Food & Drink

It’s over. The gluttonous celebration of food known as the South Beach Wine & Food Festival is in the books. History books? Maybe. Cookbooks? Absolutely.Yep, the festival celebrated its tenth anniversary, and Short Order was there to eat its way through it all. There were plenty of highlights, including the last…

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Whole Foods Grand Tasting Village satisfied hungry and parched guests via everything from deep-fried meat pies and stuffed plantain cups to poached shrimp and chilled avocado soup. There was even a bread station, with freshly homemade loaves perfect for soaking up the alcohol consumed…

Some folks live by “sin on Saturday, repent on Sunday.” Paula’s Down Home Cookin’ Gospel Brunch soaked up the sorry effects of hard living during Saturday’s SBWFF events. They were absorbed by the sheer volume of pork, beef, cornbread, and pie and by the force and emotion of Maryel Epps’s…

Scents of barbecue and cigar smoke collided on the sand behind the Gansevoort hotel during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival Closing Party with Guy Fieri. Guests were first given a bag containing a pair of flimsy flip-flops and complimentary drink tickets to STK. Soon thereafter, fruity drinks, with…

Only 75 kids got the chance to sit in Jamie Oliver’s presentation at Kohl’s Fun & Fit as a Family Saturday at Jungle Island. At 12:30 p.m. a line already snaked outside the room where Oliver’s 1:30 p.m. presentation took place, but to some parents’ discontent, most didn’t get in. Several…

At Thrillist’s event, BBQ and the Blues, a huge line stretched from the entrance of the Oasis, at the Raleigh Hotel, toward Collins Avenue last Saturday night. The fine smell of barbecue just over the wall inspired impatience.Once inside, guests didn’t know whether to grab a drink from one of…

Famished fans lined the courtyard of the Biltmore, sipping glasses of prosseco in the afternoon sun while waiting to pile in, get a glimpse of celebrity chefs, and cook their hearts out. Once the doors opened, the frenzy continued as hundreds of guests devoured the ham and cheese appetizer sandwiches…

​It’s no secret that different types of crowds are attracted to particular events offered during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Those who love schwag and want to drink their ticket price in alcohol attend the Grand Tasting Village. Parents and those whose enjoyment of the festival depends only…

Wine + Dine + Design was held last night in the ever-growing Design District, home to a handful of our city’s most popular eateries. Here’s how the event worked: Ticketholders gathered in front of Vino E Olio and were grouped into three lines, one for the folks who would start…

​With the white sand, clear skies, and heat, SBWFF’s Whole Foods Market Grand Tasting Village would have resembled the Sahara if it were not for the sparkling backdrop of the Atlantic.After receiving a Waterford glass, but no neck lanyard cup-holder to keep our eager paws free (they were deemed defective),…

The BubbleQ is one of The South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s premiere events. It’s the one that people talk about – and who wouldn’t? To be honest, any event that offers free-flowing Perrier-Jouët and meat cooked by celebrity chefs should be worshiped like a minor demi-god. Without a doubt,…

Danny Meyer, superstar restaurateur and CEO of the group behind Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Café, led an unconventional wine tasting at the W Hotel today. Participants tasted each of six Shake Shack menu items with six wines each. We rated these 36 combinations on a matrix. Meyer instructed us…

What’s your idea of the good life? Is it a sprawling private event held in something called “the Sparkle Ballroom” in a glamorous over-the-top Miami Beach resort? Is it top-rated bottles of rare, aged grapes all silently glistening, clamoring to fill a complimentary Riedel glass hanging from a nifty cord…

Each year the SBWFF introduces new events. Some fly higher than others. Let Them Eat Cake, a celebration of the Festival’s 10 Year Anniversary expressed in desserts by some of America’s best pastry chefs, was stratospherically successful.For one thing, it took place on the rooftop of the parking garage at…

When we arrived at Dim Sum & Disco at The Setai last night, guests lined up around the restaurant’s open kitchen to taste the small bites prepared for the evening, but as the clock ticked past midnight the party moved to courtyard where people danced to ’70s tunes and sipped…

Anytime you have plates of Asian cuisine prepared by Ming Tsai (Blue Ginger), Richard Hales (Sakaya Kitchen), Gregory Yu (Tropical Chinese), Joe Ng (Red Farm, N.Y.), the chefs from China Grill and Asia de Cuba, and Setai’s host chef David Werly, you’re going to have plenty of fine fare to…

​If you watch the Today Show on NBC, you likely know the Scotto family pretty well. If you watch Wake Up With Al (Roker) on The Weather Channel, you likely know the Scottos. Or maybe you’ve eaten at their New York restaurant, Fresco by Scotto on East 52nd. Street, or…

Like many wine drinkers, we don’t give a lot of thought to what glass we pour our wine into as long as we never see the bottom. That;s wrong, says Maximilian Riedel, 11th-generation glassmaker and CEO of Riedel Crystal America., “The glass is an instrument — a tool to introduce…

Update: It’s been confirmed that The Tamiami Truckers Food Court has temporarily moved to their old spot at SW 127th Street and SW 137th Avenue (near Tamiami Airport), at least for this week. Code compliance issues forced the food trucks from their regular spot at Lexus of West Kendall and…

Calling all bartenders, servers, bussers, managers, chefs, and cooks! Those “in the biz” are invited to enjoy the ambiance, and most importantly, discounted food and beverage, at Bongos Cuban Cafe and Tatu, two heavyweight restaurants at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. Just a few weeks after launch,…