It’s obvious that Ole Tapas & More was created for the Brickell office crowd. The recently opened restaurant is located in the sky lobby at the Four Seasons, where at $5 an hour, parking may run you more than your sandwich. The restaurant opens Monday through Friday only from 7…
Michy’s (6927 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) is presenting a distinctively different wine tasting. For one thing, it will be held on a Saturday afternoon (December 12, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.). And instead of pairing the dozen sampling wines with foods, they will be matched according to the following format:Flight 1: match…
Camila’s Brazilian Food Restaurant (129 SE 1st Ave) is a real Brazilian restaurant populated by real Brazilians eating real Brazilian food, watching Brazilian tv, and talking in Portuguese. That has been the case each of the 5 to 9 times over the past few years we’ve gone there for their…
Arturo Sighinolfi is the Director of Mixology and Spirits Education for Southern Wine and Spirits of Florida. From 1996 to 2003 he tended bar at the Hotel Astor in South Beach, during which time he was selected as Miami New Times Best Bartender of 1998. Part of Arturo’s job is…
A hilarious blow-by-blow account of a South Dade burger crawl. [BurgerBeast]Islamorada area restaurant and plate recommendations. [Chowfather]”10 oz. burger, salsa, guacamole, grilled onion, cilantro sour cream, cheddar, fried egg. Lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle.” A Burger and Beer Joint review. [FoodForThought]Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink launches their own blog, shows you…
So you’ve ditched South Beach-side pretensions, crossed the bridge into Miami, and now all you see are more stuck up Art World tourists gorging at the MidTown troughs of Five Guys Burgers, Lime Fresh mexi, Cheese Course gourmet, and Primo Pizza. You’re hitting up every fair from Fountain to PhotoMiami…
Forget Viagra and Tamiflu, the only reliable way to shake off your erectile dysfunction and H1N1 woes is a sweet, dark shot of that ancient alcoholic cure — mamajuana. So, poor sufferer, head to local outpost Mamajuana Café (225 Altara Ave., Coral Gables) where you can get your dose of…
If you don’t live here and you’re reading this then welcome to Miami. Now give us all your money. Seriously, we’re hungry out here, and if you are too then here’s part 1 of great places to eat for Art Basel week in the MIA.Here are some excellent choices if…
Now that we’re running this poem by Ernest Vincent Wright for the second year in a row, it is now officially a Short Order Thanksgiving day tradition:We all look on with anxious eyesWhen father carves the duck,And mother almost always sighsWhen father carves the duck;Then all of us prepare to…
Downtown Miami’s Urbanite Bistro searches for its groove
Now here’s a gal who really knows her way around a kitchen: Chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo of Talula. She co-owns and co-cooks with husband Frank Randazzo and has been since June 2003, dishing up eclectic eats inspired by Italy, Asia and the Southwest. They labeled their style “creative American cuisine,” but…
More than 46 million turkeys will have their beaks and toes painfully amputated this year so that they can be packed by the thousands into dark, filthy warehouses on factory farms. That’s why Farm Sanctuary is holding coast-to-coast celebrations FOR the turkeys. In NYC, Russell Simmons is hosting a vegan…
Seems like every year there’s a new Thanksgiving phenomenon about how to cook your turkey. From deep fried, to smoked, grilled, boiled, flambeed, and wokked out, it feels like we’ve heard it all.Well this year it’s brined. Brined turkey this, brine soak your turkey that, but what the hell is…
Hey America, this Thanksgiving let’s buck tradition and not go out of our way to kill indians.So, maybe you don’t know, but, most of America’s tomatoes are grown in Immokalee, Florida, just up the street from Naples, and across the way from Miami, and most of the workers in the…
The first week of December in Miami is a time for art, food and music, and if you’re smart, or local, getting all three for free.Here’s our guide to the top seven food and drink events for Art Basel (December 1 – 6), but don’t forget there’s a whole lot…
Thanks to a newly minted marriage of convenience between the folks at Gardner’s and local catering outfit, A Joy Wallace, you can now go crazy on freshly-smoked pork ribs and sauce in the gourmet grocery’s parking lots across the city. In exchange for a cut of the sales, the smoker…
Lotus House Women’s Shelter in Overtown (217 NW 15th Street) will celebrate Thanksgiving by serving over 500 holiday meals including turkey, all the fixin’s, and dessert to their friends and neighbors in the city.This will be the shelter’s “Fifth Annual Thanksgiving Day Celebration.”The 500 meals of roast turkey and sides…
Shaka Zulu mayne, it’s the ghetto gourmet, Coolio, and he’s got a new cookbook, Cookin’ With Coolio.Coolio was interviewed this morning on the Paul and Young Ron Show on Big 105.9 FM. Young Ron said he wouldn’t want some rapper cooking for him or teaching him how. He said something…
Chicago’s got the smokehouse turkey stuffed with hot dogs.Los Angeles turkeys get botox in their gobblers, and surgical breast enhancement.Arizona turkeys get left to cook by solar power on the sidewalk.So what is the signature Miami turkey? Here’s how to make one yourself.Find a Dade County farmer with pigs and…
Tiger Tiger Teahouse opened on Biscayne Boulevard in 1969. The restaurant then moved to South Miami, the location the ad at right advertises, closed for a year, and then reopened on the 79th street causeway in North Bay Village.A 1992 Miami New Times review of the restaurant at its 79th…
Paula Deen hit in face with flying ham, “another bout of public humiliation after the Wine and Beach Festival at Miami, when her pants fell off in public.” Yeah, we broke that story, but we can’t find video of this one that’s as good as that one. [ThaIndian] [HamVideo] [PantsFallDown]Kim…
Yes, this post is full of Dolphin pictures, but first:Chef John Critchley has made a strong impact on the local dining scene since joining up with Kimpton Hotel Group to head up all food operations at The Epic Hotel in downtown Miami. Area 31 was recently named an Esquire Magazine…
