Let’s face it. Valentine’s Day is this big made-up holiday that was invented by the flower, candy and card industries to shame people into buying their crap at least one day out of the year. Sure, the guy you’re seeing bought you some candy and took you to Denny’s for…
Pick up some love on the way to the office this morning and get a dozen Cupid’s Choice donuts from Dunkin’s Donuts. This is Dunkin’s first-time attempt at making a heart-shaped donut. The Cupid’s Choice donut comes in two varieties – basically a heart-shaped bavarian creme donut and a heart-shaped…
It’s a long way from the wannabe avant garde cooking of former Top Chef contestant Stephen Asprinio to standard-issue Italian to burgers and ESPN, but that’s the journey of the spot at 225 Clematis St., which morphed from Forte di Asprinio to Forte (minus Asprinio) to — coming April 1…
After going over your monthly budget, you discovered that your greatest expense came from your frequent lunch tabs. Problem: You dread the thought of having to go back to the old days of paper-bag lunches, stuffed with a tuna-fish sandwich, apple slices, crackers, and a juice box. Next thing you know, you’re…
Photo by hey mr glen Table For One Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half Baked.As for the mother of all Hallmark holidays rapidly approaches to wreak havoc on the line and the tickets begin to roll…
It’s finally happened, you got a date with the cutie you’ve been dreaming about for months. You made dinner reservations at a nice restaurant, in hopes to woo your date. Now’s your chance to not to blow it. If you have a history of never securing a second date, you…
Charlie is always on a mission to find things we’ve never tried before. During a recent grocery-store trip down the beverage aisle, this caught our eye:…
I first met Jimbo a few years ago when I was but a newbie to the downtown Lake Worth nightlife scene — at his bar, Igot’s Martiki Bar.Since then, he’s managed to impress with his mix-master skills behind the bar — the one where all the locals love him and…
This week we featured a two-part interview with chef and author Michael Schwartz, who’s latest book, “Michael’s Genuine Food”, will hit stores this week. Check out the other parts here and here. Linda agreed to share a recipe from her new book with Clean Plate Charlie readers…
The Field Irish Pub & Eatery, a self-described “public house,” is more farmhouse than pub — and definitely a piece of the Éire right here in South Florida…
There’s no shortage of drinking songs — here’s a list of 360 of ’em — but not all that many about specific liquors or cocktails. That’s sort of odd, considering how alcohol and live music go hand in hand. According to musicologists, drinking songs can be Irish (like Ween’s “The Blarney…
Jumping on the ever-growing food truck bandwagon is Curbside Gourmet, the creation of former TV-movie caterer and private chef Rick Simek and culinary school graduate Mary Cheatham, who aim to put the now way-trendy farm-to-table ethos on four wheels. The duo’s truck, outfitted with a complete professional kitchen at the…
Beer and Burger Joint, in little more than a year, has become one of South Beach’s most successful restaurants, a haven of hamburgers, hearty sandwiches, and no-joke neo-Southern cuisine. Featured last year on Man Vs. Food for their ten-pound hamburger “The Mother Burger,” B&B has attracted the usual bevy of celebrities…
How do you know when you make the step from just a bartender to having you master’s in mixology?When you have your own naturally recognized, signature drink, of course…
So you think you’ve got everything planned out: Breakfast in bed (among other things), flower delivery with a sappy note attached, slippery satin undergarments, dinner reservations, and ummm… the same old boring box of chocolates that everyone and their mother is receiving this Valentine’s Day…
How would you like the opportunity to taste 600 of the finest wines produced in the United States in one night? The 4th Annual American Fine Wine Competition at the Hyatt Pier Sixty Six promises just that. Any of the 600 wines in the competition can be tasted, poured tableside…
Give your Valentine something wild with a special breakfast at The Palm Beach Zoo this Sunday, February 13th. This totally cool breakfast is fun for kids and adults and includes all day admission to the zoo, a buffet breakfast, private animal encounters (the “G” rated kind, you pervert), Malayan tiger enrichment, a Meet…
It’s never too late to find that special somebody to share the romantic misery of V-Day with. And, if you’re a smooth talker, it could take only a matter of minutes…..
We continue our interview with chef, restaurateur and author of the cookbook Michael’s Genuine Food, scheduled to be released February 15th. Read Part I of our interview here. Clean Plate Charlie: You opened up a Michael’s in Grand Cayman – how is that going? Michael Schwartz: We liked what we saw…
OK, his story starts out simple enough — Jeremy Hanlon was a finance major in college, then landed a Wall Street job after graduating. However, less than a year into his job, Hanlon knew cubicle life wasn’t for him. He ditched it to cook. He went from watching the Food…
In the days when “modern medicine” meant bleeding, leeches and sacrifices of small animals, there was no little blue pill to turn a limp noodle into a Large and Terrible Shaft of Rigid, Throbbing Steel. So our primitive ancestors had to rely on more, ah. . .. natural means to vanquish…
The bartender at Rare Las Olas came by quickly, wearing a genuine-looking smile and a corset top similar to what Victorian women stuffed themselves into before getting dressed. She had some important questions regarding my dry martini. “Gin or vodka?” she asked in an accent that sounded Eastern European. Then…
