Ivy at the Grove, which has taken over the 535 seats of the three-story former Christabelle’s Quarter, is being billed as “British-style” — not a very nice thing to say about a restaurant! (More specifically, it will feature “modern American and British comfort food.”) The ground floor will feature a…
The Brickell neighborhood now has another reason to pig out on tasty burgers and dogs with a Latin twist: The Munchies at Brickell. Down the street from Colombian restaurant La Moon, which has held a monopoly on this cuisine on SW Eighth Street, the Munchies opened Saturday night. It offers…
Miami has long been considered the place where restaurant service comes to die. It seems that still holds true. According to the recently released Zagat 2010 Miami/So. Florida Survey, 77 percent of diners cite service as the number one restaurant complaint. Slightly better news is that 26 percent say they’ve…
Scott Rothstein might end up a food service worker at Miami’s Federal Detention Center. [Sun-Sentinel]University of Iowa gets $1.95 million for making the Orange Bowl and plans an entourage of 600 Iowans eating, drinking, and hotelling in Miami. [Press-Citizen]Miami-Dade school cafeterias explore vegetarian options: veggie chicken nuggets, veggie burgers, and…
A near emtpy fridge and a growling stomach have driven many men (women, and children) to desperate measures. And though there are plenty of things you shouldn’t eat after they’ve been sitting around a certain amount of time (pizza, sushi, meatloaf), there are foods with an infinite shelf life. Here’s…
Some people like weed with their vodka. They usually end up stupefied on the couch at the party staring at the wall and mumbling to themselves.Other people like herb with their vodka, for them, there’s Sonnema, a vodka with natural herb flavors added. Last week and over the weekend at…
First there was the original kitchen battle from Japan, Iron Chef. Then came Food Network’s Iron Chef America, Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, and Bravo’s Top Chef series; Top Chef Masters soon followed. You would think the pot has boiled over, but no! Cue Fox’s MasterChef, a new competitive cooking show from…
Miami’s art fair week 2009 saw a world of pedestrians on the streets of Wynwood; and where there’re tourists, there’s money, so no surprise that enterprising mobile BBQs left a trail of rib-smoke all weekend.Friday night, we found Chicken-N-Ribs on the Southeast corner of 22nd Street and NW First Place…
Professional South Florida food blogger throws a party and makes seafood gazpacho, ropa vieja, mac’n’cheese, multi-meatballs, and salad on a stick. [Foodalogue] A CSA is a way to buy farm fresh vegetables a week at a time. This week was Italian basel, romaine lettuce, zucchini and yellow squash, black sapote,…
Only a half-minute’s drunken stumble from the touristy bummerfest of CocoWalk, there remains a relic of the old Grove. It’s called Barracuda’s. Long an after-dark hideout where shrimpers, college kids, aging college kids, and dropouts of all kinds could play a few free games of bar pool and pound cheap, mass-produced American…
Purvis Young is a self taught artist born in Liberty City in 1943 whose work started on the streets of Overtown with found objects and reject paint. His works now hang in the best museums in the world and his studio is right here in Wynwood.Saturday night at Purvis Young’s…
Russian-born Lika Ramati is the owner of Yaffa Cafe in downtown Manhattan. She’s also a multidisciplinary artist with an exhibit of digitally constructed photographs for Art Basel called Everything is Pretty at 119 N.E. 39th Street in the Design District.You can’t help but be drawn into her highly-stylized world of…
Last night at Aqua Art Miami (42 NE 25th Street, Miami), a locals-heavy party crowd came together over art, food, and music.Seattle-based Aqua is committed to bringing Miami a high-quality sampling of art from the West Coast and abroad with a concentration on young dealers and galleries and emerging artists.Palate…
The Okay Mountain Corner Store, now appearing at Pulse Art Fair (1400 N. Miami Ave., Miami), is possibly the greatest artwork ever conceived, an exercise in total hilarity, and really fuckin’ funny.The store is the creation of the Okay Mountain artists’ collective from Austin, Texas. It is a highly detailed…
We first told you about Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman’s Coffee Brake coffee truck in June. Well, yesterday we ran into the commish outside the Kelley Roy Gallery (50 NE 29th St., Miami), where she was parked and open for business, selling coffee, smoothies, and baked goods.Sally said, “Everything’s great. I’ve just…
The Bakehouse Art Complex (561 NW 32 Street) is a studio compound for over 70 professional, full time, working artists that has stood in Wynwood for the past 23 years. The 33,000 square foot facility houses indoor and outdoor studios, and exhibition galleries. The Bakehouse Art Complex is a not…
A short preview of next week’s New Times Cafe review:There are certain things that rookie restaurateurs can do to increase their odds for success. For instance, having a workable phone number can be surprisingly helpful. When we dialed the month-old Stone Grill 95 in Surfside in order to make reservations,…
The Clever Collective is an art consortium from Brooklyn who we saw set up in the driveway of a house on 29th Street between North Miami Avenue and NW Second Avenue selling cookies, lemonade, and custom bags.The bake sale benefits the Clever Collective and the girls procured their prime real…
Recognize the name? Chef, caterer and restaurateur Ken Lyon is the force behind the Design District’s Fratelli Lyon, catering company Lyon + Lyon, and the new Cape Cod Room in The Bath Club. He’s served up three decades worth of food all over the eastern United States, but Lyon started his career as…
Leblon Cachaca sponsored last night’s drinks for the “Blue Print For Space” exhibit opening at Art Center South Florida (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). The exhibition features work by street and graffiti artists and is affiliated with the Primary Flight project, the world’s largest site-specific street level mural installation.Cachaca is…
Bullfrog’s GastroPod, a gourmet food truck, goes live today in Wynwood, 1/4 block west of NW Second Avenue on 27th Street.This stationary unit is the precursor to an actual moving vehicle that is currently in the Carolinas getting fixed up right.Is the chef ready for tonight, will the Gastropod go…
The Biltmore Hotel’s Palme d’Or swept the Top Food, Decor and Service honors in this year’s just released Zagat 2010 Miami/So. Florida Restaurants guidebook ($14.95). That’s the Triple Crown baby — and a well-deserved accolade. We like the way chef Philippe Ruiz cooks too.Hakkasan nabbed the nod as top newcomer…
