According to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council (no, we didn’t make that name up), tomorrow kicks off National Hot Dog Month. To celebrate the “Month of the Wien” and Independence Day, the Hot Dog King himself is hosting his fifth annual hot dog eating contest.At noon tomorrow, Louie…
Venezuelan restaurateur Symcha Zylberman’s first name means “happiness” in Hebrew. But on a Tuesday night at 7 o’clock, his charmingly landscaped, oversize courtyard across the street from Joe’s Stone Crab in South Beach is empty. He’s at the host stand looking surprised to see us. Though the place opens at…
At the Biscayne Truck Triangle Roundup on the grounds of Johnson & Wales University, chef and restauranteur Michelle Bernstein made about 1,000 samples of a refreshing summer dish to distribute to visitors for free. All of the meals were scarfed down by eager eaters within an hour.Miami was the inaugural…
We can hardly wait for the long weekend ahead. If you don’t know what you’re doing to celebrate Independence Day, you’ll be glad to know there are several restaurants and parks hosting parties for the occasion. Following are some options around town. Tobacco Road Celebrate early at Tobacco Road’s Red…
Fourth of July is all fireworks and hot dogs. We were cringing at the prospect of the same, boring foods this year. We wanted foods with some pop…and then it hit us — Pop Rocks. It turns out you can do quite a lot with this popping candy, including making…
Ever wondered what it’s like backstage in the world of restaurant making? How do they come up with that long list of menu items, select the ingredients…where do the ideas come from? Although we are in a holding pattern until they open later this year, Mercadito’s newest restaurant concept, Tavernita,…
Shareef Malnik is teaming up with entrepreneur Buzzy Sklar to open The Well at the former Glass space, adjacent to Malnick’s iconic The Forge Restaurant/Wine Bar. It won’t be your typical mid-Beach joint, except for the drink selection and small plates. The decor is modeled after an Aspen ski lodge,…
If you’ve been going to some of Miami’s food truck roundups with a wistful gleam in your eye and dreams of being the next big food truck sensation, this could be your lucky day. Burger Beast tipped us off that Tania Ramirez of Food Truck U.S.A. is raffling off a…
Kane Steakhouse is a collaboration between restaurateur Matthew Glazier (the man behind New York’s Michael Jordan’s Steak and Strip House), Roman Jones, and Justin Levine. It opens tonight in the former Tuscan Steak space on South Beach in SoFi. The dining room is a collaboration by Francois Frossard Design and…
Everyone’s getting in on the food truck action. Even Macy’s is taking the popularity of the mobile meal and using the talents of famous chefs to market to the good old U.S.A. Miami is the first stop on the national Macy’s Chefs A-Go-Go food truck tour, which will be showcasing…
At 7 p.m. Sunday, Short Order pulled up to the quiet block near Brickell where Om Garden used to be. It was a little dreary outside, but we followed some smiling, healthy looking people carrying Tupperware dishes to an open door at 379 SW 15th Road. It led to a…
Sakaya Kitchen’s Richard Hales gave us frank answers to questions about wine and food trucks, though not about wine on food trucks. During the first part of our interview with the restaurateur, we talked a bit about eating Asian and business school.Hales is living his childhood dream, even though it’s…
Harry Potter is everywhere this summer. An announcement came from J.K. Rowling yesterday about Pottermore, an interactive site, and the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, is just three weeks away. With the end of the Potter-era fast approaching, we decided to cave into the nostalgia…
Maybe the most interesting thing about White Chocolate Wonderful — labeled as “peanut butter blended with sweet white chocolate” — is that it contains no white chocolate. Actually, it contains no chocolate at all. The ingredients: Peanuts, evaporated cane juice, vanilla, cocoa butter, palm fruit oil, lecithin, and salt. The…
Last week, Short Order reported that T.O.W., one of the largest food truck roundups, had been cancelled due to Miami-Dade permitting issues. T.O.W. organizers quickly found a new location for the Friday evening event. Then, at 4:45 p.m. on Friday, just 45 minutes before scheduled food service was to begin,…
After years of driving miles in a hazy, breakfastless rage to get a fix of Dunkin’ Donuts (how can this be the only place that sells hash browns all day?), there’s finally a new store in South Miami to cure us of our hunger-induced troubles.Located on 8099 South Dixie Highway,…
Food truck favorites will gather tonight at the Miami Science Museum to raise funds for the Florida Heart Research Institute. Ten percent of all proceeds from tonight’s rally will benefit the FHRI. The event is part of the Miami Science Museum’s monthly Young Patron Society’s Happy Hour With Substance, which…
Richard Hales is the owner of the popular Sakaya Kitchen, one of the few independently owned joints that make Midtown cool. He took over our palates with intoxicating brussels sprouts, and then helmed the growing food truck movement in Miami.At age 21, after being laid off, the Tampa native knew…
Miami’s best restaurant dishes
Pop some corn, program the DVR, and round up your family because two Miami food trucks are being featured on two back-to-back episodes of Cooking Channel’s Eat Street this week. Tomorrow, June 23, tune in at 10 p.m. for Episode 109, which features Miami’s Yellow Submarine. Other trucks highlighted include Veraci…
New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 is out and, with this item, Short Order is officially done serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. After the jump, find our other choices. 1. Corn Masa Quesadillas at MercaditoThey look more like empanadas, but the corn masa…
For the second year in a row, Emerge Miami is taking sweet-toothed cyclists on a saccharine joy ride. On Saturday, July 9th, the 2nd Sweet Treats Ride will take off from the Omni Metro-Mover Station at 10 a.m., stopping at several sweet shops between the Design District and South Beach…
