We noted the opening of some 100-plus restaurants this past year; only half that number was on our “closed” list. There might be more of the latter: PR firms rarely trumpet the shuttering of businesses.It was, overall, a great time to be a diner in Miami (you can read why…
Lokal, a new burger joint in Coconut Grove, opened Christmas Eve after much renovation to the space on Commodore Plaza.When Short Order spoke with owner Matthew Kuscher in September, he spun a tale of a small neighborhood restaurant featuring locally sourced food and drink. Kuscher described a mural made of…
December proved to be an active final month of the year. There was the re-opening of the splashy, remodeled Rusty Pelican; the re-opening of Pearl Restaurant & Champagne Lounge; the re-opening Philippe by Philippe Chow in a new SoFi location; the second Sakaya Kitchen venue downtown, and the second 100…
It’s no stretch to guess that 85 to 90 percent of people tomorrow night will make a resolution to diet. But it’s also no stretch to guess that around that same percentage of resolution diets will quickly be ditched.We’ve developed five ways to extend those two months to maybe six months or…
Walk through the doors of High Steaks BBQ, which opened just a few months ago near the Magic City Casino, and you’ll find a new kitschy-cute restaurant with wood rafters and copper-topped tables. A server greets you with a big, welcoming smile, and next thing you know, you’re sitting at…
Of all of the Latin American-Asian fusion dishes on Asia de Cuba’s diversely unique menu, why would you order slabs of brown tofu? Because they’re damn good and you don’t have to be vegetarian to enjoy them. Dining with a vegetarian – when you are a natural carnivore who seeks…
Miami food scene 2011: food trucks, great chefs, and real coffee continue the culinary ascent
Chef Ze Carlos Jimenez’s The MexZican Gourmet has opened today in South Miami.The restaurant features an expanded menu of chef Jimenez’s authentic Mexican cuisine, using flavors and dishes from his hometown just outside of Mexico City.Chef Jimenez’s “simply authentic” menu will please his food truck devotees with favorites like tacos,…
Less than a decade ago, Miami had arguably the worst dining scene of any famous city in America. If you wanted a great meal back then, you were better off heading to Ohio. (Seriously, Cincinnati had much better chefs.) But our restaurant fortunes soon began to rise. New Times’ year-end…
A couple years back, a soft-spoken, rock-solid chef from Boulder bowled over the competition on Top Chef Season 5, beating a couple flashier competitors in New Orleans to take the coveted TV title. Born in Taos, New Mexico, Rosenberg received his degree in engineering physics and wanted to become an…
Did you stuff your face to the point of bursting this Christmas? Yes, of course you did. But it’s okay; it’s not too late to turn things around in time to fit into a slinky dress for New Year’s Eve. What’s the answer? Juice fasting. Not only will your reduced…
Cinco Cantina and Tequila Bar: Only the tequila and beers are authentically Mexican
After Sunday night’s epic holiday meal battle in Kitchen Stadium against chef Elizabeth Falkner, Geoffrey Zakarian — who recently opened the Tudor House restaurant in South Beach — prevailed using the secret ingredients as his allies (beef crown roast, candy canes, clementines, acorn and butternut squash, salt cod, Brussels sprouts,…
Ahhhh, the holidays. A most wonderful time of the year. And let’s be honest, a most stressful one, too. Bake. Shop. Eat.It can be exhausting. You know how it goes. It gets down to the last minute and you can’t stop yawning and trying to figure out how in the…
It seems fitting that Cinco Cantina & Tequila Bar opened in the Village of Merrick Park this past Cinco de Mayo. Not only are the two “Cincos” in sync, but the holiday is celebrated more here than south of the border, just as Cinco Cantina’s food is much more American…
Kombucha is fermented tea crawling with live and active cultures. And it is taking up ever more shelf space in the beverage aisle at Whole Foods. Why? It may help restore health to your digestive tract and give you an immune boost.Probiotics are not just for yogurts anymore. In fact,…
There aren’t many restaurants on Miami Beach that have been around since 1920. The Forge is one of em’, and its storied past swims in local history like a mangrove snapper in the salty waters off the south coast. Owner Shareef Malnik’s steady hand on the tiller, and Chef Dewey…
Macarons are absolutely the new cupcakes.I know this because I was watching ABC News and they said that “macaroons are the new cupcakes.” The next day Time magazine came in the mail and in it was an article entitled “Will Macarons be the new cupcake?” Then I Googled “macarons are…
Shoppers at the supermarket are bombarded with a variety of brands and types of olive oil to choose from but the reality is that as much as half the stuff sold in the U.S. as “extra-virgin olive oil” is either deceptively mislabeled or just plain fraudulent, according to Tom Mueller…
Salumeria 104, Midtown’s newest restaurant contender, is really a candy store for meatheads, offering a little taste of Italy courtesy of Chef Angelo Masarin. This native of Treviso has spent the last few years making the rounds of Miami’s best Italian kitchens, including Casa Tua, Sardinia Enoteca and most recently,…
Last month, we gave four trucks the opportunity to compete to the sixteenth and final truck to be invited to park on the sands of Miami Beach for the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Trucks on the Beach event hosted by Andrew Zimmern on February 26.Mac’n Soul Food, Miso…
Last night, my dining partner and I were invited to a chi-chi press dinner at the Villa Mayfair Restaurant & Lounge in Coconut Grove. So we got dolled up and arrived very hungry.The restaurant (which turns into a lounge after hours) is stunning. Dim lighting, classy antique-like furniture, low-slung textured ceilings…
