His new Q and Fin restaurants in the Design District are getting set to open. Short Order be taking a peek tonight and reporting it tomorrow, but we wanted to at least find out one or two things about those new ventures beforehand, and Jonathan obliged.New Times: Could you give…
Stone Grill 95 in Surfside has a rocky start
This past Sunday, more than 500 voices rang out strong in Lakeland at Publix headquarters. Students, farm workers, religious leaders, and concerned citizens came together to protest the supermarket company. It has refused to align itself with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in protecting against human rights abuses and…
Nothing says luxury like dinner in bed at B.E.D. on South Beach while a skirtless Sarah Palin look-alike circles the room, a sex kitten in a bodysuit purrs and crawls across the sheets while a mistress whips her, and contortionists, fire acts, and dramatists perform for your viewing pleasure.Sound like…
Lemoni Café is the Cheers of panini shops. When you walk in, you feel like family.Since March 2008, when Eugenia Pelati and Assia Dahrouch opened just north of the Design District in the Buena Vista neighborhood, they’ve attracted social and mainstream media attention, a faithful clientele, and recognition for their…
“We’re doing great. Everything’s totally perfect and organized” says Chef Jonathan Eismann with a sly smile. “Look. The last week before opening a restaurant is really frantic, and we’re three weeks away officially. We’re actually gonna be doing a special private event here in a week, but the idea of…
What it is: A pizza pie with prosciutto di Parma, baby zucchini, rocket greens, and burrata cheese.But there are so many pizza joints in this town that might make a pie that looks like this.Where it at? Feel free to take a guess. If you get it right, we’ll acknowledge…
Ivy at the Grove, which has taken over the 535 seats of the three-story former Christabelle’s Quarter, is being billed as “British-style” — not a very nice thing to say about a restaurant! (More specifically, it will feature “modern American and British comfort food.”) The ground floor will feature a…
The Brickell neighborhood now has another reason to pig out on tasty burgers and dogs with a Latin twist: The Munchies at Brickell. Down the street from Colombian restaurant La Moon, which has held a monopoly on this cuisine on SW Eighth Street, the Munchies opened Saturday night. It offers…
Miami has long been considered the place where restaurant service comes to die. It seems that still holds true. According to the recently released Zagat 2010 Miami/So. Florida Survey, 77 percent of diners cite service as the number one restaurant complaint. Slightly better news is that 26 percent say they’ve…
Scott Rothstein might end up a food service worker at Miami’s Federal Detention Center. [Sun-Sentinel]University of Iowa gets $1.95 million for making the Orange Bowl and plans an entourage of 600 Iowans eating, drinking, and hotelling in Miami. [Press-Citizen]Miami-Dade school cafeterias explore vegetarian options: veggie chicken nuggets, veggie burgers, and…
A near emtpy fridge and a growling stomach have driven many men (women, and children) to desperate measures. And though there are plenty of things you shouldn’t eat after they’ve been sitting around a certain amount of time (pizza, sushi, meatloaf), there are foods with an infinite shelf life. Here’s…
Some people like weed with their vodka. They usually end up stupefied on the couch at the party staring at the wall and mumbling to themselves.Other people like herb with their vodka, for them, there’s Sonnema, a vodka with natural herb flavors added. Last week and over the weekend at…
First there was the original kitchen battle from Japan, Iron Chef. Then came Food Network’s Iron Chef America, Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, and Bravo’s Top Chef series; Top Chef Masters soon followed. You would think the pot has boiled over, but no! Cue Fox’s MasterChef, a new competitive cooking show from…
Miami’s art fair week 2009 saw a world of pedestrians on the streets of Wynwood; and where there’re tourists, there’s money, so no surprise that enterprising mobile BBQs left a trail of rib-smoke all weekend.Friday night, we found Chicken-N-Ribs on the Southeast corner of 22nd Street and NW First Place…
Professional South Florida food blogger throws a party and makes seafood gazpacho, ropa vieja, mac’n’cheese, multi-meatballs, and salad on a stick. [Foodalogue] A CSA is a way to buy farm fresh vegetables a week at a time. This week was Italian basel, romaine lettuce, zucchini and yellow squash, black sapote,…
Only a half-minute’s drunken stumble from the touristy bummerfest of CocoWalk, there remains a relic of the old Grove. It’s called Barracuda’s. Long an after-dark hideout where shrimpers, college kids, aging college kids, and dropouts of all kinds could play a few free games of bar pool and pound cheap, mass-produced American…
Purvis Young is a self taught artist born in Liberty City in 1943 whose work started on the streets of Overtown with found objects and reject paint. His works now hang in the best museums in the world and his studio is right here in Wynwood.Saturday night at Purvis Young’s…
Russian-born Lika Ramati is the owner of Yaffa Cafe in downtown Manhattan. She’s also a multidisciplinary artist with an exhibit of digitally constructed photographs for Art Basel called Everything is Pretty at 119 N.E. 39th Street in the Design District.You can’t help but be drawn into her highly-stylized world of…
Last night at Aqua Art Miami (42 NE 25th Street, Miami), a locals-heavy party crowd came together over art, food, and music.Seattle-based Aqua is committed to bringing Miami a high-quality sampling of art from the West Coast and abroad with a concentration on young dealers and galleries and emerging artists.Palate…
The Okay Mountain Corner Store, now appearing at Pulse Art Fair (1400 N. Miami Ave., Miami), is possibly the greatest artwork ever conceived, an exercise in total hilarity, and really fuckin’ funny.The store is the creation of the Okay Mountain artists’ collective from Austin, Texas. It is a highly detailed…
We first told you about Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman’s Coffee Brake coffee truck in June. Well, yesterday we ran into the commish outside the Kelley Roy Gallery (50 NE 29th St., Miami), where she was parked and open for business, selling coffee, smoothies, and baked goods.Sally said, “Everything’s great. I’ve just…
