Entries tagged with 'Miami'
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The lunch menu at
Michael's Genuine Food & Drink features a wide range of satisfying sandwiches, from burgers to falafel to housemade pastrami. Don't overlook the
housemade country pâté sandwich ($13) featuring a generous chunk of rich, homemade pork pâté pressed inside a crusty, lightly toasted country French baguette.
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Located in the back street of Washington Avenue on Miami Beach, this sandwich spot is acclaimed to be one of the best in Miami. The open-air bar setting with the simple, vibrant-colored decor gives off a casual mix of French and Miami feel.
Saucisson Sec ($7.40) is the most popular on the menu and is filled with paper-thin salami and fresh brie cheese.
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Though less well-known than the touristy Versailles restaurant,
Puerto Sagua is still a must-go for Cuban food in Miami. Don't get intimidated by its location, where many high-end, chic restaurants cluster—this is as cheap as a great sandwich in Miami Beach can get. There's nothing complicated about this authentic Cuban: ham, Swiss cheese, mustard, and another layer of roast pork stuffed in slightly toasted Cuban bread that resembles French baguette, but tastes fattier, with crispy edges.
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When thinking about
Michael Schwartz, the James Beard award winning chef and owner of
Michael's Genuine Food & Drink, it's important to take into consideration where his restaurant is: Miami. The city of beaches, bikinis, blender drinks, and more recently the South Beach Diet, it's often associated with "Florribean" cuisine, the Caribbean style of cooking using Florida produce. But when Schwartz opened Michael's in 2007, he brought his own Florida-centric take on American food to Miami. This week we've got our hands on his newly released cookbook,
Michael's Genuine Food—enter to win a copy here.
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It's always ice cream weather in Miami, but even if it weren't, that wouldn't stop droves of locals from waiting in line at
Jaxson's. A true fixture—it's been around since the 1950s—Jaxson's delivers far more than the best ice cream in the greater Miami area.
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sobefest.com/2009 The tents have been taken down, the chefs have all gone home, and South Floridians can now return to more pressing matters like spring training, but the memories of my first South Beach Wine and Food Festival linger for any number of reasons, even if I didn't see the pantsless Paula Deen fiasco. But what did I make of the main event? The Grand Tasting, a series of huge white tents right on the South Beach waterfront where extremely polite folks served up massive (unlimited) quantities of wine, spirits, and cocktails, and celebrity chefs like Bobby Flay, Tom Colicchio, and Emeril Lagasse drew in big crowds to answer questions, kibbitz, make jokes, and yes, even cook? I was...
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"I had gone on my own South Beach Diet, for one evening at least, and came out smelling like a rose, or at the very least like a cheeseburger. " Me with Ollie Kottke Even with me sharing an entire loaf of onion confit bread with young Ollie Kottke (son of Meg Hourihan and Jason Kottke) Tuesday lunch I was down two pounds for the week, to 228, on Thursday morning, when I boarded a plane to Miami for the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. My plane arrived on time at 6:30 p.m., and after looking at and rejecting four hotel rooms, I was finally able to settle in, take a shower, and head to the famed Burger Bash....
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You may be aware of the fact that
Jamaica was at one time a British colony, and as a result much of the country grew up enjoying English style afternoon tea. I didn't, and perhaps that bit of knowledge would have made finding a place like the
Pineapple Blossom Tea Room in Miami, Florida much less of a surprise to me than it was.
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Good magazine rounds up a list of the seven most delicious stretches of pavement in the United States. And they're all cheap eats. Making the cut are: Roosevelt Avenue, Queens, New YorkTravis Street, HoustonFremont Avenue North, SeattleBroadway, ChicagoSouthwest 8th Street, MiamiNolensville Road, NashvilleWest Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles Did your favorite eats street get snubbed?...
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If you are in Miami, Florida and looking to eat the "best sandwich," you'd be hard pressed (terrible pun intended) to find something better than a Cubano. Sliced pork, ham, cheese, mustard and pickles, ironed flat inside a French-style Cuban bread—it's a near perfect creation. I say near perfect because you will always find that person from Tampa who insists on salami, but in all my years growing up in Miami, genoa was something you got on an Italian sub, not on a Cuban. Salami or not, it's about as serious as sandwiches get. And yet, this past weekend when I was visiting Miami, I found myself craving a totally different pressed sandwich. A sandwich whose soul is about...
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