After Sunday night’s epic holiday meal battle in Kitchen Stadium against chef Elizabeth Falkner, Geoffrey Zakarian — who recently opened the Tudor House restaurant in South Beach — prevailed using the secret ingredients as his allies (beef crown roast, candy canes, clementines, acorn and butternut squash, salt cod, Brussels sprouts,…
As every Southerner knows, adding a shot (or three or four) of bourbon makes for a mighty fine barbecue sauce. But adding a shot of barbecue to your bourbon? That’s a new one on me, y’all.So, when the invitation came to check out the Edge Bar & Steak’s new bar…
Ahhhh, the holidays. A most wonderful time of the year. And let’s be honest, a most stressful one, too. Bake. Shop. Eat.It can be exhausting. You know how it goes. It gets down to the last minute and you can’t stop yawning and trying to figure out how in the…
When you think of a bunch of the city’s top chefs getting together to celebrate the holidays, what do you picture? A whole roasted pig and caipirinhas? No? Well, at Sugarcane in Midtown, Timon Balloo pulled out all the stops Monday evening to welcome his fellow toques to an evening…
It seems fitting that Cinco Cantina & Tequila Bar opened in the Village of Merrick Park this past Cinco de Mayo. Not only are the two “Cincos” in sync, but the holiday is celebrated more here than south of the border, just as Cinco Cantina’s food is much more American…
For many the thought of making a gingerbread house is daunting. You gotta bake and make 10 things before you can even get close to the fun assembly (i.e. finger lickin’ icing and eating gum drops) part.Forget that. All you really need are a few ingredients, which will run you…
File this under when a deal sounds too good to be true, it usually is. You can ignore the end of the following paragraph; it turns out the folks over at 100 Montaditos got a little ahead of themselves. They have decided not to run Dollarmania every day; the $1-for-all-montaditos…
Kombucha is fermented tea crawling with live and active cultures. And it is taking up ever more shelf space in the beverage aisle at Whole Foods. Why? It may help restore health to your digestive tract and give you an immune boost.Probiotics are not just for yogurts anymore. In fact,…
There aren’t many restaurants on Miami Beach that have been around since 1920. The Forge is one of em’, and its storied past swims in local history like a mangrove snapper in the salty waters off the south coast. Owner Shareef Malnik’s steady hand on the tiller, and Chef Dewey…
South Floridians in need of a job can now look to Denny’s restaurant and the Rebuild Your Life Project for some hope. Two Denny’s locations are holding mass hiring events tomorrow in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.The chain is looking to fill several dozen part-time, full-time and management jobs in 14…
Macarons are absolutely the new cupcakes.I know this because I was watching ABC News and they said that “macaroons are the new cupcakes.” The next day Time magazine came in the mail and in it was an article entitled “Will Macarons be the new cupcake?” Then I Googled “macarons are…
Shoppers at the supermarket are bombarded with a variety of brands and types of olive oil to choose from but the reality is that as much as half the stuff sold in the U.S. as “extra-virgin olive oil” is either deceptively mislabeled or just plain fraudulent, according to Tom Mueller…
If one of your wild food fantasies includes running up and down the aisles of Whole Foods like a crazy person, filling your shopping cart with any and everything your heart — and stomach — desire, and doing it without spending your whole paycheck, read on. The people over at…
We gave you an early roundup of where to experience the true holiday cheer of a meal made easy (meaning, by someone else), so now we present the second installation of those restaurants trying to entice you to go out for Christmas this year. Here’s what you’ll eat and what…
Bee Heaven opened its doors to the public yesterday for its annual Farm Day. This year, they hosted food trucks (Dim Ssam a Gogo and the Real Sorbet Cart) to the crowds on their beautiful property…
Salumeria 104, Midtown’s newest restaurant contender, is really a candy store for meatheads, offering a little taste of Italy courtesy of Chef Angelo Masarin. This native of Treviso has spent the last few years making the rounds of Miami’s best Italian kitchens, including Casa Tua, Sardinia Enoteca and most recently,…
Last month, we gave four trucks the opportunity to compete to the sixteenth and final truck to be invited to park on the sands of Miami Beach for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Trucks on the Beach event hosted by Andrew Zimmern on February 26.Mac’n Soul Food, Miso…
Last night, my dining partner and I were invited to a chi-chi press dinner at the Villa Mayfair Restaurant & Lounge in Coconut Grove. So we got dolled up and arrived very hungry.The restaurant (which turns into a lounge after hours) is stunning. Dim lighting, classy antique-like furniture, low-slung textured ceilings…
There are thousands of comestibles and cooking gadgets on the market, but you would think most chefs have just about every conceivable piece of equipment they might possibly want — and we know they have access to all sorts of foods. But it turns out that there are vacancies on…
Foodies, rejoice! Miami-based Celebrity Cruises is rolling out a series of culinary-inspired boat rides set to begin in March.Celebrity Cruises’ lifestyle cookbook, Excite the Senses, was the inspiration for the new food-and-wine-themed luxury cruise series aptly named Excite the Senses Culinary Theme Cruises. It will offer guests an opportunity to…
Last February, we heralded the midtown Miami opening of the first American branch of 100 Montaditos. There are more than 200 locations in the rest of the world (many of them in the place of origin, Spain), and the one in midtown has been a huge hit — lines spilling…
This Sunday, December 18, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bee Heaven Farm will opens its doors to the public for its Seventh Annual Farm Day. Bee Heaven Farm took root in 1995 in the Redland. It blossomed, but then got walloped by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma in 2005. They’ve since…
