Restaurants

Bread + Butter: Nuevo Cubano Cuisine in Coral Gables

After some soft openings and a few teases of good food and cold beer, the Butcher Shop will finally open July 4 at 5 p.m. Is the Butcher Shop a butcher shop, a restaurant, or a beer garden? Executive chef Dustin Ward tells Short Order that the Wynwood eatery is…

Alberto Cabrera speaks pure Spanglish. He says pero instead of but. His grandmother is abuela. His landlord? Un viejo cubano — an old Cuban man. His words drift from English to Spanish in a stream. In his family, he’s known as pan con mantequilla (bread and butter). Twenty years ago,…

Another Miami landmark restaurant has closed. The Crab House closed Sunday evening, marking an end to more than 30 years of waterfront dining. Designed to look like a lighthouse, the Crab House on the 79th Street Causeway was a beacon for people wanting a decent seafood meal at a reasonable…

So here’s a good excuse to visit Panther Coffee around lunchtime. The Wynwood and Sunset Harbour locations now offer sandwiches by Zak the Baker. Zak Stern, the artisan behind Miami’s best sourdough, is slicing up his crusty loaves and stuffing them with fresh ingredients like avocado and black bean hummus…

What do you do when your temporary sandwich place, Pirolo’s Panino Pop-Up, turns out more successful than you thought? You turn your steak house into a taco shop by day, of course. That’s what the Pubbelly boys have decided to do with their new Taco Belly pop-up. Beginning July 3,…

Last week, Short Order introduced the Inside Their Refrigerator series, taking you inside the refrigerators of Miami’s top chefs. This week we spoke with chef Giorgio Rapicavoli of Eating House. Read more to find out about the foods he keeps in his fridge for late-night snacks after returning from the…

Tosca, the fine-dining eatery on 23rd Street and Collins Avenue in South Beach, has hopped onto the brunch bandwagon. Now offering a new menu on Sundays, from noon to 5 p.m., Tosca offers everything from bacon and eggs to Hamachi crudo to cucumber risotto. There is a wide range of…

While the rest of Miami — and the nation for that matter — was wondering whether the Heat would finally show the Spurs who’s boss during overtime Tuesday night, all we could think about was where we could find a massive slice of fudge cake or pint of cookie-dough ice…

Panther Coffee Brews Up a Specialty Scene in Miami

See the slide show “Closer Look: Panther Coffee in Wynwood“.

The super-mega Iron Fork/Miami Spice Kickoff, presented by the Miami Downtown Development Authority, is getting closer, and two chefs are training hard for a battle of skills and wit in a challenge that is so intense that only one can make it out alive. What two Miami chefs are brave…

Of all the competitors at Panther Coffee on a recent Friday night, Jed Baxter slurps the loudest. It’s a sharp noise, like a vacuum sucking up a spilled drink. The rules of the game are simple. Before him sit 12 cups of coffee, arranged in sets of three. In each…

We’re officially halfway through National Frozen Yogurt Month and well into the 90-degree-temperature season (even though summer doesn’t begin until Friday). So as a tribute to the only thing that can cool us down both physically and mentally, Short Order came up with a list of the five reasons frozen…

Meat Market’s Sean Brasel is having one good spring. First, the chef was proclaimed a “grilling god” by Food Republic. He’s also planning to open two new Meat Market locations, in Puerto Rico and Palm Beach. Now, Brasel is headed to New York City to represent Miami Beach at a…

The refrigerator is the heart of a kitchen — the magic can’t happen without the fresh ingredients that are stored below 40° F behind closed doors. So for food lovers, getting a look inside a chef’s fridge is like a fashionista taking a peak at Anna Wintour’s closet. That’s why…

After about a year of anticipation, Huahua’s Taqueria opens today. The fast casual Chihuahua-themed restaurant opens today at 11 a.m. for lunch, serving up a menu of tacos, enchiladas, and a variety of sides. When we interviewed chef/partner Todd Erickson two weeks ago, he said he couldn’t wait to “tear…

Imagine you want to open a Chinese restaurant. The idea is to take standard, Americanized Chinese food; add a few epicurean ingredients like foie gras, pork belly (a Chinese favorite for centuries), and yuzu; and offer it all in a graffiti-covered, mostly take-away building that straddles Wynwood, Overtown, and the…

Miami’s food truck scene is alive and well and, apparently, a destination choice for hungry travelers, according to two prominent online food-and-travel sites. Jetsetter, an online travel magazine that also books custom upscale trips such as tiger safaris and tours of California’s wine country, has listed the seven top cities…

A breadery and grill with a sense of humor is set to open shop in South Miami when Buns & Buns arrives sometime late summer. The restaurant and bakery has been teasing us with pictures of buns (and buns) on Facebook and Twitter. Then we received a phone call from…

When pastry chef Dominique Ansel introduced the “cronut” at his New York City bakery just a month ago, was he aware of the feeding frenzy he would create? The love child of a doughnut and a croissant, the pastry became a viral hit, with daily demand far exceeding supply. The…

Chef Bernie Matz says that carving up Alton Road has taken a bite out of his business. Matz, who is executive chef of Lincoln Road’s Café at Books & Books, also owns Bernie’s L.A. Café on 15th and Alton. He’s worried about whether his restaurant can survive the summer. The…

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