Calling all sommeliers: DB Bistro Moderne in Miami is still in search of a wine expert with five years’ experience who will serve as “a liaison between the guest, our extensive wine list and cellar” with “a thorough understanding” of how the menu and wine list interact. Check it out…
Yes, you read that correctly… Maxim Magazine named the queen of butter television’s hottest female television chef on its Dirty Briefs blog. Deen beat out some of the sexiest women in cooking, including Giada DeLaurentiis and Padma Lakshmi, to come out on top of the list.What makes Deen so damned…
Today is the opening for SpoonFed, chef Glen Manfra’s restaurant born from his temporary joint, the Pop-Up. Perched at 217 E. Atlantic Ave., SpoonFed offers…
In the event you’ve been by Riverside Market for an Oktoberfest beer or six, you’ve likely seen the sign on the door the past few weeks: “No consumption of beer or wine in house or on the premise.”…
Derek Zoolander (AKA Ben Stiller) dropped in on his new boyfriend, Stefon, during Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live.After Stefon shared some tips on trendy new places for tourists to visit while in the Big Apple (a nightclub in a haunted synagogue named Quack run by reggae superstar Rasta Primavera…
Though chef Ted Inserra is holding down his chef gig at Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House, he’s been on double duty behind the line at Jack Mancini’s M Bar with chef Kevin McCarthy. “I’m there a couple of nights a week to help get things organized and to pitch in,” said Inserra. “Kevin…
Tropical Acres starts demolition today, about six weeks after the early-morning accidental fire that started in the restaurant’s laundry area. Owner Michael Greenlaw says that the demolition is relegated to a 1,400-square-foot section of the roof and that all walls are structurally sound. …
Lily is an adorable hot pink muppet in a little blue dress. Lily is also very hungry. In a departure from the usual songs about the ABCs, Sesame Street aired a special last evening on childhood hunger. Growing Hope Against Hunger introduced Lily, a muppet girl who said her family…
We’ve scoured the internets to find today’s selection of food news from the Sunday papers and elsewhere. According to Good Magazine, Florida is one of three states with the fewest number of families to report struggling to feed themselves and their kin. At percentages falling between 7 and 9.9 according to Census Bureau statistics,…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. Photo by Patty Canedo October is my own personal Christmas. Vendors unfurl their pop-up tents, hang tattered signs that have been hibernating, and rally to the same side streets every weekend — until March. Every…
Good food for a good cause. That’s one of the ideas behind the Denali Family Fun Day fundraising event taking place in Palm Beach Gardens tomorrow. The day has been custom-designed for Denali, a ten-year-old boy battling a rare form of pancreatic cancer. …
Cooking Channel show Eat St. is filming in south Florida for their third season. Check out Sugar Rush and Ms. Cheezious and be a part of the filming (food truck fans are often picked for segments) at the following locations: …
It’s 2 p.m. and you’re crashing. Last evening’s happy hour ended at midnight and you had to get up for the weekly management meeting. Now you need a serious boost. Heading over to the convenience store gives you an even bigger headache — so many energy drinks to choose from…
First there was the Situation GTL bag, which holds your laundry (buy one here for $11.99); then Sitch got a sweetheart deal (and partial ownership) at Boca Tanning Club. Wait — it doesn’t stop there. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino is also the spokes-guido for Devotion vodka, the first casein-infused vodka…
Halloween will soon be upon us and with that comes scary movies, pumpkins, hayrides, cool weather and snuggling. Normally we hate when people push the holidays, but with Halloween, we totally make an exception…
A recently created Facebook page titled Save Fudgie the Whale makes it sound like Carvel might be thinking of dropping the ice cream cake. The company has sold the thing for four decades, so it’s natural that there might be some Fudgie supporters out there willing to rally to its…
Tucked away in a Tudor-style meeting house on Washington Street, a hearty-looking German Frau in a dirndl serves frothy beer in giant mugs at the German American Society of Greater Hollywood. A brass band belts out the John Denver anthem “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” followed by a round of…
Attention, Oktoberfest junkies: Cafe Heidelberg is hiring. Though no requirements are articulated, I would imagine knowing German and harboring a love of Deutsch bier wouldn’t hurt. Check it out here. Are you from Chicago? A Chicago bar is opening in Fort Lauderdale and the owners are looking to hire people from…
Yahoo Screen has just launched two new food shows — and one looks like it’s an instant hit. Chow Ciao features Top Chef Fabio Viviani butchering both meat and the English language as he shows us how to make Italian-inspired dishes. In this first episode, he tells us that fritatas…
Chrissie Hynde closed her vegan restaurant on Sunday, citing a bad economy. The Akron, Ohio, restaurant was open four years and was voted one of the top five vegan restaurants in America by Business Week.The Vegiterranean served vegan dishes with an Italian-Mediterranean flair. On the restaurant’s site, Hynde, 60, posted…
There are so many cooking shows on the internet… go surfing for a recipe and you’ll get everything from Martha Stewart showing you how to bake a pie to druggies cooking up a batch of crystal meth. With all these choices, we look for something that can inform and entertain…
Only two more days until Clean Plate Charlie Night at PL8, during which diners at the restaurant between 6 and 9 p.m. on Thursday can weigh in on menu items to help determine the final cut.At dinner, you’ll receive this ballot, on which you can rank delicious dishes a 5,…
