A spicy starter preceding this week’s Cafe review:The thali encompasses a lot of different tastes at an attractive price, and as such provides a solid introductory sampling of menu items for those visiting the restaurant for the first time. That said, if one of the thali dishes really proves alluring,…
Haven Gastro-Lounge opens tonight on the very far west side of Lincoln Road. The 2,000-square-foot, 120-seat space has grey walls, where projectors will change the ambiance of the room from tropical rain forest to mountain terrain at the touch of a button. Guests will enjoy live DJs on state-of-the-art sound…
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. 40…
The Truckers Out West food truck rally is one of the largest, with the number of trucks usually topping out at a mind-boggling 30 or so. Patrons in the thousands arrive at Mother of Christ Church to get their weekly fill of street food and lines up to a dozen…
With a name like Cinco de Drinko at Tobacco Road, you pretty much know what to expect — mucha tequila y cerveza, along with quince food trucks to soak up the booze — just so you can drink some more! The party, which goes from 6 p.m. till midnight, is pulling…
Food trucks are a natural fit for TV — part restaurant and part carnival attraction. Each chef and rolling kitchen has a unique story. As host of Cooking Channel’s Eat Street, the new series that follows the street food craze around the country, James Cunninghan has his work cut out…
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. 41…
John Richards, Miami-Dade culinary chief, talks turkey
World Resource Cafe, the Asian fusion restaurant on Lincoln Road, is another of this week’s restaurant casualties. A call to the popular outdoor cafe, known as much for people watching as its reasonably-priced sushi boats and pad Thai, announced the Lincoln Road location was closed. The message asks people to…
I’m late to the game here because Yelp has already announced the closure, but I want to write a quick requiem for Sara’s, the kosher/vegetarian restaurant on NE 123rd Street in North Miami. I called today and the phone is disconnected and the website is gone. The place had the…
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. 42…
Coconut Grove’s newest addition, Central Beer Garden, will open to the public just in time for Cinco de Mayo celebrations. Along with its sister Sushi Central Lounge the venue is located on the fourth floor of CocoWalk. Boasting more than 60 beers on tap, they will also offer “hearty foods…
While Jim Heins of Latin Burger announced to the world the arrival of his new baby, LB2, Jeremiah Bullfrog was a little more stealthy with his second gastroPod, telling only a few people G2 was in the works. Chef Jeremiah says the G2 is a 1969 Airstream. “A bit smaller,…
The philosophy of the Primal Blueprint, currently one of the most popular semi-low-carb diets — er, sorry, lifestyles — around, makes more intuitive sense than did The Atkins Diet’s unabashed bacon-slinging.The premise? Man’s biological evolution has not caught up with the evolution of the world we live in, so to…
After more than a decade, Joe Allen has closed its Miami Beach doors.Managing partner Mario Rubeo confirmed the news by phone saying that the bottom line was that the restaurant wasn’t “financially feasible” anymore. The restaurant, which also has outposts in New York, Paris and London, opened on Miami Beach…
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. 43…
Miami has lots of decadent gyms. South Beach’s David Barton, for example, has valet parking, steam rooms, a pool, somewhere around 18 classes a day, and an interior that looks more like a nightclub than a sweat factory.The city also has paradisaical weather. It’s astounding how many people choose to…
May is National Burger Month, a celebration of the meat sandwich that we all love so much. Eat your way through multiple burgers tonight at BTTR, adjacent to Johnson & Wales University, where several of the best mobile meal machines will feature discounts and specials in honor of this momentous…
The Fontainebleau’s sushi restaurant, Blade, has made a return; but this time it’s rooming with Vida. The space isn’t thoroughly spliced yet. The frosted glass walls are on their way for installation, but executive chef Thomas Connell is quick to discuss plans for an overhauled brunch that will bring improvement…
Quite a few restaurant doors opened and closed in April. We had some surprises like the quiet opening of Michelle Bernstein’s new cafe/bakery in the atrium of the building across from Sra. Martinez and the arrival of La Sandwicherie to Brickell. In closings, chef Allen Susser closed his namesake Aventura…
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. 44…
This past Friday, we shared Part 1 of our interview with chef Josh Becker of the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach. If you missed it, you can read it here. In Part 2, Josh talks about his dream job and fantasy “protein.” New Times: What are you…
