I have come to praise Miami Book Fair International, not to bury it. I mean seriously: Is there any other event of this size that runs so seamlessly and trouble-free year after year? Plus, if not for Mitchell Kaplan, a lot of people in Miami might still not know what a…
One of TV’s most adored entertainers is leaving. No one knows exactly what his future plans are, but if you’ve checked out his syndicated morning show lately, you know he’s not really retiring, just “moving on.”Regis makes his final exit November 18, leaving cohost Kelly Ripa on a quest to…
Yardbird Southern Table and Bar flies high with Southern fare and blues-soaked ambiance
Feverish Ice Cream owners Felecia Hatcher and Derick Pearson are headed to Washington D.C., where they’ll be feted for their accomplishments at a special White House reception tomorrow, Thursday, November 17. Business partners (and husband and wife) Hatcher and Pearson started Feverish Ice Cream in 2008. The company sells ice…
Gut bacteria: Those are two nasty words. But the one quadrillion microorganisms in your intestines are a beautiful thing, when they’re kept in healthy balance.Together, they can work just like another organ in the digestive system, breaking down unused food particles, fending off or thwarting growth of harmful microorganisms, and…
A hunting lodge in Coconut Grove. That’s what the owners of Mr. Moe’s wanted to recreate ten years ago, so they imported river rock from Colorado, logs from Nova Scotia, and a whole lot of stuffed animals — including one big ole bear. The philosophy being if you build a…
So you like burgers, huh? Not as much as Sef Gonzalez, the guy behind the Burger Beast blog, the Food Truck Tracker, and, returning this weekend, Miami’s annual Burgie Awards. The annual celebration of the city’s best buns (and patties and toppings) comes to Magic City Casino this Saturday, showing…
New Yorkers know her as the chef/owner of Prune and a prolific writer whose work has appeared in nearly every major food magazine, the New Yorker and The New York Times. Now Hamilton will most likely be known around the country as the author of Blood, Bones & Butter (Random…
Last evening some of Miami’s best chefs shared cuisine from around the world at the second annual World Festival Miami to benefit Common Threads.The event at the Cruz Building in Coconut Grove featured great food, drinks and the cutest little chefs we’ve ever seen as students from Common Threads Miami…
Come January 6, a group called Outstanding in the Field, in cahoots with chef Alejandro Pinero of Sustain Restaurant + Bar and farmer Hani Khouri, will hold one of its sensational outdoor farm dinners at Hani’s Mediterranean Organics in the Redlands. I spoke with founding chef Jim Denevan about how…
Derek Kaplan leaves the firehouse around 7:30 a.m. Instead of sleeping or maybe going fishing like his brethren, the burly firefighter goes home, takes a shower, and then heads to his bakery to make pies.Kaplan has been baking pies since 2008, and he’s good at it. In fact, his key…
Stephen Colbert takes on what has to be the issue plaguing out nation’s teens the most these days. No, it’s not bullying, budget cuts, or teen pregnancy.According to a KPHO Phoenix news story, teens are soaking tampons in vodka and shoving them into whatever available orifice they can find. How…
You can’t say that you can cook better than mom, but that’s the premise of a new cooking show, Just Like Mama, which is set to begin filming in January. In it, Miami personal chef Stuart Shaw re-creates healthier versions of home-cooked meals that celebrities knew best.Shaw has been cooking…
Though Dr. Jessica Harris is well known as a tenured professor and the author of more than 10 cookbooks, including A Kwanzaa Keepsake and The Africa Cookbook, for her latest creation, High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America (Bloomsbury, $26), the culinary historian went into detailed…
First there was Dancing With The Stars, which re-introduced us to such has-beens celebrities as Donny Osmond, Florence Henderson, Drew Lachey, and most recently Chaz Bono. Despite our repeated efforts at tying this to the end of the world (or because of it), the show was (and remains) a huge…
In this series, the Beet Reporter aims to see whether Miami’s tastiest restaurants are prepared to feed vegans with something more than boring garden salads.Barceloneta, the Pubbelly crew’s newest gastro-enterprise on 20th Street in South Beach, opened its doors less than a month ago. So, perhaps to publicize the new…
In March 2010, Claudio Giordano moved his AltaMar restaurant into larger digs up the same Lincoln Road block, removed capitalization of the letter “m” and added an “e” to the end of the name, and brought chef Simon Stojanovic on board. Through the first nine years and then the reincarnation,…
Coconut Grove’s Cruz Building (in the old Christabelle’s Quarter space) will turn into the United Nations for the second annual World Festival Miami tomorrow, November 15 to benefit Common Threads.Chef Michelle Bernstein will host the event, which will feature cuisine from some of Miami’s hottest chefs, including Timon Balloo (Sugarcane…
Last night’s Simpson’s episode, “The Food Wife”, had Marge, Lisa, and Bart blogging about food (including the best places to eat in Springfield).The episode was jam-packed with foodie references, including a don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it sequence where almost every chef in the world is bouncing around in Singapore — from Mario Batali to…
Richard Hales’s Sakaya Kitchen was a pioneer in both locale (midtown, then a ghost town in terms of eateries) and concept — affordable, chef-driven, Asian-inspired small plates (pre-Gigi, Wok Town, Pubbelly, etc.). Hales was also right at the intersection of the original food truck courts; his Sakaya Kitchen Truck, then Dim…
Ricochet Bar Lounge held its grand opening celebration Friday night, bringing Tommy Pooch and Alan Roth’s South Beach sensibilities to the mainland. So how did the nightlife promoters tweak their formula for the Midtown crowd? Not much.The lounge’s location just around the corner from Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill is beside…
What do you get when you put together the three hottest restaurants in Miami? Well, nothing really … except maybe a lot of heat. That is, until a successor is chosen at the 2011 Eater Awards Gala in New York City tonight. Only at that point will the bloodbath and…
