Couldn’t score a ticket across the pond for the London 2012 Olympics and now you’ll be stuck watching the summer games “in the colonies”? No worries; South Florida bars and restaurants are flying the Union Jack (next to the good ol’ Stars and Stripes, of course) in honor of the…
Jon Bon Jovi is coming to the Hard Rock Live tonight for his first-ever solo show with the Kings of Suburbia, and we thought it would be an opportune time to show gratuitous pictures of him inform you that his brother and dad have teamed up to bring “Great Grandma…
It used to be that if a New York City transplant asked for the best corned beef in Boca, everybody knew where to send him. Sure, the Wolfie Cohen’s Rascal House on Glades Road didn’t have the character of the original Wolfie’s on South Beach, but there was still that…
We’re counting down our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, email them here. When you think of Palm Beach, you picture yacht clubs adorned with Ralph Lauren décor, patrons in Brooks Brothers blazers, and ladies in seahorse-embellished Lilly…
Are you going to see Kiss and Mötley Crüe this Friday at Cruzan Amphitheatre?If so, we’ve got your next stop: Head downtown to the afterparty at Feelgood’s Rock Bar in West Palm Beach for a chance to meet Mötley Crüe frontman and Feelgood’s co-owner Vince Neil, who will be making…
Interest in farming and gardening is on the rise. In line with the national trend, community gardens and school garden projects are starting to pop up all over South Florida. Just last week, Fort Lauderdale city commissioners approved a code designed to bring back urban agriculture.Given these circumstances, it seems…
E! Online reports that Fat Actress star Kirstie Alley is being sued in a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed on July 20 in Los Angeles Superior Court, by would-be dieter Marina Abramyan, who claims the diet supplements are bogus. Basically, the 28-page document states that Alley lost weight not by…
Ever wish you could dress up like a Ninja Turtle and actually be rewarded for it? Well, now is your chance…This Thursday, Clematis by Night and Aaron Wormus — AKA “A Guy on Clematis” — are hosting a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Bar Crawl in preparation for the first annual…
On the way to the Acreage, I exit the turnpike and turn onto Beeline Highway. There is not much around. Large forested lots with a few scattered gas stations — the image one would expect when heading out to a farm. I felt as though I had stepped away from…
He’s been around these blocks a few times. He was young when it all began. At the ripe old age of twenty, chef Chris Miracolo began making a name for himself in the South Florida dining scene. Under the guidance of local culinary celebrities — Mark Militello, Norman Van Aiken,…
Is that grouper you have there on your plate or pangasius — a mild-flavored white-flesh fish farmed in Asia? The next time you’re out to dine in South Florida, it may be a question you should ask yourself.According to a new report released by Oceana, an international advocacy group for…
Updated at 10:48 p.m. to include comment from Steak 954 spokesman Chad FabrikantA class-action federal lawsuit filed on Friday alleges that Starr Restaurants Hotel Group stiffed employees on overtime wages. Starr Restaurants, according to its website, is the parent company of Steak 954 in Fort Lauderdale and Makoto in Bal…
Clean Plate Charlie is a closet Gleek. That’s right… we’ve just lost any street cred by admitting we watch Glee. Look, if we didn’t watch it, we would have missed the totally awesome episode in which Finn sees the son of God in his sandwich. That’s right, folks! He saw…
Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don’t forget to check out the full Best of Broward/Palm Beach® 2012 online at bestof.voiceplaces.com.Piles of fluffy pancakes as far as…
We’re counting down our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, email them here.Farm-to-table restaurants are amazing. Because they source ingredients from local farms rather than from Sysco, their fruits and vegetables teem with flavors often lacking in their…
The London 2012 Summer Olympics kick off on Saturday, and it’ll be hard to not feel a bit like an undisciplined couch potato once you catch a glimpse of all those hard bodies in skimpy uniforms achieving amazing feats of strength, speed, and agility. Before those incredible physiques guilt you…
Ready for some more Italian in South Florida? Sunrise will soon see the addition of Italian Red Sauce to its somewhat limited roster of family-owned restaurants. The 200-seat space is set for a soft opening on August 1, with a grand-opening event tentatively planned for September, when season begins to…
Talia’s Tuscan Table can lay claim to a loyal crowd: Ask any fan about chef Andrew Bennardo’s true hero sandwiches and prepare for lots of superlatives and an almost cult-like devotion to the stacks of deli meats and other fixings piled high on homemade bread. But after years in the…
In South Florida, restaurateurs can take a good, innocent trend…and beat it to death. Haven’t we heard enough about beer bars, farm-to-table fare, and good ole’ gastropubs?But it’s nothing but new at Roy Villacrusis’ latest pop-up, the Studio, where a different menu is served up each night. Inside the West…
What goes great with a meatball and a bun in the oven? How about a nice, cold, wild-cherry soda?Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, our favorite self-proclaimed Jersey Shore meatball, has come a long way from dancing on bars, getting arrested, showing her privates, and looking for gorilla-juicehead love. This soon-to-be-mother (yes… we’re…
Congratulations! You’ve made it through the week to another Friday — and you know what that means. Freedom from work for an entire 48 hours, copious amounts of mindless drinking, getting weird, and partying until dawn…OK, maybe you’re not planning on a crazy weekend, but you can start off that…
As a Florida native, non-natives tend to whine open up to me about why they hate Florida, disdainfully referring to my beloved sunshine state as “the foot of the nation” (in which case New Jersey is clearly the armpit). They lament about nearly everything–the suffocating humidity, our lawless pill-pushing governor,…
