As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com…
Whether it’s the first time they’ve woken up at your place, the 100th, or the 1,000th — I personally believe there is no better way to impress someone the morning after than to make them breakfast.Don’t make eggs. Because eggs are like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches: specific and personal…
The annual New Times Best Of Broward-Palm Beach edition doesn’t cover the Keys, so it seems reasonable that we could name the best burger in Key West any other time of the year. So after a recent visit down to the end of U.S. 1, I’m ready to declare a…
“Drink the wine that was banned in Alabama!” That’s not quite the marketing slogan of the folks at Cycles Gladiator, but you gotta admit that having your product proscribed by a bunch of crimson-necked troglodytes in Doofusville, USA, is at least one good reason to go out and buy a…
This shadowy photo of the Le Tub cheeseburger is appropriate to the experience of eating one: While some say it’s the best burger they’ve ever eaten, probably just as many will swear to never go back to the place.Sure, nothing chars a burger patty better than the blazing charcoal grill…
The humble burger is humble no more.Truffles, foie gras, all manner of designer beef, exotic cheeses, infantile greens, confit-ed everything, artisan buns, more aiolis than you can shake a whisk at have all collided with the basic meat patty to take the burger from blue-collar grub to high-end cuisine.High-end prices…
This week on the blog:Here’s a sauvignon blanc that actually lives up to the name.Tired of brownies? (Are you crazy?) Then try its little sister, the blondie.We kicked off our 100 favorite dishes of Broward-Palm Beach this week, which will run every day until our 2010 Best Of comes out…
Tell us what is the best restaurant in Broward County in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here to view our restaurant guide with critics’ picks.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com…
Besides the blatantly obvious, avocados are good for more than just guacamole. It’s also more than just a topping to a sandwich to deem it a “California” meal. Good for anything, from snack time to dessert, here are three (almost surprising) ways to utilize one delicious fruit. Note: Personal preference…
I didn’t know about surgical gloves when I was cooking. Tune into any cooking show these days and you’ll eventually see a chef who looks like he’s about to perform an unpleasant exam on someone. That surgical glove is likely being used to keep a Band-Aid on, and raw chicken…
Some people see a bag of pink chips with Japanese characters and illustrations reminiscent of either Red Fraggle or someone’s head being molested by a crab and pretend like it doesn’t even exist. Me, I grab the pouch and count the minutes until I can tear it open, eager to…
I had no idea what a Midwest pork tenderloin sandwich was until I tried one at Roosters in Margate a few weeks ago. But man, was I pleasantly surprised when I received it. The sandwich was carefully wrapped in foil to look like an oblong sub. But when I opened…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…
Slow food’s gathering momentum has transformed it from solely a movement to its own culinary genre, celebrating what chefs have known before the movement even emerged. Among the white-coat society, kept under their toques, the secret to flavor nirvana was always passion and respect for ingredients.Nick Morfogen thrives in the…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com…
Lifting this mammoth, Colombian-style hot dog from Los Perros in Lauderhill to my mouth is like looking down the barrel of a gun. I’m no longer hungry — I’m scared for my life. It’s nearly a foot long and three inches wide, and the dog’s beefy largess is coated with…
There’s so much coal being fired across South Florida these days in the name of pizza that you’d think it was turn-of-the-century New York City. Even so, Fort Lauderdale had only one coal-fired pie maker with Anthony’s. But no longer, thanks to Bellini’s Coal Fired Pizza, now open in the…
Blues. Brews. Two words that are as fun to say together as they are to enjoy together. Luckily, you can show up at Whole Foods Coral Springs’ Blues & Brews event, running every Friday through January, and do both to your heart’s content.The series is sponsored in part by the…
Big City Dogs, that New York- and Chicago-style sandwich shack on Commercial Highway in Oakland Park, just got a little suburban up in here. Its second location recently opened at the Shops at Arrowhead in Davie (2451 S. University Drive). The new digs is slinging all the favorites of the…
When Darryl Moiles, now executive chef at Four Seasons Palm Beach, was just a high school kid, he and his brother took over a racquetball club’s steak house in Oxford, Massachusetts. Eventually he made his way to study at Johnson & Wales, then off to Four Seasons Boston for a…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com…
