This past weekend, Fairchild overflowed with thousands of them: Mangoes of all colors, shapes and sizes, ripe and dripping with sugary sweet goodness. So many, you’d blend in if you dressed up as one. Some thought they might turn into one at midnight from the exposure!Fairchild’s Tropical Fruit Program cultivates…
Wemerge Magazine is a burgeoning, free, local arts & entertainment magazine. It’s new, and it’s printed on real live glossy paper, made from real dead trees. Take that, stupid internet! Page 1 of issue #5 contains a screed on the virtues of celery and takes up the banner of celery…
Crying about the economy? Want some cheese with that whine? Don’t go looking for it at the artwalk. The days of your bourgeois snack conventions are as dead as Michael Jackson. Food offerings at the July 2009 Wynwwod and Miami Design District second Saturday artwalk were sparse, and limited to…
Short Order’s mousefinger is strong like bull thanks to all the local blogs that keep us clicking. Here are some weekend highlights from around town. Food Of Miami checks out Kafa Cafe in Mid Town, eats with hands. Miami Dish serves up scenes from the Mango Festival, Nice shots. Chowfather’s…
It appears another restaurant has bitten the dust on Ocean Terrace. Le Banyan opened only this year, and the French owners’ presentation of Thai cuisine earned early raves — although most everyone commented that it was way too expensive for Thai.Ocean Terrace is a rather pleasant two-block stretch east of…
You know a guy means business about desserts when he signs his emails “Confectionarily.” That’s Exec. Pastry Chef Charles Froke for you, and he’s giving us a sneak peak of his unique creation for this Sunday’s Mango Brunch at Fairchild (which now appears to be sold out according to its…
To eat mango raw or cooked? That is the question. On a recent trip, I gobbled up India’s prized Alphonso and nearly melted at the taste of its juicy morsels dripping with caramel sweetness. Imagine cubes of bright orange flesh, alongside rosy papaya for breakfast every morning. Unadorned, unadulterated bliss…But…
Most sharks have to stay moving to stay alive. Short Order is a shark. Here’s what you might have missed last week.Cindy Hutson, chef/owner of Ortanique, loves pizza from a town called Neck Newark.O Bacalhau is no longer offering salt cod 16 different ways. They’re out of business.Find out how…
Penny-pincher! Cheapo! This kind of name-calling is welcomed by Teresa Mears. Caught in the Miami Herald downsizing crossfire last summer, she made lemonade out of lemons and launched a web destination for all things frugal: Miami FL on the Cheap. “Everyone — including me — is looking for deals now…
When the uber-expensive Chinese eatery Philippe opened in the Gansevoort Hotel last year, most reviews (including our own) pointed to chef Philippe Chow’s time as head chef at the acclaimed Mr. Chow’s in New York as evidence of his pedigree. But wait! A lawsuit filed in Miami’s federal court this…
Miami’s The Cereal Bowl took a college student’s observation that people love customizing their cereal experience and made a global corporation out of it.The company just inked a deal with Global Brands, a Qatar based company, to expand to the Middle East.The Cereal Bowl leveraged the success of its flagship…
On July 13th there will be dancing on Calle 8, to French music. That’s because July 13th the Alliance Francaise of Miami is celebrating Bastille Day (historically celebrated the morning of July 14th).Bastille Day is similar to our 4th of July. It is a French national holiday that commemorates the…
Saw this over at the Sun Sentinel food blog, Sup. Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares is looking for diners to eat at the remade Fleming: A Taste of Denmark, across the street from The Falls.If you haven’t seen the show, Gordon Ramsay goes to a failing restaurant, yells a lot, makes…
This post is not about fast food it’s about a food fast. Yesterday, at the YWCA in Overtown, Commissioner Michelle Spence-Jones and members of local faith-based, and anti-violence organizations along with community members came together for a press conference in response to a recent Overtown birthday shooting.Pastor Richard P. Dunn…
There is something unique about Ortanique on the Mile that becomes apparent as soon as one enters the warm, woody, orange-hued, citrus-and-flower-muraled room: It smells better than other restaurants. Even with the preponderance of open kitchens these days, many dining establishments exude the aromatic appeal of a hotel lobby. But…
The lychee is a fruit native to China that grows well in humid, subtropical climates free of frost. No wonder that a simple drive around Miami-Dade County reveals many “Lychees for Sale” signs at roadside stands, outdoor markets, and grocery stores. Tropical fruit season is here, so now is the…
Live for about a week, a new Cafe Tu Tu Tango fan page on Facebook logged 100 fans today, just meeting the requirement to claim its own brand URL. Other digital fan clubs exist for the chain, including one for the now-defunct Coconut Grove branch, but this is the first…
Chef Michio Kushi is from Katsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The first restaurant he ever worked at was called Yagumo, back in his hometown, from 1977 to 1980. That restaurant is still there.From 1980 to 1983, Michio worked at Su-Shin at 1085 NE 79th St. He claims it was the only…
Uh-oh — I think all the info needed is in the headline. This is unfortunate in many ways, not the least being that I get paid by the word. (I won’t say how much, but if I can stretch this post to the approximate length of War and Peace, I’m…
This week Archive Diver brings you an ad for the Sports Rock Cafe, a bar food/health/entertainment concept at a failed mall, the Bakery Centre. The Bakery Centre, now the location for The Shops At Sunset Place on US1 and SW 57th Ave., was a pink, 9-acre, commercial wasteland that kids…
Happy’s Stork Lounge is best left described by the people who know it best. Here are some quotes and images from the divingest dive bar in North Bay Village, the 50 somethin years and running bar and package liquor store between Miami and Miami Beach on the 79th street causeway.”It’s…
You won’t find a food stylist in the credits for this cookbook. But there is eye candy, of a different kind.In Lovely Daze Special Edition Book: ROSE, pastry chef Angela Garcia explores the ingredient rose in dessert recipes paired with drawings and paintings by artist Cristina Rodriguez. The beautiful collection…
