Restaurants

Here’s a way-cool graphic showing U.S. slaughter of meat, per second. Click here…

When the Four Rivers restaurant closed late last year, we fusion freaks found ourselves locked out of the space owners Paula Palakawong and Ravin Nakjaroen had composed with such good taste, its raised water pools, Buddhist bas-relief sculptures, mood lighting, and handcrafted tableware. Missing Four Rivers, there were a lot…

Now, we know this statement is tantamount to wearing a Che Guevara T- shirt in a Cuban-exile neighborhood, but it needs to be said: The cafe con leche at the 20-year-old, family-run Tulipan Bakery rivals any cup you’d get in Little Havana. But as a warning to those who think…

In honor of Earth Day, I’m here reproducing the Environmental Working Group’s list of the fruits and veg that contain the most pesticides. Folks, I know it’s fiendishly expensive, but you really should be trying to buy organic when it comes to the worst offenders (peaches, apples, bell peppers, celery,…

My colleague Owen Morris, over at our sister paper The Pitch in Kansas City, has been blogging about tuna lately, particularly that sorry monster the bluefin. Morris reports, via last week’s release from the World Wildlife Foundation, that Atlantic bluefin tuna may be entirely wiped out by 2012 (that’s three…

“Nice. It smells like a butifarra,” said our resident Peruvian, Miche. “Looks like the real thing too.” I had brought him back said butifarra from Bravo — a Peruvian sandwich shop in the north side of Wilton Manors — partially because he couldn’t get away from his desk for lunch…

Chicks and ducks and bees better scurry: Tonight at 8 p.m. the Lake Worth City Commission is set to discuss an ordinance to allow up to seven chickens and ducks and “a limited number of bees” to be raised within city limits. The “chicken on every plot” movement has taken…

Clean Plate Charlie, who has been around the block a few times, has been hearing about Ambrosia’s fantastic pizza for something like 30 years now. Whenever this dazzling dish reminisces about growing up in West Palm Beach, it seems Ambrosia is always lurking around the fuzzy boundaries of recollection, a…

Thank you, kind waiter, for offering to give the table a tour of the Uncle Julio’s menu. What did you say your name was? Oh, yeah, that’s right. It’s so ungodly loud in your restaurant that Clean Plate Charlie has no idea what you’re saying.What’s that you say about the…

A smorgasbord is a Swedish buffet. Life is the same. Hit the table hard, eat like you mean it, then get up and do it again. We at Short Order are here to help you take advantage of as many culinary opportunities as we can. Whether you’re an opportunist, utilitarian,…

Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried parents and health officials about…

Not the Same As It Ever Was We once loved chic Maison Carlos for its nostalgic take on Italian and French “Continental” cuisine; the menu felt like a ’60s throwback plunked down in the middle of Clematis Street, from the oysters Rockefeller and vichyssoise to the soupe a l’ognion and…

Although Short Order is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other local food blogs:Eating Around South Florida focuses a little more on fast food and big chains, but it’s a good place to check out…

Who said this? “I was the first one ever showed movies in a restaurant – we played The Godfather at my father’s restaurant, Anton’s, and this was back when you had to rent those big VCRs – I went and got the machine, I set it up in the bar,…

You never really know a man until you divorce him,” Zsa Zsa Gabor once said. She should have added: “You never really know yourself either.” Any girl who’s ever been dumped remembers that pit-of-the-stomach fear that she’ll never be the same again. The funny thing is, we can recover quite…

Steve Martorano’s heroes are tattooed across his six-foot, 240-pound frame. Frank Sinatra looks out from under his trademark fedora on one shoulder; on the other, the title of an Intruders song reads “I’ll Always Love My Mama.” Most of Martorano’s right calf is taken up with the image of Padre…

Here’s where Italy meets Philly meets the tropics: At Caffe Luna Rosa, you’ll dine on homemade breads, handmade pasta, and veal chop Milanese at outdoor tables just a hop from the beach. Somehow that salt air is all the seasoning Chef Ernesto di Blasi’s Northern Italian specialties need. The gang…

        Image via IShotTheChef.com IShotTheChef.com is an independent, locally based food blog that documents the meals of a husband/wife photographer/cook team through their text and photos. Their recent “Bacon and Eggs” post shows you how to make an economy-minded Pasta Alla Carbonara.According to Wikipedia, the dish, also known as “coal…

Food related bad news is everywhere this morning, beginning with this story: Money doesn’t buy happiness, as we know. But evidently fast food does. Researches at the University of Arkansas teamed up with the University of Taiwan to extrapolate from a long term study of Taiwanese children, a quarter of…

Last week, on Wednesday, April 8th to be exact, Short Order told you about Ft. Lauderdale bar Fish Tales and how you can get free food there five days a week. The writer claimed that Fish Tales “has one of the most delicious happy hour buffets in town.” That’s his…

Pizza Fusion, born as a single restaurant operation in Deerfield, is now aggressively franchised. On March 31, the company announced a series of Pizza Fusion restaurants opening across Saudi Arabia. Its motto is “Saving the Earth one pizza at a time” and all  deliveries are made using company-owned hybrid vehicles. The menu…

The Water Club (no relation to Tony Chan’s Water Club) is slated to open late May in the Intracoastal Mall at 3969 N.E. 163 St., North Miami Beach (the former locale of Shooters Waterfront Bar and Restaurant, which closed in 2001). The new indoor-outdoor venue will encompass 27,500-square-feet and seat…