Food & Drink

In today’s Scene Eating, Trina Sargalski talks to Jennifer Rubell about her “Just Right” exhibit for Art Basel. Short Order was there this morning to get some warm breakfast.After walking through the Rubell Collection building and into its courtyard, I entered the rabbit hole that would lead me to breakfast…

Artist Jennifer Rubell, named one of Food + Wine’s 40 Big Food Thinkers Under 40, makes food her medium. She currently lives in New York City, but she lived in Miami for years, and so I grandfathered her in for this week’s Scene Eating.Rubell and the rest of her art-loving…

In October Mercadito Restaurants launched Tacos for Strength, a national campaign that supports Share Our Strength’s fight to end hunger by 2015. Each month a new taco goes on the menu and five percent of the sales from these tasty bites go towards feeding hungry kids nationwide.Patricio Sandoval, Mercadito Restaurants’…

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.If you really loved him/her you would take her/him out for a swanky dinner at a swell restaurant, like stone crab at some place on the beach, instead…

College students and those of us living on a budget have long known that art openings often provide an opportunity for gratis hors d’oeuvres and fancy drinks. Starving artists need to eat sometime, right?Art Basel week is an entirely different creature, of course, and it’s one with many tentacles sponsored…

Yesterday we met Karen Hanlon, a restaurant designer whose work can be viewed as dining art. Today she talks Sugarcane, Houston’s and sphinxes.New Times: What is the most extravagant design you have worked on?Karen Hanlon: I designed the Hard Rock Cafe in Myrtle Beach, SC.  It was a pyramid complete…

Top Chef Season Eight premieres tonight with a cast of all-stars (contestants from previous seasons who didn’t take the title) and it sounds like we may be in for a treat. It really won’t take much for this season to outshine Top Chef: Washington, D.C. — likely the worst season…

For most diners, selecting a restaurant boils down to food and ambiance.  The menu is created by the chef but the real world of victuals stars may be interior designers, who touch all your senses and keep you in your seat. With Art Basel upon us, it’s appropriate to showcase…

Vino & Olio will be open for lunch during Art Basel, starting today, November 30, through Friday, December 3. Chef Andrea Menichetti’s Tuscan menu will feature braised veal, hearty lasagna, linguine al pesto, and more. Lunch will be served from 12:30 to 4 p.m…

First came Town Kitchen & Bar. Next was Smoke’t Southern Kitchen & Tap. On deck, with opening date pegged in January: Sake Blue Asian Kitchen & Bar (notice how each time this restaurant group names a new restaurant they make the moniker one word longer?). This latest venture from the…

Scientists were recently shocked to discover a new species of lizard in the Mekong River delta in Vietnam. There are two reasons why this species is particularly extraordinary. For one, all the lizards are female and reproduce by cloning themselves (daughters are just replicas of the mothers). The second reason,…

Our friend, the Cocktail Mia has done yet another public service. Apart from teaching us new and clever ways to imbibe, she has compiled a list of digestifs to help us deal with our bulbous T-Day bellies. These friendly beverages help turn your heavy stomach into a happy one…

The best of South Florida food blogs last week. You know, in case you missed it while you were in a holiday food-induced coma.Food for Thought puts out a great guide on where to eat during Art Basel. Tinkering with Dinner prepares Monlar oo thoke with his first CSA delivery.Redland…