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…
Patty Canedo is a pastry chef at a famed, private country club on Palm Beach and writes weekly about her kitchen exploits.Its 8:20 a.m., and the kitchen is already filled with the sound of knives running across cutting boards, sizzles from sauté pans, and the walk-in door continuously opening and…
• Tommy Billante’s restaurant empire just keeps growing. The SoFla restaurateur, whose stylish, accessible, and wallet-friendly Italian eateries give new meaning to the phrase “familiarity breeds content,” has opened his fourth local Villagio, this one in the Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise (1760 Sawgrass Mills Circle, 954-846-2176). Expect…
This week on the blog:We show you how to recreate La Cigale’s char-grilled artichokes.Patty Canedo gets physical with a box of lobsters in Half Baked.This week’s 100 Favorite Dishes continues with the stuffed poblanos at Fort Lauderdale’s Canyon.National chain Target puts the kibosh on farm-raised salmon. The retailer will now…
When the brand new Customs House restaurant and gastropub opened earlier this year in Boca Raton, Hell’s Kitchen alum Ralph Pagano was at the stove. But that arrangement didn’t last long. An employee at the restaurant confirmed this morning that Pagano is no longer working there. In addition, the restaurant…
• Join the folks at Table 42 (formerly Coal Mine Pizza) on Wednesday nights for $5 burger night, where Harris Ranch beef burgers cost just — you guessed it — five bucks. Also $5: Cocktails from the specialty cocktail list. There’s complimentary valet parking as well. Other specialty nights at…
Nominees for this years’ James Beard Awards were announced yesterday, and South Florida has a few representatives in the list. Zach Bell of Cafe Boulud and Dean James Max of 3030 Ocean were both nominated in the Best Chef: South category. In recent years, Bell has really come into his…
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…
Eel doesn’t really look like any other fishy-type thing served at a sushi restaurant. But having it delivered warm and covered in that sweet eel sauce atop a dragon roll is quite different from attempting to eat it from a can. The packaging looked innocent enough, and besides the eel,…
“Are you really so unhappy working here that it’s necessary to be a douchebag?” I thought. I was out to dinner with a friend at a local restaurant, and the chef was sitting with us. He’s a pretty well-known guy, and the restaurant had opened fairly recently, and I assumed he…
Charlie was at the private opening of the new Sicilian Oven in Coral Springs last night. The second location of the popular and (quite frankly) outstanding pizza joint is now in business at 10140 W. Sample Road, formerly home to DiSalvo’s Pizza (which makes sense since that restaurant was owned…
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…
You may not need three forks to demolish 18 ounces of USDA Prime bone-in ribeye, but if you want to try it at Hallandale’s ambitious Village at Gulfstream Park, you’ll need to head for the new III Forks steakhouse (501 Silks Run, Ste. 1130, 954-457-3920). The fourth Florida meatery of…
The worst service I’ve ever encountered came while eating at the famed Columbia Restaurant in St. Augustine. The waitress, who looked like a Latin version of Joan Rivers, was an absolute trip. I remember asking her how a particular fillet of snapper was prepared, to which she responded, “Are you…
It’s safe to say the thin, breaded meat cutlet known as schnitzel is not quite as buzz-worthy as pancakes, the specialty of another, well-known international house. But even if it doesn’t always get the respect it deserves, the schnitzel is undoubtedly more popular worldwide; whether it goes by the name…
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival kicks off next week, and if you’re planning on going but haven’t purchased your tickets yet, you’re still in luck. While many events are sold out completely, a number of them still have tickets available.In October, we detailed the top five SoBe W&F…
It’s been just over a month since the Office debuted in Delray Beach, the latest restaurant from David Manero and former Mark’s chef Mark Militello. And a recent visit showed that the upscale gastropub is starting to hit its stride.I made the trek to Delray on a recent Friday night…
After a few delays, Elevation Burger, the sustainable, free-range, grass-fed beef burger joint, is finally coming to the Walk in Coral Springs in March.The burger chain sounds sort of like Five Guys gone green. Elevation’s slogan is “ingredients matter,” and at least according to initial literature, it means it. It…
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…
Farmers’ markets are a wonderful thing: politically, ecologically, economically, and gastronomically correct. We love the idea of them; we love the quality product we can get at them. What we don’t do is shop a whole lot at them. After all, most farmers’ markets are open only on weekends, usually…
This week in Dish, we review Wild Olives in Boca Raton, a collaboration between celebrity chef Todd English and local restaurateurs Lirim Jacobi and Dixon Li. A spinoff of English’s premier, Italian/Mediterranean eatery, Olives, the Boca restaurant took over where the celebrated Opus 5 left off in the Boca Center…
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…
