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March 19, 2009Reds, Whites, and Green
November 12, 2007Booze Hound - Jake's Bar & Grill
August 1, 2008Christine's Stag's Leap Wine Tasting and Prix Fixe Menu
August 12, 2008How to Make a Hurricane
August 18, 200810 Wines You Can Afford to Love
August 29, 2008UPDATED: Gold Medal Wine Tour Stops in at Two Chefs Too
September 22, 2008Bushmills Rocks
September 25, 2008Lauderdale Food and Wine Events Tonight
September 25, 2008Drinking Our Way Through the Miami International Wine Fair
October 27, 2008Tea Time At Starbucks
On January 3rd, Starbucks rolled out a quintet of new Tazo full leaf tea beverages that are now available in all stores nationwide. Yesterday the coffee chain hosted "TeaTime events", which is a civilized way of saying "free samples". I headed to the most scenic of our Starbucks, at 14th Street and Ocean Drive, where store manager Christian García graciously offered me tastes of all five. Two of the new drinks, Berry Chai Infusion and Apple Chai Infusion, are made by steaming black tea with fru
January 14, 2009Slow Food Cocktails at Forte, Dec. 21
Bessie had one too many pea-shoot gimletsIf the prices of local slow food events has been a bit rich for you, or you haven't quite had your fill of wacky holiday cocktails yet, hie yourself over to Forte di Asprinio in West Palm Beach this Sunday for "The Farmer and the Mixologist," an event that promises to put the pea shoots back in your gimlet, where they belong. $25 buys you cocktails and canapes and includes a donation to the Glades to Coast convivium. Along with pea-shoot gimlets and a b
December 18, 2008Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Maybe it was Fay's mind-warping approach, but something fishy was going on at the Palm Grill
August 28, 2008A Glass a Day
February 19, 2009The All New Same Old
The new regime at Trina isn't taking many risks
September 25, 2008Episode I: Attack of the Beer Clones
April 16, 2009Gotta Get Back in Time
June 19, 2008Boba Bobble
June 19, 2008In With the Old, Out With the New
Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust
June 12, 2008Sips & Dips
May 1, 2008Atmosphere Lounge
April 24, 2008Thinking Outside the Noodle Box
Cross this bridge when you come to it
February 21, 2008Adventures in Oral Fixation
Sober or not, nightlife denizens get verbal
January 3, 2008Girlfriend in a Coma
August 2, 2007Hoppin' Glad
May 21, 2009Side Dish
April 23, 2009Interview with Beer Wars' Director Anat Baron
Anat Baron poses with brew.It's going to be a beer-filled kind of week, folks. First, New Times' Original Beerfest is only five days away. If you haven't grabbed your tickets yet to the four-hour celebration of import and craft brews, you can pick them up here. Second, this Thursday is the opening of Beer Wars, a documentary that delves in to the sudsy battle the independent beer brewers of the world and the two, mega brewery giants, Belgian-owned AB-InBev (Budweiser) and SABMiller, headquartere
April 14, 2009Beer of the Week: Weyerbacher Insanity
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Short Order will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it's all about the love of the brew. If you have a beer you'd like featured in Beer of the Week, let us know via a comment.Welcome back to Beer of the Week, folks. This time around, a tale of horror; of demented minds that lie awake at night, infusing beer with the untold properties of
May 14, 2009Signature Drinks Pack a Punch at YOLO Restaurant & O Lounge
John LinnThe O Lounge is classy, dark, and sultry all at once, a classic environment for a cocktail. While I'm far from the martini-sipping type, I can respect the breed. Powerful types and their wanna-bes, cavorting and carrying on, stemmed glass hoisted in one hand saying loudly to the world, "Bring it on, you bastards. I have gin." The fact is, though, as the martini has become more and more popular its one true ingredient, gin, has slipped to the wayside. Instead, specialty martinis - drinks
May 20, 2009Wine Guy: Pairing with Pizza
John LinnSven Vogtland is the Advanced Sommelier at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale, and a 13-year veteran of the craft who has recommended bottles in the sunny Virgin Islands and in far-away Vietnam. In this column, Vogtland will discuss the latest trends in wine, from what bottles and regions are blowing up to the newest cocktail crazes. This week, Sven talks about what wine to pair with the most popular of Italian foods: pizza."For me, wine is about where you are at and who you are drinking
June 17, 2009Vine Dining
March 12, 2009Strange Brew!
August 9, 2007Malts & Crafts
February 5, 2009List Five: Great Places to Get a Cup of Coffee
It's harder than you might think to find a good cup of coffee. I mean, straight-up, regular old coffee-flavored coffee. There are plenty of places to get your coffee drowned in milk or laced with sugary syrups, but finding a decent cup of black coffee can seem impossible if you don't know where to look. This list contains five places where you can enjoy coffee without having to cover it up with vanilla beans, chocolate, or hazelnut.The Soma Center, 609 Lake Ave., Lake Worth. 561-296-9949 All Som
July 16, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: Good, Cheap Pinot
Photo by Flickr user chickeninthewoodsCheap pinot noir is a moron. Cheap, good pinot noir is an oxymoron. Pinot noir, you see, is the Sarah Palin of grapes -- flighty, erratic, unpredictable, hard to handle -- though unlike the nitwit from Wasilla, the result can be anything but simple and stupid. It's that ornery nature that demands exceptional skill from the winemaker, not to mention exceptional fruit, typically produced from low-yielding vines planted in limited areas
July 20, 2009Charlie's Guide to Speaking Wine, or, How to Bullshit Wine Drinkers
The world of wine speaks a language all its own. Urdu, mostly. With a soupcon of bullshit and a faint whiff of pretension. So in keeping with Clean Plate Charlie's commitment to calling a spade a goddamned shovel, he presents this modest glossary of wine terms for your amusement, edification, and eventual disposal. Cheers! Bouquet, n. Aroma; alternately, stench Cork, n. An enclosure that ruins almost as much wine as it protects Corkage, n. The process by which a restaurant inflate
July 30, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: The Underdog Sauvignon Blanc
Photo by Bill CitaraSauvignon Blanc is forever the underdog, settling for whatever flickers of limelight its better-known Chardonnay partner might cast aside. But Sauvignon Blanc actually has much to offer. For one, it's almost always cheaper than Chardonnay, which can demand premium prices no matter how insipid the wine in the bottle. For another, it usually has real varietal character, unlike the vast, dreary number of Chardonnays that taste less of good, honest fruit than of overripe
August 3, 2009Six Glasses of Wine with Dinner?
August 6, 2009This Week in Boozing/Dining Events
Summer is here, and apparently that means its time to get loaded on wine, scotch, and beer pairings. Check out these events taking place over the next week, and bring an extra liver, if you can.• Himmarshee Bar & Grille is teaming up with B.R. Cohn Winery for a four course wine dinner on Thursday, August 27 at 6:30 p.m. The shindig will start with passed plates of black mission figs, honey, peanut butter mousse over wasabi crisps, and ostrich meatballs with green pepper corn sauce
August 20, 2009At Maracas in Fort Lauderdale, That Frozen Concoction That Helps Us Hang On Comes Extra Strong
August 20, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: South America's Mighty Malbec
Every wine-producing region has its iconic wine. The Napa Valley has Cabernet Sauvignon; France, Bordeaux; Italy, Chianti; Spain, Rioja; Australia, Shiraz; Chile, Carménère. And Argentina has malbec. Like its South American cousin, malbec is one of the "noble grapes" of Bordeaux (along with Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, and Petit Verdot). Also like Carménère, it was brought to the New World from France in the mid-1800s; its affinity for warm weather and need for
August 24, 2009Bar Room Blitz: SAS Martini Lounge
via Flickr user floodkoffWalking into SAS Martini Lounge (formerly known as Sauer Apple Saloon), I thought asking a bartender to make their favorite drink would result in an exotic martini. I sat down at the end of the bar and asked the bartender what her favorite drink to make was. Celiana (probably grossly misspelled) replied "Gin and tonic." I should have figured so much. At a neighborhood pub or sports bar, bartenders probably tire of making the same one liquor and a mixer drink quickly a
September 3, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck
The story of Robert Mondavi is as depressing as it is inspirational. Probably no single person did more to put California on the world wine map, not only as a vintner who produced wines that rivaled some of the best of Europe but as an evangelist of New World wines, an industry power who used his influence to help it grow and improve, a benefactor of numerous causes, and a spokesman for a more civilized lifestyle of which food and wine were integral parts. Eventually it all went to hell
September 8, 2009BeerLiquor of the Week: Cruzan Single Barrel RumJohn LinnYou know those little hexagonally packaged Tortuga rum cakes that people who get off cruise ships and air planes tend to give hand out the way fruit cakes go around during Christmas time? They're sweet and dry and taste like a very distant relative to what someone's Bahamian grandmother might actually make and hand out to friends and neighbors. Well, I'm assaulted by that smell when I life a rocks glass with a tiny pour of Cruzan Single Barrel Rum to my nose. It took me a while to pl
September 17, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck
Pinot noir that actually tastes like pinot noir is becoming about as rare as brain cells at a birthers' convention, as winemakers pimp out this most perfect of all varietals with gobs of fruit and cords of oak and enough alcohol to stir into a martini. Cheap pinot noir that actually tastes like pinot noir is ever rarer than that, as it's a finicky, difficult, high-maintenance grape, the enological equivalent of Lindsay Lohan. So when you run across a pinot noir with the smok
September 21, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck
As part of his continuing campaign to free wine drinkers from the shackles of chardonnay, Clean Plate Charlie presents. . . torrontes. WTF? TF, not to put too fine a point on it, is the biggest white wine grape in (and the only indigenous grape to) Argentina. If you've never heard of it, well, that's pretty F'd up, because when done right torrontes makes a lovely wine--crisp without the puckery tartness of sauvignon blanc, floral without the sweetness of many rieslings
October 5, 2009Cut 432 Takes Cocktails a Cut Above
Bill CitaraCut 432's Brian Albe mixes poetic. They're doing it in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami. . . in Delray Beach, not so much. A new generation of--don't call them "bartenders," call them "mixologists"--is flavoring their own spirits, making their own infusions and syrups and garnishes, creating cocktails that go far beyond the usual "vodka-rocks" and assorted abominations that have defiled the holy martini. Just as Brian Albe and Brandon Belluscio gave the old-f
October 8, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck
No wine gets a blanc stare faster than Chenin Blanc. It may be the white wine grape of France's Loire Valley, but in these parts, you see it about as often as snow drifts on Ocean Drive. It had a few minutes of fame in the 1960s and 1970s and showed up in more than its share of cheap white wine blends, but unless you go to South Africa or France, your chances of finding Chenin Blanc as a standalone varietal are pretty small. This is really quite the pisser, as Chenin Blanc can be made
October 12, 2009L'Hermitage Pairs Organic Veggies and Wine
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.Photo by Flickr user Mia ElliottOrganic. It's not just for vegetables any more. It's for wine too, and put both of them together and they're greener than a boatload of Priuses stuffed with free-range tofu. Which is exactly what Christine Najac and Marci Boland are doing with a tasting of organic wines paired to dishe
October 15, 2009Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck
Three of the iconic white wine grapes in France's Goats Do Roam region are Viognier, Grenache Blanc and Roussanne. Uh, actually, that would be Cotes du Rhone, but to a South African vintner with a sense of humor (and an apparent affection for mondegreens), it would be a cool thing to tweak the stuffy French wine world and give wine drinkers a giggle by naming his line of Rhone-style wines after the goats that do, in fact, roam on his Western Cape estate. So Charles Back created Goats Do
October 26, 2009
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