Where It At? Looks Italian

What it is: Pizza, salad, bottle of wine — and this week we’re even showing you the room. But where it at? If you guess correctly, we’ll confirm below. Otherwise, the answer comes later this week…

Morton’s Steak House Dinner Deal for Two

Dinner for two at Morton’s Steak House Miami Beach is now just $99 for those who take part in the new three-course Signature Menu. The meal starts with choice of caesar or Morton’s salad. Each guest then gets a single-cut filet mignon with choice of sea scallops, shrimp, jumbo lump crab…

Interview: Chef Kurtis D. Jantz Gets the 10, uh, 15

For every incredibly boring interview we get in (be thankful we spare you from those), at least one comes in chock-full of so much creative stuff that we find it near impossible to cull. So consider the extra five answers from Chef Kurtis D. Jantz (below) a New Year’s giftie…

Sobe Wine & Food Fest Releases More Burger Bash Tix for Sale

News Flash: The South Beach Wine and Food Festival has expanded the site for their sold out Burger Bash event to include more of the Ritz Carlton South Beach’s prime real estate and is releasing more Burger Bash tickets for sale.The post-sellout sale will sell out quick, so, act fast…

Restaurant Roll Call 2009: Opened, Closed, and the Future

OMG 2009 is sooo eight days ago.Here’s our Miami New Times Restaurant Roll Call for last year.We’ve rounded up the openers, shut down the closers, and written our predictions for the new year into existence.Note to foodies: If Wikipedia can do it, so can we. Please comment us with any…

First Look At Sugarcane Raw Bar

We first reported the imminent opening of the SushiSamba offshoot called Sugarcane Raw Bar one month ago. It was to be an Art Basel affair. Now Sugarcane is imminently debuting in Midtown Miami once more, this time a week from today — all 4,000 glorious square feet of it, including…

100 Favorite Dishes: Mozzarella, Tomatoes, and Eggplant at TIMO

100.As a countdown to the Best of Miami 2010, Short Order is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your own nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.TIMO in Sunny Isles does Italian right. Take for instance their dish of bufala mozzarella with clay baked roma tomatoes and eggplant…

The Ivy at the Grove Opens and Aims High

At one point during his career, Tim Powers simultaneously controlled six restaurants rated in the Top 10 for both Zagat and Harden’s London Restaurant Guide. Two of these, The Ivy and Le Caprice, held either the number one or number two  spot for more than 12 years. Powers is now…

Elvis’ 75th Birthday Celebrated in Cocktail Recipes

Today would have been Elvis’ 75th birthday. In his honor Three-O Vodka (more formally known as Three Olives Vodka) has thoughtfully compiled a few cocktail recipes to help you remember The King (preferably the early years). Three-O’s food-pairing suggestions include peanut butter & banana sandwiches, sweet potatoes, cheeseburgers, and burnt…

Red Snapper Ban Angers South Florida Fishermen, Diners

Fish much? Not anymore. New federal regulation outlaws fishing for Red Snapper in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.The U.S. government says the red snapper population off the Atlantic coast is at 3 percent of what it was 60 years ago, and is still dwindling.Fishermen disagree. The one NPR spoke to…

Live Blogging the South Florida Freeze 2010

Agriculture is big business, but at the end of the day Mother Nature still makes the rules.The Florida Freeze of January 2010 threatens our $100 billion fruit and vegetable industry and may drive up prices down the road. Earlier today we spent some time in the fields of South Dade…

Great Taste Of The Grove This Weekend

Did you know that the Great Taste of The Grove is the largest single-location culinary event in all of Coconut Grove?Well, according to the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce it is, and that’s who’s throwing the party, this weekend, with free admission, for the Peacock Park festival’s 20th anniversary.Food tickets…

Top 10 Ways To Eat an Overfished Species: Red Snapper

The Federales have deemed the Atlantic coast’s red snapper population overfished.January 4, regulations went in place to outlaw angling for them.The government says that red snapper populations are at 3 percent of what they were 60 years ago.Many fishermen say that’s bogus intel, and question the tabulation methods used.We’re on…

Video: Anthony Bourdain Burns 6 Tons of Cocaine

Bourdain, cocaine. Hey, that kind of rhymes.No reason why the Travel Channel’s No Reservations star and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain shouldn’t burn 6 tons of fresh, uncut, powder cocaine with the Director of National Security of Panama.Yeah there is. He’s a TV chef. Why the hell is he burning all…

Sakaya Kitchen Cooking Fresh Asian in Midtown

Sakaya Kitchen, a “fast-casual Asian-inspired organic-conscious restaurant,” is now open in midtown Miami. The menu is a mix of  Asian comfort and street foods such as Korean style BBQ, fresh noodle boxes, and Filipino egg rolls. The man behind the business is Richard Hales, who not only worked under Jean-Georges…

Rats! Restaurant Emergency Shutdown Orders for December 2009

An emergency order disposition to a routine food inspection at a restaurant means “conditions have been found that endanger the health and safety of the public requiring immediate closure of the establishment. “Here are three restaurants whose facilities were temporarily closed by health inspectors in December 2009.1. The Oasis Restaurant…

Where It At? Korean Chicken With Homemade Pickle

What it is: It’s fried Korean-style chicken, has a nice spicy sauce, and tastes very, very good.But where it at? If you guess it correctly, we’ll let you know in the comments section. But this is a tough one — if nobody gets it by day’s end, we’ll post the…

See Ya, Sea Rock

The rock ‘n’ roll Sea Rock seafood restaurant in SoBe’s Sunset Harbour has gone out to sea. Sunk. Kaput.There are reasons restaurants fail, and it rarely has to do with bad luck. Here was Short Order’s first impression this past October:Help! My Eardrums Are Bleeding!Or at least it felt like…