Luna Corner Pizza is the first Miami outpost of an Italian pizzeria that opened in Crema in 1968. They use proprietary oven technology to bake out their pizzas at what is designed to be a grab and go wait-time. We got our two slices no faster than at any other…
El Scorpion Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar comes to Miami Beach
The revamped Forge restaurant finally debuts tonight. While the hype has been building all winter, the Forge faithful can finally experience chef Dewey LoSasso’s new menu, over 70 wines by the glass and Francois Frossard’s modern design scheme. Suffice it to say, this is not your parents’ (or grandparents’) Forge…
This is Part Two of our interview with Altamare pastry chef Crystal Cullison. You can read part one here.What’s your favorite dessert to make? My favorite thing to make is my favorite thing to eat is ice cream, it is, ice cream and sorbet and really all frozen desserts. I…
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…
For those not into clicks, beeps, and bass, Ultra Music Festival was a two-day electronic dance music festival that brought a sold-out crowd of 75,000 ticket holders a day to Bicenntenial Park’s festival grounds.From 3 p.m. to midnight the throngs of hungry, dayglowed, bikini’d, shirtless, tattooed, and sunglassed masses converged…
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.There are celebrity chefs (Hellooo, Emeril), then there are celebrity chefs.At the top of the list in that second category is Daniel Boulud, whose celebrity has never gotten…
If you haven’t heard of pastry chef Crystal Cullison, you might begin hearing more about her now. Her milk chocolate and salted caramel semifreddo and other desserts on the menu of the recently opened AltaMare are already gaining fans.Cullison, a 27-year-old Orlando native, got her start young at Emeril’s in…
The Alibi is a low-key eatery located inside watering hole Lost Weekend on Española Way in South Beach. There are pool and foosball tables as well as a lively crowd of locals. Don’t come here if you are trying to watch your figure. This place serves sandwiches, pizza, French fries, cupcakes, and…
A slight morsel from this week’s Cafe review of El Scorpion:Hearty appetites will be satisfied via the entree route, and at $17 to $20 the prices aren’t bad. Yet Scorpion works much better as taquería than restaurant. The nine tacos variations are each distinctively flavorful, the soft, thick, homemade tortilla…
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…
The weekend is finally here. It’s spring. The kids are out of school. It is definitely time to drink. And at the Kendall Ale House, you can not only imbibe, but also ingest. There’s an old rule for judging restaurants – if the parking lot is full, eat there. And…
Fontainebleau’s Blade Sushi restaurant will officially close this coming Monday, March 29th, to be replaced by a music driven lounge. I asked Fontainebleau Public Relations Manager Paula Gomez if it was anything I said in Blade’s review two weeks ago, but she insists that these plans had been in the…
Culinary personality Maggie Jimenez has oft been labeled the “Latin Rachel Ray,” not because her voice can hit dog-whistle range but because she shares a practical approach to cooking. As host of TeleFutura’s !Que Sabor!, the former fashion model turned self-taught cook creates Latin-inspired multi-course meals with the help of…
You met him at Food Gang (years before it closed), saw another side of him on Top Chef, and get messy with him every now and then at Bulldog BBQ on Biscayne Boulevard and NE 154th Street. But who is Howie “Bulldog” Kleinberg: fine dining doyen or rib wrangler? “I’m…
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…
The U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee approved legislation on Wednesday that would allow the Agriculture Department to create new standards for all foods in schools, including vending machines. This translates to a 6 cent reimbursement increase to the schools per student meal, less than half of what the Obama administration had…
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…
It might seem off-the-wall to say that Kendall’s Off the Grille is an upscale, healthful fast-food eatery in a traffic-choked shopping mall. After all, everything costs less than $10. But if you’ve eaten at OTG (as the regulars like to call it), it doesn’t sound that far-fetched. This sleek little…
While we first reported that The Forge was reopening on March 29, that date has been pushed back two days to Wednesday night. The legendary eatery is relaunching with little fanfare and without a mega gala. Owner Shareef Malnik is trying to retool his party-crazy hot spot into a serious…
The Morgans Restaurant in Wynwood offers homespun breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner in a quaint 1930s house
