Cleve Mash

Tom Moynihan of d.b.a./cafe Follows in His Father's Footsteps

d.b.a./café breaks the notion that good food and drink must be accompanied by a fancy setting and fancy prices. Cut up wine boxes line the kickspace under the bar. More of them form a New York City skyline at the far end of the restaurant, past the multicolored string of Christmas lights. Yes, Ch ... More >>

Lindsay Autry of Sundy House is South Florida's Top Chef

Being a finalist on season nine of Bravo's Top Chef, may have brought Tastemaker number 9, Lindsay Autry into our living rooms, but the chef had been working on her culinary career long before that. The Johnson & Wales University graduate's career started as a kid in North Carolina, trying to figur ... More >>

David Sabin of Brickhouse PR Wants to See More Celebrity Chef-Driven Restaurants

Not long ago the Palm Beach Wine and Food Festival was just a one-night affair taking over Palm Beach's very exclusive Worth Avenue. That is, of course, until our Tastemaker number 10, David Sabin brought it to another level. He's brought the festival from a one night event into a five day celebrati ... More >>

Jodi Swank of Swank Farms Would Vote Nutella Off the Island

Things are growing in Loxahatchee. That's where Jodi and Darrin Swank of Swank Specialty Produce grow some of the most beautiful and desired vegetables and herbs on their hydroponic farm. Though farming isn't easy in South Florida, the work pays off. The produce from the farm, which includes 200 v ... More >>

Cleve Mash of Dirty Martini Brings a Taste of Country to Palm Beach County

Before Cleve Mash became one of Palm Beach County's nightclub and restaurant owners, he was just an 18-year-old boy manning the door at his favorite South Florida nightclub. Sure, he wasn't old enough to be a bouncer -- but no one else knew it. Back then, he imagined opening his own club in that ver ... More >>

Bobbi Sue BBQ in West Palm Beach: First Look

A few months ago, Forbes magazine wrote an article highlighting the eight hottest food trends on the rise in cities across the U.S. Among them, grass-fed meats, farmers markets, and Greek fare -- all the same trends we've been seeing pop up across Broward and Palm Beach County recently.While these t ... More >>

Dirty Martini in Palm Beach Gardens

Tonight: First Ladies' Night at Dirty Martini in Palm Beach Gardens with American Idol's Taylor Hicks Live

Nicole DannaThe Charlie Sheen, a "very dirty" martini ​​The perfect dirty martini isn't just shaken, not stirred. It's also not too strong or too sweet -- and definitely not too weak. No, the perfect dirty martini is made to your precise specifications -- which is exactly how you'll get it ... More >>

American Idol Winner Taylor Hicks Singing at Dirty Martini June 1

Hicks​American Idol fifth-season winner Taylor Hicks will sing for the first 400 guests at Dirty Martini (11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave.; 561-799-1115) on June 1. The new martini bar opens this week in Palm Beach Gardens.Cleve Mash, a veteran of lounge clubs around West Palm Beach, is behind Dir ... More >>

Dirty Martini to Debut in Palm Beach Gardens

​Martinis from clean to very dirty, as well as 'tinis channeling everything from watermelon to chocolate cake, plus bar bites like you've never seen before from Kubo chef Roy Villacrusis are all on the menu of Cleve Mash's Dirty Martini (11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave., 561-799-1115)  bar 'n ... More >>

Reef Road: "We Don't Suck Anymore"

​If you ever went to the old Reef Road Restaurant and Rum Bar and thought it, well... sucked, Tarik Solomon is here to tell you it no longer inhales the fat one.  Solomon and partner Alexander Tomasso, two nightclub operators who split their time between ventures in Rhode Island and South Flo ... More >>

Restaurant News: Reef Road Partners Split, A Second Chance to Savor Blue Fish, Tyler Florence Puttin' on the Ritz

• Three of the four partners of Clematis Street's Reef Road Restaurant & Rum Bar have hit the road in a reportedly friendly dispute over the direction of the casual, seafood-oriented, beachy-type eatery. Niteclub impresario Cleve Mash has bought out Rocco Mangel and Todd Herbst and Bill Watson ... More >>

Reef Rd Opens on Clematis

​Can the folks behind Rocco's Tacos do for seafood and rum what Rocco's did for tacos and tequila? We're about to find out with the debut of Reef Rd Rum Bar, which opened right across Clematis Street from the wildly popular nouveau taqueria.   Local moguls Big Time Restaurant Group, Rocc ... More >>

West Palm Beats

Party Like A Rock Star -- With A Rock Star -- in West Palm

Yes, it has been a whole entire year since Feelgood's opened on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach and bar owner/Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil came to town to hold a free concert in the street.  Whattaya say, Vince? Do it again?All right! Neil's partner in the venture, Cleve Mash, who also co ... More >>

A Dose of Feelgood

Vince Neil and friends bring back that old feeling to West Palm

Party With Your Crüe

Caged Swelter

Pamela Canellas's dancers jam into clubland