Growing up, a good friend’s father ate more meat more regularly than anyone I knew or have known since. He would devour a half-pound of bacon for breakfast, eat burgers cooked in butter for lunch, and put away a hearty steak at dinnertime. Occasionally, he’d take us out for a…
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Big Al’s Steaks is getting a little bigger. “Big Al” Costilo, the cheerful purveyor of rigorously authentic Philly cheese steaks from locations in Coconut Creek and Delray Beach, will open his first franchise this summer on Congress Avenue in Boynton Beach. The menu featuring Philadelphia’s iconic sammie and its reliance…
This week on the blog:Put some lamb in that hamburger, son.We add eats from Aleyda’s, Pine Garden, Rosey Baby, and more to our list of 100 Favorite Dishes in South Florida.Celebrity Chef Ralph Pagano left the Customs House to return to television. His new show will be called RST RV.Check…
The Balti curry from Curries & More in Boca Raton was brick-red and thick, with large chunks of boneless, white-meat chicken. Scooped up with naan or eaten over basmati rice, it had a peppery, slow-blooming heat that built up to a fierce boil. Behind that heat was a tremendous amount…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
Shrimp chips may not seem so foreign — after all, they used to be served at Chinese restaurants long before those crunchy little brown noodles we’ve come to expect. But plenty of people have never tried these funky, crunchy treats, which may cause a new addiction.The first thing anyone notices…
The Rise and Shine Family Food Co-Op, operated by teens from the Boys & Girls Club, kicks off Saturday at the club on SW Seventh Street in Delray. It’s based on an already successful program operating in West Palm Beach.Families who sign up by noon today and pay $30, plus…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
There’s a scene in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather in which Clemenza, having just overseen the assassination of Paulie in the back of his car, says to his partner, “Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.” It figures a rough mobster like Clemenza would turn his thoughts to food immediately after whacking…
There’s a lot to be said for a huge bowl of pasta, a mixture of starch and sauce that seems indomitable in its sheer size. That’s just what you’ll get at Sazio, a Delray Beach Italian joint that takes the premise of chain eateries like Olive Garden and Carrabba’s and…
The chicken curry at Curry Hut in Pompano Beach reminded me of the cumin-heavy Indian food my friend’s mother makes. Her family is from India by way of Guyana, which lends her dishes a Caribbean influence. At family gatherings, they eat a mixture of vegetarian aloo (potato), channa (chick peas),…
Granted, it’s tough to justify the $212.50 ticket price for the Grand Tasting Tent if expecting to get the food value equivalent, but if you’re willing to pay the price for an experience and an all-out tasting orgy, you got it. Now we weren’t able to try every last morsel and…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. Behind our favorite red door in Delray Beach is a new reason to order some small plates and big…
This week in Dish, we take a look at Mona Lisa Coal Oven Pizza in Deerfield Beach. Here’s a quick glimpse of the review:At Mona Lisa – the South Florida leg of an 80-year-old bakery from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn – the cannolis are worth offing someone for. The shells are made…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
The new SoLita Las Olas sure looks South Beach chic. It’s as much a bar as a restaurant, with two lounge areas and a living-room-style hangout with couches and love seats smack in the middle. There are tables for dinner too, but it’s clear by the trip-hop bass thumping in…
The 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival wrapped up on Sunday, and among the festivities was the Grand Tasting Village, a food- and spirits-tasting extravaganza stretching across half-a-dozen city blocks on the sand in South Beach. The multi-tent display offered all you could eat vittles from local restaurants, bottomless…
Our sister blog, Short Order, has a ton of coverage and post-game analysis today of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Miami New Times restaurant critic Lee Klein dishes up the Top Five Screw-Ups of SBWFF 2010, and while a famous food celeb dropping trou is not among them, there…
Ralph Pagano, the Hell’s Kitchen alum and erstwhile executive chef of the restaurant formerly known as Customs House, is headed back to television. It turns out his split with the Boca Restaurant (detailed last week on Clean Plate Charlie) was mutual. While Customs House will now be known as Chris…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
