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Miami Herald
7 days ago
- Business
- Miami Herald
He started the Asian restaurant KYU in Miami. Now he has a new spot in Fort Lauderdale
An Asian barbecue restaurant from Asheville is now open in South Florida — and it's got a familiar Miami force behind it. Ukiah Japanese Smokehouse is now open in downtown Fort Lauderdale, located on the city's riverfront not far from The Wharf. The menu, much of which relies on a large, wood-fired smoker, was created by a chef/owner well-known to Miami diners: Michael Lewis, the former global executive chef at Zuma in Brickell who opened the famous Asian restaurant KYU in Wynwood in 2016. Lewis has teamed up with restaurateurs Lizzy Maynes and former KYU general manager Steven Haigh, both with the Scotch & Bacon Group, and Michael Sponaugle from Buya Restaurants for the new restaurant. Lewis and Haigh were bought out at KYU by their original partners in 2020. The first Ukiah, which opened in North Carolina in 2021, was created as a neighborhood restaurant, Lewis said, which made the choice to open in Fort Lauderdale a natural one. 'After opening in Asheville, it was clear that community was core to our brand, and as much as we love our other stomping grounds of Brickell and Wynwood, there is something about the relaxed riverfront living of Fort Lauderdale that just felt right,' he said. 'I see a ton of potential, a ton of growth and change in this neighborhood.' There was one other small factor involved: 'Lizzy has lived here for 17 years and would kill me if our next spot wasn't in Fort Lauderdale,' Lewis joked. The restaurant spreads across 4,000 square feet with indoor and outdoor dining for more than 150 diners, with a central bar and semi-private spaces for events. The menu leans into deep smoky flavors from its signature dishes like brisket and pastrami short rib, served with toasted rye, fire-roasted kimchi and yuzu pickles. You'll also find a raw bar and street food items on the menu, like yakitori, gyoza and ramen as well as lighter vegetable dishes. Some of the popular items include crispy rock shrimp with chili butter and gorgonzola; hamachi with white ponzu serrano pepper and herbs; beech mushroom tempura with Tokyo ranch and onion ash; pork belly tonkotsu ramen; red snapper with white ponzu, grilled lemon and sea salt; and Japanese sweet potato with miso butter, brown sugar, parmesan and salt. There's a bar menu, too, which will specialize in sake, shochu and Japanese whisky. You'll also find cocktails like So Fresh and So Green, with gin, shiso, green peas, lemon, ginger syrup and a scallion tincture, and Purple Rain, with purple shiso-ube infused sake, orange Curacao, lemon and egg whites. Ukiah Japanese Smokehouse opens at a time when the Fort Lauderdale culinary culture is gaining attention. With the arrival of the international Michelin Guide rating restaurants in the city, the rise in downtown residential development and the $1.2 billion renovation of the Broward County Convention Center, the city is growing — and so presumably is its restaurant scene. Lewis, who was nominated for a James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant with KYU, said he felt that the restaurant landscape was 'taking off.' 'There is a growing young professional crowd here, and so much new and business infrastructure coming in that creates a need for evolving palates,' he said. 'This, plus a strong local community that is embracing new talent and flavors from homegrown concepts like Heritage [from Chef Rino Cerbone] and The Katherine [from Chef Timon Balloo] that offer a humbleness that I think people are craving more and more.' He's not sure if Fort Lauderdale will match the culinary madness of Miami — 'anything is possible,' he admits — but he's happy to have staked a claim in Broward County. 'As high rents push talented new chefs out of the Miami market, Fort Lauderdale is an amazing place to call home,' he said. Ukiah Japanese Smokehouse Where: 221 SW First Ave., Fort Lauderdale Hours: 4-11 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Thursday; 4-midnight Friday; noon-midnight Saturday; 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday; closed Tuesday More information:
Time of India
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
What did Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce had on their Florida dinner date, and how much did it cost?
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on a dinner date in Florida/ Image file, Instagram Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce recently enjoyed a luxurious dinner date at Harry's restaurant in West Palm Beach, Florida, reportedly spending around $400 on an indulgent meal. The couple, who have been dating since summer 2023, were spotted arriving around 10 p.m. , accompanied by security. The sighting was first reported by Jose Andres Cortes, a professional MMA fighter, along with another eyewitness. Both shared photos and videos of the couple cozied up in a booth, enjoying their evening out Taylor looked elegant in a floral off-the-shoulder dress cinched with a metallic belt, her blonde hair styled in a loose low bun. Travis sported a black-and-white zebra-pattern shirt paired with white pants and a baseball cap, exuding a relaxed but stylish vibe. The couple started their evening with signature cocktails. Taylor enjoyed the Malena, made with Wheatley craft vodka, passion fruit, and organic vanilla, shaken and topped with bubbles. Travis chose the Purple Rain, a mix of Hendrick's Oasium gin, green tea, crème de violette, and citrus, also shaken and topped with bubbles. TMZ reported these drinks as their preferred starters. For dinner, they ordered a rich and varied spread featuring an endive salad, cacio e pepe pasta, lobster risotto, Dover sole, a dry-aged burger, wagyu filet mignon, sautéed garlic broccolini, and potato purée. According to TMZ sources, Taylor focused on the Dover sole and nibbled on the lobster risotto, while Travis indulged heavily in the wagyu filet, dry-aged burger, and pasta, likely preparing for the upcoming NFL season. They shared the other dishes between them. Their meal reportedly cost nearly $400, with security handling the bill at the end of the night. The couple appeared relaxed and cozy, seated together in a booth, enjoying their night out after months of low public visibility. Since wrapping up her two-year Eras Tour, Taylor has been keeping a lower profile, mostly spending time at Travis's $20 million Florida mansion in Boca Raton. The lavish six-bedroom, seven-bathroom rental includes amenities like a pool with a waterfall, private dock, bar, and home theater. Travis is currently in the NFL offseason but is expected to return to training camp soon. This dinner marks a return to public outings for the pair, who also celebrated Mother's Day together and have been frequently seen enjoying quiet moments in Florida. Their shared love for good food and quality time suggests many more such evenings ahead as they navigate Travis's offseason and Taylor's downtime. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Barry Keoghan Says Working With The Weeknd Will Help Him Portray Ringo Starr in Beatles Biopic (Exclusive)
It's not every day that you get the chance to work with a legendary musician, and when the opportunity arises, you grab it. At least that's what Barry Keoghan, Jenna Ortega and director Trey Edward Shults thought when they were approached about working with The Weeknd (who is credited by his real name, Abel Tesfaye) on his upcoming music-forward film Hurry Up Tomorrow. The film, which hits theaters on May 16, is semi-autobiographical and features music from The Weeknd's latest album, also titled Hurry Up Tomorrow, but it's not exactly a visual album. "I knew this was going to be an experience and a unique movie," Keoghan tells Parade ahead of the movie's release. "I wanted to be part of Abel's vision, and I'm a massive fan of Trey and a massive fan of Jenna. It's a no-brainer when you see that on a page, and I'm up for this sort of challenge of it all." Hurry Up Tomorrow is certainly a singular project. Tesfaye plays a fictional musician who goes by Abel/The Weeknd as his fame drives him into madness, with Ortega playing a mysterious woman he crosses paths with and Keoghan as a calming force on Abel/The Weeknd's management team. It's not a biopic, not a music video, not a drama and not a documentary, but some melding of them all. Tesfaye and Shults cite a bevy of inspiration for the project, including musician-forward projects like Prince's Purple Rain and Pink Floyd's The Wall, as well as traditional films like Raging Bull, Persona and Jacob's Ladder. 🎬 SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox 🎬 Interestingly enough, Tesfaye dreamt up the idea for Hurry Up Tomorrow, the movie, before putting together his album of the same name. He didn't even write most of the movie's/album's music until after filming had wrapped. "I was in a unique position where I was able to score to picture and write music to picture," he says about the process. "It was maybe two records that were actually complete [before filming], and then the final song, which I had to write the day before I performed it. So those were the only couple songs that were done. After that, I got to write lyrics that bring scenes out, and some scenes that didn't make the film, I got to turn into songs." Writing a song the night before you film an entire scene based around it certainly seems nerve-wracking. "I blacked out that week," Tesfaye says. "Definitely a lot of pressure, but look, writing and performing a song, it's a very vulnerable moment." Related: Tesfaye's decision to create Hurry Up Tomorrow makes a lot more sense after realizing that the Super Bowl Halftime performer is also quite the cinephile. In fact, he hand-selected his collaborators based on their previous work. "Abel wanted to meet," Shults says, beginning the story of how he joined the project. "Huge fan," Tesfaye interrupts. It was Shults' film Waves that inspired him to reach out. "I could tell he was a genuine huge fan, too," Shults remembers of their first meeting. "We basically connected over an idea, and honestly, I was in a little bit of a rut after Waves. I was kind of depressed and not excited about movies, and that's why it's been a minute. Then I started getting inspiration again, but the the first time I got the full light bulb, excited inspiration with writing and a project was this. After our meeting, we ran with that momentum. We met in October, I wrote the outline with Abel in November, there was a draft by December, and we were shooting in February." But Shults wasn't the only member of the team Tesfaye courted. "I was a huge fan of Sacred Deer," Tesfaye says regarding Keoghan's film The Killing of a Sacred Deer. Such a fan that Tesfaye went up to Keoghan at a party and introduced himself well before Hurry Up Tomorrow was in the works. "I always knew you were gonna play [the part] if you would accept the role." For Ortega, who was coming off the success of Wednesday, the atmosphere that Shults and Tesfaye fostered on the Hurry Up Tomorrow set appealed to her. "I was kind of unsure what to do," she says about selecting projects after Wednesday. "I swear my career was almost like night and day. It all just opened up. So I was taking meetings, and Trey and Abel are such incredibly kind, warm, just comfortable people to be around, and are such cinephiles and fans of movie themselves. It instantly was apparent to me that this was a team that I wanted to be associated just felt like a very collaborative space, so that's why I joined." Related: While one may think that working with someone as famous as The Weeknd, and someone without much acting experience to boot, could be difficult, Keoghan describes the shoot as "comfy." Ortega echoes that sentiment: "It felt very relaxed in the best way possible." Keoghan also compared working on Hurry Up Tomorrow to working on "student movies where everyone's just there to get it, and everyone's on the same page." Collaborating so closely with Tesfaye also gave Keoghan the opportunity to witness a massive superstar on an intimate level. Keoghan was recently cast to play Ringo Starr of The Beatles in an upcoming biopic, and when asked if he'll be channeling any of his experience with The Weeknd into his Ringo performance, he responded in the affirmative. "Yeah, I know Abel as Abel, and that's sort of a different thing. I can really separate the two. And for me, this movie even puts Abel in a different place that I think I've never seen Abel," says Keoghan of his time with Tesfaye. "It's sort of like we're seeing a new person. I'm always curious and observant, and I take in what I can." Hurry Up Tomorrow premieres in theaters on May 16.
The Irish Sun
21-05-2025
- The Irish Sun
Richard Satchwell offered Tina's cousin ‘chest freezer' in ‘strange' exchange after wife's disappearance, court told
TINA Satchwell's cousin told the Central Criminal Court that she thought it was 'very strange' when Richard Satchwell offered her a chest freezer because he 'wasn't the kind to give stuff away'. Sarah Howard also told the jury she had 'never' seen Tina violent towards her husband. 2 Sarah Howard told the jury she had 'never' seen Tina violent towards her husband Credit: Handout She told the jury: 'She was kind-hearted. A loving family person. She loved animals, she was bubbly. She was fun, outgoing, she loved her fashion. She was just a lovely person.' Prosecutor Gerardine Small SC went through a number of text messages between Satchwell and Ms Howard in the months after Tina disappeared. In a message sent on March 30, 2017 - 10 days after Richard said Tina had left the marital home in Youghal - he sent a text message saying: 'Sarah, do you want our chest freezer. Richard.' Asked by Ms Small, did she respond to that, she replied: 'No.' Read more in News Ms Howard added: 'I found it unusual. He wouldn't be the kind to give stuff away. I thought it was very strange 'We were at a car boot sale once. I had my two children with me, Richard and Tina had a stall. Tina was off buying stuff and Richard was at the stall. The children picked up nail varnish and a CD and he charged them 50c each. 'So when he offered that I thought it was unusual.' The Most read in Irish News He then put her body in a chest freezer for a few days, before removing it, wrapping it in black, plastic sheeting and burying it in a grave he had dug under their stairs. In another text sent on April 30, 2017, Satchwell said: 'Sarah, I've won two tickets to Purple Rain at the NOT GUILTY PLEA Asked by Ms Small did she reply to that, Ms Howard said: 'I did not.' Satchwell, 58, has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife Tina, 45, at their home on Grattan Street, Youghal, Co Cork some time between March 19 and 20, 2017. The trial has heard that on March 24, 2017, Satchwell told gardai that his wife Tina had left their home four days earlier but that he had no concerns over her welfare, feeling she had left due to a deterioration in their relationship. He formally reported her missing the following May but her body was not discovered for over six years, when gardai conducted 'an invasive search' of the Satchwell home in October 2023 and found her decomposed remains. 'COMPLETE MYSTERY' The jury was also shown today a clip of an interview Ms Howard gave to Prime Time on In the video, she says: 'It's a complete mystery. It's tearing us apart where she is. Every day when you have missed calls on the phone, you're checking the papers for news but nothing. 'There's loads of different thoughts in my head. We don't know what happened, we don't have the answers. Nobody can disappear without anyone knowing, someone has to know something.' The witness said she had always been very close to Tina but after she moved to Youghal in May, 2016 she didn't see her as much. 'WAS IN GREAT FORM' She said the last time she saw her was in Ms Howard's house in Ballyporeen just before She said: 'She was in great form, really happy. She stayed for a while, the dogs were with her.' Ms Howard said she heard Tina was missing on March 26, 2017 when she called to her mother's house. She told the jury: 'I rang her phone straight away. When she didn't answer I rang Richard's phone. 'VERY UNUSUAL' 'I asked him where she was and questioned him why dogs weren't with her. It was very unusual that the dogs were there and I asked him what had happened. 'He said they had an argument and she had left him. He said she had thrown a cup at him. 'He said she took a sum of money and he found her keys on the floor when he came back. She had sent him on an errand to Dungarvan.' Asked by Ms Small if he said anything else was gone, and she replied: 'Suitcases.' TEXT MESSAGES She added: 'They had been at a car boot sale on the Sunday. He said that she made a comment that she had wasted 28 years of her life with him but we had never heard that before.' Ms Small asked her in relation to the violence, he told you she had thrown cups at him and if she had heard that before. Ms Howard replied: 'Never.' Counsel then went through a series of text messages, which have already been opened to the court, exchanged between the pair between March and July 2017. 'I FEEL I LET HER DOWN' Satchwell repeated to Ms Howard that there was no news regarding Tina. In one sent on June 27, 2017 the accused said to her: 'I know Tina is your family. I'm not your family. She is only my wife. She is my life, she is my everything. I feel I let her down in some way.' Asked by Ms Small, if she ever witnessed her being violent or aggressive, Ms Howard again said: 'Never.' In cross-examination by Brendan Grehan SC, for Satchwell, how old she was when Richard and Tina met, she said: 'Very young, two I think.' 'DEVOTED' She said her first memory of Richard was when she was about five and six. She said she didn't recall them getting married. Ms Howard said the couple had been in her house but she had never been in hers. She agreed that he appeared to be 'devoted' to her and he was 'always with her when she was down.' She agreed that Tina was close to her grandmother, who had raised her and who has since passed. PROSECUTION FINISHES EVIDENCE Ms Howard said she was aware Tina had a falling out with her biological mother. Asked by Mr Grehan if Tina had resented her because she had given her up, the witness said: 'I can't say.' The prosecution have now finished their evidence in the case. The trial continues before Mr Justice Paul McDermott and a jury of seven men and five women. 2 Richard Satchwell has pleaded not guilty to the murder of his wife Tina Credit: John Delea - The Sun Dublin
Hindustan Times
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
You're the best': Clay Walker wows fans at Texas' Pasadena Strawberry Festival
Clay Walker, Houston's country music pride who went on to dominate the genre in the 90s, was both a fresh relief and a terrific performer for those who attended the Pasadena Strawberry Festival in Texas on May 16. Delivering a power-packed performance reminiscent of his big star-aura, the singer soothed the audience with hit tracks such as 'Live Until I Die', 'This Woman and This Man', 'If I Could Make a Living' and 'Dreaming With My Eyes Open'. Though much advanced in age and changed by face, Walker's voice still held the same power it did decades ago in capturing the hearts and applause of a live audience. Fans were up in praises for the 55-year-old singer's performance, with many appreciating his presence on stage after a long absence. One user wrote, 'Haven't seen Clay in a long time got a little older but sounds like he still has his voice, keep it going' while another remarked 'Of Course he did because he is the Best! Seen him so many times and he never disappoints! My favorite for years now! Love me some Clay Walker!' Walker also delighted his audience by performing a cover of Prince's song 'Purple Rain' which one user appreciated by writing, 'So Good!! And he sang Purple Rain!!!' The performance was quite nostalgic for many as someone commented, 'Crazy. I remember going to some of his very first concerts. White wranglers were the style then....' Clay Walker garnered a lot of excitement and wishes on his Facebook post following the performance which read, 'Couldn't be more thankful to spend my weekends with y'all. #countrymusic #country #singersongwriter #ontour' along with images from the show. Users poured love in the comment section by writing things like, 'I'm so glad we get a chance to spend the weekends with you too. Love you music and your shows are always awesome. You're the best country artist and you have the best band.' The Pasadena Strawberry Festival is an annual four-day event held on the third weekend in May to celebrate the rich strawberry-farming history of the area and support non-profits and students in raising scholarships to support their education.
