Executive chef Sean Brasel tried a Lincoln Road meatery once before: KISS Steakhouse, located in the Albion Hotel, opened and closed in 2002. The restaurant’s failure probably had more to do with the scantily clad go-go dancers gyrating on Plexiglas stages above the tables than the food’s quality: The steaks,…
Tomorrow night at the Jupiter Beach Resort, AAA will formally present its Diamond Awards to Palm Beach County restaurants and hotels that have gone way beyond the call of duty in terms of service, food, style, and amenities. The winners, though, have already been announced, and we’ve got two Five…
Boca Bubble Tea from MiamiNewTimesBlogs on Vimeo.Boca Bubble Tea is an informal festival operation run by the Ward family. Bubble Tea is flavored sugar water with tapioca pearls at the bottom. Listen to Mr. Ward tell you about it…
Viet Style from MiamiNewTimesBlogs on Vimeo.Take a table-top tour of authentic Vietnamese cuisine featuring a rice and wonton noodle and vegetable dish, fried rice with Chinese sausage and vegetables, Vietnamese egg rolls, and a jelly dessert with tapioca pearl…
Ian Martin is the brains behind Island Stylee Gourmet Ice Cream, an excellent product I had the opportunity to sample recently. Ian learned about homemade ice cream from a friend and then took the product development on himself seeing in a gourmet ice cream the wide open possibilities of a…
It’s Like Coconut from MiamiNewTimesBlogs on Vimeo.Here’s an authentic Thai dessert, the name of which I can’t pronounce (or find on the Internet). If anybody in the world knows what it is, leave a comment. It’s delicious and fun to watch being made…
Sophia’s Thai and Korean from MiamiNewTimesBlogs on Vimeo.Sophia’s Thai and Korean has been a vendor at the Asian Culture Festival for 18 years. This year, Sophia was serving some fine foods including a spicy bamboo-strip dish, chicken wings, mixed vegetables, the great-tasting fish on a stick (AKA Thai catfish) and…
To say we get courted for promotion is an understatement. We got harassed by P.R. whores asking us to talk about their products. Psst! Let me let you in on a little secret: Best way into a New Times writer’s heart is to offer free booze. With the economy in…
I fancy myself an intrepid cook, one who strives to try out new ingredients and push my own boundaries on a regular basis. Every so often, I’ll pick some dish I’ve never made before — flour tortillas, berry sabayon, cote du boeuf — and I’ll set out to do it…
Goodness gracious, another Friday the 13th rolling around — that makes two this year. But we have a plan to help you beat back bad luck this week: On Friday, March 13, Slow Foods Glades to Coast is teaming up with the Cheese Course in Weston to demonstrate the art…
Asian Fusion Cuisine from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Pancit, Turron, Chicken Adobo — these are all traditional Filipino dishes, and they were all presented by a family catering company called Asian Fusion Cuisine at the Asian Culture Festival on March 7, 2009. Those interested in Asian Fusion Cuisine should call…
It isn’t often that we New Timesers get a bottle of $200 whiskey in the mail. We did, not long ago, thanks to the folks at Canadian Club, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year with the release of a primo 30-year-old, 80-proof, white-oak-barrel-aged blended whiskey retailing for a…
Nirala Sweets from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Nirala Sweets Restaurant, winner of Broward Palm Beach New Time’s “Best Sticky Sweets” in 2006, creates a variety of authentic, homemade desserts straight from secret Indian/Pakistani recipes. Check out the selection they had available at the Asian Culture Festival at Homestead’s Fruit &…
Thai Spring Rolls from Miami New Times on Vimeo.This past weekend, the Dade County Parks and Rec and Thai-American Association sponsored the annual Asian Culture Festival, now in its 20th year at Homestead’s Fruit & Spice Park. It gave fairgoers the unique opportunity to experience the cultures of Asia through…
Season two of Check, Please! kicks off tonight on WPBT-2, with Michelle Bernstein returning to host and lead each week’s panel discussion. The show features three dining enthusiasts who escort one another to their respective favorite restaurant, then afterward in the studio, make-believe they are reviewers and dish about the…
Welcome to the Friday Sandwich Weekly Wrap Up where we conveniently agglomerate the week’s content into an easily clickable bullet review format. A funny sandwich puzzles Lee KleinGail Shepherd gets religulous on lobsterThe Coral Gables Middle Eastern Festival shows you their kibbehThe “Japanese Bag Fish Crunch” finally gets its just dueAll…
Moriano, a little art cafe joint on a semi-desolate stretch of NE 2nd Avenue barely south of the Design District, serves what co-owner Jorge Di Cataldo describes as “Italo Argentinian” food. They opened “like 5 months ago,” and their most popular sandwiches are The Moriano (meat, caremalized onions, sauteed bacon,…
Every year the S. Pellegrino Almost Famous Chef Competition scours the kitchens of America’s culinary institutes for talented students ready to compete for the title of Almost Famous Chef. The ten most talented young chefs, as determined by regional competitions, converge on Napa, California’s Culinary Institute of America for three…
Ideas Restaurant in the Grove is all about its name. The lunch specials reflect customers’ input. When diners finish their meals Chef Felipe Perez often leaves the kitchen to cull reactions and take requests for future meals. The restaurant also takes e-mail suggestions into consideration when deciding upon lunch specials.I…
You wonder how a tiny, nine-table, family run Armenian cafe could survive two years on the fringes of Boca Raton’s ritzy Mizner Park: But order a plate of Boca Skewers’ falafel, and you’ll get the picture. These crunchy little balls of fried, spiced chickpeas may be served on a plastic…
Add The Food Gang to the list of 2009’s restaurant victims. We in Miami have also recently lost Christabelle’s Quarter, Two Chefs Too and Mr. Chu’s Hong Kong Cuisine. And while we didn’t notice when El Viajante Segundo became no mas, it is nonetheless shocking — the Cuban cafeteria had…
Best Sushi In World? from MiamiNewTimes.com on Vimeo.Goto Sushi Express is a great little sushi joint around Biscayne and 54th. Check out this video interview slash rolling demo with the husband-and-wife team that owns and operates the place. With sushi as with most everything, ain’t nothin’ like the real thing,…
