Ah, the holiday season. The perfect time to pick terrible gifts for people whose passions you don’t understand. We’re not saying these are bad products, they all look like perfectly reasonable chef gadgets, cooking tools, and kitchen ware. We’re just saying these are the Top 6 worst gifts for home…
Some weeks run faster than a lobster from a hot pot of water, a chicken from a cleaver, or a pig from a bottle of Mojo. That’s what this one did to us. Here are some posts you might have missed over the week.Free drinks for diabetics with artist Purvis…
A snippet of the New Times restaurant review for next week.Pamela’s Delicatessen is a combination mini-market/bakery/cafe/full service Chilean restaurant. The first three are housed in the front room: dry food imports on the shelves, breads and wines in wooden racks, a smattering of tables clustered before glowing display cases of…
People have been getting drunk for centuries, hell, thousands of years. American craft brewers Dogfish Head are putting on an Ancient Ales beer dinner at Pacific Time on December 17, and get this, the beers are modern formulations of ancient recipes whose ingredients are determined by Dr. Patrick McGovern of…
It’s all about The U. It’s a Canes thing. Miami loved the Hurricanes more than the Dolphins. Sloppy Jose, glass bottle Coke.Miami’s own Billy Corben, from Dade County’s own Cocaine Cowboy producing Rakontur, premiered his new ESPN Films commissioned The U about the University of Miami Hurricane football teams of…
There’s something about Wish that seems to make culinary dreams come true, and its latest superstar, Executive Chef Marco Ferraro, appears to be skipping along the same path as a long line of extraordinary talent. First was Gary Robins, who eventually ended up at The Russian Tea Room, then came…
James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his knowledge to your home cooking with a new column, The Genuine Kitchen. A guest blogger for this installment, Michael’s Genuine Executive Pastry Chef Hedy Goldsmith shares a recipe and thoughts on basil, one of her favorite…
D-Rod Cuba, as we like to call it, opens in the Hotel Astor on South Beach tonight. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. daily, and through the month of December all first-time diners will get choice of mojito or daiquiri on the house. Tapas encompass traditional bites such as ham croquetas…
His new Q and Fin restaurants in the Design District are getting set to open. Short Order be taking a peek tonight and reporting it tomorrow, but we wanted to at least find out one or two things about those new ventures beforehand, and Jonathan obliged.New Times: Could you give…
Stone Grill 95 in Surfside has a rocky start
This past Sunday, more than 500 voices rang out strong in Lakeland at Publix headquarters. Students, farm workers, religious leaders, and concerned citizens came together to protest the supermarket company. It has refused to align itself with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in protecting against human rights abuses and…
Nothing says luxury like dinner in bed at B.E.D. on South Beach while a skirtless Sarah Palin look-alike circles the room, a sex kitten in a bodysuit purrs and crawls across the sheets while a mistress whips her, and contortionists, fire acts, and dramatists perform for your viewing pleasure.Sound like…
Lemoni Café is the Cheers of panini shops. When you walk in, you feel like family.Since March 2008, when Eugenia Pelati and Assia Dahrouch opened just north of the Design District in the Buena Vista neighborhood, they’ve attracted social and mainstream media attention, a faithful clientele, and recognition for their…
“We’re doing great. Everything’s totally perfect and organized” says Chef Jonathan Eismann with a sly smile. “Look. The last week before opening a restaurant is really frantic, and we’re three weeks away officially. We’re actually gonna be doing a special private event here in a week, but the idea of…
What it is: A pizza pie with prosciutto di Parma, baby zucchini, rocket greens, and burrata cheese.But there are so many pizza joints in this town that might make a pie that looks like this.Where it at? Feel free to take a guess. If you get it right, we’ll acknowledge…
Ivy at the Grove, which has taken over the 535 seats of the three-story former Christabelle’s Quarter, is being billed as “British-style” — not a very nice thing to say about a restaurant! (More specifically, it will feature “modern American and British comfort food.”) The ground floor will feature a…
The Brickell neighborhood now has another reason to pig out on tasty burgers and dogs with a Latin twist: The Munchies at Brickell. Down the street from Colombian restaurant La Moon, which has held a monopoly on this cuisine on SW Eighth Street, the Munchies opened Saturday night. It offers…
Miami has long been considered the place where restaurant service comes to die. It seems that still holds true. According to the recently released Zagat 2010 Miami/So. Florida Survey, 77 percent of diners cite service as the number one restaurant complaint. Slightly better news is that 26 percent say they’ve…
Scott Rothstein might end up a food service worker at Miami’s Federal Detention Center. [Sun-Sentinel]University of Iowa gets $1.95 million for making the Orange Bowl and plans an entourage of 600 Iowans eating, drinking, and hotelling in Miami. [Press-Citizen]Miami-Dade school cafeterias explore vegetarian options: veggie chicken nuggets, veggie burgers, and…
A near emtpy fridge and a growling stomach have driven many men (women, and children) to desperate measures. And though there are plenty of things you shouldn’t eat after they’ve been sitting around a certain amount of time (pizza, sushi, meatloaf), there are foods with an infinite shelf life. Here’s…
Some people like weed with their vodka. They usually end up stupefied on the couch at the party staring at the wall and mumbling to themselves.Other people like herb with their vodka, for them, there’s Sonnema, a vodka with natural herb flavors added. Last week and over the weekend at…
First there was the original kitchen battle from Japan, Iron Chef. Then came Food Network’s Iron Chef America, Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, and Bravo’s Top Chef series; Top Chef Masters soon followed. You would think the pot has boiled over, but no! Cue Fox’s MasterChef, a new competitive cooking show from…
