Rib Bizz to Bring Its Barbecue to Boca Raton

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. When you get right down to it, the business of barbecue is ribs, and ribs are certainly the business…

100 Favorite Dishes: Stuffed Poblano From Canyon

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…

Chef Test: Boil and Crack Boxes of Live, Squirming Lobsters

Patty Canedo is a pastry chef at a famed, private country club on Palm Beach and writes weekly about her kitchen exploits.Chef de Cuisine Luke is struggling with boxes and sweating, so I run over to offer help. “You know how to cook lobster?” He opens a box and pulls…

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

This week on the blog:Make your own corn tortillas at home with Maseca Corn Masa. Our new columnist Patty Canedo has another edition of Half Baked.We start off this week’s 100 Favorite Dishes with sliders from Zed451.Charlie cooks a feast using dried Mexican chilies. Part one teaches you how to…

Last-Minute Sweets for Your Significant Other

Thankfully, there are a few places around town that cater to the procrastinators. In all of its commercial holiday greatness, Valentine’s Day is about showcasing how much you love someone. If you haven’t sprung on that trip to Jamaica, the diamond earrings, or the hot-air balloon, the most convenient plan…

Kill the Gastropub: Burgers and Beers Will Do

David Eyre and Mike Belben are two blokes who own the Eagle pub in Clerkenwell, London. And by blokes, I’m talking British bitches. Anyway, David and Mike were looking for a new term that would imply that their pub’s food was better than every other pub’s food. It was not…

I’m Eating What?! Grass Jelly Drink

If there’s one food trend that never seemed to gather much steam in America, it’s the chew-while-you-drink deal. I can’t say this really surprises me, though I was one of the first (and still remaining) huge fans of bubble tea. So it was with only slight trepidation that I threw…

100 Favorite Dishes: Udon Soup From Sushi 1

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…

Valentine’s Day Dinner Deals and Menus — UPDATED

We’ve added a bunch more special menus and Valentine’s Day deals going on at local restaurants to our already long list. If you don’t have plans yet, now is the perfect time to check out our full list and make a reservation for the most romantic night of the year…

Order Up: Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs

That’s right, folks. This week in Dish we finally hit the metal and review the rib and ‘cue joint from Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs. We first took a look at the now mega-popular rib shack when we interviewed owners McBrain and Rick “Moby” Baum back…

100 Favorite Dishes: Sliders From Zed451

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…

A Lesson from the Chef, Courtesy of an Onion

Patty Canedo is a pastry chef at a famed, private country club on Palm Beach and writes weekly about her kitchen exploits.The time clock beeps, taking my finger prints and snapping me out of a daze. “9:55 a.m.” I quicken my pace up the stairs. I walk past the empty…

DIY Tortillas Make Top Tacos

Nothing kicks a taco from good to great like fresh, hand-made tortillas.  Good luck finding those in our moonscape of Mexican cuisine.  So, food-obsessed taco addict that I am, I did the next-best thing: fill my suitcase with packages of hand-made corn tortillas at Trader Joe’s (if you didn’t know,…

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

This week on the blog:Our new columnist, Patty Canedo, dishes on cooking with liquid nitrogen.We hold a queso blanco party in the office and detail the fun. A whole new week of 100 Favorite dishes rolls out with Peruvian-style pollo from La Granja. The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival was last…