Wheels on the road.We first introduced you to Aaron J. Michaels and Culinary Convenience Inc. in February of last year. The place is a full service “mobile toy store for chefs,” and major restaurant equipment supplier. From plates to knives to chef shoes to grills, if you need it, they’ve…
Today, Willis Loughhead talks about charcuterie, future plans, and a hippie trip “without the pot” that served as a spiritual sabbatical.I read you’ve been involved in making charcuterie. I have done all of the charcuterie for the past two restaurants with my sous chef Brian. We’ve done ham legs on…
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…
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.If you find your bliss in burgers, you need to find Bliss Burger Bistro. The newly debuted SoFi patty purveyor takes over the space of the old Café…
PR reps leaked only the following to us: “new resto in South Miami,” “fine dining BBQ mid-January,” “the masterminds behind the famous TOWN Kitchen & Bar are opening it up” and “tastings will be in early February.” Smoke’t Southern Kitchen and Tap’s website informs that this “neighbourhood [sic] BBQ joint”…
Willis Loughhead’s first South Florida gig was 14 years ago at the Palm Grill (locations in Key West and North Miami). Most locals, however, will remember him from when he was top toque at Tantra (1999 to 2002) and from when he ran Bizcaya at The Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove (until…
The South Beach Wine & Food Festival yesterday released additional tickets to the “sold-out” Amstel Light Burger Bash. That’s great news for those who missed out on tickets the first time, but I’m with those who bought tickets early at full price in feeling a little cheated. Organizers claimed that unlike in…
Last year, the more than $2 million generated by the South Beach Wine & Food Fest was handed directly to FIU. The university has been a partner in the event with Southern Wine & Spirits since the beginning and has continued to reap the ever-growing rewards of its wise investment.Of course,…
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…
For every incredibly boring interview we get in (be thankful we spare you from those), at least one comes in chock-full of so much creative stuff that we find it near impossible to cull. So consider the extra five answers from Chef Kurtis D. Jantz (below) a New Year’s giftie…
News Flash: The South Beach Wine and Food Festival has expanded the site for their sold out Burger Bash event to include more of the Ritz Carlton South Beach’s prime real estate and is releasing more Burger Bash tickets for sale.The post-sellout sale will sell out quick, so, act fast…
OMG 2009 is sooo eight days ago.Here’s our Miami New Times Restaurant Roll Call for last year.We’ve rounded up the openers, shut down the closers, and written our predictions for the new year into existence.Note to foodies: If Wikipedia can do it, so can we. Please comment us with any…
We first reported the imminent opening of the SushiSamba offshoot called Sugarcane Raw Bar one month ago. It was to be an Art Basel affair. Now Sugarcane is imminently debuting in Midtown Miami once more, this time a week from today — all 4,000 glorious square feet of it, including…
100.As a countdown to the Best of Miami 2010, Short Order is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in the 305. Send your own nominations to cafe@miaminewtimes.com.TIMO in Sunny Isles does Italian right. Take for instance their dish of bufala mozzarella with clay baked roma tomatoes and eggplant…
At one point during his career, Tim Powers simultaneously controlled six restaurants rated in the Top 10 for both Zagat and Harden’s London Restaurant Guide. Two of these, The Ivy and Le Caprice, held either the number one or number two spot for more than 12 years. Powers is now…
Fish much? Not anymore. New federal regulation outlaws fishing for Red Snapper in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.The U.S. government says the red snapper population off the Atlantic coast is at 3 percent of what it was 60 years ago, and is still dwindling.Fishermen disagree. The one NPR spoke to…
Wok Town provides fresh, fast Chinese food in downtown Miami
The Federales have deemed the Atlantic coast’s red snapper population overfished.January 4, regulations went in place to outlaw angling for them.The government says that red snapper populations are at 3 percent of what they were 60 years ago.Many fishermen say that’s bogus intel, and question the tabulation methods used.We’re on…
Sakaya Kitchen, a “fast-casual Asian-inspired organic-conscious restaurant,” is now open in midtown Miami. The menu is a mix of Asian comfort and street foods such as Korean style BBQ, fresh noodle boxes, and Filipino egg rolls. The man behind the business is Richard Hales, who not only worked under Jean-Georges…
An emergency order disposition to a routine food inspection at a restaurant means “conditions have been found that endanger the health and safety of the public requiring immediate closure of the establishment. “Here are three restaurants whose facilities were temporarily closed by health inspectors in December 2009.1. The Oasis Restaurant…
The rock ‘n’ roll Sea Rock seafood restaurant in SoBe’s Sunset Harbour has gone out to sea. Sunk. Kaput.There are reasons restaurants fail, and it rarely has to do with bad luck. Here was Short Order’s first impression this past October:Help! My Eardrums Are Bleeding!Or at least it felt like…
For lease signs now grace the windows of La Moon restaurant on Ponce de Leon Boulevard. Calls to the restaurant’s phone number were forwarded to its Eighth Street location, where an employee confirmed the Gables spot closed last week. The restaurant must have been hurting, for on my last visit…
