Breasts deserve to live, bounce, jiggle, and shake happily through cancer-free lives.Fight the disease by funding the search for a cure on October 20th at the Newport Beachside Resort (16701 Collins Ave., Sunny Isles Beach) where Eleanor Hoh will run a Wok Star cooking demo followed by a food sampling,…
Free beer!That rallying cry is a valued, age-old method to draw a crowd. Like:”Dude, my little sister’s hamster passed away and she’s having a funeral and burial ceremony for it. Do you wanna go?””Uhhm, nah that sounds lame I’ll pass””There’s gonna be free beer.””Right. I’m in. And I’m telling everybody.”So…
It’s fall in South Florida, This mean your neighbors with hundreds of ripe avocados have you under siege. “Take one.” “Take one” “Take one.” Just shut the heck up!!!! We got a way to finally use all that fruit. This Sunday, Schnebly Redland’s Winery (30205 SW 217 Ave., Homestead) is…
Man wants tacos so bad he’s willing to kill for them…..maybe he’ll like the ones in prison…if they find him. [Herald]Mayor Daley from Chicago says “I’m moving to Miami, where there are no taxes on food and no state income tax.” [ChicagoTribune]Lee Schrager talks about getting asked to unclog toilets…
Keep it simple, stupid. Words to live by when it comes to food, especially the classic lunch combo of a soup and sandwich. This pair of places answers the question “What should I have for lunch?”, serving up bread with fix-ins and blends in bowls in their finest forms. Try…
There’s been a lot of ink spilled in recent years over the potential dangers inherent in our food supply chain. Still, the piece by Michael Moss this past Saturday in The New York Times could scare just about anyone into a lifetime of hamburger abstinence. You can, and should, check…
Ever wished your cake was shaped like a dog’s face? Thanks to the original 5-in-1 Tasty Baker your dreams can come true.Created by the ingenious minds behind the Pop Art Toaster (the toaster that branded the New York Times logo into a piece of bread), the 5-in-1 Tasty Baker allows…
Azucar!2 Girls and a Cupcake bring gourmet cupcakery to Downtown Miami.Today is their official grand opening, and the first ten customers get a free Oye Como Va. That’s a vanilla cupcake with guava filling and cream cheese frosting.Every Monday for the month of October, they’ll be doing cupcake giveaways including…
Shock is sweeping the food world this morning along with the news that the November issue of Gourmet Magazine will be its last. It has been rumored for some time that Condé Nast was suffering a decline in ad pages and would be shutting down one of its food titles…
Short Order knows we’re not the only game in town. That’s why we take this opportunity to highlight some other local voices in the community. Here are some recent posts from folks around the way.South Beach Restaurant Authority isn’t….they’re Chapter 11 after doing nothing. [FoodForThought]Taverna Opa celebrates a year in…
The Bath Club on Miami Beach (59th St. and Collins Ave.) has long been a private, membership-only establishment with its’ own intimate, members-only restaurant. But starting Sunday, November 1st, the fully restored 1920s Mediterranean-style clubhouse restaurant will be open to the public. It will be known as The Cape Cod…
In 1949, Tom Kelley, Sr. snapped a series of nude portraits of Marilyn Monroe that have come to be known as the “Red Velvet” series. One of these photos – “Pose 8” – appears on the label of The Velvet Collection’s new Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2007. The discreet golden…
Twenty-five dollar hot dogs? $30 hamburgers? That’s what Prime 112 charges for what it calls Kobe beef.The problem is, the high buck meat isn’t always what is advertised. It’s not the product of cattle raised in the Hyogo Prefecture of Japan that in some cases drink beer and receive sake…
If you’re like me, you don’t eat meals, you drink them. You’re on a tight schedule with only ten minutes to stuff the gut, so there’s never time to chew. But you still need your essential vitamins, nutrients, and other basic sustenance, right? Well, the solution’s easy — just head…
Cooked milk, get your cooked milk.Whole Foods Market has officially dropped raw milk from its shelves in Florida.Raw Milk is milk that has not been pasteurized or homogenized. Pasteurization is a heating process meant to kill bacteria, and homogenization is the process of making the milk one consistency throughout. The…
During a complimentary press dinner Tuesday night at Solea, we were treated to a dip in humidity and a pistachio semifreddo that signaled talent was making pastries in the W South Beach Hotel kitchen. The man behind this cooling and creamy lime green mound, topped with olive oil ice cream…
Some broke American alcoholics drink “pink ladies,” canned sterno filtered through a piece of bread or an old sock. It can get you drunk, and it can kill you. Cuba’s version is called “chispa de tren,” so named for the hallucinations it causes that resemble the sparks made between a…
A teeny sneak preview of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Beef “effilochée” was effing delicious. The cylindrical castle of shredded shank meat gets braised for seven hours and crowned with organic micro sprouts sprayed with truffle vinaigrette. Surrounding the meat are concentric moats of red wine reduction…
Roaches!On September 8, 2009 a Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulations routine food inspection saw them running around the kitchen of Ola at Sanctuary (1745 James Ave., Miami Beach). Click here for the report.The disposition of the report was “Emergency Order Recommended: Conditions have been found that endanger the…
If you’ve ever stepped in dog shit as you walked into a restaurant you might not like this list. Same goes for if you’re allergic to K9s.Food & Wine magazine has named Miami one of the top five dog friendliest cities in the United States, based on dining and lodging…
Starting this coming Monday, October 5th, and continuing every Monday afterwards, Bourbon Steak Miami is offering diners 50% off every bottle of wine in stock — all 850 of them. The “Half-priced Wines Mondays” promotion doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue when you try to say it, but this is…
We noticed that Cacao Restaurant in Coral Gables had been closed for the month of September — never a good sign. But as the message on the restaurant’s answering machine optimistically declared that it would reopen October 1st, we figured we’d wait before worrying. Today is October 1st and no…
