Dinnertime food truck round-ups are awesome for the indecisive among us — especially as they continue to swell in size. Still, the only thing missing from the city’s local food-truck scene is a regular circuit of late-night party munchies. The Electric Pickle-loving Montaco aside, it’s hard to find mobile snacks…
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. 92…
We continue our interview with owner and chef of The Rolling Stove food truck, Troy Thomas. Read part one of the interview here. New Times: How do you choose your locations? Troy Thomas: I wouldn’t even know where to go on my own. I’m like the little brother asking other…
Less than an hour’s drive south from Miami lies a totally different world. The vehicle of choice more likely John Deere than Mercedes and instead of the ocean, you’ll encounter miles of green farmland. A trip to the Redland is truly a trip back in time to old Florida. The…
Today is the last day of the contest so you’ll have to be the first to name these two chefs if you want to win a family four-pack of tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Kohl’s Fun and Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen. Previous…
What do you get when you cross Miami’s oldest bar with Miami’s newest food trend? A food truck roundup at Tobacco Road this Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., of course.. The Road, the Magic City’s oldest gin joint, will host its first weekly food truck roundup in the back…
It was a beautiful evening for the Biscayne Triangle Food Truck Roundup, held in the parking lot of American Legion Post #29 off Biscayne and 64th. Food truck lovers spread blankets or dined on small picnic tables, enjoying the bay breeze. 12 Trucks were at the roundup yesterday, including Caza…
In honor of Valentine’s Day next week and in the wake of her recent married man disaster, our Love Bites gal Riki Altman is sharing a love story of a different kind–the homosexual kind. Enjoy.A friend of mine wrote in an e-mail: “I’ve got someone perfect for you! Fun, attractive,…
I like Sustain Restaurant + Bar quite a bit. I also like porchetta sandwiches quite a bit. Yet I do not like Sustain’s porchetta sandwich.For the uninitiated, porchetta is made by rolling a pork belly around a pork loin, adding plenty of herbs and some garlic, wrapping it in pork…
Tim Doolittle has recently been announced as the new chef de cuisine at Emeril’s Miami Beach — although he’s been working there since early December. Doolittle started out cooking at some of the finer restaurants of his native Kansas City, including the Beard-winning The American Restaurant. I asked Tim if…
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. 93…
Food truck meet-ups in Miami leave you with a staggering number of choices. Each one is colored in bright hues and has a catchy name or cute mascot. Walk through the line of trucks and you’ll likely pass a standout wrapped in flames, invoking a meal that’s flavorful, meaty and…
There is something about cupcakes that instantly infuses joy. They unearth childhood nostalgia. They are cute bundles of sweetness. They are like small personal gifts just waiting to be unwrapped. Cupcakes are also the perfect sweet treat for Valentine’s Day.Like many cities around the country, Miami has been bitten by…
What’ll be keeping you warm on Valentine’s Day? Your booze. Who’ll be keeping you company? Your single friends and half-empty glasses of alcohol. Why not enjoy the miserable holiday by guzzling a beverage with both a killer name and taste? Hot Mess (what you’ll look like after several of these) was created by Clark…
Gail Simmons, of Top Chef and Food & Wine, returns to Miami in a few weeks for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. This year, she’ll host the sold out Dolce Brunch at Blue Door Fish. She co-hosts with James Beard winner Michael White (of Marea, Osteria Morini, Convivo,…
It’s pretty easy to make most dates happy on Valentine’s Day — meet him or her with some flowers or candy, then head for a fancy or trendy restaurant and proceed to have a wonderful candlelit meal, followed by a decadent dessert. It takes more imagination, however, to plan the…
The second iteration of Street Food Fridays returns tomorrow to a new, larger location in front of the Arsht Center.Seventeen trucks including the Burger Beast truck — with Shake Shack on board — will participate in the gathering, which The Burger Beast, The Miami Herald and LaLey Enterprises launched in…
Yesterday’s challenge was a tough one, but Cakeartbycolleen guessed it. Congrats! It was Melissa d’Arabian, host of Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa d’Arabian and champion to cheapskates everywhere. Now you get the Hamilton reference? As in, the guy on a $10 bill? Riiiigggghtt.Okay, now be the first to figure out…
The sandwich cubano is a Miami treasure, gulped down by countless customers every day. Over the years (since 1974), Latin American Cafeteria has been associated with the biggest, baddest rendition in town. But the question has often been: Which is the real Latin American Cafeteria? The answer would be Raul…
There are three factors to this Cherry Delight cocktail, based on Beefeater Gin, that make it highly recommendable for Valentine’s Day:1. It is red and pretty.2. It is the simplest of drinks to make — equal parts of three ingredients.3. It is very very tasty — although, as a man,…
It is seemingly obligatory these days for any new restaurant to proudly tout local sourcing and sustainability — whether totally true or not. The word organic is planted on menus like corn in Nebraska. So when Sustain Restaurant + Bar opened this past December with a mission “to support farmers”…
Don’t be that guy (or girl) who settles for any of these unforgivable last-minute Walgreens candies (or, worse, a teddy bear holding a heart.) If you’re reading this blog, chances are you have particular culinary taste — and probably so does your valentine.If your date appreciates a sugar fix and…
