Bill Wisser snaps the photos for Miami New Times restaurant reviews. He’s an accomplished photographer with impressive resume — if you haven’t checked out his slide shows on our site, you should. So this side-by-side look of my photo of the Peking duck with lotus root at Chu’s Taiwan Kitchen…
Okay, it wasn’t until my colleague Esther Park’s blog about Ms. Kat Stacks arrest and possible deportation that I learned hip-hop’s most hated bitch is Venezuelan. Needless to say, I was disappointed. Not only is the country presided over by one of history’s dumbest assholes, but now this “thing” continues…
Journalist, author, and historian Mark Kurlansky’s most well-known books are the international best-sellers Salt, Cod (which won a James Beard award), 1968, The Food of a Younger Land, and A Basque History of the World. His latest book, Edible Stories, is his third work of fiction. It features a recurring…
The awards are over. My hotel room is trashed. There’s debris everywhere — cigarette butts and cigar nubsand shards of glass from countless broken bottles. There’s a strange mustard mural painted — now dried — on the mirror, and I’m wearing a dinosaur tail with suspenders. And there’s something in the ashtray…
We’re not really sure what inspires reality TV cast members to think that a little airtime means they’re qualified to belt it out for the masses. But we don’t like it. They usually have no training, no stage presence and — what’s worse — no talent.Rumors began to spread this…
Ahh, our favorite hip-hop ho Kat Stacks has laid claim to some of the biggest hip-hop scandals since her predecessor, Karrine Steffans (AKA Superhead) aired her dirty laundry in a tell-all book entitled Confessions of a Video Vixen in 2005, published by none other than Harpers Collins. High class, baby!…
The Latin Grammy awards are upon us once again. It’s a night when the hottest stars in the Hispanic entertainment cosmos gather together in one spot. And this year, that spot is … Where else? Sin City. They couldn’t have picked a better locale. Last year’s show in La La…
Did you know that last Wednesday was National Sandwich Day? I did, but didn’t tell anyone.This week is National Pasta Week. No, wait — I think that might have been last week. This month is definitely National Sticky Peanut Butter Month. And possibly Boysenberry Jam Month too.So the question is:…
There were rumors that father-son chef duo Norman and Justin Van Aken had been fired from Norman’s 180 a couple weeks ago. So we decided to stalk em. Or at least their Twitter.Yes, this is indeed sick and disturbing behavior, but someone had to put the rumors to bed. Norman…
Still shaken by the brutality and disappointment of election day, America now looks forward to only one thing … Lil Wayne’s release from Riker’s Island! The time has come, Young Moneyians. Within hours, Weezy (AKA Dwayne Michael Carter) will be a free man, escaping the chains of the state prison…
Entourage hottie Adrian Grenier is putting his celebrity to good use. He, Oceana, GQ’s Gentlemen Fund, and Nautica have joined forces to fight extermination of the bluefin tuna in the Atlantic. The population of these huge creatures has been reduced by nearly 82 percent as a result of overfishing…
Dance remakes of pop hits are the bane of civilization. It’s bad enough that we have to put up with an endless supply of shitty Top 40 originals, mashups, and remixed remixes by the likes of David Guetta and the Black Eyed Peas. But do we also have to endure…
Chicken egg rolls at Chow Down Grill: $5Banh mi buns at Sakaya Kitchen: $5.99Roasted pork buns at Gigi: $7Fried cheeseburger dumplings at upcoming American Noodle Bar: $5Singapore shrimp & pork curry noodles at Wok Town: $10.95Pad Thai at 2B Asian Bistro: $13.95Beef drunken noodles at Mr. Yum: $13.95A feast composed of…
Social media brings customers. One of businesses using it very successfully is the Mandarin Oriental, home of Azul, Cafe Sambal and M Bar. Here’s a quick recap of how they use it:1. Twitter 1,703 Followers, 721 Following – constant interaction with individuals conversing about the brand and #FollowFridays to recognizing…
When you’ve conquered the world of music, vodka, nightlife, fashion, and then been named as the heir apparent to the Forbes 400 (i.e. you’ve got more than $1 billion to your name), we can only ask, “What’s next? The Oval Office? A one-man mission to the moon? Time travel?” Well,…
If the Dim Ssam A Go Go truck were to get into a collision with a Dairy Queen truck, and frozen vanilla custard landed atop a banh mi sandwich, how soon would it be before the resultant treat ended up on the menu of a molecular gastronomist?…
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…
