I Shot The Chef Cooks Eggs The Spaghetti Way

        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…

Poppa E at Casa Panza

Jacob KatelPoppa E is a bad motherfucker. Find out for yourself every Wednesday night at Casa Panza, where he has a residency, and he and his band play three or more sets of jazz, blues, and R&B songs you already know the words to. Some people might think it’s strange…

Pizza Fusion Earth Week Giveaways

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…

Caffe Abbracci Celebrates 20 Years

20 years in the restaurant biz is a hell of an achievement, and Coral Gables’ Cafe Abbracci, 319 Aragon Ave, just hit that mark. To celebrate, the place is adding light, organic, calorie-conscious offerings to its roster of the traditional Italian favorites that have kept them in business all these years…

$4.19 Garlic Day Specials At Cafe Prima Pasta Miami Beach

Smell that? April 19 is National Garlic day, a holiday of ungoogleable origin that aims to promote the spice’s many varied uses. Whether you’re slicing it razor thin like Pauly in Goodfellas or warding off vampires, this much is clear: Garlic has a legend that goes back millenia. Often seen…

Kids Eat Discounts

[jump] BOCA RATON- LUCILLE’S BAD TO THE BONE BBQ     3011 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton     561.997.9557Wednesday night – Two kids eat free with each adult entree purchased.   CORAL SPRINGS- CHICKEN KITCHEN     1309 University Rd., Coral Springs     954.757.6123Saturday and Sunday – One kid eats free with adult purchase.   CUTLER RIDGE-…

Video: Trick Daddy “What Dey Do”

Trick Daddy, the official un-official Mayor of Miami, has been feeding the streets fresh thug music for years on top of years on top of years. Next time there’s a mayor election we’re starting a write in campaign for Trick cause Mayor Diaz might be making our city green, but Mayor…

Local Dog-Friendly Restaurants

Welcome to South Florida. This is dog country, dog gone it, so why can’t you have brunch with your bulldog, lunch with your lab, or dinner with your Doberman? Well, you can. Here is a list of outdoor restaurants that are open to interspecies dining so you finally have a spot…

Easter Specials South Florida

                                                                        because it’s funny…From Uriel 1998’s FlickrEaster Sunday’s almost here and you know what that means. Egg hunts, omelets, brunches, churches, dinners, family and giant rabbits. Yoda, not so much, but he’d be welcome at Jesus’ table anytime, even if…

Buy Hand Drums In Miami

Need a hand-made drum from Africa, China or Tibet? Go to a shop called Majestic Lips at 4600 NE 2nd Ave, next door to Lemoni Cafe, up the street from Buena Vista Bistro, blocks north of the Design District. It’s full of stuff from all over the world and definitely…

The Friday Experience — Weekly Wrap-Up

It was a week like no other. Time passed. Days went by. Stuff happened. Now it’s Friday. What will you do? Where will you go? The world is your oyster. Shuck & Jive baby, shuck & jive. Read on for cheese steaks, slave dinners, and old chefs…

Hell’s Kitchen’s Paula, Danny and Gio Interviewed

Hell’s Kitchen is heating up and three of the six chefs left are Florida based. We spoke to Paula, Danny and Gio back when the first episode was set to drop, so being that all three are still in the running we decided to get up with them and see…

Chester French at Culture Kings – Event Pictures

Yesterday at Culture Kings, Chester French played a free acoustic set for a crowd of cool kids and industry types. Chris O, owner of the high end clothes, sneaker shop, and artist collective said “The label contacted us and set it up.” Ed Agudello, the Digital Account Director South East…

Chef Allen’s Passover Interview

Chef Allen is a good Jew, the type of dude who throws a gourmet Seder for 15 years and invites everybody to try his kitchen’s New World takes on, this year, Sephardic and Ashkenazi classics. I recently spoke to Chef Allen by phone. He spoke about matzah, bitter herbs, and…

Broke Musicians Rejoice: Free Food And Drink For Open Mike Performers at 11 Leprechauns in the Grove

                                                                               image from Faith Goble’s flickrWork sucks, don’t even think about it. Just be like Bruce Willis, Live Free Or Die Trying.You can make a living as a broke musician, but you gotta be a 24/7 hustler. That means free food, drink, smokes, rides, strings, shit like that, that kind…

Are You An Out Of Work Musician? Want a Gig Just For the Money?

Do you wake up, smoke a bowl, bum a cigarette, drink a beer, eat some corn pops, play guitar, watch Judge Judy, Matlock and Oprah while “brainstorming” your million dollar ideas wearing dirty socks and wishing somebody would just pay your rent so you could concentrate on developing your unrecognized…

Area 31 Restaurant — Behind the Line — Kitchen Pictures

Area 31 Restaurant & Lounge (recently praised by award-winning food critic Lee Klein) on the 16th floor of Downtown Miami’s sexy Epic Hotel specializes in seafood fare from Fishing Area 31, which encompasses marine waters off the Florida coast, Central America, and parts of South America. The restaurant offers an…

Grocery Coupons

                                   From Bramus’ Flickr As this is being written, “grocery coupons” is one of the most searched terms on the internet today.After the jump, we weigh the pros and cons of the top South Florida coupon providers on the internet. We also link to them so you can decide for…

Miami Bass Express

Today The Herald is reporting on the epidemic of prescription drugs from South Florida invading the Appalachian states. If you’ve ever seen the ad section of the Broward Palm Beach New Times you know what a big business prescription drugs are, and apparently Broward county is one of the easiest…

Scorch Mojito Review

Miamism.com is a lifestyle real estate company dedicated to using media innovations to promote its services. The website is home to “Mojito 411” a weekly updated, video-based mojito review series from South Florida restaurants. It’s a great idea, well-executed. The video above is from Scorch Grillhouse in North Miami; you can…

Andu Restaurant & Lounge – Behind The Line – Kitchen Pictures

Andu Restaurant & Lounge is located on the ground floor of the Neo Vertika building in Brickell. It is owned by brothers Antonio and Juan Pablo Viejo and serves an eclectic Mediterranean cuisine with Spanish, North African, and Italian influences. Executive Chef Nate Martin, formerly of Nikki Beach, Pearl, and the now…