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There aren't any caviar bars in Coral Gables, but Rachel Dominguez is changing that when on January 28 she opens The Dome Bar and Lounge on Miracle Mile in the heart of The City Beautiful. 

Other than The Restaurant in Setai Hotel in Miami Beach, The Dome will be the only caviar bar in Miami-Dade that we know of. 
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The MexZican Gourmet parks in South Miami.

​Chef Ze Carlos Jimenez's The MexZican Gourmet has opened today in South Miami.

The restaurant features an expanded menu of chef Jimenez's authentic Mexican cuisine, using flavors and dishes from his hometown just outside of Mexico City.

Chef Jimenez's "simply authentic" menu will please his food truck devotees with favorites like tacos, tostadas, and quesidillas, but the restaurant allows the chef to expand his horizons to larger, more complicated dishes like Cochinita Pibil (Yucatan style pork with achiote, orange and Mexican herbs), Chamorro (pork shank and chile pasilla with roasted tomato sauce), Huachinango (grilled red snapper with cilantro pesto and nopalitos salad), and Tampiquena con Camarones (thinly sliced and grilled beef tenderlion and shrimp with wild mushroomed wine and chipotle sauce).
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​South Floridians in need of a job can now look to Denny's restaurant and the Rebuild Your Life Project for some hope. Two Denny's locations are holding mass hiring events tomorrow in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

The chain is looking to fill several dozen part-time, full-time and management jobs in 14 of its South Florida locations.
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​​The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Public Affairs is suing Whole Foods in an attempt to "reinstate a former employee with full back wages and benefits after the company allegedly fired the worker for voicing and reporting workplace health concerns regarding a raw sewage spillage at its store in Miami Beach".

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Miami Division, according to a release issued by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Miami New Times covered the story back in 2009, when said whistleblower (we called her Janet) told us how "brown water -- along with chunks of toilet paper -- leaked onto the floor of the cheese and prepared foods sections". Janet took pictures of the mess and sent them to Whole Foods regional offices along with a complaint. In exchange for her dilligence, she was fired by executive marketing coordinator Russ Benblatt for reporting "misleading" information.

That same executive marketing coordinator sent an email to Short Order recently, stating:
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Empty seats last night at Kane, and maybe for good.

​The lights were out at Kane Steakhouse last night. The front door was locked. Through the tinted windows, stools could be seen flipped upside down on the bar.

Earlier in the afternoon, cooks were spotted walking down Washington Avenue wondering what to make of the sudden closing. They told the valet attendant, who attends to La Locanda and the Dining Room as well, that they were sent home without jobs. Rumors were quickly spreading on the block. Some said that Kane is simply closed for a couple of weeks and will return. Others said this is the end.

Update: Vanessa Menkes, senior vice president of communications with the Opium Group, confirmed Kane's closing, issuing the following statement: "Kane Steakhouse has closed. An exciting new concept will be opening in the space very soon."
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Lollipops laced with chicken pox are being shared by moms.

​Some Nashville moms have been offering to sell lollipops that have been licked by children with chicken pox, according to WSMV in Nashville. The thought process is that healthy children who lick these pops will contract the disease and then become immune to it.

The station reported that Wendy Werkit of Nashville offered a "fresh batch of pox in Nashville shipping of suckers, spit and Q-tips available tomorrow 50 dollars via PayPal" through a Facebook page named Find a Pox Party in Your Area. The site has since been taken down.
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Photo by Anais Alexandre

Fat orange orbs await you at the Little Farm.

​Halloween is next Monday, and while some folks are out looking for pumpkins at their local supermarket, others are heading south to the Little Farm in the Redland.

We stopped by the wholesome farm and found an enormous pile of pumpkins atop a haystack. Children were dancing around in costume, while other kids were riding ponies and horses inside the farm's white picket fence.

The pumpkins are sold by weight. The smallest, "pie" pumpkins sell for $5, and the largest, 100-pound pumpkin goes for a whopping $400.

The farm's E.J. McGorty says, "Pumpkins don't grow in South Florida, so no one has them on the vines. And while it's technically the same as buying one from Publix, who can beat the farm-life atmosphere at the Little Farm?"
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Put your dentist on speed dial -- Bachour's bringing it big time.

​We can only imagine the KNR Restaurant Group guys are experiencing pain more excruciating than a cavity since they got a resignation letter from their insanely talented executive pastry chef, Antonio Bachour, this week. (Bachour not only won this year's Best of Miami for Restaurant Dessert, but he was also labeled one of the Top 10 Pastry Chefs in America.)

Probably even more stunned is Andrew Carmellini, who is set to debut The Dutch this winter.
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​Debuting today: a new website where you can find the best Miami has to offer, New Times style.

Voice Places is just getting started. But it offers a multitude of choices for a good time -- from almost 6,000 restaurants to 100 bars and hundreds of retail stores. There are links to 20 years of reviews and "Best of Miami" writeups for joints like Prime One Twelve, Escopazzo, Books & Books, and Nikki Beach.
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Photo by Daniel Treiman

A sample of what the fare at Phuc Yea!, an upcoming modern Vietnamese pop-up restaurant, will look like.

​It's like something out of a Food Network reality drama; at 3 p.m., a daytime eatery flips the 'closed' sign, and three young chefs and restaurateurs frantically transfer paintings from some hidden space to the restaurant's walls. They drape gauzy, makeshift curtains over the windows, strip and re-dress the tables, and drag art installations to the corners of the room. They haul sprouts, rice paper wraps, pork bellies and lemon grass from the back of the walk-in, where they're nestled beside the European cheeses and meats that belong to the daytime eatery. And the dapper semi-celebrity host laughs, "The word popup makes it sound so easy, doesn't it?"

This is a dramatization of what Phuc Yea! (pronounced fook-yay, but who's seriously gonna call it that?) -- a new temporary "restaurant installation," or pop-up restaurant -- will look like. It's coming September 8 for dinner five days a week to the space Crown Bistro (19 SE Second Ave., in the northwest corridor of the Ingraham Building) uses to dole out its gourmet sandwiches to the lunch crowd. The fruit of collaboration among Anièce Meinhold (front of house, sommelier), Cesar Zapata (head chef, formerly of Blue Piano), and Daniel Treiman (chef with New York schooling and experience and Short Order contributor), Phuc Yea! will bring a progressive rendition of southeast Asian cuisine in an experimental dining environment.
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