Another year, another Beaujolais luncheon, another boast that the current crop is the best in years. “You get a vintage like this every century. Last one as good was 1947,” insisted winemaker Stéphane Queralt. I didn’t want to say this to Stéphane, but in spite of a positive spin on…
If you were driving south on North Miami Avenue around 2:30 p.m. a couple days ago between 14th and 11th Streets you might have seen Short Order eating a sandwich off the trunk of a dirty Toyota Corolla.We were checking out Spuntino Bakery & Catering, and they close around 2…
Cheese may have been discovered accidentally by nomadic Turk tribes in Central Asia when milk stored in a container made from an animal’s stomach turned to curds and whey thanks to the rennet in the guts. Rennet refers to the complex of enzymes that all mammal stomachs produce to digest…
One time grandma’s dentures got caught in the turkey drumstick she was eating at Thanksgiving dinner. She pointed at me with the drumstick for laughing, the teeth flew off the leg and hit me in the face. I still have the old lady’s bite marks on my forehead. She had…
You know the type: Walls lined with South American wines, alfajores and other facturas neatly organized in a glass display, panettone boxes everywhere (’tis the season), refrigerators with ready-to-cook gnocchi, golden-baked empanadas laying out under a heat lamp … They’re hard to resist, those empanadas, and the recently opened Patagonia…
The evening began with talk of a “vodka backlash” occurring in New York. Too many brands, too much ubiquity, too neutral a flavor. Enter gin, with its’ aromatic botanicals and complex flavor — the ideal antidote to dull cocktails. Or at least that’s the world according to Simon Ford, the…
What’s a four-pound burger to a monster? Nothin’. Who can pick a restaurant up by its fry chimney and shake out all its fast food through the drive thru window and into their mouth? The Burger Beast. Who else do you know that can scare a bull into pushing his…
Big, fat, oven-roasted turkey – check. Stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce – check. Grilled leg of lamb with cranberry salsa verde? Oh yes! Check please! Whether it’s Thanksgiving, or a big family get-together, this twist on a traditional staple will wow ’em. Bone-in leg of lamb has marvelous flavor and is…
Whisk Gourmet Food & Catering whips up a crowd in Coral Gables
Josh Woodward was arrested in the suspicious death of his girlfriend’s unborn child, a 13 week old fetus. There was talk of a mysterious white powder found in her underwear.According to TMZ, police investigators had cause to believe that the powder may be Misoprostol, which is used to treat gastric…
Gonzalo Rivera didn’t garner much attention when he took over as executive chef at the Tides South Beach last spring. A first generation Mexican-American, Rivera graduated the California Culinary Academy in 2004 and promptly got work in Michael Mina’s restaurants, including a four year stint as executive chef of Mina’s…
Say cheese!French cheese ambassador Cecile Delannes is on a Whole Foods America tour giving out samples and educating consumers on behalf of The French Cheese Club, “an association of five family owned French Fromageries specialized in the production of traditional French cheeses.”We ran into Cecile yesterday while researching an unrelated…
Get ready for real homecooked food in Wynwood. Morgan’s Restaurant is a conversion from a house built in the 1930’s that offers two stories worth of direct views into a neighborhood on the rise. Windows face west to North Miami Avenue club The Electric Pickle, North into 29th street and…
Picnics Diner was long a favorite when it was located in Allen’s Drugstore on SW 57th Ave. A few years ago the owner died, and the diner moved to Bird Road and SW 65th Ave. In July it received a lukewarm writeup from Burger Beast. Now Picnics is out of…
They’ve got stank cheese, foreign cheese, mild cheese, and bold cheese, cheese with meat, cheese with friends, and more cheese than you can shake a cheese at. That’s right, The Cheese Course (3451 NE 1st Ave, suite 100) is open in Midtown Miami, right next door to the new Primo…
What it is: Pan seared diver scallops with hearts of palm salad.But where it at?…
Coffee gum. It sounds like a million dollar idea. Miami’s Gregory Paul Inc. tried to capitalize on it back in 1988 by advertising in the New Times.The company’s ad reads, “Each delicious piece of coffee flavored chewing gum contains caffeine equal to 1/2 a cup of coffee. Now you can…
Sean Brasel is the chef/co-owner of Miami Beach’s sultry steakhouse known appropriately as Meat Market. The restaurant sits in the space formerly occupied by Jonathan Eismann’s Pacific Time [You know it’s now in the Design District, right? Yeah. Thought so.] and, seemingly, being there has provided some good juju in…
Boston Culinary Group signed contract extension with LandShark Stadium to provide food and beverage services through 2021. [Hospitality-1st]AOL’s Digital City restaurant recommendations for Art Basel include Mr. Chow, Hakkasan, Michael’s Genuine, and Caviar Kaspia. [DigitalCity]An advertising agency specializing in part in food and beverage creates “No App For This” campaign…
It took just over two months to get it together, but Waxy O’Connor’s Irish Pub is throwing a Grand Opening soiree this Thursday, November 19th, from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. The pub and eatery, located downtown on the Miami River, will feature an open bar for the first two…
Goat cheese fritters, fried green tomatoes, juicy burgers, fingerling french fries, grilled grouper sandwiches, buttermilk fried chicken, churrasco steaks, burritos, brownies, blondies, cupcakes… You scream, I scream, we all scream for this sort of stuff, even more so when ingredients are locally sourced, often organic, and prepared with a deft…
Jacques Pepin showed Eric Ripert a thing or two in a friendly cook-off at the Arsht Center Celebrity Chef series Friday night. With nine minutes to go on the 30-minute clock, Pepin, who found time to make dessert in addition to the two dishes he and Ripert were expected to…
