Booze Hound: Tsunami of a Deal at RA Sushi

At RA Sushi (5829 SW 73rd St.), a South Beach-y black sheep nuzzled within the crevices of the laid-back, pub-heavy South Miami bar scene, it really doesn’t matter what you like. You can tell your server your booze-buds howl for scotch on the rocks, drool for Manhattans, get frisky with…

Cheap Eats At Tobacco Road

According to Charlie, a 13 year bartender at Tobacco Road, the oldest bar in Miami, the following special has been running for the past 20 or so years. 1 1/4 Main Lobster for $12.49 on Tuesday All-U-Can-Eat BBQ Ribs for $10.99 on Wednesday 16-oz. T-Bone Steak for $10.99 on ThursdaysThere’s…

Eats for Under $7: Empanadas in Hollywood

Eating fast and cheap is hard enough, but try adding healthy into the mix and you’ve got yourself a headache. There’s a little shop on Hollywood Boulevard that offers baked empanadas that will fill you up without needing a loan or a personal trainer to alleviate the guilt. For just…

Free Lunch at Goldfinger Palm Beach

I was going to tell you about how to get a free drink at a strip club by printing out a coupon off of a Craigslist event posting, but that promotion expired yesterday, tough luck. Instead I’ll tell you where to go for free lunch with bare naked ladies. Here are…

Thai-D Up In The Grove

So you can’t turn around without someone shoving a bloody hunk of designer beef in your face. But you can turn around and see we really could use some better Thai restaurants.Could the new Atchana’s East West Kitchen in Coco Grove’s Mutiny Hotel be one? Well, it’s got a good…

Xtreme Indoor Ladies Night – Driving And Drinking Encouraged

Why is Xtreme Indoor Karting in Ft Lauderdale giving away drinks with reduced price racing sessions to ladies on Mondays? Well, it’s their ladies night, that’s why. Sounds like fun, but the flyer doesn’t explain why they’re advocating what common sense and MADD tells us is a judgment error of deadly proportions. Apparently when it…

Meat Me In Miami

The universe has but a few immutable laws. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Gravity does, in fact, suck. Politicians always lie. And a new steakhouse will open somewhere in Miami. The latest meatery making its debut is 5300 Chop House at The Blue, an…

Uncle Julio’s Fine Mexican Food Opens Tomorrow in Mizner Park

When you think about it, Mizner Park is sort of like an overstuffed, smothered burrito. There are all the fancy Boca ladies sporting expensive jewelry – they’re the cheese. There are the teenage children of wealth driving around in cars worth more than the valets who park them make in…

Miami’s New Restaurant Mantra: 2-for-1 Booze

If our local restaurants can’t succeed in giving us great value for our food, the next best thing is to give us great value for our drinks. This way we can get drunk and forget how much we’re paying for dinner. And so in this spirit of cut-rate spirits, we…

John Martin’s – Irish Brunch, Whiskey In Your Coffee, and 20 Cent Budweiser Bottles

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Cafe Barcelona — Beppe Says Complimentary Cocktails

At Cafe Barcelona, where Mondays are Saturdays, bartender, bar manager, co-owner, and guy who does everything, Beppe, says complimentary cocktails will be available Mondays from 10 p.m. to midnight. How do they do it? “We got sponsors. Next Monday is Sagatiba Cachaca. We have complimentary caipirinhas. You know that? It’s…

The Friday Recession Weekly Wrap-Up

Short Order crawls the webs of cyberspace and stomps through the tricounty like a hungry elephant looking for the best local content to serve you, the loyal reader. You are loyal, aren’t you? Aren’t you!? Don’t make us chase you off the page with an electric bread knife. Read on…

Bourbon and Blues — Drink Up, Eat Right, Jam Out

Here’s what you missed last night if you weren’t at the Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club at Michael Mina’s Bourbon Steak in Aventura: 25 percent off whiskey and bourbon from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. with live blues by local legend Albert Castiglia.No problemo. They’re doin’ it again next week,…

Cities On The Cheap – Former Herald Staffer Pimps The Internet

Downsized Herald Assistant Features Editor Teresa Mears is the mastermind behind the South Florida contingent of the Cities On The Cheap blog network. This is a group of independently owned and operated hyperlocal deal aggregators focused on specific cities throughout the U.S. Teresa’s blogs officially launched just a couple of…

Stephen Starr Restaurant to Open in Lauderdale

Philadelphia restaurateur Stephen Starr thinks opening a restaurant is like going to war. Starr was named Restaurateur of the Year by Zagat, and he’s said in an interview that restaurant reviews  “are the enemy. We’re like the Marines going into battle.” Well Starr and his crew are gearing up for…

Beer of the Week: Lagunitas Hop Stoopid

Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Short Order will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you have…

The non-kosher kosher hot dog riot

“I don’t want to get stabbed for a hot dog” might be the quote of the year. Last week, a riot- the definition for that term seems to be getting looser by the news story, but we’ll roll with it- broke out at a Brooklyn Shwarama King when Hasidic customers…

Edgar Leal Will Show You How to Cook

There are cooking instructors and then there are cooking instructors. Executive Chef Edgar Leal of Cacao Restaurant, 2009 James Beard Foundation Award semifinalist for Best Chef in the South falls into the latter group. This coming Saturday, March 28, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Leal will demonstrate how to…

Right Neighborly

Northwood Village , situated at the northeastern tip of West Palm Beach, has undergone a bizarre transformation in the past dozen years. When I first moved to Palm Beach County in the ’90s, I met lots of youngish, middle-class people who were buying modest houses there. They’d formed a close-knit…

Deering Seafood Festival This Sunday

The fifth-annual Deering Seafood Festival takes place this Sunday, March 29, from 6 to 11 p.m. The $15 admission covers entrance and all activities… excluding “food, drink, pontoon boat tour, and rock climbing wall.”Damn, Deering, how ’bout next time you at least get us some drink sponsors. The entertainment on…

Yambo — Carne Asada — $5.50 Meal

Yambo, winner of Miami New Times’ “Best Nicaraguan Restaurant 2007,” is a great, cheap 24-hour joint. A recent $5.50 lunch consisted of grilled meat, rice and beans, sweet plantains, salad, and queso Nica. The New York Times Magazine lauded Yambo in a 2004 article by Richard Lourie. He said,…