As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 21: The Stove Burger From the Rolling StoveFire-engine red with a faux-smoke stack that stands high…
How would you like to meet up for some Green Drinks?Although Green Drinks may sound like the perfect name for some newfangled, health-conscious, eco-friendly beverage, it’s nothing of the sort. It actually stands for something much better: the name the Green Drinks nonprofit uses for its meetings, where South Florida members…
Now that we’ve finished with Cinco de Mayo and Mother’s Day, we have one more food-related holiday coming up — Free Scoop Day at Häagen-Dazs! Today, May 10, from 4 to 8 p.m., just walk into any participating Häagen-Dazs ice cream shop and get a one-scoop cone for free! Häagen-Dazs will also…
When it comes to gargantuan grinders, supersized subs, and wedges that are worth the food coma to come, not much can compare to an honest-to-goodness Philly cheese steak. And where cheese steaks are concerned, not much can compare to the Big Al’s version.At this local cheese-steak specialty chain, Charlie likes his…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 22: Cold Appetizer Plate from Sefa Mediterranean Grill”Less is more,” said architect Ludwig Mies van der…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 23: Eight-Hour Roasted Pork Buns From Dim Ssäm à GoGoOf all of South Florida’s roving food…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. We cooks and servers all know the mark of Mother’s Day on the restaurant industry in South Florida; it’s our year’s end. With the close of this season, I mark five…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 24: Chicken Tikka Masala from Indus In the hierarchy of the traditional French kitchen, the saucier…
If you haven’t heard about the Miami food truck craze, crawl out from the rock you’ve been hiding under and read this. Miami has been invaded by food trucks. Trucks serving tacos, burger, pizza, sushi, crepes, and more hit the streets daily, serving gourmet fare at reasonable prices to residents…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 25: Conch Salad From Sheila’s Famous BBQ, Conch & MoreChefs often bemoan conch as a notoriously…
A new food truck has hit the roads of South Florida, Truckin’ Good Pizza. It’s not the typical food truck we are used to seeing around town but instead an Italian-imported brick oven hauled behind a Ford F350. …
Get ready to go “pinot polar” with Ramona Singer, one of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York City, who will be in North Palm Beach today promoting her new signature wine.Dubbed simply “Ramona Singer Pinot Grigio,” the happening housewife will be in town to celebrate the distribution of her signature sips…
What better way to kick off barbecue season than with an outdoor showdown of the quintessential American backyard all-star: the hamburger. The Riverwalk Trust Burger Battle will pit more than a dozen of the region’s finest burger makers against one another for top marks from a panel of judges and…
Put chef Vito Raneri and front of the house maven David Acker together and you’ve got Davito’s Italian Restaurant (19635 State Road 7, 561/482-2323), dishing all your familiar Southern Italian dishes in a piazza-like dark wood and marble space in West Boca Raton. Raneri, for more than 20 years chef…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 26: Chicken Rosario’s from Rosario’s RistoranteIf you want to instantly be labeled a culinary wuss, a…
Bravo!It’s the word locals use to describe Bravo Ristorante, the upscale Italian eatery in Fort Lauderdale that has been serving up authentic Italian for more than a decade. With a wide ranging lunch and dinner menu that covers all the bases, including their innovative pasta list that includes over 15 selections –…
Bluejay’s Café located in Fort Lauderdale’s Himmarshee Village has not been in operation for at least two weeks. Multiple phone calls to the owners’ business and mobile phones have been unanswered…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 27: Yucca Chips with Yogurt Dip From Triple 8 Lounge at the Falcon HouseHow yucca never…
At a buffet station set with assorted cereals and packaged yogurt, a distinguished-looking man dressed in a tailored suit and shoes that gleamed darker than black caviar stood dishing a bowl of oatmeal. Perhaps he had grown bored of lobster tail or gold-flecked tortes and simply desired a humble portion…
View a slideshow of The Circle at the Breakers Resort here.This week’s review in Dish, we visit the 25-year celebrated Sunday brunch at The Circle at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach. Researching where to find worthy brunch spots for Mother’s Day (see our complete list here), gave us excuse to…
Neanderthal Man’s idea of a food truck was probably a wandering brontosaurus. Modern Man has BC Tacos. Brett Chiavari’s BC Tacos is the latest food truck to come truckin’ on the local food scene, with a planned debut on Wednesday, May 18, at a food truck rally at the Ed…
As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 28: Tiramisu from Arturo’s RistoranteHaving gone from obscurity to ubiquity faster than you can say “mascarpone,”…
