Even though you had lofty ambitions this year, your Thanksgiving Day menu remains unplanned or at the very least incomplete. We’ve compiled a list of restaurants that want to make your holiday fuss-free; let someone else do the dishes after gorging on mass quantities of turkey and fixings. “No, Grandma,…
Anthony Bourdain’s new Travel Channel show, The Layover, premieres tonight at 9. The show, inspired by Bourdain’s frequent trips for his other Travel Channel show, No Reservations, takes us to major cities in the United States, Europe, and Asia so we can watch Tony eat, drink, and hang with the…
Saturday night is usually a time for counterbalancing all the healthful food you ate during the workweek by dumping large amounts of alcohol and greasy restaurant food into your system. This past Saturday, though, more than 300 people made alternative “choices” by popping nutritious vegan hors d’oeuvres and sipping organic…
Most of you know by now that Michael Schwartz has opened a pizzeria named for his son Harry in the former Pizza Volante Design District space. The room has been tinkered with a bit — industrialized, so to speak — but the wood-burning brick hearth still spits out pizzas with…
Screw turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving. Take your family to Burger King instead. The Miami-based firm recently rolled out a BK Family Bundle. For just ten bucks (12 bucks in Hawaii), you can feed your family with a Whopper, a Whopper Jr., two small French fries, two small…
Hood hangout Wynwood Kitchen & Bar (named our Best New Bar this year) just launched lunch service last week, with a few new tricks by executive chef Miguel Aguilar, who took over the kitchen this past summer. His “daily express lunch specials” are sort of a bento box minus the…
It’s not anything close to a five-star restaurant, but Occupy Miami feeds its campers (mostly) healthy, hearty and free, vegetarian meals. After all, occupiers gotta eat too!Food mostly comes by way of donations. There’s also a vegetable garden with tomatoes, peppers, beans, onions, sunflowers, papaya trees, lettuce, sweet squash along…
We recently spoke with Sandra Gutierrez about her concept of Latin American meets Southern down home fare, which she translates into 150 recipes (at just short of 300 pages, it’s almost a novel) in her new cookbook,The New Southern-Latino Table (University of North Carolina Press, $30). Appearing at the Miami…
There aren’t too many wines that come in roaring like a lion each year, but Beaujolais Nouveau fits that description perfectly.According to French law, Beaujolais Nouveau, a red wine made from 100 percent Gamay grapes, is released one minute past midnight the third Thursday in November each year. That was yesterday…
It doesn’t matter where you are. When you hear rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back,” the anthem for curvy gals, you have to stop and shake it! The same goes for Sir Mixx-a-Lot, a new food truck that features shakes, smoothies,and batidos. Five dollars gets you one made to order…
For Thanksgiving, try this meat-tastic dish. The fowl de cochon is one massive meal made from a small pig stuffed with a turkey that’s stuffed with a duck that’s stuffed with a chicken! And between each animal layer are tons of sausage. Is that enough meat for ya? We thought…
Holy crap, this thing is delicious. And unlike some wheat gluten- and soy-based turkey stand-ins, it’s unequivocally good for you.The vegetable flavors harmonize lusciously, and the quinoa, chickpeas, and walnuts give it a nice protein lift — without soy. Whatever you do, don’t skip the sun-dried tomatoes! They give the…
Heads up, Miami! New Jersey-based Muscle Maker Grill in midtown Miami is offering 15 percent off all meals through the new year. All you have to do is “Like” it on Facebook or follow on Twitter.The health-conscious hot spot serves tasty, natural, gym-friendly meals. Try the Godfather — two hearty…
The last time we cooked Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, it cost more than $300 for four people. Plus the bird was so dry even the poodle wouldn’t eat it.This year, we’re thinking we’ll let someone else cook. We’ve compiled a list of places that will prepare a delicious…
Damn it, I’m an actor, not a fryer!The awesome William Shatner is still Captain Kirk and even Priceline commercials cannot alter his greatness.In his most amazing role in decades, Shatner recreates the joy and dangers of turkey frying as a cautionary tale for State Farm insurance.In this film, entitled Eat,…
I am not one of those New Yorkers who go on and on about how you can’t find a decent slice of pizza in this town, and how the pies they serve here would be banned from the borough of Brooklyn, and how they are so very very disgraceful that…
The lights were out at Kane Steakhouse last night. The front door was locked. Through the tinted windows, stools could be seen flipped upside down on the bar.Earlier in the afternoon, cooks were spotted walking down Washington Avenue wondering what to make of the sudden closing. They told the valet…
Starting today, The Grill at the Setai reboots culinary offerings. Executive chef David Werly has been busy remaking the menu, choosing to selectively focus on French and European classics in contrast to the Asian-infused global cuisine at The Restaurant. This menu truly takes advantage of the chef’s Alsatian roots and,…
Yesterday we posted Part 1 of our chat with chef/restaurateur/author Gabrielle Hamilton, but perhaps you didn’t get a feel for what a badass she really is and how she came to be that way. So today we’ll just give you some good sound bites from our interview and some clips…
The dust of more than a dozen would-be cheftestants hauling it back to where they came from has finally cleared, and now it’s time to really start the new season of Top Chef: Texas. The show promises to move around the state, but for now we’re stationed in the Alamo…
So Choices Vegan Café actually opened its doors in September, in the same quiet yet convenient off-Brickell spot where Om Garden used to cater to local veg heads.Since then, brothers Alex and Jorge Cuevas have been tinkering with recipes, taking customer feedback, and testing out themed events. They’re now ready for all of…
Her family motto was “Hola, y’all,” and for an American girl growing up in Guatemala, Sandra Gutierrez had the best of both worlds — hamburgers for dinner and arroz con leche for dessert. The New Southern-Latino Table (University of North Carolina Press, $30) reveals her secret desire to force together…
