Chef Michael Schwartz took top honors at the 2010 Amstel Light Burger Bash last night, earning the Allen Brothers Golden Grill Award – the judge’s choice for best burger. Twenty-seven patties were battling for this and three other awards inside a smoky tent on the beach outside the Ritz-Carlton. Schwartz…
Tonight’s SBWFF Perrier-Jouët Bubble Q will feature a whole lot of very talented chefs, but make sure to check out whatever Mauro Colagreco is cooking up. I had the privilege of sampling his food at a Graffigna wine luncheon at the W Hotel South Beach this week, and it was…
Aracataca, a restaurant promising to serve “Colombian chic cuisine,” opens its doors tonight in Key Biscayne. Named after the town in Colombia famous for being the birthplace of novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the restaurant replaces French bistro Le Croisic. The locale and owners are the same. “We’re going to be…
In the wake of their impressive SBWFF kickoff last night, it seems the folks at Red want everyone to know they’re putting out a serious contender in the battle of the beef (a.k.a. Burger Bash) competition tonight, also. Chef Jonathan Bennett, the executive chef at Red, the Steakhouse and Moxie,…
Our spies at JFK tell us that Anthony Bourdain is sitting in seat 2B on Delta’s flight to MIA right now. The No Reservations star is traveling with his wife, Ottavia, and their daughter, Ariane, in business class. Apparently, Ottavia is reading the National Enquirer while the plane readies for…
Short Order will be all over the SBWFF this week, reporting as we go. But we’ll also be choosing our favorite foods from each affair. What we liked best at last night’s Peter Vauthy/Michael Symon Prelude Dinner at Red, The Steakhouse was this Certified Angus Beef brisket slider with pickled…
The SBWFF kicked off in rousing fashion last night as Red, The Steakhouse put on quite the Prelude party. It started on Red’s rooftop, where guests sipped on Langlois-Chateau Crémant de Loire Brut Rosé and nibbled on hors d’oeuvres such as Angus beef rib cap (spinalis) with charred scallion and…
Can’t afford to shell out big buckaroonies for a ticket to any of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival events? Forget about hangin’ with the food snobs and check out The Paul & Young Ron Cookoff (Episode 6) Friday, February 26 at the Lowes Hotel. The morning show personalities from…
Anyone with special tastes — whether it be in food, wine or vinyl records — knows they have to seek out certain destinations to get precisely what they’re looking for. After hearing about Om Garden for ages and tragically stopping by when they used to be closed Sundays, I finally arrived…
Chefs Daniel Boulud, Masaharu Morimoto, Kris Wessel, and Jose Garces teamed up last night for a Haiti benefit dinner at South Beach’s Kreyol landmark Tap Tap restaurant.Wessel said the event, organized by South Beach Wine and Food Festival director Lee Brian Schrager, came together via twitter. “Lee put out a…
South Beach Wine & Food Festival highlight reel
In this week’s interview with Kris Wessel, the chef/owner of Red Light Little River talked about the importance of food as it relates to community. Kris is the local headliner tonight at the Tap Tap Haitian Relief Dinner hosted by The South Beach Wine & Food Festival and Southern Wine…
This is part two of our interview with Sam Gorenstein, Chef de Cuisine of BLT Steak. You can read the first part of the interview here.NT: What do you think of picky eaters? SG: Part of my job is to accommodate every person who comes in the restaurant and make…
Spies inside Bourbon Steak’s kitchen found executive chef Gabriel Fenton hard at work hand-shaping a substantial amount of meat patties–hundreds, actually–and later discovered he was prepping for Burger Bash. He says there’s no secret to his entry, as it’s the same delicious, Michael Mina signature hamburger always served at the…
Welcome to the future. This year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival will be the first to occur at the dawn of the age of real time media. Sure Twitter’s been around for years, but now it’s so mainstream your grandma’s on it. If she’s got food on her mind…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival is in for an offal treat. That means organs, and entrails from pig, cow, ducks, and more at Talula, Miami Beach’s best kept secret.On the menu are delicacies like sweetbreads, livers, hearts, tripe, ears, and foie gras for a total of seven courses…
It’s no surprise that Sam Gorenstein was nominated for a James Beard award. Not only is the young chef a budding talent on Miami’s food scene, but his selection was accidentally leaked two weeks prior to the announcement. Nevertheless, the Colombian-born toque is producing creative dishes out of the kitchen…
If you’re familiar with food porn, Ottavia’s last name should ring a bell. Her husband is print, television, and most recently Martha Stewart Living radio food pornographer Anthony Bourdain, famous for his salacious tell-all memoir Kitchen Confidential and Travel Channel show, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. While we wish he would…
This is part two of our interview with Kris Wessel, chef/owner of Red Light Little River. You can read the first part of the interview here. Three influences that, culinarily speaking, got you to where you are today.Growing up in New Orleans. Travelling through Europe. And the lack of Miami…
Kris Wessel, a tall, lanky New Orleans native, is Miami’s blue-collar superstar chef. He looks and acts it — a laid-back demeanor, a hard work ethic, and a no-nonsense, populist approach to dining. His acclaimed Red Light Little River was carved from a ruinous space wedged in a formerly seedy…
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…
This week, we’re interviewing our local culinary superstars up for James Beard Awards. This is the first year the foundation has released its “long list” of semifinalists, stretching out the waiting period one more month. On March 22, restaurant and chef finalists will be announced with nominees for cookbook, design,…
