This is the second part of our chat with Michael Vaughn, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit chef. If you missed part one, well, we’ll just have to throw you to the lions.What’s your biggest challenge?Keeping a large variety. I don’t use a cycle menu. That gets…
In case you’re homebound or have been out of town for months, you’ll want to know Miami’s food truck scene is growing like a fast moving, tasty rash. Different sorts of street meats, tacos, sandwiches, and desserts are being sold from trucks and carts at preplanned gathering spots, and we,…
Another night, another meals-on-wheels spectacle. This one took place last evening behind the Publix at Biscayne Boulevard and 47th Street — a temporary move from 81st Street due to some hiccup that is apparently being solved. The crowds were thin relative to recent round-ups, perhaps due to the air having…
Just a sip from next weeks bowl of restaurant review:As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic pork belly…..
Yes, dining with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus cast and crew was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so we totally understand if you are seething with jealousy. It was awesome! But instead of keeping our observations to ourselves, we thought we’d let you in on some of the more…
Last January unemployment in South Florida was creeping up towards 12 percent. While many Miamian’s scoured the classifieds, then 23-year-old Francesca Fernandez opened a frozen yogurt shop in Coral Gables. This week, she celebrates the one-year anniversary of My Yogurt Bliss, a self-serve yogurt bar where you completely customize your…
Oren Bass, who launched the Slow Food Truck with Zachary Schwartz just over a month ago, wasn’t pleased with yesterday’s post regarding their menu. I had questioned the accuracy of the “Slow Food” part of the truck moniker; Oren politely disagreed over the phone, and told me why. Because the…
The quiet block of 20th Street between Purdy and West Avenues in South Beach has given aspiring restaurateurs nothing but headaches: Bartolome Restaurant (too pricy for what it served), Picnic (poor brunch-for-dinner concept with worse execution), Sea Rock, and Shiso Sushi have all died here. The Asian gastro-pub Pubbelly arrived…
Hundreds of people descended upon last night’s food truck court gathering at Biscayne Boulevard and NE 109th Street. Not only are the crowds getting larger at these events (Look! Up in the sky! It’s Superfad!), but food vendors seem to be popping up overnight as if from sinister alien truck…
Adding to the dizzying amount of food truck-related gatherings, meet-ups, courts and congregations is the Miami Street Food Court debuting tomorrow on Biscayne Boulevard. Last night, trucks gathered north of the KMart in North Miami and drew hundreds. Tomorrow, they will park at Biscayne Plaza, a shopping center on Biscayne…
Lolita, modestly priced restaurant, you tease my tongue. Your eggplant timbales and Chilean sea bass were great, and your dessert even better. Lo-lee-ta, you’re sweet.My attraction to Dolores, But You Can Call Me Lolita’s desserts began with a coy glance at the simple menu and alluring price. Each is just…
Japanese and Chinese food buffets are ubiquitous. Latin ones, though are practically nonexistent in Miami. Really. So when I heard that Old San Juan Restaurant had a lunch spread, of course I wanted to try it out.Old San Juan is a Puerto Rican restaurant. Or so it says. I have…
Green Table Artisan Kitchen & Bistro opened its doors to the public yesterday in the small space that Whisk Gourmet called its home for several years. As we wrote in November, owner Monica Rios created a menu using mostly local and organic ingredients. These days, those words get thrown around…
Howie Kleinberg, the forceful and ambitious chef known to all as the “Bulldog” persona from Top Chef, is expanding his Bulldog Barbecue empire. The North Miami eatery popular with the university crowd keeps drawing them in with North Carolina barbecue baby back ribs and pulled pork. Later this month, the…
If you’ve been holding on to that bottle of Screaming Eagle until you can muster the courage to dish out a five-star meal, wait no more. The folks at Eos at the Viceroy will pour your wine for you at no corkage fee as part of their B.Y.O.B Mondays. So…
Did you miss our gunea pig and chifa talk with El Gran Inka’s director of culinary operations Javier Angeles-Beron last week? If so, read the first part of this interview here.How would you define Peruvian cuisine now?New Peruvian cuisine is always an evolution. We’re always bringing new flavors in. The…
You might recall a while back we interviewed Chef Christopher Cramer at Panorama about Peruvian cuisine and, for an Irishman, he did seem to know a lot about it. But this time we wanted to chat with the genuine article, Lima-born Javier Angeles-Beron. Don’t let his white collared shirt with…
A little rendered fat from next week’s meaty Cafe review:”We were mighty impressed by duck-and-pumpkin dumplings, four delicate rounds of melt-in-your-mouth pasta (really more like ravioli), the main ingredient brightened with orange, crushed almonds, and browned butter accented with soy. Similarly round, ravioli-like beef cheek-and-black truffle dumplings, with shiitake mushrooms…
T.H.R.I.V.E. is the name of this little vegan/raw food/juice bar at 1239 Alton Road on South Beach, but you won’t see any indication of it existing if you walk by. Even knowing the address won’t help, and if I tell you that it is within the Garden Center, you will…
The new 1500 Degrees, unveiled in October as the final piece in the Eden Roc Renaissance’s $220 million renovation, dubs its menu “farm-to-table eating, with a heavy steakhouse sensibility.” That’s as good a self-description as you’ll get from a restaurant. Executive chef Paula DaSilva spent a decade as Dean James…
Get your bike ready and head out to Brickell Metrorail station (1001 SW First Avenue) on January 8 for a food truck crawl. This month’s Critical Mass, organized by Emerge Miami, will take bikers for a taste of five local food trucks. Departing at 10 a.m., bikers will stop at…
Dude. Tuesdays at the Biscayne Triangle Truck Round-up are fuckin’ awesome. Lots of trucks. Lots of people. Lots of all different types of food. People brought their dogs. People brought their bikes. The on-duty cops hung out by the doughnut truck all night. It was a cool, beautiful Miami night…
