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. 79…
Everyday a new truck, it seems. The latest restaurant to hop onto the food truck bandwagon is the popular El Rey de las Fritas, best known for its Cuban hamburgers — or fritas.”We’ve see how it’s been crazy with everyone doing a food truck,” co-owner Mercedes Gonzalez told Short Order…
Restaurateur Stephen Starr (Steak 954 in Fort Lauderdale) is set to debut his second South Florida Restaurant, Makoto at Bal Harbour Shops, in late March. Why are we genuinely optimistic? Namesake chef Makoto Okuwa is a disciple of the famed Chef Morimoto. After having dined at Morimoto Napa, we can…
A couple weeks back, we introduced you to Francesca Lacuesta and and Mark Jennings, proprietors of the upcoming Mac’n Vegetarian Soul Food Truck. It’ll be the first totally meatless truck to hit the local mobile food scene. And with most menu items also available in vegan, and even vegan gluten-free,…
Carlos Osorio rarely has the opportunity to go out on the town. What with a full-time job, a wife, and children, it can be daunting. That is why Osorio decided to take action. “My wife and I don’t go out much. We have two kids, work long hours, and constantly…
I love Google Recipes, the new search engine for cooks. Instead of Googling “pizza” and getting 300,000 places that deliver, the results will only include ways to actually make a pizza. Great idea! Hmmmm, I thought, If it works for “pizza,” would it work for “penis”? Sure enough, Google came back with nine penis…
Chef Christopher Lee, executive chef at Eden South Beach, has been kind enough to share the recipe for Eden’s Hamachi Sashimi with us. We promise we only had to twist his arm a little bit during our interview the other day.This refreshing and light course is perfect to impress dinner…
The party is in the Gables this weekend as the annual Carnaval On The Mile kicks into gear. The event on Miracle Mile features paintings, sculptures, photography and crafts. Live musical groups, , including jazz bands direct from New Orleans, perform nonstop on three stages to help celebrate Carnaval, the…
Update: Jack Garabedian, owner of Jefe’s Original Taco, just announced the location of tonight’s Tamiami Trucker’s Food Court. The trucks will be set up at 136th Street and 145th Court, behind Lexus of West Kendall. All week long you’ve been holed up in your cubicle like some gopher, doing mind-numbing…
If you’ve secretly yearned for a California roll as you drive through Kendall or North Miami Beach. your prayers have been answered. The Red Koi Gourmet Food Truck will make its debut this weekend at Carnaval on the Mile.Food to be served by the Red Koi truck includes California rolls,…
In yesterday’s installment, we listed six chefs, in alphabetical order, who at one point or another in their careers encountered a flop. We continue with the remaining half-dozen:7. Chef: Andrea Curto-Randazzo and Frank RandazzoFlop: Water ClubTalula folded this past year after a long and fruitful run, but the Randazzos kept…
An amuse bouche to precede next week’s Cafe review:Vichyssoise de lettue wowed by way of a chilled potato base greened and lightened with pureed romaine lettuce and créme fraîche. The velvety velouté contained bits of tomato confit and green olives, and a floating crouton capped with smoked paprika cream that…
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. 80…
Our earlier post about the Redland flea market was devoted to its outdoor food court — but the second big centerpiece of the place is its massive farmers market. No, this isn’t the kind of pristine, cutesy “farmers market” that sells cupcakes and boasts signs with clever graphic design. This,…
Gigi’s owner, Amir Ben-Zion, confirms to Short Order that the rumors that Chef Jeff McInnis has left his position at Gigi are true.Ben-Zion explained that the split was amicable and it was never the intention of the restaurant or McInnis to stay beyond the first few months after opening.Since opening…
If you’re thinking Rosa Mexicano is just about a killer margarita and a big bowl of guacamole custom-tailored to your liking, think again muchacha. Yes, Rosa Mexicano serves up a mean margarita, but does any hombre or señorita live on Margaritas alone? To celebrate the opening of the new restaurant…
What is it? Well, that looks to be a sugarcane skewer…Where it at? We haven’t a clue — or at least not one we’re willing to share. Take your best guess in the comments section below, just for the heck of it.Follow Short Order on Facebook and Twitter @Short_Order…
You can easily while away most of a weekend day at Redland Market Village Bargain Town, which is located at the intersection of South Dixie Highway and SW 244th Street. The name, perhaps, sums up the many functions of the indoor/outdoor complex. Yes, it sprawls to nearly the size of…
LeBron James’s Miami Heat takes on Dwight Howard’s Orlando Magic at the American Airlines Arena tonight in a game likely to prove whether the Heat can actually play with the big ballers. The team lost to the Knicks this week and is developing a habit of losing to top teams. How can Dwyane,…
Whatever you think about these food truckers — good, bad, or indifferent — you can’t call them lazy. I get tired just keeping track of them — which new ones are rolling down the streets, where they are, where they’re being thrown out of, and where they’re dusting themselves off…
If you like a little hog with your pork taco, head to Peterson’s Harley-Davidson South at 19825 S. Dixie Hwy. in Cutler Bay for the Thursday Food Truck Roundup. This southernmost rolling comestible bonanza was organized at the urging of Peterson’s customers, who noted that food trucks had taken over…
Financial institutions are too big to fail. Chefs are not. Almost all of our highly regarded toques have wiped out in spectacular fashion at one point or another in their careers. We present a dozen such flops in alphabetical order. Young chefs, heed the lesson: Persistence pays off.1. Chef: Michelle…
