It’s time to start thinking about Super Bowl Sunday. Specifically: What foods to prepare for the event? More specifically, and perhaps more than you really even want to think about: Is there a way to serve refried bean nachos without an odiferous aftermath that makes one yearn for the comparatively…
Andrea Curto-Randazzo is one of Miami’s best known chefs, and the restaurant she ran with her husband Frank, Talula, was for years one of Miami Beach’s finest eating establishments. Last year, they left to help start a new venture — as executive chefs of the Water Club in North Miami…
What it is? Paella Valenciana with mussels, clams, shrimp, calamari, lobster, and chorizo.Where it at? That’s the question I shellfishly ask. Don’t clam up — go for the bait and take a guess in the comments section below. We’ll have the answer on Monday if you don’t get it first.Bonus…
Just a quick snack grabbed from next weeks Cafe review of food truck courts:…
Miami New Times was alerted to a Twitter post announcing Chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo has bailed on her latest venture. “Former Top Chef contestant Andrea Curto-Randazzo is no longer part of The Water Club,” @Miamitude reports.There’s no announcement on the restaurant’s website and comments are hard to come by. Water Club,…
Gentlemen, we know you probably already spent thousands of dollars more than you ever anticipated on that little sparkly stone, but fork out a few more bucks if you want to make sure she accepts your proposal this Valentine’s Day, take her to The Villa By Barton G. Not only…
Another food truck round-up? You don’t say! However, Culinarium, launching tonight, seems to be the first mobile food event in Miami to combine a food truck rally with live DJs and bands (which a few have already been doing), and a full bar offering. (It’s probably also the first, of…
Holland America invited Short Order aboard the ms Noordam a few weeks ago to meet its new Culinary Council. We nearly plotzed after discovering that meant having lunch with David Burke, Charlie Trotter, Jacques Torres, Jonnie Boer, and council chairman Rudi Sodamin, also the cruise line’s consulting master chef. Holland…
Food Network’s series Cupcake Wars pits four sets of cupcake makers against each other in a series of off-the-dome creative baking challenges.Bakers are eliminated in a series of rounds. A final challenge involves high-volume baking, and, usually, the creation of a massive, creative display for the final product. The winner…
Tagliatelle, a traditional Italian restaurant with an emphasis on seafood, quietly opened November 1 at 124 Collins Avenue in South Beach (in the space formerly…wait, I forgot…oh, right, Amnesia). Restaurateur Matthieu Mineo, from Nice, France, has two restaurants in his home country. Does South Beach remind Mineo of Nice? “The…
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic pork belly. He had no one but himself to blame. What did he expect, having inhaled slabs of the fatty pig meat over the past year as if breathing air? He…
Starbucks’ unveiling of Trenta, the 31-ounce iced coffee, iced tea, and iced tea lemonade option that debuted in 14 states yesterday, has generated plenty of buzz. It was a trending topic on Twitter, the envy of 36 states, and the inspiration for Taiwan’s Next Media Animation’s (NMA) “Starbucks Super-sizes its…
Yesterday we wrote about the dazzling new menu unveiled by chef Jeff O’Neill at The Villa By Barton G. The chef has generously agreed to share his recipe for what he said was becoming a signature of the house: Clementine carrot velouté with peas, mascarpone cheese, and pumpernickel croutons. Here…
For as long as it’s existed, chocolate has been revered. Rich, smooth, creamy; however you like to consume it, it sooths and stimulates, comforts and warms. How does one not like chocolate? For three days starting Friday, about 12,000 people will show their undying love for the treat and the…
January 1, 2011Dear diary,I’m so psyched over Pollo Tropical’s new 3-week diet — “21 days to a new you!” they say, and I can hardly wait. One can only take being called “Old Flabby” by co-workers for so long. I’ve already had the Day 1 lunch and dinner and so…
Fiamma Gastronomia is a very Italian place.It’s a stylish restaurant where pretty much anything goes. You want to watch All My Children on TV, they’ll put it on. You want to specialize your order, no olives, no cheese…no problem. There’s always a chef in the kitchen. It’s clean and sleek,…
The Chinese year of the tiger ends and the rabbit pounces forward on February 3. The celebration ends 15 days later with the Lantern Festival of the full moon.During the year of the rabbit, good taste and refinement will reign supreme. It will be a quiet and calm time full…
When the city’s most popular food trucks started disavowing the now-defunct Gourmet Food Truck Association last week, the reaction from customers was mostly confusion. What exactly was it, anyways, and would its collapse affect the many popular food truck courts currently going?While Short Order revealed some of the sordid details…
Local food truck aficionados by now are likely well aware of the Sugar Rush truck, now a happy aqua-blue fixture at pretty much every local street food court. So far, it’s the only all-dessert truck on the road (unless you count Dolci Peccati or Feverish, who specialize in frozen treats…
I was invited to preview the menu of Cavatelli Italian Trattoria which opens tomorrow in the Roads. A brother-and-sister team made up of executive chef Imanol Achurra and his sister, owner Julene Achurra. Chef Achurra and sous chef Michael Flores Interiano prepared a sampling of several menu items from the…
Today, suburbia’s corporate crack dealer, Starbucks, is rolling out a 31-ounce option for iced coffee, iced tea, and iced tea lemonade in 14 states, and Florida made the cut. But Short Order isn’t racing to the nearest ‘bucks to order up a super-sized iced latte just yet–we’re still trying to…
The Gourmet Food Truck Association promised to bring order and profit to the local fledgling mobile grub scene. In December, it partnered with the Miami Children’s Hospital to hold a food truck rally and toy drive in South Miami. Now it’s been apparently been disbanded. At least part of the…
