The deal: Located in Davie, Billy’s Tavern is a local favorite for chicken wings, burgers, and sandwiches. Former and present Miami Dolphins frequent the place, so you know the food is good. What you get: Eight chicken wings in your choice of heat — mild, medium, hot, or volcanic –…
Yesterday’s GWWE entry may or may not have been a little too easy, according to the commenters. Alas, we got a winner! And we were eating at Rok:Brgr, one of the newest additions to downtown Fort Lauderdale…
Make plans to bike on over to the Retro Indie Market this Saturday, February 12, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Boynton Beach Women’s Club to shop for indie crafts, clothing, and goodies. A collaboration between Amanda Linton and Michelle Parparian (cofounders of House of Sweets Bakery &…
I must confess, in another life, I used to be a fitness-person bigot. They all seemed to be these Disney-cheery, spandex-wrapped people who lived on alien-looking, blue-green smoothies and who felt like a bunch of jiggly rocks when they, usually for no good reason, hugged me because “I looked like…
Old school – it’s the perfect way to describe GG’s of New York, the family-style Italian restaurant that has been serving Fort Lauderale for more than 30 years. Those red and white-checkered plastic tablecloths, fat shakers of hot pepper and parmesan, and family-style fare — it’s everything you want a classic…
I opened the menu as if I were reviewing a foreign document. “Is this… Cow skin?” I asked. After a brief pause, I got an answer. “No part of the cow goes to waste, ma’am,” my server said…
By now, you’ve probably ordered truffle fries or at least seen them on restaurant menus. The trend started a couple of years ago and has been picking up momentum. But as with everything, some are better — OK, MUCH better– than others. When they’re good, they’re eye-bulging good and have…
Picture a breath-taking restaurant perched on the edge of a dramatic gorge in a tiny town in southwest France. The menu, posted beside the door, recently featured a four-course truffle tasting for $60, including fillet of beef and foie gras. Foodies have called truffles “diamonds of the table” and “jewels…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach and writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half Baked. Witness the impossible: it’s a random Friday night, and two chefs find themselves out to dinner…at dinner time. “Would you like to put your dinner order in now?” asks the…
OK, so we’re suckers for flashy packaging. That’s why we set aside this bag of New York Delhi chilli [sic] lemon-flavored “VIP” nuts when we got them in a gift basket over Christmas. And we nearly forgot about them until the silver bag caught our eye during a pantry reorganization.We…
Duck season, wabbit season, Girl Scout cookie season — all things must pass. This is the last weekend you can buy Girl Scout cookies in South Florida. Last month, we turned viciously against the manipulative little sprites, and then we went all-out telling readers exactly how to find the girlies and…
Did you say $5,000?…
When was the last time an omelet or frittata or a simple hard-boiled egg was something special? Easier question: When was the first time? If your omelet, frittata, HBE, whatever are nothing special, it’s probably because your eggs are nothing special. Lucky for you, the cure is as close as…
• Suck my beans, Starbucks. West Palm Beach’s latest ode to caffeinated beverages is anything but another corporate purveyor of designer coffee. Harold’s Coffee Lounge (514 Northwood Road; 561-833-6366) pours a nice cuppa amid local art, occasional live music, free WiFi, and pastries from the estimable Le Petit Pain. And…
Whether it was going to court to face the beef industry in the late ’90s, dedicating episodes of her talk show to behind-the-scenes looks at factory farms, or taking viewers on a grocery-store run for dairy-free junk food with Alicia Silverstone, Oprah Winfrey has long been an unlikely ally of…
True, you could go the usual V-Day route this year and wait in line with every other unimaginative sap for over-priced surf-n-turf at any number of seaside spots in Fort Lauderdale but steak knife, drawn butter and a lobster bib does not a Happy Valentine’s date guarantee, no? That’s why this…
Last episode we had Marcel pack his knives after he led his team to defeat in restaurant wars. Quickfire Round The Cheftestants walk into the kitchen to find Padma and Isaac Mizrahi. It’s fashion week and Padma is plugging her jewelry line and Isaac is hawking his new fashion line…
What does this column and roadkill have in common? They’re both gross yet you can’t stop looking at it. We know that all this talk of rodents, slime, mold and roaches is a little weird but we do the work so you don’t have to. The Florida Department of Business and…
Clematis Street’s challenge to Atlantic Avenue as Palm Beach’s premier Restaurant Row calls and raises one more with the debut of Luigi’s Italian Restaurant (118 Clematis St., 561-833-4456) in the former Cabana space a meatball’s throw from West Palm’s revitalized waterfront. Proprietor Glenn Frechter, who also owns the Cabana chainlet,…
The Manor in Wilton Manors is self-billed as a complex. And that rings true — mainly because it has a complex: total schizophrenia. Taking up a whopping 16,000 square feet of floor space, the Manor consists of a martini bar, restaurant, lounge, sports bar, dance club, piano bar, and (whew!)…
Even a lodge-looking breakfast and bakery joint doesn’t fool you fat kids. As Monday’s lone commenter correctly guessed, we were eating at Tom Sawyer’s Restaurant & Pastry Shop…
A decade of chocolate. A decade of decadence.On Thursday, February 3, join the Junior League of Boca Raton for the Tenth-Annual Chocolate Decadence bash, also known as “The Sweetest Party in Town.” This cocolicious soiree starts at 6 p.m. and brings together tasty food items and, of course, chocolate, wine, and…
