If you haven’t visited the Liberty City Farmers Market, you should. It is in a very nice park and has all sorts of local veggies plus Florida meat and eggs. Redland Rambles has more on the market. Guest blogger Chuck Ferrin gives readers a primer on Ron Zacapa over at Miami…
More food truck mania on the web! (Don’t expect it to stop any time soon.) So, what to do if, even though you’re following all your favorite trucks on Twitter, you don’t get to stay logged in all day for the scoop? How about a website that conveniently lists the…
It seems like the notable restaurant openings in Miami slowed down a bit after Art Basel passed. But there were still quite a few places to start off the year. Below are the restaurant openings and closings for January 2011 (or earlier and not included in our December round-up).OpeningsBacklot Wine…
This is the first dish in a countdown to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011. From now until June, Short Order will be serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.100. Dumplings…
What portion of the planet makes better breakfasts than the American South? None. And how many American Southern restaurants are there in Miami? At least one that we know of: The First & First Southern Baking Company. And does Ray Hicks, owner of First & First do Southern breakfasts proud?…
Last Tuesday, I suggested that certain local chefs have lessened their reputations by affixing their name to projects that they weren’t fully participating in. One of the chefs I mentioned was Doug Rodriguez, writing that his new restaurant, De Rodriguez Ocean, was “clearly run without any daily input from [Rodriguez].”…
This weekend there’s plenty of food and not-quiet entertainment at the Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Church’s 34th Annual Lebanese Festival. It’s like being at home but with strangers. The boisterous servers on the buffet line will ask you if you are Lebanese; if you are, why don’t you attend…
Friday we chatted with Vino e Olio’s executive chef Andrea Menichetti and his two-Michelin Star-rated chef/mama. If you missed it, click here. We’ll be awaiting your return. Promise.So who’s the most famous celebrity you’ve ever cooked for?Andrea Bocelli. He’s the one most internationally known. A lot [of celebrities] in Italy.What…
Over 20,000 runners will take to Miami’s streets this Sunday for the ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon. Running a marathon is no easy feat – it requires months of training, mental and physical endurance and a lot of energy. Since the human body really wasn’t meant to run 26.2…
While food trucks get all the shine on the local affordable-dining scene, it’s easy to forget that some of them are offshoots of actual brick-and-mortar establishments! Case in point: Sugar Rush Miami, the city’s first baked-goods truck. The truck wows with so-bad-for-you-they’re-good concoctions like deep-fried cupcakes and super-thick milkshakes. But…
Looking for somewhere to go on Chinese New Year? Ring in the Year of the Rabbit at one of these Miami restaurants. Celebrations begin on February 2. Café Sambal at the Mandarin Oriental Lion dance performances and Asian art in the café’s outdoor terrace are part of this celebration. The restaurant…
Boy, is the old adage true that the secret is in the sauce, especially at Wood Ranch BBQ and Grill! The Southern California chain has fourteen locations and we wish just one of them was here in Miami, even with their stiff, wooden lodge feel. Things didn’t start off on…
When we heard Vino e Olio’s executive chef Andrea Menichetti would be cooking with his two-Michelin Star-rated chef mama this past week, we couldn’t resist heading in for an interview. While it’s true the restaurant has been getting some tough press recently, his mother, two-Michelin Star-rated chef Valeria Piccini, wasn’t…
The 1st Avenue Bistro & Bakery has been around since 2008 downtown near the courthouse. It is owned and operated by a French couple who opened their first restaurant, Les Trois Petits Bergers, in Izeaux, France, in 1989. They also had a second establishment in Nice called Le Capitole. Their…
Morsels from next week’s Cafe review of De Rodriguez Ocean:Comfortably cushioned seats surround dark wooden tables; red votive candles, glassware, flatware, and salt/pepper shakers culled from the low-end pages of a Sysco catalogue sit atop. Dinner here is an expensive proposition — ceviches $13 to $23, appetizers $10 to $18,…
Want to check out swanky homes while noshing on delectable treats made by some of the Gables’ favorite restaurants? This Saturday CoralGables@Home hosts the second annual Tour of the Kitchens.It all kicks off with a tour of Snaidero Showroom, where certified kitchen designer Julia Johnston gives a quick seminar on…
In our preview of Cavatelli Italian Trattoria, we told you that we would put the squeeze on the chefs until they forked over either the recipe for the melt-in-your-mouth spinach gnocchi or their “I’m a Believer” mejillones del chef. These mussels are so delicious that we cornered Interiano just to…
As you already are well aware, the end of the world is coming very soon. The Mayan calendar kinda just ends on December 12, 2012, which is not tomorrow, but you know, it’s hovering frighteningly close in time. Psychic Edgar Cayce saw us entering into a “New Age” around now,…
The Thursday night food truck round-up known as Culinarium, which launched last week is being cancelled due to lack of permits. The food court was the first of its kind locally in that it featured live music and booze at Villa 221 (221 NE 17th Street). Organizer Richard Hales of…
Rosa Mexicano will be opening on the ground floor of the the funky new 1111 Lincoln Road parking lot. That’s an exclusive Short Order scoop — which we scooped from Ryan at Miami’s Restaurant Power Rankings, who scooped it from Chowhound, which got the scoop from a Craigslist job listing.That…
A good ice cream machine is a tough thing to find. Go ahead, check Best Buy, Brands Mart, and other appliance pull-out flyers. You’ll see blenders, toasters, milk foamers, and just about anything you can think of sticking a plug on. But no ice cream machine. If you go online,…
When I first espied the bottle of ChocoVine on the shelves of Publix — “The taste of dutch chocolate and fine red wine” — I just had to try it. I mean, as the company website puts it: “The right chocolate paired with the perfect wine can create a near-orgasmic…
