It’s hard to find a decent veggie burger. Many have a fall-apart texture and odd ingredients, others are dry and flavorless. But the veggie burger at J. Alexander’s, the Nashville chain with a few locations around South Florida, is actually very, very good. Even to a meat eater. I caught…
You can’t swing a bag of botox around South Florida without hitting an “ultra lounge.” The whole nightclub/restaurant concept has become so pervasive that it seems there’s one opening (and closing) almost every week. Although the idea of signature drinks, clubby atmosphere, and party food is a good one, many…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. Put the eclectic flavors of South Florida — the “New American Riviera” — on your own kitchen table with…
Dickerdoodles are like snickerdoodles. Only there’s one big difference. Each year, web comic Penny Arcade holds a contest in which readers send in photographs of their own homemade dickerdoodles, holiday cookies that intimate much more than Christmas spirit. Essentially, it’s a baking contest with a little bit of photo composition…
I’m relatively sure that I’m not the only person who, after an evening of cocktails with friends who recently headed home, has stood in his kitchen looking desperately for an easy, late-night, meat-based meal. But cooking abilities are questionable for someone who’s holding on to the fridge and freezer door…
This week’s restaurant review features a list of lackluster dishes I ordered at much-loved Anthony’s Runway 84. There’s the Italian Sunday Feast, above, a $29 pile of Italian staples that I’m pretty sure somebody could whip up in the time it takes Rachel Ray to complete a meal.But the worst…
Downtown day workers have been grabbing a quick lunch at this Cuban sandwich stand along Andrews Avenue for years, since it was known as Sury’s. But recently, the walk-up counter has been taken over by the property’s original owners, who have cleaned the place up and revamped the menu. Where…
We stood in the hallway entrance of Anthony’s Runway 84, all of us fuming over what had just happened. My wife was applying lip gloss in the bathroom and rehearsing how she would tell off the maître d’. My aunt and uncle figured we ought to just drop it, but…
The Office will open the New Year in Delray, and we don’t mean Steve Carell. We do mean Mark Militello and David Manero, the original Mango Gangster and creator of Vic & Angelo’s and DeVito South Beach, who will debut their first collaboration in January in the Atlantic Avenue site…
• The entertainment scene at CityPlace just got a whole lot more interesting with the opening earlier this month of B.B. King’s Blues Club. Taking over the spaces once home to Legal Sea Foods and Bar Louie, this sixth club in the B.B. King mini-empire boasts four bars, stages for…
A rib dinner at Art’s Barbecue in Coral Springs comes with two sides, cornbread, and a half-rack of tender ribs mounted on top of two pieces of white bread. The ribs sported a slightly pink smoke ring and had a the sort of soft-but-firm texture that drives rib afficionados wild…
This week in Dish, a review from New Times editor Eric Barton, who had one crazy-as-hell meal at Fort Lauderdale’s longtime Italian-American haven, Anthony’s Runway 84. Turns out, the wait staff at the restaurant was in a bit of a hurry to turn Barton’s table, an effort that culminated with…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. If you’re like most people, your New Year’s resolution probably includes shaving off a few pounds, shrinking your carbon…
Growing up, I was always a fan of those ubiquitous “best of the year” stories that news outlets put together every December, so I thought it fitting that I give a little something back this year to the thing that has given so much to me through the two-thousand-aughts. Of…
I remember the low point well. Just a few months ago now, it was a slow summer in a notoriously seasonal dining town. But almost every restaurant seemed to be operating in a dimension entirely separate from one crucial element: customers. After tucking in alone to so many plates of…
When it comes down to deciding where to go for lunch, I always forget about Fernanda’s International Market on Oakland Park Blvd. and Federal Hwy. But after grabbing this muffuletta sandwich there a week ago, I’ll be sure to keep the place in my rotation from now on. As far…
When I first saw an Idaho Spud bar in a convenience store in Grand Junction, Colorado, I had to try one. The concept was just so old-timey, so quirky and kitschy-cute that I had to have one. On the side of the brown wrapper a tag line was written in…
This week in Dish we walk down memory lane and revisit the crazy year that was 2009. Our year-end wrap up answers the following: What notable newcomers made their way onto South Florida’s eager palates? What restaurants fell victim to the stagnant economy? In 2009, restaurateurs turned to trends to…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. One of Broward’s largest and most ambitious dining and entertainment complexes made its debut last week in, yes, Wilton…
About 30 minutes into the challenge, my mouth simply refused to chew any more. The taste of ground beef had become nauseating; the smell of sulfurous eggs and fatty bacon debilitating. Trying to gnaw through the tough, crusty bread was like eating a mildewed sponge. Simply put, my mind –…
What went down on the blog this week:This is what America is all about: Liberty and cheap wine for all.How to bake halibut so delicious and easy, a caveman could do it (damn you, Geico). Lindburger’s is like a family cookout in the backyard, without your dad yelling obscenities at…
A couple of years ago, I went to a Christmas party in New York City. It wasn’t a dinner party, but more of a “stand around and chat while you swirl wine in a glass and look fancy” kind of deal. I prefer sitting, preferably with my legs up and…
