52: Pizza Guy from rakontur on Vimeo.Miami’s digital auteurs, Rakontur, caught this classic South Beach food-related violent club incident on tape as part of its Clubland Miami web series. The pizza this pain-glutton lunatic is eating appears to be Papa Johns. I placed a call to their 15th street location…
National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus earlier this week recommended that D’Artagnan Inc. discontinue certain advertising claims regarding its’ Artisan foie gras — specifically that “the liver is not diseased, simply enlarged”, and that the animals are hand-raised “under the strictest of animal care standards.”…
ZOMG, ya’ll! Did you watch last night’s Super Bowl edition of Top Chef? Poor Jeff McInnis got the boot. We feel for him. The chef from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach couldn’t wrap his head around why the judges preferred season 2’s Josie Smith-Malave’s warm ceviche…
Hopeless jackass and Palm Beach county resident Rush Limbaugh has a particularly ridiculous sound byte traveling around the internet lately in which he’s basically quoted as saying he doesn’t want the Obama doctrine to succeed. The quote came from an interview Limbaugh did with Sean Hannity, in which Hannity asks…
Not on the V-Day Menu at TrinaRight, gents, it’s the most perilous time of year to be a man. Every move you make or fail to for Valentine’s Day will pretty much seal up your romantic prospects for the year. My brother once made the hideous gaffe (who knew?) of…
Nuts About Florida products can be found all over the Sunshine State, from truck stops to mom-and-pop’s, gas stations to grocery stores. If you want nuts in Miami, West Palm or Orlando, they got em. They are roasted and packed right here in Miami and distributed by Barnard Nut Company…
Alright culinary-reality-fanatics, meet Giovanni, one of three Hell’s Kitchen 5 contestants from Florida. Giovanni is the executive chef at Creehan’s Copper Grill in Destin, Florida. Destin is a Gulf Coast beach town close to Pensacola. Pensacola’s about as un-Miami as you can get in Florida, but it is in the…
This dude is appearing on Hell’s Kitchen 5 premiering tonight on Fox at 9pm. His name is Danny and he’s from Edgewater, Florida. There are three Florida contestants this year on Hell’s Kitchen 5. Danny is 23 years old and works as an executive chef. He’s a self proclaimed redneck…
This season FOX’s smash reality hit Hell’s Kitchen 5 features 3 Florida Chef’s, Paula DaSilva is one of them. Paula works as Chef De Cuisine at 3030 Ocean at the Marriot’s Harbor Beach Resort in Ft. Lauderdale. I spoke to her via telephone and here’s what she had to say.”I…
Father/son developers Tony and Joey Goldman own more than 20 commercial properties near NW 28th Street and Second Avenue in the Wynwood Arts District. Until recently, their real estate portfolio was akin to a philatelist’s unfilled album — just so many pages of drawings and plans. But on December 1,…
Ft. Lauderdale’s Cafe Martorano and its owner Steve Martorano exert the media-industry equivalent of gravitational pull. He and his restaurant attract attention. Da guy’s a star yaknowwhadamean? He’s got his landmark South Florida headquarters, a joint in Vegas, national tv spots cookin meatballs, Gail Shepherd’s writin about him, face on…
Michelle Bernstein returns as host of WPBT-2’s popular television show Check, Please! South Florida, and Season 2, which premieres Monday, March 9th, promises to contain almost as many new twists as the latest episodes of Lost. On second thought, maybe I’m exaggerating a bit; there are really only two changes…
John LinnCheck out the full slideshow here. The Third Annual Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival took place on Saturday, and in case you missed out on what was a perfect day of beer sampling and cavorting, check out our slide show here. What made the fest so “gee, shucks” great? For…
Jack in the Box is apparently testing a program to outsource their drive-through orders, routing requests for burgers and shakes to call-takers outside the country. The program is getting its first test run in Charlotte, North Carolina, where folks innocently pulling up to the order box are being taken for…
Lest you think The Inspector is a hater, this week we won’t bring you the dirt on local routine-food-inspection-reports. Instead we’ll highlight the reports reporting that there is nothing to report. These restaurants were found to be totally violation-free on their most recent inspections.Pita Pit – 16323 SW 88 St,…
Another day, another European-style new age trattoria/old world Italian bar/outdoor marketplace/espresso bar/chic urban pizzeria getting set to open. Welcome to RACKS Italian Bistro And Market, owned by Gary Rack, who evidently didn’t like the sound of the name GARYS. Mr. Rack, founder of Boca Raton’s Coal Mine Pizza, sets out…
Courtesy of Lola’s CupcakeryAs far as desserts go, what’s better than a cupcake? Think about it: these morsels of goodness are self-contained, portable, portion-controlled, and, when done right, can taste pretty swell. And now, they’re showing up on Las Olas. Lola’s Cupcakery is a new venture from Toronto restaurateur, Donald…
Cheech And Chong Drink Bongwater from Miami New Times on Vimeo. Cheech and Chong are great Americans, even though they are Mexican and Canadian. They performed at the South Beach Comedy Festival 2009 and I caught up with them backstage to ask food questions for Short Order. They told me…
Admittedly this photo sent to us by the folks at Shaka Jon’s isn’t going to draw any comparisons with the work of André Kertész, but luckily Shaka is about food and drink, not photography. The new downtown restaurant, located at 48 East Flagler Street, offers an informal, low-priced menu of…
There’s all sorts of talk about New Deal this and New Deal that these days, which is fine by Heshy Wilensky, proprietor of the New Deal Kosher Market. Located at 1362 NE 163rd Street in North Miami Beach, it is the only butcher shop in South Florida that has operated…
My favorite news item of the week: Swiss researches have discovered a new psychological disorder which they’ve called “Gourmand Syndrome.” Turns out that people who are passionately obsessed with food actually have lesions in their right anterior cerebral hemisphere — lesions which do not appear in people who are not food obsessed…
You may have noticed that it’s colder than a witch’s teet outside. I mean, I really enjoy these few months where flip flops and Bermuda shorts aren’t required attire lest you suffer heat stroke, but come on… 40s? That’s not what I signed up for, folks. So last night, feeling…
