Zagat Miami Survey To Be Released Tomorrow

The results of Zagat’s 2010 Miami/So.Florida Restaurants Survey are out tomorrow. The new survey, which incorporates the opinions of some 6,100 local diners, will be available in print, at ZAGAT.com and on ZAGAT TO GO for iPhone, Android and BlackBerry.Only info we have thus far is that this year, 34%…

Ciro’s Kitchen Bar & Grill Is A Global Thing

Ciro’s Kitchen Bar & Grill is a new restaurant that recently opened up where El Guayacan used to be (don’t feel bad, I can’t remember where El Guayacan used to be either). World Fusion Cuisine reads the ad, which right off the bat differentiates the food from the dreaded American…

Art Basel Miami 2009 Restaurant Guide Vol.2: Wynwood

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…

Interview: Andrea Curto-Randazzo Gets The 10

Now here’s a gal who really knows her way around a kitchen: Chef Andrea Curto-Randazzo of Talula. She co-owns and co-cooks with husband Frank Randazzo and has been since June 2003, dishing up eclectic eats inspired by Italy, Asia and the Southwest. They labeled their style “creative American cuisine,” but…

Puck Fublix, Join The National Supermarket Week of Action

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…

Top Seven Art Basel 2009 (Mostly) Free Food & Drink Events

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…

Field Report: Redlands Green Bean Pickers in Pictures

Last year, Janine Zeitlin wrote an article for New Times called “Ignored and Cheated: Farm Workers Earn Nada in America’s Greenbean Capital.”Yesterday, South Dade-based Short Order reader Michelle contacted us with her exclusive images from the green bean fields of rural Dade county in the Redlands. Here is the report…

Traveling French Cheese Ambassador on Whole Foods Tasting Tour

Say cheese!French cheese ambassador Cecile Delannes is on a Whole Foods America tour giving out samples and educating consumers on behalf of The French Cheese Club, “an association of five family owned French Fromageries specialized in the production of traditional French cheeses.”We ran into Cecile yesterday while researching an unrelated…

Morgan’s Restaurant Opening in Wynwood for Art Basel, Hopefully

Get ready for real homecooked food in Wynwood. Morgan’s Restaurant is a conversion from a house built in the 1930’s that offers two stories worth of direct views into a neighborhood on the rise. Windows face west to North Miami Avenue club The Electric Pickle, North into 29th street and…

Picnics Passes On

Picnics Diner was long a favorite when it was located in Allen’s Drugstore on SW 57th Ave. A few years ago the owner died, and the diner moved to Bird Road and SW 65th Ave. In July it received a lukewarm writeup from Burger Beast. Now Picnics is out of…

Interview: Sean Brasel Gets The 10

Sean Brasel is the chef/co-owner of Miami Beach’s sultry steakhouse known appropriately as Meat Market. The restaurant sits in the space formerly occupied by Jonathan Eismann’s Pacific Time [You know it’s now in the Design District, right? Yeah. Thought so.] and, seemingly, being there has provided some good juju in…

License to Kilt: Waxy O’Connor’s Opening Party

It took just over two months to get it together, but Waxy O’Connor’s Irish Pub is throwing a Grand Opening soiree this Thursday, November 19th, from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. The pub and eatery, located downtown on the Miami River, will feature an open bar for the first two…

Sneak Review: Whisk Gourmet Food & Catering

Goat cheese fritters, fried green tomatoes, juicy burgers, fingerling french fries, grilled grouper sandwiches, buttermilk fried chicken, churrasco steaks, burritos, brownies, blondies, cupcakes… You scream, I scream, we all scream for this sort of stuff, even more so when ingredients are locally sourced, often organic, and prepared with a deft…

New, Very Fast Pizza Place Opens in MiMo

Luna Corner Pizza opened today at Biscayne Blvd. and 69th Street. The Neapolitan-style pies are made with multi-grain dough and San Marzano tomatoes, and are arguably the fastest pizzas ever: Each one takes less than five minutes to make and bake from scratch. Honestly.The venue is owned by the Amatruda…

Captain Phyl’s Seafood Trucks Sell Keys-Fresh Seafood in Miami

If you’ve ever pulled up to a red light and seen a fresh-shrimp salesman standing on the sidewalk with a cooler and a posterboard sign then you might live in Miami.Give thanks we live in a region where seafood is so readily available that entrepreneurs can sell fresh-catch on corners…

Interview: Chef Tim Andriola Gets the 10

No use rehashing all of Chef Tim Andriola’s background info, since Katel did a fine job of that in his blog post, so let’s just remind everyone that this popular guy is and has been co-owner of Timó in Sunny Isles Beach since its inception in 2003. He previously kept…

Sugarcane Raw Bar & Grill Coming to Midtown via Sushi Samba Creators

The Sugarcane Raw Bar and Grill is a new concept from the creators of Sushi Samba that will premiere during Art Basel 2009 in Midtown Miami and function in coercion with the Sushi Samba presented Graffiti Gone Global exhibition curated by street culture photo team James and Karla Murray.The restaurant…

Behind the Line at Cape Cod Room

Cape Cod Room (5937 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach) at the Bath Club is Ken Lyon’s, the caterer and restaurateur, new northeast American seafood house specializing in what he calls comfortable, familiar food in a vintage room for a retro dining experience. Lyon says, “A lot of people in South Florida…