Delray Beach’s 2017 Bacon & Bourbon Fest Canceled

You can add the Delray Beach Bacon & Bourbon Fest to the list of foodie-focused festivals Delray Beach will lose in 2017, now one of three such annual events its organizers, Festival Management Group (FMG), has decided to relocate, postpone, or cancel altogether so far this year. On Friday, September 2,…

Ten Best Fresh Seafood Markets in Broward and Palm Beach

There’s buying fish from a commercial chain grocery store, and then there’s buying fish from a local fish market. If you’ve ever walked past your local supermarket fish department and gasped for air, you know exactly what I mean.Especially after recent concerns of area fish fraud and mislabeling, we decided…

August 2016 Restaurant Openings and Closings in Broward and Palm Beach

The heat wave is almost over, another uneventful hurricane season is just about to end (knock on wood), and football season kicks off September 8. August was a good month for restaurants. A few new places celebrated their official grand openings, including Valentino chef Giovanni Rocchio’s long-awaited One Door East…

50 Ocean in Delray Beach Unveils Hydroponic Produce Grown In-House

Forget farm to table: How about restaurant to table, instead? It’s a thing at 50 Ocean in Delray Beach, which recently debuted its own aeroponic and hydroponic in-house gardening system that allows executive chef Joseph Bonavita to grow everything from root balls of herbs and microgreens to lettuces and spinach. …

Bolay Expands With New Locations in Palm Beach Gardens and Boca Raton

If a bowl filled with cilantro noodles, ponzu marinated tuna, and maple-roasted butternut squash drenched in a zingy carrot ginger sauce sounds like the perfect “healthy” meal, now more Palm Beach County residents can create a dish just like it at a new fast-casual concept that’s expanding its local footprint…

Miami Chefs Announced for New Times E.A.T! Cooking Competition

If you’re looking forward to attending New Times’ all-new food festival, get ready: E.A.T! is gearing up to be bigger, better, and more action-packed than ever before.  This week, event planners announced the names of the area’s two top toques who will face off during a head-to-head cooking competition slated to…

The Best Sports Bar Dishes in Broward County

We love sports, and we really love food; so it only makes sense that we desperately search out the greatest places to thoroughly enjoy both. Our favorite sports bars don’t just provide us with hundreds of high-definition flat screen televisions and great drink specials, they also offer food you’d be…

Instacart Expands South Florida Grocery Delivery Service to Fort Lauderdale

Instacart, an internet-based grocery and retail delivery service where personal shoppers hand-pick and deliver items from local partnered stores, is now available in Fort Lauderdale. The expansion into Broward County marks the second market to launch in Florida outside Miami-Dade. Starting August 24, Fort Lauderdale residents in 11 zip codes…

Chef vs. Chef 2016 Week Ten: Offal-ly Good Eats and Fruity Treats

Chef vs. Chef is a 16-week competition at Max’s Harvest hosted by chef Eric Baker that pits local chefs against one another, cooking up surprise ingredients for a panel of judges — and our tasting pleasure. What do Hannibal Lecter, zombies, and Sicilian grandmothers all have in common (other than…