Our spies at JFK tell us that Anthony Bourdain is sitting in seat 2B on Delta’s flight to MIA right now. The No Reservations star is traveling with his wife, Ottavia, and their daughter, Ariane, in business class. Apparently, Ottavia is reading the National Enquirer while the plane readies for…
A year ago, the East Bay Express went public with stinging accusations that user review site Yelp engaged in shady pressure tactics to remove or bury negative reviews for businesses that advertised or coughed up sponsorships. Now, a lawsuit is alleging something eerily similar.TechCrunch is reporting that law firms in…
The Place: CJ’s Crab Shack 600 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139, 305-604-5951/cjscrabshack.com The Hours: Every day from 4 to 7 p.m. with occasional late night happy hours. The Deal: Food specials include Cajun Pool N’ Eat Shrimp, a half a dozen oysters, and Buffalo wings, all ranging in price…
Short Order will be all over the SBWFF this week, reporting as we go. But we’ll also be choosing our favorite foods from each affair. What we liked best at last night’s Peter Vauthy/Michael Symon Prelude Dinner at Red, The Steakhouse was this Certified Angus Beef brisket slider with pickled…
The SBWFF kicked off in rousing fashion last night as Red, The Steakhouse put on quite the Prelude party. It started on Red’s rooftop, where guests sipped on Langlois-Chateau Crémant de Loire Brut Rosé and nibbled on hors d’oeuvres such as Angus beef rib cap (spinalis) with charred scallion and…
Can’t afford to shell out big buckaroonies for a ticket to any of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival events? Forget about hangin’ with the food snobs and check out The Paul & Young Ron Cookoff (Episode 6) Friday, February 26 at the Lowes Hotel. The morning show personalities from…
Anyone with special tastes — whether it be in food, wine or vinyl records — knows they have to seek out certain destinations to get precisely what they’re looking for. After hearing about Om Garden for ages and tragically stopping by when they used to be closed Sundays, I finally arrived…
Chefs Daniel Boulud, Masaharu Morimoto, Kris Wessel, and Jose Garces teamed up last night for a Haiti benefit dinner at South Beach’s Kreyol landmark Tap Tap restaurant.Wessel said the event, organized by South Beach Wine and Food Festival director Lee Brian Schrager, came together via twitter. “Lee put out a…
South Beach Wine & Food Festival highlight reel
In this week’s interview with Kris Wessel, the chef/owner of Red Light Little River talked about the importance of food as it relates to community. Kris is the local headliner tonight at the Tap Tap Haitian Relief Dinner hosted by The South Beach Wine & Food Festival and Southern Wine…
We love easy recipes. Preferably ones that require little to no cooking. Who has the time, anyway? That’s the beauty of this appetizer by chef Maggie Jimenez, Mexican native and host of Telefutura’s ¡Que Sabor!. Jimenez will be preparing this and other recipes at the Carbonell Olive Oil display at…
This is part two of our interview with Sam Gorenstein, Chef de Cuisine of BLT Steak. You can read the first part of the interview here.NT: What do you think of picky eaters? SG: Part of my job is to accommodate every person who comes in the restaurant and make…
Spies inside Bourbon Steak’s kitchen found executive chef Gabriel Fenton hard at work hand-shaping a substantial amount of meat patties–hundreds, actually–and later discovered he was prepping for Burger Bash. He says there’s no secret to his entry, as it’s the same delicious, Michael Mina signature hamburger always served at the…
Forget about all of the fancy Italian restaurants on South Beach with their monster-sized Kobe beef meatballs and overpriced wine. At Mattarello Bakery, a hole-in-the wall on Washington Avenue, the focaccia is baked on-site fresh daily, the pasta is toothsome and tasty and the pastries are sinfully delicious. Mattarello Bakery…
Welcome to the future. This year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival will be the first to occur at the dawn of the age of real time media. Sure Twitter’s been around for years, but now it’s so mainstream your grandma’s on it. If she’s got food on her mind…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival is in for an offal treat. That means organs, and entrails from pig, cow, ducks, and more at Talula, Miami Beach’s best kept secret.On the menu are delicacies like sweetbreads, livers, hearts, tripe, ears, and foie gras for a total of seven courses…
In the midst of the giant South Beach Wine & Food Festival, we bring you this small, feel-good story about Johnson & Wales student Luis Young. The 19-year-old has eight more days to get ready for the S. Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition held at The Culinary Institute of America…
It’s no surprise that Sam Gorenstein was nominated for a James Beard award. Not only is the young chef a budding talent on Miami’s food scene, but his selection was accidentally leaked two weeks prior to the announcement. Nevertheless, the Colombian-born toque is producing creative dishes out of the kitchen…
The tortilla de patatas (Spanish tortilla) is a simple but tasty and versatile dish from Spain. Made with fried potatoes and eggs, you can eat it as a tapa, as a meal, in a sandwich, for breakfast. In its simplest form, it is like a thick potato omelet. In some…
10. Pee Cola from Ghana – At first we thought it was just an internet joke, but we found two seemingly legitimate sources that back it up.So…. Drink Pee Cola…
If you’re familiar with food porn, Ottavia’s last name should ring a bell. Her husband is print, television, and most recently Martha Stewart Living radio food pornographer Anthony Bourdain, famous for his salacious tell-all memoir Kitchen Confidential and Travel Channel show, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. While we wish he would…
This is part two of our interview with Kris Wessel, chef/owner of Red Light Little River. You can read the first part of the interview here. Three influences that, culinarily speaking, got you to where you are today.Growing up in New Orleans. Travelling through Europe. And the lack of Miami…
