Will America ever tire of its love affair with the burger? Doesn’t seem likely. And as a nation, we certainly enjoy sprinkling a bit of friendly competition into our everyday activities. Hence the appeal of something as simple and all-American as the “Star Spangled Stop Burger Eating Contest” on Monday,…
Want to come hang with us, eat free BBQ, and drink beacoup amounts of beer? We’re giving away another pair of free tickets to the New Times-sponsored Rock N Roll Beer B Que!The event is Sunday, July 3 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Local restaurants will be competing…
Joe Biden keeps sending me e-mails. In fact, the Obama campaign never stopped sending e-mails to people who signed up for updates in 2008, thus ushering in a new era of perpetual campaigning. Anyway, Joe keeps telling me that…
Smokey Bones is holding a burger-eating contest tomorrow, June 29, at all of its South Florida locations. The contest is in two parts. Round one has entrants building their own burger to eat. Winners will advance to round two — an all-out eating competition. The contest starts at 7 p.m…
Although we love Top Chef here at Clean Plate Charlie, sometimes we can’t help wondering if maybe the show would be a little bit better if the cheftestants had to, say, catch their own poisonous water moccasin and cook it in the desert with only a book of matches and…
The machine is basically an extremely high-tech version of a soda machine. An LCD display guides you through the process by which you can choose to make a custom beverage using various traditional and new Coca-Cola products, including Coke, Minute Maid Lemonade, Dasani, Fanta, and Powerade, to name a few…
Chef Anthony de Palma has shut the doors to his namesake Italian restaurant, Dolce de Palma, in West Palm Beach. He auctions off the equipment tomorrow. It came down to “issues with the landlord and the building,” the chef said. “It was an uphill battle, and I just didn’t want…
We told you about the latest trend in social media food meetups — the Food Swap — last month. Marie Castro, a bookkeeper in Wilton Manors, organized the first one after reading about others in big cities.Her first one a success, she branched out, and Palm Beach County will hold…
Hooter’s, the restaurant chain best-known for its boobs chicken wings, held its 15th-annual International Swimsuit Pageant this past Saturday at the Fillmore Jackie Gleason Theatre. Out of the 100 girls chosen from Hooters restaurants throughout the world to compete for $50,000 and the crown, Lindsey Way, a Fort Lauderdale…
elebrity chef, host of the upcoming travel and foodie show Fire and Spice, or winner of Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen season seven, Holli Ugalde is plenty of sugar and spice and everything nice. After all, that’s what little girls — and former pastry chefs — are made of, right?Ugalde truly has a…
Wow — Fourth of July. High humidity, grilled burgers, fireworks, and paint-by-numbers patriotism, all on the same day. Naturally, as a summer holiday, it’s usually an excuse for drinking. You can buy a case of Red, White and Blue and pound ’em with your brother-in-law, but what’s the fun in…
Bluejays Cafe may be sadly and mysteriously closed, but just across Himmarshee Street, there’s a new restaurant taking shape in a historic 1925 building.The Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, inexplicably abbreviated as O-B/House (website), will serve an all-day breakfast menu of the usual suspects: specialty omelets, breakfast sandwiches, soups, and…
In February of 2011, Daniel Jang lost his grandfather to the heartbreaking deterioration of Alzheimer’s disease. But rather than simply mourn his loss, Jang decided to do something more proactive.To raise awareness on this devastating disease — and to honor his beloved grandfather — Jang has set off on a…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. “What’s the deal with this front-of-the-house versus back-of-the-house issue?” my director of operations asked me on his first day. “That’s just how it is,” was the best I could offer because that’s…
Blues by the ocean with a side order of brewski and seafood is on tap for the coming Fourth of July, when Boston’s on the Beach hosts its second-annual “Red, White & Blues Festival.” For four days, Friday through Monday, July 1 to 4, the Delray eatery on A1A will…
But you women out there? Probably not. Well, ladies, think again. Next time you’re out and about, why not head over to Rachel’s to see Nina Silvestro and Jenna Thomas?These girls won’t just serve you some drinks — they’ll actually sit down and have a few with you, too. So if you happen to…
We asked readers to describe themselves using the letters B, B, and Q for the chance to win tickets to the Rock N Roll Beer B Que on July 3.Thanks to everyone who participated. The entries were hilarious.Christi won the tickets with her entry: “Big-Boobed Quasimodo.”Still want tickets? Don’t fret!…
A meal and a movie is the theme for the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s latest weekly happening. Every Thursday night, starting at 5:30 PM, a host of gourmet ethnic food trucks lines the perimeter of the easternmost surface parking lot, the one closest to the main entrance. There…
Last week, activists from the group Food Not Bombs — including its cofounder — were arrested in Orlando for trying to share food with homeless folks. The first arrestees violated a 2006 city ordinance that regulates mass feedings in parks. When others engaged in civil disobedience and continued to feed…
M Bar, Jack Mancini’s tapas concept, will have a soft opening this evening, June 24, with a grand opening planned for July 7. Mancini has tapped the brother-and-sister team of Kevin Anderson (formerly of 1500 Degrees at the Eden Roc) and Lauren Anderson (of Moto in Chicago) as co-executive chefs. …
Travel + Leisure magazine made an atrocious error in its article and slide show about “America’s Best Beach Bars.” It left out all the great South Florida beach bars. As we scrolled through the list of bars that either reside directly on the sand or very close to it, we…
When the Funky Buddha’s Maple Bacon Coffee Porter was released in March, it became an instant nationwide sensation, garnering an earth-shattering #1 buzz ranking on BeerAdvocate.com (it currently sits as the 31st most popular beer one the site). And that’s despite the fact that the small brewpub brewed only 10…
