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…
My friend Peggy Jean was in town over the Easter holidays. Peggy Jean is a real Southern cook, which means that just about everything she makes calls for many pounds of butter, cartons of heavy whipping cream, half and half, bacon fat, salt, and variations on the theme of sugar…
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…
The Thai new year, called Songkran, is celebrated today, April 13, through this Wednesday. The word means “move” or to “change place,” in regard to the sun’s changing its position in the zodiac. Songkran doesn’t boast any B-list celebrities reporting on a big ball dropping down a pole, but the…
Later this month, the first U.S. outpost of Paris’ popular Caviar Kaspia will open at the Webster in Miami Beach. The original Kaspia was established in 1927 and over the decades has become an institution in Parisian society. The Webster branch promises to have “the same menu as its Paris…
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…
It may seem counterintuitive to dine on six-hour osso buco and goat milk ice cream so that the hungry of Darfur might eat, but Slow Food Miami and the Sagamore Art Hotel in South Beach are inviting you to do just that Wednesday, April 29. The new Whitehall Restaurant at…
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 the better local food blogs:All Purpose Dark does consistently good work updating restaurant openings, food reviews, cooking classes, and upcoming events at local restaurants.A Mingling…
On a recent, unseasonably cool afternoon, I drifted away into one of those vivid naptime dreams, the ones where you wake up and think for a second that what you just went through was real. There was a knocking, no, a pounding at the door, as if Grendel were on…
The final two outdoor, organic, paradisiacal dinners of 2009 take place this month. The groovy gastronomic get-togethers down at Gabriele Marewski’s Paradise Farms always bring great food and wine (from Stacole Fine Wines). Fellow diners tend to be in amiable, festive spirits, and the setting is simply unbeatable.This Sunday evening,…
Rufus Ribs 206 S. Federal Hwy., Boynton Beach. Open Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. till 7 p.m. Call 561-932-8206. The search for South Florida barbecue worth phoning home to Memphis about continues with Rufus Ribs: a humble, pull-away trailer that, on weekends only, appears in a convenience store parking…
Miami restaurants continue to hang tough. Excepting the closings we’ve already reported on, between January 1st and March 15th of this year mostly C-list places have thus far gone down. Such as:Deco Drive Cigars 414 Lincoln Rd., Miami BeachFritanga Los Robles 3622 W…
Here’s where Italy meets Philly meets the tropics: at Caffe Luna Rosa in Delray Beach 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…
If you haven’t checked out New Times’ own handy restaurant guide, you really should – it’s an excellent resource for sorting restaurants by location, price range, features, critics’ choice, and, of course, cuisine. Plus, most entries in our database contain capsule reviews for those that like a quick read, plus…
Lots of food and drink this month, so mark your calendars: Tonight, April 7, 7:30 p.m. Lola’s on Harrison: Meet the Winemaker Dinner with Nada Guiseppe Vineyards, $75 all inclusive four-course dinner with pairings. 2032 Harrison St., Hollywood. 954-927-9851.Nightly, 4:30 to 6 p.m. Christine’s Appetite Stimulus Package. Three courses, $29.99…
They say the restaurant business is a good way to lose your shirt, but over the past dozen or so years, Richard Day has managed to have his shirt and wear it too, along with a series of local restaurants, culminating in his latest venture, 33480 Bar & Grill.Though wearing…
Let’s face it, west Delray isn’t exactly the most happening place on the planet, so anything that might goose the action potential of an area best known for traffic jams and early bird (i.e., blue hair) specials has got to be a good thing. Right?Wendy Rosano thinks so, anyway. The…
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 the better local food blogs:Although they’ve been writing heavily about restaurants across the ocean lately, Food for Thought still has some good write ups covering…
Opinionated About Dining (OAD) released results of its second annual survey of dining establishments in the United States and Canada. The ratings cover over 900 restaurants ranging from fine dining to inexpensive. The only South Florida restaurants to make the grade were, perhaps to no surprise, the M & M…
If you didn’t read every post in Short Order last month, shame on you. Here are just a few of the highlights to ensure you’ll come back every day this month and atone for your sins:Lent is almost over, and here are some suggestions to help you through your last…
The long April weekend I spent in Paris back in 2002 was largely a miserable one. It rained, it dropped into the 30s, and it all generally seemed to make grumpy Frenchmen more pissed to hear that I couldn’t speak a lick of their language. My mood got considerably better…
