The BubbleQ is one of The South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s premiere events. It’s the one that people talk about – and who wouldn’t? To be honest, any event that offers free-flowing Perrier-Jouët and meat cooked by celebrity chefs should be worshiped like a minor demi-god. Without a doubt,…
Danny Meyer, superstar restaurateur and CEO of the group behind Gramercy Tavern and Union Square Café, led an unconventional wine tasting at the W Hotel today. Participants tasted each of six Shake Shack menu items with six wines each. We rated these 36 combinations on a matrix. Meyer instructed us…
What’s your idea of the good life? Is it a sprawling private event held in something called “the Sparkle Ballroom” in a glamorous over-the-top Miami Beach resort? Is it top-rated bottles of rare, aged grapes all silently glistening, clamoring to fill a complimentary Riedel glass hanging from a nifty cord…
Each year the SBWFF introduces new events. Some fly higher than others. Let Them Eat Cake, a celebration of the Festival’s 10 Year Anniversary expressed in desserts by some of America’s best pastry chefs, was stratospherically successful.For one thing, it took place on the rooftop of the parking garage at…
When we arrived at Dim Sum & Disco at The Setai last night, guests lined up around the restaurant’s open kitchen to taste the small bites prepared for the evening, but as the clock ticked past midnight the party moved to courtyard where people danced to ’70s tunes and sipped…
Anytime you have plates of Asian cuisine prepared by Ming Tsai (Blue Ginger), Richard Hales (Sakaya Kitchen), Gregory Yu (Tropical Chinese), Joe Ng (Red Farm, N.Y.), the chefs from China Grill and Asia de Cuba, and Setai’s host chef David Werly, you’re going to have plenty of fine fare to…
If you watch the Today Show on NBC, you likely know the Scotto family pretty well. If you watch Wake Up With Al (Roker) on The Weather Channel, you likely know the Scottos. Or maybe you’ve eaten at their New York restaurant, Fresco by Scotto on East 52nd. Street, or…
Like many wine drinkers, we don’t give a lot of thought to what glass we pour our wine into as long as we never see the bottom. That;s wrong, says Maximilian Riedel, 11th-generation glassmaker and CEO of Riedel Crystal America., “The glass is an instrument — a tool to introduce…
Update: It’s been confirmed that The Tamiami Truckers Food Court has temporarily moved to their old spot at SW 127th Street and SW 137th Avenue (near Tamiami Airport), at least for this week. Code compliance issues forced the food trucks from their regular spot at Lexus of West Kendall and…
Calling all bartenders, servers, bussers, managers, chefs, and cooks! Those “in the biz” are invited to enjoy the ambiance, and most importantly, discounted food and beverage, at Bongos Cuban Cafe and Tatu, two heavyweight restaurants at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood. Just a few weeks after launch,…
No we’re not all professionally trained in the culinary arts like those who handed out the official honors last night, but we know our way around food and the celebrities who hawk it. Therefore we deem ourselves qualified to bestow upon last night’s Burger Bash entrants the following Unofficial Miami…
There was more shine than swine at last night’s Original Moonshine Shine & Swine party at the W Hotel. Not that we needed much more food after stuffing ourselves at the Burger Bash, but anyone expecting much food likely left disappointed. There was plenty to drink, however, as the W’s…
View more photos from the Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach here.”Last year it was pastrami. This year it’s salami. It’s meat on meat, baby!” is what Michael Symon had to say last night as he accepted his second consecutive People’s Choice Award at last night’s Burger…
Jan Jorgensen has operated Two Chefs in South Miami since 1994. During that time he has successfully surfed the turbulent waves of South Florida’s fickle economy, fussy diners, and vacillating trends, while putting out consistently great fare at his restaurant.In part one of the interview, Jorgensen discussed pork belly, small…
The Thursday’s On The Bay Food Truck Roundup at the American Legion Post # 29, which featured food trucks circling a wine and beer tent, was put on hold today after the city’s code department noted each truck had to register its business with the City of Miami and have…
If space aliens turned on a television to Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods, they would think that humans lived on a diet of bats, scorpions, brains, eyeballs and testicles. And most humans do — just not humans in the United States. Which is why Andrew Zimmern is trying to change the…
Pizza Volante, what was left of Jonathan Eismann’s mini-restaurant empire in the Design District, has shut its doors. Less than two years after opening, the small pizza place on North Miami Avenue followed the fate of its siblings, Pacific Time, Q, and Fin, even though it seems to have fared…
Claire Robinson,the vivacious and spirited host of Food Network’s 5 Ingredient Fix, combines her love for cooking and education to bring you infotainment at it’s best. This Florida native started her career behind the camera but quickly found her groove after attending NYC’s The French Culinary Institute and turned her…
Welch’s, known for its juices and commercials featuring adorable gap toothed kids, has agreed to pay a huge settlement after being sued for false advertising. Welch’s 100% Juice White Grape Pomegranate Flavored 3 Juice Blend was labeled as if it contained more pomegranate than it actually did, according to the…
The 2011 South Beach Wine & Food Festival didn’t officially start until this morning, but Food Network magazine snuck in a star-studded soiree last night at Scarpetta that really wowed fans. Appearances by Scott Conant, Sunny Anderson, Anne Burrell, and Melissa D’Arabian were scheduled, but Wylie Dufresne and Geoffrey Zakarian…
Emeril Lagasse has created quite an empire for himself. Lagasse began his love of food growing up in Massachusetts (that’s right folks, he’s not originally from Louisiana). Emeril’s connection with New Orleans began when he accepted the position of Executive Chef at the legendary Commander’s Palace. Emeril went on to…
His resume is different than that of most of Miami’s chefs. Jan Jorgensen has worked at top restaurants in Zurich, in Greenland, at the well-regarded Fakkelgaarden in his native Copenhagen, and under chef Jeremiah Tower at California’s landmark Stars. Upon arriving in Miami during the early Nineties, Jorgensen operated JanJo’s…
