So you say you’re a fan of chicken salad, but you haven’t checked out Fred’s Ultima Café &Market (400A Clematis St., West Palm Beach, 5616599877). For shame! OK, perhaps you can be forgiven for thinking Fred’s is a health food store, ’cause it is, selling items like vitamin supplements and…
Mai-Kai. 3599 N.Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale, 9545633272. Open nightly for dinner from 6p.m.; call for showtimes and appropriate seatings.
Pupu platter
$13.95
Lobster Tahitienne
$32.00
Bananas Bengali (for two)
$11.75
So you can’t afford to dine at La Vieille Maison, the highly regarded French restaurant on Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton. Here’s a solution: Go across the street. The restaurant also runs a charming wine store called Great Taste (285 E.Palmetto Park Rd., Boca Raton, 5613916701). The store stocks…
Breakfast is often the meal that gets overlooked, particularly when you tend to dine, as I often do, late at night. I’m hardly ever hungry in the morning — unless I’m at Wolfie’s (100 S.Military Trl., Deerfield Beach, 9545709100 — not to be confused with Wolfie Cohen’s Rascal House). No…
Aegean Isles. 297E.Palmetto Park Rd., BocaRaton, 5613687788. Dinner nightly from 5till 10p.m.; Friday and Saturday till 11p.m.
Tzatziki
$5.95
Saganaki
$8.95
Pikilia
$14.95
Galaktobouriko
$2.95
Aegean Isles. 297E.Palmetto Park Rd., BocaRaton, 5613687788. Dinner nightly from 5till 10p.m.; Friday and Saturday till 11p.m.
Tzatziki
$5.95
Saganaki
$8.95
Pikilia
$14.95
Galaktobouriko
$2.95
So you can’t afford to dine at La Vieille Maison, the highly regarded French restaurant on Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton. Here’s a solution: Go across the street. The restaurant also runs a charming wine store called Great Taste (285 E. Palmetto Park Rd., Boca Raton, 561-391-6701). The store…
Years ago, when I was a college student in Boston, I frequented a restaurant in Harvard Square called the Hong Kong. Done up in red Naugahyde booths and fringed souvenirs from the Orient, the place was usually packed, which meant that I often had to wait on line for a…
Flu season is supposed to be over, but don’t mention that to the Soup Doctor (7491 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton, 561-988-9381). This “soup bar and retail outlet” — actually a friendly storefront deli in the Publix Boca Valley Plaza with a few tables scattered around so you can sit…
Though I come from a family of fishermen, I’m not much of one myself. Oh, I’ve trawled for my share of yellowtail in South Florida waters, and I pride myself on the three piranhas I caught while visiting the Peruvian Amazon. But for most of my life, I’ve avoided the…
The problem with most cooking classes, as I see it, is that they take place in a kitchen — a hot, humid, sweaty place where you wind up smelling like whatever it is you learned how to make. Well, Oliver Saucy, chef-proprietor of the famed Cafe Maxx, has come up…
OK, here’s a question: What does a chef who is a native of Lebanon, speaks five languages, has trained in Paris restaurants, and has attended culinary school in Oslo, Norway, do next? Easy — he marries an American girl from Davie and opens a restaurant in a strip mall in…
Many moons ago, Food & Wine magazine called up a bunch of us so-called food professionals and asked a staggering number of questions that required far too much thinking on the spot. Where would we eat our last meal on earth? Whom did we think was the greatest chef of…
It may not seem, at first, like the ideal way to escape the ever-escalating heat and humidity, but in my summer-doldrums book, it’s high time for high tea. Not the iced variety but the steaming Darjeeling kind, brewed in a pot at Tea at Lily’s (3020 N. Federal Hwy., Fort…
Forget springtime in Paris. How ’bout summer in Germany? OK, not literally. But you can pretend to be touring the Continent at Old Heidelberg (914 State Rd. 84, Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-3880), a cozy, welcoming little deli carrying German books, magazines, newspapers, and music. Of course the cultural arts pale in…
My favorite cameo in the cult film This Is Spinal Tap has got to be Billy Crystal’s. Wearing a mime’s classic face makeup, he’s cheering on a group of fellow waiters who also happen to be mimes. He claps his white-gloved hands and says something like “C’mon people. Mime is…
Whoever said the finest things in life don’t come cheap never visited Hot Dog Heaven (101 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-523-7100), a walk-up joint where you can order at the window then sit at a picnic table and eat an excellent Chicago-style dog with the works — mustard, relish,…
Several years ago a fellow writer approached me at a party and said, “I read your column, but I don’t go to any of the restaurants you recommend.” I’m used to backhanded compliments, even downright insults. So I just shrugged and said, “Why not?” “I’m lactose intolerant,” he admitted. When…
Pop culture continues to enthrall me. This week I’m obsessed with Ally McBeal. Not because I like the series so much, but because of the show’s disregard for setting. McBeal takes place in Boston, but you’d never know it. Unlike the cast of the Chicago-set ER, which is always going…
Gap fans who’ve noticed the latest ad campaigns (khakis a-go-go, anyone?) might think Khaki’s is a good place to stock up on pants and shorts. But Boca Raton folks have long known Khaki’s to be a great place to fill up on casual American fare, like enormous caesar salads topped…
Against my better judgment, I’m a fan of Ricky Martin. I used to watch the World Cup soccer games because I enjoyed the sport, but in 1998 I watched for the sole pleasure of hearing Martin’s limb-stirring, pop-Latin tune “La Copa de la Vida,” which the World Cup Federation selected…
Some people are just tomato freaks; they’ll do anything for a good, juicy tomato. Like my dad, who has been on a lifelong mission to find the world’s perfect tomato. Good thing he lives in New Jersey, where many of the country’s summer tomatoes are planted. This time of year…
