If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.With the Health Police out in full force these days, about the only thing you can smoke anymore is meat.Luckily, you can still drink your troubles away while…
An iced coffee should consist of two things: (1) ice and (2) refrigerated coffee. Not hot coffee, because that melts the ice and invariably turns the drink into a watered-down, 2 Girls 1 Cup-style gag-inducing experience within 15 minutes.It’s simple, you would think. I’m not even asking for the ice…
Concerning the sangria: It is unlimited. The brunch: You start with choice of appetizer: yogurt parfait; chicken empanadas; ham croquetas over tomato marmalade; shrimp ceviche; or smoked salmon on cassaba flatbread with capers, red onion, and goat cheese. What — a schmear of cream cheese isn’t good enough? The entrée…
For Indian actress and cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey, the best thing to do with a mango is simply eat it. Her favorite way to enjoy them doesn’t involve a knife or perfectly cut dice. Instead, she pierces the top of a soft, ripe mango with her nail, puts the fruit…
The place: Town Kitchen & Bar7301 SW 57th Ct., South Miami305-740-8118townkitchenbar.com The hours: Sunday and Monday 4 to 7 p.m. The deals: Half-price on everything, including bottle wines up to $200. Ladies get free champagne Thursdays 4 to 7 p.m. The scene: Think Sex and the Small City, and you’ve got…
Nicola Abbate hails from Cesentico, Italy. But for the past nine years, while working for the Villagio Company, he has been making South Florida women blush and overtip. Today, as part owner, Abbate manages Villagio Restaurant’s Village of Merrick Park location in Coral Gables. He has a bright smile accented by dimples, seemingly…
We ran into the Latin Burger and Taco truck on the streets of the Design District Saturday during the art walk and asked co-owner Jim Heins: “When are you gonna get some beer on this thing?”…
It’s not often you get to enjoy a three-course lunch conceptualized by a Michelin-starred chef, in a drop-dead gorgeous dining room with a 15th-floor vista of the city, along with a pint of beer, for $15! Usually it costs about ten times that much. But beginning today, at the spanking-new…
Here’s Part 2 of our interview with Giorgio Rapicavoli. You can read Part 1 here.What are some of your favorite Miami restaurants, and what do you order?I love Yakko-San. I get the fish collar. That’s so good! I love Xixon. Their razor clams are amazing. Pincho Man — he’s located…
Just a few months short of his six-year anniversary with the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, chef de cuisine Jeff McInnis announced yesterday via email he is ditching that gig and collaborating on a new resto in Wynwood called Gigi.McInnis wouldn’t say when the official opening will…
When Gary Sanon-Jules was growing up in Port-au-Prince, he and his classmates would stream out of school at 3 p.m. and run to the fresco tap-tap — better known here as a snow-cone cart.This past Friday, Gary wheeled out a fresco tap-tap in front of Tap Tap Haitian Restaurant, on…
Short Order has learned that The Villa by Barton G. is in the process of changing executive chefs. This means chef Justin Albertson is out, his sous chef has temporarily taken over, and a new top toque will be in tow “within the next few weeks,” according to a Barton G…
The place: Barú Urbano 1001 S. Miami Ave., Miami305-381-5901barurbano.comThe hours: Monday through Friday noon to 8 p.m.The deals: All wines and drinks are half off, with no exceptions. Barú’s menu breaks down every drink’s price based on the liquor or wine of choice. Thus, wines will range from $3.75 to…
Sugarcane’s chicken yakitori works equally well as a palate-prickling starter to stimulate the appetite or as a bar accompaniment come cocktail hour. What’s not to like? Plump pieces of juicy breast meat, interspersed with snippets of leek-like Tokyo scallions, get lightly charred in a robata grill and glazed with a…
He’s not meek, and he’s not shy. He eschews traditional chef uniform whites for head-to-toe black and finishes off the look with chunky plastic eyeglasses, multiple beaded bracelets, a lime-green G-Shock watch, and a mane of hair that would make John Stamos jealous. He can tell you the top eateries…
Ali Aziz of Middle East Best Food says, “I make best pita in all of Miami, whole state, maybe whole country.” The humble baker has almost 40 years’ experience as a shop owner and baker in Miami.But his roots go all the way back to Jerusalem. In the 1950s, he…
Have you seen this month’s issue of Edible South Florida, featuring a seminude Dr. Richard Campbell, senior tropical fruit curator at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, lounging in a bathtub full of mangoes? Paula Niño wrote about it yesterday, but we didn’t realize he was actually soaking in a sea of…
Those of you who enjoy the Immaculate India Pale Ale and Brother Aarons Quadruple from the friendliest and most dive-a-rrific bar on South Beach, we mean The Abbey Brewing Co., or course, better prepare yourself for some bad news. That’s right, the Abbey will be closing July 14. But before…
For raw foodists who are still deeply feeling the patriotic spirit and Miamians who can’t stomach dairy products but want to celebrate National Ice Cream Month with the rest of this sunny city, we present recipes for red, white, and blue “ice cream.” (They’re really dairy-free sorbets, but they’ll refresh…
Pizza isn’t the official headliner, but it surely steals the show. There are four choices each of vaguely oval-shaped red-sauced or white-cheesed pies. The most basic version gets topped with tomato sauce, fiore di latte and Reggiano cheeses, olive oil, basil, and little crackles of sea salt. The dough is…
It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that Dr. Richard Campbell lives and breathes mangoes. The senior tropical fruit curator for Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden can tell exactly when a mango is ready to pick, assess its quality and tell you where it’s from and what it’s…
OK, LeBron, all you have to do is let the word Miami mellifluously slide from your lips tonight and everybody will be happy. Extremely happy. And we know you’ll be besieged with all sorts of stuff as soon as you make your announcement, so feel free to print out this…
