A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Prices are as inviting as a Brazilian bikini. A bowl of black bean stew is $3; soup du jour, onion rings and croquettes are $5 to $6; and the rest of the appetizers mostly range from $8…
Guess what? Dade County does promote the arts, and if you’re a student, you can find out for yourself through our County’s amazing Culture Shock program.All you have to do is be a student aged 13 to 22. You can purchase up to two tickets and the person you go…
If you’ve never heard of Sodexo or Aramark they are both super-corp food service providers with major college and university cafeteria contracts. They are also big time purchasers of Florida tomatoes.They do not have an agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to protect farm laborers from inhumane treatment, sub…
I reported yesterday that Area 31 was named as one of Esquire Magazine’s Top 20 New Restaurants of 2009. Michelle Bernstein’s Sra. Martinez also made the list. On the one hand, I apologize for missing that. On the other hand, the woman gets more than enough press. One more acknowledgement:…
Area 31, in the Epic Hotel downtown, has been named as one of the Best New Restaurants of 2009 in the November issue of Esquire magazine. When food and travel critic John Mariani dined at Area 31 this summer, he asked executive chef John Critchley to send out his favorite…
The old-world opulence of Palme d’Or seems especially anachronistic in the patently lax 21st Century. The 70-seat space, a restored homage to the original 1926 Biltmore Hotel restaurant, is a bygone world of ceiling frescoes, crystal chandeliers, intricately carved woods, black-and-white photos of vintage movie stars, and an almost fun-house…
Fall is here, supposedly. In Miami we’ve still got 90-degree days, and a monster electric bill.But at least pumpkins are here again because despite what the weather would have you believe it is in fact “that time of year.”Here are some alleged pumpkin health benefits that’ll have you going for…
Shock is sweeping the food world this morning along with the news that the November issue of Gourmet Magazine will be its last. It has been rumored for some time that Condé Nast was suffering a decline in ad pages and would be shutting down one of its food titles…
The Bath Club on Miami Beach (59th St. and Collins Ave.) has long been a private, membership-only establishment with its’ own intimate, members-only restaurant. But starting Sunday, November 1st, the fully restored 1920s Mediterranean-style clubhouse restaurant will be open to the public. It will be known as The Cape Cod…
Cooked milk, get your cooked milk.Whole Foods Market has officially dropped raw milk from its shelves in Florida.Raw Milk is milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. Pasteurization is a heating process meant to kill bacteria, and homogenization is the process of making the milk one consistency throughout. The…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Beef “effilochée” was effing delicious. The cylindrical castle of shredded shank meat gets braised for seven hours and crowned with organic micro sprouts sprayed with truffle vinaigrette. Surrounding the meat are concentric moats of red wine reduction…
Roaches!On September 8, 2009 a Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulations routine food inspection saw them running around the kitchen of Ola at Sanctuary (1745 James Ave., Miami Beach). Click here for the report.The disposition of the report was “Emergency Order Recommended: Conditions have been found that endanger the…
We noticed that Cacao Restaurant in Coral Gables had been closed for the month of September — never a good sign. But as the message on the restaurant’s answering machine optimistically declared that it would reopen October 1st, we figured we’d wait before worrying. Today is October 1st and no…
Welcome to October, y’all. New fall menu items are rolling out today at Michelle Bernstein’s South Florida restaurants. Suckers that we are for nostalgia, it was time to relish some last bites of summer at Sra. Martinez last night, including the curtain call for her Miami Spice menu. Favorites included…
Less is more is a sound gastronomic principle, and certainly one the dining public has been eager to embrace. Sane portions, light sauces, bright flavors? Of course. Food from the Mediterranean, where the less-is-more crowd prefers to weigh anchor, likewise enjoys near-universal appeal — especially in Cuisine of the Sun-conscious…
Cindy Hutson started her professional cooking career in 1994 when she and her partner Delius Shirley opened Norma’s On The Beach. They named the place after his mother, Norma Shirley, a famous chef who Food & Wine once called the “Julia Child of the Caribbean.”Cindy says “Our first restaurant, Norma’s,…
They call it food with integrity. We knocked em’ for not having it when they were buying what could have been slave tomatoes.But Chipotle recently struck a deal with Florida company East Coast Growers and Packers to pay fair wages and ensure humane labor practices for Sunshine State tomato workers…
It was the breast of times, but not the wurst of times, because Pollo Tropical has got chicken on lock, but they’re not slanging sausage.Cash in your gut check with Pollo Tropical’s new Tropical Trios, any combination of 3 wings, a quarter rack of ribs, a quarter grilled chicken, or…
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, in partnership with Johnson & Wales University, is presenting the second season of its’ Celebrity Chef Series for the 2009-2010 season. Over the coming months, three such chef shows will be held on the John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall…
Last Monday, South Florida’s Chefs Club, a network of culinary professionals who meet regularly to eat, talk shop, and crack jokes, got together over a tailgate style feast at the bar of BLT Steak Miami during the Dolphin’s opener against the Colts.Executive Chef Sam Gorenstein says of hosting Chefs Club,…
Karen Pruett is a Redlands based Organic Herbs-N-More farmer, grower, and facilitator. She says “I teach squarefoot, or container, gardening. It allows people to grow on a balcony if they’re in a condo or apartment, whatever it is they like to eat. I also do lectures and demonstrations on growing…
What began in 1996 as an annual one-day food and wine “extravaganza” hosted at Florida International University’s Biscayne Bay Campus has morphed into a four-day culinary power summit on the sands of sexy South Beach. The man behind the South Beach Wine and Food Festival is founder and director Lee…
