100.As a countdown to the Best of Miami 2010, Short Order is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your own nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.TIMO in Sunny Isles does Italian right. Take for instance their dish of bufala mozzarella with clay baked roma tomatoes and eggplant…
At one point during his career, Tim Powers simultaneously controlled six restaurants rated in the Top 10 for both Zagat and Harden’s London Restaurant Guide. Two of these, The Ivy and Le Caprice, held either the number one or number two spot for more than 12 years. Powers is now…
Today would have been Elvis’ 75th birthday. In his honor Three-O Vodka (more formally known as Three Olives Vodka) has thoughtfully compiled a few cocktail recipes to help you remember The King (preferably the early years). Three-O’s food-pairing suggestions include peanut butter & banana sandwiches, sweet potatoes, cheeseburgers, and burnt…
Fish much? Not anymore. New federal regulation outlaws fishing for Red Snapper in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.The U.S. government says the red snapper population off the Atlantic coast is at 3 percent of what it was 60 years ago, and is still dwindling.Fishermen disagree. The one NPR spoke to…
Wok Town provides fresh, fast Chinese food in downtown Miami
Agriculture is big business, but at the end of the day Mother Nature still makes the rules.The Florida Freeze of January 2010 threatens our $100 billion fruit and vegetable industry and may drive up prices down the road. Earlier today we spent some time in the fields of South Dade…
My colleague Jake mentioned the airing of the Super Bowl-themed Man vs. Food Miami episode on February 3, but what he didn’t mention is that a big portion (ha ha) of the show is going to be filmed tomorrow on Miami Beach. That’s right, everyone’s favorite hipster gobbler Adam Richman…
Did you know that the Great Taste of The Grove is the largest single-location culinary event in all of Coconut Grove?Well, according to the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce it is, and that’s who’s throwing the party, this weekend, with free admission, for the Peacock Park festival’s 20th anniversary.Food tickets…
The Federales have deemed the Atlantic coast’s red snapper population overfished.January 4, regulations went in place to outlaw angling for them.The government says that red snapper populations are at 3 percent of what they were 60 years ago.Many fishermen say that’s bogus intel, and question the tabulation methods used.We’re on…
Fergie from Black Eyed Peas and husband Josh Duhamel eat dinner at STK with her father for friends and family opening. [People]Travel Channel’s Man vs Food show to take on Shula’s 48 oz steak challenge. [AllHeadlines]Philadelphian recommends Bobby Flay’s “Miami Burger” for a cold day. [PhillyBurbs]2007 era fast food rage…
Bourdain, cocaine. Hey, that kind of rhymes.No reason why the Travel Channel’s No Reservations star and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain shouldn’t burn 6 tons of fresh, uncut, powder cocaine with the Director of National Security of Panama.Yeah there is. He’s a TV chef. Why the hell is he burning all…
Sakaya Kitchen, a “fast-casual Asian-inspired organic-conscious restaurant,” is now open in midtown Miami. The menu is a mix of Asian comfort and street foods such as Korean style BBQ, fresh noodle boxes, and Filipino egg rolls. The man behind the business is Richard Hales, who not only worked under Jean-Georges…
An emergency order disposition to a routine food inspection at a restaurant means “conditions have been found that endanger the health and safety of the public requiring immediate closure of the establishment. “Here are three restaurants whose facilities were temporarily closed by health inspectors in December 2009.1. The Oasis Restaurant…
What it is: It’s fried Korean-style chicken, has a nice spicy sauce, and tastes very, very good.But where it at? If you guess it correctly, we’ll let you know in the comments section. But this is a tough one — if nobody gets it by day’s end, we’ll post the…
The rock ‘n’ roll Sea Rock seafood restaurant in SoBe’s Sunset Harbour has gone out to sea. Sunk. Kaput.There are reasons restaurants fail, and it rarely has to do with bad luck. Here was Short Order’s first impression this past October:Help! My Eardrums Are Bleeding!Or at least it felt like…
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…
