Restaurants

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

A mere charcoal briquet from next week’s glowing? fizzling? Cafe review:Main courses come with any two of 15 “fixin’s”, which if ordered a la carte would range in price from $2.95 to $6.25. There are, again, inconsistencies within the category, although plusses outnumbered minuses. Jalapeño mac & cheese hit the…

Any good Cuban will tell you there are good croquetas and great ones. The good ones are crunchy and chewy and leave a comforting layer of grease on your hands. The great ones are a dichotomy of flavors and textures with a warm crispy, salty layer on the outside and…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Richard LaMotta, who created the Chipwich from his Sweet Tooth ice cream parlor in Englewood, New Jersey, passed away two days ago at age 67. The bearded Brooklyn native came up with the notion in the late Seventies — a  four-ounce slab of vanilla ice cream, sandwiched between chocolate chip…

Joey’s Wynwood Italian Café isn’t just the gustatory champion of Miami’s art district, it’s also as cheap as you are. Starving artists, broke freelancers, assistant district attorneys, and hungry spangers rejoice! Even we can afford to eat here. A bowl of in-house, handmade spaghetti with a juicy, herbed up tomato…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Chances are pretty good your grandmother isn’t as talented a cook as you think. Sure, that lasagna or meatloaf is better than those you’ve tried elsewhere, and her other few specialties are perhaps equally impressive. But the key word here is few — meaning through years and years of making…

Fast food is about to be evo-lutionized in Miami. This weekend Evos, an all-natural chain (with locations in California, Florida, Georgia and North Carolina), debuts in Pinecrest.  The rstaurant makes American diner staples like hamburgers, shakes and fries healthful. Well, as nutritious as French fries can be. Instead of deep-frying…

Downtown Miami’s new savory spot, The Sandwich Bar, is everything simple. ​Simple décor. Simple concept. Simple ingredients and even simple names, as the two chefs are both named Leo. But the eatery, located near the Miami Dade College Wolfson campus, loses its simplistic edge when it comes to taste; the…

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Before “fast food” meant a tasteless disc of pulverized cow between two pieces of soft cardboard there was the taco. Cheap, nourishing, able to accommodate just about any…

Chefs Luca Taretto of Tiramesu and Pietro Vardeu of Sardinia will face off on May 20 in an Italian cooking battle at the MiaCucina showroom in Coral Gables. The battle is the first of the Italian Cooking Show IV, a series of five monthly cook-offs organized by the Italy-America Chamber…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

A little antipasti paragraph before the main course Cafe review of Calamari next week:Most appetizers range from $5 to $10, pastas $10 to $13, main courses $15 to $20, and desserts $6 to $8. While these prices represent a great deal, nightly specials can make your meal even more of…

He promised, and he delivered. Here’s Chef Sean Bernal’s version of mofongo, a highly recognizable Puerto Rican dish. It can be found on Oceanaire’s menu as an appetizer, but we recommend you ask for it there as an entrée with shrimp in Creole sauce to get the full effect… and…

Almost two quarters into 2010 and restaurants are dropping like so many flies at a swatter factory.Did your favorite neighborhood joint close? Yes. So did some big-money startups, middling little guys, and corporate behemoths’ touristic appendages.Our records indicate the loss of 28 29 restaurants so far this year. But will…

Yes, I know, it’s hard to believe. Not that my editor has permitted me to continue this self-indulgent farce of a contest for so long, but that I’ve been at the paper for more than a decade. Luckily I foresaw just such a possibility, and right from the start shrewdly…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Emeril’s offers a dash of New Orleans

Details are sketchy, but Short Order has learned that Tagliatelle, a new Italian restaurant, is opening at the end of next month at the bottom of the former Prive space. Owner Daniel Mineo has several eateries in Monte Carlo, but decided to branch out to South Beach when his son…

Newcomer Jack Frost popped up on Alton Road two weeks ago. This frozen custard shop is perfect for the hot weather we are having. In case you’re wondering, frozen custard is closer to gelato than ice cream, with more cream and richness than the latter. Jack Frost boasts over 50…