Food & Drink

rats, shar-peis, The New Yorker, passive-aggression, hors d’oeuvres, catfish, McDonald’s

[image courtesy mtmrap.com] Hazardous. Poisonous. Fatal. Sickening. Rotten. Toxic. Threatened. *** As in, “Don’t eat that Florida tomato! It could be F__________!!!!!!” As in, “Girl, I was in Publix yesterday? And half the freaking produce was R______.” As in, “It’s probably better if sport fishermen (especially pregnant ones) forgo consuming…

At one Palm Beach restaurant, that dirty martini might be REALLY dirty I’m about to lose one of my best sources for insider restaurant dish — a friend of mine is retiring, at least temporarily, from her job as a server to get married. But she’s stored up enough tales…

Photo courtesy of Benihana. News broke this weekend that Rocky Aoki, founder of the Benihana chain of restaurants — headquartered in Miami — died Thursday night at the age of 69. According to a family spokesperson, the cause of death was pneumonia; but Aoki had also suffered from cirrhosis, diabetes,…

Summer Slumming On the Wrong Side of the Tracks Mummy and I got gussied up as Ladies Who Lunch last Friday and tripped over to the isle of Palm Beach, hoping to test the waters at Beach House Bistro, which opened last November. The restaurant scene in Palm Beach moves…

Used to be that you couldn’t name ten worthwhile restaurants at which to dine in Coconut Grove. Still can’t, but we’re getting closer. When Ideas Restaurant opened two years ago it gave the food-deprived neighborhood its’ first fine upscale establishment since the nineties. The recently opened George’s In The Grove…

Week two of Short Order is just about in the books, and what a week at that. We’ve been posting our arses off around New Times, probably because we’re just so pent up. This Short Order thing you see here was a long time coming, you see — an idea…

You say tomato, I say “Show me the Money” From The Economist: “After one embarrassment on top of another”…. [ed note: like being caught SPYING on Florida Student/Farmworker activists in Fort Lauderdale] “Burger King backed down last month and reached a ground-breaking agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, representing…

The modern age of pretzel making began in 1935 when the Reading Pretzel Machinery Company invented an automatic pretzel-twisting machine. It was hailed as the greatest thing since sliced bread, and sliced bread hadn’t even been invented yet. The modern age of Miami pretzel-eating began just this month at the…

Evidently last week’s entry in Short Order’s weekly contest, WTF Is It?!?, — was child’s play for our MENSA-class readers. Half the world, it seems, knows what to do with a bitter gourd, while we’d been using them as foot massagers. This week we’ve got TWO summertime edibles and the…

Today, the saga of the Shrimp Bandit has come to a close. When we last left you, we were hot on the trail of the elusive thief, ready to snare him in our nets like so many fisherman before. But this morning, the trail went cold. Our contacts hit dead…

As if it wasn’t enough that you couldn’t screw up soufflés in your own kitchen without the fear of celeb-chef Gordon Ramsay’s disembodied head floating in and calling you a f’in C, French video game publisher Ubisoft announced today that it plans to release Hell’s Kitchen™: The Video Game for…