Raina McLeodLine wraps around Denny’s at 3600 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami.Apparently, people can’t pass up free food. This was the scene outside of Denny’s at 3600 Biscayne Boulevard, near our offices in Midtown. We also encountered plenty of traffic around the intersection due to people going in and out of the…
Here’s the exclusive Short Order interview with Chef Danny from Hell’s Kitchen 5. Chef Danny Veltri talks about fame, competition and gives out his personal Myspace address, you heard it here first. Hell’s Kitchen 5 featuring Chef Danny appears on the FOX network every Thursday at 9 p.m. and can…
I’ve gone too long without giving a plug to my favorite little wine bar in Wilton Manors, the Naked Grape, a place where cozy hipness meets an imaginative selection of wines, a tapas menu, and the kind of lighting that makes everybody look good. And, our favorite bartender, Georgie, who…
O Bacalhau Restaurant (804 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables) celebrates its’ grand opening this Wednesday, February 4th, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. Guests will get to sip sangría and wine while sampling Chef Fernando Santos’ authentic Portuguese cuisine — including 16 different bacalhau dishes (o boy!). The restaurant is…
February 1st, during the Superbowl, not only did Hulu admit it’s got an evil plot to take over the world, but Denny’s promised everyone in America that on Tuesday between 6am and 2pm they’re giving everyone in America a free Grand Slam. Instant, disposable, corporate junk food culture be damned,…
Chef Sean Brasel from Meat Market on Lincoln Road in South Beach says “This is a modern steakhouse to the next level. We’ve got a crudo bar up front. We get oysters and stone crabs on a daily basis. There’s nothin better in the world than 12 oysters and a…
Chef Allen Talks Sustainable Fish from Miami New Times on Vimeo.Chef Allen Susser, owner of Chef Allen’s restaurant in Aventura and the innovator behind “New World Cuisine,” talks about the importance of sustainable fish to our local economy, environment and his restaurant’s menu. Learn more at ChefAllens.com…
Sushi SoBe landed in the lobby of Loews Miami Beach Hotel with less razzmatazz than one might expect — especially in light of the menu having been developed by one of just six Master Sushi Chefs in the United States. That would be Fuji Fujita, executive sushi chef for Loews…
A hail of darts to the Peanut Corporation of America, who it now turns out KNOWINGLY shipped products that had tested positive for salmonella. The worst of it is, so many of these peanut-infested foods went to schools and nursing homes — they couldn’t have done a better job targeting…
Gaia Ristorante opens today at the Hilton Bentley Hotel at 101 Ocean Drive in South Beach. This is the latest venture from Tommy Billante, the man behind Carpaccio, Luna, and a whole bunch of other successful Italian places. Gaia moves into the space formerly occupied by Vivi, one of Billante’s…
Beef has taken some serious body punches in the last couple of years. Michael Pollen, Mark Bittman, and a merry cast of vegetarians have been steadily hammering away at our poor American steers, calling them expensive, health-hazardous resource hogs that have done little to whittle the national waistline. Now the…
52: Pizza Guy from rakontur on Vimeo. The digital auteurs from Rakontur caught this classic South Beach food-related violent club incident on tape as part of their Clubland Miami web series. The pizza this pain-glutton lunatic is eating appears to be Papa Johns. I placed a call to their 15th…
Farm Sanctuary National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus earlier this week recommended that D’Artagnan Inc. discontinue certain advertising claims regarding its Artisan foie gras — specifically that “the liver is not diseased, simply enlarged”, and that the animals are hand-raised “under the strictest of animal…
“I don’t understand, ya’ll!”ZOMG, ya’ll! Did you watch last night’s Super Bowl edition of Top Chef? Poor Jeff McInnis got the boot. We feel for him. The chef from the DiLido Beach Club at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach couldn’t wrap his head around why the judges preferred season 2’s Josie…
Hopeless jackass and Palm Beach county resident Rush Limbaugh has a particularly ridiculous sound byte traveling around the internet lately in which he’s basically quoted as saying he doesn’t want the Obama doctrine to succeed. The quote came from an interview Limbaugh did with Sean Hannity, in which Hannity asks…
Right, gents, it’s the most perilous time of year to be a man. Every move you make or fail to for Valentine’s Day will pretty much seal up your romantic prospects for the year. My brother once made the hideous gaffe (who knew?) of giving his girlfriend a ring on…
Alright culinary-reality-fanatics, meet Giovanni, one of three Hell’s Kitchen 5 contestants from Florida. Giovanni is the executive chef at Creehan’s Copper Grill in Destin, Florida. Destin is a Gulf Coast beach town close to Pensacola. Pensacola’s about as un-Miami as you can get in Florida, but it is in the…
Nuts About Florida products can be found all over the Sunshine State, from truck stops to mom-and-pop’s, gas stations to grocery stores. If you want nuts in Miami, West Palm or Orlando, they got em. They are roasted and packed right here in Miami and distributed by Barnard Nut Company…
This dude is appearing on Hell’s Kitchen 5 premiering tonight on Fox at 9pm. His name is Danny and he’s from Edgewater, Florida. There are three Florida contestants this year on Hell’s Kitchen 5. Danny is 23 years old and works as an executive chef. He’s a self proclaimed…
This season FOX’s smash reality hit Hell’s Kitchen 5 features 3 Florida Chef’s, Paula DaSilva is one of them. Paula works as Chef De Cuisine at 3030 Ocean at the Marriot’s Harbor Beach Resort in Ft. Lauderdale. I spoke to her via telephone and here’s what she had to say.”I…
*”One of the most accomplished, respected, and charismatic chefs in the world.” Of course you’ve probably guessed that we are speaking of Miami’s own Adrianne Calvo, 24-year old chef/owner of Adrianne’s Vineyard Restaurant & Wine Bar. What’s that? Never heard of her? Well if you’ve got $91.99 to shell out,…
Having dinner at By Word of Mouth is a bit like being invited to dine at the home of a fussy middle-aged matron, a person considered a very good cook in her day, someone who once published a newsletter widely admired by friends and neighbors (“Kathryn’s Kitchen”) and who occasionally…
