May is officially National Hamburger Month, official in the sense that it was enacted as a vast marketing scheme by either White Castle or Krystal depending on whom you ask. We here at Short Order support fast food America, capitalism, and fake holidays, but let’s face it, corporate chain burgers…
Got money? Drink wine? Support the Make-A-Wish foundation? Prove it this May 13 at Morton’s The Steakhouse in North Miami Beach (17399 Biscayne Blvd) when Duckhorn Wine President Alex Ryan hosts an exploration of his company’s vineyards with wines from the Goldeneye and Paraduxx collections paired with a five course…
Congratulations to Kristen Hinman from our sister paper in St. Louis, The Riverfront Times, for her James Beard award for best Newspaper Feature Writing Without Recipes, for her article “The Pope of Pork.”The James Beard Awards are like The Oscars for the culinary world. Kristen’s article about the pork farming…
Sometimes I sit around for hours on end scooping sardines out the can with sour cream and onion pork rinds and drinking one tall can after the next of Arizona fruit punch. That’s my reality. It’s refreshing to see what other bloggers are up to. Some of the following posts…
This post is dedicated to the time I got arrested on Mother’s Day when I was 15. Do not — I repeat — do not, get high with your friends on the roof of a parking garage in Coral Gables and throw rocks at the Metrobus, even if it’s parked…
In a response to our blog about the up-and-coming MIA venue in downtown Miami, Eddie writes that he will miss another downtown spot, Prime Blue Grille — which reminds me of a an old country music song, How Can I Miss You When I Don’t Know You’re Gone?According to Daily…
Attention flask fanatics and supporters of small, brown, you-don’t-need-to-know-my-business paper bags; there’s a new BYOB in MIA. The Wynwood Social Club (2501 N.W. 2nd Ave., Miami, across the street from Joey’s) doesn’t serve the sauce but delves out mixers that range from tonic, sparkling water, soda, and Snapples for free…
Hey, you feel that? Stop whatever you’re doin for a second and tell me, you smell somethin? Is it hot in here? Hey what’s goin on? We’re cookin dammit, that’s what. The melting pot is heating up and Miami’s food scene is burblin’ with the certainty of it. It’s as…
Editor’s Note:Meatless in Miami columnist Lolo Reskin is ba-a-a-ack. In her first column, she talked about becoming a vegetarian. She’ll be writing on the site regularly. MYTH: It’s hard to be a vegetarian in Miami.REALITY: It’s actually a breeze, and only getting breezier…This is the main misconception that inspired this…
The first entry in our new Great Chef Recipe Files comes from Marco Ferraro, the talented top toque at Wish at The Hotel in South Beach. Ferraro was born in Italy, tutored at The French Culinary Institute in New York, trained at Michelin two-star Le Muscandin in Mougins, and followed…
Yesterday, Lee Klein called Miami Spice annoying. Today, we’re giving the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau an opportunity to respond. I asked Rolando Aedo, Senior VP of marketing and tourism what makes Miami Spice special if it happens every season. I also asked him whether prices are going to…
We just received word from Terry Zarikian, Director of Product Development for China Grill Management, that Kobe Club Miami’s closing is only temporary — the steak house will reopen at the beginning of August. Why the confusion? “The New York Times misreported the closing of Kobe Club Miami by omitting…
Not to say that New Times invented surveys, prizes, or calling stuff the best, but NBCmiami.com’s “Golden Local” awards are obviously a blatant rip off of our legally trademarked annual “Best Of Miami” awards.That being said, NBCmiami.com has done a nice job in taking their readers poll to web 2.0…
Norman Van Aken is a culinary legend. Check his stats in our archive.Including this blog post, his name has appeared 149 times in New Times since 1990, when the archives start. Ever heard of New World Cuisine, “The Mango Gang,” a Mano, or Norman’s? Van Aken is that dude. He left…
Postpone that TV dinner you had planned for this evening–it’s time to call and make reservations at your favorite upscale restaurant.Tonight is “Dine Out and Save Lives” night, sponsored by Care Resource, South Florida’s largest and oldest HIV/AIDS community health provider. Here’s how it works: go to their website, click…
On May 5th, Food Network Magazine will hit newsstands with a feature declaring Miami’s own El Rey De Las Fritas as maker of the best hamburger in Florida; and that’s according to celebrity chef Bobby Flay (and food critics across the country).In a recent Short Order interview with Miami’s resident…
If you have a cool family recipe — preferably South Florida-ethnic-centric — and a JPEG photo to go along with it, we would like to share it with the hungering world. It’s gotta be an original, passed-down recipe, not something you’ve scooped from a cookbook or website. And it should…
More and more folks are supposedly cooking at home these days, so the next best thing to starting dinner at Michy’s with blue cheese-and-Jamón Serrano croquetas is to start dinner at home with your own homemade version. Not that we’ve asked Michelle for the recipe yet, but you can ask…
We mean a great recipe from a great chef (and you know who you are). We mean a recipe for a dish currently being served in a reputable (but not necessarily expensive) local restaurant. We mean a recipe accompanied by a JPEG photo of the completed course. These recipes will…
MIA at Biscayne, a 14,000-square-foot dining and entertainment venue, is slated to open at the corner of Flagler and the namesake boulevard this coming summer. Executive Chef Gerdy Rodriguez, who you might remember from another gargantuan downtown dining and entertainment venue (Karu & Y), is in charge of producing “reinvented…
Canyon Ranch Grill
Ever ridden your bike north on Biscayne Boulevard at midnight and wondered what that place around 18th Street was doing that had all those people sitting outside eating, drinking, smiling and looking like they were having a good time? I have. I almost ran one of them over, so much…
