Blueprint Cleanse: A Foodie Goes on the Juice(s)

​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…

Share Our Sugar Holds Great American Bake Sale

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…

Countdown to Shake Shack on South Beach

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…

Sneak Review: Picnic Miami

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,…

Behind the Line: SAWA at the Village of Merrick Park

SAWA at The Village of Merrick Park in Coral Gables is a restaurant, lounge, and hookah bar in a vast, open-air shopping and entertainment complex off LeJeune and US1. The mall is an impressive testament to what a whole lot of hard hats and money can do. Never been? Drive…

Chow Down Grill’s Chef Talks Ingredients

You might have heard about new Surfside restaurant Chow Down Grill on Eater, Power Rankings, or even the restaurant’s construction blog on Facebook, but here’s what former China Grill executive sous chef and BLT Steak alum Joshua Marcus hasn’t told anybody:”I will be opening Chow Down Grill sometime in mid-May. It…

Food & Garden Festival at Fairchild This Weekend

It’s only Monday, so you might not be thinking about the weekend yet, but we thought you could use some help planning ahead. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will host a series of cooking demos, lectures, and panels about local food at its Food & Garden Festival this weekend.Festival organizers tell Short…

Christopher Cramer Interview, Part Two

Here’s Part 2 of our interview with Panorama at Sonesta Bayfront Hotel’s chef Christopher Cramer. You can read the first part of the interview here.New Times: You have a repeat award winner on the menu.Christopher Cramer: We’ve done well in Taste of the Grove. Won the Best Taste Award for…

Christopher Cramer of Panorama: Interview, Part One

​This chef has been trying to fly under the radar, but we’re outing him. Christopher Cramer, a Providence Johnson & Wales grad who has worked for numerous hotels around the country, has been the top toque at Panorama, Sonesta Bayfront’s only restaurant, for six years. “I spent five years working…