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…
Area 31, in the Epic Hotel downtown, has been named as one of the Best New Restaurants of 2009 in the November issue of Esquire magazine. When food and travel critic John Mariani dined at Area 31 this summer, he asked executive chef John Critchley to send out his favorite…
Bogus Beef: Miami restaurants say it’s Kobe, but it’s really American Wagyu
The old-world opulence of Palme d’Or seems especially anachronistic in the patently lax 21st Century. The 70-seat space, a restored homage to the original 1926 Biltmore Hotel restaurant, is a bygone world of ceiling frescoes, crystal chandeliers, intricately carved woods, black-and-white photos of vintage movie stars, and an almost fun-house…
Fall is here, supposedly. In Miami we’ve still got 90-degree days, and a monster electric bill.But at least pumpkins are here again because despite what the weather would have you believe it is in fact “that time of year.”Here are some alleged pumpkin health benefits that’ll have you going for…
Gerald Posner has a new book out called Miami Babylon. In it, he details Lee Schrager’s having pled guilty to insurance fraud. Lee Schrager is the local, socially-networked promotions powerhouse behind the success of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Our paper-product recently profiled Lee Schrager in our Fall Arts…
Once upon a time, the Germans decided to contribute their own booze, food, and music festival to the world. They had yet to come up with Kraftwerk, the art scene sucked, and they had plenty of kegs stored up in mountain caves to keep cool, so they said, “Let’s just…
“Dude. So, fuckin’, hungry. Let’s eat.”Whether you’re poking key holes into malt liquor tall cans in an abandoned field, drinking $10 Heinekens at a club on South Beach, slamming shots at home with friends, or draining funnels from a second floor fire hose beer bong, there will always reach a…
