If you think food truck roundups are a passing craze, take a drive over to the Tamiami Truckers Food Court tomorrow evening and see for yourself the future for food trucks in Miami. It looks freaking peachy keen. More than 40 food trucks will converge on the Lexus of West…
A little bait just to get you hooked on next week’s Cafe review:The fish we sampled was undeniably fresh…Composed plates include grilled mahi fillet, blackened and capped with pineapple salsa…and wasabi-coated tuna with balsamic glaze and pickled ginger. The owners proudly tout their focus on serving “the freshest locally sourced…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 88…
Francesca Lacuesta, a 28-year-old, full-time student, dedicated yogi, and vegan, has a dream: to get Miami’s first all-vegetarian food truck on the road. She’s almost there. She hopes to get her Mac’n Food Truck rolling by March, but with limited time and financial resources, it’s been an uphill battle…
Spike Mendelsohn of Top Chef fame came through for us yesterday with his Smokehouse burger recipe, the People’s Choice award winner for 2009. Today we’ve got Michael Symon’s kickass Fat Doug Burger, last year’s winner. Unfortunately we don’t have room to share his formula for ‘slaw and ShaSha sauce, but…
Food Truck fans have their choice of two roundups in Miami this evening. One location even offers cheap booze and bathrooms. The Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup Head over to the American Legion Post #29 at 6445 NE 7th Avenue, Miami from 5:30 to 10 p.m. and grab a craft beer…
In December, we wrote about Shing Wang having introduced banh mi sandwiches on its vegetarian-friendly Chinese menu. “I’ll be heading up to 167th real soon to check out these new items,” I vowed. Well, I made it up there yesterday, which to me is “real soon,” although folks tend to…
Christopher Lee has enjoyed great success as a chef in New York City. He headed the kitchen at Gilt when it nabbed two Michelin stars, then helmed Charlie Palmer’s Aureole and maintained that restaurant’s one Michelin star (he recently left the latter establishment). His “new American classics” style of cooking…
As we wrote yesterday, chef Michael Schwartz’s cookbook — Michael’s Genuine Food — is finally out. And Schwartz will make his first Miami appearance at Books & Books Coral Gables on Saturday, February 19 at 7 p.m. This isn’t your average book signing, though. After a Q&A with the chef,…
Yesterday, we took it “schlow” with Michael Schlow’s Schlow Burger recipe and today we’re gonna give you a spike: Spike Mendelsohn of Top Chef fame, actually. You’ll love this Smokehouse burger recipe, the People’s Choice award winner for 2009. Find the entire recipe, including the accompanying chipotle barbecue sauce and…
This is one of those stories we keep writing over and over, except the names change: A new restaurant project, called Trio On The Bay, is moving into the 79th Street Causeway locale. You probably know the spot — it’s the one with a sprawling outdoor patio and gorgeous bay…
As we count down to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011 in June, Short Order will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305 in random order. If you have any nominations of your own, please send them to cafe@miaminewtimes.com. After the jump, find our other choices. 89…
Food & Wine magazine has been awarding its Best New Chef honors for a long time, but this year the publication is partnering with CNN’s Eatocracy to create a new award called “The People’s Best New Chef.” Nominees, who have to have run their own kitchens for five years or…
A sign posted on Washington Avenue, between 6th and 7th Streets, reads “Coming Soon: Daddy’s Soul Food.” Not much info to go on, as nobody is answering the phone number listed on the website. But we do have all of the menu items, from fried catfish to southern fried chicken…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter, here’s a taste of what you’re missing. Click here to subscribe.It’s not FA-doh or FAH-doh or Fido or Mofo. . . it’s spelled Fado but pronounced F’doe, which in Irish means “long ago” and in Miami means a…
Us carnivores clamor for tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Burger Bash, but they sell out so quickly that we find ourselves whining aloud to drive-thru window attendants at fast food joints instead. (FYI: They don’t give a crap.)So this year, as previously promised in our preview…
Last year, Michelle Duncan and boyfriend David Shipman applied for a Pepsi Refresh Grant to make their Oil Spill Kitchen — a truck that would roll through the South feeding those affected by the BP oil spill — a reality. They didn’t get the money, but they didn’t give up…
British soccer stadium Forest Green Rovers Football Club recently instituted a ban on burgers and sausages. Its vegan owner first barred the team’s players from partaking in red meat for “health and performance reasons,” and then extended the policy to patrons as well, reasoning that if the food wasn’t good…
You read right: more mobile Sakaya Kitchen is coming Miami’s way. With the popularity of Dim Ssam a Go Go, Sakaya Kitchen chef/owner Richard Hales already had plans of doing a second food truck. And the opportunity arrived recently when he was approached by Food Cart USA about buying the…
If your sweet tooth is aching again, it’s because you’re sensing the debut of a new food truck, one that will do just the trick to ease the pain. This week, Sugar Yummy Mama enters the blossoming Miami food truck scene, offering high quality cake balls, cupcakes, and shooters to…
Need a last minute box of superb chocolates to complete the trifecta of gifts (roses, chocolate, and jewelry) for Valentine’s Day? Try Schakolad on 41st Street in Miami Beach. Its charming exterior is the work of co-owner Raquel Schachter, who runs the place with her son Eli.Schakolad specializes in European-style…
Until yesterday, there was no single place to go to satisfy food truck cravings on Sunday afternoon. Tobacco Road welcomed three of the most popular mobile meal units to its parking lot and gave Miami a place to recover from Saturday night.Guests wandered inside and out, drinking mojitos and beer…
