First you get hit with parking, then with tax and tip, and then by a bullet?In Miami’s Design District, anything is possible.A 6-year-old Italian tourist ringing in the new year with his family at Mai Tardi restaurant was struck by a bullet that went into his chest, through one lung,…
Food philosophy, simplicity, culinary Zen. [Chadzilla]Eating ice cream in Tel Aviv. [AllPurposeDark]Kitchen Inquisition with Giancarla Bodoni of Escopazza. Cooking osso buco for Gorbachev. [NBCmiami]Six-year-old boy, Italian tourist, catches stray bullet while eating with family at Mai Tardi in Design District on New Year’s Eve. [NBCmiami]Food and golf together in Bogota…
Fratelli Lyon Driade is an Italian restaurant in the Design District that is on a mission. The manifesto printed on the face of their menu says, “to distance ourselves from purveyors of heavily marketed and mass produced food stuffs and their sources.”The restaurant imports authentic ingredients from all over Italy,…
Here’s the exact email we received from UB Tha UnderbossThe Hottest Label In The Game; MAYBACH MUSIC GROUP & Multi-Platinum DEF JAM Recording Artist “The Boss” RICK ROSS Introduce the newest branch of the label; MAYBACH MUSIC LATINO!!! Presenting MAYBACH RIDERS Volume 1featuring…
New York’s alright if you like saxophones, but, everything else is better in Miami. Especially in the winter. Particularly the food.Former restaurant critic Frank Bruni’s upcoming article in the Travel section of the Sunday Times has already hit the web, and he’s got almost nothing but great, gushing praise for…
They say Tony Bennett’s voice is responsible for more flooding in the U.S.A. than any rainstorm in recorded history. When Bennett plays Miami, Biscayne Bay gets jealous. Why? Because when Tony says hello, all the women’s panties get wet. When he says, “How do you do?” their ears vibrate with…
Crimson tides washed over Haitian shores and flowed through burning cane fields, stolen cannons rang out black-powder vengeance, and the drums of war beat freedom songs across the mountaintops. The hard-fought slave rebellion that overthrew the French and won Haiti her independence January 1, 1804, is the story of the…
What other DJ can speak it into existence like Khaled does? Maybe none.For a guy whose job it is to play records, he makes it seem like the most important job on the planet, like the entire future of world civilization depends on it, like the very fabric of space…
Miami has carried the illustrious distinction of a town wide open for stealing, killing and dope dealing ever since the first pirates first sailed through, stopped for a beer, and never left.Those who stayed saw that there’s money in food and so they opened stores, bars, and restaurants.They made a…
Her name is Morgans. She is a big purple house on 29th Street between North Miami and NE Second Avenues — actual address: 28 NE 29th Street. She has been around since the 1930s. Her specialty, home cooked food.Get it while it’s hot.The Morgans Restaurant in Wynwood is now open…
Broward County’s Macknifa$ent has just uploaded a new video where he raps his remix to Tupac’s song “Hit Em’ Up.”Macknifa$ent is from Ft. Lauderdale and represents Pairadice Music. You can hear more of his songs at myspace.com/macknifasent…
Sometimes it seems like a world meat conspiracy is afoot. Are evil, global agrifarm executives fighting a secret war against the vegetarian and vegan elements to keep them on the fringe if in existence at all?Yes.For those who support the meatless revolution, and wanna throw a party too, there’s Nature…
There were no kicks fast as lightning, it wasn’t frightening, and the staff showed expert timing when the Catalina Hotel’s Kung Fu Kitchen and Sushi recently hosted South Florida’s Chef’s Club on their South Beach rooftop lounge.Chef Josh Wahler, of Hell’s Kitchen fame, and Nobu South Beach and Los Angeles…
Kim Kardashian is an American sex symbol.Dr. Sanford Siegal is the Miami doctor who invented his own “cookie diet.”The two are at war. Dirty, paper, legal war. And they’re fighting over things like what Kardashian has said via Twitter and a misleading link on the doctor’s website.Kim Kardashian currently represents…
We’re no judge or jury, but we’re guessing Charlie Sheen is headed for the slammer. All the celebrities are doing it. Serving a year is the new having a college degree. Did you know that back in 1990 Charlie Sheen shot his then-fiancee in the arm, accidentally?If his newest arrest…
Here’s a brand new upload from Jodi Jo who apparently is from Chicago, but likes to tag his yotube uploads with “Miami.” Anyway, the strippers down here might like this song so here’s the video and some of the lyrics that were funny from Jodi Jo’s new song “Your Pussy…
Here are some recent posts from the local food web.Jewish family goes Tropical Chinese for Christmas dim sum. [FoodForThoughtMiami]Rock N Roll Ribs, Iron Maiden’s drummer’s restaurant, opens in Coral Springs. [CleanPlateCharlie]Checking out a mercado de las pulgas (flea market) in Bogotá, Colombia, and eating from the food stalls. [BrickellLife]Video: How…
New Year’s Eve is not only a full moon but also a blue moon. A blue moon is an extra-full moon. We had one December 2, and that occurs only once every few years from the accumulation of the calendar year’s excess days against the lunar cycle.The Ritz-Carlton South Beach will host a…
One time, we spent an excruciating 45 minutes at a family dinner thinking a tapeworm was chewing up our insides. Turns out we just had a mean case of heartburn.Maybe Urban Meyer has the same problem.Saturday, the University of Florida’s Gators football team’s head coach resigned from the football program…
Happy Holidays from Miami-Dade County. Check out our Christmas tree. Down south in the Redland, fields of papaya trees are bearing fruit. We shot this picture yesterday on the side of Quail Roost Drive.Papaya, or la fruta bomba, as it is sometimes known, is a fruit grown in tropical climates…
Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind was an instant classic. It’s still on the radio, it still gets stuck in your head when you hear it, and it still appeals to everyone from farmers to lawyers to middle school nerds to prison bound thugs.But if it does one thing other…
There are a lot of stupid niche markets that get exploited by crafty entrepreneurs come holiday season, but maybe the stupidest one we’ve seen yet is for foodie Christmas ornaments. They’re not cute, or funny, and we don’t know what kind of inbred, backwater, shit hole town you grew up…
