It’s already the New Year and the holiday season is almost over. Which means, you’ve only got one day left, today, to do something with that half-jug of eggnog lingering near the back of the fridge before it either curdles or turns into another sad reminder of your post-Christmas ineffectiveness…
If ushering in the year were a sport, champagne* would be the beverage of champions and we’d dump a huge cooler full of it onto Father Time’s head at the stroke of midnight. It’s bubbly, makes a wonderful, pee-on-yourself-scary sound when you open it, and is the hands-down only answer…
New Year’s Eve is not only a full moon but also a blue moon. A blue moon is an extra-full moon. We had one December 2, and that occurs only once every few years from the accumulation of the calendar year’s excess days against the lunar cycle.The Ritz-Carlton South Beach will host a…
It’s noche buena. Many of us are getting ready for lechon, family and good times. And what best than a good brew to go along with it as an alternative to the customary wine? Here are six winter beers you can enjoy tonight. We found these at Sunset Corners (8701…
Two Saturdays ago, a beer bar with a no-bullshit name opened up in the shadow of the Shops at Sunset. From its trio of giant booze fridges, Cervezas (5835 Sunset Dr., South Miami) serves up an international selection of bottled brews, including Canada’s Labatt Blue, China’s Tsing Tao, and Britain’s…
No competitive cognac introduced to the market in the past 50 years? That’s Ludacris.A new cognac to dip cigars in? That’s Ludacris.Conjure Cognac? That’s Ludacris.If you haven’t heard yet, actor/musician and Grammy-winning, more-than-20-million-album-selling Chris “Ludacris” Bridges has partnered with Norwegian-owned Birkedal Hartmann to produce Conjure Cognac. The stateside product launch is in…
Beer good. Local better.We started telling you about Fresh Beer Inc. yesterday. They are a local marketing, and wholesale distribution company specializing in craft beer in the tri-county area.Craft beer is a term for limited production, high quality beer, also known as microbrew.Florida law prohibits a manufacturer from selling directly…
OpenTable has released its 2009 Diners’ Choice Awards for Restaurants with the Most Vibrant Bar Scene. Our congratulations go to Miami’s very own, um….gee, that’s surprising. Hmm…well, who cares that we didn’t make the stinking list. We’re not bitter, and indeed offer our heartfelt congrats to Bootsy’s in Cincinnati, and…
Fresh Beer Inc. is the South Florida grassroots marketing, sales, and distribution company that is helping craft beer stake its rightful claim on our bar and restaurant menus and store shelves. More on them soon.For now, learn more the easy way: Eat and drink your way to a better understanding…
Last night, members of Miami’s own Chef’s Club got together over food and drink on the rooftop lounge of the Catalina Hotel’s Kung Fu Kitchen and Sushi on South Beach to network, knock a few back, crack jokes, and make the South Florida scene a stronger, more unified movement.Give thanks for local…
People have been getting drunk for centuries, hell, thousands of years. American craft brewers Dogfish Head are putting on an Ancient Ales beer dinner at Pacific Time on December 17, and get this, the beers are modern formulations of ancient recipes whose ingredients are determined by Dr. Patrick McGovern of…
Nothing says luxury like dinner in bed at B.E.D. on South Beach while a skirtless Sarah Palin look-alike circles the room, a sex kitten in a bodysuit purrs and crawls across the sheets while a mistress whips her, and contortionists, fire acts, and dramatists perform for your viewing pleasure.Sound like…
Some people like weed with their vodka. They usually end up stupefied on the couch at the party staring at the wall and mumbling to themselves.Other people like herb with their vodka, for them, there’s Sonnema, a vodka with natural herb flavors added. Last week and over the weekend at…
Only a half-minute’s drunken stumble from the touristy bummerfest of CocoWalk, there remains a relic of the old Grove. It’s called Barracuda’s. Long an after-dark hideout where shrimpers, college kids, aging college kids, and dropouts of all kinds could play a few free games of bar pool and pound cheap, mass-produced American…
Purvis Young is a self taught artist born in Liberty City in 1943 whose work started on the streets of Overtown with found objects and reject paint. His works now hang in the best museums in the world and his studio is right here in Wynwood.Saturday night at Purvis Young’s…
Leblon Cachaca sponsored last night’s drinks for the “Blue Print For Space” exhibit opening at Art Center South Florida (800 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach). The exhibition features work by street and graffiti artists and is affiliated with the Primary Flight project, the world’s largest site-specific street level mural installation.Cachaca is…
Downtown Miami is a special place, especially because zoning laws allow for 24 hour liquor licensing. Damn right. Art Basel 2009 Miami brings with it a week of satellite fairs, many of them concentrated where most of the Design District and Wynwood galleries and Northern Downtown event spaces are, and…
Michy’s (6927 Biscayne Blvd., Miami) is presenting a distinctively different wine tasting. For one thing, it will be held on a Saturday afternoon (December 12, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.). And instead of pairing the dozen sampling wines with foods, they will be matched according to the following format:Flight 1: match…
Arturo Sighinolfi is the Director of Mixology and Spirits Education for Southern Wine and Spirits of Florida. From 1996 to 2003 he tended bar at the Hotel Astor in South Beach, during which time he was selected as Miami New Times Best Bartender of 1998. Part of Arturo’s job is…
Forget Viagra and Tamiflu, the only reliable way to shake off your erectile dysfunction and H1N1 woes is a sweet, dark shot of that ancient alcoholic cure — mamajuana. So, poor sufferer, head to local outpost Mamajuana Café (225 Altara Ave., Coral Gables) where you can get your dose of…
Seems like every year there’s a new Thanksgiving phenomenon about how to cook your turkey. From deep fried, to smoked, grilled, boiled, flambeed, and wokked out, it feels like we’ve heard it all.Well this year it’s brined. Brined turkey this, brine soak your turkey that, but what the hell is…
Chicago’s got the smokehouse turkey stuffed with hot dogs.Los Angeles turkeys get botox in their gobblers, and surgical breast enhancement.Arizona turkeys get left to cook by solar power on the sidewalk.So what is the signature Miami turkey? Here’s how to make one yourself.Find a Dade County farmer with pigs and…
