Dead turkeys are aerodynamic disasters. I chose to prove this many Thanksgivings ago by hurling one at my sister as she ran screaming down the stairs from my Brooklyn apartment after a fight. It was cooked, it was in a broiling pan, and I was unable to get a clean…
At least not according to the Brewers Association, the organization that advocates for the craft brewing industry. Out of the top 50 craft brewers in the country, Florida isn’t represented by one. In fact, Florida is among the states with the fewest number of breweries per capita with one per…
• The 11th annual Riverwalk Get Downtown happy hour ramps up in front of YOLO tomorrow night at 5. The huge, outdoor party will feature music from Fourth Dimension as well as food from Big City Tavern, Chima, the Downtowner Saloon, Sublime, YOLO, and more. Get your tickets for $20…
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…
• Allen Susser, one of the original Mango Gangers (with Norman Van Aken and Mark Militello), will open a gastropub, Taste, in the Pineapple Grove area of Delray Beach sometime early next year. Look for small plates of comfy food and a roster of swell cocktails. • Also in Delray,…
Over the years, the old Texas Hold ‘Em BBQ location on Sunrise Boulevard felt sadder with each visit. It was always empty, especially near the end of its tenure there earlier this year. The benches in front of the brown- and cream-colored building looked lost and lonely; the only activity…
An order of corn fritters at any one of the eight Park Avenue BBQ and Grill locations costs just $3.49 and nets you six fried balls of dough along with three condiments to decorate them with. This two-to-one condiment-to-food ratio is a recipe for fun, and the way you play…
My editor found a Honduran Market in Fort Lauderdale and decided to go on a shopping spree. Thankfully, he didn’t return with a basket of pig brains or things that look like tapeworms. I’m still left with quite a few questionable-looking items sitting on my desk that I’m required to…
I’ve been on the lookout lately for good breakfast places for an upcoming column, but for some reason I had forgotten about Dyan’s Country Kitchen, a diner-style breakfast spot in northern Coral Springs. Now the place is firmly locked in my memory as a great neighborhood joint to nab the…
The folks who have been dishing up huge and hugely delectable meat blankets to sammie-savvy Browardites for 36 years have brought their overstuffed hoagies across the border to Boca Raton. The fourth LaSpada’s Original Hoagies is now slapping together their appetite-busting eight- and 12-inch subs in The Commons shopping center,…
It’s about three hours into a four-hour road trip, so I’m finally hitting the home stretch, but I can’t wait another hour to get home and eat. So I pull off the Florida Turnpike into the Lake Worth Rest Stop (mile marker 94 for those deranged enough to follow along…
This week in Dish, we take a look at Texas Hold ‘Em BBQ, that recently relocated Fort Lauderdale smoke shack. Now on Seventh Street downtown just a block from the Andrews Avenue Publix, Texas Hold ‘Em is enjoying a renaissance thanks to more foot traffic and an invigorated approach to…
If you’ve ever wondered why restaurant workers sometimes want to gouge their own eyes out or shave off all their body hair and stow away on a tramp steamer bound for Guatamala, New York restaurateur Bruce Buschel’s pair of blog posts that ran recently in the New York Times (part…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. “Happy hour” is sooo pre-recession. If you really want to show cash-strapped gazillionaires a deal, you gotta go “happy…
Amateur pizza chefs, unite: the first ever Worstpizza.com Great Pizza Cookoff is going down tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. at Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza in Aventura. Five amateur competitors will throw down with their own personal take on great pie, while the public in attendance gets to act as judge…
Aside from the occasional hot dog, it’s difficult to find food served from street carts in Broward or Palm Beach these days. But the pulled pork sandwich from Swanky’s Low and Slow Barbecue out of Lake Worth is argument enough for a return to street cookery. The clean, shiny, silver…
Pictured: Lobster risotto with asparagus tips. Lobster: Poach two whole Florida lobsters in water along with celery, onion, carrot, and lemon. Once lobsters turn red (about 15 minutes), remove and extract tail meat. Add shells back into pot and allow to steep for 45 minutes. Strain and reserve stock.Asparagus: Blanch…
The (alleged) great cupcake craze — the Anna Nicole Smith of food fads — has seen its 15 minutes come, go, and be forgotten in less time that it takes to eat one of the goddamned things. Cupcake wines, on the other hand, just might have some staying power, at…
Charles in charge, of our days, and our……Cheap wine, this time a Cab from Beringer….Steak and egg burgers, as in how to make them….Prime, aged steaks and the acquisition thereof….Cheese-steak-laden hearts and which sandwich we hold dearest. …Local chefs, in this case Mark Militello, who moves to the Office in…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only blog you need to read on a daily basis, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.Culinerapy is currently following the joys and trials of a pregnant blogger’s journey through nine months of feeding two foodies at…
We’ve all got a lot to be thankful for: The recession is over (supposedly), the world is still spinning, and Glenn Beck’s communist appendix finally escaped its dank cell. Hollywood eatery Lola’s on Harrison has a pretty good list too: Michael Wagner and company are going into their third season…
I hate chain restaurants, and they seem to be multiplying. Every time I turn around, there’s another squatting smugly across the parking lot from Best Buy or snuggled into the corner of a mall, waiting for trans-fat-hungry customers to order some sort of deep-fried, oversauced platter of bulk-purchased protein, served…
