Friday Night Food Truck Meetup Moving

Friday night’s Tamiami Truckers Food Court, which is held at 12795 SW 137th Ave., will be moving, reports organizer Caza Crepes. The new location will likely be nearby.Here are some of the trucks to keep an eye on: Wing Commander, MonTaco, Caza Crepes, La Camaronera’s Fish Box, Latin House Grill, Churro…

Blog Watch: Mobile Pizza Coming Soon

A mobile pizza oven is hitting the streets soon. [Burger Beast]All Purpose Dark offers a peek into brunch at Mercadito.Grapefruit and anchovy salad at Tinkering with Dinner.Orlando eats at Food for Thought.Brickell Life makes a good-looking yellowtail crudo.Ever wondered what the french fries are like at IKEA? Ask the French…

Vinyl & Kai Saturday Breakfast Club Meets 3 a.m. to 9 a.m.

​​Vinyl & Kai, everybody’s favorite South Beach “Gastropub & Rock Spot,” is bringing after hours to South Beach with a weekly Saturday Breakfast Club. A full liquor bar will swing from 3 am to 5 am and then re-open at 8 am. Breakfast is served straight through, and includes items…

Hakkasan Celebrates Year Of The Rabbit

From Thursday, February 2 through Wednesday, February 9, Fontainebleau Miami Beach’s Hakkasan will be celebrating the Chinese New Year by offering five specialty dishes along with the regular a la carte Cantonese menu. The big shebang takes place on Saturday, February 5, when a live lion dance takes place in…

Less Than Six Degrees to Holland’s Chef Rudi Sodamin

Did you miss the first part of our chat with Rudi Sodamin, Holland America’s consulting master chef? Read it here to discover the celebrity circles this guy travels with.Who is the most famous chef you’ve ever worked with?Twenty years ago, when I was with the QE2, I worked with the…

Sugarcane Introduces a Sublime Revamped Cocktail Menu

​Sugarcane Raw Bar Grill takes cocktails very seriously. This is a blessing for those of us who enjoy libations with complex flavors. South American-inspired, New York-style Midtown gastropub hired mixologists Evas Zvi and Gabriel Orta, who also work with the W South Beach, create possibly the best tasting drinks in…

Culinarium at Villa 221 Brings Booze and Live Music

Thursday night brought booze, live music and food truck grub to a gathering called the Culinarium. For the first time in Miami, food trucks, the latest trend to satisfy hungry Miamians, added entertainment and a full bar to the equation.On the corner of NE 2nd Avenue and 17th Street, more…

Fart Without Fear Cookbook For “Low Flat” Super Bowl Sunday Snacks

It’s time to start thinking about Super Bowl Sunday. Specifically: What foods to prepare for the event? More specifically, and perhaps more than you really even want to think about: Is there a way to serve refried bean nachos without an odiferous aftermath that makes one yearn for the comparatively…

The Randazzos Discuss Departing the Water Club

Andrea Curto-Randazzo is one of Miami’s best known chefs, and the restaurant she ran with her husband Frank, Talula, was for years one of Miami Beach’s finest eating establishments. Last year, they left to help start a new venture — as executive chefs of the Water Club in North Miami…

Where It At? Paella

What it is? Paella Valenciana with mussels, clams, shrimp, calamari, lobster, and chorizo.Where it at? That’s the question I shellfishly ask. Don’t clam up — go for the bait and take a guess in the comments section below. We’ll have the answer on Monday if you don’t get it first.Bonus…

Did Chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo Leave the Water Club? (UPDATE)

Miami New Times was alerted to a Twitter post announcing Chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo has bailed on her latest venture. “Former Top Chef contestant Andrea Curto-Randazzo is no longer part of The Water Club,” @Miamitude reports.There’s no announcement on the restaurant’s website and comments are hard to come by. Water Club,…

Food Star Stalking with Holland America’s Rudi Sodamin

Holland America invited Short Order aboard the ms Noordam a few weeks ago to meet its new Culinary Council. We nearly plotzed after discovering that meant having lunch with David Burke, Charlie Trotter, Jacques Torres, Jonnie Boer, and council chairman Rudi Sodamin, also the cruise line’s consulting master chef. Holland…

Tagliatelle Dishes Classic Italian South of Fifth

Tagliatelle, a traditional Italian restaurant with an emphasis on seafood, quietly opened November 1 at 124 Collins Avenue in South Beach (in the space formerly…wait, I forgot…oh, right, Amnesia). Restaurateur Matthieu Mineo, from Nice, France, has two restaurants in his home country. Does South Beach remind Mineo of Nice? “The…

American Noodle Bar: tasty and affordable

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic pork belly. He had no one but himself to blame. What did he expect, having inhaled slabs of the fatty pig meat over the past year as if breathing air? He…