At Pirolo’s Panino pop-up at Macchialina, you can pick from sandwiches that are conventional or playful. Order the Jive Turkey sandwich. Get house-roasted turkey breast, tomato, and Dijonaise thronged by thick bread, which is toasted and smothered in butter. Although the menu listed lettuce as an ingredient, I won’t mutter…
Your buddies just don’t understand. You had an earth-shattering rossejat at the Bazaar. You loved the place — that is, until you heard some tragic news. Your pal once had a bad bao con lechón there. Now that guy’s never going back. Disgruntled patrons rarely forget a dinner done wrong…
Miami’s Best Fritangas: Pinolandia, Yambo, and Fritanga Montelimar
Nicaraguan cooking is best summarized thusly: “This is good. Let’s make it great.” Consider, for example, empanadas de maduro — cheese-filled sweet-plantain patties, which sound nice but aren’t good enough in their simplest form. So Nicaraguans immerse the half-moons in hot oil until the cheese melts and the crust caramelizes…
David Laws thinks organic farming is almost like civil disobedience. “Organic farming is by definition against the grain,” says Laws, the farmer behind Treehugger Farms in Davie. “There’s a huge monstrous, mechanized market out there that’s really out to stop all that we are doing. But things are changing slowly.”…
Listen up, gourmands: Favorite restaurants no longer indicate status. Sure, you may have a special table at Michy’s. You can list past James Beard winners by heart, schmooze with top chefs, and toady up to sommeliers. But, really, no one cares anymore. Today’s epicureans must exit restaurant dining rooms and…
Fiorito: Stunning Argentine in Little Haiti
First-rate food cities need great java. And, with Panther Coffee, owners Joel and Leticia Pollock gave Miami just that. Panther Coffee, available at their Wynwood and Miami Beach shops, or at restaurants around town, works intimately with growers and roasts beans on-premises. Remember when the words “cold brew” sounded like…
At Rincón Escondido, a tiny tapas restaurant in Edgewater with cramped wooden tables and hanging pots and pans, things can get weird. When you visit a tapas restaurant and the menu lists $10 tortilla de chorizo, $7 croquetas de bacalao, and $7 montaditos de boquerones, you might order three tapas…
Sit on Fiorito’s front porch on a Saturday afternoon. Watch men with dreadlocks kill time outside the Little Haiti Supermarket across the way. Listen to the one-two beats of compas blast from a nearby speaker. Check out that guy! He’s selling T-shirts from the back of his Jeep. Behold neon-painted…
Kevin Cory — sushi master, soft spoken chef, and seafood overlord — is the man behind Naoe, an omakase-style Japanese restaurant in Brickell Key where dinners start at $160 and most of the menu is chef’s choice. Sounds amazing, right? Wouldn’t you just love to go tonight? Well, you can’t…
Do you often wonder what the hell a sanguich is? Are you tired of downing the same Publix sub every day? Do you consult your Spanglish dictionary every time co-workers rave about the ensalada César from the corner spot? Sounds like you need this: a re-initiation into all things lunch…
There was a time, not long ago, when boys in khaki swarmed Coral Gables. They sauntered down avenues while gossiping about the latest venture capitalist to move to New York. Ageless women, hair blow-dried and legs strangled by skin-tight white pants, muttered words like “supposebly.” There were gold necklaces, Mediterranean…
If you were to measure a man by his passion, it would be hard to find a baker held in higher esteem than Zak Stern. Whereas most dough-makers talk levain and flour, Stern voices thoughts of wisdom, happiness, and beauty. Zak the Baker is more than just talk, though. He’s…
You could totally go for a taco right now. But not the ordinary kind. You crave tacos campechanos — rich pork shoulder tacos, sprinkled with crisp bits of chicharrón. Want salsita? Pick between green (tomatillos, cilantro, onions, and garlic) or red (chile de árbol, guajillo peppers, tomatoes, and garlic). Feeling…
There was a time, not long ago, when boys in khaki swarmed Coral Gables. They sauntered down avenues while gossiping about the latest venture capitalist to move to New York. Ageless women, hair blow-dried and legs strangled by skin-tight white pants, muttered words like “supposebly.” There were gold necklaces, Mediterranean…
Good news! Each time you’ve had guarapo with your Cuban frita, the sugarcane juice was probably lowering your total cholesterol. The juice can also improve sexual performance and increase sex drive when consumed with regularity. Sugarcane juice and sex? Yes. Two months ago, Edwin de los Santos and Karen Franco…
You don’t have to hang out with Jorge Stekelorum long to realize his favorite word in Spanish is vení. It can mean several things. But for Stekelorum, it has only one definition: “Follow me.” For more than 20 years, Stekelorum has been making nothing but pasta at his shop, Mr…
You don’t have to hang out with Jorge Stekelorum long to realize his favorite word in Spanish is vení. It can mean several things. But for Stekelorum, it has only one definition: “Follow me.” For more than 20 years, Stekelorum has been making nothing but pasta at his shop, Mr…
Hey there, tour guide. Looking to show your out-of-towners a good time? Frozen drinks at Wet Willie’s sure sound like fun. How about Cuban sandwiches at Versailles and Sunday brunch on Lincoln Road? Or, perhaps, a drive to the Everglades for fried alligator. Yes, it’s gamey. Yes, it tastes like…
Margie Pikarsky coordinates Redland Organics, a local organization of South Florida growers, It supplies sustainable vegetables, herbs, honey, and eggs to Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Broward counties, and is among the best communiity supported agriculture programs around. Few farmers in South Florida have sufficient time to attend markets, but Pikarsky, who…
George’s Kitchen in Midtown Is an Open Book
