Food & Drink

The Chimney House: The Intimate Fort Lauderdale Restaurant Is Almost Like Abuelita’s Cooking

Yesterday, December 11, the Sunrise City Commission was supposed to vote on the fate of food trucks in the city.  On the agenda under “new business” was the following:”Commission discussion and/or action re: Food Trucks”Read Also: Sunrise Mulls Food Truck Ban…

Back in the nineties, there was a strong local music scene in South Florida. Bands such as Marilyn Manson emerged from the area to garner international fame–not just for the music. Darrin ‘Big B’ Beni played a big part in the local scene as one of the vocalists for the…

Turnover in the restaurant industry can come a matter of months. Yaddi and Frank Rodriguez invested six years and a sum business-types might call crazy to open The Chimney House on Las Olas Boulevard west of downtown Fort Lauderdale. The pair have transformed the historic building from a bombed out…

Palm Beach and farming have about as much in common as left-wing hippies and blue blood one percenters. Have you ever seen someone in Lilly Pulitzer working with dirt? Unless it has something to do with keeping up with those perfectly manicured hedges, we didn’t think so. Well, this weekend brought…

We already know, most South Floridians were baseling it up this weekend. It may have been a satellite fair, the streets of the design district, or just partying, but those of you who opted to head across the Dade county border missed out on some pretty swanky stuff.The Palm Beach…

Not only did basketball great and Jack-of-all-trades Shaquille O’Neal show up at the opening of Fort Lauderdale’s Dry Fried Wings, the sports superstar immersed himself in the job by greeting fans and getting his hands dirty — with wing sauce, of course.Read Also: Shaquille O’Neal to Attend Grand Opening of…

It happens every time you’re about to pay in the check out line at Publix this time of year. “Would you like to make a donation for Food For All?” Sometimes you throw in a buck. Sometimes you don’t. But have you ever thought about what you’re where you’re money is…

Oh, hey. Did you realize that Wednesday — 12-12-12 — is the last repeating date for another hundred years? What’s that you say? You’ve heard that about 12 times already today, just from your cubicle mates? (Of course, if you consider February 2, 2022 to be repetition, the whole point…

Even the most sugar-crazed sweets addict probably had to take a knee at some point during the sixth annual Sweet Dreams, which went down this past weekend at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. To call the dessert-focused special event decadent would be a gross understatement. I’ll be eating nothing but plain,…

Dada Executive Chef Bruce Feingold has announced the return of his restaurant’s popular wine pairing dinner series, beginning with the first, dubbed Twelve/Twelve/Twelve because — you guessed it — it will be held on December 12. It is the first of such wine pairing dinners to be held at the…

Generally, when you think of beautiful women, you don’t think of poop. The two are definitely not synonymous–unless, of course, you’re into that sort of thing. And hey, we won’t judge. So, why, then would a local nonprofit put together the 2013 Ladies of Manure Calendar? Shock value, of course.Clean Plate…

Since Hostess’ shutdown, Twinkies have become a valuable commodity. Despite all the “lifespan of a million years” jokes, the snack cake actually has a shelf life of only about 28 days, according to a company spokesperson, which is making the dwindling supplies of the popular snack cake in high demand…

You Jersey transplants who are longing for hoagies and water ice and the sight of oil refineries on the gray horizon, your beloved Wawa is coming to Florida.OK, right now it’s only up in north and central Florida, but they already have six locations open in Kissimmee and Orlando, with…