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…
• The Fort Lauderdale Beach Hilton’s seafood-inspired joint, Ilios, is changing up its menu this spring, eschewing the tapas selections in favor of traditional portions. Dishes like seared Gulf Coast swordfish with Swank Farms heirloom tomato carpaccio are entirely local in origin, while speck-wrapped seared tuna with warm English pea…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
Transplanted from its Clematis Street location and set in the heart of Boca Raton, Rocco’s Tacos offers pricey Mex-ish bar food, a club-like atmosphere, and plenty of tequila to help it all down. Back is the tableside guacamole, fresh avocado pulped in a stone molcajete, along with onion, peppers, tomato,…
We were already stuffed when we started looking at dessert, having just feasted on fluffy pupusas larded with stringy cheese, crispy fried tostones, and pollo à la plancha smothered with a rustic sofrito of tomatoes, onions, and peppers. But after all that food, what my friend and I really longed…
A lunchtime plate of steak palomilla with rice, black beans, and tostones costs just $6.99 at Don Carlin Cuban Restaurant. The steak is thin and cooked on the griddle till it chars nicely, then topped with a mix of cooked Spanish onion and raw diced red onion, bell pepper, and…
Michelle Bernstein’s Palm Beach digs at the Omphoy Hotel serves a host of sexy cocktails from its downstairs O Bar and Lounge. One of them, an elderflower gimlet created by the hotel’s mixologist, one-ups the classic lime-infused martini with a shot of St. Germain. The floral, Alpine elderflower liquor was…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
With some 50 restaurants lining just a few blocks of Atlantic Avenue, there’s a lot of savoring to be done at Delray Beach’s annual Savor the Avenue food orgy. Eighteen restaurants will offer multicourse, prix fixe dinners, with each course paired to wines from Chile’s Santa Rita winery. Among them…
“They’re off!” at the Village at Gulfstream Park. The restaurants, that is. Close on the heels of the recent opening of III Forks come the debuts of two more eateries at the sprawling Hallandale shopping-entertainment-residential complex, Cantina Laredo and Tonino Lamborghini’s Caffe Corsa. The Gulfstream Cantina (501 Silks Run, 954-457-7662)…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
You’ve never had tortillas like the ones made at El Guanaco, the subject of this week’s Dish review. They are soft, thick, and made to order, and whether filled with slow-stewed lengua or presented on the side with a bowl of oxtail stew, they’re stellar. The thickness is what does…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. After a few glasses of wine, crunching numbers to figure out the tip for a three-digit bill can get…
After Executive Chef Mark Militello was ousted at the Office, two new chefs have stepped in to take his place. Executive Chef Larry LaValley will now run the kitchen at the popular new gastropub. LaValley previously served as chef de cuisine at the South Beach location of Militello’s ersatz eatery,…
One of my favorite, old-time Fort Lauderdale eateries was Dan’s Original Submarines on Sunrise and Old Dixie Highway. Dan’s was a perfect mixture of greasy spoon and sandwich shop — the tiny, simple storefront packed up during lunchtime with construction workers and businessmen and was a favored stop of Fort…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
There are only two things I ask for in a boyfriend: He must love football, and he must love garlic. I use garlic in almost everything I cook. I’ve also been known to roast it and eat it with a spoon (don’t judge). I’m not ashamed if the smell that…
Growing up, a good friend’s father ate more meat more regularly than anyone I knew or have known since. He would devour a half-pound of bacon for breakfast, eat burgers cooked in butter for lunch, and put away a hearty steak at dinnertime. Occasionally, he’d take us out for a…
• If you’re a food professional with an idea for a great new product; a caterer looking for an affordable, licensed, and fully outfitted kitchen; an amateur cook looking to improve your skills; or someone who wants a swell place to throw a party, check out the Production Kitchen (1253…
Big Al’s Steaks is getting a little bigger. “Big Al” Costilo, the cheerful purveyor of rigorously authentic Philly cheese steaks from locations in Coconut Creek and Delray Beach, will open his first franchise this summer on Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach. The menu featuring Philadelphia’s iconic sammie and its reliance…
In case you’ve been in a cave and haven’t seen it, the foodie talk about Crack Pie is burning up the net. The pie’s the product of David Chang’s Momofuku’s Bakery and Milk Bar in Manhattan, where it sells for a very cool $44 per pie.But: It’s legal and gives a high…
This week on the blog:Put some lamb in that hamburger, son.We add eats from Aleyda’s, Pine Garden, Rosey Baby, and more to our list of 100 Favorite Dishes in South Florida.Celebrity Chef Ralph Pagano left the Customs House to return to television. His new show will be called RST RV.Check…
