Happy New Year! 2013 looks like it’s going to be a great year for Miami food lovers. It seems that since the first of the year, either a new restaurant has opened — or announces plans to join the scene.Some trends we’ve been noticing — New York restaurateurs continue to…
Towards the end of last year, Les Dames d’Escoffier Miami, a local organization dedicated to honoring Julia Child, celebrated what would have been the Dame’s 100th birthday with a series of events.Taking part in the birthday bash at the Freedom Tower event was Soyka, who became so enamored of Child’s…
The big game is this Sunday in New Orleans and the Big Easy is filled with fans lining the streets to celebrate Super Bowl XLVII Mardi Gras style.Sure, fans lucky enough to have scored a ticket to the game get to see the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers…
Johnathan Wakefield, owner/founder of J. Wakefield Brewing Company and Miami beer crafter extraordinaire, is teaming up with Cigar City Brewing for some collaboration brewing. Again.This time, however, the new line of brews is going commercial and if Miami distributors are willing, you might get to see it in area stores.See…
The wafting smell of shawarma and freshly baked pita bread greets customers as they mosey into Oriental Bakery and Grocery. It’s one of just a handful of Middle Eastern specialty markets in Greater Miami. In fact, it was the first of its kind in South Florida, having opened 41 years…
Let’s face it, Super Bowl Sunday isn’t about touchdowns, halftime shows or hot cheerleaders. Second only to Thanksgiving in the quantity of food consumed by Americans, it’s a foodie holiday more than anything else. And for this particular caloric onslaught, beer is the beverage of choice. But don’t let your…
Ni.Do. Caffe Charms With Laid-Back Italian on the Upper Eastside
You read about the Great Twinkie Extinction here on Short Order (and everywhere else) and maybe you applauded, or more than likely, felt as if yet another piece of your childhood was being torn away from you by The Man.Well, there may be a reason to rejoice, put your footie…
The culinary community is still reeling after hearing about the death of Terrazza executive chef Stefano Riccioletti. Riccioletti, a family man with two small children, was struck and killed in an apparent DUI hit-and-run around 6 a.m. Monday by 20-year-old Karlie Tomica. Tomica fled the scene in her car, only…
The big game is only a few days away, and with it comes a host of marketing opportunities, commercials, promotions, contests, and giveaways. Each year, execs at major food and beverage companies wrack their brains for ways to get you, the consumer, to laugh, cry, and pull out your wallet…
Some might criticize Porketta, the porcine-centric Italian restaurant just off Flagler Street, as being too similar to a New York City restaurant with a similar name. Yet Northern Italians for centuries roasted pig-stuffed pig, traditionally with lungs, kidneys, and other offal, wrapped in a crisp skin…
The big game is this Sunday, and if you’re a fan of football, you’re surely planning what to make, what to buy, and delegating who’s in charge of the clean-up. We asked Blue Collar’s chef/owner Danny Serfer for a recipe to spice up the average potato skins, pretzels, and chips…
Salumeria 104 recently invited us to lunch to try some new menu items as well as the ever-changing daily special.First we munched on a variety of meats and cheeses ($6 to $24) that whetted our appetite. All the cheeses were superb, but we have to say the pecorino toscano guaranteed our everlasting…
To understand biodynamic agriculture, consider egg labeling. “Free-range” stamps previously suggested eggs laid by chickens raised on pastures. Then, it turned out, they were laid by chickens with access to the outdoors. Whether they spent time outside was (and still is) arguable. As demand for sustainable eggs increased, farmers evolved the lexicon…
The closer we get to the South Beach Wine and Food Festival (SoBeWFF), the more you’re bound to hear the name Lee Schrager. And in addition to his tireless work promoting our city’s celeb-studded ode to consumption — he’s lending his talents to the 30th anniversary edition of the Miami…
Terrazza executive chef Stefano Riccioletti was struck and killed yesterday morning by a motorist in an apparent DUI hit-and-run just steps from the restaurant he helmed at the Shore Club Hotel in South Beach. Riccioletti was thrown about 30 feet onto the driveway of the Shelborne South Beach on Collins Avenue at 18th…
It’s no secret that New Orleans exists in its own time and space. It’s a city that leases burial vaults to the dead for a year and a day (after that a corpse in a NOLA cemetery is pushed to the back to make room for another, fresher body) and…
Last weekend marked the launch of Rec Room in South Beach’s the Gale Hotel. Now, the 84-room boutique hotel, backed by LDV Hospitality, is gearing up for the opening of the Regent Cocktail Club, situated at the rear of the hotel. Like Rec Room, the Regent Cocktail Club is a…
Matteo Paderni leans with one hand on a chocolate-brown bentwood chair and makes a lively gesture with the other. At his Upper Eastside eatery, Ni.Do. Caffé, he speaks in rapid Italian to a 50-something patron, a gentleman wearing a starched white button-down shirt and his brunet hair slicked back like…
Plenty of restaurants in Miami serve a fantastic brunch spread — but most of them are expensive. And let’s face it: Not all of us are doctors and lawyers who can afford a $65 Sunday brunch at Edge or even a $45 brunch at La Gloutonnerie. Racking up a bill…
Miami-based Burger King is cutting ties with a United Kingdom meat supplier found to be using horse meat to “beef up” its products. Burgers from processors Liffey Meats and Silvercrest Foods in Ireland and Dalepak Hambleton in Britain tested positive for horse DNA, according to Reuters. Part-horse patties were also…
No, Tommy Pickles is not some extra that gets whacked in a Sopranos episode. Tommy Pickles is one of MC Kitchen’s beer cocktails ($12), served at brunch (and thankfully any time you’re jonesing for it).On Saturday afternoon, I decided to try out MC Kitchen’s new brunch, served weekends from 11:30…
