Miami Spice, the two-month-long promotion of discounted dining at Miami’s best restaurants, starts today. With over 100 restaurants to choose from, the main question this time of year turns to where shall we dine tonight? Sustain Restaurant & Bar invited us to preview its entire Miami Spice dinner menu, which…
Tudor House, the new Geoffrey Zakarian restaurant at the Dream Hotel South Beach, opened to much fanfare and anticipation. With executive chef Jamie DeRosa behind the burner and Zakarian’s wife Margaret a frequent presence at the “modern gastro café,” much was expected of the food and service. Short Order was…
Wandering off the street, you may expect Asian goods at a place named Oriental Bakery & Grocery, but this place is pure Middle East, offering a great selection of Syrian, Greek, and Armenian grocery items, cheeses, breads, and desserts. Come for lunch, grab some goods, and don’t forget to hit…
Miami Spice begins today. Some restaurants embrace the $35 prix fixe three-course menu with more relish than others. We categorize those that are generous with choices and availability as “great.” Worthwhile deals offered in the right spirit are “good.” And those whose Spice deal looks to be the result of…
Miamians are no strangers to dining in the dark. Massive hurricanes and thunderstorms leave us living like cavemen for days on end.With Lights Out Miami, you can experience dining in the dark the right way. The sense-ational meal puts diners in the hot seat, taking away their essential sense of…
There didn’t seem to be many interesting restaurant openings in July other than Morgans’ second outpost in the old Joe Allen space. August is shaping up to be more promising with the openings of Egg & Dart in the Design District and Chow Down Grill’s second location in South Beach…
Dr. Vilma Biaggi is an elegant Argentinian doctor with a petite frame and a large appetite for life. By day she runs a successful practice in Aventura. By night this no-nonsense M.D. turns on the charm to make guests feel like family at her Cadet Hotel, a small boutique hotel…
We might equate tequila with lime chasers, tropical cocktails, and a hazy night or two. But to Francisco Gonzalez, president of the National Chamber of the Tequila Industry, it means a taste of Mexico, even when he’s far away from home.Home for Gonzalez is Los Altos, the highlands of Jalisco,…
America’s Best Bites, the new Tribune Broadcasting food and travel show, has been caught filming segments of their show all around Miami. The crew has been around town filming at Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink, The Rolling Stove food truck, La Camaronera, Buena Vista Bistro, and Fratelli Milano this past…
Last night, the 10th annual Miami Spice program celebrated with a kickoff party at the Miami Beach Convention Center. VIPs were treated to extreme entertainment including contortionists and aerial performers from Cirque Eloize, but even the laypeople got to watch jazz flautist Nestor Torres belt out a tune center stage…
In this pork-obsessed world of ours, we’re surprised that a food truck dedicated solely to all things piggy didn’t happen sooner. But, like all good things, the Pork Shop was worth the wait. Vegans need not apply to this pork-tastic truck, where the emphasis is on the pig, only the pig,…
We’ve been perusing upcoming Miami Spice menus (the promo begins Monday) over the past couple of days. Wednesday we looked at some from South Beach and Mid-Beach; Thursday we took notes on restaurants in midtown, the Design District, and up north. This being the tenth year of the Miami Spice…
Let’s just get this out of the way: We despise cauliflower. We’ve hated it since we were kids. It’s hard and crumbly and ghostly and everything a vegetable shouldn’t be. But boy did we get a surprise when we were pushed to eat ’em atop an Anthony’s Coal Fired pizza…
Lou Lou Bistro wants to be your favorite neighborhood happy hour. Although the uneducated might head next door to old standby, Tobacco Road, for a raucous good time, a more cultivated experience can be had courtesy of Lou Lou’s new offerings.Its “Tchin-Tchin Happy Hour” (“Tchin-Tchin” is what the French say…
Morgans on the Beach, the sister restaurant of the original Morgans in Wynwood, will officially open its doors Friday for lunch after a soft opening tonight. Staying with the dining-in-a-house feel of the original, Morgans on the Beach takes over the former Joe Allen space, adding its trademark lavender color…
Last night, in honor of National Scotch Day, Short Order headed over to Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink for some seriously old scotch and a tasting of pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith’s latest creations.The Macallan brand ambassador Randolph Adams was our host for the evening, and led us through a flight…
It was only a matter of time, right? Michael Schwartz will follow up his two Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink locations in Miami and Grand Cayman with Harry’s Pizzeria, a “casual neighborhood joint featuring the chef/restaurateur’s fresh, simple, pure, and local food anchored by seasonally-inspired pizzas from the wood-burning oven.”…
South Beach dining can be nauseating before you even pick a restaurant, if you don’t know how to navigate it properly. Restaurants hire hot girls to wave menus in your face and yell lunch specials at you while their cleavage falls out of their shirts. Everything seems to cost twice…
Dogma, the Biscayne Boulevard hot doggery that was recently purchased by partners Mark Soyka and Frank Crupi, has expanded its food options to include a full line of old-school sandwiches, and Short Order was invited to try some. Philly cheesesteaks ($7.95) served with grilled onions and hot cherry peppers, oyster…
At Miami food truck roundups you can find most anything from tacos to snow cones. But the one thing New York food truck roundups have over us this weekend — besides scorching heat waves and lots of pigeons — is free sex toys and condoms. Yup, you heard us right!…
Think your food is awesome? The Awesome Foundation has just introduced a Food chapter to their microgrant-giving organization, and they’re looking to fund your next big idea.According to the foundation’s Web site, the group bestows grants to those who forward “the interest of Awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a…
Yesterday we took a look at some upcoming Miami Spice menus (the promo begins in four days) from South Beach and Mid-Beach. We noted that some restaurants embrace this $35 prix fixe three-course menu with more gusto than others. Those that are generous with choices and availability are deemed “great.”…
