Scott Conant is the charming and handsome executive chef and owner of Scarpetta in New York, Miami Beach (at the Fontainebleau), Toronto, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Conant and his restaurants have won almost every distinction imaginable, including a James Beard award for his restaurant L’Impero and rave reviews from…
Most people know Bryan Voltaggio from his participation in season six of Top Chef. But by the time he landed on the show, Voltaggio already had a pretty impressive culinary resume. He started cooking when he was 14 in Frederick, Maryland, and after attending the Culinary Institute of America, went…
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. 85…
If the Beatles were still around, we bet they’d be singing “I’m Back in the BTTR,” instead of that other song because the Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup is tonight, and it’s featuring more than 25 food trucks, live music, free parking and porta-potties!From 5:30 to 10 p.m., the trucks will…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival starts Thursday. This is the big time — when us mere mortals can brush up to the likes of food superstars like Martha Stewart, Anthony Bourdain and Emeril Lagasse. Walking through the tents, we’ll thrill at the sight of these men and women…
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.If you think there’s not much new in the world of classical music you haven’t heard Miami’s New World Symphony or checked out their stunning new Frank Gehry-designed…
Tim Love is known to some as the “cowboy chef.” He is actually chef and owner of Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, his flagship restaurant in the Stockyard District of Fort Worth, Texas. He also owns hamburger joint, The Love Shack, and the White Elephant Saloon in Fort Worth. Love serves…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival is coming this week and you can’t even pay your FP&L bill, let alone shell out the $225 for a ticket to the Grand Tasting tents. Hell, you can’t even ask your boss if he has an extra ticket because you were laid…
Former Top Chef contestant Micah Edelstein announced she’ll be opening a new restaurant in Miami called neMesis Green Urban Bistro and Chef Oscar del Rivero is nearly ready to open the doors to his new Peacock Garden Café.Since Peacock is coming in a month and neMesis still doesn’t have its…
What good is an art show without food? No good, we say. Here’s a glimpse of some ways our eats got represented at this weekend’s Coconut Grove Arts Festival.Is this really a piece of furniture or just the way someone justifies all those late night Pinot Noir binges? Artist Aaron…
Did Chef Alex make you a believer after reading part one of last week’s interview? Here’s the rest of our chat:Any types of cuisine you are curious about but haven’t attempted?Exotic meats.Like offal?Way beyond that. Some guy in Arizona has a restaurant and he’s taking reservations for lion burgers. This…
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.86. Fig…
Legend has it that long before George Washington became the first President of The United States, he chopped down a cherry tree. When his father saw the ruined tree he asked George if he did it and George said “yes father, I cannot tell a lie”. George’s father then proceeded…
The Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival is a great big beast that seems designed for the press, the wealthy, and the social geniuses of the world, right? Even the name is long. The website appears so complicated with its many tabs. How does a normal human come…
Miss Yip Chinese Café recently opened at NE Ninth Street and Biscayne with a contagious energy that made its way down the steps and around the corner. There was ample outside seating and a large sign overhead announcing that Miss Yip had made it downtown.But the parking situation isn’t the…
Locally grown vegetables, fruits, and flowers from about nine farms or homes around South Florida were looking good and affordable at the soft opening of The Upper Eastside Farmers’ Market at Biscayne Plaza this past weekend.The market was organized by the Terranova Corporation and the two-year old Urban Oasis Project,…
Every year the South Beach Wine & Food Festival Rolls out its tents on the beach off Ocean Drive and every year you procrastinate, waiting to see if somehow some business associate or rich benefactor will bestow on you a complimentary golden ticket. If you haven’t yet been added to…
View photos from Michael Schwartz’s book signing at Books & Books here.Michael Schwartz made his first Miami appearance to promote his new cookbook, Michael’s Genuine Food, on Saturday. Schwartz conversed with Sun-Sentinel food writer John Tanasychuk before a packed house at Books & Books Coral Gables. Indeed, Tanasychuk started the…
Some people are really serious about food. Chick-fil-A, a Christian restaurant chain, came in as the number one choice in a survey among Florida Gulf Coast University students when asked which restaurants they wanted in their student union next year. The problem is that Chick-fil-A has recently been outed as…
Latin Burger & Taco , Miami’s first gourmet food truck, is setting another trend with the roll out of a second vehicle. LB2 will be a twin brother. Jim Heins, owner of both, is expected to take delivery of the second black and pink wonder in mid-March…
This is the second part of Riki’s date with another chick. To read part one, click here.While we chowed down on the rich, hot hunks of lobster and cuts of colorful vegetables, still looking over to menu to determine our next victim–do we go for the 8-ounce American Wagyu filet…
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. 87…
