Overlooked in the brouhaha over the Ground Zero Islamic Center is the cooking school to be located within the building. Although the place is still years from completion, Short Order has obtained preliminary descriptions of five courses to be included in the curriculum.1. Burqa in the Kitchen: How to Make…
Chef/owner of Chow Down Grill Joshua Marcus doesn’t stock chopsticks. No way. No how. Why? It makes sense to him, but not to many others. At one time, it caused a bit of a stir on his Facebook and Twitter pages. We wanted to know what he had to say about the…
Pawel Kryj/stock.changCoffee, wine, chocolate, cheese…now, here come the olive oil tastings. You may have noticed these popping up, and I don’t mean someone handing out swigs from a pill cup at a food festival. These are sit down events, where one takes notes, and compares the fruitiness, nuttiness, or “grassiness”…
There’s no doubt that Miami loves some Ricky Ross, AKA the Boss, the Teflon Don, the King of the Carol City Cartel. Yet deep down, we were all still a bit mortified when we found out that Mr. William Leonard Roberts II once served as a correctional officer at a…
Cobaya touts itself as an underground dinner club for local foodies eager to open their wallets and pallets to food experimentation by South Florida chefs.; Hence its name: Cobaya/Gourmet Guinea Pigs.The concept is not new. Call it a transient dinner, renegade party, occasional supper club or gourmet dinner club, it exists…
We get that there are a lot of Justin Bieber haters out there. He’s so young. He’s so smooth. And look at all those women of all ages fawning at him. But just look at that face. How could you not smile when someone like Justin Bieber smiles back at…
Will Castro and Unique Autosports are both brands in themselves. Unique, once based in New York and now Miami, encompasses a car customization business as well as cable TV titles for the Speed Network and Spike TV. Boasting celebrity clients like Diddy, the cast of the Jersey Shore, 50 Cent,…
Every ho’s gotta have a hero. Even Miami’s current reigning queen of ass, Kat Stacks, looks up to someone. (Catch Kat at Dream tonight.) And if you’ve been monitoring her Twitter feed lately — but really why would you, unless you want your brain to melt? — perhaps you’ve noticed…
Yes!!! Taylor Swift just unveiled the official track list for her long awaited third album entitled Speak Now! As many of us “Swiftians” know, her last album Fearless was released two years ago and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. We’re pretty sure that her new album will do just…
Twitter is a meeting place for consumers and professionals alike to share thoughts and information in less than 140 characters; all it takes is an idea and its delivery. Chefs are taking up Twitter full force across the nation and Miami is no exception. After all, the restaurant business is…
LIV’s signature sky boxes are mimicked at its Sun Life Stadium outpost. Last month, Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee announced a partnership between Sun Life Stadium and Miami Marketing Group to bring the South Beach nightlife experience to Dolphins home games. Well, this diabolical concept has a name — LIV…
Crossfade — and every other publication in the universe — was denied reviewer access to last night’s Drake show. Our blogger, Esther, took it pretty hard. So, alongside Crossfade’s exclusive pics, read her lovelorn open letter. (Then go check out the full Drake slideshow.) Dear Aubrey, Where do I begin?…
Sushi SiamThe overpopulation of sushi restaurants in Brickell has reached epidemic proportions. From Abokado to Zuma, Japanese cuisine is invading downtown like white on rice. Whether standing on their own or housed in the lobbies of hotels and condominiums, one has to wonder if the citizens are crying out for…
As its name would indicate, Germany’s Love Parade was established as a yearly demonstration for love, peace, and solidarity between all peoples preceding the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989. It was also a hell of an electronic dance music festival, with the world’s most famous DJs performing atop…
This post has nothing to do with food, but it might give you something to chew on:As we all know by now, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf has offered to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in the proximity of Ground Zero, a purportedly generous gesture to help build trust…
Coconut Grove has been a fickle neighborhood for many restaurants. While some owners open in hope of becoming the next GreenStreet Cafe, others close in a matter of months. What might be hindering the prosperity of establishments in the Grove is the unfriendly parking situation. If Coconut Grove, like the…
Ask a DJ, and it would appear that a lot of club patrons seem to confuse them for human jukeboxes which they think they can crowd around, prop their drinks on, lean back on, and prompt for every crappy song that tickles their drunken fancy. Granted, some contexts and scenarios…
There’s nothing worst than sitting down to a meal at an established restaurant and finding out that your favorite dish is no longer on the menu. Generally, restaurants slash items that aren’t selling well, are out of season or are just too costly. However, Short Order is baffled by the…
The sordid tale of the McDonald’s McRib sandwich is little known, little discussed. This tasty nugget is simultaneously the laughing stock of the fast food world (and that’s saying something — remember the Mc-Lobster Roll?) and a product that inspires cult-like devotion. It has been referenced all over pop culture…
This past weekend, a friend invited me to watch Eat, Pray, Love, the movie based on Elizabeth Gilbert’s book chronicling her self-discovery after a divorce. Said quest for self-awareness was achieved by traveling to Italy to carb-load (eat), India to live at an ashram (pray) and Bali where she meets…
What do you get when you cross ropa vieja and sex toys? You get this sign on Biscayne Boulevard at 115th Street next to Three Palms Cuban Cafe. The friendly, airy joint is next door to a sex toy shop. To Short Order, this just might be the perfect combo…
A salary survey of 1,400 culinary professionals by StarChefs.com shows that Miami and New York executive chefs were paid more in 2009 than their counterparts in other U.S. cities. The average salary for an executive chef here was reported at $101,400 — not far from New York’s $101,500 and about…
