Any good Cuban will tell you there are good croquetas and great ones. The good ones are crunchy and chewy and leave a comforting layer of grease on your hands. The great ones are a dichotomy of flavors and textures with a warm crispy, salty layer on the outside and…
Miami Prime Grill16395 Biscayne Blvd.Sunny Isles, 33160305-949-5105 / miamiprimegrill.com The Deal: Monday-Friday, 12 p.m. – 7 p.m. The late night happy hour is daily from 10 p.m. until close. Get half off well liquors, house wines, and draft pints Monday through Friday. The late night happy hour includes twofers on…
Miami will never rival New York or San Francisco for supremacy in dim sum. We don’t even come close, in fact. Locally, most dim sum aficionados head straight to Tropical Chinese when they are craving shrimp dumplings and pork buns. Recently, Short Order was tipped off that South Garden does…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
Oprah Winfrey has hailed Icebox Café’s cakes as some of the best in the country. Now, travelers with a sweet tooth won’t have to schlep to Lincoln Road for a slice of raspberry chocolate mousse. This fall, Icebox Café is opening a satellite location at Miami International airport called Icebox…
Richard LaMotta, who created the Chipwich from his Sweet Tooth ice cream parlor in Englewood, New Jersey, passed away two days ago at age 67. The bearded Brooklyn native came up with the notion in the late Seventies — a four-ounce slab of vanilla ice cream, sandwiched between chocolate chip…
Joey’s Wynwood Italian Café isn’t just the gustatory champion of Miami’s art district, it’s also as cheap as you are. Starving artists, broke freelancers, assistant district attorneys, and hungry spangers rejoice! Even we can afford to eat here. A bowl of in-house, handmade spaghetti with a juicy, herbed up tomato…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
Chances are pretty good your grandmother isn’t as talented a cook as you think. Sure, that lasagna or meatloaf is better than those you’ve tried elsewhere, and her other few specialties are perhaps equally impressive. But the key word here is few — meaning through years and years of making…
Ever feel like getting a little dirty? Nasty even? Multiply that feeling by 100 and you’ll be ready for Recycled Shots at the Burger & Beer Joint on Miami Beach. The rapidly growing eatery — home to the most tatted among us — has developed something of a cult following…
Steven Raichlen celebrated the publication of his new cookbook, Planet Barbecue!, at Books & Books in Coral Gables last Saturday night with a live barbecue and lecture. The approachable author and TV personality (he has a show on PBS called Primal Grill) worked the outdoor courtyard, shaking hands, kissing babies…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
A shark can smell a single drop of blood in one million drops of water.Twenty-nine days later, and oil continues to flow from a hole 5,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. BP’s actions continue to threaten the Gulf and maybe the Atlantic’s commercial fishing industry. Today, the fishing ban widens…
Tonight begins year two of Michy’s weekly Wednesday night “all-you-care-to-eat” fried chicken feast. Priced at $36 per person (excluding tax and gratuity), the dinner features limitless helpings of Bernstein’s signature fried bird with a “bottomless parade of sides” (I’m not certain, but I think that means you have to bring…
Fast food is about to be evo-lutionized in Miami. This weekend Evos, an all-natural chain (with locations in California, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina), debuts in Pinecrest. The rstaurant makes American diner staples like hamburgers, shakes and fries healthful. Well, as nutritious as French fries can be. Instead of deep-frying…
Less than a week after signing a new multi-year, multi-million dollar extension to coach the fabled University of Miami Hurricane Football Team, Randy Shannon took a female companion to dine at one his favorite haunts last night, the Sports Exchange in Coral Gables. So did coach let go and go…
The Burger Beast threw a National Hamburger Month party at Q American Barbeque last night. Despite an evening thunderstorm that dropped lighting from Buena Vista west, a crowd still came through eat, and have drinks.The menu featured a whole lotta burgers, like The Benedict, with Canadian bacon, fried egg, hollandaise…
In honor of the chain’s 50th birthday, Haagen-Dazs is handing out free ice cream today at participating locations from 4 to 8 p.m. Just wish the shop “Happy Birthday,” and you’ll get a free scoop. Complimentary flavors include vanilla, chocolate, and coffee. Haagen-Dazs first launched in 1960 with these original…
Downtown Miami’s new savory spot, The Sandwich Bar, is everything simple. Simple décor. Simple concept. Simple ingredients and even simple names, as the two chefs are both named Leo. But the eatery, located near the Miami Dade College Wolfson campus, loses its simplistic edge when it comes to taste; the…
A virtual tasting of 8 Sauvignon Blancs from Chile (five of which were D.O.’s) took place last Wednesday evening. The promoters of the evening, Wines of Chile, invited me to participate along with 50 other wine enthusiasts, bloggers, writers, etc. We had all received our bottles in advance, along with…
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.Before “fast food” meant a tasteless disc of pulverized cow between two pieces of soft cardboard there was the taco. Cheap, nourishing, able to accommodate just about any…
Miami doesn’t have nearly the number of soul food restaurants as let’s say the A-T-L or N’awlins. But what the 3-0-5 lacks in quantity, the Peoples Bar-B-Que in Overtown makes up for with celebrity clout. The roster of repeat celebrity diners who gorge on fried chicken, candied yams, collard greens…
