The stately whitewashed building served for decades as the Buena Vista post office. More recently, it was home to Domo Japones, Amir Ben-Zion’s restaurant in the nascent Design District neighborhood. Ben-Zion has become accustomed to success (Miss Yip Chinese Café, Bond Street Sushi), so when Domo faltered last year, he…
Italian-Style Roasted Swordfish from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Ever wanted to make swordfish roasted inside parchment paper with tomatoes, olives, and capers? Chef Odel Arencibia from The Capital Grille Miami shows you how. This simple Italian dish has great flavor and aroma. Don’t feel like doin’ it yourself? Hit…
On Thursday, February 19, Miami New Times celebrated the end of calendar editor Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik’s illustrious five-year career with the paper. We had a party and got drunk at Uva 69 in Miami’s historic MiMo District in the Upper Eastside. At the end of the night, I fell…
Here’s a video of Chef Odel Arencibia from The Capital Grille Miami broiling up some herb-marinated beef tenderloin served on a crostini base with tomatoes, peppers, and onions. I tend to believe all meat tastes best off a wood-burning grill, but a high-quality cut of tenderloin marinated ten hours in…
Last night, Obama’s State of the Union address featured a lot of talk about energy this, renewable that, and let’s face it, he’s right. Matter of fact, if we don’t start fishing our waters in a more responsible, future-conscious manner, the only chicken of the sea left is gonna be…
Elba Travin has been running the Argie Cafe in downtown Fort Lauderdale with her husband, Nestor, for eight years. They serve Argentine food, empanadas, pizza, and sandwiches. Elba told me that the empanada flavors they sell the most of are…
Michael Moran, culinary director and chef/instructor at the FIU School of Hospitality, along with his small army of FIU student/volunteers, were able to recover more than 800 meals from events at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival and have donated them to the Daily Food Bank. The meals, culled…
Just a reminder that today is National Pancake Day, a should-be-sanctioned holiday that is already more important than Presidents’ Day and Arbor Day combined. The International House of Pancakes started doling out free shortstacks this morning at 7, and they’re not stopping until 10 tonight. ‘Course, IHOP hopes that in…
Up till I shot this video, I had never seen a real-life truffle. I’ve shot in the kitchens of some fine, highly rated restaurants in Miami, but I’ve only ever seen truffle oil. This mac ‘n’ cheese recipe uses actual truffles baked right in to a crispy, hot, cheesy mass…
I was wandering around the Wines of Spain Pavilion at the South Beach Food & Wine Festival when I saw the Forever Cheese sign. Nice name, I thought as I speared a couple of cubes with a toothpick. The cheese tasted expensive, not like the stuff I get at the…
The South Beach Food & Wine Festival offered more than cheese trays and grape juice. What are we talkin’ ’bout? Booze, glorious booze, and there was plenty of it. I saw brandy, absinthe, vodka, tequila… it was like that scene in The Warriors where every gang in the city shows…
“You have to respect your ingredients. You have to respect the food.” This according to Top Chef Ilan Hall is the recipe for success. Other advice to amateur foodies included the typical “start at the bottom, even if it means peeling garlic.” And then keep a clean workspace. However his…
Porcini Cream of Mushroom Soup from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Odel Arencibia is executive chef of and partner in The Capital Grille Miami. His restaurant has just teamed up with Tuscan winemaker Castello Banfi and is offering a special promotion from February 23 to April 5, 2009, to celebrate. They…
I heard the sound of an excited crowd and saw Paula Deen get introduced onstage at Sunday’s South Beach Wine and Food Fest. In a tent at 13th and Ocean, I maneuvered close for an angle to shoot video.Paula Deen is a funny lady. I don’t own a TV and…
Chef Dean James Max of 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale had a table set up at the Food & Wine Festival serving the best grub I tried in the whole place. I didn’t know what the hell it was, so I waited around till Chef was done schmoozing his many…
If Sunday was any indication of how well the South Beach Wine & Food Festival did, then it was a resounding success. Tons of humans tore through hundreds of thousands of portions of grub and massive amounts of alcohol, grape-based and otherwise. Celebrity chefs led cooking demos, signed books, worked…
They don’t call it Fat Tuesday for nothing. Or Fat Monday, for that matter. We may as well stuff ourselves silly today and tomorrow, because you know what follows is a big long drag: Lent, which promises to zap all the fun from our lives for the following 40 days…
Saturday and Sunday marked the South Beach Wine & Food Fest’s premier event, the Grand Tasting Village, which cordoned off a huge strip of South Beach the size of three or four football fields and filled it with hundreds of restaurants, distributors, wine vendors, and wineries, all flinging so much…
We’re referring to Mario Batali being “up there” on stage at the SBWFF’s Wines and Food of Spain dinner. You’ve probably heard that he dropped a couple of F-bombs in front of the royal company. And speaking of F-bombs: What the fuck was he even doing on that platform welcoming…
Friday’s Trade Tasting event at the Grand Tasting Village on the Beach brought out salespeople, restaurateurs, and a barrage of folks tenuously tied to the food and wine industry — a frolicking fellowship of flaks, frauds, food bloggers, and so forth. There was no shortage of beverages — coffee drinks,…
Inveterate radio jocks Paul Castronovo and Ron Brewer of Big 105.9 and 97.9 got all up in the SoBe Wine & Food Fest’s businazz this morning, hosting an Iron Chef style cooking challenge live from the Fontainebleau (holy crap, did I spell that correctly?). The pair tested their cooking skills…
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already in full swing, and last night, everyone’s favorite quasi-cook and abbreviator, Rachel Ray, hosted the third annual Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. Our cameras caught all the beefy action, including celebrity chefs Bobby Flay and Michelle Bernstein.However,…
