locavore

a massive basket of fresh Homestead grown fruits and vegetables was gifted to us by the Ocean Reef Farmer's Market and it was our favorite gift of the holiday season, so we promptly took the challenge of what to do with like twenty pounds of locally grown greenness. 

Product A: Pine Nut Cous Cous with Ratatouille of Eggplant, Tomato, Squash, and Zucchini. 

Also, how great are those mini-bananas I tried to get J.Azze to take a picture of me pretending I was the Virgin Mary with a crown of mini bananas but he just laughed at me and told me to go away. All in a hard days work. Also, Also, if someone started a line of edible fruit and vegetable accessories I'd be the first to invest. You hear that Miss Pepper? 

big news. new essie.

nails are tre importante in this vain city of ours, but lets face it, no one wants to look like a sucia. So, thanks Essie, for providing a new palette of Miami appropriate shades.

image via fashionista.com

we'll share the shelter of my single bed

we think Bob Marley would have really liked this hanging human nest.

image via art & lair

a dope leather jacket would be clutch right now

image via stylebykling

is your Miami wardrobe challenged with this weather? 

or are you just staying in, having churros y chocolate and pretending it's actually cold outside? 

three things to wear this weekend from Scarlett Boutique

wear this to the Beaux Art's Festival of Arts at UM this weekend. 

this bohemian, off the shoulders, semi-transparent number feels so modern and chic on. 

wear it to dinner at the Soho Beach House.

these wide leg drawstring pants are so chic that even though you feel like you're wearing tiny crotched pajamas, you can wear them out to just about anywhere here, from the boat (yes fellow Miamians, this cold weather will pass) or to just about anywhere. 

scarlett boutique 

8267 south dixie highway

a. valls wrote about Scarlett Boutique a while back. 

check it out here. 

oye, there's a party tonight and you're invited

our friends at oye are inviting you over. 

see you there. 

shark week every week at th

memories of the trippy planetarium from your childhood (wait, maybe those aren't from your childhood, it's just a blurry memory of that laser-light Led Zepplin night) or the petting-zoo at the Miami Science Museum on that fourth grade field trip are embedded in every kid who grew-up in the area. 

The Miami Science Museum, a staple on a drive to the Key and part of the Vizcaya grounds, is relocating to the downtown Museum Park. Today, a ten million dollar grant with gifted to the Miami Science Museum by the seemingly endless pockets of the Knight Foundation- so the kids of the future will have field trips to a brand new, really ridiculously high tech 250,000 square foot facility. Alright, science! 

If you are positively giddy about the new museum or you've never experienced the utter weirdness of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Pink Floyd (Echos and Dark Side of the Moon), Beastie Boys, Radiohead or Bob Marley set to lasers in the planetarium this is your big weekend! Enjoy laser weekend on Friday and Saturday nights for only $8 per show, cheaper than a movie! 

images via grimshaw-architects

middle east market, market series

for all the Cuban-Lebanese out there, or just hummus lovers, this place may not have the most creative name of all time, but it certainly calls it like it is. At Middle East Market, in the Tony Roma shopping center on 66th and US1, you can find just about anything you need for a middle eastern feast from labneh, tablouleh, and dates to henna hair dye.

Don't feel like cooking/ have no idea how the heck you even get started making food out of grape leaves or pickled yogurt? Pick up some prepared foods or even a quick falafel wrap for lunch.

 6623 S Dixie Highway

AND, FYI this is the first of our market series. 

We're exploring ethnic markets all over the city.

If you have a tip for us, as always, editormiaminice@gmail.com.

carry on crocodile

lately, nothing really makes me say "want" like a dead animal accessory.
My crocodile obsession carries on with this carry-on.

nancy gonzalez custom travel bag

image via modaoperandi.com 

coco frio or guarapo

this is just a little lead-in for a photo-series we have coming up of street vendors. 

vegetables, coco frio, guarapo, stone crabs, snow cones. 

image via T

three things to do tomorrow night (and one tonight)

not your standard bingo 

shake at the vagabond

and here's where we'll be. chalk ping pong & billiards lounge opening. 

free booze. 

free ping pong. 

and they sent us a bribe. we're in. 

down moves to purdy lounge

cafe abbracci

cafe Abbracci is only twenty years old, but by Miami standards, that's like ancient history. Not a lick has really changed inside the stained glass bar or the dining room and the food has always remained delicious.

It appears that everyone at Abbracci orders "the usual," that the waiters remember how everyone looked when everything looked better, in the 80's- except the Abbracci dining room that it- because it looks exactly the same.

Order the tartars, any of the pasta dishes or the seafood stew for a meal that'll make you a regular as well.

318 Aragon Ave

Coral Gables 

(right down the street from Books & Books)

best drive-thru in town

maybe after Palacio de los Jugos. 

Also, to be fair, the only other drive-thru in the Grove is the Mc Donald's on Mc Donald Street. 

now, this is what I call news

thanks lizanne. 

swine & wine at the biltmore

the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, kind of feels like Basel to me, far away even though its so close and not really meant for "real" people.

But this year we cracked the Basel code a bit, which, by the way, is mostly was just get off the couch and go.

But there's one big difference, Basel is pretty much full of people who look like they don't eat and SOBEWFF is ALL about eating. February 23-26 is a ways off, but it's never to early to get excited for pork. If there's one event that we're pegging as an inclusive Miami-friendly eating session, it's all about pork, has some really big names attached (like Debbie Mazar (the loud and vulgar Shauna from Entourage) and her hunky Italian husband (who have a show on the Cooking Channel, molto precisoso... not sure if that's real Italian))- and it's at The Biltmore.

From pan con lechon to Tuscan porchetta sandwiches, this is one pig filled party. Tickets at $150.

image via here

just another hernandez

tommy ton for proenza 

more proenza here, here, and here