As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 36…
Totally Truckin’ Thursdays rolls into its new home tonight in a big way. TTT will instantly become one of the larger rallies tonight as 40 food trucks serve dinner from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at Century Marketplace on NW Eighth Street and LeJeune Road. The improved TTT promises to bring…
Four Diamond Award-winner, Hakkasan, at the Fontainebleau Hotel, may not be the most likely destination for vegetarians. But the menu is rich with offerings to suit most every taste and preference.Executive Chef Ooi Soon Lok offers fresh, well orchestrated food that is likely the area’s best. Consider he fried rice…
Thali Indian and Thai: Fresh and affordable in South Beach
Sometimes you know a YouTube video is going to go viral — like the laughing penguin or the little kid who got stoned at the dentist. Well, this is one of those videos — except you get a kick-ass Pad Thai recipe with your 14 minutes of shirking your menial…
We first wrote about the planned South Beach branch of On Monday we noted the shop would debut yesterday at 6 a.m., and that the first 50 customers would receive a half-dozen bagels and six-pack of bottled Brooklynized water. I showed up shortly after that hour and nabbed my freebies…
Love Bites is a regular column on Short Order. Find other installments here.Mr. Yum has been around for a few months and the owner has a great reputation from Sushi Rock — it was the perfect place for distraction. When visiting last week for the first time, I was instantly…
Back in the day when I was unhappy with my previous 80-hour-a-week job, I submitted my resume to Monster.com. This morning, I received a rather curious email stating “Celebrity Chef Mario Batali is looking for a motivated rock star who’s interested in food, wine, media and travel to be his…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 37…
Peruse the menu at any fine restaurant in Miami and you’re sure to find a lot of bragging about the pedigrees of the various ingredients of the dish you’re about to eat. With phrases like Prime, USDA Certified Angus, wild-caught, sometimes you’re not sure whether to eat your food or…
“Hooweeeee! Gonna get me some gator tail!”Okay, so I may not have used those exact words this past weekend, but, that is kind of what I felt like as I clunkered down Krome Avenue in my 1993 Ford Explorer heading towards SW 366th Street.This unfamiliar trek was put in motion…
Just when you thought it was safe to skip a cycle of your dog’s costly Advantix treatments, the bubonic plague stages a comeback — at least in New Mexico. On Friday, a Santa Fe man became the first person to be diagnosed with the plague in 2011.Thought the disease died…
In yesterday’s gripping installment, we spoke with Kevin Kehoe and Hans Seitz, the chef/partners of Sparky’s Roadside Barbecue in downtown Miami. Today, the conversation continues.New Times: Not much comes out of a can here, right? I mean it’s mostly home-cooked…Kevin Kehoe: We make everything from scratch except the ketchup (Heinz)…
This Saturday, May 14 a group of Miami bloggers (disclosure: I’m one of them) will bring their baked treats to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for the National Food Bloggers Bake Sale. For the campaign, food bloggers around the country hold sales in their cities to raise funds for Share Our…
Miami landmark restaurant, the Rusty Pelican is shutting down July 5 to begin a $6 million renovation project. John Tallichet, CEO of the corporation that owns the Pelican as well as approximately 20 other restaurants across the U.S. is “excited to make some major changes,” and the goal is to…
What it is? Hint: It is not a pizza, nor a ceviche.Where it at? Hint: It is not a pizzeria, cevicheria, or cafeteria.Give it your best guess in the comments section below. We’ll let you know when you’ve hit the jackpot.Follow Short Order on Facebook and Twitter @Short_Order…
It might not be Cinco de Mayo any longer, but that can’t stop the craving for good Mexican food. At El Rancho Grande, lunch got started with a basket of complimentary chips, served warm with a side salsa kick.Although listed on the menu, guacamole wasn’t available to be prepared tableside…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 38…
Reading the Che Grill menu is like walking into a small bistro in Buenos Aires. In fact, you half expect to hear the strains of a tango as you decide what to order. Argentinian food is all about the meat and Che Grill serves up hearty steaks and sausages as…
It might not have been the smartest move to open a little French bistro directly across the street from Le Bouchon du Grove, but Le Cafe Pop and its bright orange awnings seemed to be making a go of things for a while, mostly enjoying a brisk lunch and brunch…
In honor of National Burger Month, Short Order featured some great burgers in Miami, but, thus far, has totally ignored the way most people get their burger — at the drive-thru. Yes, there are wonderful places to enjoy a quality burger in Miami, but chances are at some point in…
Sparky’s Roadside Barbecue opened a year ago in downtown Miami. Owners Hans Seitz (from Queens, New York), and Kevin Kehoe (from Woodbury, Long Island), had originally talked of doing a barbecue truck, “but Miami specifically says, in its code, ‘no barbecue trucks,'” explains Hans, AKA Sparky. “So I wasn’t going…
