For lease signs now grace the windows of La Moon restaurant on Ponce de Leon Boulevard. Calls to the restaurant’s phone number were forwarded to its Eighth Street location, where an employee confirmed the Gables spot closed last week. The restaurant must have been hurting, for on my last visit…
We’re not sure which day Hofbräu Beerhall’s all-you-can-eat special began, but we can tell you with certainty that today is the last day. The deal is this: Well, we already told you — it’s all you can eat. Plus a soda. From 5 to 8 p.m. for $22 per person…
Area 31 is back serving its fresh, sustainable seafood and will present a dinner called Fish + Wine, hosted by executive chef John Critchley and master sommelier Emily Wines, Thursday, February 25 — South Beach Wine & Food Festival week. The event begins with complimentary cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at…
What’s fat, funny, loves dope, and makes Howard Stern laugh?We haven’t seen Artie Lange in Miami since January last year, when he was promoting his book Too Fat to Fish at Book & Books in Coral Gables.He was hilarious — a cool, humble dude who signed everybody’s books and took…
Ah, the supermarket, that great bastion of packaged foods and conditioned air, perfect lines of consumer bliss, and walk-by coupon dopamine hits.Whole Foods has shopping down to a science, and the key is interactive marketing.Welcome to 2010. Here are some events you might enjoy checking out in January at the…
First you get hit with parking, then with tax and tip, and then by a bullet?In Miami’s Design District, anything is possible.A 6-year-old Italian tourist ringing in the new year with his family at Mai Tardi restaurant was struck by a bullet that went into his chest, through one lung,…
Food philosophy, simplicity, culinary Zen. [Chadzilla]Eating ice cream in Tel Aviv. [AllPurposeDark]Kitchen Inquisition with Giancarla Bodoni of Escopazza. Cooking osso buco for Gorbachev. [NBCmiami]Six-year-old boy, Italian tourist, catches stray bullet while eating with family at Mai Tardi in Design District on New Year’s Eve. [NBCmiami]Food and golf together in Bogota…
A small bite from this weeks’ coming restaurant review of Wok Town:Lychee fruit, mango sorbet, and green tea ice cream are dessert selections. The last was grainy, and indeed the fare at Wok Town is not without flaws — an undercooked broccoli spear here, an underseasoned soup there. But this…
It’s already the New Year and the holiday season is almost over. Which means, you’ve only got one day left, today, to do something with that half-jug of eggnog lingering near the back of the fridge before it either curdles or turns into another sad reminder of your post-Christmas ineffectiveness…
Fratelli Lyon Driade is an Italian restaurant in the Design District that is on a mission. The manifesto printed on the face of their menu says, “to distance ourselves from purveyors of heavily marketed and mass produced food stuffs and their sources.”The restaurant imports authentic ingredients from all over Italy,…
New York’s alright if you like saxophones, but, everything else is better in Miami. Especially in the winter. Particularly the food.Former restaurant critic Frank Bruni’s upcoming article in the Travel section of the Sunday Times has already hit the web, and he’s got almost nothing but great, gushing praise for…
Let’s end the year with a bang-bang look at the most important restaurants of the decade. Caveat: It must still be in business. And we’re skipping those historically important places (like China Grill, Joe’s Stone Crab, Versailles, etc.) whose main impact occurred prior to 2000. So, alphabetically:Barton GIn the early…
Miami Dining 2009: Online for a better future
Miami has carried the illustrious distinction of a town wide open for stealing, killing and dope dealing ever since the first pirates first sailed through, stopped for a beer, and never left.Those who stayed saw that there’s money in food and so they opened stores, bars, and restaurants.They made a…
Her name is Morgans. She is a big purple house on 29th Street between North Miami and NE Second Avenues — actual address: 28 NE 29th Street. She has been around since the 1930s. Her specialty, home cooked food.Get it while it’s hot.The Morgans Restaurant in Wynwood is now open…
In some ways, it’s all about the new when it comes to homeboy and Chef Norman Van Aken. The guy who spawned New World Cuisine is back on the scene again, this time with a new restaurant on the way and a new hosting gig.But his restaurant — now pay…
If ushering in the year were a sport, champagne* would be the beverage of champions and we’d dump a huge cooler full of it onto Father Time’s head at the stroke of midnight. It’s bubbly, makes a wonderful, pee-on-yourself-scary sound when you open it, and is the hands-down only answer…
James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his and his team’s knowledge to your home cooking with The Genuine Kitchen column. A guest blogger for this installment, Michael’s Genuine bar manager Ryan Goodspeed shares a recipe suitable for the recent dip in temperature. You…
Sometimes it seems like a world meat conspiracy is afoot. Are evil, global agrifarm executives fighting a secret war against the vegetarian and vegan elements to keep them on the fringe if in existence at all?Yes.For those who support the meatless revolution, and wanna throw a party too, there’s Nature…
There were no kicks fast as lightning, it wasn’t frightening, and the staff showed expert timing when the Catalina Hotel’s Kung Fu Kitchen and Sushi recently hosted South Florida’s Chef’s Club on their South Beach rooftop lounge.Chef Josh Wahler, of Hell’s Kitchen fame, and Nobu South Beach and Los Angeles…
Kim Kardashian is an American sex symbol.Dr. Sanford Siegal is the Miami doctor who invented his own “cookie diet.”The two are at war. Dirty, paper, legal war. And they’re fighting over things like what Kardashian has said via Twitter and a misleading link on the doctor’s website.Kim Kardashian currently represents…
We’re no judge or jury, but we’re guessing Charlie Sheen is headed for the slammer. All the celebrities are doing it. Serving a year is the new having a college degree. Did you know that back in 1990 Charlie Sheen shot his then-fiancee in the arm, accidentally?If his newest arrest…
