Russian-born Lika Ramati is the owner of Yaffa Cafe in downtown Manhattan. She’s also a multidisciplinary artist with an exhibit of digitally constructed photographs for Art Basel called Everything is Pretty at 119 N.E. 39th Street in the Design District.You can’t help but be drawn into her highly-stylized world of…
Last night at Aqua Art Miami (42 NE 25th Street, Miami), a locals-heavy party crowd came together over art, food, and music.Seattle-based Aqua is committed to bringing Miami a high-quality sampling of art from the West Coast and abroad with a concentration on young dealers and galleries and emerging artists.Palate…
The Okay Mountain Corner Store, now appearing at Pulse Art Fair (1400 N. Miami Ave., Miami), is possibly the greatest artwork ever conceived, an exercise in total hilarity, and really fuckin’ funny.The store is the creation of the Okay Mountain artists’ collective from Austin, Texas. It is a highly detailed…
We first told you about Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman’s Coffee Brake coffee truck in June. Well, yesterday we ran into the commish outside the Kelley Roy Gallery (50 NE 29th St., Miami), where she was parked and open for business, selling coffee, smoothies, and baked goods.Sally said, “Everything’s great. I’ve just…
The Bakehouse Art Complex (561 NW 32 Street) is a studio compound for over 70 professional, full time, working artists that has stood in Wynwood for the past 23 years. The 33,000 square foot facility houses indoor and outdoor studios, and exhibition galleries. The Bakehouse Art Complex is a not…
A short preview of next week’s New Times Cafe review:There are certain things that rookie restaurateurs can do to increase their odds for success. For instance, having a workable phone number can be surprisingly helpful. When we dialed the month-old Stone Grill 95 in Surfside in order to make reservations,…
The Clever Collective is an art consortium from Brooklyn who we saw set up in the driveway of a house on 29th Street between North Miami Avenue and NW Second Avenue selling cookies, lemonade, and custom bags.The bake sale benefits the Clever Collective and the girls procured their prime real…
Recognize the name? Chef, caterer and restaurateur Ken Lyon is the force behind the Design District’s Fratelli Lyon, catering company Lyon + Lyon, and the new Cape Cod Room in The Bath Club. He’s served up three decades worth of food all over the eastern United States, but Lyon started his career as…
Leblon Cachaca sponsored last night’s drinks for the “Blue Print For Space” exhibit opening at Art Center South Florida (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). The exhibition features work by street and graffiti artists and is affiliated with the Primary Flight project, the world’s largest site-specific street level mural installation.Cachaca is…
Bullfrog’s GastroPod, a gourmet food truck, goes live today in Wynwood, 1/4 block west of NW Second Avenue on 27th Street.This stationary unit is the precursor to an actual moving vehicle that is currently in the Carolinas getting fixed up right.Is the chef ready for tonight, will the Gastropod go…
The Biltmore Hotel’s Palme d’Or swept the Top Food, Decor and Service honors in this year’s just released Zagat 2010 Miami/So. Florida Restaurants guidebook ($14.95). That’s the Triple Crown baby — and a well-deserved accolade. We like the way chef Philippe Ruiz cooks too.Hakkasan nabbed the nod as top newcomer…
What it is: Pecan pie.Sure looks good. Is this the work of Hedy Goldsmith? Does it come from one of our top steak houses? Where it at?…
Tarry at Mai Tardi in the Design District
A Chef’s Burger (330 NW 29th Street) is a Wynwood food truck serving eat in, carry out, and delivery (786-344-5825) of burgers, fries, wings, salads, sandwiches, chili, soups, deserts, and drinks. We drove past the truck, saw the burger banners flying on a hot Tuesday afternoon on a Miami Winter…
Last night, MOCA North Miami teamed up with Vanity Fair magazine to kick off Art Basel Miami 2009 with a big time opening party for their “Reach Of Realism” exhibit. The show examines and questions realism in the age of digital manipulation and staged reality. It was sponsored by the…
Miami transplant, part-time rapper/producer and full-time nonsensical screamer DJ Khaled is the master of extolling the virtues of shit most people find worthless and/or despicable. Such as his own musical prowess: who but DJ Khaled could scream, with great frequency and without irony, that DJ Khaled is “THE BEST”?So it’s…
Chef’s Fest by Carbonell, “Spain’s favorite olive oil”, will take place December 9th to 19th. This translates to Carbonell olive oil running through various three-and-four course fixed-price menus ($35 to $45) served for this special occasion at the following establishments: Au Pied de Cochon; Casa Juancho; Graziano’s Brickell; La Cofradia;…
Hedy Goldsmith, executive pastry chef of Michael’s Genuine Food and Drink, has been recognized by Pear Bureau Northwest as its December “Pear Panache” chef of the month for her Pear and Cardamom Granita with Pistachio Pomegranate Biscotti.”Chef Goldsmith’s granita is a showstopper,” said Kevin Moffitt, president and CEO of Pear…
You’d have to be a Smurf living under a Hen of the Woods mushroom to not know that our country’s culinary epicenters are consumed by street food mania. Dessert Truck in New York City and Kogi Korean BBQ in Los Angeles were among the first gourmet vendors to gain a…
The results of Zagat’s 2010 Miami/So.Florida Restaurants Survey are out tomorrow. The new survey, which incorporates the opinions of some 6,100 local diners, will be available in print, at ZAGAT.com and on ZAGAT TO GO for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.Only info we have thus far is that this year, 34%…
Downtown Miami is a special place, especially because zoning laws allow for 24 hour liquor licensing. Damn right. Art Basel 2009 Miami brings with it a week of satellite fairs, many of them concentrated where most of the Design District and Wynwood galleries and Northern Downtown event spaces are, and…
I mighta been stoned and hungry the first time I ate at Elie’s Cafe, which could explain why I was riding my bike through a mall in downtown Miami in the first place, and definitely explains why it took me three years to find it again. I never got the…
