Each week, we cull eclectic stories from the internets so you don’t have to. 1. Author of Tomatoland Barry Estabrook reports that a 20-year-old labor-rights group representing tomato pickers in southwestern Florida marched to Trader Joe’s headquarters in Los Angeles to ask execs to work with the group to address labor…
OK, so the Miami-Dade County Commission will not be thrilled with us about this one, but we’re giving away a bag of sour apple-flavored Potheads candy. (Thanks, To the Moon Marketplace, the special candy boutique — with 12,000 items from around the world — that donated it.)The treat, a gummy…
A New Times favorite shop is To the Moon Marketplace, the specialty candy and novelty store run by self-appointed Peter Pan Antonio Dumas. (Though many of his items are not so Peter Pan, like the bong with a detachable penis nozzle, for example.) We talked to Dumas near Halloween to find…
This week, Clean Plate Charlie offered up a list of eight costumes inspired by Florida food and drink for all you Halloween costume procrastinators. The list included sartorial references to craft brews from the Sunshine State, as well as some of our more notable culinary inhabitants, like the spiny lobster…
Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have plans to open a vegan restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, reports the Hollywood Reporter.Other investors include rocker Chrissie Hynde and entrepreneur Steve Bing. Hynde’s Ohio vegan restaurant, the Vegiterranean, closed in early October…
Every month, we round up the openings, closings, and up nexts for restaurants around our area. October ushered in the opening of some highly anticipated restaurants such as Glen Manfra’s SpoonFed, though a slew are wrapping up final details for November debuts. The two most anticipated: the newest beer bar, Tap…
For 31 years, Rosa Bozeman, owner of Bozo’s, has reserved Fridays for soul food. It’s the day in which the parking lot is packed and she stays open until 6 p.m., two hours later than usual. Oxtail and meat loaf are the highlights when it comes to meat. And since…
After a six week haitus for the off season, Valentino’s Cucina Italiana will reopen this Tuesday for dinner, with Giovanni Rocchio at the helm and the menu that has earned accolades. Why is this remarkable? Because Rocchio…
Trick-or-treating is hard work – first you have to dress up as your favorite monster, comic book character or Disney princess. Then you have to scour the neighborhood for the good candy, while avoiding the people who give out pennies and black licorice. It works up quite the appetite.Luckily, there…
Want a Patron shot and a Corona? Hit up Himmarshee St — there’s nothing here for you, bro. If you haven’t heard, Laser Wolf is the laid-back beer bar half a mile away from the congestion and confusion of Riverfront. It’s one of Fort Lauderdale’s few places that serve good…
In the ghost town formerly known as the Riverwalk shops near the movie theater, marketing and merchandise guy Robbie Barnes has been planning to open Tap and Cork, a craft beer, wine, champagne, and sake bar in the bones of what was once his clothing store. Tap and Cork will offer…
With Halloween just days away, most of the weekend’s food and drink related activities in Broward and Palm Beach Counties are geared to costumes, candy, and the undead (oh, and the nautical. The 52nd Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show is today through Monday). But for those who are looking…
Though I’m impressed with the scope of what I’ve seen so far, markets down here aren’t as militant when it comes to local and organic. Here’s a slew of several I’ve visited and a couple more on the list.10.Yellow Green Market: For the cocktails. This Sunday green market is a mostly shabby,…
Most of us take great measure to ensure that what we put down our gullets won’t come back up to haunt us later. Stevie Starr, the Scottish performer perhaps better-known by his rather vivid stage handle, “The Regurgitator,” isn’t most of us. Starr, who’s been working the professional “regurgitation circuit”…
Maybe I’m part zombie, but I don’t think that eating brains is that big of a deal. My father used to make me eat it as a kid every time we went to a Greek restaurant. And while living in DC, during Greek Orthodox Easter, Top Cheffer Mike Isabella used to…
“How important is egg in a sushi restaurant?” I asked Takeshi Kamioka, owner and sushi chef at Gaysha New World Sushi, which opened in the Wilton Manors gayborhood in August. My friend and I sat at the counter well after 9 p.m. on a Tuesday, having worked up an appetite…
If you swore off IHOP promotional day last time you waded through a crowd of eaters for your share of free pancakes on National Pancake Day, you’ll be glad to know Friday’s promotion will be a little more streamlined with a kids-only event. Show up to any participating IHOP nationwide on…
As evidenced by the continued success of Lunchables, the KFC Famous Bowl and boxed wine, we really can be a lazy, impatient bunch when it comes to consumption. The flip side of all of these cheap and easy eats is often increased risk of obesity, hypertension and diabetes.This is why…
Halloween comes but one day a year, but that doesn’t mean the party is confined to a 24-hour-period. The Halloween 2011 festivities in South Florida have been underway for at least a week, but things will really heat up this weekend, when most of us do our costuming and cajoling…
For the 14th-Annual New Times Beerfest, folks over here have been pulling together what’s on tap for this year’s event on November 12 from 7 to 11 p.m. in Esplanade Park, proceeds from which will benefit the Humane Society of Broward County.Among my favorites are Shiner Blonde and Oktoberfest, Brooklyn Lager,…
With shared stage time with Snoop Dogg, Julio Iglesias, and Toby Keith, you might call country music pioneer Willie Nelson the king of the odd duet. So it should be no surprise that the oddities continue as Nelson pairs up with Chipotle Mexican Grill and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ frontwoman Karen…
Straightforward is the word I hear most when chefs and managers describe dishes at South Florida restaurants, be it the most humble local joint or the newest brasserie with access to the ocean. It’s an apt description of the food at Boston’s on the Beach in Delray Beach, the institution…
