Under normal circumstances, you should probably avoid putting anything Rush Limbaugh related in your mouth. But the conservative firebrand did recently release a Paul Revere-themed beverage, Two If By Tea, so Clean Plate Charlie decided to risk life, limb, and sanity to review the oxy-chaser summertime drink. Before you say…
Dim sum is the ideal meal for nibblers, seeing as you get to partake in a variety of delicious little treats like dumplings, rolls, cakes and rice noodle balls. This Chinese tradition is coming to Delray Beach for Buddha Sky Bar’s Taste of Dim Sum Sunday…
M Bar has quietly debuted at the corner of East Las Olas and NE 13th Avenue as a sibling to the evergreen Italian restaurant Mancini’s. Owner Jack Mancini closed his namesake restaurant a couple of doors down with plans to open it next door to M Bar in August.At this…
P.F. Chang’s, the Chinese restaurant chain that features giant soldiers as sentinels to the gates of fancy mall dining, is celebrating its 18th birthday, and you get the gift. Become a fan of P.F. Chang’s Facebook page and you’ll be able to print out a coupon good for a free…
As urban sprawl pushes farther and farther into formerly wild and rural areas, the comforts of modern living are beginning to stress our natural resources. Despite the welcome rains of the past week, anyone with a vegetable garden or even a couple of potted plants can tell you that typically…
AOL Martha as a child – who knew? Domestic goddess Martha Stewart has taken over pretty much everything – television, cooking, crafting, books, and the internet. That’s all well and good, because we believe that adults have the right to choose whether or not they want to bake meringue mice,…
Could you eat 40 hot dogs in 10 minutes? Would you want to?There is one woman who can. Competitive eater Sonya Thomas, aka the “Black Widow,” chowed her way to victory today to win the first-ever women’s Nathan’s International July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest on New York’s Coney Island. Thomas beat…
Food Network Star finalists put on quite a show Sunday night for Season Seven’s Fourth of July special-episode featuring “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives,” host, Guy Fieri. The show’s 10 remaining contestants — who compete for a chance to have their own show on the Food Network — were asked to vamp-up…
Stop for a second. It’s the Fourth of July and like any good American you’re about to shove a foot-long stick of meat into your face. But do you know what’s actually in your hot dog?According to hot-dog.org, Americans purchase 350 million pounds of hot dogs a year. And that’s…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. In this industry whether you’re a culinary school grad or an honor student at HKU (Hard Knocks University, which I am) it seems we all latch onto someone while working our way through. Almost every chef refers…
At The Village at Gulfstream Park, the weekday 3-6pm time frame is ripe with food deals.Take Tuesdays at PrimeBar for example…
Since last month’s arrest of Food Not Bombs founder Keith McHenry in Orlando for violating that city’s ordinance against holding mass feedings in public parks, the free-food group has been organizing protest events around the state and country. Yesterday afternoon around a dozen Food Not Bombs activists, mostly young people, gathered…
This is one layover you definitely won’t mind waiting for. And, if you’re lucky, it will be coming to a South Florida airport near you.In 24-Hour Layovers, Anthony Bourdain really will have no reservations about where he goes, what he eats — or how he does it since agreeing to partner…
If you can’t make it out to the Hard Rock this Sunday for the New Times-sponsored Rock N Roll Beer B Que, you may want to hit up the 1300 block of Las Olas Blvd for a “Ft. Lauderdale Fiesta Fabulosa,” which sounds like an excuse to drink a bunch…
Just in time for Independence Day grilling, Myron Mixon, author of The New York Times bestseller Smokin’, demonstrates some Barbeque techniques to Team Coco. Of course, this degenerates quickly from a serious cooking lesson to hilarity. First, Mixon asks Conan help him make Sausage stuffed bacon wrapped turkey. Here’s a…
Lately it seems that Delray and West Palm Beach have been getting all the restaurant glory but now it appears that Boca Raton is cutting itself a slice of fine dining glam. Expecting to debut in mid-August is the second SoFla outpost of New York-based high-end Chinese eatery Philippe Chow…
Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day — timed perfectly with the impending three-day holiday weekend — is Friday, giving dessert lovers time to indulge in any number of strange and/or unusual frozen flavors. Forget vanilla (bor-ing) — head to your local ice creamery for a taste of a regional favorite, or…
When making a cake, there are required ingredients like eggs, sugar, butter, fireworks, and hydraulics. Well, those are the ingredients in Cake Boss Buddy Valestro’s gigantic robotic Transformers cake, made to celebrate the new movie Transformers:Dark Side of the Moon. Modeled after “good” transformer Bumblebee, the cake depicts the robot morphing…
Paris in Town Le Bistro (11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave., 561-622-1616), the younger brother to North Palm Beach’s popular Paris in Town Le Café, has opened its doors in the resurgent Downtown at the Gardens mall in Palm Beach Gardens. The 1920s-style bistro boasts indoor and outdoor seating for 150,…
The rabble have invaded Palm Beach. They’re nice enough rabble, I guess. Earnest, polite, well-spoken. It’s just that, you know… They’re not one of us. I mean, really. Those clothes! That cheap little Japanese car! That tacky house in one of those loathsome “bedroom communities”! They never vacation in Gstaad…
They’re putting a little English on Wild Olives in the tony Shops at Boca Center, where celeb chef Todd English’s posh but under-achieving restaurant has already closed and next month is slated to move next door and become a nouveau pub called The English Tap & Beer Garden. Not a…
In what appears to be the finale of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, Jamie gets the scoop on the new superintendent from Mike, a school leader at West Adams High School. Of course, they meet up at Patras, where Jamie checks in with Deno on his revamped fast-food concept. (Gotta say,…
