This week is American Craft Beer Week, which means there are a host of beer events each night through Sunday. Tonight, one of the coolest events of the week goes down in Delray Beach. Ales on the Avenue is a full-fledged pub crawl hosted by a host of Delray Beach…
Pete Evans — set to invade America. Pete Evans is a major celebrity chef in Australia, but if you don’t know his name yet, don’t worry… you will, because Pete is poised to take over the U.S. His first American book, My Grill, has just been released (at more than…
Earlier this month, while some high school seniors were ditching classes to catch up on lost episodes of 16 and Pregnant (it’s too addictive to avoid), one impressive Nova High School senior took pen to paper and later spatula to bowl to craft the perfect sticky sweet sendoff as she…
An adequate lunch for a buck — just for today. Today (May 19), at all locations in Broward County, Jimmy John’s will offer any of their six eight-inch gourmet sub sandwiches…
Hard-wired survival instincts demand you eat when your body is running low on fuel. But what about when hunger strikes and you’re stuck at a Little League game, the taxidermist (it could happen!) or a Denny’s? Those instincts for self-preservation may experience a moment of conflict when faced with the…
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. 13: Tomato Bisque en Croute From Jimmy’s BistroFew dishes out there can make an entire restaurant…
Billboards have popped up all over the U.S. declaring that Rapture, or Judgment Day, is May 21. That’s less than a week away.Sure, the Bible said that no one will know when rapture will happen but that didn’t stop Harold Camping, the president of a California-based religious broadcasting network called…
Nine local restaurant business years is the equivalent of 100 or so regular old human years. Nine restaurant years on Las Olas Boulevard, well. . . that’s downright prehistoric. Celebrating those nine years of scratching, clawing, fighting for business, Big City Tavern has redone its indoor and outdoor dining areas,…
Entire foodie messageboards are dedicated to them. Cholesterol meds are developed to counteract them. And if you want to start a fight, ask any South Floridian where to find the best one. I’m talking about juicy, delicious, American burgers. A host of local burgers stand out from the pack: the…
A couple months behind an anticipated March opening, Luigi’s Coal Fire Pizza opened its doors for service Tuesday, May 17.Locals seemed eager to try Napolitan chef Luigi DiMeo’s (previously of Rino’s Tuscan Grill) fare at the new neighborhood pizzeria. By 8 p.m. Tuesday night, a line of hungry customers snaked…
We love chef Lillo Teodosi’s Boca Raton Italian eatery, Caruso Ristorante. So after our 100 Favorite Dishes extolling his antipasti amuse posted yesterday, we were shocked to see a comment from a reader claiming Teodosi was no longer in the kitchen.Posted by Michael, 9 hours ago Unfortunately Chef Teodosi is…
If you’re looking for a place to take the family for dinner you’re in luck because 22 of South Florida’s best food trucks are gathering at Ed Morse Sawgrass Auto Mall tonight. From 5:00 – 9:00 pm, the Food Truck Party hits Broward with plenty of free parking and just…
Just months after it opened with chef Jamie DeRosa at the helm, Atlantic Ocean Club in Delray Beach shut down. According to Twitter, the final service for the “farm-to-table” restaurant came Saturday night, after which the entire staff was let go. The determinate nail in the coffin was posted on…
[jump] Commitmentphobes don’t have to settle for just one culinary destination Thursday night when the Taste of Boynton provides a smorgasbord of edible options from many of the area’s popular restaurants. The event also features a winetasting courtesy of the Wine Cellar of Boynton Beach. South Florida band Cricklewood will…
Get this — around the country “ag-gag” bills are being introduced that would prevent photos or video from being taken on farms. PETA has long thrived on these images for their anti-meat campaigns. Investigative journalists and documentary filmmakers have also used footage and images taken from farms to showcase to…
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. 14: Keste Pizza from Scuola Vecchia Let’s not beat around the caperberry bush here: This…
Great news, everyone! It’s American Craft Beer Week!What’s American Craft Beer Week? It’s a nationwide celebration of all things craft beer, running from May 16 to 22. And it’s going on right now at restaurants and bars all across South Florida.Getting involved is simple: Just pony up to any one…
Top Chef”s Carla Hall has a new gig (hint: It’s not cooking for humans). Carla, the lovable contestant best-known for putting “love” into her dishes on Bravo’s reality show, is the new spokesperson for Fancy Feast cat food. In a video, Hall invites people to enter the Fancy Feast create-a-flavor contest,…
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. 15: Antipasti Plate at Caruso RistoranteI don’t know Lillo Teodosi personally, other than the time I…
The votes are in, folks, and for the second year in a row, Wilton Manors’ Georgie’s Alibi claimed victory in the Riverwalk Trust Burger Battle, held Friday on Las Olas Boulevard. For Georgie’s, winning this competition two years in a row proves it can’t be a fluke. This burger, a…
Friday night’s Burger Battle continued the ongoing debate over which Fort Lauderdale restaurant is the champion of the chuck. And for the second year in a row, that champ is…Georgie’s Alibi. Click here for a full slide show from the event. The veteran Wilton Manors restaurant and bar wowed the…
Potatoes, puhtahtoes, tomatoes, tomahtoes. What’s the difference, right? For most of us, what we buy is heavily influenced by price. Most people assume that farmers’ markets in the U.S., while lovely to look at, are not as affordable to regularly shop at as local chains. But is our assumption totally…
