Not just any garage sale, but the “Everything But the Kitchen Sink” Garage Sale, and it will take place the last Saturday of the month, January 30. Les Dames d’ Escoffier — which if you don’t know is an invitation-only organization of women leaders in the food, beverage, and hospitality…
Calling all chocolate addicts! You know who you are. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden will host its fourth annual International Chocolate Festival beginning tomorrow, January 22, through Sunday, January 24. The fest will feature demos, lectures, tastings, and food vendors. Learn to make your own chocolate, meet chocolatiers and bakers, or…
A bite-size morsel of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Starters are too pricey (most go for $12 to $24); entrées are too prissy! Why go to all the trouble of decorating your restaurant Cape Cod-style and rack up the expense of flying distinctive fish from Massachusetts and…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
Spuntino is the bakery and catering arm of a restaurant group that includes Spris on Lincoln Road, and Mai Tardi in the Design District.They also run a breakfast and lunch joint at 1112 North Miami Ave…
Buena Vista Deli opened last week just a few doors north of sister Buena Vista Bistro. The bright deli/café features a choice selection of fromage, breads by the excellent La Parisienne Bakery, salads, sandwiches, and a special take-home dinner each day ($8). But it’s the quiche, pâtes, rillettes, and puffy…
An eight-ounce hunk, forged from Harris Ranch Farms’ antibiotic-free beef, with optional toppings such as bacon, fried egg, smoked mozzarella, Gorgonzola cheese…As if that isn’t enough — and let’s face it, nothing ever is — Racks is also offering each couple a free quartino (third of a bottle) of Sonoma…
Joao Oliveira’s Zucchero hits the trifecta in the Roads
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
Supporting local Haitian-owned businesses is a good way to get money into the earthquake- ravaged country. Stateside relatives need money to send back home.USA Carwash Restaurant has been serving up consistently cheap, satisfying, and flavorful meals for years…
If you have your pointer finger on the pulse of the global food community and its star chefs, you would know this past weekend was the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman’s second annual Cayman Cookout. We’re referring to the island rendezvous of illustrious professional cooks including José Andrés, David Chang, Dean Fearing,…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
On February 11, during and in conjunction with the Miami International Film Festival, New Times will present its annual Artopia, “Miami’s Reel Party.” There will be art exhibits, performance art, a fashion show, lots of live music, and — this is the important part — free food and booze.Beginning with the…
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.No question, Europeans know how to live. Late nights, later mornings. Long lunches, longer vacations. Good wine, good food; relax and enjoy life. Let someone else put his…
Luis Padilla, the executive chef behind The Grill on the Alley in Aventura, was once sous chef at Bruschetta & Co., before honing his culinary expertise at various South Florida eateries, most notably Mark’s Las Olas and Seasons 52. But Padilla remembers the day when his skills weren’t so, well,…
A snippet of the New Times restaurant review for next week. Ownership evidently recognized the need to lower prices a tad, and has likewise added all sorts of supplemental deals: Each night a three course meal (with choices) of “Chef Oliveira’s personal signature dishes” is offered for $19.95. Wednesday evenings…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up 100 of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com…
Small dinners will again take place at this year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Some intriguing ones will be at the Setai, where chef Jonathan Wright will team with chef Ming Tsai, chef David Munoz Rosillo of DiverXo in Madrid, chef Tim Cushman of O Ya in Boston, and…
Prelude by Barton G. at the Arsht Center is tops
SUSHISAMBA dromo is hosting the first nationwide “meet and tweet” — aka Tweet Up — next Wednesday, January 20, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. This informal social event will allow folks who usually only tweet among themselves to actually meet and mingle in the flesh. Wow — radical idea!…
Log on to biltmorehotel.com/valentines to enter a giveaway for a Saturday, February 13 dinner at Fontana, a one night stay in a luxury suite, and a Sunday champagne brunch on Valentine’s Day. Winner will be announced February 8…
As a countdown to New Times’ “Best of Miami” 2010, Short Order is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.97. Herb-basted Chicken Pot Pie from Gables DinerNow we all know pot pies can go terribly, terribly wrong. Sometimes the dough is…
