Happy Presidents’ Day. We bring you today’s list of occasional links. 1. An incredibly light dessert: the edible balloon. Mmm. Green apple air.2. Food porn: a pizza cookbook shaped like a pizza. 3. This weekend’s South Beach Wine and Food Festival’s Burger Bash menu is unveiled, the $225 event hosted…
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. 97. Apfel Strudel…
The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19. A marathon is much more than an endurance run. There’s an entire weekend of activity surrounding the race, including the pre-race carbo-load pasta dinner, the post-race brunch with beer (must replenish carbs), race strategies (which include picking out proper…
Would a former New York Mets star dine in a Yankees themed steak house in a casino in Coconut Creek? This is the question my dinner guest and I mulled over for the latter part of our meal at NYY Steak in the Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek on Thursday…
The opening of Lime has been pushed back one more day until tomorrow’s dinner, Clean Plate Charlie learned when we stopped by the chain. Damn. We’ve been hankering for burritos all week. To distract ourselves from the disappointment, we sized up each burrito place on Federal Highway and paired each…
I don’t remember where I had my first Chipotle burrito, and that’s the point. I was too busy eating it. I do remember the careful ritual: peeling off rounds of foil, a quick visual examination followed by a dash of Tabasco. The first expectant bite, then another, then another. Setting…
The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19, and thousands of runners will take to the streets on a 13.1- or 26.2-mile tour of the most beautiful parts of Fort Lauderdale. Starting at the Museum of Discovery and Science, the course runs east along Las Olas Boulevard,…
Chocolate has been around since about 1400 BC. According to Smithsonian Magazine, it’s been used in rituals by the Aztecs and Mayans, valued by kings and queens, and enjoyed in countless forms by everyone from children to adults. But what do we really know about chocolate, besides the fact that…
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.98. Lobster with Black…
When I think back on my golden years in college, I remember all of the good times that I had with strangers friends. Days spent camping out for seats at basketball games, grossly misusing credit cards, and repeatedly surviving untreated alcohol poisoning are all fond memories. I was cool back…
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. 99. Italian Sandwich…
The champions of our Food Town Throwdown contest to see which local city has the best dining scene has reached the final round. It’s Delray Beach versus West Palm Beach/Lake Worth in our final showdown. The winner here earns the rights to talk smack, brag, and generally boast that its…
The Kingshead Mobile from -who else?- the folks behind The Kingshead Pub will feature two main dishes: fish and chips, and bangers with chips doused in curry or Guinness gravy…
My prom at the Jersey Shore in the ’90s was as kitschy as you’d expect. I wore a shiny teal dress. I had big hair. We got drunk beforehand and piled into a big banquet room decorated with blow-up palm trees and paper lanterns. We smoked with our friends outside…
Coconuts and its next door sibling, G&B Oyster Bar will be combine menus for the most part as of tonight’s dinner service, confirms partner Merv Jonota. All oysters shucked at G&B Oyster Bar are available at Coconuts, as are the small plates on the oyster bar menu. Larger entrees like…
The newest outpost of Lime Fresh Mexican Grill will open Friday in Fort Lauderdale. Though it was slated to debut today, final inspections have delayed the grand opening. The menu is made-to-order Mexican grill standards: half a dozen appetizers, four salads, three soups, and a myriad of quesadillas, burritos, and…
The SW Seventh Street location in Fort Lauderdale of Texas Hold ‘Em has closed during lease negotiations with the building owner, confirmed Jeremy “Jay” Armstead on the phone this morning. “Texas Hold Em’s desire is to open Tapped Out, featuring micro and craft beers, in that location,” said Armstead. “If…
The Lifestyle section of yesterday’s Washington Post via the Associated Press gave a shoutout to our state as the only one with its own chef. Justin Timineri is “on the cusp of celebrity,” this “cheerleader of Florida food.” Why celebrity? As a spokesperson for one of the top three farming…
It’s that time of year again when we count down to New Times’ Best Of 2012 issue in June. Starting today, Clean Plate Charlie will serve up 100 of our favorite dishes. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook…
I thought bacon was among the fattiest savory breakfast items aside from Hollandaise until I moved south, where dishes-to-clog-an-artery- in-one-sitting is a running competition. I was reminded of this when I went to the Floridian for breakfast with my very lean, citified friend from Washington, D.C. There, we’d eat pho…
Open publication – Free publishing”A college food magazine needs to exist,” said Miamian Audrey Scagnelli in a dorm room at her alma mater, George Washington University. Scagnelli is founder of College & Cook, an online magazine assembled by undergrads from Florida Gulf Coast, Georgetown, Washington University in St. Louis, Le…
Ben & Jerry’s is getting all indignant about campaign contributions by big businesses. The Vermont-based ice cream maker, known for their pop-culture-referenced products (anyone for a Late Night Snack or some delicious Schweddy Balls?), is asking fans of their treats to sign a petition designed to overturn the 2010 Supreme…
