Food trucks are hitting the streets tonight in three different locations. Your choices include motorcycles and munchies down south, meals in Midtown Miami or surf-style tacos on South Beach. Peterson’s Harley Davidson South is hosting their Thursday food truck rally tonight from 6 to 10 p.m.. The showroom remains open…
Love Bites is a regular column on Short Order. Find other installments here.Garfield, my favorite fat cat cartoon character when I was just a lass, once said, “Diet is ‘die’… with a ‘t,'” and that’s how I’ve always viewed the process. It’s like a slow, painful death, especially for a…
When we found out that not only is Kareem Anguin, the new executive chef at Oceanaire, celebrating his big 3-0 this weekend but that he’ll also be doing so at Taste of Brickell, we figured it was time to introduce him to the masses. (He said he plans to serve…
Gurkha Cigars ;will be introducing its newest “Seduction” stogie tonight at a special reception and dinner at Texas de Brazil in South Beach. Guests at the $95 affair will be greeted by Gurkha Cigars owner Kaizad Hansotia, and cocktails, followed by a three-course dinner, more libations, and cigar-rolling on the…
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Go West, food trucks. If you live in the Kendall area and you’re looking for some chow, hit up the food trucks that meet at Kendall Car Wash. Though it’s a smaller roundup, all your basic food groups are represented — seafood, burger, Asian, cheese and dessert…
I long ago stopped eating the offerings at movie theater concession stands. So long ago that I can’t remember when I started loading up at Walgreen’s and sneaking in healthier, fresher, and better-priced snacks. The reason I began doing this is because eating movie theater popcorn can kill you. Sure,…
Rumors began circulating yesterday about the closing of Miami Beach’s Miss Yip and Buck 15. A phone call to the restaurant in the morning yielded no answer, so I walked over there to see for myself. At first glimpse, I got the impression the restaurant was being vacated. The outside…
Marcel Vigneron is best known as the Top Chef Season Two runner up and molecular gastronomy dweeb. On the popular television competition, his shtick was dipping things in liquid nitrogen and pissing off the other contestants, much like a rabid weasel. After the show, Marcel worked at a few restaurants…
On Sunday, Joe D’Amico, the self-proclaimed McRunner, finished 29th at the Los Angeles marathon with a time of 2:36:13 (which translates into just under 6 minute miles on average). What’s so amazing about this feat is that D’Amico, a runner from Palatine, Indiana, has eaten only McDonald’s for the past…
Movie legend, late-in-life food fan and onetime Miami resident Elizabeth Taylor has died. Taylor, 79, was diagnosed with congestive heart failure six years ago. She was married eight times, won two Oscars, played footsie with Michael Jackson and was an AIDS activist. She was also a tabloid favorite who loved…
Ah, the ’90s. The era when we were but aspartame-inhaling, hydrogenated-oil-guzzling kiddies. Back then, we thought playing in the Ronald McDonald playhouse was hygienically advisable and Fruit Roll-Ups were an appropriate example to bring up during food pyramid discussions in health class. Somehow we’re still alive.But now, we’ve been called…
So Joel Huff was a little late getting this recipe to us. Forgive the guy! After all, he just arrived in Miami a few weeks ago to start at Azul. Don’t know who we’re talking about? Read the first part of our interview here and the second part here; then get to…
If you’re a local going to Ultra Music Festival this weekend, you’ll already have your own strategy to stay fueled before and after the electronic music marathon. But if you’re not from South Florida — or hell, not even from central Miami-Dade — the area of downtown Miami surrounding the festival’s…
Allen Susser is rallying other chefs to come together for a series of fundraising dinners to help Japan.”Calling ourselves ‘culinary messengers,’ we’ve banded together to raise money for Japan and hope that you’ll join us,” Susser writes in an email to fellow culinarians. “The goal is to generate substantial funds quickly and…
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. 70…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Taking a cue from what we all learned in diver’s ed (and then promptly forgot about as soon as we hit the road), is South Miami’s RA Sushi,…
Try Giuseppe’s Italian Sausage at the Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup tonight from 5:30 to 10 on NE 127th Street and Biscayne Boulevard.It’s hard not to love sausage and peppers. Even vegetarians drool a little when they pass peppers sweating on the grill, even if they’re next to links of savory meat.Owner of mobile…
Burlesque, that sexy, sultry, but not-quite-so-naked performance, has seen a resurgence in the past few years. The literary definition of burlesque is “a dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing serious work.” In the 1940s however, popular variety shows that featured risque comedy and female striptease in…
Jack in the Box has just rolled out a 34-foot-long food truck. The Jack in the Box Munchie Mobile cruised the streets of San Diego last Friday and will travel throughout Southern California in the next few months. The truck is wrapped in a ’70s-style mural depicting an airbrushed “Jack”…
Joel and Leticia Pollock, the husband-and-wife team behind Wynwood’s Panther Coffee, will debut their “coffee trike” tonight at the Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup. Panther specializes in small batch coffees, roasted and ground at their Miami headquarters. We could tell you to look for them on the grass, but you’ll probably…
