With summer comes the longing for everything sweet, cold, slushy, icy and — well, let’s admit it — infused with alcohol too. We at Clean Plate Charlie love all those things — there’s just one thing. We’re so over rum runners, pina coladas, and daiquiris. Leave those to the amateur…
We know that the only thing that can tear you away from an eight-hour gaming session with Call of Duty is the call of your rumbling stomach. And it’s just a drain on the ole’ leg muscles to get up and search for your cell in order to phone in…
New Times’ Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers — restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies who make the South Florida food scene what it is. We’ll start with number 30 and lead up to…
When the Pubbelly boys open restaurants, they call them concepts. Their strategies, though, are not about location. It’s not décor. Or cuisine. Or even target crowd. The concept, rather, is Pubbelly. The word describes not food or ambience, but brand. And PB Steak — the latest South Beach restaurant to…
Of all the many, many, many guilty pleasures available to Americans (did we mention there are many?), perhaps none is more widely loved nor more guilty than the Original Glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut. So hot, so moist, so gooey… What were we talking about? Right! Heroes! Heroes are another (less…
All over the Northeast and South, people are preparing for the emergence of 13-year and 17-year cicadas. According to Mother Nature News, these loud but harmless creatures have been living underground since the mid-’90s, lying in wait for the opportunity to fly about and mate like crazy for two months…
Drinking beer in this state a decade ago was a bland affair. Crates of beer-like water shipped in from the flat grainy states of the Midwest dominated shelves and beer coozies alike. When I first sampled a macrobrewed lager at a tender age, I thought to myself, “Who would WANT…
New Times’ Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers — restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies who make the South Florida food scene what it is. We’ll start with number 30 and lead up to…
The pink-and-red gingerbread-looking house on East Commercial Boulevard could have been plucked out of Epcot Center’s German pavilion and dropped in the middle of Fort Lauderdale. Sure Norma and Dieter Dauer sell apple and cherry strudel, poppy-seed cake, and crumb cake out of the pocket-sized house that Hansel and Gretel…
These days, it seems like everybody has his or her day: mothers, fathers, doctors, lawyers, teachers, workers. Everyone deserves some appreciation and all, but what about the person running your entire business? Today is National Administrative Assistants Day. And to show some appreciation local restaurants are giving out the goods…
BC Cafe, the restaurant that shares a caveman and some great tacos with BC Tacos food truck, has opened its doors in Davie (4801 S. University Drive). With a brick-and-mortar restaurant comes room to grow, so the café expands on the BC Tacos food truck menu with salads, sliders, wraps,…
Mexicans, Tequila Lovers, and, well, anyone who likes to get drunk and have a good time should be gearing up for the second biggest drinking holiday in the world–okay, we don’t know if that’s actually true, but we’re going with it. Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner. And…
This past Saturday, about a dozen homebrewers from around the area converged on the parking lot of the Little House in Boynton Beach to brave the fickle Florida weather, show off their brews, and enter into a friendly competition. Owner Chrissy Benoit (previously of Havana Hideaway in Lake Worth) and…
Whether it’s an obsession with Mad Men or just a sense of boredom with overly sweet, flavored vodkas, classic cocktails are making a resurgence. Whatever the cause, we think it’s pretty awesome. The classic Negroni is one of those “in” drinks. Supposedly developed in Florence, Italy, in 1919, when Count…
Forget Iron Chef and The Taste. Here’s a cooking competition almost anyone can win with an actual payday at the end. Korean pop star Psy is doing a worldwide search for a personal chef who will travel with him on tour for one month — yes, you will travel Gangnam…
If you’ve ever dreamed of having a cold beer deep in the jungle while ferocious animals and birds of prey look on from the distance, then you should head out to the Palm Beach Zoo this Saturday, April 27, from 6 to 9 p.m. for Brew at the Zoo, a…
New Times’ Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers — restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies who make the South Florida food scene what it is. We’ll start with number 30 and lead up to…
Some might say that a food and wine festival is not a place to sample beer, but they’d be wrong, wrong, wrong! It just happens to be not a very good place to do so. Not caring much for convention, nor for being seen as the odd man out at…
Vince Tien and Alex Kuk are the two woks behind the TwoWoks pop-up dining experience being set for Monday, April 29 from 6 p.m. – 10 p.m. at Christina Wan’s Mandarin House in Fort Lauderdale (664 N. Federal Hyw, Fort Lauderdale). The talented duo were both at the forefront of…
There goes another jam-packed weekend. Whether you eat at the Las Olas Wine and Food Festival, improved your practice at Yoga Fest, got drunk on the beach for the Air and Sea Show, or just sat around on your ass, the fun of the weekend has unfortunately passed. Don’t fret…
A lot of people like to eat food just to fill their stomachs. And a lot people drink cocktails just to get drunk. And hey–we’ve all done both. There really is little difference between making good cocktails and good food; both require a certain level of intuition and training. A…
New Times’ Best of Broward – Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers — restauranteurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies — that make the South Florida food scene what it is. We’ll start with number 30 and…
