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 |  |  | It wouldn't be Christmas Eve on South Beach without Ajax Ent's yearly party featuring all the pretty ladies, Miami party fixtures and everyone in between. Expect a DJ, free cocktails from 10-11pm and very few weather updates on Santa. No cover, 9pm-4am, Dec 24, The Florida Room, 1685 Collins Ave (be... Read More | | |  |  |  | Ta-Zin (427 Jefferson Ave, 305.531.8900) officially opens today. It's a North African restaurant heavy on the belly dancers and whirling dervishes. But thankfully, the food is actually pretty good. We sampled a 5-course menu that included a Moroccan bean soup called Bessara (it perked up nicely wit... Read More | | |  |  |  | Jose D. Duran Downtown Miami voters wait in line to cast their ballots at the voting precinct at Unity on the Bay church. When news outlets cover any given election, most tend to focus on pro-Republican areas such Little Havana, Coral Gables, and far-flung parts of West Miami-Dade, or heavily Demo... Read More | | |  |  |  | Melissa Dazquez is one ballsy Obama-lover. Two days ago, the twenty- three-year-old parked her car across from Versailles Cuban restaurant --Miami’s political equivalent of western Texas -- and took out a “Change ‘08” yard sign. Bracing herself, she turned on her video camera. (Footage is on the w... Read More | | |  |  |  | It's getting serious in Miami. With Democratic challengers Joe Garcia, Raul Martinez and Annette Taddeo closing in on their Republican opponents, the Democratic Party sent out it's biggest gun (next to Barack Obama) to Little Havana to recruit elderly Cuban American voters. House Speaker Nancy Pe... Read More | | |  |  |  | The scuttlebutt--make that spin--on the Michael's Kitchen dissolvement. And I quote: "The Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort and Chef Michael Blum of Michael’s Kitchen have mutually agreed to dissolve their joint partnership. The restaurant will remain open, operating under the name 'Kitche... Read More | | |  |  |  | and we're not talking sauces, either. Mark Militello has closed both Mark's South Beach and his restaurant in CityPlace, cutting his empire in half. Of course, he also effectively cuts his commute in half, too, leaving him the Las Olas-Boca route only. With the way gas prices are these days, maybe t... Read More | | |  |  |  | In the be careful what you Wish for category... exec chef Michael Bloise is now formerly of the restaurant by that name, located in The Hotel. He and Wish parted ways a few weeks ago, after nearly five years. I just ran into this easygoing guy, a 1998 grad of Johnson and Wales, while helping to judg... Read More | | |  |  |  | I've been hearing some fabulously juicy rumors about why chef Michael Blum is no longer at the helm of his eponymous Kitchen in the Newport Beachside Hotel & Resort. Hot on the heels of the New Times Broward/Palm Beach expose about his erstwhile Hollywood restaurant of the same name, detailing h... Read More | | |  |  |  | Despite repeated requests to tell all, I've been mum on the subject of my great friend, chef Willis Loughhead, ex-Bizcaya in the Ritz-Carlton, Coconut Grove and ex-Tantra, who moved to NYC a few years ago to help launch The Modern in the MOMA--which won two James Beard Awards its first year. He had ... Read More | | | | |
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