Boca Raton Resort and Club

American Fine Wine Competition Gala

Five Beers to Try in the Beergarden at This Year's Boca Bacchanal Bash

The 11th-annual Boca Bacchanal Bacchus Bash returns this weekend, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The event, which raises funds for the Boca Raton Historial Society and Museum, has always been a bit of a high-brow affair.But this year, they're adding a new component, one that is likely to appeal ... More >>

Boca Bacchanal Bacchus Bash

American Fine Wine Competition Gala Dinner Is Thursday: Here's What Emeril Plans to Cook

The American Fine Wine Competition's fifth year comes to a close with Thursday night's gala dinner at the Boca Raton Resort & Club. Chef Emeril Lagasse is a featured guest, as he will be preparing the main course for the four-course dinner. Superfans have a chance to sit onstage at "Emeril's tab ... More >>

South Florida's Best Places to Sip Wine

​The American Fine Wines Competition gala is set for April 19 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. At $310 a pop, a spot at the table nets a four-course dinner and tastes of many of the 600 American wines featured in the competition. Late Show With David Letterman announcer Alan Kalter will emce ... More >>

American Fine Wine Competition Hosts Wine Carnival at Bogart's

​What's better than a carnival with its games of chance, prizes, bright lights, and crazed toothless carnies?  How about a carnival where the games are wine centric and everyone practices good dental hygiene?The American Fine Wine Competition is hosting a Consumer Challenge Wine Carnival this ... More >>

Fifth Annual American Fine Wine Competition: This Year's Events

​The Fifth Annual American Fine Wine Competition -- a series of vino-centered events spread over a few months -- launched in January with an invite-only reception and the marquee competition to see which of more than 600 wines would walk away with top honors. So while the actual competition portio ... More >>

Boca Bacchanal Is March 23 to 25: A Look at the Events

​The Boca Bacchanal, a party paying tribute to the glory of food and drink, is set for March 23 to 25 in various locations throughout southern Palm Beach County, with funds going to the Boca Raton Historical Society's Historic Preservation and Heritage Education programs. Named as it is for the Ro ... More >>

Iron Chef Morimoto Plays Tennis, Makes Sushi at Boca Raton Resort

​Famed Iron Chef Morimoto turned in his kitchen whites for tennis whites yesterday at the Boca Raton Resort & Club's tennis exhibition match.Morimoto held his own in an exhibition tennis match against tennis stars Pat Cash, Carlos Moya, and Michael Penfors on the resort's clay courts. 

Food and Drink Events This Week in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

​There's one more weekend of Oktoberfest fun to be had in Lake Worth, but if you've already gone the traditional German beer fest route this month and would like to try something new, there are a few events premiering this weekend in Delray Beach and Boca Raton. Here's a look at nine food and drin ... More >>

Patricia Arqeutte Q&A: The Actress on South Florida Green Drinks

​How would you like to meet up for some Green Drinks?Although Green Drinks may sound like the perfect name for some newfangled, health-conscious, eco-friendly beverage, it's nothing of the sort. It actually stands for something much better: the name the Green Drinks nonprofit uses for its mee ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: No. 38 -- Crab-Avocado Strato From Cielo

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 38: Crab-Avocado Strato From Cielo

Boca Bacchanal 2011 Set for March 18-20

isante magazine​The Boca Bacchanal is coming up March 18th-20th. The events will start with the Vintner dinners, which will be delicious dinners served in private residences all throughout Boca Raton. These intimate evenings are 

It's a Boozy Kind of Summer at These Events

Beer's the only thing sweating more than you this Summer.​This Summer has been crazy. It's either so rainy that the streets look like giant Slip and Slides, or so hot out that even your sweat is sweating. I guess, if anything, that translates into good boozing weather. When you're stuck inside by ... More >>

Vegetarian Lunch at Whole Foods, New Menu at Zed451, Boca Resort Wine Party

​• Lunch isn't always easy for a practicing vegetarian. Stop into Whole Foods Market Fort Lauderdale this Monday, August 9 for its Vegetarian Lunch Club. On the menu: Sweet corn soup with peaches, pasta with roasted tomatoes and "hidden" zucchini (insert joke here), and shortcakes with cherry c ... More >>

World's Most Expensive Hot Dog Lands in New York

​You've heard of ultraluxe burgers made with braised short ribs and foie gras selling for $100 a pop -- in fact, a similar burger made news when it debuted at the Old Homestead Steakhouse in the Boca Raton Resort & Club in 2006. But supped up hot dogs costing nearly as much? Now that's crazy t ... More >>

Restaurant News: Goodbye to Anthony's in Boynton, Ta-Ta to Amici in Palm Beach, See Ya Later to Old Homestead at Boca Resort

•    Here's a shocker: a trendy, coal-fired pizzeria actually closed. That would be Anthony's Coal-Fired Pizza in Boynton Beach, across Gateway Boulevard from the sprawling Renaissance Commons retail-residential complex. No word on what will take over the space but this Tony's is go ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Rock Shrimp Tempura From Morimoto

John Linn​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. 43: Rock Shrimp Tempura from MorimotoEach chopstick-sized bite of ten ... More >>

Drink and Pink

Food Events on the Radar

The original tagline read: "Her romance is on pins and noodles."​• Nothing says "I love you" like a bowl of ramen... at least according to Ramen Girl, the 2008 comedy starring the late Brittany Murphy. (Not to be confused with this ramen girl.) Imagine Lost in Translation, The Karate Kid, and Ch ... More >>

The People Person

State Rep. Ellen Bogdanoff puts you ahead of politics — if you're the right kind of person

The Bogdanoff/Hasner Spa Video

Groove-ilee

No Clothes?

Our Own Smarty-pants

Yes, last week's "exclusive" was a ruse, but it still fooled a few cops and reporters

Anarchy in a Briefcase

Radicals plan to flood Republicans with mice, locusts, and chicanery

Festivals R Us

For South Florida foodies, 2003 looks to be a very happy new year indeed

Waiting for Bacchus

The Boca Bacchanal is only nine months off

Look Back in Anthrax

Magazine mogul David Pecker rates public agencies' response to the Boca debacle

Bad News

Boca's hometown newspaper, once a paragon of journalism, has become a laughingstock

Boca or Bust

Boca Festival Days offers a wide range of happenings throughout August, including more than 37 community events.

The Elmo Files

The saga of would-be liberal crusader and ex-con James "Elmo" Spaulding proves that anyone can get a second chance in America. And a third. And maybe even a fourth.

Smear Campaign

Decades after the death of a great doctor, a pair of jet setters claims his legacy

Getting Sleeeepy...

for profit in the offices of the French commercial genius psychiatrist Dr. Clotaire Rapaille

Join the Club

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Boca Raton Resort & Club

Night & Day

November 19 - 25, 1998

The Huizenga Hair Club For Litigants

Fired from a posh Boca beach club for her buzz cut, champion lifeguard Christine Leduc-McCrady is suing the owner, Huizenga Holdings

Night & Day

August 6 - 12, 1998

Celluloid Heroes