Wise men and idiots alike have uttered the words, “Food is better when it’s booze.” But the intelligence of the utterer has absolutely no bearing on the truth of the matter. Booze food is better. And there are three main reasons why: 1) Swallowing takes less effort than chewing; 2)…
No, B&BJ doesn’t probably sell lots of whipped cream-topped adult milkshakes to the biker dudes and Jersey Shore/Ed Hardy-wearin’ wannabes when they stroll without their bitches, but you can imagine how sexy it would be to share one of these with a silicone-enhanced partner of the opposite sex. Heck, it…
The burger craze is heading south, with the expansion of the wildly popular Burger & Beer Joint to Mary Brickell Village. Although B&B has been open for less than a year on Miami Beach, they are on the move. Co-owners Buzzy Sklar and Ron Garcia just signed the lease on…
For the past three months, executive chef Simon Stojanovic, has been working in the kitchen of longtime local favorite AltaMar developing dishes for the restaurant’s sister, AltaMare, expected to open next week. Claudio Giordano’s AltaMar will close its doors the day AltaMare’s doors open, just half a block from the…
The last apartment I lived in for several years had no outdoor space to call my own. So when I started getting the itch to garden, I made sure that the next move would bring a bit of sunlit space I could grow some plants in. A year and a half later…
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…
A whole, fried yellowtail snapper, hooked from local waters, came posed on the plate as though battered and flash-fried while swimming, like something found at Mount Vesuvius. The white flakes of snapper sounded nothing but pristine, oceanic notes and were accompanied by three fluffy tostones. We also liked a thick,…
Here’s one box you can really get your tongue into. Okay, that was totally foul, but hell–you know the impending holiday just makes us a little perverse. Have a few of these and you’ll forget all about our bad behavior.Box of Chocolates1 oz Van Gogh Dutch Chocolate Vodka1/2 oz Van…
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…
One of the stars of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Katie Lee is heading to Miami in two weeks to start whipping up some of her signature Southern-flavored recipes. The gorgeous cookbook author (she has two tomes out) and former wife of crooner Billy Joel, Katie Lee is…
We get a lot of credit for being a Latin stronghold, but as most who’ve been here (and left South Beach) know, the MIA is truly a Caribbean gateway, and Jamaican food is all over Miami. Only eat jerk chicken once a year at the Bob Marley Festival? Bumbaclot foodie!Check…
Staying in this Valentine’s Day? How about breakfast? It’s easier than dinner and will probably earn you just as many points with your significant other. We tried a recipe for Nutella French Toast Sandwiches from Katie Lee’s most recent book, The Comfort Table: Recipes for Everyday Occasions. In the book,…
The United States Bartenders’ Guild (USBG) has been busy recruiting the top mixologists in the United States in order to enter their most inventive and elegant elixirs into The 6th Annual Cocktail World Cup competition (hosted by 42BELOW Vodka). Next step is for the ten winning cocktail entries to compete…
Rums from Puerto Rico. Food from China Grill. B there or B square — but don’t bother clicking the poster below where it says “Click here for tickets!” Click here instead — $15 in advance, $20 at the door…
D. Rodriguez Cuba opens at Hotel Astor
Black History Month is here, so let’s talk about one of the greatest agricultural minds of the 19th and 20th centuries, George Washington Carver (1864-1943). Back in 1941, Time Magazine called him the “Black Leonardo,” but the magazine was referring mostly to his artwork, which used Alabama red clay and…
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…
Tonight, from 7 to 9, What’s Hip Wednesday at the Biltmore Bar brings, among other things, half-price drinks, including glasses of wine and champagne for $5 to $9. Other things: complimentary Atlantico Rum love potions will be poured, live jazz will be played, and the Valentine’s theme is red –…
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…
If you’ve recently driven past the billboard on the corner of South Dixie Highway and SW 27th Avenue — you know, the one that typically tells you that if you lived in the Grove, you’d be home — you might have noticed it now advertises a restaurant. “Lulu,” it reads, “coming spring…
Bubbles ‘N Ice (3061 NE 163rd Street) in North Miami Beach is opening soon, and that means plenty of premium Bubble Tea, Philly style Italian ice, and more combinations thereof than you can shake a widemouth straw at.Bubble Tea first hit the streets of Taiwan in the 80’s, and it’s…
If you thought it was too late to score tickets to the delicious South Beach Wine & Food Festival, think again. Several marquee events still have room for all the foodies out there. Most exciting is the fact that there are general admission tickets for the Perrier-Jouet BubbleQ for sale…
