Sage Bistro and Oyster Bar Hosts LaBORatory Nights Monday

Who says your weekend needs to end on Sundays? On Monday, LaBORatory Nights will bring their monthly tradition to Sage Bistro and Oyster Bar in Hollywood for an evening of wine and conversation. LaBORatory Nights is an 18-year-old tradition started in Miami, meant to bring together both cultivated and aspiring…

The Meatist Measures Up Supermarket Weenies

My mother’s storied Jeannie’s Weenie Supremies guaranteed the hot dog a permanent place of honor in our fridge when I was growing up. The Supremies consisted of a hot dog, split and stuffed with cheddar cheese and wrapped in bacon. My father also had an unnatural love affair with a…

Weekend Blog Watch

Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs.Woman’s Day has a great article pointing out what we all already know: Food is always better when it’s stuffed with other…

Destination Food: My Market’s Prosciutto Roma Sub

For years we’ve praised the deli counter sandwiches made at Fort Lauderdale’s My Market, a convenience store/bodega with a thriving sub shop attached. And for good reason: each of the fifty-some varieties are made with bread baked fresh daily, quality deli meat (what’s not Boar’s Head is usually made in…

List Five: Great Places to Get a Cup of Coffee

It’s harder than you might think to find a good cup of coffee. I mean, straight-up, regular old coffee-flavored coffee. There are plenty of places to get your coffee drowned in milk or laced with sugary syrups, but finding a decent cup of black coffee can seem impossible if you…

I’m Eating What?! Tamarind Ball Candy

Leave it to your boss to inadvertently ruin your good mood. After last week’s grass jelly debacle, I decided to take fate back into my own hands and hand-select the food I’d be eating for this week’s post. At my last trip to Publix, I was waiting in the checkout…

Chef Explains to Diner Meaning of “Ice Cold”

It’s safe to say that every chef has dreamed of telling off a diner who sent back a meal. According to someone who overheard the exchange, this took place at Pilar in Aventura recently:A woman in the dining room sent back her pasta, telling the food runner it was “ice…

The White Apron

Twenty-year-old White Apron Catering has accumulated a pretty impressive list of clients: Chanel, Cartier, the Harvard Alumnae Club, Hermes, J.P. Morgan, and Yours Truly. And you can take it from the latter: The $6,000 we spent on a party for a couple of family newlyweds last weekend was worth every…

Be Your Own Taqueria

All hail the humble taco, a perfect marriage of starch, protein, fruit, vegetable, and appetite, a triumph of down-home Mexican gastronomy, a thing of rare culinary beauty.  Of course, that’s a taco made with fresh, quality ingredients by someone who knows and loves authentic Mexican food. That’s where Mark Miller…

Recession Pricing From the “Caribbean Cowboy”

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. Chef Johnny Vinczencz earned the nickname “Caribbean Cowboy” for his inspired take on Caribbean, Southwestern, and Florida flavors, and…

House of Sweets’ Cupcake Cafe Opens

House of Sweets — the nostalgic cupcake bakery attached to Delray’s House of Vintage — opened its new Cupcake Cafe this Saturday with a host of free giveaways and a cupcake-eating contest that saw one dude devour a dozen of the personal-sized pastries in under six minutes. House proprietors Amanda…

Eats for Under $7: the Pitts-Burger at Primanti Brothers

There’s no getting around it: When you eat a Primanti-style sandwich at Primanti Brothers, you feel like a glutton of the highest degree. The Pittsburgh-based sandwich company (whose only locations outside of PA are in South Florida) is famous for jamming everything that would normally be in a lunch platter…

Cheap Wine That Doesn’t Suck: Twisted Chardonnay

Making cheap Chardonnay is like playing rock guitar: Everybody does it; hardly anybody does it well.     The folks at California’s Twisted Wine Cellars do it pretty well. Well enough, in fact, for their 2007 vintage to grab a gold medal at this year’s San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, which just…

Weekend Blog Watch: Local Edition

Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other food blogs, this time with a local focus.Dinner Reviews focuses on Broward, Palm Beach, and Dade counties and… well reviews restaurants. The best…

Celebrate Bastille Day at St. Tropez Bistro

No self-respecting foodie should let Bastille Day go by without some kind of celebration. Say what you want about French culture (normally a bunch of overblown cliques anyway); there is simply no denying French influence on cuisine. Some of the finest breads, cheeses, and desserts in the world are distinctly…

School Lunch — Now With More Processed Foods!

I remember my time spent eating school lunch fondly. My favorite was Mexican pizza day, when the lunch ladies would roll out crumbly, cracker-crusted pizzas topped with hardened American cheese, sweet and spicy taco sauce, and delectable little pellets of “meat.” What’s even better was Mexican pizza day, part two,…

101 Ocean Invites Dogs and Their Owners to Happy Hour

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. Fort Lauderdale isn’t exactly the most dog-friendly city, so any time the rules relax enough for locals to bring…

There Will Be No Blood

It begins before I even cut into my burger at Grease Burger Bar in West Palm Beach: A nervous swelling fills my stomach, the same mixture of fear and anxiousness I get every time I order a hamburger at a restaurant I’ve never been to before, knowing it’s probably going…