The Mahogany Grille (2190 NW 183 St) is a neo-classic soul food, white linen tablecloth, gourmet down home American Southern/Island Caribbean restaurant in the heart of Miami Gardens. It’s a family owned and operated joint. Legendary baseball player Andre “The Hawk” Dawson and his brother Vincent Brown own it, and…
Today’s top ten comes courtesy of Dave Crisafi, the dude behind the South Florida Beer Blog. He says “It’s always good to figure out how to introduce the average beer drinker to new flavors. You have to know what everything tastes like and what it’s similar to in order to…
Open wide, Short Order’s serving up a mouthful of local media from South Florida’s food blogosphere. Here are some recent updates from across the internets:Foodalogue has a mushroom tasting dinner. No mention of melting walls or seeing the colors in a song.Former New Times food critic Kavetchnik is a specials…
The review of Eos in this past week’s New Times was exceedingly positive. One of the things we like about the place is how eminently reasonable the pricing is. Now, at lunch at least, it gets even better with a 3-course prix fixe lunch menu for $25. Plus beverage. And…
The Fox nextwork has been pretty adamant about what we can and can’t reveal prior to the first airing of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares: Fleming Edition. Here’s what we are able to spill about this past Tuesday’s private marketing event for camera at Pinecrest Gardens. …
Chef Allen’s in Aventura is holding a promotion in which the restaurant will provide a complimentary dinner for two to anyone willing to bring a wheelbarrow, or 200 pounds worth, of mangos. At approximately one pound per mango, the idea of schlepping around 200 mangos up Biscayne Boulevard might seem tedious,…
My first brush with vegetarianism was fish-related. I was 6 or 7 on Florida’s west coast, tagging along with my father on an orchestra gig. Being raised by a musician dad, I’d been to the opera, salsa gigs and renaissance fairs but never on a fishing trip. We took a…
Whether taken or single, the dinner date can be a perilous affair if not done right. Go to Hooters, and you’ll be distracted/upstaged by the lovely boobies on display, the crew at Johnny Rockets will disrupt your dinner with some “Bob-bob-bob-bob-bobburran” bullshit, and Taco Bell – well let’s just say…
Just so you know, this image is from May 3, 1963, six months before tragedy, happy times, a good day for a motorcade, a great day for a drink and a backseat romp with the old lady. Short Order knows what you probably think when you see a picture of…
It’s not easy trying to find something new to tell you about Kingdom that hasn’t already been said, typed or printed. But then we heard that Miami Herald food critic Victoria Pesce Elliott crowned its Queen Burger victorious when Epicurious, the online home of Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines, asked…
Last Friday we brought you the first installment of Burton Dale’s response to a few emailed questions regarding organic farming. Here’s part II, where Burton explains how you can do it yourself.”How can the average working person get in on the action? Most working people do not own land of…
In the future Short Order will feature 3d holographic food modeling technology. For now we’re stuck on the screen, but life moves fast, don’t get left behind. Here’s what you might have missed last week.B & M Market’s landmark Caribbean kitchen on NE 2 Ave and 79th St.Dade County dragon…
With the tourism industry in a pinch, hospitality wants to be BFF with locals this summer. Remember Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire? (You’re lovin’ me now!) Yeah, it’s kinda like that.Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles is the latest hotel to develop a promotion around access…
So the Taco Bell dog is dead…supposedly. Here are Gidget’s top 5 messages from beyond the grave in this ghostly Short Order exclusive. Enjoy…
A few months back when the Food Network’s Bobby Flay named the 50 best burger joints in America, Little Havana’s own El Rey De Las Fritas was awarded best burger in Florida. But Sef Gonzalez, the dude behind BurgerBeast.com, says he knows better and recently suggested a Calle Ocho frita…
Eos at Viceroy Miami on Brickell Dazzles
Boiled… fried… and now stone-ground and baked. Miami-based natural foods company Explorer’s Bounty is venturing into the unleavened market, launching Tribal Stone Crackers. This 100 percent certified organic snack is the first of its kind in the world to be made from Rainforest Alliance Certified Yuca. Which basically means that…
Jason Obeso is a realtor with Kerdyk Real Estate. He contacted Short Order via email with some Coral Gables restaurant news. “Despite the slow year, I placed a new restaurant in the Gables in March and May, and facilitated Gables institution Le Provencal’s move to their new Miracle Mile spot…
Conrado Viera has a mobile hot dog hustle that takes him to about 25 or 30 locations a day for about 30 minutes at a time starting at about 8 in the morning. He says, “Yo ando todo aca en NW en todo partes de Wynwood.” He sells sausage, hot…
Philippe at the Gansevoort (305-674-0250) is offering a three-course $29 dinner menu Sundays through Thursdays from 6:00 p.m. to midnight. The meal includes choice of appetizer (chicken satay, crispy seaweed, vegetable dumplings, chicken lettuce wraps, house salad); main course with rice (chicken and broccoli, beef and oyster sauce, velvet chicken…
Starting at 8 p.m. TONIGHT, Blue Door at Delano (305-674-6400) will host a five-course wine dinner pairing the cuisine of Delano’s executive chef Maria Manso and consulting chef Claude Troisgros with wines from Silverado Winery. Here’s the lineup:First course: Crabavocat, Guacamole & Blue Crab Salad with Spicy Tomato Coulis &…
Back in 1987 the Tavern In The Grove was established at 3416 Main Highway. Twenty two years later it is still there. How many nights of reckless diversion and mornings of blind consumption have started and ended at the Tavern is anybody’s guess. Damn near guaranteed are plenty of butt…
