The Easter Holiday lands on Sunday, April 24 this year, rather late, and having most of us with serious alcohol withdrawals due to the Lenten sacrifices. Easter can’t come soon enough, less than 2 weeks and counting. Your segue into hedonism just got easier with the party of the year.
Wendy’s natural-cut fries with sea salt sound almost like granola in their commercials. The fast-food chain touts that the fries are natural-cut russet potatoes, sprinkled with sea salt for a fry that’s better (and better for you). Shocker of a lifetime — Wendy’s may not be exactly telling the whole…
The IRS was nice enough to give us a whopping two-day extension on filing our taxes. That’s all well and good, but you still might come out feeling a little poorer if you have to write a check to Uncle Sam today. Fret not, because there are a lot of…
Sticking to the tune of free(almost) and/or all-you-can-eat food, we have Baskin Robbins. The battle over whether Carvel has better ice cream cake and vice versa may come to mind, but,…
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. 45: Banana Praline French Toast from the Hurricane CafeOn this end of the county, small…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half Baked. His voice may send shivers down a young cook’s spine and his temper may be infamous — but Gordon Ramsay has nothing on South Florida Chefs this April. The days are getting…
A local artisan bakery has opened and offers cookie delivery all over South Florida. Tea For Two Cookie Co. specializes in all natural, uniquely flavored shortbread cookies, which come packaged in eco-friendly materials.Their products are made with gourmet ingredients and are…
Budding culinary entrepreneurs in need of affordable, convenient, professionally outfitted kitchen space will soon have that need met when Havana Hideout chef-owner Chrissy Benoit opens her second Production Kitchen in West Palm Beach. The new PK goes into the same complex on Old Okeechobee Road as the original…
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. 46: Paneer Makhani from The PalaceThere are many things both good and bad that you…
Soon your secret will be exposed to the world. YOU are addicted to hollandaise. Consider yourself outed! Now everyone knows that deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want that hollandaise; you need that hollandaise…and who could blame you?…
Chicken Kitchen located at 35 North Federal Highway has closed for business. The light-up “Open” sign has flickered off, and the “For Lease” sign has replaced it. But, no need to fret, there is another location at 5071 North Dixie Highway in Oakland Park (954-267-8644), which is a short seven…
This Sunday, the Urban Farmer is hosting a dinner presented by Farm to Fork. The evening starts at 4:45 with a tour of the Urban Farmer’s hydroponic farm, set in the middle of Pompano Beach. After the tour, guests will enjoy a family-style dinner prepared by a local chef and…
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. 47: Bruschetta Pizza from Pizza Fusion…
On Friday, April 29, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. the baking gloves come off when participating bakeries compete for the esteemed title of best cupcake at the first-ever New Times Cupcake Battle, part of the 2011 Las Olas Wine & Food Festival! As promised, here on Clean Plate Charlie, we’ll…
Upscale casual Brio Tuscan Grill, part of the Ohio-based Bravo Brio Restaurant Group chain, is slated to debut in the Shops of Boca Center mall sometime this fall. The 8,400-square-foot Brio will be the chain’s fourth SoFla location, joining fellows in Hallandale Beach, Pembroke Pines and Palm Beach Gardens. At…
In junior high, my best friend accompanied me to a science fair where one student’s experiment surrounded around what happens when you put a mouse and a snake in the same small glass case. I’ll spare you the slow motion National Geographic details and just tell you that the snake eventually…
flickr, vanherdehaage It’s time to stock up on candy and gather around with your peeps; Easter is almost here! Here are some of the places with fun-filled activities where you can celebrate Easter with the kids…
Pinot Grigio-poached Patagonian Toothfish on kale and pear salad with sautéed apple and Belgian endive proved a winning combination for Café Boulud chef Zach Bell at last night’s Battle Sea Bass, a culinary throwdown highlighting Palm Beach County’s first Taste of the Nation hunger benefit. Cooking from a mystery basket…
As a vegetarian, Easter is one of several holidays where I struggle to muster half the enthusiasm for the menu as most everyone else in the room. If, like me, you’ve ever gone riffling through the Easter basket rejects in search of sustenance while your compatriots drooled over a honey-baked…
Yesterday, we shared Part I of our interview with Casa Mia’s Chef Geremia Coppola. If you missed it, you can read it here. We now continue with our interview. Clean Plate Charlie: What would a typical meal in Italy consist of? Chef Geremia Coppola: We eat healthy. Everything is fresh. You…
JC Wahoo’s Sports Bar and Grill in Lighthouse Point looks like it belongs on the California coast instead of this quiet enclave in South Florida. It has a laidback feel that even us Floridians haven’t mastered as well as the West Coast.Which is why, be it for lunch or dinner, now…
As a countdown to the upcoming slider competition — Sips & Sliders at Sunset hosted by Las Olas restaurant YOLO April 21, Clean Plate Charlie interviewed chefs of the participating restaurants.Next up is Chef Angelo Elia of Casa D’Angelo Restaurant. Although the chef is a bit mysterious about the specific…
