During a complimentary press dinner Tuesday night at Solea, we were treated to a dip in humidity and a pistachio semifreddo that signaled talent was making pastries in the W South Beach Hotel kitchen. The man behind this cooling and creamy lime green mound, topped with olive oil ice cream…
Some broke American alcoholics drink “pink ladies,” canned sterno filtered through a piece of bread or an old sock. It can get you drunk, and it can kill you. Cuba’s version is called “chispa de tren,” so named for the hallucinations it causes that resemble the sparks made between a…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Beef “effilochée” was effing delicious. The cylindrical castle of shredded shank meat gets braised for seven hours and crowned with organic micro sprouts sprayed with truffle vinaigrette. Surrounding the meat are concentric moats of red wine reduction…
Roaches!On September 8, 2009 a Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulations routine food inspection saw them running around the kitchen of Ola at Sanctuary (1745 James Ave., Miami Beach). Click here for the report.The disposition of the report was “Emergency Order Recommended: Conditions have been found that endanger the…
If you’ve ever stepped in dog shit as you walked into a restaurant you might not like this list. Same goes for if you’re allergic to K9s.Food & Wine magazine has named Miami one of the top five dog friendliest cities in the United States, based on dining and lodging…
Starting this coming Monday, October 5th, and continuing every Monday afterwards, Bourbon Steak Miami is offering diners 50% off every bottle of wine in stock — all 850 of them. The “Half-priced Wines Mondays” promotion doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue when you try to say it, but this is…
We noticed that Cacao Restaurant in Coral Gables had been closed for the month of September — never a good sign. But as the message on the restaurant’s answering machine optimistically declared that it would reopen October 1st, we figured we’d wait before worrying. Today is October 1st and no…
Welcome to October, y’all. New fall menu items are rolling out today at Michelle Bernstein’s South Florida restaurants. Suckers that we are for nostalgia, it was time to relish some last bites of summer at Sra. Martinez last night, including the curtain call for her Miami Spice menu. Favorites included…
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Less is more is a sound gastronomic principle, and certainly one the dining public has been eager to embrace. Sane portions, light sauces, bright flavors? Of course. Food from the Mediterranean, where the less-is-more crowd prefers to weigh anchor, likewise enjoys near-universal appeal — especially in Cuisine of the Sun-conscious…
You could say fat runs in my family. Like, genetically. That’s my great grandpa to the right. They called him Chins Mulliggan.He was an Irish gangster. A hard drinking killer that carried tripe in his overcoat pockets, and taught my father to do the same.So I don’t entirely blame the…
Cindy Hutson started her professional cooking career in 1994 when she and her partner Delius Shirley opened Norma’s On The Beach. They named the place after his mother, Norma Shirley, a famous chef who Food & Wine once called the “Julia Child of the Caribbean.”Cindy says “Our first restaurant, Norma’s,…
They call it food with integrity. We knocked em’ for not having it when they were buying what could have been slave tomatoes.But Chipotle recently struck a deal with Florida company East Coast Growers and Packers to pay fair wages and ensure humane labor practices for Sunshine State tomato workers…
Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza is offering local football fans a chance to win the ultimate “Dolp-fan” package: Two club seats, a parking pass and Anthony’s tailgate food for 10 will be given away to each home game. In order to qualify, you have to pick up a form available at…
Archive Diver found this ad for the South Side Bar & Grill (8099 S. Dixie Highway) in a 1988 issue of the Miami New Times.According to ad copy they were open from 10 p.m. – 6 a.m. every night and they wanted you to “Make us your late night place.”This…
I’m sure we can all agree that Latin America has some gastronomic traditions that would make Anthony Bourdain run screaming into the Amazon. I’m also sure that Latinos sure know how to drink. Need proof? 1. Aguardiente: At between 29 and 60 percent alcohol, this Colombian drink has enough kick…
It was the breast of times, but not the wurst of times, because Pollo Tropical has got chicken on lock, but they’re not slanging sausage.Cash in your gut check with Pollo Tropical’s new Tropical Trios, any combination of 3 wings, a quarter rack of ribs, a quarter grilled chicken, or…
A kid eats octopus in Miami, his mom writes a book. Foodie parents. [DailyNewsOnline]Miami based Burger King corp running one dollar hollers in the burger war of 09′. [BaltimoreSun]AP report say Miami is one of the U.S. cities with largest income gaps, and nationwide foodstamp usage jumped 13 percent last…
