Calling all gourmands and scenesters: Tickets go on sale Monday for the foodist event of the year: The 11th-annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival, to benefit FIU Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management.Remember Paula Dean’s pants episode or Mario Batali’s f bomb for the king and queen of Spain,…
The Seattle-like deluge has subsided — at least for the time being — and the weekend forecast looks pretty kick ass, all around. If the gloomy skies had you in a sour mood all week (Floridians are addicted to the sun, after all) it’s time to shake it off and…
My friends, aware of my mission to find the best happy hours in Broward County, are always recommending their favorite spots. Sometime in the past week an acquaintance mentioned the name of a place in Plantation. She said it was the bar to drink at when all you have is…
You know the fate of Halloween procrastinators, don’t you? It looks a little something like this: bags of that terrible orange and black peanut butter wax-like taffy to hand out to the kids, nothing left to buy at Halloween City except deeply discounted Monica Lewinsky and/or “sexy maritime lawyer” costumes,…
In Hollywood, across from the ocean, Taco Beach Shack was quiet on a rainy Monday night. On a concrete patio, chair backs leaned forward onto tables to stay dry. A table of sisters watched their toddlers run around obstacles like a three-cone drill. A pair of guys sat at the…
Halloween is around the corner, and every year, you run into the same problem — do you wear the sexy or funny costume? Our answer is, as always — it depends on whether you want to get laid… ever.Here is a collection of Halloween costumes that are truly terrifying… and…
The weather is finally beautiful. What seems like a week of rain has cleared up, leaving clear skies and cool weather. Which makes tonight’s food truck roundup at The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood the perfect place to be.If the fact that over two dozen food trucks…
“The chicken satays are amazing,” said Carlton, our server, as he dropped off an amuse bouche of Philippe Chow’s most famous dish at a table for two on a busy Saturday night. He was parroting New York Newsday’s accolades, which were quoted in red on the menu like praise on…
If you live in or spend any time in Boca Raton, you know the pain in the ass, driving hell that was the Pedestrian Promenade construction project that recently wrapped up in downtown. Looks like the city plans to make up for the parking and “Bridge Closed” headaches with “Meet…
We’ve received a flurry of news releases and heads-up notifying us of restaurant openings in the coming season and the course of the year. First up, in correlation with this week’s restaurant review on Philippe Chow: Sources tell us that a location for the group’s next casual-dining location will be…
Well, looky here… What just landed in our lap but two free tickets to Rocktoberfest, the annual beer-drenched festival at Esplanade Park, over by the Museum of Discovery and Science in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The event is this Friday, from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. The tickets, which normally cost $20…
Sure the weather looks lousy today, but the forecast calls for clearing by this afternoon, and you’re going to need to bust out of the house after three full days of rain. Lucky for you, Boat Show Night Out, the official preparty for the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, is…
Today and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kapow! Noodle Bar is hosting an open house for back-of-the-house positions, including line cooks, prep cooks, and dishwashers. Click here for requirements, which include at least a year of experience. Sit tight, bartenders and servers: They’re hiring you next week.Formerly John…
There was a time before the microbrewery boom where if you were a vegan drinker, you had few options outside of Beck’s. With many beer companies sticking honey or lactose in their flavorings or finings that use gelatin, egg albumin, or fish, finding cruelty-free drinks can be as difficult as…
The fate of Riverside Market remains on hold as to whether it will continue as a restaurant or even as a market, confirms both Julian Siegel and a spokesperson from the city’s Planning and Zoning Board. Siegel confirms that his property at 608 SW 12th Ave. in Fort Lauderdale has not…
Casserole comebacks aren’t just for fat-basking Paula Dean, as fast food and sit-down restaurants continue to introduce them in the form of pies and bowls. Yesterday Eater.com reported Kentucky Fried Chicken’s newest gutbomb, the Cheesy Bacon Bowl, an amalgamation of mashed potatoes, fried chicken, corn, gravy, cheese, and now bacon…
Former Hell’s Kitchen contestant survivor Ralph Pagano has been named executive chef for Gulfstream Park’s Ten Palms restaurant, as well as the racetrack’s concession operations.Pagano hinted at his departure from STK Miami on his Facebook page, with the note, “big things happening around here….big things.” …
Remember Garbage Island — that floating, toxic mass of plastics rumored to be twice the size of Texas? Yeah, well it’s still out there swimming somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii and getting bigger every day. If this isn’t enough to make you want to go postal the next time…
With holiday entertaining fast on the approach, perhaps you’d like to stretch your culinary cred by cooking up a showstopper: braised short ribs, rack of lamb, or a whole fish, for example. Celebrity chef Anne Burrell walks aspiring home chefs through each recipe in her how-to book, Cook Like a…
Until I started writing about beer a couple of years ago, the only reds I’d had were hypersweet lambics and Killian’s from the ’90s, the Coors-bought lager made red by caramelized, malted barley. I was underwhelmed by them until I sipped a gueuze.Though it’s also a lambic, the gueuze should…
“I was hearing from customers that our salsa just wasn’t hot enough,” said Joseph Parsons, chef at Jo-Jo’s Tacos in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. “So I decided to make a salsa from the hottest stuff I could find.” Parsons ordered dried Bhut Jolokias to conjure serious heat…
Update: Tonight’s food truck event at Arts Park has been cancelled.Bring an umbrella and your appetite to tonight’s food truck roundup at Hollywood’s Young Circle, because the forecast predicts scattered thunderstorms and lots of street food. Almost two dozen food trucks will converge upon Arts Park from 5:30 – 10…
