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As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Here’s Part Two of our interview with celebrity chef Curtis Stone. You can read the first part ​of the interview here.Who was the most impressive celebrity or dignitary you’ve ever cooked for/worked with, or the one person who makes you the most nervous?In terms of cooking for other people, I think…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

A tidbit taken from next week’s Cafe review of AltaMare:If Giordano and new chef Simon Stojanovic make providing a seamlessly smooth dining experience appear easy, it’s because they have learned how to do so through hard work. The former finessed his skills while orchestrating Alta Mar over the past nine…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

​Maybe you’ve never eaten his food, but now that Curtis Stone has managed to hang on for seven Celebrity Apprentice episodes, much of America hungers for whatever he’s willing to cook up. This Aussie chef known as much for his talent as his spiked, blonde bed-head hair and mega-watt smile,…

One of the best chefs in the world, Daniel Boulud, is coming to Miami in mid-October with his db Bistro Moderne concept. This upscale French eatery will be located in the new JW Marriott Marquis Hotel, which is launching along the Miami River in the fall.The restaurant space is being…

Picnic Miami offers mediocre brunch all day

Mother’s Day is fast approaching and unless you’re planning on cooking up a storm for mom, we suggest you take her out to enjoy a nice meal. It’s on May 9 in case you’re drawing a blank. Here are our favorite options so far to celebrate this Mother’s Day. And…

​It all started with some kale salad at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Why I wanted a sample of the stuff when I had spent the last hour engorging on steak, Jelly Bellys, vodka samples, and brownies still remains a mystery. Perhaps my gluttony became blinding and my…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Another day, another benefit — don’t the people who run these things have day jobs? Right, I forgot, pestering people for money is their job. Be that as it may, Share Our Strength pesters as well as anyone, and its annual Great American Bake Sale takes place this Sunday, May…

Sometimes mediocre restaurants want to seem fancy. Maybe they add mood lighting or start selling trendy dishes like, say, anything that involves an acai berry. If you’re Burger King executives, you just add brunch to the menu. Then you mix sprite with orange juice and call it “a BK Mimosa.” And…

In New York City, Short Order visited Shake Shack on the Upper West Side to sample some of the burger joint’s famous food before it opens here this summer.We’ve been to Shake Shack many times; it’s our guilty pleasure in New York. Thankfully, the line wasn’t too bad last Friday…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

Can you smell what the rats are cooking, or do you just eat it without knowing? Here are five local restaurants nailed with emergency closures by the Florida DBPR. These verdicts halt a restaurant’s operations until violations are corrected. They include bad news for judges, cops, lawyers, and regular people. Here are…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

A nibble from next week’s Cafe review of Picnic:Deep fried Oreos, one of just two designated desserts, comprises the three iconic cookies coated in fluffily fried pancake batter and drizzled with chocolate syrup. Not bad if you like fried cookies. The other dessert, “jumbo cupcakes,” never seemed to be available,…

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…

STK Miami: Style over steak

As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…