The wines of Tuscany, from Chianti to Brunello to Vino Nobile “and everything in between” will be poured at the sixth installment of Fratelli Lyon’s “Passport to Italy” wine tasting series tonight at 7:30 p.m. Chef Alex Pinero will prepare snacks to pair with the 6 to 8 wines that…
Waxy’s On the River (690 SW First Court, Miami) is a Key West-styled Irish pub that specializes in fish. They shoot for a neighborhood joint feeling and are proud to showcase buzzworthy local acts like ArtOfficial, and Locos Por Juana, through their midweek live music bookings.The restaurant is located on…
We all know instant coffee sucks, which is why Starbucks refers to its’ new line of VIA coffee powder as “Ready Brew”. Whatever you call it, both the extra bold Italian Roast (which I sampled in the store), and the mellower-but-still-potent Colombian (prepared at home) turned out to be startlingly…
Miami New Times’ culinary super event is officially sold out. You should not have slow danced on these tickets folks cause now they’re gone, gone, gone.Best of luck sneaking in; we’re guessing it’s not that difficult. Maybe you could get a job slinging drinks.See ya next year…
Short Order is a food blog, so you know we support chicken breasts. But we’re also down for lady breasts and are bound by honor to protect them.Go to Tobacco Road tomorrow night and support the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation when you pay your $7 admission to see…
Thursday, October 22, at Locust Projects (155 NE 38 Street) Jeff McInnis, executive chef of DiLido Beach Club restaurant at the Ritz Carlton South Beach will cook for and talk to a crowd in the Design District.Jeff McInnis was a contestant on season five of the hit Bravo TV show…
The Hunter’s Moon is a full moon. They call it that because the light it provides makes it easier to kill food. According to Wikipedia, as viewed from the northern hemisphere, the Hunter’s Moon rises in such a way that there’s no significant dark time between sunset and moonrise, thus…
Steve Martorano from his namesake cafe in Lauderdale didn’t win Meatball Madness up in NYC, but it looks like the festival went off pretty well anyway. [NewYorkTimes]Crispin Porter & Bogusky hired four new employees. Get ready for more craptastic ads. Maybe even for Burger King. [NewYorkTimes]Burger King’s new “20/20” initiative…
“Doris close yer legs, all I smell is fish!”We’re not sure who the marketing genius was that came up with having a seafood special at Scarlett’s On The Bay for their grand opening in 1988, but it seems like they should have known better than to make a strip club…
Fourteenth street between Overtown and the Arsht is full of wild game: zombified crackheads, worse for wear working-girls, artists, musicians, promoters, creatives, thugs, drugs, and po nine.Now, with Urbanite Bistro in the mix, we can add the literal interpretation: animals hunted for food, not domestication, according to Wikipedia.Urbanite Bistro (62…
What do you call a cow on a unicycle, a pig stuck in rush hour, or a potato calling an insurance company? Slow food.Others seem to think the term refers to an internationally renowned “member supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life.”Either way,…
October: season of growth and change. Sure, we don’t have a typical American autumn, but here it’s always fall as long as the coconuts do. Let the recent heatwave suffuse your being with the chaotic energy of the city, and let our food reflect it. We’re a run and gun…
Everyone’s buzzing on bacon. Drinkable (like in the case of “Bakon” vodka) and munchable, is there ever an occasion when getting some belly in your belly is not ok?My Achilles’ heel is particularly, and often, pierced in Hedy Goldsmith’s pastry station at Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink, where fatty slabs…
TIMO (17624 Collins Ave.) in Sunny Isles is the product of the teamwork of a top chef, experienced GM, and a staff committed to going above and beyond.Chef Tim Andriola started working kitchens as a kid in Lee, New Hampshire at his family’s restaurant, the Gateway. In South Florida he…
In the future we’d like to see a pizza vending machine that lets you order pies through your cell phone. When you dial the number and your payment goes through the machine activates its pizza software and delivers you a hot one in 7 minutes or less. When that happens,…
Last night at SoBe’s swanky Shore Club, the usual crowd of clean-cut marketing types, long-legged girls, and old dudes with braided ponytails gathered to imbibe large quantities of free booze. I was there, too. And together in the Red Room, we all loaded up on sips and shots of a…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Prices are as inviting as a Brazilian bikini. A bowl of black bean stew is $3; soup du jour, onion rings and croquettes are $5 to $6; and the rest of the appetizers mostly range from $8…
Guess what? Dade County does promote the arts, and if you’re a student, you can find out for yourself through our County’s amazing Culture Shock program.All you have to do is be a student aged 13 to 22. You can purchase up to two tickets and the person you go…
If you’ve never heard of Sodexo or Aramark they are both super-corp food service providers with major college and university cafeteria contracts. They are also big time purchasers of Florida tomatoes.They do not have an agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to protect farm laborers from inhumane treatment, sub…
World, meet the Pink Elephant, a drink designed for Plunge, the rooftop bar at the Gansevoort South (2377 Collins Ave., Miami Beach). One dollar from each Pink Elephant sold in October will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation for breast cancer research and awareness…
I reported yesterday that Area 31 was named as one of Esquire Magazine’s Top 20 New Restaurants of 2009. Michelle Bernstein’s Sra. Martinez also made the list. On the one hand, I apologize for missing that. On the other hand, the woman gets more than enough press. One more acknowledgement:…
Gulas sound like something you’d more likely find lurking in your neighborhood on Halloween than on your dinner plate. But last night at Xixon, the Coral Way Spanish tapas restaurant with a New Times Best Of to its name, that’s exactly where they were — swimming in a boiling cauldron…
