The Cost of New Asian Dining

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…

Mandarin Oriental: Social Media Monster

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…

Puzzle Of The Day

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?…

Ground Zero Islamic Cooking School: The Curriculum

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…

Joshua Marcus of Chow Down Grill Is a Chopstick Nazi

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…

Rick Ross Impersonator A+ Takes Officer Ricky to YouTube

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’s Not So Underground Dining Experience

​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…

Kat Stacks’s Top Ten Twitter Tips for Hoing Like a Total Pro

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…

Gastropod, Ingrid Hoffmann Top List of Local Tweeters

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…

Brickell Pimping Sushi

Sushi Siam​The 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…

Ground Zero Mosque: A Solution

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…

Lousy Parking in the Grove, Part 3. We Need These Joints

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…

Top 5 Reasons Your DJ Hates You

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…

Farewell, Smith & Wollensky Roast Beef Hash!

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…