100 Favorite Dishes: # 1 — Peking Duck Tacos From Imoto

We’re counting down our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, email them here. When you think of Palm Beach, you picture yacht clubs adorned with Ralph Lauren décor, patrons in Brooks Brothers blazers, and ladies in seahorse-embellished Lilly…

How to Start Farming: Q&A With Farmer Jay McCobb

Interest in farming and gardening is on the rise. In line with the national trend, community gardens and school garden projects are starting to pop up all over South Florida. Just last week, Fort Lauderdale city commissioners approved a code designed to bring back urban agriculture.Given these circumstances, it seems…

Steak 954 Owners Sued in Class-Action Lawsuit

Updated at 10:48 p.m. to include comment from Steak 954 spokesman Chad FabrikantA class-action federal lawsuit filed on Friday alleges that Starr Restaurants Hotel Group stiffed employees on overtime wages. Starr Restaurants, according to its website, is the parent company of Steak 954 in Fort Lauderdale and Makoto in Bal…

Obama, Mickey Mouse, and Jesus: Wake Up to Five Awesome Toasters

Clean Plate Charlie is a closet Gleek. That’s right… we’ve just lost any street cred by admitting we watch Glee. Look, if we didn’t watch it, we would have missed the totally awesome episode in which Finn sees the son of God in his sandwich. That’s right, folks! He saw…

South Florida’s Ten Best Diners

​Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Broward/Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Piles of fluffy pancakes as far as…

100 Favorite Dishes: #2 — Pork Belly From Max’s Harvest

We’re counting down our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, email them here.Farm-to-table restaurants are amazing. Because they source ingredients from local farms rather than from Sysco, their fruits and vegetables teem with flavors often lacking in their…

Roy Villacrusis, Chef at Studio, Plays Fill in the Blanks With Us

In South Florida, restaurateurs can take a good, innocent trend…and beat it to death. Haven’t we heard enough about beer bars, farm-to-table fare, and good ole’ gastropubs?But it’s nothing but new at Roy Villacrusis’ latest pop-up, the Studio, where a different menu is served up each night. Inside the West…

Jersey Shore‘s Snooki Launches Soda and iPhone App (Video)

What goes great with a meatball and a bun in the oven? How about a nice, cold, wild-cherry soda?Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, our favorite self-proclaimed Jersey Shore meatball, has come a long way from dancing on bars, getting arrested, showing her privates, and looking for gorilla-juicehead love. This soon-to-be-mother (yes… we’re…

The Thai Room Opens in West Palm Beach

As a Florida native, non-natives tend to whine open up to me about why they hate Florida, disdainfully referring to my beloved sunshine state as “the foot of the nation” (in which case New Jersey is clearly the armpit). They lament about nearly everything–the suffocating humidity, our lawless pill-pushing governor,…