Food & Drink

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Beginning next Tuesday evening, June 1, and continuing on succeeding Tuesdays, Sra. Martinez will be cooking up an all-you-can-eat Cuban pig roast. The slow-cooked-in-a-caja China porker is due to be accompanied by heirloom tomato salad, roasted fingerling potatoes, and other side dishes — all served family style. The menu will…

Smoke’t serves perfect barbecue in the Gables

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Gatorade was created back in 1965 by several “scientists” at the university of Florida, according to the company’s website. After speaking with football coaches about the problem of dehydration, “researchers then took their findings into the lab, and scientifically formulated a new, precisely balanced carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage that would adequately replace…

The BP Oil Spill is now responsible for the closure of slightly more than 22 percent of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico’s “exclusive economic zone” according to the NOAA Fisheries Service. The map above represents the most recent closure data.Monday, we surveyed local toques at a meeting of…

The Florida Tomato Committee is touting the upcoming crop as “the best tasting in years”. The marketing organization for tomato growers estimates that 80 percent of the winter crop was wiped out this past year. To date this season, Florida tomato growers have packed 52 percent of the total packed…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

“Most chefs are fat and lazy,” says Ricardo Wilson, new chef/partner at Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and Wine Bar in Coral Gables. Okay, so he doesn’t sugar coat his opinions. Actually, he’ll tell you exactly what he thinks within five minutes of meeting you. And though he might be a bit…

Pie in the Sky founder and self-proclaimed chief baking officer, Erin Ashley, grew up in Maryland watching her mom making pies and taking them to birthday parties and barbecues. “People would love the pies and track her down for the recipe,” said Ashley. Yet her mother never shared it with…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

​Realizing it was time to shake things up a bit at the quickie sushi place that doesn’t take itself too seriously, 36-year-old local boy Abe Ng, the CEO/president/chief sushi officer of the South Miami-based chain Sushi Maki, led the charge to bring more small plates, fiery infusions, and funky cocktails…

Expect a different type of three-parter this time around. We’ll start off with a brief interview about the cooking school with Lourdes Castro, the Biltmore Culinary Academy’s founding director, followed by a simple recipe from her cookbook in Part Two, and we’ll ice this cake with an overview of the Academy’s…

Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill in Midtown Miami is a busy place on a Friday night. As Lee Klein says in his review of the place, “A tsunami of near unanimous praise has catapulted Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill to the top of Miami’s dining scene at breakneck speed.” Here’s a behind-the-line…

Arriving in South Beach early next month will be Tacontento, a fast/casual full service Mexican restaurant. Tacontento translates to be happy, and if the slogan, “The best tacos… period,” comes anywhere close to being true, we will be. Tacontento started in the late ’90s as a taco stand in Guatemala…