Roaches. Love em’, hate em’, eat em’. Or don’t, at least not at a North Miami Quiznos location (11850 Biscayne Blvd., North Miami). The restaurant was temporarily closed down on December 4 by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation after inspectors found 12 violations, which they termed “critical.”…
They’ll have it their way.If you’ve somehow missed Burger King’s hilarious not funny at all new marketing campaign, where they bring Whoppers to Hmong villagers in remote Thailand, the Inuit of Greenland, and a Transylvanian town in Romania, you have to check this out. Although the campaign generates a seriously sinking feeling…
The interior of The Grill at The Setai (as well as The Restaurant portion) is arguably one of the most beautiful in Miami-Dade. When it comes to the Zen-like outdoor pods-on-the-pond dining area there is no argument — this is the most beautiful al fresco setting. The cuisine here has…
My steak is bigger than your steak.Super-corporate, super-expensive, super-good Morton’s Steakhouse cuts the ribbon on a brand new (and totally unnecessary) Fort Lauderdale branch on December 14. That’s at 500 E. Broward Blvd — which, we suppose, will be a convenient spot for the few local carnivores who always secretly…
We get some strange things in the mail from companies looking to pump their products: care packages from popcorn advocacy groups and breath mints designed to help you fake your way out of alcohol-related trouble come to mind immediately. But this candy has to take the unleavened cake. Orthodox Chews…
Four women, two web-based companies, and innumerable sweet holiday gifts that you needn’t leave your house to purchase. , Eileen Sanchez and Evelyn Dieppa are the “cupcake catering duo” of 2 Girls and a Cupcake, and they’re serving up sweet gift ideas for purchase online. The Miami natives describe themselves…
One of the unheralded winners of the recently concluded Art Basel was Clive’s Café, (2880 No. Miami Ave. and 890 NW 2nd Ave.). The Wynwood location, generally closed for weekend nights, stayed open for the hipster crowd and was jammed. Best option was the jerk chicken ($7.50) – finest we’ve…
“Peace out, New Times.”Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto’s new restaurant in the Boca Raton Resort is exclusive. So exclusive, in fact, that New Times can’t get in.Last week we made a call down to the resort to see if we could snag a table at the month-old sushi bar and restaurant,…
You couldn’t pay me the $500 prix fixe to get me to eat “dinner in the sky” at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek — apart from my terror of heights, I haven’t been strapped to a dining chair since I was 6 months old and I’m regressing fast enough as…
It wasn’t that long ago that serious diners in these parts pointed to Coral Gables as the go-to spot for eating out. Palme d’Or, Pascals, Ortanique, Christy’s, Caffe Abracci, Francesco’s, Norman’s, Mundo, Chispa, Restaurant Brana, Max’s Grille, The Palm Steakhouse…quite a roster. Mundo, Norman’s, Chispa, Restaurant Brana, Max’s Grille and…
(sturgeon: It’s what’s for dinner)The Slow Foods Glades to Coast Chapter, which covers roughly the Palm Beach and Broward areas, is hosting a 5-course Growers’ Discovery gourmet dinner at Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach this Thursday, December 11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. The dinner, overseen by chef Zach Bell,…
I’ll put up my vegetarian chili against any meat-based recipe — this one is insanely flavor- and color-full, and it’s so spicy it’ll make you weep. It’s ideal post-Thanksgiving eats, since it’s cheap, criminally healthy from all the folic acid, B vitamins and lycopene, and loaded with fiber if you’re…
Art Basel brings so much cool stuff to Miami each year, but also throngs of people and a whole lot of hype. Tonight, however, far from the madding crowd, Two Chefs in South Miami will be offering a single malt sampling that is eminently reasonable in price: Twenty dollars will…
This coming Monday, December 8th, Asia de Cuba will debut in the Mondrian South Beach (1100 West Avenue). This China Grill Management concept first appeared eleven years ago in New York CIty’s Morgans Hotel, and has since branched out to The Mondrian in Los Angeles and Scottsdale, The Clift in…
My favorite culinary stars have crossed in Fort Lauderdale this month, jumped the broom, eloped in the dead of night; let’s pray this heaven-sent marriage is one of uninterrupted bliss. The result is Bova Prime. May they never have to dust off the prenup. And yet, the number of interested…
We’ve confirmed with executive chef Mark Liberman this morning that Stephen di Asprinio has in fact left the restaurant he gave his name to, Forte di Asprinio, in West Palm Beach, “to pursue other opportunities.” Liberman wouldn’t, or couldn’t tell us much more, except that Asprinio left sometime last week,…
I’ve used and abuse my poor Weber (Thermos make) grill over the years — slow cooking pork for hours on end, roasting peppers for bold salsas, and grilling hundreds of steaks, chops, and burgers has taken its toll on the big hunk of metal. So when I set out to…
Balans restaurant, which has been an anchor on the west side of Lincoln Road Mall since 1997, five weeks ago opened its’ second South Florida location in Mary Brickell Village (there are five London branches as well). The interior is modern and minimalist, with outdoor tables spread upon the VIllage…
I recently came into possession of a half-dozen back issues of Esquire, a magazine somewhat obsessed with naming the best of this and the best of that. The food section is no exception — three of the issues I thumbed through featured such listings. I took a tally to see…
I was just reading the latest installment of the Fresh Beer Times newsletter, put out bi-monthly by Fort Lauderdale’s own distributor of fine, hopped products Fresh Beer, Inc, and I have to say that it kicks ass. It comes out on the second and fourth Fridays of each month, and…
During this week of welcoming Art Basel Miami, let us take a moment to say goodbye to The Art Of Food. The raw food/vegan counter cafe was located in a cooperative vintage clothing and jewelry shop across the street from Midtown Miami’s Circuit City (which has problems of its own)…
Until I saw Milk yesterday, the biopic starring Sean Penn as gay activist and San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk, I’d forgotten all about the Twinkie Defense. Fellow supervisor Dan White shot and killed Milk and Mayor George Moscone in their offices at San Francisco City Hall in 1978 and…
