On April 23rd more than 30 wineries from all of Portugal’s main wine regions will converge on Miami. You may not know that Portugal has about 500 native kinds of grapes, or that Lusitania, an ancient Roman province in present-day Portugal, may have been named for Luso, son/companion of Bacchus,…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Short Order will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you have…
It’s Thursday folks, like to drink? It’s a good day to start. Here are some places to do it around the city: Ortanique on the Mile – 278 Miracle Mile – Coral Gables 305.446.7710 – website Thursday Ultra Hours with Free Champagne tasting 5:30 p.m. till the bubbles run dry.Daily…
Two Chefs is a South Miami culinary mecca. They’ve been plating their innovations in contemporary American cooking for 15 years and are known for having some of the best souffles in town. Sous Chef Jose Guerrero leads a cooking class of up to ten people once a week on Saturdays. Two…
Who said this? “I was the first one ever showed movies in a restaurant – we played The Godfather at my father’s restaurant, Anton’s, and this was back when you had to rent those big VCRs – I went and got the machine, I set it up in the bar,…
For most people, tax season is a time of near crippling depression accompanied by a vow to tighten the belt. Short Order is here to help by showing you some incredible recipes you can use to save money without sacrificing taste.Triple Pork Sandwich? Yes pleaseIs it too early to start…
A cool new website launched this week helps readers identify local restaurants that operate with a BYOB policy, and also provides the establishments’ wine policy and corkage information. Southeast Florida is one of ten metropolitan areas covered by GoBYO.com. The free online service also provides direct links to restaurant websites,…
They’re dancing on the tables in Palm Beach Gardens — literally — with the debut of Palm Beach County’s second Ouzo Blue. The first Blue set up in Lake Worth in January, bringing Greek faves from dolmades and spanakopita to moussaka and lamb kebabs, plus lots of table dancing, belly…
Let’s skip over the whole sweaty Top Chef thing and treat the new Bulldog Barbecue like any other barbecue joint. After all, chef/proprietor Howie Kleinberg is not doing spice rub demos in the dining room; his only competition, roughly speaking, is Beach Bar-B-Que, about 30 blocks south on Biscayne Boulevard;…
Goooooood mooooorning MIA. We now introduce you to the Cupcake Diva, a South Florida entrepreneur specializing in high end confections like “made to order” cupcakes, cupcake ice cream cones, and interactive cupcake stations for parties and events.The last time we interacted with a cupcake it went something like bite, chew,…
Image via IShotTheChef.com IShotTheChef.com is an independent, locally based food blog that documents the meals of a husband/wife photographer/cook team through their text and photos. Their recent “Bacon and Eggs” post shows you how to make an economy-minded Pasta Alla Carbonara.According to Wikipedia, the dish, also known as “coal…
Food related bad news is everywhere this morning, beginning with this story: Money doesn’t buy happiness, as we know. But evidently fast food does. Researches at the University of Arkansas teamed up with the University of Taiwan to extrapolate from a long term study of Taiwanese children, a quarter of…
Last week, on Wednesday, April 8th to be exact, Short Order told you about Ft. Lauderdale bar Fish Tales and how you can get free food there five days a week. The writer claimed that Fish Tales “has one of the most delicious happy hour buffets in town.” That’s his…
Yes, it seems even Palm Beach can’t escape the iron clutch of impending economic doom. Fortunes strip-mined by Bernie Madoff, trendy uber-boutiques slinking off Worth Avenue like mangy dogs, billionaires reduced to poverty-stricken multimillionaires. And now an affordable restaurant is heading for the streets-paved-with-18-carat gold island.Oh, the horror. . …
This time around, the happy hour food isn’t fried, microwaved, boiled, or steamed. In fact, it isn’t even cooked. If you’re looking for a little something different to go with your cocktails, Coco Asian Bistro and Bar is the place to be. From 4 to 7 pm, happy hour is…
Pizza Fusion, born as a single restaurant operation in Deerfield, is now aggressively franchised. On March 31, the company announced a series of Pizza Fusion restaurants opening across Saudi Arabia. Its motto is “Saving the Earth one pizza at a time” and all deliveries are made using company-owned hybrid vehicles. The menu…
20 years in the restaurant biz is a hell of an achievement, and Coral Gables’ Cafe Abbracci, 319 Aragon Ave, just hit that mark. To celebrate, the place is adding light, organic, calorie-conscious offerings to its roster of the traditional Italian favorites that have kept them in business all these years…
The Water Club (no relation to Tony Chan’s Water Club) is slated to open late May in the Intracoastal Mall at 3969 N.E. 163 St., North Miami Beach (the former locale of Shooters Waterfront Bar and Restaurant, which closed in 2001). The new indoor-outdoor venue will encompass 27,500-square-feet and seat…
Smell that? April 19 is National Garlic day, a holiday of ungoogleable origin that aims to promote the spice’s many varied uses. Whether you’re slicing it razor thin like Pauly in Goodfellas or warding off vampires, this much is clear: Garlic has a legend that goes back millenia. Often seen…
My friend Peggy Jean was in town over the Easter holidays. Peggy Jean is a real Southern cook, which means that just about everything she makes calls for many pounds of butter, cartons of heavy whipping cream, half and half, bacon fat, salt, and variations on the theme of sugar…
It’s going to be a beer-filled kind of week, folks. First, New Times’ Original Beerfest is only five days away. If you haven’t grabbed your tickets yet to the four-hour celebration of import and craft brews, you can pick them up here. Second, this Thursday is the opening of Beer…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Cafe Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe.Some secrets South Floridians like to keep to themselves. Lake Worth hole-in-the-wall Havana Hideout has a few of them. Like its…
