Food & Drink

Live for about a week, a new Cafe Tu Tu Tango fan page on Facebook logged 100 fans today, just meeting the requirement to claim its own brand URL. Other digital fan clubs exist for the chain, including one for the now-defunct Coconut Grove branch, but this is the first…

Chef Michio Kushi is from Katsuura, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The first restaurant he ever worked at was called Yagumo, back in his hometown, from 1977 to 1980. That restaurant is still there.From 1980 to 1983, Michio worked at Su-Shin at 1085 NE 79th St. He claims it was the only…

Uh-oh — I think all the info needed is in the headline. This is unfortunate in many ways, not the least being that I get paid by the word. (I won’t say how much, but if I can stretch this post to the approximate length of War and Peace, I’m…

This week Archive Diver brings you an ad for the Sports Rock Cafe, a bar food/health/entertainment concept at a failed mall, the Bakery Centre. The Bakery Centre, now the location for The Shops At Sunset Place on US1 and SW 57th Ave., was a pink, 9-acre, commercial wasteland that kids…

You won’t find a food stylist in the credits for this cookbook.  But there is eye candy, of a different kind.In Lovely Daze Special Edition Book: ROSE, pastry chef Angela Garcia explores the ingredient rose in dessert recipes paired with drawings and paintings by artist Cristina Rodriguez.  The beautiful collection…

There are hardly any Korean restaurants in the whole county of Dade, but where there’s demand, there’s supply. Miami’s fashion district, on the west side of Wynwood is home to a small enclave of Korean shop owners. Choice Cafe, on NW 3 ave and 27th street, serves them and other…

BurgerBeast.com is a first-person eater, as in Sef Gonzalez (not to be mistaken with Australian murderer Sef Gonzales) blogging his way across every burger he eats. Last night John Martin’s Irish Pub & Restaurant in Coral Gables introduced the Burger Beast menu.General Manager Cristina Moguel says “Sef’s a regular. His…

Soleá has opened at the W South Beach, featuring a menu influenced by “a variety of cuisines that touch the Mediterranean Sea – Spanish, French, Italian and Greek.”  Commanding this multicultural vessel are helmsmen familiar with the territory: Executive Chef Michael Gillian, formerly behind Atrio’s “global cuisine” at the Conrad…

Bummed out that our 2009 “Best of” pick for Chinese may also come with a nose bleed?  Or that Hakkasan, Lee’s review this week, may be best reserved for a special occasion?  Here’s a wise pick for those further south that won’t burn a hole in your wallet and proves…

Ever since Oprah cosigned the supposed “superfruit” açai berry, American shores have flooded with products counting it as an ingredient.The açai has been consumed in Central and South America, where it grows natively, since ancient times. Here are Short Order’s top ten ways to cash in on the health and monetary benefits…

Francis Modina is French and has been in the U.S. for eight years. He started Le Vinois Bakery in about 2003. “We have a storefront, but we also sell at markets, up to eight a week in season, and next year more. The orange peel and chocolate rugalah’s my best…

Hakan Sozen’s Organic Farmers Market is a storefront operation located in Oakland Park, Fl that also sells out of booths at outdoor farmers markets to drive customers to their store. Hakan says, “I do the vegetarian food from the Middle East, organic of course. I usually carry eggplant salad, lantil…

A lot of drops together make a flood. Here are some local blog posts from over 4th of July weekend 2009.Tonight at John Martin’s in Coral Gables the Burger Beast takes over; this means food & drink specials.Tinkering With Dinner makes blueberry banana ice cream and chicken eggplant croquettes.Chef Michy…

Cindy Hutson, Chef/Owner Ortanique restaurantsGrowing up in NJ I had the most amazing pizza in a town called Neck Newark. The pizzeria was called Jerry’s Dugout.They did a white pizza with shaved truffle that was to die for.Now living in Miami, good pizza is scarce if non existent to say…

Can’t blame the owners of O Bacalhau for not trying to break the mold. I mean offering salt cod 16 ways is pretty unique. Alas, the phone number for this Coral Gables Portuguese restaurant, which opened this past January on Ponce de Leon, is no longer in service. Too bad,…

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Gerbaud’s Bakery has stood in Hollywood for “about 15 years” according to Johanne Cyr who has worked there for around ten months. Johanne works the Jackson Memorial Foundation Green Market every Thursday and sells fresh baked danishes, sweet potato pudding, rugalach’s, coconut candy, poppy seed rolls, walnut rolls, a coconut…