Fort Lauderdale’s own ROK:BRGR is looking to beat the summer doldrums with a little bit of creative pricing.Stop into the burger-centric gastropub any Wednesday throughout the summer and receive a 50 percent discount on all specialty burgers. That’s 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m., people. No fine print. No time windows…
When we first saw this video, mixed by Bravo for Top Chef’s hot host Padma Lakshmi, we knew we had to share it with our readers – if only to try to get the tune out of our heads by passing it on to someone else. Entitled “Pack Your Knives…
You already know that the legendary Mai-Kai Polynesian Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale is the place to go when you want to get sloshed on exotic concoctions, watch a fire dancer, eat free sushi during Wednesday happy hours, or entertain out-of-towners. Well, it’s also the place to decorate your apartment! The…
Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution continues with its third episode. This one was jam-packed! It included Jamie’s food quizzes for students (See above and tell me the guacamole Q&A isn’t a l’il bit funny). But seriously, a lot going on in this episode. It starts with Jamie’s culinary class at West…
Is it Monday yet?Whether you celebrated the Heat’s win too much last night or have a graduation to attend, go to Chili’s sometime today. …
Nineteen months after taking their talents to Boca Raton, LaSpada’s Original Hoagies opened their fifth location on Friday off of 17th st. causeway in Fort Lauderdale to a line out the door of hoagie hounds, only after telling their Facebook fans 48 hours in advance…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. There’s something about the coat that’s a magnet for more than just spills. When certain people hear the word “chef,” their eyes light up and their lips begin to quiver. Having been on both…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in her column, Half-Baked…
It’s officially H-word season again, and you’ve probably heard over and over and over again now you’re supposed to prepare for the not-so-blessed event until your ears start to bleed. Stock up on a whole bunch of canned food, they tell you. Canned tuna, canned chicken, canned soups, canned (gag!)…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…
Unleash your inner Homer Simpson this Friday. …
• Make it fast, make it casual, make it cheap and you can make it anywhere. Or so it appears if you’re Gyroville, Lambros Kokkinelis’s growing chainlet of easy-on-the-wallet Greek eateries. Having recently added a second location in Pembroke Pines, Kokkinelis is planning siblings in Boca Raton later this spring…
Last episode, the cheftestants helped a geek propose to the girl of their dreams (and we learned that Gael Greene was a hot little number). Quickfire Challenge Boy toy Curtis Stone says the cheftestants are standing in a kitchen packed with state of the art appliances but they cant use any…
Remember that food pyramid you learned about in grade school and kept seeing around the place? Well, it’s outta here. The United States Department of Agriculture has launched a new visual icon — it’s now MyPlate instead of MyPyramid. In a White House – released YouTube video Secretary of Agriculture…
Food truck rallies have been the norm lately — massive gatherings of a dozen or more trucks that draw thousands at a time. These rallies have brought trucks up to Broward on a consistent basis for the past month now, and on multiple days of the week. I tell you…
This week through Saturday, June 4th, enjoy sushi while helping raise funds for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital during “Nicky’s Week” at Ra Sushi’s Pembroke Pines and Palm Beach Gardens locations. The restaurant will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of a variety of special menu items and…
Game two of the NBA finals is tonight at the AAA Arena. You could drive down to Miami, pay about $30 for parking and try to score a ticket from one of the friendly guys on the street or you can head over to The Seminole Hard Rock Casino, where…
If Urban Outfitters had the equivalent of IKEA’s Swedish Food Market, the shelves would be stocked with products valued either for their mall-ready alt sensibilities or their ironic appeal; e.g. quinoa pancake mix, Japanese candies, gummy mustaches. Certainly, there would be room for dozens of out-of-circulation products from the late…
The Out of Many Cafe is doing something that hasn’t really been done in West Palm Beach: it’s one of the first mobile food trucks of its kind to make it onto the Palm Beach County foodie scene.Debuting as a Caribbean kitchen, owners Haiz Miller and Damian Phillips are filling…
With the foodie movement in full effect these days, craft beer is all the rage. If you are a regular reader of our popular columns, Beer of the Week and Booze Hound, you know what we are alluding to. For those new to the scene (Did you just surface from a bomb shelter?), here’s some advice: Please don’t be caught dead with a Corona in your hand. Don’t know where to start? Blue Moon’s a good one for beginners.
Paris is in town, and we don’t mean Paris Hilton. Actually, we mean Paris in Town, Le Bistro, a new, larger and more ambitious eatery coming to Palm Beach Gardens from the Beni and Diane Himmich, one-time residents of the real Paris and proprietors of Paris in Town, Le Café…
It was during a backpacking excursion through France (funded via my grad school student loans) that I first began to truly appreciate the country’s haute cuisine. I loved the food so much that it led to an obsession for all things French. Maybe this is what caused me to naively…
