In collaboration with the Miami International Film Festival, chefs from six local restaurants competed in a Paella Parade competition at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden last night. (It followed a screening of Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s Amador.) The weather was beautiful, the gardens sublime, and the crowd seemed to be…
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As Lee Klein reported last week, tonight the Miami Film Festival is holding a paella-off, so we’re giving you a sneak peek at one of the selections being offered. Check out what Xixon’s Jon Gonzalez is stirring up (especially since Klein considers him a top contender): Paella Melosa Mar Y…
The Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup, or BTTR, is quite a spectacle! About thirty food trucks meet each Tuesday on the Johnson & Wales campus (127th and Biscayne Blvd.) bringing together all sorts of people in their love of mobile meals. There’s live music, plenty of space to pop a squat,…
Love Bites is a regular column on Short Order. Find other installments hereWhy is it we really don’t pay much attention to what potential life partners say on the first date? Are we so wrapped up in flaunting our feathers that we become deaf to the clues they drop? These…
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. 76…
Have you been obsessively refreshing Charlie Sheen’s Twitter page seeking more doses of #tigerblood to get through your sad, pathetic day? Have all of your dreams this week involved porn-star goddesses feeding you chocolate milk through straws made of cocaine? Do you end all of your loser sentences with a joyous…
Today in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sarah the Cheese Lady will present a monster cheddar cheese sculpture at Lambeau Field as a salute to the Super Bowl-winning Green Bay Packers and the United States National Cheese Championship.Ahhh, cheese. Just the word makes you excited, doesn’t it? Perhaps paired with some grapes…
Food trucks these days are big business. Midway Ford in Doral hopes a collection of at least ten trucks will bring in car buyers and fun seekers alike.”We did something like this 20 years ago,” recalls sales manager Rafael Gil. “We had a circus, old cars. But that was many moons…
So are you getting set for a wild Miami-style Mardi Gras celebration this week? Neither am I. But I did spend some of Fat Tuesday enjoying delectable, homestyle New Orleans cooking in North Miami Beach. Yes, that’s right, there’s a place on NE 163rd Street cooking up jambalaya, po’boy sandwiches,…
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, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, see our other choices. 77. Raspberry Flatcakes at…
Mardi Gras celebrates the day before the start of Lent, in which Catholics fast and repent for 40 days before Easter. In case you can’t make it to the Big Easy, we’ve found five places where you can celebrate Fat Tuesday right here in Miami…
CocoWalk looks to bring back “what the Grove is all about” when Central Beer Garden opens its doors next month. Located on the fourth floor, the restaurant-bar hopes to draw locals and visitors by bringing in local bands and other musical acts whose performances will be pumped through a state-of-the-art sound…
Some food truck roundups have been switched around so much they feel like a floating poker game, but the Biscayne Triangle Truckers Roundup, or BTTR, keeps going strong. Located at NE 127th Street and Biscayne Boulevard (adjacent to Johnson & Wales University), this roundup features plenty of free parking, live…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Add a little spice to your life (and maybe your sex life too) at the new “Indian Nights” dinners taking place every Thursday from 6 to 11 p.m…
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. 78…
Twitter was inspiration for several South Florida food bloggers last week. The Chowfather concludes that Twitter is killing his blog, so he sums up all of his 140-character food and restaurant thoughts for 2011 in one post. Over at Chadzilla, author Chad Galiano shares compilations of 140-character recipes posted by…
If you’ve ever dreamed of eating your way through the fast-food stations of Asia, make sure you hit next year’s Asian Culture Festival, which takes place annually at the Fruit & Spice Park in Homestead. Sure, the obvious Asian countries were represented, but we also got to try the flavors of…
Hopefully we’ll have confirmation by the end of the week that Geoffrey Zakarian, chef/owner of New York’s recent, yet notable Lambs Club, founding chef of the Delano’s recently renamed Blue Door, and Food Network fave, will be putting his stamp on a rooftop lounge in Dream South Beach, a 108-room…
Your girlfriend always tells you that your friends are animals, so prove her right and take her (and all of your buddies) to the second annual New Times & Zoo Miami Brew at the Zoo this April 30. Sample beer and spirits from around the world, eat great food, and…
Every March, Miami welcomes electronica-crazed masses eager to sweat and do drugs all over our Winter Music Conference. This year, Camarena Tequila will be feeding both the conference tourists, art walkers, and the food truck-crazed locals with tequila-infused tacos.You heard right. Tacos with tequila in them. The booze company’s food…
