Downtown Miami is a special place, especially because zoning laws allow for 24 hour liquor licensing. Damn right. Art Basel 2009 Miami brings with it a week of satellite fairs, many of them concentrated where most of the Design District and Wynwood galleries and Northern Downtown event spaces are, and…
I mighta been stoned and hungry the first time I ate at Elie’s Cafe, which could explain why I was riding my bike through a mall in downtown Miami in the first place, and definitely explains why it took me three years to find it again. I never got the…
An estimated 800,000 people in South Florida are going hungry, and food pantries are struggling to meet the demand. [SunSentinel]Upcoming Miami Conference on the Caribbean features Crowley Maritime Corp, a company that ships food from Ft. Lauderdale to Cuba. [SunSentinel]Venezuelan billionaire who profited heavily off government contracts by providing food…
Quickfast breakfast options from the Biscayne corridor south through Buena Vista, Little Haiti, Wynwood, and Omni are severely limited. The offerings open up around downtown, but other than that the market is wide open for a cheap short order joint. Who will step up to the plate?Europa Cafe is a…
Behind The Music Miami Part 2 follows host Mayweather Live through Miami Recording Studio, where Triple X produces and engineers what he calls “urban Latino music, “and Suthun Boy Studio, where Gorilla Tek makes beats.Suthun Boy talks about Liberty City’s Pork N Beans projects and why living there is all…
Camila’s Brazilian Food Restaurant (129 SE 1st Ave) is a real Brazilian restaurant populated by real Brazilians eating real Brazilian food, watching Brazilian tv, and talking in Portuguese. That has been the case each of the 5 to 9 times over the past few years we’ve gone there for their…
A hilarious blow-by-blow account of a South Dade burger crawl. [BurgerBeast]Islamorada area restaurant and plate recommendations. [Chowfather]”10 oz. burger, salsa, guacamole, grilled onion, cilantro sour cream, cheddar, fried egg. Lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle.” A Burger and Beer Joint review. [FoodForThought]Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink launches their own blog, shows you…
So you’ve ditched South Beach-side pretensions, crossed the bridge into Miami, and now all you see are more stuck up Art World tourists gorging at the MidTown troughs of Five Guys Burgers, Lime Fresh mexi, Cheese Course gourmet, and Primo Pizza. You’re hitting up every fair from Fountain to PhotoMiami…
If you don’t live here and you’re reading this then welcome to Miami. Now give us all your money. Seriously, we’re hungry out here, and if you are too then here’s part 1 of great places to eat for Art Basel week in the MIA.Here are some excellent choices if…
Here are some jokes we collected from across the internets. Happy Thanksgiving.-Why can’t you take a turkey to church?Because they use such FOWL language-What did the turkey say before it was roasted?Boy! I’m stuffed!-Imagine… if the Pilgrims had shot a bobcat instead of a Turkey, we’d be eating pussy for…
Miami Beach Whole Foods worker spills the beans on a sewer leak and gets canned
This Black Friday, skip the Wal-Mart stampede and stay home eating leftovers and drinking the beer you woke up with on the couch. Watch a few Chris Farley movies, smoke a fat bowl, make some prank phone calls, shoot a YouTube video of you making ugly faces, and walk into…
Here is the video for a song called Turkey Murder (The Thanksgiving Song), it’s no Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song, but that song is played out anyways. What with all this internet and all these cameras, and all these softwares you’d figure somebody would have come up with a new classic…
Seems like every year there’s a new Thanksgiving phenomenon about how to cook your turkey. From deep fried, to smoked, grilled, boiled, flambeed, and wokked out, it feels like we’ve heard it all.Well this year it’s brined. Brined turkey this, brine soak your turkey that, but what the hell is…
Hey America, this Thanksgiving let’s buck tradition and not go out of our way to kill indians.So, maybe you don’t know, but, most of America’s tomatoes are grown in Immokalee, Florida, just up the street from Naples, and across the way from Miami, and most of the workers in the…
The first week of December in Miami is a time for art, food and music, and if you’re smart, or local, getting all three for free.Here’s our guide to the top seven food and drink events for Art Basel (December 1 – 6), but don’t forget there’s a whole lot…
Goodfellas cover the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” at Titanic Brewery & Restaurant in Miami.This is the Godfellas’ description of theirselves on their Facebook page: “GOODFELLAS IS THE GROOVIESTTitanic continues its tradition of showcasing live, local music. Log on to titanicbrewery.com for more info…
Lotus House Women’s Shelter in Overtown (217 NW 15th Street) will celebrate Thanksgiving by serving over 500 holiday meals including turkey, all the fixin’s, and dessert to their friends and neighbors in the city.This will be the shelter’s “Fifth Annual Thanksgiving Day Celebration.”The 500 meals of roast turkey and sides…
Shaka Zulu mayne, it’s the ghetto gourmet, Coolio, and he’s got a new cookbook, Cookin’ With Coolio.Coolio was interviewed this morning on the Paul and Young Ron Show on Big 105.9 FM. Young Ron said he wouldn’t want some rapper cooking for him or teaching him how. He said something…
Chicago’s got the smokehouse turkey stuffed with hot dogs.Los Angeles turkeys get botox in their gobblers, and surgical breast enhancement.Arizona turkeys get left to cook by solar power on the sidewalk.So what is the signature Miami turkey? Here’s how to make one yourself.Find a Dade County farmer with pigs and…
Tiger Tiger Teahouse opened on Biscayne Boulevard in 1969. The restaurant then moved to South Miami, the location the ad at right advertises, closed for a year, and then reopened on the 79th street causeway in North Bay Village.A 1992 Miami New Times review of the restaurant at its 79th…
Paula Deen hit in face with flying ham, “another bout of public humiliation after the Wine and Beach Festival at Miami, when her pants fell off in public.” Yeah, we broke that story, but we can’t find video of this one that’s as good as that one. [ThaIndian] [HamVideo] [PantsFallDown]Kim…
