A little rendered fat from next week’s meaty Cafe review:”We were mighty impressed by duck-and-pumpkin dumplings, four delicate rounds of melt-in-your-mouth pasta (really more like ravioli), the main ingredient brightened with orange, crushed almonds, and browned butter accented with soy. Similarly round, ravioli-like beef cheek-and-black truffle dumplings, with shiitake mushrooms…
T.H.R.I.V.E. is the name of this little vegan/raw food/juice bar at 1239 Alton Road on South Beach, but you won’t see any indication of it existing if you walk by. Even knowing the address won’t help, and if I tell you that it is within the Garden Center, you will…
The new 1500 Degrees, unveiled in October as the final piece in the Eden Roc Renaissance’s $220 million renovation, dubs its menu “farm-to-table eating, with a heavy steakhouse sensibility.” That’s as good a self-description as you’ll get from a restaurant. Executive chef Paula DaSilva spent a decade as Dean James…
Get your bike ready and head out to Brickell Metrorail station (1001 SW First Avenue) on January 8 for a food truck crawl. This month’s Critical Mass, organized by Emerge Miami, will take bikers for a taste of five local food trucks. Departing at 10 a.m., bikers will stop at…
Dude. Tuesdays at the Biscayne Triangle Truck Round-up are fuckin’ awesome. Lots of trucks. Lots of people. Lots of all different types of food. People brought their dogs. People brought their bikes. The on-duty cops hung out by the doughnut truck all night. It was a cool, beautiful Miami night…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Food trucks, food trucks, food trucks. You may be tired of hearing about them, fatigued from keeping up with their every move and still trying to figure out…
In this city of cookie-cutter architecture and assembly line cosmetic enhancements, “classic” is usually dismissed as “old.” S&S Diner, appropriately situated inside Allen’s Drug Store in South Miami, is an apple-pie-sweet respite from an otherwise cold, harsh reality…at least for those of us who still consider the word “old” to…
The Picnic is over. The restaurant on 20th Street in the Sunset Harbor neighborhood of South Beach might have been able to overcome its questionable concept (Brunch…It’s what’s for dinner!), and even its weird menu (fried bologna sandwiches, mac & cheese spring rolls with gouda sauce, etc.), had it been…
Well, it’s the last day of the year and it’s safe to say Miami saw some great additions to its restaurant scene, including a few notable ones in the last month of 2010. Following are notable openings and closings in December (or before and not included in our November restaurant…
A small slice taken from next weeks meaty Cafe review of 1500 Degrees at Eden Roc.Executive chef Paula DaSilva spent a decade as Dean James Max’ chef de cuisine at Ft. Lauderdale’s 3030 Ocean, and, even a greater testament to her endurance skills, toiled for weeks under Gordon Ramsay on…
Vino & Olio is expansive in ambition, extravagant in design, and expensive in price; that’s not what the times demand. Most of the 5,600-square-foot Design District restaurant is elegantly dressed in curvy blond woods, and a large window into the kitchen offers a compelling view of gastronomic proceedings. But the…
It is always a dandy surprise when you find the something great in unexpected surroundings. Discovering primo vintage duds at a flea market is an example. Well, such is the case with the Liberty gas station on SW 22nd Avenue and Coral Way. Like any other station, you can pull…
Today marks the grand opening of Cha Cha Rooster at Lords South Beach at Nash. Now there’s a mouthful, huh?Speaking of full mouths, Cha Cha invited us to preview their menu so we took a few pics for ya last week.Adora greeted guests at the bar and helped them get…
Kingdom, the friendly open air bar/eatery on Biscayne Boulevard is closed. The place, which offered 20 kinds of beer and normal sports bar type chow, was a favorite on Main Street Miami. You could watch both high rollers and bums commiserate about everything from Dolphins losses to the high price…
I visited Harrison’s Sports Grill in search of something specific–namely, the BBQ brisket that I had heard so much about. I was even willing to forgo the brisket for any other barbecued meat they had on hand, but alas, there was none. Indeed, Harrison’s food was somewhat of a disappointment…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.Good news: Jimmy’z Kitchen is crossing over from South Beach to Wynwood at 2700 N Miami Ave, Miami (ground floor of the Cynergi building). The second location of…
Read the first part of this interview with Icebox Café’s owner Robert Siegmann and chef Andrea Landini here. C’mon–surely you have time. We know you aren’t really working today, anyhow.So how did Icebox Café at MIA come about?I always felt, as a traveler and a foodie, that good food at…
Let’s take time this week to laugh at all those Northerners shivering and bemoaning the excessive dirty white stuff requiring them to wear ugly boots, down-filled clothing, and hats that either make them look like bank robbers or members of the Russian military. Down here, while we saunter around in…
Annually, Art Basel inadvertently gives birth to new restaurants in the city. Just as Hollywood lines up blockbuster debuts at the onset of Oscar season, opening dates for dining venues are moved up (or pushed back) to coincide with the start of the nation’s largest art fair. One of this…
One of the bloggers here at Short Order recently wrote to Santa about the quality of service in Miami restaurants — noting that we don’t have any and we would really like some. Unfortunately, this is true across the board, whether you pick up a fork at a Sobe hotspot…
Israel “Izzy” Valdes is a single dad whose kids “could never decide where they wanted to eat. It was always either Chinese food, or McDonald’s, or stuff like that. So I thought ‘If they can’t decide, how many other people really can’t decide where to go?” So Izzy got busy…
Sustain Restaurant & Bar opened to the public this past Saturday. I was invited to Friday’s social media preview (complimentary) dinner.The space is airy and open. Most eye catching is a massive wooden rib cage structure hanging along one wall, which managing partner Jonathan Lazar told us is made of…
