Hey, you feel that? Stop whatever you’re doin for a second and tell me, you smell somethin? Is it hot in here? Hey what’s goin on? We’re cookin dammit, that’s what. The melting pot is heating up and Miami’s food scene is burblin’ with the certainty of it. It’s as…
Editor’s Note:Meatless in Miami columnist Lolo Reskin is ba-a-a-ack. In her first column, she talked about becoming a vegetarian. She’ll be writing on the site regularly. MYTH: It’s hard to be a vegetarian in Miami.REALITY: It’s actually a breeze, and only getting breezier…This is the main misconception that inspired this…
The first entry in our new Great Chef Recipe Files comes from Marco Ferraro, the talented top toque at Wish at The Hotel in South Beach. Ferraro was born in Italy, tutored at The French Culinary Institute in New York, trained at Michelin two-star Le Muscandin in Mougins, and followed…
Yesterday, Lee Klein called Miami Spice annoying. Today, we’re giving the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau an opportunity to respond. I asked Rolando Aedo, Senior VP of marketing and tourism what makes Miami Spice special if it happens every season. I also asked him whether prices are going to…
We just received word from Terry Zarikian, Director of Product Development for China Grill Management, that Kobe Club Miami’s closing is only temporary — the steak house will reopen at the beginning of August. Why the confusion? “The New York Times misreported the closing of Kobe Club Miami by omitting…
Not to say that New Times invented surveys, prizes, or calling stuff the best, but NBCmiami.com’s “Golden Local” awards are obviously a blatant rip off of our legally trademarked annual “Best Of Miami” awards.That being said, NBCmiami.com has done a nice job in taking their readers poll to web 2.0…
Norman Van Aken is a culinary legend. Check his stats in our archive.Including this blog post, his name has appeared 149 times in New Times since 1990, when the archives start. Ever heard of New World Cuisine, “The Mango Gang,” a Mano, or Norman’s? Van Aken is that dude. He left…
Postpone that TV dinner you had planned for this evening–it’s time to call and make reservations at your favorite upscale restaurant.Tonight is “Dine Out and Save Lives” night, sponsored by Care Resource, South Florida’s largest and oldest HIV/AIDS community health provider. Here’s how it works: go to their website, click…
On May 5th, Food Network Magazine will hit newsstands with a feature declaring Miami’s own El Rey De Las Fritas as maker of the best hamburger in Florida; and that’s according to celebrity chef Bobby Flay (and food critics across the country).In a recent Short Order interview with Miami’s resident…
If you have a cool family recipe — preferably South Florida-ethnic-centric — and a JPEG photo to go along with it, we would like to share it with the hungering world. It’s gotta be an original, passed-down recipe, not something you’ve scooped from a cookbook or website. And it should…
More and more folks are supposedly cooking at home these days, so the next best thing to starting dinner at Michy’s with blue cheese-and-Jamón Serrano croquetas is to start dinner at home with your own homemade version. Not that we’ve asked Michelle for the recipe yet, but you can ask…
We mean a great recipe from a great chef (and you know who you are). We mean a recipe for a dish currently being served in a reputable (but not necessarily expensive) local restaurant. We mean a recipe accompanied by a JPEG photo of the completed course. These recipes will…
MIA at Biscayne, a 14,000-square-foot dining and entertainment venue, is slated to open at the corner of Flagler and the namesake boulevard this coming summer. Executive Chef Gerdy Rodriguez, who you might remember from another gargantuan downtown dining and entertainment venue (Karu & Y), is in charge of producing “reinvented…
Canyon Ranch Grill
Ever ridden your bike north on Biscayne Boulevard at midnight and wondered what that place around 18th Street was doing that had all those people sitting outside eating, drinking, smiling and looking like they were having a good time? I have. I almost ran one of them over, so much…
Menu Pages South Florida is reporting that a new Mexican joint is slated to open in Midtown later this year. “Mercadito, a popular upscale Mexican restaurant in New York, is coming to Midtown Miami sometime this winter.”The report doesn’t make clear whether it means Midtown as a general geographical area,…
As just reported by Carolina Bolado on South Florida Menu Pages, Kobe Club is shutting its doors this coming Friday, May 1 — just one week after the New York branch did likewise. Will this turn out to be just the first pinprick in the South Beach steak house bubble?…
Area 31 at the Epic Hotel makes you feel rich and powerful, like you’re at the top of the world, even if you’re only 16 floors up. Our beautiful skyline, infinity poolside chillin’, a cool breeze, ships chugging along the Miami River — it’s a scenic place, and perfect for a…
Some people say as little as one glass of wine a day increases womens risk of getting cancer. Others still find that the same behavior actually reduces the risk. Alls I know is that thinking about phytochemicals and anti-oxidants is making me thirsty. Nothing like free drinks to kick start…
Miami Spice started as a discount deal that was meant to promote dining out during the traditionally sluggish month of August. Then it was officially lengthened through September, and the following year restaurateurs unofficially jumped the gun and started the program in July. This year there were winter Spice programs…
…is the next best thing to tea and sympathy. This Friday, May 1st, The Miami Symphony will be performing at the Guzman Concert Hall at the University of Miami at 8:00 p.m. After the event, a Symphonic Celebration takes place at Cacao Restaurant from 10:30 p.m. to midnight. Miami Symphony…
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is an internationally recognized farmworker organization. Members fight the human rights violations commonplace in the fields where many of them work. They represent tomato pickers in the fields of Immokalee, where a vast amount of America’s tomatoes get picked. The CIW is raising money for the…
