Five hundred dollars per ticket was too much for our budget to allow, but we still wanted to experience last night’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival Tribute Dinner honoring Charlie Trotter and Piero Antinori so we snuck into the kitchen for a behind-the-scenes peek.What we found was not only…
The grub and the booze lasted all night long, and that’s why we loved Thrillist’s BBQ & The Blues last night. There was no line to get in, simply present your ticket and boom, welcome to the party (Burger Bash snaked around for what seemed like miles, a pissed out…
In an event that combined New Age holistic nutrition and haute couture interior design, Mega Way founder Brigitte M. Britton hosted an intimate healthy breakfast at a gorgeous suite at Ocean House, a new luxury residential building at 125 Ocean Drive.A tiny gal with a big personality, Britton and her…
We don’t know for sure if she was in fact toasted upon arrival to her own event. Anne Burrell brought fun to the table so, who cares? Yesterday, we took part in the Barilla-sponsored interactive lunch with the Iron Chef season four runner-up. Was the food good? Well, that depended…
View photos of Best of the Best at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach here.Best of the Best is always a grand affair. Overwhelmingly so at times with the plethora of top flight wines and foods from some of America’s(and Miami’s) finest chefs. Riki Altman was covering the local angle of this…
It’s that time of year again when we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2012 issue in June. Until then, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.87. The Red…
There are many factors when it comes to evaluating a wine, that it’s hard to separate the glass from the equation, according to wine expert Max Riedel, owner and proprietor of Riedel Crystal. Riedel showcased his line of glassware yesterday at the Perry Hotel for the South Beach Wine and…
Hedy Goldsmith and Diet Pepsi have teamed up for a trucking excursion to the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival. You can catch them at Sunday night’s “Trucks on the Beach” event, where Hedy’s signature chocolate chunk cookies (with a hint of Maldon salt on top) will be…
View photos of Best of the Best at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach here.Thanks to the gracious folks at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival and their reps, Short Order was able to dispatch not one, but two of our finest to last night’s Wine Spectator’s Best of…
View photos of Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach here.Although we had grand dreams that a local chef would take the prize, Symon’s B Spot Burgers claimed the People’s Choice Award yet again this year at last night’s Burger Bash (that’s a third consecutive win for him). Fellow Iron…
It seems that whenever the South Beach Wine & Food Festival has a party at the Herzog & de Meuron parking garage at 1111 Lincoln Road, there’s someone hanging by their feet.Last year’s Let Them Eat Cake event hosted by Emeril Lagasse and Martha Stewart featured lovely ladies pouring champagne…
The various satellite events that orbit the South Beach Wine & Food Festival increase each year. By “satellite event” I mean relatively small gatherings sponsored by food-and-beverage related companies that sometimes invitation only for media and sponsors, and other times open to the public. These happenings are not directly related…
Gail Simmons has a lot on her plate, so to speak. She’s just added author to her already insane resume as Top Chef judge, Top Chef:Just Desserts host, and special projects director for Food & Wine magazine.Gail’s memoir, Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life As a Professional Eater was…
The “Winebow Wine Pavilion” requires a powerful lesson in self-directed navigation (okay, the whole “village” is sort of a booze and food maze of confusion, see more for help on that here), but you don’t want to miss out on international array of winemakers who are bringing their bottles to…
Ready for another try? Short Order is offering one last set tickets to the sold out Trucks on the Beach event Sunday night at South Beach Wine & Food Festival to the first reader who can guess the answer to the following question, without going over. The retail cost of…
Bethenny Frankel won our hearts as the struggling single girl in a sea of diamond-clad wives in Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York. Fans watched as she grew her Skinnygirl empire, found love, and had a daughter, Bryn. Bethenny Ever After follows Frankel, husband Jason Hoppy and baby on their…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival is taking a detour out of South Beach for one of 2012’s most unique dinners. The Diamond Dishes event on Saturday, February 25 allows a lucky few an advance peek at the new state-of-the-art Marlins’ ballpark long before the very first pitch.The sold-out…
View photos from the Q at Delano here.It was the perfect night for a barbecue–or as us South Beach Wine & Food Festival aficionados like to call it–“The Q”; the sun had begun to set, painting the sky in aqua and peach, and a marching band serenaded eager ticketholders, but…
Until a recent $7 million makeover, the Rusty Pelican was becoming a musty Pelican. All of that work has freshened up the joint, but there was something cozy and unpretentious about the old driftwood-inspired seafood-house décor. The new look features an entrance through a sleek glassed-in wine corridor, but the…
Woohoo! We have a winner for yesterday’s trivia question! Congratulations to Chad Thorson for guessing the closest answer. If we laid out all of the ice cream sandwiches Coolhaus plans to serve at Trucks on the Beach, the closing event at this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival, they…
Robert Irvine is the buff star of Food Network’s Restaurant: Impossible, taking miserably failing restaurants and turning them into success stories. He’s also the subject of many photographs at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, most memorably last year when he provided his back as transportation for fellow Food…
Jonathan Waxman’s Mexican food roots lead us on a winding road from Chez Panisse to Rosa Mexicano. Growing up in El Cerrito, California, apparently influenced his choice in “go-to comfort food,” Last night we got a first taste of what it means to be Rosa Mexicano’s “Culinary Advisor” with the…
