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. 99…
”It’s the first one in America,” says Alexander Hiller, Director of 100 Montaditos, which just opened this past Friday in midtown Miami (just across from Hurricane Grill & Wings). There are some 200 locations worldwide (in France, Mexico, Portugal, and, mostly, in hometown Spain), so these are no rookie operators…
We’ve been on the Sweetness Bakeshop trail for the past couple of weeks, since we discovered their awesome custom cakes and took a look at the rest of their store offerings. Cupcakes remain the most popular item at the shop — especially because owner Stephanie Perez-Diaz and her partners keep…
As further proof that 2012 may indeed bring an apocalypse, the current crop of reality TV offerings not only offers warring shows about pawn hockers, hoarders, and trash-sifters, but now, also, abandoned storage container bidders. If you work at home or stay up too late, you may already be familiar…
photo by billwisserphoto.com Remember the street food court that was supposed to launch on Biscayne Boulevard and 81st Street a few weeks ago? Yeah, well it didn’t happen then. The trucks ended up relocating for that day and we didn’t hear much more about it. Until now. The gathering…
There’s good news today for those in Miami drooling over moving munchies. The Biscayne Triangle Truck Round-up is back on this week with a new location at the parking lot of American Legion Post #29 (6445 NE 7th Avenue, Miami). After moving from the former NE 109th and Biscayne Boulevard location…
More food truck mania on the web! (Don’t expect it to stop any time soon.) So, what to do if, even though you’re following all your favorite trucks on Twitter, you don’t get to stay logged in all day for the scoop? How about a website that conveniently lists the…
It seems like the notable restaurant openings in Miami slowed down a bit after Art Basel passed. But there were still quite a few places to start off the year. Below are the restaurant openings and closings for January 2011 (or earlier and not included in our December round-up).OpeningsBacklot Wine…
This is the first dish in a countdown to New Times’ Best of Miami 2011. From now until June, Short Order will be serving 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.100. Dumplings…
What portion of the planet makes better breakfasts than the American South? None. And how many American Southern restaurants are there in Miami? At least one that we know of: The First & First Southern Baking Company. And does Ray Hicks, owner of First & First do Southern breakfasts proud?…
Friday we chatted with Vino e Olio’s executive chef Andrea Menichetti and his two-Michelin Star-rated chef/mama. If you missed it, click here. We’ll be awaiting your return. Promise.So who’s the most famous celebrity you’ve ever cooked for?Andrea Bocelli. He’s the one most internationally known. A lot [of celebrities] in Italy.What…
Over 20,000 runners will take to Miami’s streets this Sunday for the ING Miami Marathon and Half Marathon. Running a marathon is no easy feat – it requires months of training, mental and physical endurance and a lot of energy. Since the human body really wasn’t meant to run 26.2…
While food trucks get all the shine on the local affordable-dining scene, it’s easy to forget that some of them are offshoots of actual brick-and-mortar establishments! Case in point: Sugar Rush Miami, the city’s first baked-goods truck. The truck wows with so-bad-for-you-they’re-good concoctions like deep-fried cupcakes and super-thick milkshakes. But…
Looking for somewhere to go on Chinese New Year? Ring in the Year of the Rabbit at one of these Miami restaurants. Celebrations begin on February 2. Café Sambal at the Mandarin Oriental Lion dance performances and Asian art in the café’s outdoor terrace are part of this celebration. The restaurant…
When we heard Vino e Olio’s executive chef Andrea Menichetti would be cooking with his two-Michelin Star-rated chef mama this past week, we couldn’t resist heading in for an interview. While it’s true the restaurant has been getting some tough press recently, his mother, two-Michelin Star-rated chef Valeria Piccini, wasn’t…
The 1st Avenue Bistro & Bakery has been around since 2008 downtown near the courthouse. It is owned and operated by a French couple who opened their first restaurant, Les Trois Petits Bergers, in Izeaux, France, in 1989. They also had a second establishment in Nice called Le Capitole. Their…
Morsels from next week’s Cafe review of De Rodriguez Ocean:Comfortably cushioned seats surround dark wooden tables; red votive candles, glassware, flatware, and salt/pepper shakers culled from the low-end pages of a Sysco catalogue sit atop. Dinner here is an expensive proposition — ceviches $13 to $23, appetizers $10 to $18,…
As you already are well aware, the end of the world is coming very soon. The Mayan calendar kinda just ends on December 12, 2012, which is not tomorrow, but you know, it’s hovering frighteningly close in time. Psychic Edgar Cayce saw us entering into a “New Age” around now,…
The Thursday night food truck round-up known as Culinarium, which launched last week is being cancelled due to lack of permits. The food court was the first of its kind locally in that it featured live music and booze at Villa 221 (221 NE 17th Street). Organizer Richard Hales of…
Rosa Mexicano will be opening on the ground floor of the the funky new 1111 Lincoln Road parking lot. That’s an exclusive Short Order scoop — which we scooped from Ryan at Miami’s Restaurant Power Rankings, who scooped it from Chowhound, which got the scoop from a Craigslist job listing.That…
It’s a chilly Tuesday evening by Miami standards, but that hasn’t stopped some thousand food-loving folks from flocking to Biscayne Boulevard and 109th Street for an outdoor meal. Choices include hamburgers, tacos, fried-fish sandwiches, pork belly bao, more hamburgers, and a handful of other easily handled street foods, all culled…
So after all that build-up, how did Hialeah’s own 2 Girls and a Cupcake fare on last night’s episode of Cupcake Wars? We know, we know – the State of the Union was on the same time. Luckily, we shirked our civic responsibilities (that’s what DVRs are for) to catch…
