I haven’t been more frightened to eat something as I was this week. Food critic and resident sadist John Linn walked up to my desk holding what looked like a glass trophy filled with long green peppers. He asked if I liked spicy foods and I replied that I did…
I’m a sucker for Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza’s meatball and ricotta pie. The combination of the thin, crisp, slightly charred, and bubbled crust with a simple tomato sauce, a little mozzarella, tiny meatballs, and blobs of rich ricotta is hard to resist when the urge for takeout pizza strikes. But…
• It may be early, but the folks at The Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival aren’t letting any arugula grow under their feet. Already scheduled to be on-hand for the Dec. 10 bash is local top toque Michelle Bernstein (at right), whose Michelle Bernstein at The Omphoy resort in…
There are so many food-related events going down in the next couple months, it almost makes you wish you had a doppelganger clone that you could send to do your bidding, er… tasting. At the very least, two stomachs could come in handy. You might need to outfit your clone…
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. Latin at Cabana El Rey, Thai at House of Siam, Italian at Vic & Angelo’s, Brazilian at Gol!, French…
Updated: check out the full review of Brother Tuckers here. I imagine heaven to be something like Brother Tuckers, a Belgian-themed gastropub in Pompano Beach and the subject of this week’s dish column. I spent much of last week buried in the pub’s brilliant version of chimichurri steak — it…
One of the great things about BX Beer Depot is that it’s more than just a place to find a wide selection of craft beer for sale. It’s also a destination for like-minded guys and gals to gather and discuss brews: what they like, what they don’t like, and what…
A friend of mine lives a block away from Rufus Ribs, a roadside barbecue trailer with an outdoor smoker in Boynton Beach. He’s there pretty much every week, gobbling down styrofoam containers full of meaty spare ribs and pulled pork. But for the past week, he’s been telling me about…
“I am not drinking any fucking Merlot!” That was Miles Raymond in Sideways, the movie that did for Merlot what Plan 9 From Outer Space did for science fiction cinema. If you’ve tasted much domestic and Australian Merlot over the past few years, you can sympathize with Miles. Most of…
Everyone has their own idea of what makes a perfect burger. For some, it’s the beefy flavor achieved from fresh grinding chuck, brisket, short rib, or round. Others wax scientific over the proper ratio of meat-to-bun. Purists prefer a the brilliance of one perfectly charred patty christened with only a…
We think of fast food as the ultimate convienance – if you’re hungry, all you have to do is head through a drive through and you can eat in minutes. Slow Food is the antithesis: the idea behind the movement is food that’s good for you and for the enviornment…
My favorite thing about The Lodge, a bar that serves a wide selection of craft beer in Boca Raton, is watching people get converted. On a recent visit, a pack of college kids from up the block at FAU swarmed in and grabbed seats next to us at the bar…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.Will Jog for Food is keeping up with the whole “Let’s exercise AND eat so we don’t turn into huge hogs” thing…
My sister had a business partner in her restaurant for a number of years, who, to protect his identity, I’ll call him Tattoo. He was a vegetarian — I know, I know, but you can’t argue with crazy. Tattoo didn’t just avoid eating meat, he was grossed out by it…
Word comes today via the Sun Sentinel that Jackson’s Steakhouse has shuttered those iconic double doors at 450 Las Olas Blvd. for good. Owner Jack Jackson has joined forces with the BOVA Group, operators of BOVA Prime just across the street as well as BOVA Ristorante and BOVA Cucina in…
I can’t think of a more unappealing sounding name for a roast beef sandwich than Roastburger. It sounds like something the characters in a Dr. Seuss book would simply refuse to eat. Roastburger implies that there’s a burger between the buns that’s been roasted. That is certainly not the case.Arby’s…
It’s a quiet Monday morning, and you’re in your kitchen, making yourself a cup of fresh ground coffee with your Starbucks Barista coffee grinder. You pop some beans into the hopper and press the grind button. Ah, smell that fresh coffee smell. After a few seconds, you remove the cap…
Florida spiny lobster season opens today and runs through March 31, meaning restaurants across South Florida should begin to stock the tasty, clawless buggers. The operative word here is should. Because, in reality, Florida lobster is a lot harder to get your mits on in a restaurant than you’d think…
Artisanal pizza is no longer a moron of the oxy variety, with pizzerias like Una Pizza Napoletana in New York, Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix, Pizzeria Delfina in San Francisco, and Pizzavolante in Miami’s Design District. And now you can add Dak Kerprich’s Pizzeria Oceano (201 E. Ocean Ave., Lantana, 561-429-5550)…
Even before I went on Saturday for lunch, there was little doubt that I’d hate Seasons 52, even though New Times named it Best Chain Restaurant in 2005. I mean, the place is run by the fine folks who brought you Red Lobster and, for Christ’s sake, Olive Garden. Then…
The Peruvian street food anticuchos is a dish with magnetic properties — you’re either instantly attracted to or completely repelled by it. The grilled chunks of meat are actually beef hearts. But if they’re rendered properly — like the ones at Taurus Steakhouse in Tamarac — they taste more like…
You may have thought cooking was just a way to get something to eat. Actually, it’s why homo sapiens developed bodies strong enough to bench-press a dump truck and brains that could create incomprehensible “financial instruments” to sell to widows and orphans and crash the world economy like a drunken…
