83. Cubi-Thai Sampler Plate

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. ​​83…

Rickenbacker Fish Company fails to produce

The first surprise at Rickenbacker Fish Company Restaurant and Market was the pack of barking, teeth-baring dogs that welcomed us as we exited our cars in the self-parking lot by the eatery’s entrance. A tall, white iron fence separates customers from those careening canines, but the experience was jolting just…

South Beach Wine & Food Festival 2011 Menus Shared

The South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s premiere events have a lot in common with a White House State Dinner — both are nearly impossible for us average schmucks to get into and both don’t release their menus before the event. Take Burger Bash, for instance. On the event page…

Vegan Alert: Get Nutritional Yeast at SoBe’s Apple A Day

I hate saying the words “nutritional yeast” out loud. It sounds like the most unappetizing product ever cultured. And truthfully, it can be. Try putting a straight spoonful of the powder in your mouth. If you don’t suffocate on accidentally inhaled yeast flakes, you’ll have a thick yellow putty-like coating…

Try Caviar & Caviar at the South Beach Fest

Michael E. Jalileyan will be serving caviar at South Beach Food & Wine Festival’s Grand Tasting Village this weekend. To prepare you for the big event, he owner and president, of Caviar & Caviar. offers a plethora of hints for ingesting the stuff that has been the treasure of Russia…

84. Chicken Chili Con Queso at Deli Lane Cafe

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. 84…

Scott Conant of Scarpetta Talks Food, SoBe Food Fest

Scott Conant is the charming and handsome executive chef and owner of Scarpetta in New York, Miami Beach (at the Fontainebleau), Toronto, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Conant and his restaurants have won almost every distinction imaginable, including a James Beard award for his restaurant L’Impero and rave reviews from…

Bryan Voltaggio on Top Chef and Making an Impact

Most people know Bryan Voltaggio from his participation in season six of Top Chef. But by the time he landed on the show, Voltaggio already had a pretty impressive culinary resume. He started cooking when he was 14 in Frederick, Maryland, and after attending the Culinary Institute of America, went…

85. Lemon Meringue Cake at Ice Box Cafe

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. 85…

Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup Tonight at Johnson & Wales

If the Beatles were still around, we bet they’d be singing “I’m Back in the BTTR,” instead of that other song because the Biscayne Triangle Truck Roundup is tonight, and it’s featuring more than 25 food trucks, live music, free parking and porta-potties!From 5:30 to 10 p.m., the trucks will…

Bourdain, Ray, Fieri’s Six Most Obscene and Silly Moments

The South Beach Wine and Food Festival starts Thursday. This is the big time — when us mere mortals can brush up to the likes of food superstars like Martha Stewart, Anthony Bourdain and Emeril Lagasse. Walking through the tents, we’ll thrill at the sight of these men and women…

Tim Love: Rabbit Rattlesnake Sausage and Elk Strip Loin

Tim Love is known to some as the “cowboy chef.” He is actually chef and owner of Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, his flagship restaurant in the Stockyard District of Fort Worth, Texas. He also owns hamburger joint, The Love Shack, and the White Elephant Saloon in Fort Worth. Love serves…

NeMesis and Peacock Café Coming Soon

Former Top Chef contestant Micah Edelstein announced she’ll be opening a new restaurant in Miami called neMesis Green Urban Bistro and Chef Oscar del Rivero is nearly ready to open the doors to his new Peacock Garden Café.Since Peacock is coming in a month and neMesis still doesn’t have its…

Bongos’ Chef Alex Describes Cuban Sushi and Balut

Did Chef Alex make you a believer after reading part one of last week’s interview? Here’s the rest of our chat:Any types of cuisine you are curious about but haven’t attempted?Exotic meats.Like offal?Way beyond that. Some guy in Arizona has a restaurant and he’s taking reservations for lion burgers. This…

86. Fig Pizza at Kokopo Fresh Kitchen

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.86. Fig…

South Beach Wine & Food Festival Tickets Still Available

Every year the South Beach Wine & Food Festival Rolls out its tents on the beach off Ocean Drive and every year you procrastinate, waiting to see if somehow some business associate or rich benefactor will bestow on you a complimentary golden ticket. If you haven’t yet been added to…

Latin Burger & Taco to Roll Out Second Truck, LB2

Latin Burger & Taco , Miami’s first gourmet food truck, is setting another trend with the roll out of a second vehicle. LB2 will be a twin brother. Jim Heins, owner of both, is expected to take delivery of the second black and pink wonder in mid-March…

87. Poulet Rouge at Cecconi’s 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. 87…

Chef Alex Otero: Bongos’ Kitchen is My House of Worship

​OK, we’ll admit it: We haven’t been to Bongos since we were tourists. Back then, we couldn’t tell our vaca frita from croquettes, but we knew Gloria Estefan had something to do with the restaurant, so we were all in.Seems the folks behind Bongos feared that perhaps we’ve lost that…

Feverish’s Felecia Hatcher on Gaming and Ice Cream Sandwiches

Felecia Hatcher is a Palm Beach native, former Wii slinger, and a true ice cream lover. She and her husband Derick Pearson co-own Feverish one of the longest running “food” trucks in the area, selling frozen desserts. They just introduced six new Feverish carts around the city, taking their sweets…