On a recent Sunday, two guests stand in front of a muted TV set near the entry of 15 Steps inside the Eden Roc hotel. They’re laughing at America’s Funniest Home Videos. Rich amber lighting and plush leather seating fill the center of this first-floor restaurant. An out-of-place communal picnic…
After 17 years of serving al dente pasta alfresco, Lincoln Road staple TiramesU is closing its doors this Sunday, April 27. Fans of the restaurant need not be despondent, however, because the family-style pasta place plans to reopen at 101 Washington Ave., reclaiming the SoFi neighborhood where it originally opened…
On a recent trip to St. Augustine, I bought some fresh datil peppers at a local market. A cousin of the habanero, the datil starts out sweet and fruity — and then goes in for the kill with its heat, averaging about 200,000 units on the Scoville scale. These little…
Today is Earth Day, 24 hours when we all pause to consider how best to reduce that nasty number known as our carbon footprint. But what to do? Should we all drive Smart Cars? Recycle our Bud Light cans? Set Miami’s collective A/C at 80 degrees? Actually, going meatless is…
Homeless men mutter to themselves outside the Kwik Stop on Grand Avenue in Coconut Grove. Yet tucked inside the convenience store, KT Mongkolthalang and her mother, Toya, stand behind a glass case stacked high with cans of Mae Ploy coconut milk and amber bottles of fish sauce while they toss…
On a recent Sunday, two guests stand in front of a muted TV set near the entry of 15 Steps inside the Eden Roc hotel. They’re laughing at America’s Funniest Home Videos. Rich amber lighting and plush leather seating fill the center of this first-floor restaurant. An out-of-place communal picnic…
Mad Men has returned for the first part of its last season, and if you’ve been watching, you know that a great amount of wheeling and dealing takes place in restaurants. That’s not just fiction. Many business transactions take place in the restaurants of major cities, with the idea being…
Just because you don’t eat animal products anymore doesn’t necessarily mean you want to forgo the bar scene. After all, where else will you meet the Jay Z to your Beyonc�? But hanging at bars is tough if you get the shakes and need to grub on something other than…
Chuck Woodward is still a University of Miami student finishing his master’s in finance. He also happens to be the cool co-owner of Chill-N, a unique ice-cream concept off the beaten path in Pinecrest. He and business partner Daniel Golick will open their second outpost in Aventura come early May…
When Dewey LoSasso was named Acqualina’s executive chef in December 2013, he was taking time to get the feel of the resort before making major changes to the menus. He told Short Order: “Right now, I’m doing some research, and then we’ll start testing some menu items after Christmas and…
Despite popular misconception, not all vegans are teetotalers. The meatless masses like to cut loose and get a little social lubrication just like everyone else — we just don’t like fish bladders in our beer. Hence the inspiration behind Vegan Drinks, a nationwide meetup group for like-minded herbivores. The second…
What do you get when your favorite Chinese dishes and American classic brunch items have a love child? We’re picturing Peking duck and waffles; fried rice with scrambled eggs and sausage; and an omelet stuffed with Szechuan beef. Blackbrick’s Richard Hales must be reading minds, because that’s exactly what he’s…
Coral Gables has a bevy of options when it comes to food and drink, so it’s an ideal area to open a European-style wine bar. Hidden among the shops along Miracle Mile is the intimately sized Uvaggio. Past a small entry that can easily be overlooked, there it sits, dimly…
At Pérez Art Museum Miami, it’s not important to appreciate or know anything about art. A dozen menacing bronze animal heads startle visitors emerging from the parking garage onto the museum’s raised patio. A dragon readies to bellow a vaporizing fireball onto unsuspecting passersby. A bear snarls, lips pulled back,…
They say vegans are lousy hunters, but sometimes it takes a predatory instinct to seek out a meatless meal in the 305. Luckily, Coral Gables’ Green Gables Caf� offers a vegan lunch special that differs daily, so you don’t have to choke down a PB&J every single day. See also:…
Vegans don’t get much love in this pork belly town, but that’s about to change with the introduction of an annual event that celebrates plant-based cuisine. The Seed Food & Wine Festival (SFWF) will do for vegans, vegetarians, and the “veggie-curious” what the South Beach Wine & Food Festival does…
Beneath the floppy ears and cotton-ball tail of a rabbit is some seriously delicious meat. It truly does taste like chicken — only leaner and slightly sweeter. Or perhaps it’s like a more healthful duck. Other bonuses: Because rabbit is still a “boutique meat,” most local restaurants use Florida rabbits…
After 37 years of serving cafecitos on South Beach, David’s Caf� is closing. The restaurant that provided sustenance on a 24-hour basis to everyone in Miami Beach — from ragged hospitality workers needing a strong cup of energy on a graveyard shift to club kids not wanting to end the…
At P�rez Art Museum Miami, it’s not important to appreciate or know anything about art. A dozen menacing bronze animal heads startle visitors emerging from the parking garage onto the museum’s raised patio. A dragon readies to bellow a vaporizing fireball onto unsuspecting passersby. A bear snarls, lips pulled back,…
Pincho Factory’s toston burger won over Hoda and Kathie Lee on the Today Show last month. That gave locals a reason to be thankful Nedal Ahmad’s creation is readily available when hunger pangs hit. After opening his second location in Coral Gables last August, Ahmad is ready to expand again…
It’s been nearly two years since China Grill, the restaurant that in 1995 essentially started Miami Beach’s dining renaissance, closed its doors and announced a move to Brickell. In April 2012, China Grill Management and Jeffrey Chodorow announced China Grill Brickell would open “in the fourth quarter of this year,…
A small fried chicken joint so far west on SW Eighth Street it could be in the Everglades is breaking a lot of hearts on the outer edges of New York City. Caporal Chicken is tucked inside an easy-to-miss cubbyhole in a remote shopping plaza, where Vincent Herryman turns out…
