100 Favorite Dishes: Kobe Beef Sliders From Steak 954

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 6: Kobe Beef Sliders From Steak 954Stephen Starr’s Steak 954 is as straightforward as a…

KeysSpill.com Needs Volunteers

Florida’s not out of the woods yet regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In fact, Gulfstream currents could carry oil as far as the Florida Keys in a little over a week. That means fisheries located in South Florida could be affected soon. (For more on how the oil spill…

100 Favorite Dishes: Shrimp and Grits From Creolina’s Dixie Takeout

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.No. 7: Shrimp and Grits From Creolina’s Dixie TakeoutChef/owner Mark Sulzinski’s landmark Cajun and Creole restaurant…

A Guide to South Florida’s Cheap Seafood Dives

There’s something immutably charming about South Florida’s cheap seafood dives – restaurants seemingly trapped in time, where anyone with a few bucks can eat a small mountain of seafood served raw, fried, or even broiled with a little butter and paprika. At these raw bars and shuck shacks, you’ll find…

Paula DaSilva Bids Fond Farewell to 3030 Ocean

It’s time to kiss the chef goodbye, folks. Paula DaSilva, Hell’s Kitchen season 5 contestant and longtime Executive Sous Chef at Fort Lauderdale’s 3030 Ocean, is packing up her knives and heading to Miami. DaSilva, who’s worked at 3030 Ocean under Chef Dean James Max for over 10 years, will…

Order Up: A Guide to Florida’s Divey Seafood Joints

Get ready to shuck, peel, and slurp — our Dish column this week is on South Florida’s cheap seafood dives. These joints are the types of places where you can soldier up to a worn bar top and order Gulf oysters by the dozen, slurping down briny shellfish with pints…

100 Favorite Dishes: Crepes From Paris Bakery and Café

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.No. 9: Crepes from Paris Bakery and CaféThe French have been eating simple pancakes, made first…

100 Favorite Dishes: Butifarra From Bravo Gourmet Sandwich Shop

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.No. 10: Butifarra from Bravo Gourmet Sandwich ShopThe postcard-sized menu at Bravo! Gourmet Sandwich Shop in…

Rock ‘n’ Roll Ribs to Host Iron Maiden Tour Party

Fans of Coral Springs barbecue joint Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs have grown accustomed to seeing Iron Maiden drummer and co-owner Nicko McBrain as he parades around the restaurant daily. But with Iron Maiden’s upcoming U.S. tour kicking off in less than a month, McBrain’s will be MIA from the rib…

Doggy Bag: This Week in Charlie

This week on the blog:Our 100 Favorite Dishes this week cover Chinese curry noodles, spicy rock shrimp, and a killer dolphin sandwich.$10 at Panaretto in Fort Lauderdale will get you an affordable Italian lunch.South Florida had a few James Beard Award entrants, and here are the winners.With Father’s Day around…

The Crappy Kitchen Cookbook

Is your kitchen smaller than Snookie’s brainpan? Do you barely have enough counter space to spill a can of Bud? Does your refrigerator wheeze like Kirstie Alley running a marathon? Is your stove something Neanderthal Man would have used to roast a hunk of woolly mammoth?  If you answered “yes”…

I’m Eating What?! Falafel-Flavored Bissli

Continuing my eating adventures with the theme of “funky Middle Eastern foods,” I came across another curious find: Osem’s Falafel Flavor Bissli. I examined the packaging on this “party snack” and wondered who it was meant to attract, since it features two cartoon characters — one confused nerd and the…

100 Favorite Dishes: Fried Rock Shrimp With Spicu Yuzu From Suite 225

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.No. 12: Fried Rock Shrimp With Spicy Yuzu From Suite 225The Florida rock shrimp story is…

Grateful Palate Reopens as Wine Bar & Lounge Tonight

For years, Grateful Palate on 17th Street has been a gourmet yacht provisioner, catering to some of South Florida swankest sea-bound parties. But tonight from 7 to 9, the party for landlubbers begins with the opening of Grateful Palates’ new Wine & Dining Bar and Lounge.The space has been completely…

Cabo Flats in Palm Beach Gardens: Booze and Mexican Fare Too

There’s something awful about those giant nerd pagers that restaurants stick you with as you await your table. My father used to grumble that the ultimate goal of these places is to shuffle as many “feeders” in and out as possible. The moment you walk in, you’re given a number…

Rattlesnake Jake’s in Deerfield: Cold Brews and Fish Tacos

Rattlesnake Jake’s — a Texas-style dive bar with a Floridian bent — is an anchor on Deerfield Beach’s salt-air strip. Show up in flip-flops and board shorts, pull up a stool at the worn bar top, and order a mighty-sized fish taco. Just try to eat one without bits of…

Where Are We Eating?

This eatery could be any road-side diner across the South. It’s the sort of place where the waitresses call you “hon” and folks in non-ironic trucker hats congregate for an honest-to-goodness lunch. It’s a South Florida institution, and we’ve lauded it time and time again for it’s stick-to-your-ribs food. So,…