Food & Drink

Last year it was peanut butter. Last month it was eggs. Who knows what food-borne illness outbreak will hit us this month. Seems like outbreaks are coming at us faster than New Jersey-based reality TV shows these days. But besides satisfying morbid curiosity by checking out what’s cooking on the…

​In a few weeks, Andreas Schreiner, Jose Mendin, and Sergio Navarra will open Pubbelly right around the corner from Purdy Lounge, on sleepy 20th Street, It’s a space with sky-high ceilings and exposed brick, more reminiscent of Chelsea in New York than South Beach. They instantaneously knew this was going…

“Scene Eating” is a new Short Order interview column. We’ll provide a glimpse into the food habits of our community, focusing on people who make living in Miami more interesting, sane, and worthwhile. They don’t necessarily work in the food industry. If you’re curious about the food habits of a…

This is a companion volume to the PBS series of the same name. An obviously very generous friend of mine gave this autographed copy to me as a gift, and it’s one of the best cookbooks I own. Mr. Pépin and Ms. Child offer complementary recipes for appetizers, soups, salads,…

Madonna swears by it and invested $1.5 million in it. And Coke and Pepsi have acquired companies who sell it. But if you’re looking for coconut water, you don’t need to go any further than Allapattah and JCS Reggae Country Style Brand’s Jelly Coconut Water (with pulp). The Kingston-Miami Trading…

Lissette Diaz is a homegrown Miami girl who has turned her love for Bahamian bread into a business.  She grew up in a house with a cake- baking mother and spent summers in the Bahamas. She remembers early morning bread runs with her father with affection, and these proved to…

Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s almost gone. And if you’ve never eaten at Burger Bob’s on the Granada Golf Course in Coral Gables, then we know two things about you. 1) You know nothing of the Gables and 2) even less about greasy spoons.But don’t kick…

Last week we met Joe Turino, a contestant vying for the final spot of the second annual Joe Flanigan look-alike contest. His mission was simple: to be crowned the best Joe Flanigan look-alike in Hialeah and represent his favorite restaurant at the finals in Weston.Along with his two brothers, Mike…

After recently writing a goofy post about imaginary pot-food pairings, I received an email from the pseudonymous William Breathes, one of two medical marijuana critics for our sister paper Westword, in Denver, Colorado. He expressed gratitude for being mentioned in the post and disappointment in not being invited to my…

Over the weekend, the Association of Food Journalists held its annual conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the winners of the annual awards competition were announced. Miami New Times was a finalist in three categories. And the winners are:Our feature, “Pork Pirates,” a look into the illegal slaughterhouses in…

Are you desperately waiting for the clock to strike five so you can get your Labor Day weekend on? Kill some time by reading what you missed this week on Short Order.Bring back the McRib!Looking for restaurants to try? How about Joumou, Sawadee or Gigi?We talk to the man behind…

Fauchon is synonymous with French decadence in the food world. Ever since Auguste Fauchon, a street vendor and wine merchant, started his company back in 1886, customers have been flocking to stores that bear his name to pick up macaroons, fancy jams, champagne, chocolates, mustards, crackers and wines.Being a true…

Consumer Reports recently polled 28,000 online subscribers and asked them to rate hamburgers from 18 fast food restaurants around the country. Those surveyed were asked to rate each burger from 1 to 10, the scale going from least delicious burger ever eaten to the most delicious. McDonald’s finished at the…

This past Sunday Miami natives were treated to a rare sight. Stationed in the parking lot of the Walgreen’s on 117th Avenue and Sunset Drive was the iconic Oscar Mayer Wienermobile in all its plumped up glory…