Joel and Leticia Pollock are passionate about coffee. Spend a few minutes with them and their enthusiasm will rub off, making you want to share a cup with them and stay for just a little longer.The Pollocks are the husband and wife behind Panther Coffee – a coffeehouse slated to…
There may be a new way to deter crime. Apparently honey buns (yes, those gooey, sticky, doughy sponges covered in cellophane) are more popular with Florida prisoners than cigarettes and Coca-Cola.Florida inmates buy about 270,000 honey buns per month. Fights have broken out and jailhouse murders have occurred as the…
Oren Bass, who launched the Slow Food Truck with Zachary Schwartz just over a month ago, wasn’t pleased with yesterday’s post regarding their menu. I had questioned the accuracy of the “Slow Food” part of the truck moniker; Oren politely disagreed over the phone, and told me why. Because the…
The quiet block of 20th Street between Purdy and West Avenues in South Beach has given aspiring restaurateurs nothing but headaches: Bartolome Restaurant (too pricy for what it served), Picnic (poor brunch-for-dinner concept with worse execution), Sea Rock, and Shiso Sushi have all died here. The Asian gastro-pub Pubbelly arrived…
Want to celebrate a successful day in the kitchen? After downing some ceviche and your avocado reina with rocoto pepper aioli — you know, that recipe we shared yesterday?–you will probably be ready for a few sips of a pisco sour. Here’s Javier Angeles-Beron’s version of how to make this…
Hundreds of people descended upon last night’s food truck court gathering at Biscayne Boulevard and NE 109th Street. Not only are the crowds getting larger at these events (Look! Up in the sky! It’s Superfad!), but food vendors seem to be popping up overnight as if from sinister alien truck…
Earth ‘N’ Us is a permaculture farm that resides smack in the middle of Little Haiti. Ray Chasser’s house and surrounding land is home to emus, roosters, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, goats, and turkeys, in addition to containing a thriving fruit and vegetable garden. We almost forgot–there are also bees…
Adding to the dizzying amount of food truck-related gatherings, meet-ups, courts and congregations is the Miami Street Food Court debuting tomorrow on Biscayne Boulevard. Last night, trucks gathered north of the KMart in North Miami and drew hundreds. Tomorrow, they will park at Biscayne Plaza, a shopping center on Biscayne…
Lolita, modestly priced restaurant, you tease my tongue. Your eggplant timbales and Chilean sea bass were great, and your dessert even better. Lo-lee-ta, you’re sweet.My attraction to Dolores, But You Can Call Me Lolita’s desserts began with a coy glance at the simple menu and alluring price. Each is just…
Miami Wine Festival Director, Lyn Farmer, tapped 20 of South Florida’s top sommeliers to put their palates and purple tongues to work for a good cause by participating in the “Best in Glass” competition, which was dedicated to judging some of the “best of the best” by-the-glass wine selections and…
With cooler nights upon us once again, what’s more comforting than curling up with your significant other and a cup of hot chocolate? Here’s a look at two chains, located on Lincoln Road, serving up some winter delight with whipped cream on top! StarbucksPros: The coffee chain’s version (grande -…
Japanese and Chinese food buffets are ubiquitous. Latin ones, though are practically nonexistent in Miami. Really. So when I heard that Old San Juan Restaurant had a lunch spread, of course I wanted to try it out.Old San Juan is a Puerto Rican restaurant. Or so it says. I have…
Green Table Artisan Kitchen & Bistro opened its doors to the public yesterday in the small space that Whisk Gourmet called its home for several years. As we wrote in November, owner Monica Rios created a menu using mostly local and organic ingredients. These days, those words get thrown around…
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.It may seem hard to believe now but there once was a time when cars had fins, when telephones had rotors and when China Grill was the hippest…
Pegasus is the white winged horse from Greek mythology that inspires the fantasies of poets and filmmaker. This strong stallion has now made its mark at downtown’s Pega Grill where he hovers on the the walls hoping to entice downtown diners.Owner Thanasios Barlos’ history in the restaurant business reads like…
We spotted this glorious dish being served at El Gran Inka and just had to ask for the recipe from yesterday’s interviewee, director of culinary operations Javier Angeles-Beron. This “avocado queen” is colorful, light, fresh and not too fattening, plus it’s so easy to make that you can do it…
Can’t say I’m a big fan of rillettes, a specialty of France’s Loire Valley. It gets made by slow-cooking the meat in fat, then shredding and mixing it with some of the fat and chilling it to a fatty, porky spread for toast or bread. The chilled fat reminds me…
Howie Kleinberg, the forceful and ambitious chef known to all as the “Bulldog” persona from Top Chef, is expanding his Bulldog Barbecue empire. The North Miami eatery popular with the university crowd keeps drawing them in with North Carolina barbecue baby back ribs and pulled pork. Later this month, the…
If you’ve been holding on to that bottle of Screaming Eagle until you can muster the courage to dish out a five-star meal, wait no more. The folks at Eos at the Viceroy will pour your wine for you at no corkage fee as part of their B.Y.O.B Mondays. So…
Beached Miami posts a recap of the Emerge Miami Food Truck Frenzy bike ride.Food for Thought reviews Pubbelly.South Florida Food and Wine visits Le Tub for the first time.A visit to Gotham Steak over at Savoring South Beach.A lot more food trucks coming soon to Miami. [Burger Beast]The French Fry…
Cuba isn’t known for its wine, but a Cuban neurosurgeon is giving expatriates a taste of something other than rum to fuel their nostalgia.Mauricio Collada Jr., who came from the island in 1962, has turned a patch of Oregon soil into a vineyard for wines stamped with a Cuban label…
Did you miss our gunea pig and chifa talk with El Gran Inka’s director of culinary operations Javier Angeles-Beron last week? If so, read the first part of this interview here.How would you define Peruvian cuisine now?New Peruvian cuisine is always an evolution. We’re always bringing new flavors in. The…
