Yesterday I picked up two bags of dried chiles from a small Mexican grocery on Prospect Road near Dixie Highway. The place had a small but decent selection of dried spices, but the peppers were far and away the most interesting. I grabbed one package of mild ancho chiles, and…
• Don’t forget: The Jupiter Craft Brewer’s Festival takes place this weekend at Roger Dean Stadium. The fest starts Saturday at 1 p.m., and although tickets are sold out online there will be 1600 available at the gate (read: get there early if you don’t have yours). There are still…
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…
Maybe I was delirious the day I picked up that gold bag of product without a name that only pronounced its contents “Not Spicy Sweet.” (Ironically, just above that was a “Spicy Snacks” label. What up, folks?) The ingredients: anchovies, sugar, palm oil, salt and MSG, so I couldn’t imagine…
“I don’t know, dude… veal… not sure how I feel about eating it.”My friend Andy, an avid meat eater, wasn’t saying anything I hadn’t heard before. Hell, I’d considered it myself.”Look, Andy, a lot of the anti-veal stuff you’ve heard isn’t true. The industry has changed in the last 20…
No, not the French Quarter in New Orleans; the French Quarter Bar & Grill in Pompano Beach. I stopped in there recently to sample their version of the iconic Crescent City sandwich, and here’s what I came away with. …
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…
Initial impressions play a big part in setting the tone for a meal, as I found out while visiting two Mediterranean restaurants recently. The first experience happened at Anatolia Mediterranean Cuisine, an attractive, year-old Turkish restaurant near Mizner Park in Boca Raton. The place has become so popular among Boca…
Although it has moved from its Oakland Park location to this West Broward spot inside a Quality Inn, India House continues to turn out stellar food. Its menu is a train ticket through India, stopping in Portuguese-influenced Goa with Goan fish and vinegary vindaloos, weaving through Northern Punjab with its…
That’s right: Crawfish are back in season. Just in time for the Super Bowl.While mudbugs have no official season like lobster or crab, they typically are best when eaten spring through summer, when they are their largest. But many restaurants begin packing in on the fresh buggers as early as…
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…
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…
This week in Dish, we take a look at two Mediterranean restaurants, Anatolia in Boca Raton and Al Bawadi in Plantation. Both feature a take on Med-style eats like hummus and falafel, but Anatolia’s menu ventures a bit further into Turkish pizzas, grilled seafood, and a litany of hot and…
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.Palm Beach is not exactly the place you’d expect to find a pizzeria that seems plucked from the Italian region…
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…
• It took almost as long as a stone crab to grow another claw, but after months of speculation, the long-awaited McCormick & Schmick’s seafood house is set to make its CityPlace debut on Monday, February 8. Expect the usual McSchmick formula — lots of fresh fish and shellfish done…
This week on the blog:A fish wagon-turned-shack makes the best burger in Key West.You say banana, I say banana pancakes.We roll through six more of our 100 Favorite Dishes this week, starting with these amazing cannolis from Mona Lisa in Deerfield. The Beer-Offs are returning to Whole Foods in February…
The beer and burger craze on South Beach is getting absurd. Can’t we go back to Cubanos and cortadito, please?You know it’s time to give up when Burger King gets in on the deal. The company’s new Whopper Bar will debut in mid-February in the heart of South Beach. Now…
Clean Plate Charlie is collecting info on what the best dining deals are for the most romantic date night of the year. If your restaurant is celebrating St. Valentine’s with a special promotion, let us know by sending an email to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com. The information will be published in this post…
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…
Every minute in the morning is vital. The alarm goes off and you lie in bed, sometimes with your eyes open, sometimes closed, but you’re always doing the daily math problem in your head. “If I lie in bed for an extra 15 minutes, what am I cutting out so…
Most of the time, I love this gig. But damn — not so much today. I just bit into a “coconut crisp ball” made in Malaysia, and I’m still cringing. It’s not that the little thing tasted badly. Actually, it didn’t have much taste at all. But it’s this film…
