Quiche and Sushi at the Coral Gables Art Cinema

​It’s the best thing to happen to theater snacks since we started dropping Sno Caps in our popcorn. Gourmet concessions are coming to Coral Gables Art Cinema.At the concession stand in the Cinema Cafe, movie-goers will be able to pick up tastier bites than your average hot dog and Slushee…

An Oyster Tutorial With Sean Bernal Of Blue Door Fish, Part Two

In celebration of National Oyster Day, we present the second installation of our oyster tutorial with Executive Chef of Blue Door Fish and oyster savant extraordinaire, Sean Bernal. Yesterday, he opened up the kitchen and gave us a lesson in everything mollusk related, and today we dive deeper into the…

Muriel Olivares Talks Sustainable Farming at Lester’s Tomorrow

A wise sage once told her young grasshopper, “If you plant something every day, you’ll have something every day.” Actually, it was more like Muriel Olivares, founder and farmer of the Little River Market Garden, telling us her personal philosophy over the phone. But we’ll take it as good advice…

Super Summer Kegger Bash at Tobacco Road; Weekend Truck Tracker

Tobacco Road is holding a Super Summer Kegger Bash tomorrow night. Miami’s oldest bar will turn into what sounds like a giant frat party for grownups with live music, DJs, food trucks and beer, beer and more beer.Over a dozen food trucks will serve food from 6 p.m. to midnight…

First Look at Chow Down Grill South Beach

Good news, South Beach, Chow Down Grill is coming to the neighborhood next week. No longer will you need to trek to Surfside to get your fill of homemade noodles and dumplings. The new location is much larger, features a full bar and extensive cocktail menu, and is open until…

An Oyster Tutorial With Sean Bernal Of Blue Door Fish

Tomorrow is National Oyster Day, as if we needed an excuse to honor the most delectable of readily edible seafood, fit for consumption as soon as it is pulled from the sea. We begged Executive Chef Sean Bernal of Blue Door Fish at the Delano, for public insight into his…

Will Tropical Storm Emily Affect Food Trucks? Updated

Tropical Storm Emily is moving northwest and close to making landfall on Haiti and Dominican Republic. Though the latest projection by the National Hurricane Service has Miami just outside the “cone of death”, food truck owners have two concerns: the safety of their trucks in a wind storm and the…

Lido’s Mark Zeitouni Gives Us the Ins and Outs of Pickling

Mark Zeitouni, executive chef at The Standard Hotel’s Lido, gave us a little insight on his food influences and his unique style of pickling in yesterday’s interview.The rising chef preserves his own vegetables by pickling them right in his own restaurant. What started as a necessity in San Francisco’s farm…

Who Wants To Buy a Food Truck? Truck Tracker For Tonight

The Miami food truck industry seems to add a new truck to the roster every day. If you want to get in on the booming truck industry, you can either pony upwards of $100,000 to purchase a brand new fully-customized food truck with state-of-the-art equipment. Or you can start your…

Lido’s Mark Zeitouni Makes Pickles With a Kick

Tropical Storm Emily formed yesterday in the Caribbean, and if you’re like us, you’re getting your gourmet canned food ready in case she hits on Saturday. If you want to take an even less practical route, how about pickling some cucumbers in case you need to preserve those veggies for…

Morgans On The Beach: New Brunch With Remembrances of Things Past

When Morgans announced that it was opening a South Beach location in the old Joe Allen spot, more than a few people wondered what it would be like. Normally when a restaurant closes and another opens in its place, there’s not much conjecture about whether the new restaurant will fill…

Burger Beast Wednesdays at Tobacco Road; Food Trucks Tonight

Burger Beast is out and about again. One of Miami’s first food truck devotees, the Beast is still heavily involved in the scene (we told you about his food truck tracker app in the works), but now he’s moving inside — at least on Wednesdays. Burger Beast is teaming up…

Tudor House Serves Refined Food With a Whimsical Soul (Photos)

​Tudor House, the new Geoffrey Zakarian restaurant at the Dream Hotel South Beach, opened to much fanfare and anticipation. With executive chef Jamie DeRosa behind the burner and Zakarian’s wife Margaret a frequent presence at the “modern gastro café,” much was expected of the food and service. Short Order was…

July 2011 Restaurant Openings and Closings

There didn’t seem to be many interesting restaurant openings in July other than Morgans’ second outpost in the old Joe Allen space. August is shaping up to be more promising with the openings of Egg & Dart in the Design District and Chow Down Grill’s second location in South Beach…

The Pork Shop Is Pig Heaven; Truck Tracker for the Weekend

In this pork-obsessed world of ours, we’re surprised that a food truck dedicated solely to all things piggy didn’t happen sooner. But, like all good things, the Pork Shop was worth the wait. Vegans need not apply to this pork-tastic truck, where the emphasis is on the pig, only the pig,…

Cauliflower Pizza at Anthony’s Coal Fired

Let’s just get this out of the way: We despise cauliflower. We’ve hated it since we were kids. It’s hard and crumbly and ghostly and everything a vegetable shouldn’t be. But boy did we get a surprise when we were pushed to eat ’em atop an Anthony’s Coal Fired pizza…

Morgans on the Beach Opens Tomorrow

Morgans on the Beach, the sister restaurant of the original Morgans in Wynwood, will officially open its doors Friday for lunch after a soft opening tonight. Staying with the dining-in-a-house feel of the original, Morgans on the Beach takes over the former Joe Allen space, adding its trademark lavender color…

Last Night: Pastry Porn and Scotch at Michael’s Genuine

Last night, in honor of National Scotch Day, Short Order headed over to Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink for some seriously old scotch and a tasting of pastry chef Hedy Goldsmith’s latest creations.The Macallan brand ambassador Randolph Adams was our host for the evening, and led us through a flight…

Michael Schwartz to Follow-Up MGFD With Harry’s Pizzeria

It was only a matter of time, right? Michael Schwartz will follow up his two Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink locations in Miami and Grand Cayman with Harry’s Pizzeria, a “casual neighborhood joint featuring the chef/restaurateur’s fresh, simple, pure, and local food anchored by seasonally-inspired pizzas from the wood-burning oven.”…

Five Cheap Restaurants on South Beach

South Beach dining can be nauseating before you even pick a restaurant, if you don’t know how to navigate it properly. Restaurants hire hot girls to wave menus in your face and yell lunch specials at you while their cleavage falls out of their shirts. Everything seems to cost twice…