Without further ado, This Week in Charlie…That Orbit gum girl was dead wrong: Pan Pasad is what cleans a dirty mouth.New Times is honored in the immortal halls of Sushi 1. Here’s what happens when you help yourself to your tenant’s restaurant, its employees, and concept: you get served. It’s…
Jackie SayetWhere’s the boeuf? Gordon Biersch’s new “German Kobe Burger” is one tasty number, but it’s neither from Germany nor Japan.Bova Prime is one of the busiest restaurants on Las Olas in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Chic, modern cylindrical chandeliers loom over a two-story dining room, which is paneled in long…
Tomorrow night’s Think Pink Rocks concert at the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater in Mizner Park should be full of cupcakes screaming groupie-style at hip-hop artists AKON and Shontelle. But one cupcake in particular will tower over all the rest: the 1500-pound pink-iced creation that will vie for the title of…
CBS 12 News did a segment last night featuring South Florida’s own Craig “the Pizza Expert” Agranoff, the man behind the pizza review website worstpizza.com. Reporter Emily Pantelides and “Really Big Stud” cameraman Chad tagged along with the Expert (or Lapp, as he’s known in certain circles) on a visit…
After nearly two solid decades of heavy caffeine consumption, I count myself nearly immune to the wonder drug. While my morning coffee/Diet Mountain Dew regimen gets me back to normal, sometimes that’s simply not enough. So I’ve decided to start trying out the bevy of energy drinks on the market…
For a time, when I was a lad growing up in New York, I went to an obnoxiously upscale grade school called St. Bernard’s (pronounced with Connecticut lockjaw of course, as in BERnerd’s, not BerNARD’S). I still have a copy of the school’s Christmas card from when I was in…
A better headline: Fixed-price Three Course Meals Lay Claim to South FloridaThat’s what seems to be going on, anyway, when, from month to month, one version of the “meal deal” ends and another begins. Flavor Palm Beach and Miami Spice both ended yesterday — no more can diners show up…
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…
Okay, Lirim Jacobi isn’t John Belushi and Taverna Opa isn’t Faber College, but a toga party is a toga party. And even U.S. Senator Blutarsky would have to admit that a toga party hosted by WILD 95.5 with DJs, wine tastings, a whole spit-roasted lamb, belly dancing, fire dancing, a…
It is not at all hard to make pickles. All it takes is a few vital ingredients: cucumbers, some brine, a jar, and some patience. If you’re missing any of these things, your pickles won’t turn out so hot. Also, it seems I’ve just discovered if you have too much…
Picture this: You’ve been invited for dinner at a friend’s house. He’s prepared a lovely meal — a salad of baby lettuces and herbs from the garden and a whole roasted pork loin dressed with sage and thyme. Midway through your pork loin — so juicy and tender — your…
This four-table restaurant in a rundown strip mall in Coral Springs is unassuming, but the authentic fare tastes like it comes straight from a kitchen in Mexico. The menu features the standard taco/burrito/quesadilla boilerplate, so order from the board of specials by the register. Everything is handmade daily, like the…
Restaurateurs tend to be a fairly optimistic lot. After all, a positive attitude is practically a requirement to enter a business that’s perpetually overbuilt, where profit margins can be as thin as Sarah Palin’s résumé.New Times talked to a pair of local restaurateurs whose longtime success in their markets is…
You know that sinking feeling you get when you discover that the orange you just bought at the local supermarket came from South Africa? Imagine how long it has been off the tree compared to that one you bypassed at the green market that same morning. The same goes for…
It’s a truism of the restaurant business that when the world goes to shit, diners’ taste for Indo-Peruvian Tuscan burrito sushi gratins vanishes, replaced by an intense craving for the culinary equivalent of a pat on the head, a glass of warm milk, and a thick, soft blankie to tuck…
Let’s go old school here and assume that it’s the gents who have to select which restaurant is best for wining and dining the ladies. (Or, for our gay readership, maybe you can just flip a coin or have a sexy baby-oil wrestling match to determine the chief decisionmakers in…
If there’s anything good that can be said about the past year or so in our economy-blighted restaurant industry, it’s that we’re beginning to loosen the bonds of the mall-and-chain dining megaliths that have for so long dominated the scene in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Here’s a sample of…
It’s official, there is some truth in advertising. Taco Bell’s half pound burritos will indeed fill you up. But it’s not a pleasant “I won’t have to eat for at least six hours” feeling of satisfaction. No, it’s more of “I can’t be further than 50 feet from a bathroom…
For years, Dolphins linebacker Bob Brudzinski chewed up running backs and wide receivers like an industrial strength meat grinder. After he retired, the Killer B decided it was time to let the rest of South Florida do the chewing, so he opened his successful line of sports bars, Bru’s Room…
Old-fashioned French cuisine (or “time-honored,” depending on how you see these things) got its 15 minutes of fame last month with the release of Julie and Julia, probably the first time anyone under 90 has heard the words “boeuf Bourguignon” and “dinner” in the same sentence. Except perhaps at L’Anjou…
An excerpt from this week’s Dish review on the Restaurant at 251, formerly da Francesco’s: Picture this: You’ve been invited for dinner at a friend’s house. He prepared a lovely meal – a salad of baby lettuces and herbs from the garden, and a whole roasted pork loin dressed with…
• Stick a fork in ’em, they’re done. Memphis BBQ & Blues, which took over the West Palm location of the late (and inexplicably lamented) Tom’s Place, will smoke no more (not that they did that much or that well to begin with). Also gone belly up is Culinary Café…
