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…
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. 90…
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. 91…
While everyone’s sucking down greasy maple syrup covered bacon at Sunday brunch a group of people more conscious of the fact that meat is murder gather at Sweat Records for the Waffle Party. This isn’t just your run of the mill waffle party (if there is such a thing), rather,…
The theme at yesterday’s Street Food Fridays at the Arsht Center was Flamenco Friday in honor of the performing art center’s upcoming Flamenco Festival. There was music, flamenco dancers and tables set up as local business people, tourists and locals all enjoyed the food and atmosphere.Eighteen food trucks participated in…
Dinnertime food truck round-ups are awesome for the indecisive among us — especially as they continue to swell in size. Still, the only thing missing from the city’s local food-truck scene is a regular circuit of late-night party munchies. The Electric Pickle-loving Montaco aside, it’s hard to find mobile snacks…
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. 92…
We continue our interview with owner and chef of The Rolling Stove food truck, Troy Thomas. Read part one of the interview here. New Times: How do you choose your locations? Troy Thomas: I wouldn’t even know where to go on my own. I’m like the little brother asking other…
Today is the last day of the contest so you’ll have to be the first to name these two chefs if you want to win a family four-pack of tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival’s Kohl’s Fun and Fit as a Family featuring Kellogg’s Kidz Kitchen. Previous…
