As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 41…
Lovers of the open road, bicycles, and brews have patiently awaited the return of the Beer Snob Bicycle Pub Crawl. September was the last time a big group of jolly drinkers made their way from downtown to Miami Beach and back, sharing a beer (or four) with friends and strangers…
Paul Ripa, owner of Paul’s Sub Shop in North Miami Beach, was Googling North Miami Beach election results when he found something interesting — a notice on the City’s website announcing Slow Food Truck would be serving lunches in front of City Hall. Ripa, whose family has had businesses in…
John Richards, Miami-Dade culinary chief, talks turkey
World Resource Cafe, the Asian fusion restaurant on Lincoln Road, is another of this week’s restaurant casualties. A call to the popular outdoor cafe, known as much for people watching as its reasonably-priced sushi boats and pad Thai, announced the Lincoln Road location was closed. The message asks people to…
Love Bites is a regular column on Short Order. Find other installments here.After a recent breakup, a man who once told me I was “growing on him” invited me to Red Fish Grill. The offer was simply too enticing to decline.I ‘d always wanted to check out Red Fish on…
I’m late to the game here because Yelp has already announced the closure, but I want to write a quick requiem for Sara’s, the kosher/vegetarian restaurant on NE 123rd Street in North Miami. I called today and the phone is disconnected and the website is gone. The place had the…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 42…
Coconut Grove’s newest addition, Central Beer Garden, will open to the public just in time for Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Along with its sister Sushi Central Lounge the venue is located on the fourth floor of CocoWalk. Boasting more than 60 beers on tap, they will also offer “hearty foods…
While the origins of “National Burger Month” are difficult to trace, the popularity of hamburgers goes back to the early 20th century. When factory workers needed a quick meal that fit in one hand (for productivity? Those early industrial tycoons — not so big on the safety), burgers suddenly became…
While Jim Heins of Latin Burger announced to the world the arrival of his new baby, LB2, Jeremiah Bullfrog was a little more stealthy with his second gastroPod, telling only a few people G2 was in the works. Chef Jeremiah says the G2 is a 1969 Airstream. “A bit smaller,…
The closing of Chef Allen’s last week represented the end of an important chapter in Miami restaurant history. There was a time in the mid-’90s when the main restaurant debate at gatherings focused on whether Allen Susser, Mark Militello, or Norman Van Aken was the best chef. Then the banter would shift…
This Sunday is Mom’s Day. Plan on eating out? Here’s a list of Miami restaurants offering Mother’s Day brunches and dinners this May 8. (All prices exclude tax and gratuity.) BLT Steak1440 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach; 305-673-0044 On the menu: Dinner starts with your choice of diver sea scallop en…
The philosophy of the Primal Blueprint, currently one of the most popular semi-low-carb diets — er, sorry, lifestyles — around, makes more intuitive sense than did The Atkins Diet’s unabashed bacon-slinging.The premise? Man’s biological evolution has not caught up with the evolution of the world we live in, so to…
Since we’re all about Mexico this week, here’s a recipe from the luxurious Maroma Resort and Spa near Cancun to consider. What I call “grasshopper guac,” the resort’s chef, Juan Pablo Loza, refers to it as Marona-style guacamole. It’s deeeelicious, even the insect part. Those critters added a nice lemony…
After more than a decade, Joe Allen has closed its Miami Beach doors.Managing partner Mario Rubeo confirmed the news by phone saying that the bottom line was that the restaurant wasn’t “financially feasible” anymore. The restaurant, which also has outposts in New York, Paris and London, opened on Miami Beach…
We recently interviewed Chef Josh Becker at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach’s DiLido Beach Club restaurant. If you missed the interview, catch it here and here.Chef Becker shared his recipe for crispy halloumi caprese with charred tomato sauce. Enjoy.Crispy Halloumi “Caprese” with Charred Tomato Sauce Serves 2 Ingredients8 oz. halloumi cheese,…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 43…
Guess it’s time to admit I’m just not a New Age pizza guy. I wasn’t crazy about the product at Naked Pizza when I sampled it last summer, although the crust of grains, nuts, roots, and “heat-resistant probiotics” was pretty good. In retrospect, I liked Naked’s pizza more than the…
Miami has lots of decadent gyms. South Beach’s David Barton, for example, has valet parking, steam rooms, a pool, somewhere around 18 classes a day, and an interior that looks more like a nightclub than a sweat factory.The city also has paradisaical weather. It’s astounding how many people choose to…
May is National Burger Month, a celebration of the meat sandwich that we all love so much. Eat your way through multiple burgers tonight at BTTR, adjacent to Johnson & Wales University, where several of the best mobile meal machines will feature discounts and specials in honor of this momentous…
Cinco de Mayo, coming this Thursday, is actually an American tradition that predates the college-drinking whoop-de-doo. A holdover from the good old days when pillaging was considered the equivalent of the G.I. Bill, the celebration of Mexico’s surprise victory over the French in 1862 provides an excellent excuse to party…
