It’s 2 p.m. and you’re crashing. Last evening’s happy hour ended at midnight and you had to get up for the weekly management meeting. Now you need a serious boost. Heading over to the convenience store gives you an even bigger headache — so many energy drinks to choose from…
Oktoberfest in South Florida has arrived, as evidenced in the happenings about town this month, but there is more to the weekend’s events than full steins and heaving dirndl-ed bosoms. Animal lovers will have a chance to spend quality social time with their best friends (or to adopt a new…
Why are hops-forward, American craft beers so popular right now? And why are there so many hoppy Marzen beers, a style that has not been a traditionally hoppy beer? These are the questions that grew out of our beer exploration in this week’s review. For an explanation, I asked expert Greg Engert — the…
First there was the Situation GTL bag, which holds your laundry (buy one here for $11.99); then Sitch got a sweetheart deal (and partial ownership) at Boca Tanning Club. Wait — it doesn’t stop there. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is also the spokes-guido for Devotion vodka, the first casein-infused vodka…
Halloween will soon be upon us and with that comes scary movies, pumpkins, hayrides, cool weather and snuggling. Normally we hate when people push the holidays, but with Halloween, we totally make an exception…
A recently created Facebook page titled Save Fudgie the Whale makes it sound like Carvel might be thinking of dropping the ice cream cake. The company has sold the thing for four decades, so it’s natural that there might be some Fudgie supporters out there willing to rally to its…
Tucked away in a Tudor-style meeting house on Washington Street, a hearty-looking German Frau in a dirndl serves frothy beer in giant mugs at the German American Society of Greater Hollywood. A brass band belts out the John Denver anthem “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” followed by a round of…
Attention, Oktoberfest junkies: Cafe Heidelberg is hiring. Though no requirements are articulated, I would imagine knowing German and harboring a love of Deutsch bier wouldn’t hurt. Check it out here. Are you from Chicago? A Chicago bar is opening in Fort Lauderdale and the owners are looking to hire people from…
Yahoo Screen has just launched two new food shows — and one looks like it’s an instant hit. Chow Ciao features Top Chef Fabio Viviani butchering both meat and the English language as he shows us how to make Italian-inspired dishes. In this first episode, he tells us that fritatas…
German kebab joint Doner Pocket has infiltrated America with the opening of its first shop in West Palm Beach. The restaurant serves meats slow-cooked on rotating skewers, served on platters and pitas. Doner Kebab is based on the many “kebab shops” in Germany — small restaurants that serve doner pockets,…
Chrissie Hynde closed her vegan restaurant on Sunday, citing a bad economy. The Akron, Ohio, restaurant was open four years and was voted one of the top five vegan restaurants in America by Business Week.The Vegiterranean served vegan dishes with an Italian-Mediterranean flair. On the restaurant’s site, Hynde, 60, posted…
There are so many cooking shows on the internet… go surfing for a recipe and you’ll get everything from Martha Stewart showing you how to bake a pie to druggies cooking up a batch of crystal meth. With all these choices, we look for something that can inform and entertain…
Only two more days until Clean Plate Charlie Night at PL8, during which diners at the restaurant between 6 and 9 p.m. on Thursday can weigh in on menu items to help determine the final cut.At dinner, you’ll receive this ballot, on which you can rank delicious dishes a 5,…
This just in: Roy Villacrusis, the man behind the innovative small-plates menu at the new Palm Beach Gardens hot spot Dirty Martini and the owner of North Palm Beach’s Kubo, has been named executive chef for Kapow! Noodle Bar in Boca Raton.Villacrusis’ brand of “Asiatic Cuisine” forms the basis for the…
October has arrived in all its lederhosen-wearing, beer-stein-raising, pumpkin everything glory. While most of the heavy activity is reserved for the weekend, there are a few weeknight diversions to tear you away from your fortress of solitude. Without further ado, here are a few of the drink and food events…
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, inspiration for our second round of seasonal beer tastings. For those who’d prefer drinking pumpkin pie to eating it, these are the beers for you. At the Great American Beer Festival in Boulder, Colorado, last week, there were 37 entries for the pumpkin beer category, with…
In “What Would You Order for Your Last Supper?” in the Food and Drink issue of the New York Times Magazine, New York chef and cookbook writer David Pasternack lists a dozen local oysters and clams paired with Pabst Blue Ribbon in a can on his fantasy menu, while Mario…
October ushers in the month of ghastly visions, including those at Saturday’s Endless Night Vampire Ball featured on today’s slide show. Vampires’ thirst for blood has inspired today’s roundup of blood-themed food and drink, either in name or reality. Sound disturbing? Just this past weekend in the New York Times’…
We all know how a long workday can take its toll. So what better way to destress than with a glass of wine or a killer cocktail?Lucky for us South Floridians, the B Ocean Hotel restaurants, B’Stro and SAIA, agree — and have organized a special happy-hour menu to make…
Food trucks, friends, and families will take over Arts Park at Hollywood’s Young Circle tonight when more than two dozen food trucks serve dinner in a chill environment. Bring some cash and your appetite to try gourmet street-food items that range from burgers and hot dogs to wings and burritos…
Have you ever done a focus group? You know, when you share your opinions on a new product sell your soul to the Corporate Marketing Machine for a crisp $100 bill in an envelope?Melissa McCarthy (who made Bridesmaids so freaking funny) played a particularly enthusiastic ranch-dressing tester in the focus…
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve taken the liberty of finding the best places to eat, drink, and donate for a good cause.Here, a few local establishments that will be cooking — and pouring — for a cure:…
