As a countdown to the Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations here. By definition, this dish sounds like the culinary equivalent of watching a busboy slowly drop a load…
With all of the love burgers have gotten in the last year in South Florida, it seems superfluous to point out that Tuesday, May 1, is the start of National Hamburger Month. Do burgers really need any more veneration than they already receive? While there has been some debate lately…
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. 44. Hazelnut Gelato…
Burgers and hot dogs will forever hold their place in America’s heart as a staple for backyard cookouts. But these everyman bites aren’t nearly as exotic, or entertaining, as the paella party, a fact that has likely contributed to one South Florida paella chef’s recent influx of business, particularly with…
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.45. Chunk’d Tots at…
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.46. Roast Beef with…
Seems lots of people are complaining about food and dining culture, primarily in terms of how it’s served. Today’s link roundup is dedicated to food trends that bug you. 1) We started the week with a gripe about Cheese Culture’s cheese cakes from FQS9000:Plastic flowers and waxy candles are equally…
I’ve passed the Ristorante Sapori patio “garden” too many times to count, always admiring the variety of herbs, vegetables, and greens growing in a collection of pots of various sizes and materials. The Boca institution lies in a busy corridor that funnels foot traffic between the precarious Royal Palm Place…
Though the appeal of Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches has sort of diminished in the wake of SproutGate 2012, it hasn’t waned enough to pass up the chance for a lunch that costs only a buck. Between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. today, customers can snag a $1 sub at participating…
From stage right, manager Burak Isman saunters over to our table to guide Rebecca through a book-length list of Italian wines. She and her friend Matt join Harmony and me for dinner on the back porch of D’Angelo Trattoria, tables nestled closely. Tucked at the base of Atlantic and Seventh…
In last week’s column about burger glut, we reported on impending price hikes and the shortage of beef: [T]he price of beef is expected to rise, says Brendan Flanagan of Grand Western Meats, a meat supplier that distributes to high-end restaurants and shops such as Smitty’s Old Fashioned Butcher Shop…
There are three types of regulars, though they’re not mutually exclusive. There are those who patronize a place because their friends own it and hang out there. Take the crew that’s often at Laser Wolf, who dated/went to high school with/are in the same social circle as the people on…
Last week, American Public Media’s Marketplace aired a story about a Harvard biomedical engineer who has developed edible food packaging, including an ice cream in a chocolate “skin” that won’t melt and can be washed before eating. Advancements like these — that would help to slow the never-ending parade of…
Welcome to the How-To series, a periodic segment of photo essays that highlights the dishes and drinks that area restaurants do well, who makes them, and how they do it. This week, owner Susan Phipps and cheese monger Jenifer Bound of Cheese Culture show us their first attempt at making…
Thank God for alliteration. Yeah, in the wrong hands, it’s like a badly executed pun, but it also results in the likes of Margarita Mondays and Tequila Thursdays. Uncle Julio’s new take on the mother of all day-of-the-week/food combos, Taco Tuesday, presents a lunchtime bargain the likes of which you’d…
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. 47. El Jefe…
We’re counting down to 48. Wurst, Spaetzle, and Potato Pancakes from Checkers Old-Munchen”This is the most valuable thing in our restaurant,” said Matt More. He was holding a mill of sorts, a colander with a crank. “You add eggs to flour, like a pancake mix of sorts. You add salt.” He…
Timpano, Tap 42, Cheese Culture, and the many wine purveyors are the winners of this year’s Las Olas Wine and Food Festival. With the onset of thunder and lightning accompanied by inches of rain, these businesses were among the few to weather the storm, feeding festivalgoers hell-bent on getting their…
Whole Foods will no longer carry fish deemed not sustainable by organizations such as Monterey Bay Aquarium and Blue Ocean Institute. The company had announced in 2010 that it would stop selling red-rated fish as of 2013 but moved up its deadline.”Today’s a big day for us,” announces the Whole…
Starbucks late last week announced that its stores would begin phasing out the use of food coloring made from crushed insects. Well, that’s nice. The kerfuffle over the revelation of the nonvegan, and somewhat stomach-turning, ingredient’s inclusion in some of the chain’s beverages is just one of many public food…
Just Cupcakes selection A warm thank you to this year’s participants at the New Times’ cupcake battle at Friday night’s Las Olas Wine & Food Festival, during which seven bakers whipped up hundreds of cupcakes for an enthusiastic crowd. Three judges sampled the bakers’ choice cupcakes to determine Best Decorated and Best…
Chief executive of California Pizza Kitchen G.J. Hart told attendees at a California restaurant conference that the chain will open only one new U.S. restaurant — a prototype — this year. And the location happens to be in Florida, reports Nation’s Restaurant News. No word yet as to which city.The…
