Saturday night in Hollywood at Quickie’s Burgers & Wings, Miami’s own Burger Beast attempted the restaurant’s signature four-pound burger challenge. The bout was hyped in a Miami Herald Tropical Life cover story on the Beast, his blog, and the new webovision show he’s doing on generation-n.com.The four-pound burger included meat,…
Sunday, New York City, the world; literally hundreds of people will read the newspaper that made newspapers famous.Good thing they have a website.Yesterday’s Sunday Times Magazine, in a pre-preemptive strike on Art Basel madness, featured Miami, our restaurants, hotels, spas, dives, and clubs.Here are their food highlights (as determined by…
Over 20 empty restaurant spaces in the Grove are available for lease, but who will take them? [Grapevine]Frodnesor joins a CSA, picks up first batch of farm-fresh vegetables, and makes something. [FoodForThought]”Just bake and then serve with warm tortillas and refried beans for a super simple dinner, breakfast or brunch.”…
What it is: Miso-glazed cod with Chinese broccoli and miso butter sauce.But where it at?…
Who: Food Tweeters @ktchntrvwr and @ergagit joined by three work buddies What: Seafood SaladWhere: Little Havana at Mr. YumWhen: This past Friday, 1:00 p.m. Why: @ergagit lost a Top Chef bet to @ktchntrvwr (guessing who would win last Wednesday’s Bocuse d’Or episode) and the wager was lunch, in this case,…
Last year, Janine Zeitlin wrote an article for New Times called “Ignored and Cheated: Farm Workers Earn Nada in America’s Greenbean Capital.”Yesterday, South Dade-based Short Order reader Michelle contacted us with her exclusive images from the green bean fields of rural Dade county in the Redlands. Here is the report…
The Wynwood Cafe District is a zoning effort on the part of business leaders, residents, artists, real estaters, and local government to promote foodlife and nightlife in Wynwood by allowing liquor license clusters, and waiving parking requirements. Before the Wynwood Cafe District was founded, liquor licenses had to be a…
Another year, another Beaujolais luncheon, another boast that the current crop is the best in years. “You get a vintage like this every century. Last one as good was 1947,” insisted winemaker Stéphane Queralt. I didn’t want to say this to Stéphane, but in spite of a positive spin on…
If you were driving south on North Miami Avenue around 2:30 p.m. a couple days ago between 14th and 11th Streets you might have seen Short Order eating a sandwich off the trunk of a dirty Toyota Corolla.We were checking out Spuntino Bakery & Catering, and they close around 2…
Cheese may have been discovered accidentally by nomadic Turk tribes in Central Asia when milk stored in a container made from an animal’s stomach turned to curds and whey thanks to the rennet in the guts. Rennet refers to the complex of enzymes that all mammal stomachs produce to digest…
One time grandma’s dentures got caught in the turkey drumstick she was eating at Thanksgiving dinner. She pointed at me with the drumstick for laughing, the teeth flew off the leg and hit me in the face. I still have the old lady’s bite marks on my forehead. She had…
You know the type: Walls lined with South American wines, alfajores and other facturas neatly organized in a glass display, panettone boxes everywhere (’tis the season), refrigerators with ready-to-cook gnocchi, golden-baked empanadas laying out under a heat lamp … They’re hard to resist, those empanadas, and the recently opened Patagonia…
The evening began with talk of a “vodka backlash” occurring in New York. Too many brands, too much ubiquity, too neutral a flavor. Enter gin, with its’ aromatic botanicals and complex flavor — the ideal antidote to dull cocktails. Or at least that’s the world according to Simon Ford, the…
What’s a four-pound burger to a monster? Nothin’. Who can pick a restaurant up by its fry chimney and shake out all its fast food through the drive thru window and into their mouth? The Burger Beast. Who else do you know that can scare a bull into pushing his…
Big, fat, oven-roasted turkey – check. Stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce – check. Grilled leg of lamb with cranberry salsa verde? Oh yes! Check please! Whether it’s Thanksgiving, or a big family get-together, this twist on a traditional staple will wow ’em. Bone-in leg of lamb has marvelous flavor and is…
Whisk Gourmet Food & Catering whips up a crowd in Coral Gables
Josh Woodward was arrested in the suspicious death of his girlfriend’s unborn child, a 13 week old fetus. There was talk of a mysterious white powder found in her underwear.According to TMZ, police investigators had cause to believe that the powder may be Misoprostol, which is used to treat gastric…
Gonzalo Rivera didn’t garner much attention when he took over as executive chef at the Tides South Beach last spring. A first generation Mexican-American, Rivera graduated the California Culinary Academy in 2004 and promptly got work in Michael Mina’s restaurants, including a four year stint as executive chef of Mina’s…
Say cheese!French cheese ambassador Cecile Delannes is on a Whole Foods America tour giving out samples and educating consumers on behalf of The French Cheese Club, “an association of five family owned French Fromageries specialized in the production of traditional French cheeses.”We ran into Cecile yesterday while researching an unrelated…
Get ready for real homecooked food in Wynwood. Morgan’s Restaurant is a conversion from a house built in the 1930’s that offers two stories worth of direct views into a neighborhood on the rise. Windows face west to North Miami Avenue club The Electric Pickle, North into 29th street and…
Picnics Diner was long a favorite when it was located in Allen’s Drugstore on SW 57th Ave. A few years ago the owner died, and the diner moved to Bird Road and SW 65th Ave. In July it received a lukewarm writeup from Burger Beast. Now Picnics is out of…
They’ve got stank cheese, foreign cheese, mild cheese, and bold cheese, cheese with meat, cheese with friends, and more cheese than you can shake a cheese at. That’s right, The Cheese Course (3451 NE 1st Ave, suite 100) is open in Midtown Miami, right next door to the new Primo…
