The Royal Pig Pub & Kitchen Scheduled to Open Mid-June

The former Samba Room space at 350 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale has been gutted and rehabbed for the debut of the Royal Pig Pub & Kitchen. The Royal Pig is a project of Joe Upchurch, whose restaurants include beachfront locations of Hooters, Ugly Tuna Saloona, Lulu’s Bait…

66. Fresh Pulled Mozzarella From Da Campo Osteria

We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments, or visit our Facebook page. 66. Super Mozzarella…

Free Cone Day Today at Ben & Jerry’s Stores

Free deep-fried onions and free (possibly pink-slime-laced) burgers won’t necessarily appeal to every consumer, but it seems there’s one national chain promotion with practically universal allure. Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating “free cone day” today from noon to 8 p.m. at stores around the country, including here in South Florida,…

67. Slim Lady Roll From Fah Asian Bistro and Sushi Bar

We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments, or visit our Facebook page. 67. Slim Lady…

Malcolm’s Opens at the Omphoy

When Michelle Bernstein left the Omphoy restaurant back in January, the boutique Palm Beach resort was left without a fine-dining establishment — at the height of the busy and lucrative tourist season.The Omphoy resort has fixed that problem with the recent opening of Malcolm’s. The seaside restaurant has named Michael…

South Florida’s Best Places to Sip Wine

The American Fine Wines Competition gala is set for April 19 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. At $310 a pop, a spot at the table nets a four-course dinner and tastes of many of the 600 American wines featured in the competition. Late Show With David Letterman announcer…

Misfit Home-Brewers Land Top Prize at New Times Beerfest

If there was one big winner from Saturday night’s Beerfest, it was the small brewer. The home brewers and the upstarts took home a couple of the biggest prizes from our Clean Plate Charlie awards, a remarkable feat considering the megabrewers that were present. Here, then, are our winners from…

Michelle Bernstein Wins Miami Cochon 555

Michelle Bernstein of Michy’s won last night’s Cochon 555 at the Four Seasons in Miami, an event in which five chefs each cooked a whole heritage pig — offal and all — for judges and several hundred adventurous guests. At the announcement of the win, the crowd held up flutes of…

South Florida’s Best Inexpensive Italian

Know of a great little mom-and-pop place we need to check out or someone great we missed altogether? Please let us know in the comments (bearing in mind that pizza got its own “best of” list, so we went more inclusive with this collection). 1. Talia’s Tuscan Table By eliminating table service,…

Fusionarie Japanese Signature in Boca Raton: First Look

The restaurant has “the best sushi around that I’ve had in a while. It’s really good, and the presentation is really cool,” Feinberg said of the hip new space in a thoroughly restaurant-saturated area of downtown Boca (Royal Palm is home to more than 20 restaurants alone). …

Florida’s Tomatoland Is Still Awfully Bleak

This video has been sent to me a couple of time this week, filmed during a visit to Immokalee, Florida by Daniel Klein of The Perennial Plate. It’s where a third of the country’s tomatoes are grown for grocery sales.During his visit, Klein interviews Lupa Gonzalo from Guatemala, a tomato…

Doughnuts Are the Cause of America’s Problems

It is true that America is home to the Luther Burger. It is true that America invented greasy fast food and continues to love its Burgerdonalds and McKings with heart-stirring (and -stopping) patriotic ardor. It is true that our prolonged prosperity in the 20th Century, our early adoption of refrigeration,…

Burger King Eye Shadow: Coming Soon?

In this era of locavorism, we’re wondering what restaurants in our towns should get the shadow treatment. We’re nominating a rendition in whites, browns, and reds on the Primanti Bros. sandwich. Or a brown and yellow number for Jack’s Hamburgers. Other options are a YOLO gray lid with a red YO…

75 Main Scheduled to Open April 12

A new American spot, 75 Main, is slated to open in Delray April 12. The space showcases a tailored bar, white walls, bold modern art, and glass doors that open to Atlantic Avenue. An after-hours lounge bouys the back of the restaurant, lapped in coffee browns and dim lighting. A sibling to…

68. Eggplant Meatballs From Bite GastroTruck

We’re counting down to 68. Eggplant Meatballs from Bite GastroTruckIt would be too easy to name Bite GastroTruck chef/owner’s burger in our list of favorite dishes. Besides, Kerr makes the most wonderful vegetarian-friendly sandwich on his food truck, we had to share this sleeper hit with the world — if only…

The Grind Features The Best Burgers in South Florida Under One Roof

The Grind, a festival of all things burgers, hits Miami’s Wynwood arts district tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. with a host of burgers, brews, and entertainment for all.The event is billed as Miami’s hometown burger competition, but Broward and Palm Beach counties are well represented with eight restaurants with their…

South Florida Restaurants Serving Passover Dinner

[jump] – Cafe Boulud, 301 Australian Ave., Palm Beach. Call 561-655-6060.Find a new take on classic Passover fare from Friday, April 6, to Saturday, April 14, with a three-course prix fixe menu with appetizers like matzo ball soup with chicken confit and hen-of-the-woods mushrooms or pike gefilte fish with baby…