Michael Schwartz

South Florida Web Awards: Meet Your Food Blogging Nominees

To say the web bridges worlds together seamlessly through invisible streams of data would be a gross understatement. In any case, New Times is well aware of the importance of the web, and we're celebrating with our first annual South Florida Web Awards. We've scoured the Internet in search of the ... More >>

Michelle Bernstein Wins Miami Cochon 555

​Michelle Bernstein of Michy's won last night's Cochon 555 at The Four Seasons in Miami, an event in which five chefs each cooked a whole heritage pig --offal and all-- for judges and a several hundred adventurous guests. At the announcement of the win, the crowd held up flutes of sparkling r ... More >>

Miami-Based Norwegian Cruise Line Goes Gourmet

​Norwegian Cruise Line casts its line for foodies, beefing up offerings for those who prefer burrata to buffets. Moderno Churrascaria is the newest offering for frugal foodniks, a Brazilian steakhouse with passadors who serve an unlimited rounds of beef, chicken and pork tableside for $20 a perso ... More >>

A Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Guide to What's New

Cruise Ships to Accommodate Fatter Passengers

​The U.S. Coast Guard is the last to acknowledge that people on boats are fatter than they were in 1960. So while cruise ships nixed armrests and installed wider seats years ago, the U.S. Coast Guard has just gotten around to raising the Assumed Average Weight Per Person from 160 to 180 pounds las ... More >>

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, Beer Events, and Other Food & Drink Happenings This Week in South Florida

Drink up: Both PBC World of Beer locations are hosting special events this week. ​In some ways, this is a relatively quiet week in terms of events, but with a few big names on the bill -- the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival and Steve Martorano's battle of the meatball, to name a few -- there' ... More >>

Executive Chef Michael Bennett Leaves Bimini Boatyard

​Bimini Boatyard executive chef Michael Bennett has left his position at the popular Fort Lauderdale seafood restaurant to pursue several other culinary avenues of interest.Bennett, who resigned his position shortly after Thanksgiving, is consulting on two projects as well as writing part two of h ... More >>

Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival Starts December 9; Tickets Available Now

Hey, Michelle -- what's cooking? ​What to get the food snob on your holiday list when a membership to the Stinky Cheese of the Month Club won't do? How 'bout an early gift, by way of a ticket to one of the five events that are part of the Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival from December 9 to 13?

Anthony Bourdain's Literary Orgasm Talks Shop at Miami Book Fair

​Do people read in South Florida? Scan the Floridian before 10 a.m. and note the absence of someone reading a newspaper, a book, or a magazine -- even in digital form. Over at Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, an employee made a comment while I was there a couple of weeks ago to the sole person ... More >>

Max's Harvest in Delray Beach: Farm-to-Fork Done Right, Plus the Best Steaks in Palm Beach County

The Friends of Alan Mendelsohn

Alan Mendelsohn​Alan Mendelsohn -- the convicted government scam artist as well as a former Hollywood ophthalmologist, GOP fundraiser, lobbyist, and adviser to former Gov. Charlie Crist -- has a lot of friends.Mendelsohn was sentenced to four years in prisons after he pleaded guilty to a conspirac ... More >>

Chef Zach Bell Named James Beard Award Finalist

Cafe Boulud Chef Zach Bell​Chef Zach Bell of Palm Beach's Cafe Boulud has been named a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef (South). Chef Bell is the only South Florida chef to be named a finalist for the award. Other finalists in this category include John Harris ( ... More >>

Cooking With Chef Michael Schwartz at Publix's Apron Cooking School in Plantation

This past Friday, Michael Schwartz was the guest chef instructor at Publix's Apron Cooking School in Plantation (1181 S. University Dr.). The state of the art demonstration kitchen, located on the second floor of the supermarket, is equipped with a fully stocked stainless steel kitchen and the lates ... More >>

Chef Michael Schwartz Demos Cooking Techniques At Publix

​If you've dreamed of running off to cooking school but can't afford the time or money, take a little mini-course with Michael Schwartz, one of South Florida's hottest chefs, next week. Michael Schwartz, owner of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink and author of the cookbook, Michael's Genuine ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash: A Meaty Good Time

All photos by Laine Doss The Burger Bash tent​Burger Bash, hosted by Rachael Ray, is one of the most popular events at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. One of the first events to be sold out, the 2011 Burger Bash featured 26 chefs presenting their best burgers. Last evening's Bur ... More >>

Michael's Genuinely Killer Cookbook (from chef Michael Schwartz)

​Michael Schwartz's genuine food has made him one of South Florida's most acclaimed chefs.   At a time when foams and gels and airs and kitchens outfitted with the kind of equipment better suited to a science lab than a place to cook have been lavished with more hype than the Super Bowl, ... More >>

Interview with Chef, Restaurateur and Author Michael Schwartz, Part II

​We continue our interview with chef, restaurateur and author of the cookbook Michael's Genuine Food, scheduled to be released February 15th. Read Part I of our interview here. Clean Plate Charlie: You opened up a Michael's in Grand Cayman - how is that going? Michael Schwartz:  W ... More >>

Interview with Chef, Restaurateur and Author Michael Schwartz, Part I

​In 2007 Michael Schwartz opened Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami's Design District. Almost immediately it became "the" place to go for good, clean food that was friendly to the environment and the community. in 2009, Michael's Genuine Food & Drink opened a second location ... More >>

Lee Schrager: South Beach Food Genius Speaks

Food & Wine's Best New Chefs Overlooks South Florida -- Again

Food and Wine​Another year, another list of Food & Wine's Best New Chefs. And none of them are from South Florida. The food magazine's annual list of 10 Best New Chefs in America gathers the young, creative toques that have caught national attention over the past year. The only rule -- none ca ... More >>

2010 James Beard Winners Announced

​Last week, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2010 winners for food media and restaurants. Although South Florida had a few dogs in the race, Broward and Palm Beach didn't come up with any wins. But Miami's own Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink managed to snag Best Chef ... More >>

Recapping the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival

Jacob Katel​Our sister blog, Short Order, has a ton of coverage and post-game analysis today of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Miami New Times restaurant critic Lee Klein dishes up the Top Five Screw-Ups of SBWFF 2010, and while a famous food celeb dropping trou is not among them, there ... More >>

Chefs Zach Bell and Dean Max Among South Florida James Beard Nods

James Beard Award semi-finalist, Zach Bell.​Nominees for this years' James Beard Awards were announced yesterday, and South Florida has a few representatives in the list. Zach Bell of Cafe Boulud and Dean James Max of 3030 Ocean were both nominated in the Best Chef: South category. In recent years ... More >>

Behind the Line: An Interview with Steak 954's Executive Chef Jason Smith

​Chef Jason Smith's culinary career literally sprouted right out of the ground. Raised on an organic farm just outside Indianapolis, Smith learned the value of cooking with fresh, farm-raised ingredients, as his mom grew and sold edible flowers. He then attended Johnson & Wales in Miami and la ... More >>

Eat South Florida

​Trying to take "eat locally" from cliché to reality is Edible South Florida, a dead-tree and online magazine devoted to the gastronomic bounty of our own little corner of paradise, set to debut midmonth. Edible Publisher Katie Sullivan is a Miami native who went over to the Dark Side (AKA New Yo ... More >>

Celebrate New Year's Eve at These South Florida Restaurants

​I don't know about you, but I want to ring in the New Year in style, guzzling champagne and slurping down caviar like a 19th century robber baron. Preferably wearing a top hat and monocle. And riding a pony. And eating something endangered, like a mountain lion. (Just kidding about that last part ... More >>

New Times' Iron Fork Recap

Jackie Sayet​The Presidente flowed as Chef John Critchley laid the culinary smackdown on Giancarla Bodini for the 2009 Iron Fork title.  Critchley's on a winning streak, with his seafood-celebrating Area 31 having been recently named one of Esquire magazine's best new restaurants this year.Ou ... More >>

SoFla Chefs Get De-Bearded

John Currence, dream crusherJohn Currence of City Grocery in Oxford, Mississippi, scooped up the Best Chef in the South Award at the James Beard Foundation Ceremonies last night -- disappointing our three homegrown favorites: Zach Bell of Cafe Boulud, Douglas Rodriguez of Ola, and Michael Schwartz o ... More >>

Introducing Meghan "The Forager" Tanner, Organics Dealer

Meghan "The Forager" Tanner is a South Florida organics dealer. She provides the freshest produce and ingredients, local, exotic and otherwise, to forward thinking, quality-minded chefs. She's an Allapattah-market mainstay, a Homestead hustler, a Redland raider, a South Dade trafficker pushing heav ... More >>

In 2009, food will taste better…

Food & Wine Shout Out to Schwartz

The Flavor Bible

South Beach Food & Wine Festival, Tickets On Sale October 27

Dinner on a Farm

Kick the Bottle

As the containers and costs mount, in South Florida and beyond, plastic is played out

Tale of Two Meals: Social and Table 8

Escopazzo Going Greener

Paradise Found

Food World Comings and Goings

Chowhounds, Get Ready for Top Chef Finale

Johnny V, Duo, Afterglo Gone; Bouley’s Evolution: Uh-Oh

This Grass Needs Cutting

Dinner in Paradise Hosts its Best Chefs Yet

A Championship Season for Food?

The Deep End

Master of the Universe

NYE Guide 2006

Zemi More

Problematic service is perplexing, but Zemi remains a top-drawer dining destination with a top-shelf chef.

Starting from Scratch

Digs brings a new global style to Lake Worth

Eat, Drink, and Lament

The terrorism in the Northeast can bring us together