A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Eating at Balans is like buying clothes at The GAP. It’s like reading a novel by John Grisham. It’s like being a Blue Dog Democrat. In a word: Meh.Balans 901 S. Miami Ave. 305-534-9191…
Grateful Bread and Moises Bakery: One serves hearty fare, the other tasty empanadas
Whilly Bermudez is a right-handed, right-leaning, right-of-way, righteous republican, and as Tim Elfrink reported Monday on Riptide, he’s got the support of Tubbs from Miami Vice in his run for a seat in the Florida House of Reps for the 116th district (unincorporated West Dade and Kendall).Right on!And in a…
Our own Francisco Alvarado was one of the first to write about Joshua Woodward’s arrest for suspicion of murder of his unborn child in Los Angeles, but new and even stranger details from the case have begun to emerge.Here’s a quick recap thus far. Joshua Woodward is a Los Angeles…
The Party Monkey rides again.Saturday kicks off the Taste of MiMo season. Get ready for monthly street parties featuring bottom dollar deals on food and drink along Biscayne Boulevard in Miami’s Upper Eastside from 50th to 78th streets.This Saturday’s MiMoWeen edition has a daytime schedule dedicated to family activities like…
Screams, laughs, naughty nurses, dudes in drag, and more drunks than you can shake a pitcher at. That’s right, Halloween is almost here.Some might say it’s spirit that fuels the revelry, but we know it’s really just alcohol. Here’s the recipe for a drink that has the look and packs…
What it is: Napoleon of applewood smoked salmon, Dungeness crab, and Osetra caviar brightened with lemon oil vinaigrette…
Two days ago, Los Angeles Police homicide detectives arrested Joshua Woodward, who teamed up with celebrity chef Govind Armstrong to bring their West Coast food offerings to South Beach with Table 8 and 8 oz. Burger Bar. The cops charged Woodward with the murder of his unborn child.According to a…
City of Miami cops want you to think they’re clean. Clean arrests. Clean records. Clean city. But if you believe the State of Florida, the place where they eat is dirty, dirty, dirty. This past June, state inspectors cited a tiny café in police headquarters on NW Second Avenue with…
Michael Carter, Dole’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel said of a Miami judge’s ruling that Dole won’t have to pay Nica farmworkers $97 million, “The Court’s ruling indicates that corruption and a total lack of due process is the norm for the Nicaragua judicial system.” [RTTnews]CSI Miami’s “Bad Seed”…
Top Chef 7 is officially on its way to your signal box, and Magical Elves, the production company behind the hit Bravo series, was in Miami on Sunday looking for talent. Prospective contestants turned up for a 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. casting call at Club 50 in Brickell’s Viceroy…
Health care reform may not yet be a slam dunk for the President, but sinking was a theme on the menu at the Democratic Party fundraiser last night at the Fontainebleau Hotel on South Beach.A source present at the affair reports that guests enjoyed a three-course dinner, including tomato and…
The Doral Farmers Market was started by three neighbors who grew weary of having to travel to other markets around town for fresh local produce. They worked to pass a new ordinance with the City of Doral, then filed all the necessary paperwork to host a market there. The fruits…
New lunch, dinner, sushi and beverage menus have been launched at RA Sushi Bar Restaurant in South Miami. Executive chef Tai Obata: “We’ve fused traditional Japanese cuisine with concepts from other regions, integrating some Latin influences and adding an entirely new tapas selection.” Chef Obata is one of the founding…
According to their website, Chef Gordon Ramsay said that Renzo’s of Boca is one of the best pizzerias in the world. Here’s a video by Renzo’s of Boca where Chef Renzo shows you how to make his brand new Miami Dolphins Football Meatball.The Football Meatball gets its name from it…
The holy trinity of art, food, and music, are making Downtown Miami a go-to destination for culture in Vice City.Fourteenth Street’s Urbanite Bistro is now offering a three-course, $37, tasting menu that includes a voucher for performance parking one block from the Arsht and is designed with theatergoers in mind…
This past Saturday, high above the city, in the penthouse of a Midtown condo, thirty or so South Florida foodies got together to eat at the whims of Chef Jeremiah Bullfrog.The Cobaya Gourmet Guinea Pigs are a web enabled network of adventurous eaters who are looking for unconventional fare not…
Is it really 52 degrees out right now? That’s damn near freezing. What’s next, snowballs on South Beach, ice chains on the Turnpike, county workers salting down US1, sledding down Mount Trashmore, ice skating in Kendale Lakes? Cold weather’s for the birds, and our streets are already starting to flood…
When Cheeca Lodge & Spa reopens in Islamorada this December 15th, its landmark Atlantic’s Edge restaurant will be under the creative direction of newly hired “Concept Chef” Dean James Max — who is known closer to home for his 3030 Ocean at the Marriott Harbor Beach in Ft. Lauderdale.The Edge…
The Chicago Tribune website last week printed a list of the ten worst dining trends of the past decade, as decided by various movers and shakers in the American food world. Miami’s own Michael Schwartz weighed in, his pet peeve being the communal table, which “assumes people who don’t know…
Barton G, ringmaster, restaurateur, attention getter, giraffer? Yes. He said he would do it and he produced. What hundreds of pound of free food, hundreds of bottles of free drinks, a concert stage with a great opening band and the Pointer Sisters headlining cannot do, a giraffe on Biscayne Boulevard…
What’s a Design District exhibition space got to do with liquid nitrogen aided cooking?Everybody has to eat; especially starving artists, moreso ones with money. Food is universal.Last night, Chef Jeff McInnis from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach held a cooking demo and Q&A at Locust Projects…
