Another food truck round-up? You don’t say! However, Culinarium, launching tonight, seems to be the first mobile food event in Miami to combine a food truck rally with live DJs and bands (which a few have already been doing), and a full bar offering. (It’s probably also the first, of…
Holland America invited Short Order aboard the ms Noordam a few weeks ago to meet its new Culinary Council. We nearly plotzed after discovering that meant having lunch with David Burke, Charlie Trotter, Jacques Torres, Jonnie Boer, and council chairman Rudi Sodamin, also the cruise line’s consulting master chef. Holland…
Food Network’s series Cupcake Wars pits four sets of cupcake makers against each other in a series of off-the-dome creative baking challenges.Bakers are eliminated in a series of rounds. A final challenge involves high-volume baking, and, usually, the creation of a massive, creative display for the final product. The winner…
Tagliatelle, a traditional Italian restaurant with an emphasis on seafood, quietly opened November 1 at 124 Collins Avenue in South Beach (in the space formerly…wait, I forgot…oh, right, Amnesia). Restaurateur Matthieu Mineo, from Nice, France, has two restaurants in his home country. Does South Beach remind Mineo of Nice? “The…
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic pork belly. He had no one but himself to blame. What did he expect, having inhaled slabs of the fatty pig meat over the past year as if breathing air? He…
For as long as it’s existed, chocolate has been revered. Rich, smooth, creamy; however you like to consume it, it sooths and stimulates, comforts and warms. How does one not like chocolate? For three days starting Friday, about 12,000 people will show their undying love for the treat and the…
When the city’s most popular food trucks started disavowing the now-defunct Gourmet Food Truck Association last week, the reaction from customers was mostly confusion. What exactly was it, anyways, and would its collapse affect the many popular food truck courts currently going?While Short Order revealed some of the sordid details…
Local food truck aficionados by now are likely well aware of the Sugar Rush truck, now a happy aqua-blue fixture at pretty much every local street food court. So far, it’s the only all-dessert truck on the road (unless you count Dolci Peccati or Feverish, who specialize in frozen treats…
I was invited to preview the menu of Cavatelli Italian Trattoria which opens tomorrow in the Roads. A brother-and-sister team made up of executive chef Imanol Achurra and his sister, owner Julene Achurra. Chef Achurra and sous chef Michael Flores Interiano prepared a sampling of several menu items from the…
Today, suburbia’s corporate crack dealer, Starbucks, is rolling out a 31-ounce option for iced coffee, iced tea, and iced tea lemonade in 14 states, and Florida made the cut. But Short Order isn’t racing to the nearest ‘bucks to order up a super-sized iced latte just yet–we’re still trying to…
The upside of the staggering economy is that, thanks to desperation, many of us have been able to (or have been forced to, whatever) transform former hobbies into actual moneymakers (see Etsy.com).Ted Baturin, a financial planner, and Nick Diamond, a real estate developer, both found themselves out of luck when…
Saturday evening brought the first Wynwood Food Truckers Meet Up. It was organized by Richard Hales, chef/owner of Sakaya Kitchen and the Dim Ssäm a gogo truck. Some two dozen gastrowheelers were on hand, including many last seen two evenings earlier at the Biscayne Triangle Truck Court and Truckers Meeting…
Dairy Queen’s Midnight Truffle Blizzard Treat is coming to Miami on Tuesday, February 1. The MTBT is comprised of chocolate truffle pieces blended with dark cocoa fudge and vanilla soft serve. The Blizzard mix-in was introduced in 1985; in 2003, things were organized into Blizzard-of-the-Month flavors. Past faves include Stawberry…
If Miami is to continue its march toward becoming a respected art metropolis, who better than restaurant veteran Steven Haas, chairman of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, to bring a vibrant new restaurant to the art corridor. City Hall, a 6000-square-foot, brasserie-style venue will serve high-quality comfort food…
A common myth suggests that humans and bottlenose dolphins are two of only three species of mammals (the other being bonobos) that have sex for pleasure, so it’s only natural that this Valentine’s Day you take your sweetie to Miami Seaquarium to “Dine with the Dolphins” in order to set…
As described earlier by Lee Klein, The vibe was laid-back and family friendly at Thursday night’s mobile food court. Trucks gathered just north of midtown, behind the Publix on 47th and Biscayne. Hungry groups of friends congregated in front of their favorite trucks, while the adventurous sorts wandered about, sampling…
This is the second part of our chat with Michael Vaughn, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit chef. If you missed part one, well, we’ll just have to throw you to the lions.What’s your biggest challenge?Keeping a large variety. I don’t use a cycle menu. That gets…
In case you’re homebound or have been out of town for months, you’ll want to know Miami’s food truck scene is growing like a fast moving, tasty rash. Different sorts of street meats, tacos, sandwiches, and desserts are being sold from trucks and carts at preplanned gathering spots, and we,…
Another night, another meals-on-wheels spectacle. This one took place last evening behind the Publix at Biscayne Boulevard and 47th Street — a temporary move from 81st Street due to some hiccup that is apparently being solved. The crowds were thin relative to recent round-ups, perhaps due to the air having…
Just a sip from next weeks bowl of restaurant review:As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic pork belly…..
Yes, dining with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus cast and crew was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, so we totally understand if you are seething with jealousy. It was awesome! But instead of keeping our observations to ourselves, we thought we’d let you in on some of the more…
Last January unemployment in South Florida was creeping up towards 12 percent. While many Miamian’s scoured the classifieds, then 23-year-old Francesca Fernandez opened a frozen yogurt shop in Coral Gables. This week, she celebrates the one-year anniversary of My Yogurt Bliss, a self-serve yogurt bar where you completely customize your…
