Gail Simmons has a lot on her plate, so to speak. She’s just added author to her already insane resume as Top Chef judge, Top Chef:Just Desserts host, and special projects director for Food & Wine magazine.Gail’s memoir, Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life As a Professional Eater was…
The “Winebow Wine Pavilion” requires a powerful lesson in self-directed navigation (okay, the whole “village” is sort of a booze and food maze of confusion, see more for help on that here), but you don’t want to miss out on international array of winemakers who are bringing their bottles to…
Ready for another try? Short Order is offering one last set tickets to the sold out Trucks on the Beach event Sunday night at South Beach Wine & Food Festival to the first reader who can guess the answer to the following question, without going over. The retail cost of…
Those eyes, that charm, and that voice. Yes, Antonio Banderas has spent decades making hearts pitter patter but the movie star has proven equally successful at his latest endeavor, wine maker. Antonio is in Miami this weekend introducing his Anta Banderas wines during the annual South Beach Wine and Food…
Bethenny Frankel won our hearts as the struggling single girl in a sea of diamond-clad wives in Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York. Fans watched as she grew her Skinnygirl empire, found love, and had a daughter, Bryn. Bethenny Ever After follows Frankel, husband Jason Hoppy and baby on their…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival is taking a detour out of South Beach for one of 2012’s most unique dinners. The Diamond Dishes event on Saturday, February 25 allows a lucky few an advance peek at the new state-of-the-art Marlins’ ballpark long before the very first pitch.The sold-out…
View photos from the Q at Delano here.It was the perfect night for a barbecue–or as us South Beach Wine & Food Festival aficionados like to call it–“The Q”; the sun had begun to set, painting the sky in aqua and peach, and a marching band serenaded eager ticketholders, but…
Until a recent $7 million makeover, the Rusty Pelican was becoming a musty Pelican. All of that work has freshened up the joint, but there was something cozy and unpretentious about the old driftwood-inspired seafood-house décor. The new look features an entrance through a sleek glassed-in wine corridor, but the…
Woohoo! We have a winner for yesterday’s trivia question! Congratulations to Chad Thorson for guessing the closest answer. If we laid out all of the ice cream sandwiches Coolhaus plans to serve at Trucks on the Beach, the closing event at this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival, they…
Robert Irvine is the buff star of Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible, taking miserably failing restaurants and turning them into success stories. He’s also the subject of many photographs at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, most memorably last year when he provided his back as transportation for fellow Food…
If you’re a fan of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York, you might want to get over the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Grand Tasting Village on Sunday at 3:15 p.m., to enjoy Countess LuAnn de Lesseps, who will be giving a cooking demo. Yep, one of the Housewives…
Jonathan Waxman’s Mexican food roots lead us on a winding road from Chez Panisse to Rosa Mexicano. Growing up in El Cerrito, California, apparently influenced his choice in “go-to comfort food,” Last night we got a first taste of what it means to be Rosa Mexicano’s “Culinary Advisor” with the…
Cuban Guys, a new fast-food concept in Hialeah (3174 W 76th Street), celebrated its grand opening last night, so you can get your frita on — quickly and frequently. Owned in part by fast food industry veteran Jorge Llapur, Isaac Sklar (an architect who designed the iconic Pollo Tropical restaurants),…
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.88. Carnitas Torta…
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival opens today. One of the nation’s premiere food events, it will draw around 70,000 people this year. The Whole Foods Market Grand Tasting Village, held Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Ocean Drive and 13th Street, is one of…
Rusty Pelican: After a pricey renovation, the view still trumps the chew
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.89. Bone Marrow…
One of the hottest tickets at the 2012 South Beach Wine and Food Festival is Thursday evening’s Dining in the Dark at the Perry South Beach Hotel, part of The New York Times Dinner Series. The sold-out event, hosted by David Burke with Market 17, allows diners to experience food…
You probably know Andrew Zimmern as the guy who eats eyeballs and bats on the Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods. You might not know that Zimmern, a trained chef and journalist with a love of street food, is an annual participant in the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. This year…
If you thought dining at Villa Mayfair with that special someone was financially unachievable, you were probably right. It’s the kind of place you go to splurge on after you receive your tax return. But lucky for you, there’s hope!The brains behind Mayfair’s operation are calling it Blush Wednesdays. It…
Trucks on the Beach is the closing event and one of the coolest at this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Among the entrants: Miami’s Coolhaus. Short Order is offering a set of Trucks on the Beach tickets for Sunday night to the first reader who can guess the…
Alexandre Passalacqua will be leading a “Cooking With and For Kids” demo this coming Sunday, February 26, at 6 p.m. in the Miami Beach Convention Center. The event is part of Blazing Kitchen, an ongoing interactive series of culinary demonstrations, seminars, and tastings within the second annual Miami Wine &…
