Short of Rick Bayless opening up shop in Miami, Talavera enters the local restaurant scene to fill a much needed void, authentic Mexican cuisine. In the capable hands of Mexican-born Executive Chef/Owner (and Chile Master, as far as we’re concerned) Oscar Del Rivero, Owner Eduardo Durazo, and Partner Martin Moreno,…
Where, oh where did Dewey LoSasso go? After recently closing his beloved North One 10, some suspected that perhaps this “Mango Gang” co-founder tossed aside his skillets for a stint as a guitarist, but fans will be thrilled to know they will find behind the line as executive chef at…
What is Whopper Bar? A high-falutin’ fast food joint with an upscale interior, 22 topping choices for a Whopper-based menu, the fatter-patty casual dining upgrade burger, Whopperistas handling and building your order, a “visible toppings theater,” and a Burger King Studio merchandise kiosk. So far the only Whopper Bar in…
After facing success in London, Hong Kong, Istanbul and then Dubai, where does a contemporary Japanese restaurant go to continue on it’s golden culinary path? Why Miami, of course! At least that’s the way German chef Rainer Becker sees things, since he’s expected to bring the first American Zuma to…
Cheeseme, maybe the best place to get a cheese sandwich in the Western world, has closed on South Beach . The place served from a list of 9 breads, 11 types of meat, 11 veggies, 11 sauces and spreads, and 16 types of cheese. There were also soups, salads, and…
A sea butcher is the knife artist behind the filet of fish on your plate. In the case of the Oceanaire Seafood Room, the sea butcher is Ezequiel Canul, a.k.a. E-Z.He 9-to-5’s his way through the day in a freezing cold seafood walk-in where he breaks down all the seafood…
Balans has good food, cocktails, and ambiance but lacks character
Still not announcing any concrete plans to move into our neighborhood, Todd English continues to make us swoon from afar. Now that he’s got da Campo Osteria in Fort Lauderdale, Figs in Palm Beach Gardens, and Wild Olives coming to Boca in the old Opus 5 location (oooh–was I supposed…
Although he calls Miami his home, we don’t often hear much about what Chef Douglas Rodriguez is up to locally. Sure, he still owns and operates OLA in the Sanctuary Hotel (among other restaurants in Philadelphia and New York City,) but you probably saw him most recently on the boob…
The leader of the Urban Farming movement took lessons from his Miami and Florida sports careers that still help him today.Will Allen is the head of Milwaukee-based Growing Power Inc., an urban ag producer and educating organization focused on teaching poor communities techniques for creating self sustaining, and profitable, food…
Mary Brickell Village’s Blu Pizza e Cucina is closed “for renovation.” Yeah, we know what that typically means in restaurant speak.Calls to the restaurant’s listed phone number yielded a ‘temporarily out of service’ message. So we dialed Blu Restaurant Group’s offices, where office manager Maggie Nabut confirmed that the Brickell…
American mall food court fare leaves some — er, many — things to be desired. But venture across the border or overseas, and as cultures change, so does the fast food game, usually for the better.So when we first heard that young entrepreneurs and husband-wife pair Cesar Olivo and Adriana…
Looking for work? The National Restaurant Association estimates a record $566 billion in food and beverage sales for 2009 (more than $1.5 billion per day). The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, NY, will be holding an Admissions reception at Ocean Prime (Aventura Mall) on Sunday, November 8…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Eating at Balans is like buying clothes at The GAP. It’s like reading a novel by John Grisham. It’s like being a Blue Dog Democrat. In a word: Meh.Balans 901 S. Miami Ave. 305-534-9191…
Grateful Bread and Moises Bakery: One serves hearty fare, the other tasty empanadas
The Party Monkey rides again.Saturday kicks off the Taste of MiMo season. Get ready for monthly street parties featuring bottom dollar deals on food and drink along Biscayne Boulevard in Miami’s Upper Eastside from 50th to 78th streets.This Saturday’s MiMoWeen edition has a daytime schedule dedicated to family activities like…
City of Miami cops want you to think they’re clean. Clean arrests. Clean records. Clean city. But if you believe the State of Florida, the place where they eat is dirty, dirty, dirty. This past June, state inspectors cited a tiny café in police headquarters on NW Second Avenue with…
Michael Carter, Dole’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel said of a Miami judge’s ruling that Dole won’t have to pay Nica farmworkers $97 million, “The Court’s ruling indicates that corruption and a total lack of due process is the norm for the Nicaragua judicial system.” [RTTnews]CSI Miami’s “Bad Seed”…
Top Chef 7 is officially on its way to your signal box, and Magical Elves, the production company behind the hit Bravo series, was in Miami on Sunday looking for talent. Prospective contestants turned up for a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. casting call at Club 50 in Brickell’s Viceroy…
Barton G, ringmaster, restaurateur, attention getter, giraffer? Yes. He said he would do it and he produced. What hundreds of pound of free food, hundreds of bottles of free drinks, a concert stage with a great opening band and the Pointer Sisters headlining cannot do, a giraffe on Biscayne Boulevard…
First, the answer: The sancocho pictured above and in last weeks’ Where It At? is taken from the specials menu at Grateful Bread.And now, the abbreviated sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week:Our strongest recommendation from Grateful Bread’s regular menu is chicken Veracuzano, the tender breast…
Despite the fire that ravaged Barton G’s warehouse on Monday night with millions in props and other non-food-related damages, Barton G. Weiss, the seasoned showman that he is, addressed an impressive crowd of media and industry VIPs Wednesday night in a pre-launch event for his new Adrienne Arsht Center restaurant,…
