This time around, the happy hour food isn’t fried, microwaved, boiled, or steamed. In fact, it isn’t even cooked. If you’re looking for a little something different to go with your cocktails, Coco Asian Bistro and Bar is the place to be. From 4 to 7 pm, happy hour is…
Pizza Fusion, born as a single restaurant operation in Deerfield, is now aggressively franchised. On March 31, the company announced a series of Pizza Fusion restaurants opening across Saudi Arabia. Its motto is “Saving the Earth one pizza at a time” and all deliveries are made using company-owned hybrid vehicles. The menu…
20 years in the restaurant biz is a hell of an achievement, and Coral Gables’ Cafe Abbracci, 319 Aragon Ave, just hit that mark. To celebrate, the place is adding light, organic, calorie-conscious offerings to its roster of the traditional Italian favorites that have kept them in business all these years…
The Water Club (no relation to Tony Chan’s Water Club) is slated to open late May in the Intracoastal Mall at 3969 N.E. 163 St., North Miami Beach (the former locale of Shooters Waterfront Bar and Restaurant, which closed in 2001). The new indoor-outdoor venue will encompass 27,500-square-feet and seat…
Smell that? April 19 is National Garlic day, a holiday of ungoogleable origin that aims to promote the spice’s many varied uses. Whether you’re slicing it razor thin like Pauly in Goodfellas or warding off vampires, this much is clear: Garlic has a legend that goes back millenia. Often seen…
My friend Peggy Jean was in town over the Easter holidays. Peggy Jean is a real Southern cook, which means that just about everything she makes calls for many pounds of butter, cartons of heavy whipping cream, half and half, bacon fat, salt, and variations on the theme of sugar…
It’s going to be a beer-filled kind of week, folks. First, New Times’ Original Beerfest is only five days away. If you haven’t grabbed your tickets yet to the four-hour celebration of import and craft brews, you can pick them up here. Second, this Thursday is the opening of Beer…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Cafe Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe.Some secrets South Floridians like to keep to themselves. Lake Worth hole-in-the-wall Havana Hideout has a few of them. Like its…
[jump] BOCA RATON- LUCILLE’S BAD TO THE BONE BBQ 3011 Yamato Rd., Boca Raton 561.997.9557Wednesday night – Two kids eat free with each adult entree purchased. CORAL SPRINGS- CHICKEN KITCHEN 1309 University Rd., Coral Springs 954.757.6123Saturday and Sunday – One kid eats free with adult purchase. CUTLER RIDGE-…
Welcome to South Florida. This is dog country, dog gone it, so why can’t you have brunch with your bulldog, lunch with your lab, or dinner with your Doberman? Well, you can. Here is a list of outdoor restaurants that are open to interspecies dining so you finally have a spot…
We celebrate our post-Easter holiday around here with a ritual: our annual Peeps Stations of the Cross, Peeps Crucifixion, and Peeps Heresy Trials. What is it about those little yellow, blue, pink, and purple marshmallow chickies that makes you wanna do nasty things to them? Why are there always so…
The Thai new year, called Songkran, is celebrated today, April 13, through this Wednesday. The word means “move” or to “change place,” in regard to the sun’s changing its position in the zodiac. Songkran doesn’t boast any B-list celebrities reporting on a big ball dropping down a pole, but the…
OK, let’s get this out of the way first: Froots is a chain smoothie shop, not a locally based family owned restaurant. The good news is Froots is easy to find, inexpensive, and will even deliver (in case you feel like eating healthy without leaving your couch for more than…
Later this month, the first U.S. outpost of Paris’ popular Caviar Kaspia will open at the Webster in Miami Beach. The original Kaspia was established in 1927 and over the decades has become an institution in Parisian society. The Webster branch promises to have “the same menu as its Paris…
because it’s funny…From Uriel 1998’s FlickrEaster Sunday’s almost here and you know what that means. Egg hunts, omelets, brunches, churches, dinners, family and giant rabbits. Yoda, not so much, but he’d be welcome at Jesus’ table anytime, even if…
It was a week like no other. Time passed. Days went by. Stuff happened. Now it’s Friday. What will you do? Where will you go? The world is your oyster. Shuck & Jive baby, shuck & jive. Read on for cheese steaks, slave dinners, and old chefs…
It may seem counterintuitive to dine on six-hour osso buco and goat milk ice cream so that the hungry of Darfur might eat, but Slow Food Miami and the Sagamore Art Hotel in South Beach are inviting you to do just that Wednesday, April 29. The new Whitehall Restaurant at…
Although Short Order is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of the better local food blogs:All Purpose Dark does consistently good work updating restaurant openings, food reviews, cooking classes, and upcoming events at local restaurants.A Mingling…
On a recent, unseasonably cool afternoon, I drifted away into one of those vivid naptime dreams, the ones where you wake up and think for a second that what you just went through was real. There was a knocking, no, a pounding at the door, as if Grendel were on…
Hell’s Kitchen is heating up and three of the six chefs left are Florida based. We spoke to Paula, Danny and Gio back when the first episode was set to drop, so being that all three are still in the running we decided to get up with them and see…
Sometimes, pictures say it all, and these pictures of Paciugo Italian Gelato Cafe do just that. Paciugo is a family owned chain, based in Dallas Texas, who offer more than 200 flavors of whole milk based gelato…
Chef Allen is a good Jew, the type of dude who throws a gourmet Seder for 15 years and invites everybody to try his kitchen’s New World takes on, this year, Sephardic and Ashkenazi classics. I recently spoke to Chef Allen by phone. He spoke about matzah, bitter herbs, and…
