The time has come: Miami is finally a fine-food town. The signs are everywhere. The 305 is home to coffee roasters, supper clubs, a ramen house, and a northern Thai restaurant. Sourdough bread is a thing. The word “local” is sprinkled on menus like pepper on steak. The city’s beverage…
Bocce Bar, the much-anticipated Italian concept from Samba Brands Management, opened this past Friday, and Short Order was invited for a taste. The restaurant d�cor, in the former Sustain space in midtown, captures Italy’s duality of clean, modern drama and classic, rustic style. A giant lit Bocce Bar sign welcomes…
Celebrity chef Ralph Pagano has just announced he’ll open a restaurant in South Beach. Pagano is also chef/owner of Alba Seaside Italian at the Sole on the Ocean resort in Sunny Isles Beach. The restaurant will open at the Dream South Beach Hotel, replacing Serafina, which will close shortly after…
At P�rez Art Museum Miami’s Verde Restaurant and Bar, the menu is all about keeping it green. The Stephen Starr restaurant upholds the museum’s organic and sustainable motif. Short Order was recently invited to sample executive chef Nicolay Adinaguev’s eco-friendly offerings. Check out the pictures after the jump. See also:…
What do you get when you cross a celebrity-chef-driven restaurant with a Miami-style nightlife joint? The answer: Michael Mina 74 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. Located in the space once home to Arkadia below LIV, Michael Mina 74 opened quietly two weeks ago. Short Order was recently invited to sniff…
It’s Saturday. Whatcha got planned? Why not visit the coolest new reinvention of one of Dade’s classiest institutions, Epicure Gourmet Market? The new place, on Le Jeune Road in the Gables, is enormous, with 24,000 square feet of retail space and 240 seats in the caf�. It will have much…
Michael Mina’s new restaurant, Michael Mina 74 at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, opened in time for the crush of people flocking to Art Basel. The new restaurant, bar, ultra-lounge is a departure from his classic and reserved Bourbon Steak at Turnberry Isle Resort & Club. But, as the chef and…
Scott Conant has a lot of celebrating to do. The celebrity chef has just released The Scarpetta Cookbook ($22.71 on Amazon.com), which features 125 recipes from his award-winning Italian restaurant. Scarpetta’s Miami outpost is also celebrating its fifth anniversary with a series of special dinners prepared by chef de cuisine…
The fried chicken at Pack Super Market in Little Haiti isn’t something you’d find easily on the island. Kernizan Philias, who with his family opened the bare-bones market and counter-only eatery on NW 2nd Avenue 16 years ago, said the recipe is based on griot — fried chunks of pork…
At Lippi, you should really eat your vegetables. The handsome Brickell restaurant, perched amid shimmering Christmas trees, offers a Mediterranean-inspired menu that features $75 Dover sole and $30-per-ounce Kobe beef. But perhaps more interesting, it also proffers roasted baby carrots and turnips flecked with coarse sea salt that share a…
Sizzling pig’s face — that would be the best way to describe the Filipino dish called sizzling sisig. It’s a sour, pungent recipe, one that employs minced hog’s ears, snout, tongue, and brains. At Lutong Pinoy in North Miami Beach, you can try it with just ears and snout. The…
Last week’s inaugural Grove Green Market, which pops up every Thursday from 2 to 8 p.m. in the Coconut Grove Playhouse parking lot, attracted an eclectic group of local vendors and farmers offering everything from homemade ice cream from Roc Kat to Hani Khouri’s fresh goat cheese. See also: Grove…
It takes a lot for a salad to excite us. Perhaps it’s because they rarely feature delicious Brazilian sausage. Among the Colombian hot-dog places and Argentine steak houses in North Beach stands Little Brazil. The Collins Avenue restaurant offers the Salada Little Brazil ($14.95), a dish with bits of lingui�a…
Chef Carla Pellegrino has just announced the February opening of Touche Rooftop Restaurant and Lounge, atop the E11even Miami, a mega-nightclub that’s being billed as both a nightclub and cabaret. See also: E11even Miami Owner Dennis DeGori: “There Will Be Topless and Nude Entertainment”…
They say that behind every great man stands a great woman, and such is the case with NBA star LeBron James and his wife, Savannah James. Mrs. James recently opened the Juice Spot, a cold-pressed juice bar in Brickell that specializes in nutrient-dense juices, smoothies, and light bites. If opening…
At Lippi, you should really eat your vegetables. The handsome Brickell restaurant, perched amid shimmering Christmas trees, offers a Mediterranean-inspired menu that features $75 Dover sole and $30-per-ounce Kobe beef. But perhaps more interesting, it also proffers roasted baby carrots and turnips flecked with coarse sea salt that share a…
La Gamba opened quietly a week ago in Coconut Grove. It serves Spanish tapas and entr�es. While we were dining, owner Maria Elena Otero Calvo introduced herself and made a refreshing request. “We’ve only been open a week,” she confided. “Please let us know if you have any suggestions.” She…
Last Friday at 10:30 a.m., dozens of people were already lined up outside Bobby’s Burger Palace in Dadeland Mall’s new wing in anticipation of being one of the first to experience the celebrity chef’s burgers, fries, and shakes. Flay was inside his new restaurant to host a media preview of…
Carne asada is for amateurs. For more adventurous beef tacos, head to El Jacalito Taqueria Mexicana in West Flagler. This taqueria offers affordable eats — tacos cost only $6 for three. There are more than 12 kinds of tacos, including varieties such as mushroom and pork stomach. So let the…
It’s not always easy to be meat-free in Miami. Heck, half the city’s bread is infused with lard. But thanks to a progressive mayor and a dedicated volunteer, vegetarianism just got a major boost with the City of South Miami’s Meatless Monday resolution. In official language, it’s “in support of…
The only thing better than a beachside brunch during Basel is a nighttime beachside brunch during Basel. Who doesn’t want eggs benedict for dinner? This weekend, the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton will host a Day and Night brunch party, an event originally made famous in the Hamptons. The…
Short of hopping a plane to Naples — Italy, that is, not Florida’s sleepy west-coast town — it’s not always easy to find authentic Neapolitan pizza. But at the new Coral Gables eatery Pummarola, they’re all about Italian tradition. The lunch-and-dinner outpost opens today at 141 Aragon Ave., and its…
