Delray Beach has earned bragging rights. Dense with restaurants down Atlantic Avenue, the beachfront town has swept the votes for New Times’ first Food Town Throwdown. At 1,766 votes, it trounced West Palm/Lake Worth in the final round.From Sundy House and Dada all the way down to Boston’s on the…
The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite beer selection. The results will appear in our annual Best Of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here for a…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments, or visit our Facebook page. 96. The Morning…
How to Eat Crawfish – PSA from Loyola Motion Design on Vimeo.”It’s early in the season for crawfish,” said Clif Smith of Crawfish Company of Central Florida. “We’re very busy and could run a little short,” he told Clean Plate Charlie in between taking orders for tomorrow’s Mardi Gras festivities…
The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite burger. The results will appear in our annual Best of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click here for a master…
Happy Presidents’ Day. We bring you today’s list of occasional links. 1. An incredibly light dessert: the edible balloon. Mmm. Green apple air.2. Food porn: a pizza cookbook shaped like a pizza. 3. This weekend’s South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s Burger Bash menu is unveiled, the $225 event hosted…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments, or visit our Facebook page. 97. Apfel Strudel…
The sixth-annual Turkish Festival is bringing traditional costume, dance, and food to Huizenga Plaza (Bubier Park) this weekend.The event, sponsored by the Anatolia Center, is turning downtown Fort Lauderdale into a microcosm of Turkey, complete with an entire two-day schedule of Turkish dancing, music, food, and art…
The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19. A marathon is much more than an endurance run. There’s an entire weekend of activity surrounding the race, including the pre-race carbo-load pasta dinner, the post-race brunch with beer (must replenish carbs), race strategies (which include picking out proper…
Would a former New York Mets star dine in a Yankees themed steak house in a casino in Coconut Creek? This is the question my dinner guest and I mulled over for the latter part of our meal at NYY Steak in the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek on Thursday…
The opening of Lime has been pushed back one more day until tomorrow’s dinner, Clean Plate Charlie learned when we stopped by the chain. Damn. We’ve been hankering for burritos all week. To distract ourselves from the disappointment, we sized up each burrito place on Federal Highway and paired each…
I don’t remember where I had my first Chipotle burrito, and that’s the point. I was too busy eating it. I do remember the careful ritual: peeling off rounds of foil, a quick visual examination followed by a dash of Tabasco. The first expectant bite, then another, then another. Setting…
The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19, and thousands of runners will take to the streets on a 13.1- or 26.2-mile tour of the most beautiful parts of Fort Lauderdale. Starting at the Museum of Discovery and Science, the course runs east along Las Olas Boulevard,…
Chocolate has been around since about 1400 BC. According to Smithsonian Magazine, it’s been used in rituals by the Aztecs and Mayans, valued by kings and queens, and enjoyed in countless forms by everyone from children to adults. But what do we really know about chocolate, besides the fact that…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments, or visit our Facebook page.98. Lobster with Black…
The 2012 poll has closed. Click here after June 14 for the results. Here’s your chance to vote in our New Times Broward-Palm Beach Readers’ Poll 2012 for your favorite restaurant in Palm Beach County. The results will appear in our annual Best of Broward-Palm Beach issue June 14. Click…
There are many bars on Wilton Drive, the main drag of gaytopian Wilton Manors, and they all have their charms. There is chummy, sporty Sidelines. Rosie’s (the subject of this week’s dish column) has kitsch. There are low prices and lower lights at Tropics. Boom has beats, Georgie’s Alibi the…
There were a legions of lousy bars in my hometown in Washington, D.C., in contrast to the library of great ones in South Florida. “The Perfect Bar” in this month’s Garden and Gun notes that the South nurtures them because it encourages so many excuses to drink:The South has produced…
When I think back on my golden years in college, I remember all of the good times that I had with strangers friends. Days spent camping out for seats at basketball games, grossly misusing credit cards, and repeatedly surviving untreated alcohol poisoning are all fond memories. I was cool back…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments, or visit our Facebook page. 99. Italian Sandwich…
The champions of our Food Town Throwdown contest to see which local city has the best dining scene has reached the final round. It’s Delray Beach versus West Palm Beach/Lake Worth in our final showdown. The winner here earns the rights to talk smack, brag, and generally boast that its…
If a beer with your pizza is good, many beers — and of a wide variety of ’em — is even better. The upcoming Cigar City Brewery Night will see the Florida craft brewer invading the newly opened Puccini’s Pizzeria in Delray Beach for one night. The event blends together…
