Pork skin and pork fat aren’t exactly standard fare for a vegan diet. So chicharrónes are an unlikely find on an all-herbivorous menu. But find them, we did. At Bird Road’s Beehive Juice Bar, Brazilian owner Carlos Schichi cooks up this signature snack for reformed meat eaters, heart attack sufferers,…
When New York mayoral candidate and corn-dog horn-dog, Anthony Weiner was busted yet again for sexting under the completely ridiculous porn-star-meets-lousy-superhero name, Carlos Danger, you know the whole food-loving world was thinking of how awesome it would be to name a line of sausages after the whole debacle. Hey, all…
Just cause you live in the suburbs doesn’t mean you can’t spice things up. In celebration of Miami Spice, Devon is heating things up at a lower cost and with a fourth course. Located in Town and Country in Kendall, the seafood and steakhouse is getting caliente tonight, with an…
Having a bad Tuesday? It’s about to get a whole lot better. For four months, Wynwood and midtown have been dealing with a life bereft of scrumptious Enriqueta’s pan con bistec — the best in Miami. When our favorite neighborhood joint suffered from an electrical fire in April, owner Jose…
Nine years ago, New York’s hamburger landscape changed forever when an unassuming shack began serving up humanely raised 100% Angus beef. Danny Meyer got his start in the 80’s with Union Swuare Hospitality, eventually leading him to his little roadside cart that took root in the fine-casual burger market, and…
Keith Kalmanowicz is a busy guy. In the past two hours, he’s petted a black emu, chatted up a Jamaican medicine man, shown me a composting toilet, and confessed that he’s fed a chubby pig named Shuffles perhaps too much brioche. Sitting on a bench at Earth N’ Us Farm…
“Sorry, we’re not getting them in until Wednesday.” That was my answer at the first Taco Bell I drove through yesterday afternoon. Even though the Mexican-ish fast-food company had moved up the release of the new Fiery Doritos Locos Tacos from the original August 22 launch date to August 19,…
From the fantastical food world of frings (french fries plus onion rings) and cronuts, we present you with the frickle. Yes, you guessed it, that’s a fried pickle. The crunch of a dill contained in golden fried battered. But wait, there’s more. Brother Jimmy’s BBQ in Brickell serves frickles on…
In Daytona Beach, just a few miles away from Johnny Rockets and Bubba Gump Shrimp Company, a teeny restaurant serves pupusas, pastelitos, and mondongo from a mobile home. At $5 a pair, the pupusas at Chucherias Hondureñas are the best I’ve had in quite awhile. A yellow-tinged disk made with…
After tons of speculation and a strange media blitz that involved showering food bloggers with bags of Doritos, Taco Bell’s new Doritos Locos Taco debuts today. The third taco in the Doritos Locos Taco (DLT) series, the new taco takes a spicier turn by turning Doritos’ lesser known Flamas chips…
I have a wonderful friend who lives in Palm Beach. Blame it on easy communication over the Internet, but even though we’re only an hour drive from each other, we barely get together in person. So, whenever either of us finds ourselves within 15 minutes of one another, we drop…
Somebody named Katrina Brown Hunt has issued coffee rankings and Miami ain’t on the list. It’s all the predictables: Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Minneapolis… San Juan, Puerto Rico, is thrown in there, too. Just cuz they don’t want to seem anti-Hispanic. Thing is, the shmucks who took the survey don’t…
Meet Chris P. Bacon. Chris is a 6-month-old potbellied pig. His favorite foods are Cheerios and sliced green grapes; his least favorite are carrots and celery. He loves air conditioning, rubbing his belly in the grass, and watching TV with his adoptive older brother. His best friends are a stuffed…
Wine sommeliers are the understated cool kids of the restaurant industry. Everyone forgets about them, but every high-end restaurant has one. Lurking in the corners of dark wine cellars, these experts are there to assist guests with ordering vino. You’d think the type of people who fall into this profession…
Happy National Rum Day! Sure, it’s another made up holiday, but when there are cheap rum drinks involved do you really care? If you want to get technical, since sugar cane is a major Florida crop…and since rum is distilled from sugar and/or molasses, you could say that rum should…
Yogurt, in some form or another, will never disappear. Just when we think the Fro-Yo trend has surely jumped the shark, we’re proven wrong with the expansion of Pinkberry. Of course, who in their right mind doesn’t love frozen yogurt? Which is basically a way to eat a cold, creamy…
Calling all avocado nuts. Whole Foods is offering a one-day special sale on the deliciously green fruit that’s used as a vegetable — $5 for five. That’s a dollar each. The catch? It’s for today only. All Whole Foods Market stores in Florida are participating in this one day haas…
Michael Schwartz isn’t sure about a few things. He doesn’t know how many hours he works in a day, whether his employees think he’s a good manager, or where exactly he’s taking his restaurant group next. What he does know is this: a lot has changed since he landed his…
Ahh. Miami Spice. True, it’s a great value but like everything in life, the two month-long promotion comes with a few catches — like the fact that many restaurants don’t offer the three-course prix-fixe Spice menu on weekends. That sucks, because a lot of us simply have too many things…
While the rest of Miami preps for another relaxing weekend on the beach, you’re frantically crossing things off your kids’ back-to-school check list. Number 2 pencils. Notebooks. Folders. Loose-leaf paper. Note cards. Backpacks. That horrific One Direction binder your daughter is begging for. It’s all enough to be a suitable…
An important part of the craft beer culture is trading bottles with fellow collectors and Brewskis in South Miami recognizes this which is why they are hosting Nightlife Brewing Company’s “Hook Up and Trade Up” bottle trade event on August 18. Bottle trading is serious business. These are gatherings where…
In a society dominated by Starbucks, coffee gets all the media love. But what about that other hot beverage — the one that cultures have been drinking for, oh, 3,000 years or so? The one that Buddhist monks swear by? The one they drink religiously on Downton Abbey? Tea ringing…
