93. Mandolin Aegean Bistro’s Hand-Cut Fries

As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 93…

Troy Thomas of the Rolling Stove Chef Talks Working With His Mom

Food truck meet-ups in Miami leave you with a staggering number of choices. Each one is colored in bright hues and has a catchy name or cute mascot. Walk through the line of trucks and you’ll likely pass a standout wrapped in flames, invoking a meal that’s flavorful, meaty and…

Street Food Fridays Back This Week with Shake Shack as Special Guest

​The second iteration of Street Food Fridays returns tomorrow to a new, larger location in front of the Arsht Center.Seventeen trucks including the Burger Beast truck — with Shake Shack on board — will participate in the gathering, which The Burger Beast, The Miami Herald and LaLey Enterprises launched in…

Win South Beach Wine and Food Tix: Another Kid in the Kitchen

​Yesterday’s challenge was a tough one, but Cakeartbycolleen guessed it. Congrats! It was Melissa d’Arabian, host of Ten Dollar Dinners with Melissa d’Arabian and champion to cheapskates everywhere. Now you get the Hamilton reference? As in, the guy on a $10 bill? Riiiigggghtt.Okay, now be the first to figure out…

Galindo’s Original Latin American Restaurant is Coming Back

The sandwich cubano is a Miami treasure, gulped down by countless customers every day. Over the years (since 1974), Latin American Cafeteria has been associated with the biggest, baddest rendition in town. But the question has often been: Which is the real Latin American Cafeteria? The answer would be Raul…

Sustain’s organic cuisine is the real deal

It is seemingly obligatory these days for any new restaurant to proudly tout local sourcing and sustainability — whether totally true or not. The word organic is planted on menus like corn in Nebraska. So when Sustain Restaurant + Bar opened this past December with a mission “to support farmers”…

In Bed With Fabio Viviani of Top Chef

A really fun part of my job as New Times blogger is interviewing chefs and personalities in the food business. I’ve found that most people in this industry are witty and charming, so I was looking forward to my phone call with Top Chef All-Stars contestant and Restauranteur Fabio Viviani…

Day by Day Food Truck Roundups with Four New Locations

​Food truck round-ups are so popular that multiple meet-ups take place at the same time on the same nights. Busy, though, is never a problem at these events.This rundown of food court locations includes four new sites, including Tuesday night’s North End Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup, Thursday night’s Biscayne Plaza…

94. Joe Allen’s Bourbon Bread Pudding

As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices…

Food Truck Meet at Tobacco Road — That Means Beer & Booze!

In the ever-changing universe of food truck gatherings, a new twist is on the way: This coming Sunday, Feb. 13 (and every Sunday thereafter), from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, the “Brickell Truck Rally” will take place at Tobacco Road (626 South Miami Ave.). In the line-up: Dim Ssam a GoGo,…

Where to Eat in Miami This Valentine’s Day (Updated)

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and even Pollo Tropical has a Valentine’s Day special going (two dine for $9.99, if you must know). If you haven’t made your plans, you should probably do so now before restaurants fill up (the lovely Gibraltar is fully booked) and events sell…

Win South Beach Wine and Food Tix: Guess This Kid in the Kitchen

​Congratulations to anon1 for realizing yesterday’s kid photo was Chef Michelle Bernstein of Michy’s, Sra. Martinez, and Check, Please! fame.If you would like to win a family four-pack of tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Kohl’s Fun and Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen (try…

Food Truck Debut Tonight: Happy Greek’s Chef on 4 Wheels

Ahmet Karaca is the Happy Greek. One reason for his glee is that he’s got a new set of wheels (called Chef on 4 Wheels) from which tonight, at the once-again-newly-located  Biscayne Truck Triangle Roundup (127th and Biscayne Blvd.), he’ll be serving “gyros with warm pita bread stuffed with lettuce,…

95. Lobster Roll at Joe’s Stone Crab Take-Away

As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 95…

96. Sakaya Kitchen’s Brussels Sprouts

As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 96…

From Oreos to Zagnuts: Ten Foods Vegans Eat to Scrape By

Or, “How to Succeed at Veganism Without Really Trying.”Vegans are humans too. Like most Americans, we have only so much time to dedicate to food preparation. So it is an error when outsiders ponder the vegan lifestyle and automatically throw up their hands in mock exhaustion, shouting “I’d never have…

Kids in the Kitchen: Guess the Chef

​’sup, Kids? In preparation for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s event dedicated to the junior foodies in our midst, to be called Kohl’s Fun and Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen (boy, that’s a mouthful!), we asked some of our favorite chefs to recount their favorite eats-related…

Whistle Stop Food Truck Rodeo: Trains and Trucks

It was no surprise that the Dolci Peccati gelato truck was the busiest spot at the Gold Coast Railroad Museum this Saturday. The Whistle Stop Food Truck Rodeo introduced visitors, most of whom were pint-sized and ice cream crazy, to the delights of mobile meals. Families were picnicking on the…

More Reasons We’re Sweet on Mommy-To-Be Andrea Sans Araiza

We’re still counting down the days until Chef Andrea from Bourbon Steak pops. See& yesterday’s interview for her thoughts on being pregnant and unable to eat sweets.New Times: Which dessert is seen way too often on American menus?Andrea Sans Araiza: Cheesecake. It really bothers me when people serve slices of…