The Ladies of Guacamole House Make Healthy, Natural, Peruvian Foods

Guacamole House has made natural food products for sale at local markets for about a year now. The food is all prepared by Alejandra Cruzado and Vilma Montoya and their motto is “Tu propia comida es tu propia medicina,” which roughly translates to “your food is your medicine.”Vilma explains that…

Mark Militello: “The Best Thing I Ever Ate”

Mark Militello, chef/owner Mark’s and executive chef Regent Bal Harbor culinary operations, including 1 Bleu restaurantBest pizza was in Eluthera playing pool with the family. We ordered a conch pie and the kids thought it sounded disgusting. It was so good we went back the next day for a second…

South Dade’s Own Robert “The Mango Man” Got That Rambutan

Robert The Mango Man is a carpenter turned tropical fruits dealer. He got the idea while plying his carpentry trade on the fruitful grounds of South Dade. “I was working and saw that these people got all these trees in their backyard that they weren’t doin’ nothin’ with, so I…

Paellas R Us Serves Miami Up for 13 Years and Running

Paellas R Us is a 13-year-old and running catering company started by Chef David Calavia and his wife Angelina Calavia. The company was born of the couple’s desire to start their own business at a time when Chef David was working at Spanish restaurants around town.Angelina doesn’t know how many…

Archive Diver – Old Cutler Oyster Co ad from June 1988

This week Archive Diver takes you to the original Old Cutler Oyster Company and Raw Bar, which was located at 20535 Old Cutler Road.The restaurant has a storied past in the media. The first Oyster Co was destroyed in 1992’s Hurricane Andrew. It reopened 3 years later in Cutler Ridge…

God Bless BLT Steak and Its Four Course Fourth of July Feast

(To the tune of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”)God Bless BLT Steak,Inside The Betsy Hotel.Paying homage, to its patriot.A menu to delight one and all.Four special courses, it’s a prix fixe, “Ocean Drive” cocktail, spiked with rum!  God bless BLT Steak, your home meat home.Who: Chef Laurent Tourondel (well, probably…

Peter Boulukos: “The Best Thing I Ever Ate”

Peter Boulukos, chef/owner of YOLO Restaurant and Tarpon Bend restaurantsThe best fried food I ever had wasn’t from a restaurant. When I was a kid my uncle owned a marina that was about 10 minutes from our house. One night he showed up after work with a bucket overflowing with…

Weekend Blog Watch – Waiter There’s A Hydrogen In My Water

Short Order is always on the look out for Dade County voices talking food and drink. Here are some recent posts from other food blogs around town.Mango&Lime pulls public records info after seeing a “coming soon” sign in Coral Gables.The South Florida Punch serves up BBQ wine pairings for the…

Dining Out with Hialeah Mayor Robaina and a Top 11

The “City of Progress” will finally live up to its moniker if Julio Robaina has anything to do with it.  But don’t expect him to go behind the line if it involves more than a photo op!  Trust us; we tried to cajole him into an apron ourselves last week…

Mario Batali’s Carne Machaca Taco Filling

Last week, Mario Batali unveiled a new recipe at an event to benefit his equally new charity, The Mario Batali Foundation.The recipe was for machaca, which comes from the Mexican word machacado — ‘pounded’ or ‘crushed’. The preparation originated with the ranchers and cowboys of northern Mexico, who would air-dry…

Meatless in Miami: Vegan Baking 101 at Sublime

In the kitchen, my role has always tended to be chef rather than baker. The whole “measuring ingredients” thing was always way less my forte than licking the spoon to see which spices the dish needs more of. That said, when I heard Fort Lauderdale vegan mecca Sublime was having…

Kurtis Jantz: “The Best Thing I Ever Ate”

Chef Kurtis Jantz, Executive Chef, Trump International Beach ResortBarbecue… well, that’s easy. I remember moving to Kansas City as a boy, and everyone kept talking about Arthur Bryant’s. It was located in a poverty-stricken area in K.C. round 18th and Brooklyn. I had to try it! I remember the small…

Weekly Wrapup: The Friday Hunger

From the strip mall outposts of our suburban wastelands to the grimy corners in the heart of the city, our fast-food bread lines form their motorized queues and serve our doom 99 cents at a time. While our president shills for Five Guys, real mom-and-pops shut down for good, and…

Food News Roundup

Dunkin Donuts breakfast deals. [MiamiCheap] Canned potatoes leave Alicia Ross naked. [DesperationDinners] 4th of July specials at Red The Steakhouse. [Kavetchnik] Regent Bal Harbour bankrupt, 1 Bleu may stay, or everything may change. [ChowHound] Basil in the Grove is no longer open, meaning they are closed, for good. [Yelp] The…

Miami Chefs Offer Their Takes On “The Best Thing I Ever Ate”

Giada, Guy, Bobby and friends are sounding off on the favorite things they’ve eaten — EVER, EVER — on a new Food Network special called “The Best Thing I Ever Ate.”  This week’s episodes are about fried food and BBQ.  So it got us thinking…  What unmatched edible memories made…

Michy’s Launches Summer Wine Series, Updates Menu

Michelle Bernstein knows not to mess with a good thing.  But it’s nice to see that a busy bee who juggles ownership of three restaurants, her own TV show, a consultancy with Delta, and a leadership role with nonprofit Common Threads is still able to direct the necessary attention to…