Food & Drink

View photos from Trucks on the Beach here.The South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Trucks on the Beach closing party proved once and for all that people will wait on line for 45 minutes for food.Lines were the name of the game at this event, as trucks turned out food…

Mother Nature relented just in time yesterday; rain came down as guests of the Brunch at Sea arrived, but then it stopped moments before boarding. Immediately upon entering the ship, diners buzzed around, moving from station-to-station in an effort to try one of everything being offered while being blasted by…

​Around 100 folks at Saturday’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival seminar with Meatball Shop owner Daniel Holzman and international wine personality Mark Oldman left with more than they probably hoped for: five balls in the mouth and all the alcohol a groupie should swallow by noon. The event was…

The phrase “farm to table” to me implies lush green produce being wrenched from the ground, maybe run under a garden hose, and then plopped onto your waiting plate.Apparently, I need to consult my rural dictionary, because what happened to the locally sourced and fresh fruits and veggies between the…

Dinner with the Neelys is what a Food Network fanatic would call a dream come true. For sex lovers, however, it’s what we’d call a wet dream come true.The Tennessee couple host Food Network’s Down Home with the Neelys but last night, it was more of an All Out at…

It’s a fact. Most nights spent dancing and partying wind down in the local diner or coffee shop. Over some soggy fries and a tepid greaseburger, you wish that there was some place open where you could get some stone crab claws … or Peking duck … or wood-oven pizza…

The Miami Marlins new ballpark was the venue for what had to have been the most striking (pun intended) event of the 2012 South Beach Wine & Food Festival.The moment guests stepped out of the elevator onto the field level Diamond Club area for cocktails and appetizers, cameras flashed and…

​Five hundred dollars per ticket was too much for our budget to allow, but we still wanted to experience last night’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival Tribute Dinner honoring Charlie Trotter and Piero Antinori so we snuck into the kitchen for a behind-the-scenes peek.What we found was not only…

The grub and the booze lasted all night long, and that’s why we loved Thrillist’s BBQ & The Blues last night. There was no line to get in, simply present your ticket and boom, welcome to the party (Burger Bash snaked around for what seemed like miles, a pissed out…

In an event that combined New Age holistic nutrition and haute couture interior design, Mega Way founder Brigitte M. Britton hosted an intimate healthy breakfast at a gorgeous suite at Ocean House, a new luxury residential building at 125 Ocean Drive.A tiny gal with a big personality, Britton and her…

We don’t know for sure if she was in fact toasted upon arrival to her own event. Anne Burrell brought fun to the table so, who cares? Yesterday, we took part in the Barilla-sponsored interactive lunch with the Iron Chef season four runner-up. Was the food good? Well, that depended…

​View photos of Best of the Best at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach here.​Best of the Best is always a grand affair. Overwhelmingly so at times with the plethora of top flight wines and foods from some of America’s(and Miami’s) finest chefs. Riki Altman was covering the local angle of this…

It’s that time of year again when we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2012 issue in June. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.87. The Red…

There are many factors when it comes to evaluating a wine, that it’s hard to separate the glass from the equation, according to wine expert Max Riedel, owner and proprietor of Riedel Crystal. Riedel showcased his line of glassware yesterday at the Perry Hotel for the South Beach Wine and…

Hedy Goldsmith and Diet Pepsi have teamed up for a trucking excursion to the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. You can catch them at Sunday night’s “Trucks on the Beach” event, where Hedy’s signature chocolate chunk cookies (with a hint of Maldon salt on top) will be…

View photos of Best of the Best at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach here.​Thanks to the gracious folks at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival and their reps, Short Order was able to dispatch not one, but two of our finest to last night’s Wine Spectator’s Best of…

View photos of Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach here.Although we had grand dreams that a local chef would take the prize, Symon’s B Spot Burgers claimed the People’s Choice Award yet again this year at last night’s Burger Bash (that’s a third consecutive win for him). Fellow Iron…

It seems that whenever the South Beach Wine & Food Festival has a party at the Herzog & de Meuron parking garage at 1111 Lincoln Road, there’s someone hanging by their feet.Last year’s Let Them Eat Cake event hosted by Emeril Lagasse and Martha Stewart featured lovely ladies pouring champagne…

The various satellite events that orbit the South Beach Wine & Food Festival increase each year. By “satellite event” I mean relatively small gatherings sponsored by food-and-beverage related companies that sometimes invitation only for media and sponsors, and other times open to the public. These happenings are not directly related…