We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page. 30. Freshly Baked…
Photo by Sara VentieraCurious pigs in one of the feeding pens on Palmetto Creek Farm.What am I getting myself into? I wondered to myself, as the main road disappeared into a long, oak-covered stretch of unpaved drive. A white cloud of dirt surrounded my love-bug-covered car. Finally, I saw a…
There’s something to be said about cold beer, country music, and barbecue ribs — it just puts you in the all-you-can-eat, whistling “Dixie” kind of mood. So round up your cowboy boots and line-dance your way over to the Ribfest in Huizenga Plaza. With the help of country music promoter…
I have worms. Not the been-caught-eating-cheap-sushi variety but a (literal) ball of 500 red wigglers that were shipped to my apartment last week from Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm, a wholesome-sounding endeavor where I envision bins of hundreds of worms consuming banana peels with fervor. These worms, provided they are not the…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page. 31. Sunrise Roll…
Think making sushi is an impossible task? Sushi chef Robert Araya of Buddha Sky Bar in Delray Beach breaks it down in an appetizing slideshow on Clean Plate Charlie (click here to see the images), demonstrating how to make two of the restaurant’s dishes: the handsome rob sushi roll and…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page. 32. French Toast…
There are new battles being fought this week in the continuing war between David Mainiero (better known as David Manero, the name under which he conducts business) and former business partners John Rosatti and Lee Goldberg. Mainiero — who had his hand in projects like The Office in Delray Beach and…
With everything from bone marrow with beef cheek for the carnivore, to artichokes and mushrooms in white wine for the vegetarian foodie, Tapas Lantana turns out a range of Spanish-fusion plates with a focus on seafood and aromatic dishes. Popular choices include paella and a roast pork supper on Fridays. The…
Seasons 52 has announced that beginning May 29, the restaurants will be offering wild Copper River salmon from Alaska. Due to its short season of availability, the fish will be offered for seven weeks. It will be served grilled over summer corn risotto with roasted asparagus, grilled red peppers, and…
Whole Foods Market in Pembroke Pines has been open less than two months, but it’s already embedded itself into the community.The purveyors of clean foods (and the best cheap wine this side of Trader Joe’s Two-Buck Chuck) is throwing a Memorial Day-themed block party on Saturday, May 26, just in…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page. 33. Green Cay…
As part of a multimillion-dollar project to renovate Dania Beach Pier and the surrounding marina and beaches, city commissioners have entered into a 10-year lease agreement with Quarterdeck Restaurants.Quarterdeck’s Paul Flanigan told Clean Plate Charlie that the Dania Beach Quarterdeck should be open by late August 2012. Flanigan described the…
Several new food truck roundups have been announced in Broward County. These new, smaller roundups may prove to be the future of food trucks, which in the past have seen mega events with more than two dozen trucks — many serving the same types of fare. Each mobile kitchen in…
After 36 years manning the kitchen at 1833 Tyler Street, Conca D’Oro Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria owner Dominico DeLuca has just one thing to say. “Thank you Hollywood,” DeLuca said in between taking orders and working the range. “This city has played a wonderful host.” Conca D’Oro has played as…
Todd Lough, the executive chef at the Pelican Grand Beach Resort, started at his new gig on April 9. And while he and the resort’s manager Bob Keesler said the property won’t unveil a revamped menu until the fall — in order to give Lough time to learn the lay…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page.34. South Indian Thali…
Palm Beach County restaurateurs will show off their goods in the first Palm Beaches Restaurant Week scheduled for Sunday, June 3, through Saturday, June 9, at dozens of top restaurants throughout the county. Marquee names like Seasons 52, Pistache French Bistro, Café Boulud, Buddha Sky Bar, Kapow! Noodle Bar, and…
On his quest to crafting his latest featured burger, Duffy’s Sports Grill Chef Eric Parker found inspiration at this year’s South Beach Food and Wine Festival Burger Bash. Noticing a trend of meat-on-meat burgers, he decided to come up with his own hefty version. The result: the Rachel Burger, packed…
Steak 954 has introduced a new menu for summer, with ten new dishes created by chef Jason Smith, who has been at the restaurant in the W Fort Lauderdale Hotel for three years. Clean Plate Charlie caught up with the chef in an email interview last week to learn more…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page. 35. Pasta of…
Tap 42 in Fort Lauderdale has named David Peck as its new executive chef, restaurant partner Andy Yeager confirmed in an email interview this week. “We are happy to have (Peck) as part of our team and look forward to continued improvement in all facets of our operation,” Yeager said…
