Arlo Haskell is a Key West native, a poet and, for the last three years, a member of the small staff responsible for putting on the annual Key West Literary Seminar.In January 2011 the annual event — which started in 1983 and has a different theme each year — will…
This Friday, from 7 a.m. until 10 p.m., IHOP will be giving away free scary face pancakes to all kids 12 and under. It’s part of a national No Tricks – Just Treats program aimed at, um, bringing attention to IHOP — as well as shining a light on Children’s…
Teddy Gunter can offer you a dress formerly worn on Sex and the City or a torn up, corpse-bride style gown from the 1930s (just in time for Halloween). Gunter is a stylist and also the co-owner and archivist of Stash Wardrobe Rental, a fashion library of sorts.She owns the…
Rename. Redecorate. Re-conceptualize. That’s the blueprint for the new Blue Door — now Blue Door Fish. As we reported last week, the Delano’s Mediterranean menu with French-Brazilian twists is focusing more on pure Mediterranean — not just the region, but the seafood. Chef Claude Troisgros will retain a few of…
“This book is a practical guide to growing food for city residents with small spaces…Even if you have no yard and very little free space…I believe that anyone living in a typical city apartment, condominium, townhouse, or single-family home could apply just two or three of the strategies mentioned in…
Kantauri Seafood Restaurant is a small tavern located on Biscayne Boulevard that opened last week. Unai Urtiberea, the owner originally from Spain says Kantauri is a mix of “Old World Basque cuisine” that also serves while also “serving Spanish tapas and wines.” This is the second restaurant Unai has owned…
What would a Taste of Peru be without a taste of pisco? Well, for one thing, dry. So when attending the event at the Miami Beach Convention Center that runs through tomorrow, I naturally found myself gravitating towards the Pisco O stand, I had arrived an hour before start time…
Epicures of all ages made the long haul out to the Deering Estate Saturday night for Wine on Harvest Moon, the annual fundraising event benefiting The Deering Estate Foundation. They enjoyed food samplings, drank free-flowing wine, and watched Chef Jack Garabedian from Jefe’s Original Fish Taco & Burger take on…
Last week in South Florida food blogs …Redland Rambles writes about planting at Bee Heaven Farm.The food trucks keep popping up: Slow Food Truck over at Burger Beast.Snout to tail at The Genuine Kitchen.Food for Thought takes us to Restaurante Arzak in Spain.Kids can learn how to make Halloween cupcakes…
Downtown dining just got a little hipper and healthier with Soi Asian Bistro. The latest venture from the folks who brought you Mr. Yum, Soi provides a soothing green sanctuary behind large glass doors that open into a long hallway-like dining area. But don’t let the minimalist and seemingly small…
The coffee ventanilla is as quintessentially Miami as traffic and humidity. It’s our Starbucks, political town hall, and fast food counter rolled into one. But not every window is created equal. The perfect ventanilla, like a precisely measured cafecito, requires the right ratio of flawless brew, adequate pastry selection, and…
Halloween is this weekend and what better way to honor all things gory and dead than by stocking your fridge with bags of blood? Whether your preference is human or zombie, the folks at Harcos Laboratories developed Blood and Zombie Blood; two energy potions that will satisfy every blood-thirsty craving.It…
“Towards the internationalization of Peruvian cuisine” is the unofficial motto of the first Taste of Perú Gastronomic Festival being held at the Miami Beach Convention Center this week.”We want to show our diversity,” says Julio Rodriguez Mendizábal when asked what he hoped to achieve with the event. Julio is President…
House of India, the popular Coral Gables restaurant that has delivered kormas, curries, and kabobs to diners for 35 years, is cordoned off this morning as police and firefighters investigate the damage caused by smoke late last night. The glass entrance door was shattered by firefighters. No injuries have been…
Busy this week? See what you missed on Short Order …Brooklyn Water Bagels is coming to South BeachA look at the D Rodriguez Ocean grand opening.Lee Klein asks: What’s up with those NBC Feast rankings?New chef over at The SetaiLove quinoa? Here’s a recipe.Meet the man behind Ceviche Parlor.Vintage Snickers.Local…
These recipes are from Levy’s Restaurants, the Chicago-based company that handles all the food you’ll eat next week at the American Airlines Arena, when the Miami Heat plays its home opener. If you’re too lazy to make these simple recipes at home, let Chef Eric Chopin and his crew throw…
Blue Door Restaurant at The Delano will be morphing into Blue Door Fish come early next month. Claude Troisgros, the hotel’s vaunted executive chef/consultant-from-afar (he lives in Rio de Janeiro), has conceived and composed the new menu, which has been a year in the works. The room has undergone a…
On November 1 at 7:30 p.m., The Palms Hotel & Spa and executive chef Frank Jeannetti will host the 1st Annual World Festival Miami. Thirteen local and celebrity chefs, including Michelle Bernstein, John Critchley, Samuel Gorenstein, Dean Max, Kris Wessel, Mark Zeitouni, and Frank Jeannetti will be hosting their own…
Stone crab season is underway and Floridians are embracing the season one claw at a time. Restaurants across the city are serving up these succulent sea creatures, and 14Thirty-Five at the Four Seasons Hotel on Brickell just added a $65 all-you-can-eat stone crab dinner to the Tuesday night menu.Executive Chef…
View photos from Iron Fork 2010 at Grand Central here.De Rodriguez Cuba’s Jose Luis Flores won the 2010 Iron Fork title last night in a battle against defending champ John Critchley of Area 31. The chefs were given 45 minutes to prepare one appetizer and one entree using stone crab…
As part of its varied menu, Two Sisters Restaurant inside the Coral Gables Hyatt presents a light, refreshing, and delicious appetizer: spiced sugar cane shrimp. Most of the flavor in this dish speaks for itself — that is, it comes from the fresh, natural ingredients used.Manager Fernando Dalborgo says, “The…
In a recent Short Order post, we couldn’t help but notice that Brickell’s been pimping sushi lately, but who is the Sushi “O.G” in that neighborhood? The answer is Seiji Ikemizu — who now just goes by “Ike”. He opened Mi-kan in what is now the Chase Building in Brickell…
