$10 Lunch — Billy’s Tavern

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 –…

Where We Were Eating: Rok:Brgr

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…

Deal of the Day: GG’s of Fort Lauderdale

​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…

Guess Where We’re Eating!?

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…

Truffle Fries in South Florida

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…

Half Baked: Pre-Cooked Eggs and Other Kitchen Secrets

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…

I’m Eating What?! Chilli [Sic] Lemon VIP Nuts

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…

Last Weekend for Girl Scout Cookies

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…

Farm Fresh Eggs From Farriss Farm

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…

Oprah Winfrey: Vegan Ally

​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…

Sublime Presents a Vegan Valentine’s Day

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…

Top Chef Recap: Fuggedaboudit! Cooking Family Style At Rao’s

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…

Luigi’s Opens on Clematis

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,…

Chocolate Decadence 2011 in Boca Raton on Thursday

​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…