Food & Drink

You know the term “pay it forward”, right?  Well it goes both ways, suckah!Yes, that movie with the do-gooder boy who sees dead people was heart-wrenching and all that stuff, but paying it forward can also mean passing on some horrible song that’s stuck in your head.Case in point: The…

Cooking is hard, or so I was brought up to believe. I wasn’t told this but rather deduced it from two facts: My family was full of people who’d spent decades cooking for one another, and almost none of them seemed to be very good at it. So what was…

Esquire’s Eat Like a Man blog gives us the heads up that according to Forbes, Smashburger is America’s most promising company. As you may recall if you haven’t been yet, Coral Springs just scored its own branch in early November…

Maddox offers fightin’ words on his blog today about the most overrated sandwiches in America. It’s a gem of a post that includes the Philly cheese steak — “an exploration of sadness” and a “mouthful of suck”; the poor boy — “why not put nachos and jalapeño poppers on a sandwich…

[jump] “You want an extremely lean piece of meat for carpaccio,” said Dave Crumbaker of Smitty’s Old Fashioned Butcher Shop. Fillet is what’s traditionally used, though some restaurants shave meat from the eye of round. “It looks identical since it’s a cylindrical cut, but eye of round is much, much…

Mike Baitz hulks over a butcher block, making small talk with the customer behind him at the Meating Place West butcher shop in Boca Raton. He trims fat with a chef’s knife and wraps a pair of steaks with ease. Like the block that shows the wear of everyday use,…

What to get the food snob on your holiday list when a membership to the Stinky Cheese of the Month Club won’t do? How ’bout an early gift, by way of a ticket to one of the five events that are part of the Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival…

My grandfather ran a company in which he made sausages for Italian, Polish, and German immigrants throughout Boston. My father worked there in summers between college. My uncle worked there for decades. I remember my grandfather telling stories about his craft and his customers, scenarios that culled my appreciation for…

Mike Saperstein and Evan David, the duo behind Charm City Burgers and El Jefe Luchador, will debut the Rebel House, a casual, chef-driven restaurant at 299 E. Palmetto Road, by mid-January.  As is the case at Miami’s newly opened Yardbird, whiskey and bourbon will be a focus at the bar…

Bimini Boatyard executive chef Michael Bennett has left his position at the popular Fort Lauderdale seafood restaurant to pursue several other culinary avenues of interest.Bennett, who resigned his position shortly after Thanksgiving, is consulting on two projects as well as writing part two of his chef essay/workbook Culture of Cuisine.Wine…

Close to 40,000 families and revelers converged on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale for the 49th-annual Christmas on Las Olas celebration.The streets between SE Sixth and SE 11th streets were packed with people wearing Santa hats, kids wearing reindeer antlers, and dogs wearing ski sweaters, as local merchants handed…

Come January 1, no more taco Tuesdays — or anything else — at Treasure Trove. The beloved dive bar off A1A will shutter by year’s end. A doubling of his $4,000-a-month rent as of January 1 by building owner Sophia Enterprises is too steep for the business to maintain. After…

A woman accompanied by two guests left $15,000 behind in a Jimmy Choo bag at Philippe by Philippe Chow on Wednesday night. “What do you want me to do with this?” manager Jorge del Valle said when he showed CEO Stratis Morfogen the contents of the bag after the group…

The 49th-annual Christmas on Las Olas is tonight! Time to take a break from the mall frenzy (don’t worry — Target will have the same plastic crap tomorrow) and bundle up the family and friends.  Bundle up? In south Florida! Yup! Because tonight’s forecast calls for snow! And cookies!Tonight, Las…

How did I not know that Gran Forno had a second location on Las Olas? I did not. I’d been going to the bakery the past four months I’ve lived here, unaware of Gran Forno Pronto table service down the street. Why should it matter? Because the menu, the setting,…