Yelp Eats Restaurant Week will take place starting Monday, July 20 and run through Sunday, July 26. Restaurants will offer a special 3-course prix fixe menu for $25 (does NOT include tax or tip) — much better than that crummy Miami Spice deal.Here are the participants: 6601. Andalusian Gazpacho or…
Hakkasan’s Haute Hong Kong Cuisine at the Fontainebleau
Shantel Lounge, winner of our Best Barbecue Chicken and Best Open Mic Night awards also deserves recognition for their fried fish. Find out why for yourself this and every Sunday as they host their Sunday Fish Fry featuring live blues and real R&B. This past Sunday featured the music of…
Blueprints and drawings for Norman’s 180, Norman Van Aken’s forthcoming Coral Gables restaurant slated to open at 180 Aragon in the Colonnade Hotel in November, are now on his architect’s website. At first glance, the design itself will be a social lubricant, featuring elements conducive to sharing and interaction among…
Brian Moore Esq. is a land use and development attorney by profession, but in his spare time he owns and operates Harmony Kettle Corn. “Handmade popcorn is usually treated as a gourmet concept and I think it should be available to everybody. It’s like anything, if you really believe in…
Enagic USA is a company in the water industry that specializes in sales and manufacture of ionizing machines. What the hell are those and what exactly do they do? It’s difficult to understand, but supposedly it’s good for you. Basically it processes water in a way that changes its molecular…
Guacamole House has made natural food products for sale at local markets for about a year now. The food is all prepared by Alejandra Cruzado and Vilma Montoya and their motto is “Tu propia comida es tu propia medicina,” which roughly translates to “your food is your medicine.”Vilma explains that…
What do you get when you cross a politician and a dream? No, the answer isn’t a sleeping liar. If you’re talking Sally Heyman, you get Coffee Brake, a motorized coffee shop on wheels. Sally says “I’ve been talking about doing this since I was in the legislature. I had…
Mark Militello, chef/owner Mark’s and executive chef Regent Bal Harbor culinary operations, including 1 Bleu restaurantBest pizza was in Eluthera playing pool with the family. We ordered a conch pie and the kids thought it sounded disgusting. It was so good we went back the next day for a second…
Robert The Mango Man is a carpenter turned tropical fruits dealer. He got the idea while plying his carpentry trade on the fruitful grounds of South Dade. “I was working and saw that these people got all these trees in their backyard that they weren’t doin’ nothin’ with, so I…
Paellas R Us is a 13-year-old and running catering company started by Chef David Calavia and his wife Angelina Calavia. The company was born of the couple’s desire to start their own business at a time when Chef David was working at Spanish restaurants around town.Angelina doesn’t know how many…
This week Archive Diver takes you to the original Old Cutler Oyster Company and Raw Bar, which was located at 20535 Old Cutler Road.The restaurant has a storied past in the media. The first Oyster Co was destroyed in 1992’s Hurricane Andrew. It reopened 3 years later in Cutler Ridge…
(To the tune of Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”)God Bless BLT Steak,Inside The Betsy Hotel.Paying homage, to its patriot.A menu to delight one and all.Four special courses, it’s a prix fixe, “Ocean Drive” cocktail, spiked with rum! God bless BLT Steak, your home meat home.Who: Chef Laurent Tourondel (well, probably…
Peter Boulukos, chef/owner of YOLO Restaurant and Tarpon Bend restaurantsThe best fried food I ever had wasn’t from a restaurant. When I was a kid my uncle owned a marina that was about 10 minutes from our house. One night he showed up after work with a bucket overflowing with…
Juan Carlos Lopategui is the private chef and caterer behind the Ceviche Parlor brand. He’s also a sales rep for Mozzarita, the maker of New Times’ Best Mozzarella 2008. “I do corporate events, and I specialize in hordeurves parties. I went to the Culinary Institute of America at 19 years…
Be Organic is a catering operation on a mission to spread the gospel of healthy food that tastes good. Founding members Chad Cherry, Roosevelt Desir, Kirk Nelson, and Andre Walker are on what they call a “takeover tour to go into places and educate people about the organic lifestyle.” In…
Short Order is always on the look out for Dade County voices talking food and drink. Here are some recent posts from other food blogs around town.Mango&Lime pulls public records info after seeing a “coming soon” sign in Coral Gables.The South Florida Punch serves up BBQ wine pairings for the…
The “City of Progress” will finally live up to its moniker if Julio Robaina has anything to do with it. But don’t expect him to go behind the line if it involves more than a photo op! Trust us; we tried to cajole him into an apron ourselves last week…
Last week, Mario Batali unveiled a new recipe at an event to benefit his equally new charity, The Mario Batali Foundation.The recipe was for machaca, which comes from the Mexican word machacado — ‘pounded’ or ‘crushed’. The preparation originated with the ranchers and cowboys of northern Mexico, who would air-dry…
In the kitchen, my role has always tended to be chef rather than baker. The whole “measuring ingredients” thing was always way less my forte than licking the spoon to see which spices the dish needs more of. That said, when I heard Fort Lauderdale vegan mecca Sublime was having…
Chef Kurtis Jantz, Executive Chef, Trump International Beach ResortBarbecue… well, that’s easy. I remember moving to Kansas City as a boy, and everyone kept talking about Arthur Bryant’s. It was located in a poverty-stricken area in K.C. round 18th and Brooklyn. I had to try it! I remember the small…
From the strip mall outposts of our suburban wastelands to the grimy corners in the heart of the city, our fast-food bread lines form their motorized queues and serve our doom 99 cents at a time. While our president shills for Five Guys, real mom-and-pops shut down for good, and…
