So you’ve ditched South Beach-side pretensions, crossed the bridge into Miami, and now all you see are more stuck up Art World tourists gorging at the MidTown troughs of Five Guys Burgers, Lime Fresh mexi, Cheese Course gourmet, and Primo Pizza. You’re hitting up every fair from Fountain to PhotoMiami…
Downtown Miami’s Urbanite Bistro searches for its groove
Now here’s a gal who really knows her way around a kitchen: Chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo of Talula. She co-owns and co-cooks with husband Frank Randazzo and has been since June 2003, dishing up eclectic eats inspired by Italy, Asia and the Southwest. They labeled their style “creative American cuisine,” but…
Hey America, this Thanksgiving let’s buck tradition and not go out of our way to kill indians.So, maybe you don’t know, but, most of America’s tomatoes are grown in Immokalee, Florida, just up the street from Naples, and across the way from Miami, and most of the workers in the…
The first week of December in Miami is a time for art, food and music, and if you’re smart, or local, getting all three for free.Here’s our guide to the top seven food and drink events for Art Basel (December 1 – 6), but don’t forget there’s a whole lot…
Thanks to a newly minted marriage of convenience between the folks at Gardner’s and local catering outfit, A Joy Wallace, you can now go crazy on freshly-smoked pork ribs and sauce in the gourmet grocery’s parking lots across the city. In exchange for a cut of the sales, the smoker…
Last year, Janine Zeitlin wrote an article for New Times called “Ignored and Cheated: Farm Workers Earn Nada in America’s Greenbean Capital.”Yesterday, South Dade-based Short Order reader Michelle contacted us with her exclusive images from the green bean fields of rural Dade county in the Redlands. Here is the report…
Whisk Gourmet Food & Catering whips up a crowd in Coral Gables
Say cheese!French cheese ambassador Cecile Delannes is on a Whole Foods America tour giving out samples and educating consumers on behalf of The French Cheese Club, “an association of five family owned French Fromageries specialized in the production of traditional French cheeses.”We ran into Cecile yesterday while researching an unrelated…
Get ready for real homecooked food in Wynwood. Morgan’s Restaurant is a conversion from a house built in the 1930’s that offers two stories worth of direct views into a neighborhood on the rise. Windows face west to North Miami Avenue club The Electric Pickle, North into 29th street and…
Picnics Diner was long a favorite when it was located in Allen’s Drugstore on SW 57th Ave. A few years ago the owner died, and the diner moved to Bird Road and SW 65th Ave. In July it received a lukewarm writeup from Burger Beast. Now Picnics is out of…
Sean Brasel is the chef/co-owner of Miami Beach’s sultry steakhouse known appropriately as Meat Market. The restaurant sits in the space formerly occupied by Jonathan Eismann’s Pacific Time [You know it’s now in the Design District, right? Yeah. Thought so.] and, seemingly, being there has provided some good juju in…
It took just over two months to get it together, but Waxy O’Connor’s Irish Pub is throwing a Grand Opening soiree this Thursday, November 19th, from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. The pub and eatery, located downtown on the Miami River, will feature an open bar for the first two…
Goat cheese fritters, fried green tomatoes, juicy burgers, fingerling french fries, grilled grouper sandwiches, buttermilk fried chicken, churrasco steaks, burritos, brownies, blondies, cupcakes… You scream, I scream, we all scream for this sort of stuff, even more so when ingredients are locally sourced, often organic, and prepared with a deft…
Luna Corner Pizza opened today at Biscayne Blvd. and 69th Street. The Neapolitan-style pies are made with multi-grain dough and San Marzano tomatoes, and are arguably the fastest pizzas ever: Each one takes less than five minutes to make and bake from scratch. Honestly.The venue is owned by the Amatruda…
If you’ve ever pulled up to a red light and seen a fresh-shrimp salesman standing on the sidewalk with a cooler and a posterboard sign then you might live in Miami.Give thanks we live in a region where seafood is so readily available that entrepreneurs can sell fresh-catch on corners…
No use rehashing all of Chef Tim Andriola’s background info, since Katel did a fine job of that in his blog post, so let’s just remind everyone that this popular guy is and has been co-owner of Timó in Sunny Isles Beach since its inception in 2003. He previously kept…
The Sugarcane Raw Bar and Grill is a new concept from the creators of Sushi Samba that will premiere during Art Basel 2009 in Midtown Miami and function in coercion with the Sushi Samba presented Graffiti Gone Global exhibition curated by street culture photo team James and Karla Murray.The restaurant…
Cape Cod Room (5937 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) at the Bath Club is Ken Lyon’s, the caterer and restaurateur, new northeast American seafood house specializing in what he calls comfortable, familiar food in a vintage room for a retro dining experience. Lyon says, “A lot of people in South Florida…
We all know someone who likes to play with his or her food, so why not give that epicurean enthusiast in your life a little fun this holiday season? Lots of new games are either already out on shelves or will be released in time for the holidays, so drop…
Oft labeled the “Godfather of Nuevo Latino,” bestselling author and Chef Douglas Rodriguez has also been heaped with praise by Newsweek and Zagat, among others. But folks ’round here mostly just know him as “That guy who takes the flavors of Latin America and whips them up into delicious food…
As Morrissey said, “Meat is Murder.” Tasty, tasty murder.And as we all now, in the beginning, after God warmed up by making man and woman, he set his sights on creating a truly perfect creature–the pig. For what part of the Great and Holy Pig is not tasty?Hoofs? Tasty. Tail?…
