“The season ended.” It’s an answer he’s heard many times. He continues scanning over my resume, muttering to himself. “So, how are your eggs?” I’d rehearsed this answer but I already knew what was coming. “They’re pretty good — but it has been awhile,” I answered with just the right…
The Place: B.B. King’s Restaurant & Blues Club, 550 Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach. Call 561-420-8600. The Hours: 3 to 7 p.m. every day. The Deal: Half-off drinks and appetizers. The Digs: With locations already in the two music capitals of Memphis and Nashville and in the two tourist-trap capitals…
“Making wine accessible to everyone,” not just wine geeks, cork dorks and conny-sewers, is the goal of Coconut Creek’s new Bottega Wine Bar (4455 Lyons Rd., 954-969-1744), says co-owner Simon Bai. Along with partner Faron Shiem, Bai has created a space that’s as much a “nice environment to enjoy yourself”…
As I crossed the 17th Street bridge for an excursion to Fort Lauderdale beach, I noticed a new sign outside the Portside Yachting Center, a three-story business complex near the cruise ship terminal. “Market 17 Farm Fresh Restaurant and Bar,” the sign read. Funny, I thought this was where restaurants…
Dietitians, look away now. The following is unabashedly offensive to cholesterol and calorie counters.Grease Burger Bar in West Palm Beach is offering up its latest creation – the Grease Beast. It’s a 10-ounce hand-shaped cheeseburger stacked between two grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches. Since that’s not enough grease to make…
After the holidays – especially New Year’s Eve – you may hear people throw around the idea of a “cleanse.” The word alone brings to mind seven days of self-induced suffering with purge-worthy concoctions and ingredients like chili powder and maple syrup. So you know you want to do something good…
Yes. I’ll admit it. Almost every day, for close to a year now, my favorite lunchtime meal has been a nice, stiff drink. My favorite place to get it: a bar in Delray Beach. My usual: the Green Goddess.For $6.49 I’ll belly-up to the old wooden bar where I quickly…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach and writes regularly about her kitchen exploits. While recently writing a piece, I belted out some kitchen slang that set off question marks with my editors. I got a little laugh out of this, mainly because it reminded to me how “The…
This week we featured a two-part interview with chef Jamie DeRosa, who is opening the Atlantic Ocean Club and the Buddha Sky Bar in January and February. Check out the other parts here and hereAt the end of the interview, we asked about his favorite drink, and he mentioned bourbon…
Last week, we told you about meat glue — what it is, what it does. Is there anything it can’t do?Even as scientific minds caution chefs about the unknown dangers of sticking a slice of smoked turkey on a sirloin, cooks across the country are going crazy trying to best…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. Every week, she interviews a different kitchen insider for her Q & A series, Behind the Line. In this economy it’s exciting to see a restaurant opening against the odds, especially a American bistro. But to entertain the uh, let’s call them “particular” …
Remember Timothy Treadwell? He loved grizzly bears so much, and was such a whack job, that he decided to live with them in the Alaskan wilderness. One summer, this one big-ass bear got a little, well, bear-y, and ate Treadwell and his girlfriend right up.Now, that’s probably not going to…
Missing Mama’s cooking already, now that the holiday season has officially come to an end? Check out Cooking With the Calamari Sisters, an interactive performance taking place this Thursday through Sunday (January 6 through 9) at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts’ Amaturo Theater (201 SW Fifth Ave. in…
New Year’s resolutions usually come out of a drunken night of feeling sorry for yourself – I’m too fat, I’m going to get cancer from smoking, I’m dating an asshole….blah, blah. blah….Look – whatever New Year’s resolution you make, you’re probably going to break and then hate yourself for doing…
New Year’s resolutions aren’t really all that difficult to keep – you just have to “tweak” them a bit (having low expectations doesn’t hurt, either). We’ve taken the most popular New Year’s resolutions and given you suggestions on how to keep them. 1. Quit Smoking So you decided…
Because woman cannot live on reheated Amy’s Organics breakfast burritos alone (would if I could, believe me), this month seems ripe for a revamp on home cooking options. Whether it’s sticking to that New Year’s resolution to only eat foods with ingredients you could actually spell in a spelling bee…
There are few things more delicious than the taste of crispy fried chicken. The crunch of the skin, the juiciness of the meat, and everlasting thought of bliss as the combination of both make their way into my belly. Thankfully, Fran’s Chicken Haven in Boca Raton fills my gluttonous fat…
While South Florida isn’t exactly known for its exceptional Southern cooking, this Palm Beach County dive has been serving traditional chicken and biscuits for more than 45 years…
Jamie DeRosa, a veteran of Wolfgang Puck Dining Group, Chef Allen’s, and the Michelin-starred Fat Duck in England, is breaking onto the South Florida scene with a duo of new spots in Delray Beach: the Atlantic Ocean Club and Buddha Sky Bar. With experience in everything from gastropubs to molecular…
Erik Brinkmann admits he has restaurant withdrawals. “I’m here every day,” he says. “We closed on Christmas, and I was dizzy — literally — because I was off.” The owner of Shelby’s Kitchen in Deerfield Beach says he is good at delegating. However, Brinkmann has put in 14 hours every…
Turns out President Obama wants YOU… to be a farmer. In the past year or two, it seems like small, urban farms and CSAs (like the Urban Farmer in Pompano Beach) are popping up throughout South Florida. And that’s a great thing for anybody who values fresh produce that didn’t…
• Alberto Tucci has got to be feeling pretty good this holiday season as his cozy little Boca Raton pizzeria, Tucci’s Fire N Coal Pizza, was just voted one of the top ten pizza joints in the country for 2010 by Worstpizza.com, a pie-happy website that despite its name actually…
