If you’re looking for some of the best Indian food in Palm Beach County, look no further than Indus.Indus Indian and Herbal Cuisine is not, as the owners clearly state, your average Indian restaurant. This charming lunch and dinner spot has a wide-ranging menu that draws from several styles, each…
In our effort to introduce you to as many food trucks as we can, we’re profiling a new truck each week. This week, meet Latin Burger and LB2.Latin Burger and her sister truck, LB2, are impossible to miss. Red and hot pink with a large steer head on the trucks,…
The Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House (O-B House) wants to help you rise and shine when it opens for business this Friday. “We want to be the go-to place for breakfast during nonconformist hours,” said the restaurant’s owner, Rodney Ely. The O-B House, located on Himmarshee Street in downtown Fort…
Though the weather may be sultry, the lobster bisque (served very hot) at East End Eats — which opened 11 days ago — is worth a detour. Stocked with loads of Maine lobster claw, the soup is so decadent that Vice President Joe Biden asked for quarts to take home…
Once a restaurant on South Florida’s culinary cutting edge, Allen Susser’s now-departed Chef Allen’s in Aventura will next month become the region’s 10 bazillionth Italian eatery. The coming Luca Bella promises a menu of family-style “Italian comfort food,” mostly Southern Italian with assorted Italian-American dishes throw in for good measure,…
At a dinner party in 1979, Tim and Nina Zagat groused about the local newspaper restaurant reviewer. Afterward, they rallied 200 of their friends to provide amateur reviews of 100 New York restaurants. Soon, the city’s gastronomes were clamoring for the results, which had been consolidated and photocopied on legal-sized…
A Provençal flower will blossom tomorrow in Boca Raton, where James Vineau’s Mimosa (5030 Champion Blvd., 561-866-4665) will open in the Polo Club Shoppes at Clint Moore Road and Military Trail. Vineau and Christian Gavino, ex-owner of Pastis restaurant in Delray Beach, have teamed up on the 100-seat, “casual French…
President Barack Obama took his staff to Good Stuff Eatery for a prebirthday lunch celebration after debt negotiations were finished.According to NBC’s Washington bureau, President Obama, who turns 50 tomorrow, waited at the counter like every other patron. When it came time to settle the tab, he not only paid…
This week, raw food/”living food” mecca Christopher’s Kitchen will have a special guest: New York-based chef Jana Keith-Jennings. Keith-Jennings was executive pastry chef at Pure Food and Wine and also worked at Gramercy Tavern before becoming a personal chef to event designer Preston Bailey. She’s also a yoga teacher with…
Kona Grill, the Asian/Southwest fusion restaurant that invited you to become a “konavore,” has closed its doors.In a statement, Mike Nahkunst, interim president and CEO of Kona Grill, said, “Since the restaurant opened in November 2008, it has been challenged by volume and seasonality, particularly in contrast to our other…
Wine pairings are nice and sophisticated and all, but beer pairings are the hot way to marry food and drink into one delicious night of belly-busting indulgence. The Cuban food and beer pairing event Thursday night at Padrino’s Cuban Cuisine in Plantation will offer five courses that match traditional Cuban…
Change is afoot at M Bar on Las Olas Boulevard — already.M bar, which opened just over a month ago as a sibling to longtime Las Olas staple Mancini’s, began serving lunch yesterday. But that’s not the big news. More notably, the brother/sister team of chefs — who opened the…
For those of you not satisfied with Bravo’s selection of food shows — Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, Top Chef Just Desserts, and Rocco’s Dinner Party come to mind — the people at the reality television network have heard your prayers… sort of. Around the World in 80 Plates is…
Two months ago, at the edge of a gentrifying area in Washington, D.C., I was sitting with some food-writer friends at Death Metal Cocktail Night in a very dark, very loud bar in a former garage called American Ice Company, sampling ominously named drinks such as the rum-based Jucifer and…
Another one bites the dust? Looks like fans of microbeers served by young ladies in micro-shorts will have to look elsewhere in Boca Raton for their weekly pint of Magic Hat. For all intents and purposes, the Lodge Beer and Grill (yes, that’s how they marketed it) in Boca Raton…
When Suite 100’s executive chef, Ted Inserra, called Clean Plate Charlie in the middle of Anthony Bourdain’s tribute to El Bulli on last night’s No Reservations, we figured it had to be important news. Inserra told us that he’s leaving Suite 100, effective tomorrow, August 3, to join the Old Fort…
A woman’s work is never done, so they say. And if you’re Gov. Rick Scott’s kind of gal, you might be even busier these next few days planning your own anti-abortion house party. Indeed, what better way to connect with neighborhood right-to-lifers than a casual shindig, celebrating four new laws…
I don’t have to tell you that purchasing a Vitamix blender can be life-changing event. Mostly because there are already groups like Vita-Mix or Die!!! or I LOVE my Vita-Mix to do so. But I will tell you that the bond you can form with the handy blender that has helped millions…
Miami Spice starts today, kicking off a two-month promotion, making a drive down to Miami for some restaurant deals worth the trip, even with the price of gas. More than 100 restaurants in the Miami area participate in Spice, which features three-course special menus at $35 for dinner and a…
The next time you’re jetting off to some faraway destination, why not try grabbing a bite to eat from the Jet Runway Café? Even if you’re not traveling, if you would like a departure from your average breakfast or lunch destination, this is the spot you’ve been searching for…
The China Grill at the Fort Lauderdale Hilton off the 17th Street Causeway is a little hard to find (situated weirdly under a bridge), but once you find it, you’ll be glad you did. Whereas 99 percent of Florida restaurants decorate with some variations of flip-flops, fishing nets, flat-screen TVs,…
Can you guess what makes pancakes made from scratch extra-fluffy? Well, Rosa Parks can tell you. Yes, you read that correctly. Turns out Parks is famous for being more than just the mother of the civil rights movement. It appears she was a pretty good cook as well. For her “featherlite” recipe for…
