[jump] I noticed this bottle of Malbec has your logo on it.For many years we’ve had our own wine. We used to make our wines in Spain. Now they are from Argentina. I didn’t know anything about wines.How many diners would you say drink wine with their meal at your…
Art Basel, which ended over the weekend earned top dollar and, we hope, signaled a turnaround in both the local and national economies. Hell even the Wall Street Journal seems to think so. The special Saturday art walk was jammed, but my favorites were the fairs at Red Dot and…
What goes better with latkes than applesauce and sour cream, you ask? Why, vodka, of course!!!The good news is you don’t have to shred pounds of potatoes yourself this year, especially if you are a single Jewbie aged 22 to 39. A local group called The Tribe (isn’t that cute?)…
It seems like South Florida’s food bloggers were busy seeing art because it was slow out there last week. Here are the highlights.Miami Herald critic Victoria Pesce Elliott says she would like to have dinner with Jesus. This and more in her interview with South Florida Food and Wine.Savoring South…
We couldn’t wait to check out Rainbow City, the 40-piece installation by the artistic duo FriendsWithYou (Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III). The giant playground opened to the public yesterday for Art Basel and it was the perfect setting to have a picnic. Sitting on one of the installation’s candy-striped…
Isn’t it a little sad that child nutrition is a trend? Hey, let’s feed kids nutritious food because, you know, everyone is doing it.A National Restaurant Association survey asked 1,500 chefs to predict the hottest menu ideas for 2011 by rating 226 items as “hot trend,” “yesterday’s news” or “perennial…
Last night’s meanderings around the Design District/Wynwood area made us hungry for some good art. Thankfully we got our fill…
Some opinions are still acceptable in our increasingly politically correct social climate. While most people wouldn’t dare make a joke about the handicapped, African-Americans, or newborns, it is safe to say that Carrot Top is a loser, Lindsay Lohan a coke head, and that network television sucks balls.A new food…
Florida vegetables, fruits, eggs, grass-fed beef, and cheese, oh my! These will be on sale in front of South Miami City Hall (6130 Sunset Drive) tomorrow (on Saturday) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will also be jams, salsas, native and edible plants, and other products.The market will be…
I miss the old News of the Weird column. It always made me feel better to read about the ludicrous situations in other people’s lives.A recent event in New Mexico had Chuck Shepard written all over it. A place called Amigo’s Mexican Food was robbed by a “slim, masked man”…
There’s no shortage of food-related art in the fairs taking place during Art Basel. We like this bright, colorful sign at the Graffiti Gone Global and SushiSamba Fresh Produce exhibit. Inside the bodega-like market you’ll find merchandise, books and food on the walls…
If the cold weather has you Jonesing for some hearty food, try this pork loaf recipe by Elana Garces. It is one of the handful of South Florida dishes included in Molly O’Neill’s One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking, which I wrote about yesterday. In the book, Garces…
med some foodies and libertarians recently by banning food ingredients in order to make it healthier. Should the government be allowed to dictate what we can and cannot eat?It all started with trans fats. Plucked from relative obscurity a few years back, trans fats quickly became Public Enemy No. 1,…
A report released this month by the USDA’s Economic Research Service shows food insecurity increased significantly in Florida from 2004-2006 to 2007-2009. Food insecurity means the inability, at times, to buy enough food for household members due to lack of funds or resources. In our state, an average of 14.2…
More flesh for your carnivores: At right you see the longest pieces of cow flesh you will come across at any local restaurant, for sure.Chef/owner Luis Gajer of Las Vacas Gordas has been rolling up skirt steaks since 1996 when patrons first started rolling into his restaurant. When he and…
Tis the season to give, and what better gift to give than a good ol’ loaf of brick-like fruitcake? We all know how much people love to receive these little gems, don’t we? If you are stumped on what to give to the host of your neighbor’s holiday party, why…
I was excited to receive a copy of Molly O’Neill’s new book One Big Table: A Portrait of American Cooking in the mail this week. The nicely designed, picture-laden book includes 800-plus pages of great recipes and offers an encyclopedic look at cooking in America. To write it, O’Neill, an…
Cecconi’s Miami Beach: Romantic, tasty, not cheap
In today’s Scene Eating, Trina Sargalski talks to Jennifer Rubell about her “Just Right” exhibit for Art Basel. Short Order was there this morning to get some warm breakfast.After walking through the Rubell Collection building and into its courtyard, I entered the rabbit hole that would lead me to breakfast…
Artist Jennifer Rubell, named one of Food + Wine’s 40 Big Food Thinkers Under 40, makes food her medium. She currently lives in New York City, but she lived in Miami for years, and so I grandfathered her in for this week’s Scene Eating.Rubell and the rest of her art-loving…
In October Mercadito Restaurants launched Tacos for Strength, a national campaign that supports Share Our Strength’s fight to end hunger by 2015. Each month a new taco goes on the menu and five percent of the sales from these tasty bites go towards feeding hungry kids nationwide.Patricio Sandoval, Mercadito Restaurants’…
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 really loved him/her you would take her/him out for a swanky dinner at a swell restaurant, like stone crab at some place on the beach, instead…
