Breakfast, some experts say, is the most important meal of the day. Yet in our fast-paced lives, cooking up a hearty breakfast before hitting rush hour traffic… It just doesn’t happen. When pressed for time, the egg sandwich is the answer. It’s packed with flavor and protein and keeps those…
South Florida’s favorite serial killer with a heart of gold, Dexter, returns to Showtime on September 30 at 9 p.m., and Steak 954 is making a special dish in his honor. Even more surprising, it’s a dessert. The Dexter dessert ($9) starts with a crème brûlée cheesecake topped with seasonal…
Even with the Food Network offering meal plans and tutorials 24/7, not everyone feels at ease in the kitchen. Some of us have nightmares about hosting a dinner party, trying to look composed in front of guests while managing rambunctious children and messy eaters (ahem, Grampa). Wah! We need Giada…
Are you always the poor sap sent out for office coffee? Do you like taking a break for a mocha but can’t seem to slip out quietly before your office mates notice and pile on their orders?Starbucks has picked up on your frustration. It has heard your howls of pain…
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If you’ve got a little food ADD or possibly a case of restless leg syndrome, we feel for you. After all, it can be challenging sitting in the same restaurant for hours on end during one of those endless course-tasting dinners. If we’re talking to you, check out the Tastemakers…
Baskin-Robbins is introducing a new way to eat ice cream that may just blow your mind. Forget carrying your ice cream around inside the waffle cone, making it all soggy and mushy by the end. Ever had one of those things leak out the bottom all over your new pants…
This week’s restaurant review is about Pho Vi, a Vietnamese restaurant that opened in March in downtown Hollywood. In the past few years, Vietnamese cuisine has exploded on the contemporary food scene, thanks in large part to a filling and fun-to-eat dish called pho — beef broth and noodle soup…
What do you call an accident that leaves 40,000 pounds of bacon just sitting on the side of a highway? If you said “massive fail,” you’d be correct.That’s what happened in Peoria, Illinois, when a Wenger Trucking Co. semi overturned, spilling its precious porcine cargo all over the median. According…
Wine tends to get top billing at New Times Pairings — in part, because Wine Watch and crew do such a fine job of it — but the craft-beer department is no slouch either. This year especially is a must for beer geeks and hops nerds. In addition to familiar…
There’s only one thought that comes to mind when we watch Hell’s Kitchen, the combination cooking show/fraternity hazing hosted by foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay on Fox television — “Is it worth it?”For local chef Robyn Almodovar, the answer is yes. The Le Cordon Bleu graduate’s food truck, Palate Party, continues…
The old-fashioned milkman is back, but like every recycled trend, he’s been updated. No longer is he merely a milkman but a delivery dude. The Delray Delivery Dudes provide what in more provincial times might have been delivery service but is now called “concierge service.”And while back in the day…
There’s this little thing happening this week called the fifth-annual New Times Pairings. Perhaps we’ve mentioned it? And as if you need any other activity (you don’t) to keep your spirits up as you slog through another week at the office, there are plenty more wine, beer, and dining events…
When President Barack Obama was campaigning in Florida this weekend, he stopped at Big Apple Pizza and Pasta in Fort Pierce. This detour was meant to be one of those typical campaign visits where the president, in a bid for reelection, visits local merchants, shakes hands, and has a nosh…
Candy corn, adored only by compulsive sugar junkies and dentists looking to finance a new boat, has been cross-bred with everyone’s favorite sugar-drenched cookie; the Oreo. Nabisco will debut the limited edition Candy Corn Oreo on Monday, selling it exclusively in Target stores for the 2012 fall season. Foodbeast got…
In response to customer and server feedback, Stephane’s American & French Cuisine in Boca Raton is dropping its unpopular mandatory service charge policy. The system as it stands automatically adds 15 percent to the check for parties of up to four people; groups of five or more pay 18 percent…
The top five reasons you should attend the fifth annual New Times Pairings event were spelled out earlier today and, naturally, food ranked right up there, second only to sweet, sweet alcohol. Since Pairings is an opportunity for local food lovers to sample new and new-to-them cuisine from some of…
Clean Plate Charlie has learned that PL8 Kitchen has closed. The former Himmarshee Bar & Grill changed its name and format about a year ago to PL8, which featured reworked and elevated bar favorites like pizzas and chicken wings.PL8’s Facebook page has not been updated since September 1 and a…
The fifth annual New Times Pairings event is right around the corner. On September 13 from 7 to 10 p.m. the Broward County Convention Center will host this evening of good food and good wine. If you’ve been procrastinating about your ticket buying we’ve got some reasons why you should…
Julia Child set the mold for cooking show hosts to be unconventional. So really, these two lovely ladies are just continuing that, umm, unique tradition.After the jump, learn to make pulled pork wontons — with guava.Juleisy: How do you spell guava?Karla: Gwa-va!We only hope that back hair doesn’t end up…
If Flavor Palm Beach isn’t dominating your dining calendar this weekend — read more about the month-long restaurant promotion here — that means you’ve got a little bit of room to explore the other food-related happenings this weekend in Broward and Palm Beach counties. After the jump find five things…
Season is gearing up, which means lots of change-ups and debuts in the Fort Lauderdale/Boca Raton/Delray Beach dining scenes. This week’s news includes an opening date for a mega-hyped, large-scale project as well as a few changes in smaller operations around town. Click here for news about upcoming restaurant projects…
