Food & Drink

​This weekend, don’t forget to celebrate National Ice Cream Day. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month. But he didn’t stop there! He also declared the third Sunday in July to be National Ice Cream Day, as well. …

After going six-plus months without a food critic in-house, New Times has hired a gem: Melissa McCart, who will be leaving Washington, DC to join us. Her resume is nothing shabby. She began her career as a high school English teacher working in New York, Virginia, and even Berlin. Eventually…

​How does Guy Fieri choose the restaurants he features on his Food Network show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?If it’s anything like his upcoming prospect, Boca Raton restaurant Talia’s Tuscan Table, it’s got a lot to do with character. Character from the food, the customers — and even the establishment’s owners. And that’s something…

Looking for a cooking school where you grow what you make? Well, you don’t have to look very far. The grand opening for Miami Culinary Institute’s Culinary Garden will be this Saturday at 10:00 am and is free and open to the public. The garden is situated at the Miami…

Healthy, inexpensive lunch and dinner fare cooked on an oak-fired grill is the deal at the newly opened Mia’s Grille (2399 N. Federal Highway; 561-338-6388) in Boca Raton.  Though it’s the first eatery for chef-owner Mia Cabrera, she’s a 16-year vet of the local restaurant business, last gee emming in…

Last week, a Clearwater Skyline Chili made headlines when the owner tapped into the post-Casey Anthony verdict fury by banning Pinellas County jurors from his establishment. This week, the Huffington Post reported on McDain’s Restaurant in Monroeville, Pennsylvania,  for banning children younger than 6 from the dining room. If banning…

Maxim recently loved on the Coral Springs strip-mall destination Rock n Roll Ribs, owned by Iron Maiden drummer Michael Henry “Nicko” McBrain. The 57-year-old rocker from London apparently toured enough in the States that he learned to make a mean barbecue…

OK, so maybe you heard about the restaurant in the thriving metropolis of Monroeville, Penn., that beginning yesterday has banned kids younger than age six. For the record, the place is called McDain’s, and it bills itself as a place for “cocktails and casual fine dining.” After looking over the…

I have to admit, I’m a huge fan of director David Lynch. His films, from the all-American discomfort of Blue Velvet to the schizophrenic murder mystery Mulholland Dr., are so strange and moody, they’re like nothing else out there. Don’t even get me started on Twin Peaks — his early-’90s…

With a comic-like interior and a 14-pump hot sauce bar — I would not know where to start. …

The remaking of Todd English’s Wild Olives into the English Tap & Beer Garden (5050 Town Center Circle, 561-544-8000) will be unveiled for all to see this Friday when the upscale, quasi-German “biergarten” opens its doors in the tony Shops at Boca Center.  Taking over the next-door space (the original…

When it comes to cooking meat like a goldang man, it’s worth taking a look back to the middle of the past century, when chauvinism and functioning alcoholism hung in the air like aerosolized fat and vegetarianism was confined to parts of town where not even Deano himself would venture…

For centuries, boyfriends have been searching for a cure to rid their nice girlfriends of their PMS-induced demon tendencies every month.Thank goodness the California Milk Processor Board has stepped in to solve the problem! Forget chocolate, back rubs, and bubble baths. If your lady unleashes her inner Diablo when you…