If you’re looking for the ultimate dinner with a view experience, it’s time to take your life savings out of your piggy bank and book a trip to a less tamer part of the world.A pop-up restaurant is being planned as part of a fundraising climb on Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro.The…
Luca Bella in Aventura: Italian-American, Family-Style Tastiness
We’ve been awaiting the opening or Georges-Eric Farge’s eponymous new midtown establishment since we wrote about it almost a year ago. Though it was set to open last June, Farge has been holding the curtain for some time, hoping for an opening “that makes it out to seem like it’s…
Miami loves its food trucks. Whether we catch one on the side of the road for a lunchtime snack or head to a roundup to eat our way through several dozen offerings, we’re sweet on all the goodness coming from those mobile munch units.But which truck is the best in…
For years, eating gluten-free meant having to forgo the weekly box of Dunkin’ Donuts that magically appears in just about every break room across America — until now.Dunkin’ Donuts is getting on the gluten-free bandwagon by testing a few items in two major markets — Boston and Miami!So far, two…
If you were to step into Luca Bella in Aventura, perhaps after shopping at the nearby mall or maybe, like most patrons, after driving from Williams Island in your Mercedes-Benz, you might notice a dish named “burnt cauliflower” at the menu’s end. It’s a peculiar offering, but waiters suggest this…
Now that the holidays are over and the smorgasbord of sugar cookies, fatty meats, cheese plates and cocktails of all kinds has come to a halt, many feel like such lard-asses that their instinct is to embark on a sudden and drastic plan of deprivation.Their New Year’s resolutions to counterbalance…
The 2013 Discover Orange Bowl, Miami’s first exciting event of the year, pits the Northern Illinois Huskies against the Florida State Seminoles tonight at 8:30 p.m. It promises to be a great game, with the ‘Noles on a mission to claim victory for Florida and win their first BCS game…
As we transition into 2013, “experts” in every field are making their annual predictions about what’s bound to happen in the new year. But does anyone really care about who’s planning to get preggers (like the world needs another Kardashian) or which social network’s gonna go bust? Not so much…
The last month of the new year saw a lot of anticipated 2012 restaurants opening under the wire. Ralph Pagano’s Alba at Sole On The Ocean provides classic Italian cuisine and fresh seafood with a panoramic ocean view to the northernmost parts of Miami and Miami Beach. Although the official…
There are still a few spots left for the early seating tonight at New Times’ Best Restaurant in Little Havana (2012), Catharsis Restaurant & Lounge. It’s an all-in-one kind of place, where you can eat, drink, and dance to your heart’s content.They will offer the opportunity to choose from three different…
The Miami Dolphins ended another disappointing season Sunday, once again missing the playoffs.Rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill did his best in his first season, though nothing near playoff-bound fellow rookies Washington’s Robert Griffin III, Indianapolis’ Andrew Luck and Seattle’s Russell Wilson. First-year coach Joe Philbin didn’t do much to improve an NFL-worst attendance…
It’s New Year’s Eve and even though you swore that you and your cat were happy ordering pizza and downing a bottle of prosecco, you decided against the “It’s-just-another-night-so-why-should-I-get-all-dressed-up-and-go-out” crap and are now scrambling to find a place to party.Break out your party duds and call one of these places…
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Looking back at 2012, we noticed a big trend — weirdness. A lot of weird stuff happened in the food industry.From a fast-food joint with a political stance to a sweet grandma becoming an overnight sensation for a restaurant review, the food industry took a ride to crazytown this year.A…
Catch is set to open at the James Royal Palm Hotel the first week of 2013, making it one of the first restaurants of the new year. The restaurant is the second Catch, the flagship restaurant having opened in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district in 2011. As you can tell by it’s…
January 1st: the only day of the year when the government sanctions our hangovers with paid time off. After overindulging in bottles of cheap champagne and a river of Red Bull vodkas, there’s nothing better than an oversized midday meal to soothe your aching head and rumbling tummy. And if…
For those of you who are more keen on skipping dinner for New Year’s Eve, the next logical alternative is to hit up a local bar. On this list is everything from Brickell Irish Pub to Ted’s Hideaway to Churchill’s to Tobacco Road. Some of them have $50 open-bar promos,…
For the past few weeks, Short Order has been wrapping up all things food-related in one giant, virtual doggie bag labeled 2012. From Pete Wells’ epic skewering of Guy Fieri to the played-out pork belly – it’s been a wild ride on the foodie roller coaster this year. And now…
If you were to delve into the strenuous task of assembling a layer cake, maybe for a co-worker’s office birthday party, or maybe just to enjoy the unadulterated bliss that comes from eating thick stacks of sugar and flour, then you first must understand the distinct importance of each sweet…
According to the data we pulled on your favorite things to read in 2012, the only proper way to describe you would be like this: A cupcake-eating, burger-hankering, breakfast-cooking, Taco Bell-drive-thru-ing, Bourdain-Tweeting, date-romancing, french fry-licking, late-night-eating, macaroni and cheese-making, vegan-living, Miami Spice-going, barbecue-ribbin’, cheap-eating, sushi-catching individual who would do anything…
With the new year fast approaching (or the end of the world, if that’s how you see it), time is working against us to start making New Year’s Eve plans. Because Miami is an NYE party destination, locals have to make particularly savvy arrangements to ensure a successful evening. No…
