Good job, Slzitrin, for being the first to post on yesterday’s blog that the kid in the photo was Duff Goldman, otherwise known as The Ace of Cakes.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…
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 taking your significant other out for a romantic dinner on Valentine’s Day is too much amateur hour but don’t exactly relish the thought of sleeping…
Food truck round-ups are so popular that multiple meet-ups take place at the same time on the same nights. Busy, though, is never a problem at these events.This rundown of food court locations includes four new sites, including Tuesday night’s North End Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup, Thursday night’s Biscayne Plaza…
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…
When it comes to after-work happy hour, db Bistro is advantageously located smack dab in the middle of downtown (in the JW Marriott Marquis).The deal is this: Monday through Friday, from 5 to 7 p.m., select cocktails, wines, and small plates are offered for $7 apiece in the bar and…
In the ever-changing universe of food truck gatherings, a new twist is on the way: This coming Sunday, Feb. 13 (and every Sunday thereafter), from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, the “Brickell Truck Rally” will take place at Tobacco Road (626 South Miami Ave.). In the line-up: Dim Ssam a GoGo,…
The stereotypical Valentine’s Day: Roses, a box of chocolates, and a candle-lit dinner. There is probably a significant population of people bored with chick-flick induced ideas of romance and looking to do something new. For those hoping to take their dining in a different direction, look no further. Here are…
On a recent excursion to West Kendall, we found our hungry selves at the corner of Coral Way and SW 107th Avenue. There was Benny’s, with its proud Puerto Rican flag backlit with a violet hue and posters of food plastered in the windows. How could we not take up…
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and even Pollo Tropical has a Valentine’s Day special going (two dine for $9.99, if you must know). If you haven’t made your plans, you should probably do so now before restaurants fill up (the lovely Gibraltar is fully booked) and events sell…
Congratulations to anon1 for realizing yesterday’s kid photo was Chef Michelle Bernstein of Michy’s, Sra. Martinez, and Check, Please! fame.If you would like 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 (try…
Confused yet by all the street food court change-ups in the last couple weeks? In a nutshell, here’s what’s going on:BTTR, the popular Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup near Biscayne Boulevard and NE 109th Street in North Miami, was forced to take a couple Tuesday nights off after it got too…
Valentine’s Day will soon be upon us and most of us will plan ahead and buy something sexy or yummy or beautiful for the one we love (or lust after). There are, however, a small minority of morons who wait for the last minute to stop at some 24 hour…
Ahmet Karaca is the Happy Greek. One reason for his glee is that he’s got a new set of wheels (called Chef on 4 Wheels) from which tonight, at the once-again-newly-located Biscayne Truck Triangle Roundup (127th and Biscayne Blvd.), he’ll be serving “gyros with warm pita bread stuffed with lettuce,…
What it is: Duck rillette (the well-seasoned meat cooked slowly in fat, then cooled in same fat). This one comes speckled with pink peppercorns and a small dice of Turkish apricot. Three crisp croutons of baguette are served alongside.Where it at? Take your best guess in the comments section below,…
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. 95…
It was a bit quiet out in the food blogs, but here are some highlights to kick off the week.The Burger Beast announces the next Street Food Fridays is on February 11; the Burger Beast truck will be there with Shake Shack on board. And speaking of the beast-mobile, chef…
Editor’s Note; What follows is the third installment of our irregular column, Love Bites. You can find the first two columns here and here.When my date suggested Quinn’s for dinner, I shuddered. It’s not that the restaurant has a bad reputation or anything, it’s just the thought of eating on…
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. 96…
Or, “How to Succeed at Veganism Without Really Trying.”Vegans are humans too. Like most Americans, we have only so much time to dedicate to food preparation. So it is an error when outsiders ponder the vegan lifestyle and automatically throw up their hands in mock exhaustion, shouting “I’d never have…
’sup, Kids? In preparation for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s event dedicated to the junior foodies in our midst, to be called Kohl’s Fun and Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen (boy, that’s a mouthful!), we asked some of our favorite chefs to recount their favorite eats-related…
It was no surprise that the Dolci Peccati gelato truck was the busiest spot at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum this Saturday. The Whistle Stop Food Truck Rodeo introduced visitors, most of whom were pint-sized and ice cream crazy, to the delights of mobile meals. Families were picnicking on the…
Hosting a lonely hearts party for Valentine’s Day? Whip up a batch of Chef Andrea Sans Araiza’s Chocolate Croissant Bread Pudding and watch the phenylethylamine fly. Or, if you do have a special someone you need to feed, hit Bourbon Steak for Valentine’s Day and get your lovin’ later…
