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A Food, Film & Art Ménage à Trois

Posted on November 7, 2012 by | Leave a comment

The Harry’s Pizzeria and O Cinema love affair – OMG! Dinner & a Movie – that many of you have come to enjoy, has been going strong now for over a year.  And since we’re feeling French this month, we’ve added a third party to the affair! Please welcome Locust Projects to the party for their Art, Film & Food Series.

First, Thursday, November 16th at 6:30pm: Art, Film & Food

The highly anticipated documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters will have its premiere, followed by a brief discussion of Crewdson’s work by local Miami collectors. Tickets here.  Here’s the menu by Harry’s Pizzeria chef de cuisine Manny Sulbaran:
Pear & Watercress Salad
Mushroom-Spinach Cannelloni
Short Rib Cannelloni
Hedy’s Seasonal Bread Pudding

Then, Monday, Nov 19th at 7pm: OMG! Dinner & a Movie.

Step Up to the Plate, filmed in the South of France,  documents renowned chef Michel Bras through a father to son chef transition in their world of haute cuisine. Tickets here.  And another inspired menu by chef Manny Sulbaran, Viva la France!

Lyonnaise salad. Frisse, bacon bits, hard boiled egg & Dijon vinaigrette
Roasted Ratatouille. Local eggplant, tomato, zucchini, onion, red peppers & herbs
Pommes de terre roties. New Florida potatoes, parley & garlic  butter.
Boeuf Bourguignon. Burgundy wine, Pearl onion & mushrooms
Pain d’épices aux pommes rôties. Gingerbread with roasted apples + caramel and Hazelnut Palmiers

Lastly, a quick congratulatory note to our longtime partners at O Cinema. If you haven’t heard yet, take a moment to check out their website.  It’s got a great new look, thanks to a great new addition to their family: O Cinema Miami Shores @ MTC!  Fist bump on the expansion, Kareem and Vivian!  Love that South Florida has yet another venue to enjoy special and previously-hard-to-find films.  What would we do without you guys?  : )

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Imposters Wanted: Harry’s September OMG! Dinner & a Movie with O Cinema

Posted on August 28, 2012 by | 2 Comments

Cheers!

Our evening of food and film continues with O Cinema on September 10 at 7:00 p.m. for THE IMPOSTER, winner of the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Miami International Film Festival and nominee for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.  Tickets are now live through Harry’s FUN page.

From 6 to 7:00, there will be a pre-reception in the O Cinema courtyard, featuring a beer and wine cash bar, and of course music! Doors will open promptly at 7:00 and dinner will be served immediately, buffet-style with the film screening to follow shortly after.

Chef Manny Sulbaran is taking to heart, al cuore, Harry’s recent mention as one of America’s best Italian restaurants on TravelandLeisure.com, with an all new menu:

INSALATA DI SCAROLA  Escarole Salad
ANTIPASTO DI TONNO E VERDURE Tuna and pickled vegetable antipasto
PASTICCIO DI MELANZANE Short rib, eggplant and bucatini gratin (also a vegetarian version without short rib)
CASSERUOLA DI FAGIOLINI Green bean casserole
DESSERT & SWEET SNACK BY PASTRY CHEF HEDY GOLDSMITH
Lemon Lucini Olive Oil Cake rosemary + balsamic cherries
Orange, Hazelnut + Sambuca Biscotti

A gripping thriller straight out of real life, THE IMPOSTER is an original film experience that walks the razor’s edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery.

It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn’t the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It’s only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.

Like his canny subject, gifted filmmaker Bart Layton pulls off an astonishing coup. Buoyed by eye-catching dramatizations and an enthralling structure that crisscrosses time and place, The Imposterunfolds as a gripping thriller that leaves us dizzy, yet certain that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.

See you there!

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What’s Brewing in the Kitchen: Beer-Simmered Bratwurst & Beer Mustard

Posted on August 8, 2012 by | Leave a comment

House made bratwurst ready for a swim in a pot of simmering beer broth (photo by Bradley Herron)

Chef de cuisine Bradley Herron has been busy cooking up a beer-soaked menu of snacks for a night of brews, food and film at O, Cinema on August 14 with Back Forty Beer Company. The occasion is a momentous one of course, as Michael’s Genuine Home Brew is introduced, and thus calls for its equal in food.  For Brad, this meant bratwurst, a house made sausage of pork, veal, garlic and onion.

Bratwurst dates back to before the fourteenth century, most likely originating in Thuringia in Germany. These days at MGFD though,  Brad is having fun cooking up the sausage in his favorite way. Or, as he explains it, “Cooking bratwurst in beer is just awesome”. The bratwursts are cooked in a large pot of broth with onions, beer, salt, bay leaves and thyme.

But bratwurst is always best with the cut of mustard to get through that savory, unctuous meat in tube form.  Brad’s brand of mustard, which we familiarized ourselves with best next to meat in tube form at Cochon 555 competition in Miami, is killer already but this time he’s adding beer, too.  Gilding the proverbial lily in the most pedestrian of ways.  For now its Pabst, a natural from the restaurant’s beverage inventory.  Later, perhaps Home Brew.  Mustard could easily be  made solely with stoneground mustard seeds and water. However, the liquid element can vary, with either wine, grape must or beer. At MGFD, the house made mustard is prepared with a mixture of mustard seeds, mustard powder, vinegar, sugar and beer.

So, take a bite of that beer-simmered bratwurst, with a hint of the beer mustard, and wash it all down with — you guessed it — your favorite beer.  If you’re at next week’s event, it will be from Back Forty’s portfolio, which now includes Home Brew.

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