Bonnie Schwartzer wrote in to let us know about Le Banyan, a new Thai restaurant. I haven’t yet been, but Bonnie has, and really likes it. Here, with her permission, is what she had to say:”I would like to recommend a restaurant called Le Banyan, located at 7300 Ocean Terrace,…
Went to Tap Tap last night. Tested mojitos. Better than Delano. Brain hurts. Need sleep, or water, or more booze. It’s Friday. See ya at the bar. Here’s what you mighta missed.- Lee Klein don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.- Of pigs, pork, beards, and…
I’ve known local artist Ahol for about four years, since I graduated from college and made it from Tucson to Miami by playing guitar for gas money and sleeping in a broken-windowed Corolla at hijacked KOA campsites. Ahol was heavy on his street-art grind, but has since leveraged his powers of self promotion into the successful…
This light and zesty crab dip is a favorite among Chef Allen’s clientele, and when scooped up with fresh, crisp chips of yuca, boniato, potato and green plantain…well, let’s just say you’ll wonder why you wasted all those years with potato chips and onion dip…
Aright survey heads, Short Order is about to put you onto a clickstravaganza that’ll not only take the work out of your workday, but allow your voice to ring out in a widely read printed media. That’s right, it’s Zagat time. Time to place your votes, write your reviews and…
North One 10 is holding one of its’ great Winemaker Dinners tonight beginning at 7:00 p.m. Andrea Cecchi of Cecchi Winery will be on hand to preside over the tasting of his wines. From the release:”Andrea Cecchi’s surname is cloaked in tradition, the wines that he crafts on his family…
Thanks to Menu Pages for their live twitterization of the Beard Awards. They came up with some great observations, sent em’ out from a phone and preserved by the internet for posterity. Here are a couple of examples See the rest on the Menu Pages twitter page @MPSouthFlorida…
Petit Rouge is a French Bistro in North Miami headed up by Chef Neal Cooper. Lee Schrager, founder of the South Beach Wine and Food Festival recently twittered mid meal “Enjoying my dinner in Miami at Petit Rouge. Best profiterols I’ve ever had……. Mmmmm good!!!”I spoke to Chef Neal by…
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This month the Biscayne Times, owned and operated by former New Times editor Jim Mullin, features an article by Jeff Shimonski, a certified arborist and director of horticulture at Jungle Island, on home composting techniques. Shimonski uses vermiculture, compost via earthworm, at his own home’s vegetable garden. Shimonski writes “I purchased a…
Crazy Pianos, “The world’s most famous duelling piano entertainment concept,” opens today in the Grove. The original location is Holland, so that roughly makes Crazy Pianos Miami the world’s second most famous place of its kind, even if you’ve never heard of it, cause, well, how many duelling piano entertainment concepts…
New York Bagel Deli, which for years has been stuffing the kishkas of grateful customers at 6546 Collins Avenue, is opening a downtown Miami branch in the Dupont Building, and is also slated to start a bagelry at Biscayne Boulevard and 23rd Street. The downtown deli should be open next…
Wanna crash your work computer? Today is the last day to download a coupon from Oprah’s website that offers two pieces of grilled chicken, two sides and a biscuit from KFC as part of a new, supposedly healthier menu. Hey free food is free food and getting it is awesome,…
You asked, we fetched. Mercy wrote in: “I tried making Michy’s croquetas and matched up the ingredients well — but what breading is used? Can you give me the receipe for the croquetas and fig marmalade? It is one of my favorites.”The recipe for croquetas with blue cheese and jamón…
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza, which in 2002 launched its first branch in Fort Lauderdale, has opened location number 15 in Pinecrest (10205 S. Dixie Highway). The chain is known for its authentic-800-degree-anthracite-coal-burning-oven “well done pizzas” — and, to a lesser degree, chicken wings roasted in the same oven. This will…
Pizza Fusion wants readers of Short Order to know that their 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. deal, details of which were posted earlier today, brings diners a personal size pizza (4 slices), not a medium pizza (6 slices) as their first release had erroneously claimed. Also, please note that the special…
I’m bout to let you Short Ordrians in on a secret. Jesus was a Mexican, and he has a drink named as such, and nobody’s ever heard of it because I made it up.This is an exclusive, as yet unreleased recipe. The only person who’s ever heard it was the…
In real life, at least according to wikipedia, Cinco De Mayo “commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.” In America it usually means tacos and tequila shots, and tourist versions of mariachi hats.The Cinco De Mayo festivities at Jaguar,…
Pizza Fusion in North Miami Beach (in the Biscayne Commons Mall) has come up with a timely special: Between the hours of 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., price for a medium pizza (with white or whole grain crust) will be dictated by the clock. So if you arrive at 5:31…
Miami didn’t bring home any Beards this year. The award for best new restaurant went to Momofuku Ko in New York, not Miami’s Sra. Martinez, edged out by comic value points for the name Momofuku.Best Chef South went to John Currence from City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi. One of the…
Cinco de Mayo, like Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, St. Patrick’s Day — heck, like most of our holidays — means little to Americans other than an excuse to congregate in large groups and get shit-faced on booze. Sad, really, but I’ll leave that as fodder for social scientists…
