Have you ever messed up cooking ramen noodles? If you answered yes, like we did, you could probably use some professional help of the cooking variety.Give thanks for South Florida’s bounty of highly touted, greatly revered, very experienced, mostly trained, and overall excellent chefs and for Whole Foods harnessing its…
Homemade ratatouille with fresh, local produce. And yes, Ratatouille is an excellent movie. [FoodForThoughtMiami]Has there finally been invented a chip that withstands the ardors of jarred-salsa dipping? According to one man, yes. [Chowfather]A hilarious review of Dolores, But You Can Call Me Lolita, Dade County’s most strangely named restaurant. [EatItMiami]The…
A fun time was had by all at the Jonathan Eismann restaurant tour last week. The event was held in cahoots with Friends of the James Beard Foundation as a means of raising funds for the organization as well as to showcase new developments on the west side of the…
Chef Gonzalo Rivera says Miami is on its way to becoming a real food city. The well-traveled Michael Mina protégé from Northern Cali says, “Homestead is the new California.”Rivera is from Chico, “about an hour north of Sacramento, a real small town.” But after graduating from California Culinary Academy in…
After the Epic Hotel’s specially installed filtration system removed most of the chlorine from city water, three guests fell ill from Legionnaires’ disease and the hotel has been temporarily closed. That means the award-winning seafood restaurant Area 31 is as off-limits as Area 51 until things get back to normal…
There’s room for more than just one stone crab delivery outfit in this town, but don’t expect Strickly Stone Crabs to remove the hard shell. “We won’t do it. The second the meat hits the air, it begins breaking down and losing freshness.”So said Strickly’s owner, Nancy Davis, when we…
Support Miami’s Schoolchildren The Design District will be celebrating Family Day tomorrow, December 12, and proud daddy Jonathan Eismann will be taking part by: Exhibiting beautiful artwork by the talented students of South Pointe Elementary school at Pacific Time.Exhibiting pizza-making demos and giving out free espresso (presumably for the parents)…
Ah, the holiday season. The perfect time to pick terrible gifts for people whose passions you don’t understand. We’re not saying these are bad products, they all look like perfectly reasonable chef gadgets, cooking tools, and kitchen ware. We’re just saying these are the Top 6 worst gifts for home…
Some weeks run faster than a lobster from a hot pot of water, a chicken from a cleaver, or a pig from a bottle of Mojo. That’s what this one did to us. Here are some posts you might have missed over the week.Free drinks for diabetics with artist Purvis…
A snippet of the New Times restaurant review for next week.Pamela’s Delicatessen is a combination mini-market/bakery/cafe/full service Chilean restaurant. The first three are housed in the front room: dry food imports on the shelves, breads and wines in wooden racks, a smattering of tables clustered before glowing display cases of…
People have been getting drunk for centuries, hell, thousands of years. American craft brewers Dogfish Head are putting on an Ancient Ales beer dinner at Pacific Time on December 17, and get this, the beers are modern formulations of ancient recipes whose ingredients are determined by Dr. Patrick McGovern of…
It’s all about The U. It’s a Canes thing. Miami loved the Hurricanes more than the Dolphins. Sloppy Jose, glass bottle Coke.Miami’s own Billy Corben, from Dade County’s own Cocaine Cowboy producing Rakontur, premiered his new ESPN Films commissioned The U about the University of Miami Hurricane football teams of…
There’s something about Wish that seems to make culinary dreams come true, and its latest superstar, Executive Chef Marco Ferraro, appears to be skipping along the same path as a long line of extraordinary talent. First was Gary Robins, who eventually ended up at The Russian Tea Room, then came…
James Beard Award-nominated Chef Michael Schwartz of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink brings his knowledge to your home cooking with a new column, The Genuine Kitchen. A guest blogger for this installment, Michael’s Genuine Executive Pastry Chef Hedy Goldsmith shares a recipe and thoughts on basil, one of her favorite…
D-Rod Cuba, as we like to call it, opens in the Hotel Astor on South Beach tonight. Dinner starts at 6 p.m. daily, and through the month of December all first-time diners will get choice of mojito or daiquiri on the house. Tapas encompass traditional bites such as ham croquetas…
His new Q and Fin restaurants in the Design District are getting set to open. Short Order be taking a peek tonight and reporting it tomorrow, but we wanted to at least find out one or two things about those new ventures beforehand, and Jonathan obliged.New Times: Could you give…
Stone Grill 95 in Surfside has a rocky start
This past Sunday, more than 500 voices rang out strong in Lakeland at Publix headquarters. Students, farm workers, religious leaders, and concerned citizens came together to protest the supermarket company. It has refused to align itself with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in protecting against human rights abuses and…
Nothing says luxury like dinner in bed at B.E.D. on South Beach while a skirtless Sarah Palin look-alike circles the room, a sex kitten in a bodysuit purrs and crawls across the sheets while a mistress whips her, and contortionists, fire acts, and dramatists perform for your viewing pleasure.Sound like…
Lemoni Café is the Cheers of panini shops. When you walk in, you feel like family.Since March 2008, when Eugenia Pelati and Assia Dahrouch opened just north of the Design District in the Buena Vista neighborhood, they’ve attracted social and mainstream media attention, a faithful clientele, and recognition for their…
“We’re doing great. Everything’s totally perfect and organized” says Chef Jonathan Eismann with a sly smile. “Look. The last week before opening a restaurant is really frantic, and we’re three weeks away officially. We’re actually gonna be doing a special private event here in a week, but the idea of…
What it is: A pizza pie with prosciutto di Parma, baby zucchini, rocket greens, and burrata cheese.But there are so many pizza joints in this town that might make a pie that looks like this.Where it at? Feel free to take a guess. If you get it right, we’ll acknowledge…
