Food & Drink

If there’s one thing that New Year’s Eve will almost always guarantee, it’s a room-spinning-head-banging hangover the next morning- err… afternoon. We’ve compiled a list of the top five places to nip that hangover in the bud before it even happens (and if you hit up one of our super…

Buying calendars is a kind of a new concept. Growing up, we usually got a calendar from some local shop. Dad got a calendar filled with either babes in bikinis (or less) or cars from the local tire shop, mom placed one on the kitchen wall filled with either flowers…

In our experience, trips to Miami International Airport are anything but good for our health. Between the stress of parking and getting through security to the greasy cheese pizza we shovel down before running onto a flight, every airport trip feels like it takes a year off our life.But according…

As the opening credits start, I can’t wait to see where Tony is taking us to on his little overnighter that he calls The Layover. I’ve been on an extended vacation and haven’t checked the internet to find out the targeted city.  So many exciting cities to visit — Paris,…

Wikipedia defines price gouging as a “pejorative term referring to a situation in which a seller prices goods or commodities much higher than is considered reasonable or fair.” Sounds like New Year’s Eve in Miami, when local restaurants dig deep into the pockets of tourists determined to pay for the…

The chain of holidays at the end of the year is good of an excuse as any to party up and overindulge, which also means you can plan to bring on the weight gain!Not so fast. Between the cookies, candy canes, pastries, egg nog and Yorkshire pudding, there’s no question…

It’s the holiday season in Miami, and the best gift you can give someone to beat this heat is a scoop from our top picks. We journeyed everywhere from Homestead to North Miami in search for the best creamy frozen treat. We covered the entire spectrum from gelatto, creme glacee,…

Farewell 2011: We laughed, we cried, but mostly we ate. And there were a lot of very good meals to eat throughout the year. This coming week, the Cafe review will feature a look back at the past twelve months. In the meantime, let’s chew over the ten best restaurants…

Ah, isn’t it refreshing when you dine at a restaurant and leave thinking, “that was worth every penny and pound and I’d do it again in a heartbeat”? Such was the case at Edge Steak & Bar. The amount of praise I have for this beacon of gastronomic hope in…

Christmas sugar cookies don’t exactly reinvent the wheel when it comes to creative pastry. This year, why not go beyond the usual array of standard shapes like snowmen, spruce trees, reindeer and the inevitable jolly man himself, Santa Claus? For a holiday sweet that is really a treat, check out…

Perusing the past year’s restaurant reviews has brought to light something I suspected: I wasn’t very mean in 2011. It was difficult to find five scathing critiques. In fact, I really didn’t find any — there was only mild sarcasm in a few of the following. Still, these were the…