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. …
Irish cuisine isn’t really known as being super veg friendly, what with all the adorable, fuzzy lambs that are turned into decidedly less adorable stews and such. Any vegetarian who’s ever traveled the Emerald Isle — or stopped by a St. Patrick’s Day party at the local Irish pub –…
The Fire Within — a new food truck still under construction — needs help hitting the road. Chef husband-and-wife duo Seth and Melissa Bryan are itching to run their own eatery, but the costs of a traditional restaurant weren’t something they could afford. “The overhead of a brick-and-mortar restaurant was…
We continue with our interview with Emeril’s Miami Beach chef de cuisine, Tim Doolittle. Read part I of the interview here. Clean Plate Charlie: Talk to me about the fact that this is Emerils, a New Orleans restaurant and the Miami Beach menu is not traditional New Orleans food. Chef…
Starbucks is 40 years old, which is weird because I never remembered Starbucks being around when I was a child…or a teen. In fact I remember not knowing what Starbucks was until one day literally ten thousand Starbucks appeared like a mutant strain of alien virus to take over 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 83. Fagottini al Tartufo Bianco e Nero from Apicius Ristorante e Enoteca…
I don’t like grocery shopping. While I will be the first to admit I love food, I will also admit I don’t like buying it. I’ve caught myself standing in the pasta aisle, comparing the deals between store brands and name brands, wondering if my coupon for Kraft macaroni and…
It’s a party in Boca at Bash restaurant and nightclub (5970 SW 18th St.; 561-447-7171), a just-opened hot spot in the old Gatsby’s location at the southern edge of Palm Beach County in Boca Raton. A $500K redo by veteran nightlifer John Naimi created a space that can hold up…
Smokin’ and drinkin’, two of life’s more exemplary vices, are what’s up at Prime Cigar & Wine Bar (2240 NW 19th St., 561-613-6139), a classy, clubby outpost of good stogies and fine wine (and serious spirits) that’s opened in Boca Raton just west of I-95 off Glades Road. Local boy…
Slap! A long, fat fish hit the cleaning station with the force of a sledgehammer. “Now that, my friend, is a nice catch!” a tipsy bystander roared to the fisherman, who stood on the dock, cleaning and scaling his fish. The fisherman’s shipmates also admired the specimen that would soon…
Guy Fieri, the crazy-coifed host of Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, had his yellow and black Lamborghini stolen from a San Francisco car dealership today…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. As I often find myself lingering somewhere between the normal world and the restaurant world, I feel a sense of obligation to bring certain things to light for the civilian (nonindustry) population. Thus,…
Ah, March. A month saturated with the putrid stench of sweaty Spring Breakers. As we look down from our high-rise beach apartments to the bumper-to-bumper A1A traffic, we realize our daily errands are now a cumbersome task. Our white-sand beaches are now covered with empty beer bottles, piles of vomit,…
Think you can’t grow your own produce if you’re not living out on a farm? Well, maybe you should consider getting a truck. No joke! Truck Farm is a mobile farm where you plant into the bed of a truck. That means you are growing your own produce even if…
Tim Doolittle is the chef de cuisine at Emeril’s Miami Beach. Hailing from Kansas City, Chef Doolittle has worked in the industry since he was 18. His resume includes Wolfgang Puck and some of Kansas City’s best American restaurants. Most recently, he specialized in modern American fare as executive chef at Postrio and…
Let’s face it, YOU are a bitchin’ rock star from Mars and what better way to prove it than by rockin’ a totally bitchin’ lunchbox for National Pack a Lunch Day? That’s right, it’s time to dust off your Knight Rider lunchbox because March 10th is National Pack a Lunch…
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. 84: Guacamole From Dos Caminos…
In the fun-with-acronyms department, Fort Lauderdale’s new B Ocean resort will open its high-end sushi-Southeast Asian restaurant, SAIA (999 Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd.; 954-302-5252), this Friday. Named for its location on the corner of Sunrise Boulevard and AIA, the contemporary Asianesque restaurant will feature a teppanyaki grill, sushi bar, open-air…
Jennifer Aniston recently attempted a viral video to promote her favorite clear drinking liquid — Smartwater. With all the rage for desired web hits, what better way to sell the Glaceau water brand than pairing the 42-year-old sex symbol with various viral video subjects like dancing babies, double rainbows, and…
Clean Plate Charlie fights an internal struggle when it comes to food: convenience versus quality. We live within walking distance of Publix, where the produce is a couple of days old. On a lazy Sunday, we don’t want to haul across town to shop. But nothing beats picking fresh fruits…
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.Nicole DannaFresh Rock Shrimp from Bahama Mama’s…
I’d like to think that naming a Broward County tiki hut is simple, but I can tell by yesterday’s comments that some of you thought we were eating elsewhere. Luckily, a couple of you were on point with your guesses…
