Moët Hennessy’s the Q and the Q After Dark kick off the four-day weekend of nonstop parties, seminars, dinners, and events that begin tonight for the 2013 South Beach Wine & Food Festival.This year’s Q, hosted by Food Network’s Southern sweetheart Paula Deen and her handsome sons Jamie and Bobby,…
Chef, restaurateur, and Food Network personality Geoffrey Zakarian is working hard — and playing hard at this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Zakarian, who makes the trip to Miami each year with his wife, Margaret, is appearing at multiple festival events, hosting a magnificent A-list invitation-only Rose brunch, and…
Sure, SoBeWFF is expensive — if you can even scrounge tickets for the mostly sold-out festival. But there are ways to have some SoBeFun without the SoBEWFF sticker shock.Each year there are events and freebies all around the festival — some “official” and some not. Frankly, it doesn’t matter to us…
While you’re undoubtedly stoked about today’s kickoff of the annual bacchanalia known as the South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SoBeWFF), you’re probably less excited about the logistics. Namely, parking. Unless you live in South Beach, parking for the fest can be a nightmare. But no worries. We’re SoBeWFF vets…
For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times’ Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Anne Burrell is the Food Network’s bubbly, blond ambassador of good times and great eats. A frequent face on the network, she’s taken turns on Iron Chef America and…
Like free stuff? Course ya do. Like winning? Probably more than getting free stuff. That’s why we’re bunching the two together and giving you a chance to win two tickets to Trade Talks 2013. The SoBeWFF satellite event will give you the chance to rub elbows and speak candidly with…
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It’s not unusual to see people playing volleyball on South Beach’s shoreline. But come next week, don’t do a double take when the person spiking the ball happens to actually be Spike… as in Mendelsohn.The Top Chef alum (and owner of some of the Presidential family’s favorite Washington D.C. restaurants)…
Short Order loves its readers and we’re willing to prove our love by giving away a pair of tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival Grand Tasting Village. That’s a $450 value — if you could actually get tickets to this completely sold-out event!On Saturday, February 23, one…
Here’s an update on Swine Southern Table & Bar. Though there’s no “official” opening date yet, expect the pork-centrentic restaurant to open very soon.Eddie Acevedo, chief operating officer for 50 Eggs, the parent company of Swine, told Short Order that the restaurant is “very close” to opening. When pushed for…
Jamie DeRosa has finally announced the project he’s been working on since leaving his position as executive chef at Tudor House in July 2012 with partner Michael Reginbogin.Tongue and Cheek, which will open in the former Kane Steakhouse spot in SoFi, will serve “approachable, ingredient-driven, American fare with just the…
Disney World: Where dreams come true. Florida: Where dreams of equal marriage are crushed. Well, for now, at least. Ah, Florida… we have such a happy place nestled right in the bosom of our state, but all around us, gay couples are advocating for the right to marry. How can…
Last year, celebrity chef Michael Symon shocked the throngs of meat lovers at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Burger Bash by winning the coveted People’s Choice award three years in a row. Symon’s “Porky Burger”, a pigfest made from pork and bacon, crowned with a hunk of pulled…
Can’t make it to this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival? We hear ya. Tickets are kind of expensive. Fret not. Luckily, Twitter allows complete strangers to pry into the lives of those who live publicly, like Cooking Channel and Food Network idols, for instance. This year, experience SoBe…
For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times’ Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. As human beings, we are subject to the undeniable laws of attraction. If something looks good, we gotta have it. And if you’ve got an interest in food, neck-breaking…
Bulla Gastrobar, in the space that Por Fin once occupied, opens this week just off Miracle Mile. Short Order was invited to a friends-and-family opening to taste some of the menu and see how the space was transformed from a white-linen restaurant to what owner Carlos Centurion hopes will become…
It was a warm Sunday afternoon, and Brickell’s high-rises loomed on the hazy horizon beyond the nearby Miami River. Quaint fishing boats bobbed on the water’s rippling surface, and rays of sunlight glimmered upon the soft waves. But a few steps from these quiet waters, dozens of shoppers elbowed each…
For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times’ Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Credit three ladies for making this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival just a little bit, um, cooler: Hedy Goldsmith, James Beard award-nominated executive pastry chef for the…
After dropping hints on Facebook and Twitter about his third restaurant, chef Jimmy Carey very quietly opened the third location of Jimmy’z Kitchen on Valentine’s Day.Carey renovated the former Havana Spice space at 9050 S. Dixie Hwy. in Pinecrest, replacing the wood paneling and updating the kitchen to match his Wynwood location’s bright citrus color…
After getting bored with my usual overly salty store-bought tub o’ hummus, which is one of the only varieties around that’s made without added oils (read this scholarly rant by Dr. Joel Fuhrman to see why I shun all extracted oils — including olive and coconut — whenever possible), I…
For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times’ Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Martha Stewart is the woman who does it all. Just reading her list of accomplishments — author of 77 books, host of an Emmy-winning television show, and founder of…
For more on the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, check out New Times’ Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. Unlike the Wizard of Oz, people who know the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival pay attention to the man behind the curtain — Lee Brian Schrager…
