Evidently last week’s entry in Short Order’s weekly contest, WTF Is It?!?, — was child’s play for our MENSA-class readers. Half the world, it seems, knows what to do with a bitter gourd, while we’d been using them as foot massagers. This week we’ve got TWO summertime edibles and the…
Today, the saga of the Shrimp Bandit has come to a close. When we last left you, we were hot on the trail of the elusive thief, ready to snare him in our nets like so many fisherman before. But this morning, the trail went cold. Our contacts hit dead…
As if it wasn’t enough that you couldn’t screw up soufflés in your own kitchen without the fear of celeb-chef Gordon Ramsay’s disembodied head floating in and calling you a f’in C, French video game publisher Ubisoft announced today that it plans to release Hell’s Kitchen™: The Video Game for…
International Mango Festival Date: July 12 – 13, 2008 Location: Fairchild Tropical Garden 10901 Old Cutler Road Coral Gables Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden invites you its 16th annual International Mango Festival featuring the mangoes of Africa. The weekend features, among many other activities and mango tree sales, the celeb-studded Ninth…
New Times Broward-Palm Beach empaneled a group of our expert staff to rate the edibility of six top brands of cat food available in local supermarkets.
David Katz looks more or less like your typical 35-year-old guy from East Brunswick, New Jersey (perhaps a bit grayer). But he’s really much more interesting than that. His passions in life are his wife (a Miami native he met at a South Beach club — they both live here…
Bartolome Grill & Restaurant’s 54-seat dining room is handsomely attired in black (tables, chairs, linens, pillars, bar, lofty industrial ceiling, waiters’ outfits) and vivid red (seat cushions, bar backlighting, waiters’ ties). Two walls are predominantly glass, which lightens and expands the space considerably; the rest are painted a grayish white,…
Thank god for PR companies, because I really would have been bummed to have missed the news about Denny’s new late-night menu, served only between the witching hours from 10 to 5 in the a.m. At first, I thought I’d post the photo above in our weekly WTF Is It…
Listen up, mes amis. Before digging into your next filet de sole bonne femme, consider that you may be spilling more beans than a drunken chef cooking cassoulet. A friend tells me that at the venerable and hoity Palm Beach French restaurant Chez Jean Pierre, there’s a little glitch with…
We’ve made big gains today in the pursuit of justice in our office food theft scandal here at New Times. In case you missed it, a number of shrimp were stolen yesterday from New Times’ employee fridge, prompting an investigation that’s shook the office to its very core. This morning,…
Miami Spice has proven such a successful promotion tool that each year we see more and more restaurants stretch it out by creating their own similarly priced specials for the month of July. Like Miami Spice, the deal’s worthiness is wholly dependent upon what kind of menu is being offered…
This month’s issue of Food & Wine taps our very own Allen Susser, of Chef Allen’s in Aventura, for recommendations about where to buy great local foodstuffs in South Florida.
Life in the New Times’ offices is often exciting — but nothing could have prepared us for what unfolded today. A coworker who shall remain unnamed brought in a spiral party platter of cocktail shrimp for lunch; the kind where all the little buggers are arranged around the tray in…
Hope everyone had a safe and happy Fourth of July — I know I did. This year I threw a little shindig at my house to celebrate. So I invited the crew from work, friends, and family down to Casa de Linn with the intention of giving them something a…
If you’d told me that these New Age drug stores were legally selling pot brownies, nut mixes infused with hashish, and tea-laced Rice Crispie treats, I would have died laughing.
Welcome to the first installment of our weekly Friday game, WTF IS IT?!? Each Friday (maybe) we’ll put up a photo of some exotic and supposedly edible foodstuff. First reader to correctly identify the thing will win…. …the smug knowledge that s/he is an insufferable know-it- all. You’re naturally invited…
South Beach old-timers have long spoken of Lulu’s the way older old-timers recall Wolfie’s Delicatessen — with fondness not just for the place itself, but for the moment in time it was so emblematic of. When Billy Keen Jr. opened the restaurant on Washington Avenue in 1990, Lulu’s came to…
Jose D. Duran The Midtown Steak Sandwich at Out of the Blue Cafe. Where: 2426 NE 2nd Ave., Miami 305-573-3800 What $15 Gets You: A sandwich, panini or salad with a drink. Located on the fringes of Wynwood, Out of the Blue Cafe feels oddly out of place among the…
Who does a girl have to flak to get a DECENT PIECE OF CAKE around here?
Cheryl Chin, of Jamaica Kitchen, was raised with four siblings in Kingston, Jamaica. Their father told them: “You’re all going to America and you’re all going to college.” Which they did. “When I say I have a master’s degree, people are like, ‘What?'” Chin says, seeming to relish the notion…
Recent articles have explored some of the revenue-enhancing measures that restaurateurs have undertaken to counter rising food costs — smaller portions, cheaper ingredients, professional pickpockets to work the dining room, and so forth. Many establishments will no doubt also rely on Miami Spice, the annual discount-dining program that begins August…
After three years in business at 1831 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Little Saigon City has closed shop. Although the mom-and-pop Vietnamese restaurant regrettably included sub-par Chinese food on its menu, the unpretentious, home-cooked buns, phos, spring rolls and desserts were quite good, and very well priced. But as high food…
