-discussed Frita Shop at the corner of Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Salamanca Avenue. Opening sometime this summer, the shop will be the first of several spots, he said. “It’s going to be terribly simple,” he said…
In Miami to announce SFX Entertainment’s near $100 million acquisition of the producer of TomorrowLand and Sensation White, ID&T Worldwide, Robert F.X. Sillerman held court Thursday afternoon in the shade of a cabana at the Delano Hotel. So we here at Crossfade sat down with Sillerman to discuss what drives…
Most Winter Music Conference parties revolve around barely clad revelers hopped on stimulants dancing for hours next to a petri dish of a hotel pool. So when Ali Shirazini, the DJ better known as Dubfire, who was once half of the iconic EDM duo Deep Dish, announced a invite-only party…
It seems only fitting that the rising kingpin of electronic dance music, Robert F.X. Sillerman, is using Winter Music Conference and Miami Music Week as a platform to make some still-secret announcement regarding his recent acquisition of ID&T North America, the U.S division of the Netherlands-based company that produces the…
“You could put out sea urchin and conch ceviche and wine roasted short ribs that shit rainbows” and people will still pick comfort foods, Andrew Zimmern said just before announcing Ms. Cheezious as winner — for the second year in a row — of the People’s Choice award at the…
People often say Miami isn’t quite part of the South. Yet Magic City chefs put out the best food at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Southern Brunch at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel late Sunday morning, even if they didn’t have the longest lines. A little more than…
The person who roots for movie villains would’ve also hoped the Island Creek Oysters shucking team would collapse under the onslaught of boisterous, middle-aged food nerds at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Oyster Bash. But cynics be damned. For two early-evening hours on Hotel Victor’s roof on Friday…
For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times’ Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. A look at the full events lineup of the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival can be dizzying. There are more celebrity chefs than you can shake…
Somebody must have been on the receiving end of a misfired shot of Guy Fieri’s Donkey Sauce and isn’t too happy about. The food television personality and his team forgot to buy all of the web addresses that could be associated with his Times Square restaurant. Hilarity ensued…
Bulla Gastrobar, in the space that Por Fin once occupied, opens this week just off Miracle Mile. Short Order was invited to a friends-and-family opening to taste some of the menu and see how the space was transformed from a white-linen restaurant to what owner Carlos Centurion hopes will become…
For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times’ Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. By the time 2012 was upon us, more than 100 food trucks were rolling around Greater Miami. It seemed only natural some of them should feed the gastrophilic masses…
There are a lot of reasons why you haven’t bought tickets for anything at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival this year. Maybe you swore it off after emptying your bank account for back-to-back events on the same weekend last year. Maybe you were diligent about filing your taxes…
After several months of planning what turned into two separate restaurants Alberto Cabrera, formerly of Karu & Y and The Local Craft Food and Drink, quietly opened Bread + Butter Counter (Pan con Mantequilla) about two weeks ago toward the west end of Miracle Mile. The restaurant’s décor and menu…
The first part of Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off The Boat Miami episode airs today on YouTube and starts with the New York chef and author riding around on the Bang Bus with Jada Stevens, discussing how she’s stays fit, what she eats before a shoots and cutting a scene with…
