Plato Royale: French Fries, Joe Allen vs. Meat Market

Who doesn’t love French fries? Despite their popularity, however, Miami lacks really amazing French fries. And, no, we’re not even considering fast food fries an option here. While this is not the definitive answer to the question as to who has the best French fries in Miami, we did put…

The Food of Ultra Music Festival 2010, Because You Can Only Eat So Many Drugs

For those not into clicks, beeps, and bass, Ultra Music Festival was a two-day electronic dance music festival that brought a sold-out crowd of 75,000 ticket holders a day to Bicenntenial Park’s festival grounds.From 3 p.m. to midnight the throngs of hungry, dayglowed, bikini’d, shirtless, tattooed, and sunglassed masses converged…

Food News Roundup: Junk Food, Burger King, Passover, and Dream Water

“Scientists in Florida say overeaters are addicted to junk food in the same way drug addicts are addicted to cocaine and heroin.” [AllHeadlineNews]”Project Downtown, an organization that started about two years ago in Miami and now has branches other U.S. cities,” continues feeding the homeless. [VOAnews]Burger King stock goes up,…

db Bistro Moderne Opening Soon in J.W. Marriott Marquis

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.There are celebrity chefs (Hellooo, Emeril), then there are celebrity chefs.At the top of the list in that second category is Daniel Boulud, whose celebrity has never gotten…

Where It At? Corn on the Cob

What it is: Corn with white stuff.Where it at? That’s the question. Post your best guess in the comment section below — we only ask that you professional type food bloggers wait a few hours to give the amateurs a chance…

Passover: Jacquelynn’s “Famous” Matzo Ball Recipe

Passover starts at sundown tonight and that means that Jewish people throughout South Florida will be supping on matzo ball soup. There is a fundamental debate among Jewish foodies concerning the firmness of matzo balls. While some people prefer light and fluffy matzo balls, others favor rock hard ones. The…

Interview With Pastry Chef Crystal Cullison of Altamare, Part One

If you haven’t heard of pastry chef Crystal Cullison, you might begin hearing more about her now. Her milk chocolate and salted caramel semifreddo and other desserts on the menu of the recently opened AltaMare are already gaining fans.Cullison, a 27-year-old Orlando native, got her start young at Emeril’s in…

A Fish Called Avalon Launches a Menu Called New

The ante has evidently been upped among competing South Beach seafood restaurants. Altamare made the first move by redefining itself with a new chef, menu, and location. Executive chef Brian Cantrell of A Fish Called Avalon now counters with a revitalized menu that includes 11 new dishes…

The Alibi: French Fries and Cupcakes

The Alibi is a low-key eatery located inside watering hole Lost Weekend on Española Way in South Beach. There are pool and foosball tables as well as a lively crowd of locals. Don’t come here if you are trying to watch your figure. This place serves sandwiches, pizza, French fries, cupcakes, and…

Sneak Review: El Scorpion Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar

A slight morsel from this week’s Cafe review of El Scorpion:Hearty appetites will be satisfied via the entree route, and at $17 to $20 the prices aren’t bad. Yet Scorpion works much better as taquería than restaurant. The nine tacos variations are each distinctively flavorful, the soft, thick, homemade tortilla…

Kendall Ale House: It’s Friday and Jambalaya is Tops

The weekend is finally here. It’s spring. The kids are out of school. It is definitely time to drink. And at the Kendall Ale House, you can not only imbibe, but also ingest. There’s an old rule for judging restaurants – if the parking lot is full, eat there. And…

Cool Restaurant Interiors: The Lost & Found Saloon

What we love about The Lost & Found Saloon’s interior is its quirk, charm and personality. With its cowboy inspired décor, it looks like something that could come out of a Western save the flat-screen TVs behind the bar showing surfing movies. The design is the work of the four…

Blade to Close at the Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau’s Blade Sushi restaurant will officially close this coming Monday, March 29th, to be replaced by a music driven lounge. I asked Fontainebleau Public Relations Manager Paula Gomez if it was anything I said in Blade’s review two weeks ago, but she insists that these plans had been in the…

Maggie Jimenez’s Watermelon Salad is a Great Vacation Dish

Culinary personality Maggie Jimenez has oft been labeled the “Latin Rachel Ray,” not because her voice can hit dog-whistle range but because she shares a practical approach to cooking. As host of TeleFutura’s !Que Sabor!, the former fashion model turned self-taught cook creates Latin-inspired multi-course meals with the help of…

Howie Kleinberg to Open A New Bulldog Cafe in Aventura

​You met him at Food Gang (years before it closed), saw another side of him on Top Chef, and get messy with him every now and then at Bulldog BBQ on Biscayne Boulevard and NE 154th Street. But who is Howie “Bulldog” Kleinberg: fine dining doyen or rib wrangler? “I’m…

Weak New Standards For Food In Schools

The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee approved legislation on Wednesday that would allow the Agriculture Department to create new standards for all foods in schools, including vending machines. This translates to a 6 cent reimbursement increase to the schools per student meal, less than half of what the Obama administration had…