Have you ever wondered which fork to use? How to butter your roll, or what to do if you drop your napkin? These simple etiquette questions can strike fear in your heart during a business dinner or important social occasion. Whether you are trying to close a deal over a…
This year’s Miami Rum Renaissance Festival was bigger than ever. In its new home at the Miami Airport Convention Center at the Doubletree by Hilton, there was ample room for rum exhibitors, seminars, and even on outdoor cigar lounge where attendees could enjoy a spirited smoke. Tasting our way through…
It’s happy hour at Tongue & Cheek. Almost every stool is occupied as the bartender explains the specials, which include $4 craft beers, $8 specialty cocktails, and the daily $10 “family meal.” Before we get a chance to order, chef/partner Jamie DeRosa emerges from the kitchen wearing a gray utility shirt…
New Times’ Best of Miami 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Short Order is serving up our top 30 tastemakers in the 305. These are the people who we think have helped shape the Miami food scene into what it is today. We begin with number 30 and lead…
Growing up in a Nicaraguan household, I was introduced to hard liquor by my dad’s bottle of Johnnie Walker Red. Nicas love hanging out with Johnnie. He’s a smooth cat who’s been the master of concocting aromatic amber spirits since the 1800s. At the tender age of 13, I became…
What do you get when you put Miami’s top toques, five heritage breed pigs, bourbon, and a hot girl butchering a 300-pound porker all in the same room? A bitchin’ good time, that’s what. Swooping in for its second tour in Miami, Cochon 555 proved to be yet another fantastic…
Saturday is always a good night to go out and get chocolate wasted. You’re fried from the long work week and you just want to let loose. Maybe even pop a button on your pants. And today, 4/20, is a good time for stoners and marijuana supporters to crunch and…
Ever wanted to be part of a Guinness World Record? How about making history while stuffing your face? The time has come my friends, prepare for battle. Tomorrow, April 20, at Magic City Casino, Burger Beast plans to break the record for “World’s Largest Food Truck Event.” Free admission? Yes…
For most people, dinner appears on the table, as if by magic. But what, exactly, goes on in the process of getting all those fruits, vegetables, and proteins to your family?Tomorrow, April 20 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., the Miami Science Museum will explore that theme with their totally…
Boston ice cream shop Emack & Bolio’s quietly opened up a Miami outpost in South Beach inside the Sunset Harbour Shops last week. The Purdy Avenue storefront is colorful and vibrant; spaceships hanging from the ceiling; a talking moose mascot; ridiculous menu items like the midnight munchies sundae — really…
If you think eating and drinking all week is irresponsible behavior, think again. While we all might be broke, underfed, and over-stressed, taking part in any kind of food-centric events helps us come back down to earth. Hanging out with friends, sipping a fine wine, drinking a good craft, and…
Can you believe it’s playoff time again? And, of course, the Miami Heat are in it to win it. The Heat will open the 2013 NBA Playoffs against the Milwaukee Bucks at 7 p.m. on Sunday, April 21, at American Airlines Arena, starting yet another quest for basketball domination.But why…
Anyone can get behind a bar and mix a drink. For that matter, anyone can walk into a kitchen and prepare a meal. After all, we’ve all cooked for ourselves at home, haven’t we?But, bartenders, like chefs, have many different levels of expertise. While the person who pops your Budweiser…
If you, like the Cookie Monster, tend to break out in song every time you bite into a tasty baked treat, then you’ve got to enter Om Nom Nom’s jingle contest.The Miami-based vegan cookie company is looking for a 30-second long jingle that can be edited down to 5-15 seconds…
With just a few days left until Miami’s best event of the year, Aaron Brooks is busily chucking away in a secret kitchen at Edge Steak & Bar — carefully formulating his master plan to win this year’s Cochon. Michelle Bernstein was queen at 2012’s pork-centric affair, but Brooks thought…
Catch Miami: Faddish Scene, Middling Cuisine
Altanta-based SweetWater Brewing Company is bringing its craft beers to Miami. To expand its brand, SweetWater is putting the finishing touches on its newly expanded brewhouse, which quadruples the brewery’s capacity…
When burger aficionado George Motz ate at Miami’s Latin Burger and Taco about three years ago, the owner of the popular pink-and-black food truck, Jim Heins immediately recognized him. Motz, after all, is the man behind the documentary film Hamburger America and author of a book and blog of the…
Pork lovers, rejoice! Cochon 555, a porktastic event, is coming to town. The ten-city culinary competition and tasting tour was created to promote the sustainable farming of heritage breed pigs — so that we may eat them better, my dear. Five local chefs compete in each city, preparing a menu…
Lyn Farmer is director of the United Way Wine & Food Festival, now in its 18th year. But doesn’t the title “imperial imbiber” of the freshly rebranded Veritage Miami sound much better? “Our new chairman, Richard Fain, wanted to shake things up a little,” said Farmer, who is also the…
Miami Rum Renaissance Festival director Robert Burr is what you might call “rum obsessed.” The author of Examiner.com’s national rum page has about 900 bottles of rum in his private collection, hosts rum cruises on which fans can tour various distilleries at exotic ports of call, and is hosting an interactive…
Throwing in the towel isn’t a foreign concept to most of us. If you have a high-stress job, it’s something you’ve surely considered at least once in your career. Whether you deal by soldiering on or quitting, no one will win more at life than one man who left his…
