Kapow! Noodle Bar chef Roy Villacrusis won the “Grand Chef Throwdown” at the fifth annual Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival last night, a five-day benefit for the James Beard Foundation. Villacrusis, who helmed the short-lived Kubo that earned New Times’ Best Restaurant in Palm Beach in 2011, competed against…
Founded in 2007 by former execs from DoubleClick, eBay, and Louis Vuitton, e-commerce site Gilt.com has been called “the darling of luxury-obsessed shoppers” by Fast Company. How does it relate to food? Gourmands with expensive tastes who become members shop for high-end seafood, meat, cheeses, drinks, condiments, you name it…
If it’s not colony collapse disorder, it’s a crazy bee killer. Hundreds of thousands of bees in Brevard County died this past September, tied to a tainted food supply that contained an insecticide used to kill roaches, ticks, and fleas, county agriculture officials determined yesterday. The poisoning may have affected more…
December 16 marks Free Fries Friday at Burger King locations across the country, part of the nationwide rollout of “fluffier” fries with “more potato flavor” that started December 5. The new fries…
In the event you’ve made the rounds on our Fort Lauderdale lunch list, there’s a new one in the queue…
Dessert at a restaurant in South Florida is not for the faint of heart. A drizzle of caramel, a pouf of cream, the sheen of fresh-cut fruits, or the siren of chocolate can undo even the most disciplined among us. As a purist, I’m enamored with dark, single-origin chocolate, riveted…
There’s a sizable Vietnamese population in D.C. where I moved from, so it’s easy to find decent pho and a respectable banh mi. Here? Tougher to find either: It appears South Florida isn’t having the same banh mi love affair as elsewhere, which seems about right, since Vietnamese immigrants don’t…
Chef Steven Zobel is the chef behind East End Brasserie at the Atlantic Resort & Spa, the subject of this week’s restaurant review. Having moved here from New York this past summer, Zobel earned accolades during his tenure at Triomphe from the New York Times and New York Magazine. Despite long…
Weekend Update City Correspondent Stefon was back this weekend to tell us the newest and brightest night spots to visit for the holidays in New York City. Though Seth Meyers wasn’t too crazy about Stefon’s first pick Heeeeeeey, which is owned by overweight television game show host Fat Sajak,we’re going…
Kicking off the morning with our occasional a.m. roundup of interesting links.Which holiday cookie are you? No, this is not an inane quiz from a women’s magazine. It’s one from The Washington Post to help you figure out what type of cookies you should bake.Speaking of. . . turns out, some…
The Hard Rock Cafe is 40 years old. We know it sounds crazy and we hardly believe it ourselves. It seems like only yesterday that we waited in line for over an hour to get a burger with a little flag on it and look at guitars hanging from the…
The holidays are here. It’s time to impress your friends with your thoughtful taste in gifts. To show your foodie friends how much you “get them,” here are some of my favorite food finds in the world of cooking, grilling, and being a culinary nerd…
The City of Pembroke Pines is hosting their annual tree lighting ceremony and Snowfest Saturday, December 9th from 2 – 6 p.m.This family-friendly event will feature music, children’s games, a visit from Santa Claus and 50 tons of snow! …
Restaurants and bars that align Himmarshee may not be able to open on Sunday. At 4:30 a.m the power will be cut on the street to move The Shippey House, the residence of the second judge of Broward County that had been built in 1914. The cottage will be moved…
Two Florida institutions associated with boozing and boobs are getting lifts. …
Gather round boys and girls, because Clean Plate Charlie wants to share a little Christmas story — courtesy of Anthony Bourdain.We’re sure you’ve heard about Santa Claus and how he brings presents to all good little children. But we want to tell you about who visits naughty little children -…
To the neophyte cook, is there any object more suspect, more chock-full of dangers unknown, than a thick, raw chicken breast?An experienced chef doesn’t worry about chicken. But to me, on a particular evening last summer, as a neophyte cook fresh off my first rice cooker and utterly lacking in…
Charm City Burgers in Deerfield reopened this afternoon after a month long renovation. The kitchen hood replacement was the catalyst for the remodeling, the plans for which were designed by owners Mike Saperstein and Evan David. The duo took over Charm City Burgers in 2009 from an acquaintance who was…
Top Chef fans can meet season-five winner Hosea Rosenberg at tonight’s Sweet Dreams charity event to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charity in Fort Lauderdale at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek.This is the fifth-annual Sweet Dreams event, which features celebrity chefs, food, and holiday entertainment. The event runs today, December 8,…
Avril Lavigne is known for her bad little skater girl image more than her culinary skills. To be honest, we picture her getting a burger and shake at the local mall food court as a culinary adventure. It’s just something about her black eyeliner that doesn’t say “chef de cuisine”. …
This is exactly what I wanted,” said my coworker Lisa as she forked through butternut-squash tortelloni. At an outside table at SpoonFed, she mused on missing the brisk Cleveland fall, when squash is among the season’s pickings at farmers’ markets. She had ordered a dish that reminded her of home…
This month, the Restaurant Opportunities Center United ranked nearly 200 national restaurants in an effort to alert consumers where they can go to patronize more socially conscious chains. The report is also a shout out to the growing numbers of workers in the hospitality industry. Restaurants are graded according to five…
