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…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Eating at Balans is like buying clothes at The GAP. It’s like reading a novel by John Grisham. It’s like being a Blue Dog Democrat. In a word: Meh.Balans 901 S. Miami Ave. 305-534-9191…
Grateful Bread and Moises Bakery: One serves hearty fare, the other tasty empanadas
Whilly Bermudez is a right-handed, right-leaning, right-of-way, righteous republican, and as Tim Elfrink reported Monday on Riptide, he’s got the support of Tubbs from Miami Vice in his run for a seat in the Florida House of Reps for the 116th district (unincorporated West Dade and Kendall).Right on!And in a…
Our own Francisco Alvarado was one of the first to write about Joshua Woodward’s arrest for suspicion of murder of his unborn child in Los Angeles, but new and even stranger details from the case have begun to emerge.Here’s a quick recap thus far. Joshua Woodward is a Los Angeles…
The Party Monkey rides again.Saturday kicks off the Taste of MiMo season. Get ready for monthly street parties featuring bottom dollar deals on food and drink along Biscayne Boulevard in Miami’s Upper Eastside from 50th to 78th streets.This Saturday’s MiMoWeen edition has a daytime schedule dedicated to family activities like…
Screams, laughs, naughty nurses, dudes in drag, and more drunks than you can shake a pitcher at. That’s right, Halloween is almost here.Some might say it’s spirit that fuels the revelry, but we know it’s really just alcohol. Here’s the recipe for a drink that has the look and packs…
What it is: Napoleon of applewood smoked salmon, Dungeness crab, and Osetra caviar brightened with lemon oil vinaigrette…
