Whether taken or single, the dinner date can be a perilous affair if not done right. Go to Hooters, and you’ll be distracted/upstaged by the lovely boobies on display, the crew at Johnny Rockets will disrupt your dinner with some “Bob-bob-bob-bob-bobburran” bullshit, and Taco Bell – well let’s just say…
Just so you know, this image is from May 3, 1963, six months before tragedy, happy times, a good day for a motorcade, a great day for a drink and a backseat romp with the old lady. Short Order knows what you probably think when you see a picture of…
It’s not easy trying to find something new to tell you about Kingdom that hasn’t already been said, typed or printed. But then we heard that Miami Herald food critic Victoria Pesce Elliott crowned its Queen Burger victorious when Epicurious, the online home of Gourmet and Bon Appetit magazines, asked…
Last Friday we brought you the first installment of Burton Dale’s response to a few emailed questions regarding organic farming. Here’s part II, where Burton explains how you can do it yourself.”How can the average working person get in on the action? Most working people do not own land of…
In the future Short Order will feature 3d holographic food modeling technology. For now we’re stuck on the screen, but life moves fast, don’t get left behind. Here’s what you might have missed last week.B & M Market’s landmark Caribbean kitchen on NE 2 Ave and 79th St.Dade County dragon…
With the tourism industry in a pinch, hospitality wants to be BFF with locals this summer. Remember Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Rod Tidwell in Jerry Maguire? (You’re lovin’ me now!) Yeah, it’s kinda like that.Trump International Beach Resort in Sunny Isles is the latest hotel to develop a promotion around access…
So the Taco Bell dog is dead…supposedly. Here are Gidget’s top 5 messages from beyond the grave in this ghostly Short Order exclusive. Enjoy…
A few months back when the Food Network’s Bobby Flay named the 50 best burger joints in America, Little Havana’s own El Rey De Las Fritas was awarded best burger in Florida. But Sef Gonzalez, the dude behind BurgerBeast.com, says he knows better and recently suggested a Calle Ocho frita…
Eos at Viceroy Miami on Brickell Dazzles
Boiled… fried… and now stone-ground and baked. Miami-based natural foods company Explorer’s Bounty is venturing into the unleavened market, launching Tribal Stone Crackers. This 100 percent certified organic snack is the first of its kind in the world to be made from Rainforest Alliance Certified Yuca. Which basically means that…
Jason Obeso is a realtor with Kerdyk Real Estate. He contacted Short Order via email with some Coral Gables restaurant news. “Despite the slow year, I placed a new restaurant in the Gables in March and May, and facilitated Gables institution Le Provencal’s move to their new Miracle Mile spot…
Conrado Viera has a mobile hot dog hustle that takes him to about 25 or 30 locations a day for about 30 minutes at a time starting at about 8 in the morning. He says, “Yo ando todo aca en NW en todo partes de Wynwood.” He sells sausage, hot…
Philippe at the Gansevoort (305-674-0250) is offering a three-course $29 dinner menu Sundays through Thursdays from 6:00 p.m. to midnight. The meal includes choice of appetizer (chicken satay, crispy seaweed, vegetable dumplings, chicken lettuce wraps, house salad); main course with rice (chicken and broccoli, beef and oyster sauce, velvet chicken…
Starting at 8 p.m. TONIGHT, Blue Door at Delano (305-674-6400) will host a five-course wine dinner pairing the cuisine of Delano’s executive chef Maria Manso and consulting chef Claude Troisgros with wines from Silverado Winery. Here’s the lineup:First course: Crabavocat, Guacamole & Blue Crab Salad with Spicy Tomato Coulis &…
Back in 1987 the Tavern In The Grove was established at 3416 Main Highway. Twenty two years later it is still there. How many nights of reckless diversion and mornings of blind consumption have started and ended at the Tavern is anybody’s guess. Damn near guaranteed are plenty of butt…
Ok, so Padma Lakshi isn’t really the owner and head chef of a failing Miami restaurant, but according to a snarkotrafficking television blog she does have a development deal for a half hour comedy from a major network. Our headline is one of five suggestions the tv blog has for…
America’s Most Wanted Recipes takes a simple precept, that people love mass produced corporate formula food, and exploits it. You gotta give credit to author Ron Douglas who has been profiting off our shackles to the chains through his website RecipeSecrets.net since 2003. His previous published works contain copycat recipes…
Ever wanted a mango, avocado, lychee, or tamarind tree? Here’s your chance to get one for free. The City of Miami will be giving away 750 fruit trees on Saturday July 25th from 8 a.m. to 12 noon at Robert King High Park (7025 West Flagler Street). Experts will be…
It’s the height of summer, ladies and gentlemen. And whether you like it or not, our local growing season is all about the tropical fruits. The dragon fruit is one of the more beautiful and unusual tropical treats that nature makes. So, why we don’t see it on more menus, especially…
Chef Michelle Bernstein says “The first place I worked as a cook was Janjo’s in the Grove for Chef Jan Jorgensen. At the end of my shift he’d say ‘here’s half a lime. Go clean the stove.’ I said ‘Can I get a whole lime?’ and he said ‘No. Too…
B & M Market has been open at 219 NE 79th street since 1980. According to Nafeeza Ali, it is one of the first and longest running West Indian grocery stores in Miami. In 1990 Nafeeza and her husband Sheir bought the place from her uncle. They’ve been selling authentic…
Food photography is a hell of niche. Plenty of highly paid, professional, top-model type camerafolk can’t shoot so much as a sandwich with 50 gigs and an hour. A lot of us in the food blogosphere are using consumer level point n shoots, and we’re getting to be fuckin’ awesome…
