South Florida Food and Wine

Dinner and Drinks at Serendipity 3 Miami

Editor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:55:02 PST

Serendipity is one of those words hard to explain off the top of your head even if you know what it means. I Googled the phrase “define serendipity” and the best and easiest explanation is this: “The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. Used in a sentence: “a [...]

PALO! to perform at Bottega Wine Bar Coconut Creek Saturday night 1/28/12

Editor — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:45:57 PST

PALO! is a music group that plays a style of very danceable self-dubbed “Afro-Cuban Funk”. PALO! is a favorite among South Florida’s live music devotees with its loyal following from Palm Beach to Key West. PALO’s appeal lies in their unrivaled musical energy, catchy original songs, and remarkable display of impromptu virtuosity. A mix of [...]

Food & Wine Vacations in Italy

Editor — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:09:49 PST

An opportunity has come up for me to tour some of the magnificent wine regions in Italy; thus a passport check is in order amongst other things. While I haven’t exactly purchased my airline ticket yet this prospect got me to thinking about “culinary” vacations abroad; and I don’t mean to just take a trip [...]

Ticket winners to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival

Editor — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:45:24 PST

Readers, Tweeters, Facebookers and Followers of SouthFloridaFoodandWine.com have been submitting their craziest South Beach Wine & Food Festival stories or lack of to win tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. All the qualified submissions have be entered into a random drawing. There are four (4) winners; each will receive two (2) tickets [...]

Tenuta dell’Ornellaia Wine Dinner at The Setai South Beach

Editor — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:32:53 PST

The Setai South Beach begins its 2012 monthly Wine Dinner Series with January’s wine dinner featuring Tenuta dell’Ornellaia one of the original Super Tuscan wines from the coastal vineyards of Bolgheri. The wine dinner will be held on Thursday, January 26 at 8pm. From the beginning the renowned Antinori family’s mission was to produce outstanding [...]

ABSOLUT MIAMI vodka

Editor — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 05:28:32 PST

ABSOLUT has created yet another new city-inspired vodka; this time around our very own Miami has been proofed and bottled; ABSOLUT MIAMI is infused with the flavors and essence of passionfruit and orange blossom. ABSOLUT MIAMI is a part of the limited edition ABSOLUT city-inspired collection. ABSOLUT VODKA celebrated the launch of ABSOLUT MIAMI this past Thursday [...]

Food Lovers’ Guide to Miami & Fort Lauderdale Book Signing at Books & Books Coral Gables

Editor — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:03:58 PST

Books & Books is an independent, locally owned bookstore with three locations in Miami; Coral Gables, Bal Harbour and Miami Beach – plus stores in Grand Cayman, Westhampton Beach, Miami International Airport and the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. On Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 at 8:00 pm Books & Books in Coral Gables is hosting my Miami [...]

A 48 hour South Florida weekend getaway to Delray Beach

Editor — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:53:25 PST

The Delray Beach Marriott was the landing pad this particular 48-hour weekend away. The intimate Mediterranean-style hotel is located on the Gold Coast of Florida midway between Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach and is ideally positioned oceanfront, on the corner of A1A and Atlantic Avenue. This seaside hotel with full scale amenities (spa, room-service, gym, wi-fi, [...]

How to win tickets to South Beach Wine & Food Festival

Editor — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:46:21 PST

Click here to view the winners On December 15 I posted how SouthFloridaFoodandWine.com readers/followers can win tickets to the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. All you have to do is tell us your craziest South Beach Wine & Food Festival story in 100 words or less, (yes you’re going to have to work [...]

48 Hours in New York City (part 1)

Editor — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:02:29 PST

In my post, Birthday Celebrations in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and New York City, I mentioned that sister #2 and myself were taking sister #3 to New York City for her 40th Birthday. (if you read the post you know that we refer to each other in numerical order). We started planning for this trip in [...]