Do they really spit in your pasta? I’ve just finished reading Steve Dublanica’s new bestseller, Waiter Rant. Dublanica made his name by blogging about his experiences at an unnamed, upscale Italian bistro in Manhattan, apparently to the delight of a million readers — the site was such a success he…
Teaching an old town new tricks? It looks like the island of Palm Beach is going to try to shake its image as the most boring resort city on the planet. I don’t know what happened — when I was a teenager the island was fun: We actually had a…
It isn’t usual for me to feed possum, but when I saw this one in back of our apartment, with five babies on her back, I placed down some imported Gruyére. She gobbled the treat with undisguised gusto, which I attribute to her prior experiences with cheese most likely being…
My job as a restaurant critic is great fun, but there’s a sad irony. I never become a regular customer. Budget and time limitations conspire: after a second or third visit I rarely have the opportunity to go back to a place I’ve written about. The job has the novelty…
Illustration by Alex Izaguirre The Obama election affects not only the whole world, but also the food world. Here are ten predictions on how this might play out: Hula girls will replace mariachi bands as the most annoying dining distraction, and restaurant owners will find it increasingly profitable to put…
Herdy gerdy flurdy… oh sorry, wrong chef. So you cook at home quite a bit: you’re always making fresh pies for when your family comes to dinner, crafting soups out of odds and ends you found in your vegetable crisper, and entertaining friends with your artful grilling techniques. But if…
Don’t forget that New Times’ ultimate food and wine event, Pairings, is coming to the Broward Center this Thursday night. Tickets are just $29 if you order online now, as opposed to $40 at the door, so get yours fast. Click here to get a more info on the event,…
Justin Namon Last night’s Iron Fork event was a sold out affair that pack the Miami Science Museum. There was plenty of food and drinks to go around, plus we got to feel like we were 10 again walking through and interacting with the Music Musica exhibit at the museum…
Happy Halloween! And what are you supposed to be? You may have noticed this week has been heavy on the booze. Well, I thought I’d keep that theme going with a post on one of my favorite drinks, the Charlie Brown. It’s basically a Black and Tan, only instead of…
Ahnvee, a Cajun-Creole restaurant and “laid-back lounge” will open at 621 Washington Avenue (the old “Strand” location) in late-2008/early 2009. Executive chef Tom Azar, most recently having served the same function at Emeril’s Miami Beach, will be putting out skillet cornbread with honey butter glaze; fried alligator; crawfish-and-rice croquettes, and…
Tis the season, so I thought I’d share my own recipe for deep fried tarantula, in case anybody out there wants to serve them at tomorrow night’s Halloween party. Usually I try to allocate one tarantula per guest, so you’ll have to adjust the recipe depending on how many diners…
Even the stateliest among us lose all pretensions over a bowl of good soup. Soup is soul food. The simplest food. The food you first experiment with as a child — whether it’s using the letters in your alphabet soup to spell dirty words or playfully slurping up noodles in…
There’s nothing like a dame, particularly if the dame cooks good. And no dame cooks as good as Les Dames d’Escoffier, an international group devoted to supporting and mentoring women in the culinary professions. The new cookbook Les Dames have just published was almost enough to make me get off…
There are a couple of rules for visiting the West Palm Beach Greenmarket, pictured here. You gotta bring a lot of dough. You gotta bring a dog…
Two frosty bottles of Voodoo Tiki. Drink up. We have a tradition around the New Times offices called Beer Fridays, where we basically reserve the last two hours of a workweek to drink in excess. It’s a good tradition, as you might imagine, and it was upheld this past Friday…
Ah, Oktoberfest: beer, greasy food, and brawny men in tight overalls dancing the Higglety Pigglety. We had a few local ‘Fest options this weekend, but we went with beer company Hoffbrau’s Bayfront Park shindig because their website has tinny accordion music and many typos, thereby convincing us of its authenticity…
Lee Klein The 2008 Miami International Wine Fair featured the usual aisles of wines and wine sellers, and the usual throngs of wine enthusiasts, and the usual clique of ink-stained wretches like myself who were there to scribble some notes while, of course, drinking wine (I actually used a tape…
I know it’s been a while since you BYOBed — like in high school, back when you used to sneak-sip Special Brews on some public beach on Key Biscayne while discussing the ever-important topic of whether to get a belly-ring, a fairy tattooed on your lower back, or just blow…
Bathed in a homemade sauce, I scarf down my “raw fajita”. The vegetables are crunchy and fresh, the collard green in place of a tortilla holds the succulent flavor of the red peppers, avocado and portobellos. To think just minutes ago this was a few vegetables sitting on the table,…
Getting ready for a slooooow night. I managed to get the world’s worst photos of the lovely Navajo Churro lamb dinner hosted by Slow Food Miami on Wednesday night at the Standard Hotel, so I’ll have to rely on whatever powers of description I have left. The dinner was one…
Come January, chef Jonathan Eismann of Pacific TIme fame will be opening Pizzavolante (“flying pizza”) at 3918 N. Miami Avenue, in the Design District. According to Eismann, the contemporary-styled 900 square foot space will be offering “creative wood-oven pizza” with organic and local ingredients, and “some gluten-free products”. Emphasis will…
Tickets for the 2009 South Beach Wine and Food Festival go on sale this coming Monday, October 27. We mention this because in past years tickets have sold out very quickly — especially for the more popular events, such as Rachel Ray’s Burger Bash ($200), Bubble Q ($350), and Wine…
