Coal-fired pizza has become the norm in South Florida thanks to pizza joints like Anthony’s Coal-Fired that cook with anthracite. The intense heat of coal brings the temperature in these ovens up toward 1,000 degrees. Ideally, it creates a crackly thin crust with bits of char all over it.Fans of…
The deal: This Mediterranean market in Fort Lauderdale has a full-service deli that makes excellent sandwiches with fresh cold cuts…
My family and I went out for an early Father’s Day dinner Saturday night at Marumi Sushi in Plantation, recently named our Best Restaurant in Broward County. Dad was thrilled since it was only his second visit and he really wanted to try Marumi’s fresh, whole fish again. For $1.20…
• Only weeks after closing his Bova Ristorante when partner and Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein crashed and burned, Tony Bova is back in the dining game with Vivo Partenza (1450 N. Federal Highway; 561-750-2120) in the same Boca Raton space. The menu is a mix of traditional and more contemporary…
Jeremiah Buchanan and Zandra Lindgren met about ten years ago when he went to Sweden as an exchange student and stayed with her family. “I knew right then he was the guy I was going to marry,” Zandra recalls.They stayed together through high school and while both of them set…
One might think that this weekend’s annual Mango Festival in Deerfield Beach might actually be about … oh, I don’t know… mangoes? But after calls to promoters went unreturned, a look at the website revealed that the event actually seems like a big R&B concert, not a foodie festival. Desperately…
This week on the blog:Taste Gastropub is cooking some ‘cue on Mondays.What’s more American than a Third of July Fish Fry?Get your cheap lunch fix at the Whole Enchilada.We wrap up our interview with bestselling vegan chef Tal Ronnen.The Cooking Channel hits the ground running with new shows and classic…
When I told a coworker about my choice to pick Marumi Sushi as Best Restaurant in Broward, he was elated (he’s a fan). “Of course, I love Marumi,” he said to me. “But I also think it’s great that you’re choosing a tiny, ethnic restaurant as opposed to a typical…
Unleash your inner Jeffrey Steingarden and decide whose hamburger, er… Glamburger will reign supreme (but you don’t have to be a dick about it) in the Cheesecake Factory’s “Great Glamburger Challenge.” For six weeks in April and May, the national chain known for its endless crowds and monstrous portions solicited…
Las Olas has lots of pricey options, but aside from the Floridian, that solid-for-breakfast-dead-for-dinner mainstay, and old stalwart bakery Gran Forno, there are few places to score a quick and cheap lunch. So that’s the hole Eten Food Co. is hoping to fill, with takeout-only soups, sandwiches, and prepared foods.Eten…
Todd English’s Da Campo Osteria in the Il Lugano Hotel is known for its table-side mozzarella. What exactly is table-side mozzarella? It’s when a chef comes out of the kitchen with a bowl of warm curd, dons a pair of rubber gloves, and literally hand-pulls fresh mozzarella for you table-side…
Delicately seared fish a glistening rare in the middle. Corn succotash and parsnip puree. Local turnips. If it sounds like an amazingly prepared plate, it is. Just tell us: Where are we eating?Bonus: Name the variety of fish for extra kudos…
Bamboo Fire — which we yesterday named Best Caribbean Restaurant in South Florida — finally got that visit from food writer Mark Bittman. His review of the mom and pop, posted on his blog, is glowing and sincere. Score one for the home team.In case you didn’t follow, Bittman popped…
Medflies are back in South Florida and creating a serious outbreak, according to Department of Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson. He deems the threat from the Mediterranean fruit fly, first discovered in Boca Raton traps over the weekend, “disturbing.” Not since 2002 has South Florida has seen the destructive flies — tiny insects…
Another year, another list of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs. And none of them is from South Florida. The food magazine’s annual list of 10 Best New Chefs in America gathers the young, creative toques who have caught national attention over the past year. The only rule — none…
There were some big shoes to fill at 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale after former Chef de Cuisine and Hell’s Kitchen contestant Paula DaSilva left last month to take over at the Eden Roc Resort in Miami Beach. But today, Executive Chef Dean James Max has just named DaSilva’s successor…
By now, everyone’s heard of the Cooking Channel. The new cable station launched two weeks ago with a focus on food programming for “food people” (so named because foodies don’t like to be called foodies). It comes courtesy of the Food Network, which basically means there are two almost identical…
The deal: This fast-casual Mexican joint in Fort Lauderdale makes its tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and more with ultrafresh ingredients…
• Looks like barbecue has gone viral in Palm Beach County, with the recent debuts of Rib Bizz and Sheila’s and the weekend smokefest at Harvest Time Market. Now Allen Susser’s Taste Gastropub has been bitten by the barbecue bug, launching Monday Night Backyard BBQ, an all-you-can-eat chowdown with a…
This week on the blog:We recap the Burger Battle in two posts — the best, and the worst.Our custom chocolate bar from Chocomize arrived this week, and it was everything we had hoped for.To go with all the burgers, we sip some milk shakes at WPB’s Relish.Dine Out for the…
What was New York Times writer and the author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman doing in South Florida this week?Well, among other things, he was eating at a Delray Beach restaurant and having a not-so-good experience in the process. He wrote about the restaurant — which he declines…
It’s fair to blame the Tour de France for this. Riders in that race, needing lots of calories as easily as possible, popularized the idea of eating food out of squeeze containers. So now we have snacks like Justin’s Natural Honey Peanut Butter Blend, a squeezable container of a peanut…
