Lee Klein On this stretch of the trip, in a tiny fishing village tucked into a pristine corner of Lake Ohrid (one of the oldest, deepest lakes in the world), we ate almost every meal at “home” — meaning prepared on a small two-burner electric oven outdoors, on a patio…
It’s my best friend Phil’s 40th birthday, and Sunday is going something like this: Rounds of $4 wine at Harry’s Banana Farm under the stuffed alligator. Back to our place for a bottle of champagne. Over to Cucina Dell’Arte in Palm Beach for Bellinis and kamikazes (“What’s a kamikaze?” “Never…
Lee Klein It was half-past midnight, and folks in the photo above were lining up for late-night street snacks. Actually, they pretty much queue up day and night at this bakery that has been operating for over one hundred years, and now is one of just a few Macedonian-owned businesses…
Top Tier, Pier 66, brunch in Fort Lauderdale
Friends in Skopje, Macedonia, and in nearby Dracevo, are like family to my wife and I; we’ve been here quite a few times over the years. So many people invite us to their homes for dinner that it becomes a rare occasion to eat in restaurants. We did dine at…
Table 8, the chic-Los Angeles import tucked into the Hotel De Soleil at the north tip of Ocean Drive, isn’t too coy on its Miami Spice preview page about why you should pay a visit: the chef, Govind Armstrong, is “famous”, the ambience is “trendy”, and the “celebrity fan-base” includes…
Oh la la, Metronome est bon! Metronome is a relative newcomer to the Palm Beach Gardens dining strip along PGA Boulevard, and in spite of this wearisome location, it’s a darling place both outside and in — oversized French bistro posters, cushy red banquettes, red and white straw chairs, a…
Lee Klein We stayed on a houseboat a bit outside the city, rode rented bicycles all over the place, and enjoyed Belgrade immensely — but truth be told, this particular leg of the journey wasn’t culinarily oriented. Generally our lunches were crafted from goods we’d buy at the market (pictured…
For everyone looking forward to the New Times’ Iron Fork event next week at the Miami Science Museum, it pains us to say that it has been postponed to October 30. Yes, we played a game of chicken with Hurricane Ike and we lost. But no worries, hold on to…
A stopover for lunch in New York; three days on a houseboat in Belgrade, Serbia; a week with friends in Skopje, Macedonia; eight days in a house, with many many kids, right upon Lake Ohrid, also in Macedonia; four days in Budapest, Hungary; an overnight stopover in Paris. Twenty-two days…
Ceci n’est pas un “Grouper” Something Fishy: Sysco has been selling “grouper” to Florida restaurants. Only problem? It isn’t. Eat Your Spinach. People are starving in Africa. Eight million Ethiopians need urgent food relief. Hey, asshole, I ordered the Fiesta Platter! Woman aims at her niece’s boyfriend in fight over…
In her amusing memoir Serial Monogamy, Nora Ephron remembers how she used to cook for Craig Claiborne in her head, spinning fantasies of having this man she’d never met come to her house for dinner (and later, of course, he’d write an article about her, including her recipes). After her…
Photo via Flickr The future home of Maison d’Azur? Last month, we reported the sudden closing of Maison d’Azur at the Angler Resort on South Beach. Some comments were left saying Maison d’Azur isn’t closing but instead moving to the Sagamore. Is the rumor true? Well, yes and no. The…
Feeling the beat with Ronin Taiko A few years ago the Cornell Cafe at the Morikami Museum & Japanese Garden got a big boost when The Food Network declared it one of the three best museum eateries in the country. So I went, and lemme tell you: The award does…
Simon Hare We were more than surprised when Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink (130 NE 40th Street, Miami; 305-573-5550), located in Miami’s Design District, was noticeably absent from the Miami Spice participating restaurants list. We wondered if all the accolades, including a mention in the New York Times’ “Coast to…
Naturally, we here at Short Order are consummate foodies; lovers of both the most nuanced of dishes and the homiest of comfort foods. Yet, for some reason, that foodie categorization can be tricky. For some, being a foodie is a contest — a pissing match where your stream is lengthened…
Just a reminder that Flavor Palm Beach begins today, with one or two new additions since last we looked. The deal is a choice of three appetizers, three entrees, and three desserts at $20 for lunch and $30 for dinner. Flavor menues are available on the site. There are two…
Julie Thomson Halo Lounge on Lincoln Road. Perhaps you didn’t notice, but last Friday Booze Hound was M.I.A. — or more specifically, was in MIA, checking a $15 bag (damn you, American Airlines!), getting bumped up to first class (thank you, American Airlines!), receiving a 6 a.m. buzz courtesy of…
Jose D. Duran Soyka’s grilled petit filet mignon au jus. I must admit that I’ve gone to Soyka countless times before, never considering it too expensive that a Miami Spice prix fixe menu is needed. But my friends decided to have dinner there Wednesday night and I took it as…
“Hmmm, I seem to have developed amnesia. Who am I? And where did this egg come from?” Since people haven’t been able to properly name our WTF is it?!? item for a few weeks now, I thought we would go with a food item nearly guaranteed to be identified. I…
Perhaps I have a smidge of room left for the brunost. In yesterday’s blog watch we linked to a piece on Tinkering with Dinner that discussed the Omnivore’s Hundred, a kind of foodie scavenger hunt that allows you to gauge the types of foods you’ve eaten or would never eat…
Above: And ten reasons to love Publix Yes, you too can be a wine connoisseur on your minimalist 30K a year salary. I’ve just finished reading The Wine Trials by Robin Goldstein, a scrappy little tome about the 6,000 wines he arranged to have blind tasted over the course of…
