Leave your flask at home this Memorial Day weekend because tomorrow is Gallery Saturday at Green Room! Drink specials abound! That’s right! You don’t have to stand around nursing a hot beer or pretending like the melted ice at the bottom of your glass still has a little Jack left…
More and more, the food truck craze is rolling up to Broward and Palm Beach counties, which is great news for families searching for a fun and inexpensive way to explore new foods and have a fun evening out. Food trucks are serving dinner tonight at Ed Morse Sawgrass Auto…
Tonight’s Gold Coast Derby Jell-O wrestling contest at Boston Johnny’s got us thinking..about Jell-O. Come on, admit it. You always wondered about the staggering amounts of Jell-O that’s needed to fill an entire kiddie pool of wriggling, sugary goodness. Maybe you’ve lost sleep pondering the question on which flavor is…
Celebrity Chef Holli Ugalde has chosen the perfect name for her new cooking series, appropriately dubbed Fire & Spice. After all, the B Ocean Fort Lauderdale’s new signature chef survived Hell — as the season 7 winner of the Fox reality series Hell’s Kitchen. And now you can find Ugalde turning up the heat…
Yesterday, we shared part one of our interview with Coco Asian’s owner and chef, Mike Ponluang. If you missed it, you can read it here. We continue with part two of our interview. Clean Plate Charlie: You’re from Thailand, but your cuisine has other Asian influences, as well. Tell us…
Frog’s legs — fried or sauteed — have always seemed exotic but not that controversial.That is no longer the case, apparently. Tonight, from 5:30-7 p.m., defenders of frogs and their oh-so-tasty legs will descend upon Uncle Julio’s at Mizner Park in Boca Raton. They’re picketing the restaurant, which has five locations…
Shouldn’t every day be national hamburger day? There’s a National Baked Beans Month (July)! Surely, the quintessentially American hamburger should have its own year.In fact, we have a whole slideshow dedicated to “Burgers Across America” if you decide to eat your way across the country. But Saturday, May 28, is national…
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…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 5: “The Basic” from Pizzeria Oceano”Pizza is the Cheers rerun of the food world,” my friend…
• It wasn’t all that long ago Charlie noted the demise of Moquila, the upscale Mexican eatery in Boca that for a time after opening was quite the gastronomic hot stuff. Well, according to an ad on Craigslist, poshly appointed outpost of “progressive Mexican/Latin cuisine” is making a June comeback…
Top Chef, the reality cooking competition that turned the likes of Fabio Viviani, Carla Hall, Spike Mendelsohn and Brian Voltaggio into celebrities, is a weekly guilty pleasure for most of us. Sure, we can eat in the cheftestants’ restaurants (and there are a lot from South Florida including Kenny Gilbert,…
Last week, my fiancee’s father returned from a trip to Northern Florida with a veritable bushel of wild blueberries purchased from a roadside vendor. These things were amazing — monstrously big, ripe, and practically bursting with juice. For the next few days, we had blueberries on everything: in our cereal…
Think about all the cornbread you could have with a half-priced family meal…
Mike Ponluang, owner and executive chef of Coco Asian Bistro & Bar, has traveled the world, learning and teaching elegant Thai food preparation. He attended Siam Business School and worked as a cook at the Chaopraya Hotel, the open mess for United States Army officers stationed there during the Vietnam…
[jump] Just once, it would be grand to read a news item about food safety in the United States that didn’t amount to, “And of course, we’re all eating poison.” This item, is unfortunately, not that piece. Today’s “Everything is Covered in Feces” report comes to us courtesy of Michael…
The restaurant empire of David Manero just keeps on growing. The owner of Vic & Angelo’s, DeVito South Beach, The Office and BurgerFi is already gearing up for a July debut of his second BurgerFi in Delray Beach, with rumors of a third upscale burger joint for CityPlace swirling in…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 6: Dover Sole from La Cigale With food as with many things, simple pleasures are almost…
For 22 years, diners who ventured to downtown Hollywood could get a potent combo of fresh sushi and ear-bending tunes served by wife-and-husband team Junko Maslak and famed jazz-noise musician Kenny Millions. Maslak helped execute exotic dishes while Millions presided over the stage and patrons parked themselves in overstuffed couches…
When you walk into a local joint and encounter a table of cops tucking into the grub, it’s generally a pretty good sign. After all, peace officers, like couriers, often have a leg up on some of the best out-of-the-way places to score a solid meal at a good price…
If you’ve been following the Miami Heat during this NBA post-season, you know the Three Kings and company have been white hot, tearing through playoff teams like Philadelphia and Boston with ease. Now, the Heat are poised to knock off Chicago in game five of the conference finals tomorrow night…
People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals just named Sublime’s Apple Crumb Pie ala Mode the best vegan pie in America. The pie, made with an oatmeal streusel, Granny Smith apples and currants, is totally vegan, as is the ice “cream”. PETA’s first-ever ranking of pies was based on the recommendations of…
No backyard for a barbecue this weekend? No prob. From noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, Whole Foods Market, 1400 Glades Rd., Boca Raton will host a patriotic “Support Our Troops” cookout in support of the Forgotten Soldiers Outreach…
