Bollywood Nights at India Palate Last Thurs of The Month

Suck an egg daily metro!This week’s Miami Herald food & wine calendar presents factual errors regarding Bollywood Nights at Indian Palate.Bollywood Nights at Indian Palate goes down Thursday, October 29 at 2120 Salzedo Street in Coral Gables; not tonight, as the Herald reports.That’s according to Chef/Owner Jay Mariadoss who said,…

Fresh Diet Inc. Deliver Gourmet Meal Plans For Healthy Lifestyles

Web enabled eating is here and a Miami upstart is taking the industry by storm.Fresh Diet Inc. is a gourmet meal delivery company founded on the fair shores of the 305 by a dude named Zalmi Duchman. The company currently operates kitchens and deliveries in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,…

Interview With David Sax, Author of Save The Deli

David Sax has been called “The M.F.K. Fisher of pickled meats” (A.J. Jacobs), and his just-published book, Save The Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was referred to as “a voluptuous mitzvah for schmaltzophiles” (Jane and Michael Stern, authors…

Dole Won’t Pay Nicaraguan Banana Workers $97 Million

A federal judge in Miami ruled that $97 million ordered paid by Dole Food Inc. to 150 Nicaraguan workers who claim to have suffered sterility and other injuries due to pesticide cannot be upheld in the U.S.The injuries allegedly stem from use of dibromochloropropane (DBCP) pesticide on Dole banana farms…

South Beach Wine & Food Fest Preview

Tickets for the 2010 Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival go on sale this coming Monday, October 26. The festival is scheduled for February 25 to 28, and unlike past years there will not be a second block of tickets sold in early 2010. So Monday is, like,…

Miami-Dade’s Ribfest 2009 Lineup Announced

Grill smoke carries barbecue flavors through the air as beer, sauce and music flow freely.Ribfest is coming November 7 and 8 to Homestead Air Reserve Park (Moody Drive and SW 122 Avenue).Local ribbers Huckleberry Hillbilly and Smoke & Spice battle out-of-state touring barbecue teams like Big Boned BBQ in the…

Surprise! New Favorite Takeout Salad Resides at Wok Town

Forget everything you expect from and dislike about Chinese takeout. If you’re having trouble, let us shed some light…  Greasy, saucy, gloopy, wilted, and one-note flavor. Now imagine a menu with light options like crisp salads, low oil stir fries, noodle soups, finger-licking edamame tossed in a creative selection of…

Lime Fresh Interview with CEO John Kunkel RE: Aggressive Expansion

Lime Fresh Mexican Grill is a homegrown success story built on burritos, beer, and an “upscale interior,” that has delivered double-digit rising profits every year since opening their South Beach flagship five years ago.Recently they hired a former Starbucks executive as their new VP of Development, and their current media…

Talavera Mex Opens Today

The team behind Jaguar Ceviche in Coconut Grove premieres its new Talavera Cocina Mexicana in Coral Gables today (2299 Ponce de Leon, on the corner of Giralda). Open for lunch and dinner, Talavera promises to serve traditional Mexican food “with a contemporary twist”. Menu items, which all fall below $18,…

Anthony’s Pizza Opens in Miami Lakes

Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza opens its Miami Lakes location today, making it the fourth in Miami-Dade County and the 20th nationally. ACFP uses authentic 800-degree, coal-burning ovens to create “well done pizzas.” The new restaurant is located at 15492 NW 77th Court in Royal Oaks Plaza (off the Palmetto Expressway…

More of Iron Fork 2009 in Pictures, People and Restaurants

Another year, another Iron Fork. Were you there, did you have fun, what would you like to see there next time that would make it better. We think there should have been more water. Rum and Presidente are not always the answer.Here are some pictures representing for the restaurants that…

Michelle Bernstein News of the Day

Yesterday we wrote of Food & Wine magazine naming her cookbook Cuisine a Latina as one of the top 25 of the year. Earlier in the week we noted that her Sra. Martinez restaurant made Esquire’s list of 20 Best New Restaurants in America. Today’s Michelle news concerns an upcoming…

Sneak Review: Casale Pizzeria

A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week.Although this is a “pizzeria/mozzarella bar,” there’s plenty more going on gastronomically. In fact, it is the plethora of fresh vegetable offerings that set Casale apart from so many other places. The menu mentions some 45 meatless items,…

Botequim Carioca brings gutsy, affordable Brazilian fare to downtown Miami

“It is Brazil’s time,” an exuberant President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva exclaimed when his country won the bid to host the 2016 Olympics. A rowdy crowd at Botequim Carioca Brazilian Bar & Grill agreed, hoisting caipirinhas and cold drafts while celebrating news of Latin America’s first Summer Games. Botequim…

Behind the Line at Waxy’s On the River

Waxy’s On the River (690 SW First Court, Miami) is a Key West-styled Irish pub that specializes in fish. They shoot for a neighborhood joint feeling and are proud to showcase buzzworthy local acts like ArtOfficial, and Locos Por Juana, through their midweek live music bookings.The restaurant is located on…

Attention Miami: Iron Fork Tickets are Sold Out

Miami New Times’ culinary super event is officially sold out. You should not have slow danced on these tickets folks cause now they’re gone, gone, gone.Best of luck sneaking in; we’re guessing it’s not that difficult. Maybe you could get a job slinging drinks.See ya next year…

Free Hunter’s Moon and Stargazer Party at Fruit & Spice Park

The Hunter’s Moon is a full moon. They call it that because the light it provides makes it easier to kill food. According to Wikipedia, as viewed from the northern hemisphere, the Hunter’s Moon rises in such a way that there’s no significant dark time between sunset and moonrise, thus…

Behind the Line at TIMO in Sunny Isles, Kitchen Pictures

TIMO (17624 Collins Ave.) in Sunny Isles is the product of the teamwork of a top chef, experienced GM, and a staff committed to going above and beyond.Chef Tim Andriola started working kitchens as a kid in Lee, New Hampshire at his family’s restaurant, the Gateway. In South Florida he…