Chef Mark Militello has left 1 Bleu at the One Resort and Spa (formerly The Regent Bal Harbour) to join The Office, a gastropub in Delray said to be opening in late November. Last December Militello took the reigns as executive chef of culinary operations at The Regent Bal Harbour…
Being shown the door by Gordon Ramsay is like facing the martial arts whoopass of Jackie Chan in Brett Ratner’s Rush Hour series, only a bit more brutal.Josh Wahler, a former contestant of Hell’s Kitchen 3 (quite possibly its best season on record,) survived one such exit rather elegantly, and…
Mayor Manny Diaz is like the Bill Clinton of Miami, people just like the guy. Well, maybe not everybody, but here he is at the Roots in the City urban farm in Overtown (NW Third Avenue and Ninth Street, Miami) talking collard greens with South Florida historian Marvin Dunn, who…
Canadian companies attend America’s largest food and beverage show, coming soon to Miami Beach. [GovMonitor]Miami-based Benihana restaurants to donate 100% of Fiji Water sales revenue to Best Buddies charity for month of November. [Reuters]8th annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival this weekend at Markham Park, a short jog north in Broward…
There’s nothing that makes me want to buy a Taquito and Big Gulp more than a ferocious-looking piece of fuzzy poo.Yeah, if only I was being facetious. The truth is, I fell for Domo, the rectangular, brown Japanese creature making his appearance all over 7-Eleven stores until mid-November. And yes,…
The question was this:Only two people currently working in the South Florida food industry graduated The Culinary Institute of America with the highest honor accorded: The Francis B. Roth Award for Outstanding Performance. Can you name them? Most folks guessed Tim Andriola correctly. Neal Cooper eventually felt he had triumphed…
Hey artist! are you broke, hungry, like booze? Life Is Art has got your back.Life Is Art Inc. hosts a popular artistic meeting ground for an everyone is welcome crowd. At each event a different speaker addresses a topic unique to their field.This month’s Creative Connections Artistic Networker is set…
A placita, or little plaza, is a fortified central patio or courtyard found in buildings all over the world, but especially Spanish style ones in Mexico and the Southwest U.S. Placita Los Girasoles (15970 SW 177 Avenue), of sunflowers, is a fruit and produce market and nursery in the Redlands…
Some people are saying this recession is over. Maybe it started when “they” gave us back some time (sorry Arizona), literally. Fall Back dropped early Sunday morning. We’re pretty sure that has something to do with farming. Here are some freshly produced local blog posts.Miami family eat at Ted’s Montana…
Just when you finally matured enough to order the Rooty Tooty Fresh ‘N Fruity with a straight face from your friendly neighborhood IHOP server, some local mixologists are testing your tolerance with feisty names for their favorite cocktails.Celebrate the departure of the Fuzzy Navel, Sloe Comfortable Screw, and Sex on…
Hot dog and mustard? Psychotic chef? A cluster of grapes? Food freaks were out in full force Saturday night as hundreds of thousands converged on Lincoln Road for one of the largest – if not most colorful – Halloween costume pedestrian parade in the country. Patrons piled into sidewalk seating…
The leader of the Urban Farming movement took lessons from his Miami and Florida sports careers that still help him today.Will Allen is the head of Milwaukee-based Growing Power Inc., an urban ag producer and educating organization focused on teaching poor communities techniques for creating self sustaining, and profitable, food…
Don’t rot your teeth out eating too much candy this weekend. Here are our highlight posts from this week.Local takes on worst dining trends of the year. Communist tables.Renzo’s of Boca, Miami Dolphins Football Meatball video.Doral Farmers Market starts tomorrow.What Obama ate for dinner when he was in Miami.Top Chef…
Outside Tap Tap, there’s a truck parked under a palm on a patch of grass between the sidewalk and the street. It’s a Toyota that’s been pimped with Haitian folk art flourishes: hand-painted murals splashed across the hood and sides, an iron headboard adorned with the word Rezistans, and some…
Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez loves his Publix. And its store manager, John Navarro, too. “Johnny…I’m giving you a plug, your bosses are here. Best manager Publix has,” Alvarez said of Navarro addressing media, Publix employees, and producers during the launch of Redland Raised — a branding campaign to promote…
Last night in an Upper East Side event space called the Coverings Showroom, Slow Food Miami’s membership met for its annual conference. With a musical booth buffet orchestrated by Chef Kris Wessel of nearby Red Light Little River, the evening was less structured meeting and more pre-Thanksgiving pause. It was…
I had never been to a brand new supermarket on opening day before. Amazing how it looks when every single item is in exactly the place it should be. At this point things have been moved around, but still, you might want to head over now if only for the…
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We could go on about the morality of eating grass-fed beef (if you watched Food Inc., you know cows confined to feedlots eating corn aren’t very happy or healthy). But a better argument for buying grass-fed simply may be better taste and nutritional value. It was the taste of U.S…
Mary Brickell Village’s Blu Pizza e Cucina is closed “for renovation.” Yeah, we know what that typically means in restaurant speak.Calls to the restaurant’s listed phone number yielded a ‘temporarily out of service’ message. So we dialed Blu Restaurant Group’s offices, where office manager Maggie Nabut confirmed that the Brickell…
American mall food court fare leaves some — er, many — things to be desired. But venture across the border or overseas, and as cultures change, so does the fast food game, usually for the better.So when we first heard that young entrepreneurs and husband-wife pair Cesar Olivo and Adriana…
Looking for work? The National Restaurant Association estimates a record $566 billion in food and beverage sales for 2009 (more than $1.5 billion per day). The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park, NY, will be holding an Admissions reception at Ocean Prime (Aventura Mall) on Sunday, November 8…
