Coconut Creek

Mother's Day in South Florida: High End Dining Options for Mom

The poor woman had to put up with you parasitically stealing all her energy for nine months. She then had to deal with your screaming and crying throughout the night, your terrible two's, and your hellacious mood swings of pubescence. Let's be honest: she seriously deserves some credit. Actually, a ... More >>

Beer Plus Food at 3rd and 3rd: Friday's Cigar City Tasting Got Academic

It was raining, but actually fairly cool for a Friday in early May in Delray Beach. Just north of the Pineapple Grove, a low lying seafoam green building inconspicuously houses a spot where people gather to get away from the nights of pretentiousness of the Avenue, the recently opened 3rd and 3rd (3 ... More >>

Five Great Food Events This Weekend: Food Festivals, Earth Day, and More

We know you're sad about the end of yet another glorious workweek. Unfortunately kids, it's time to step away from your computers and get back into having a life. Obviously, this concept is something your going to have to get used to, but, don't fret, we're here to help. After the jump, we have a li ... More >>

Haiti Suffering From Food Shortage; Charity Has $42 Million of Food Aid but Needs Money to Ship It

We saw how Hurricane Sandy caused carousels to flood and wiped out much of the Jersey Shore last year, but in Haiti, the damage was much, much worse. Not only did 54 Haitians die and 21,000 people lose their homes in the storm, but the impoverished country, still reeling from devastation of the ... More >>

BaconFest: MORE TICKETS RELEASED for Sold-Out Event

Bummed out that this weekend's pork-a-palooza (AKA BaconFest) is sold out? Turn that frown upside down. As of Friday morning, a limited number of entertainment-only tickets will be released for a price tag of $15 a pop. Note: these tickets are for entertainment only. They don't include the sampling ... More >>

Hit the Slots and Watch The Fight

Dairy Queen Customer Appreciation Days: Half-Off Specials Offered Today and Saturday

One of the best/worst jobs I ever held down as a high school student was slinging Blizzards and Peanut Buster Parfaits at a Dairy Queen in Lapeer, Michigan, in the late '90s. Some aspects of the gig sucked pretty hard -- like the time a grumpy, grown-ass adult literally threw something at my 15-year ... More >>

Gourmet Food Truck Experience: Over 20 Mobile Eateries at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek

If you've live in northwest Broward, rejoice in the fact that you'll soon have a major food truck takeover next week.on Tuesday, January 22 from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., The Gourmet Food Truck Experience brings more than 20 food trucks to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. From burger to tacos, yogurt to Ke ... More >>

South Florida Dining and Drinking Events This Week: Cigar City Night and More

Lots to eat and drink (mostly drink) this week in South Florida, so let's get right to it. After the jump, find a roundup of food- and drink-related events happening this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties. See Also: - Plantation to Get a New Weekly Food Truck Rally Beginning in October - Ame ... More >>

South Florida Food-Related Events This Week: Food Truck Roundups, Holiday Beer Parties, and More

This week's calendar of events is nice and easy; just the way it should be in the countdown to holiday mayhem. If you need an excuse to shirk shopping and cleaning duties for an evening, check out one of the food- and drink-related events taking place this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties. ... More >>

Natural Wonders in Coconut Creek: U-Pick Produce in the Heart of South Florida

Natural Wonders, located at 5641 Johnson Road in Coconut Creek, is a hidden gem and one of the last of its kind in the area. We may have plenty of landscaping companies in South Florida, but not like this. Besides specializing in the expected plant care and lawn maintenance, they also house over 30, ... More >>

Vince Neil With Great White at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on December 15

The Best Beers For Halloween (and Where to Get Them in South Florida)

For a craft beer enthusiast, the most horrifying Halloween brew would be a watered-down, mass-produced, soulless barley pop. But one needn't go the taste-free route in order to be festively freaky on Wednesday. The American microbrew and niche beer scene has enthusiastically risen to the occasion of ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: Blue Moon Fish Company and More

Sad news over the weekend with word that Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the mother-effing moon for Christ's sake, passed away. You can pay homage to the man -- and the wonders of the universe in general -- at a blue moon party on Friday night at Blue Moon Fish Company in Fort Lauderdale. ... More >>

There Goes My Paycheck

The Next Regis?

Yard House Now Open in Mizner Park in Boca Raton: A First Drink

Yard House, situated at the south end of Mizner Park in Boca Raton, is a cavernous temple in which one can worship at the altar of beer -- or dozens of beers, should one be so inclined. The mammoth restaurant/bar's newest locale had its official opening on Sunday, though it celebrated a "soft" openi ... More >>

Due South Tap Takeover, Taste in the West, and Other Food Events This Week in South Florida

The closer it gets to summer, the quieter the event calendar in South Florida. While the spiking temperatures and afternoon showers are enough to drive you inside for the next five months, there are a few fun happenings this week that should encourage you to (temporarily) brave an exit from that air ... More >>

BREAKING: Broward County, There Is Poo in the Water

A Broward County water plant serving Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point, and Coconut Creek has tested positive for "fecal indicators," according to a statement just sent out by the county. The affected well has been shut down, but authorities are telling residents in those areas to not ... More >>

South Florida Beer Week, Stone Crab and Seafood Festival, and Other Food Events This Week in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

​This is South Florida Beer Week, and tons of beercentric activities like tastings, tap takeovers, and pairings are planned throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties (and in Miami, if you feel like making the drive). You can find details on a few select events after the jump. Not a fan of hops, ... More >>

Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg to Host Sweet Dreams Fundraiser at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek

NBC/UniversalHosea Rosenberg will host a fundraiser at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek​Top Chef fans can meet season-five winner Hosea Rosenberg at tonight's Sweet Dreams charity event to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charity in Fort Lauderdale at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek.This is the fifth- ... More >>

Drink and Food Events This Week in Broward/Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach

Wednesday night: Pucker up to dinner with the lovely ladies of Lips. ​With New Times Beerfest merely days away, it's understandable that you'd want to hunker down this week and save your energy and cash for the weekend. For those who can handle multiple days of fun in one week, there are a few opt ... More >>

So Much Fun, It's Scary

World Of Beer Hosts Charity Date Auction and Beerup Tonight

World of Beer is hosting a charity beerup tonight.​World of Beer in Coconut Creek is hosting a mini beerup and charity date auction to benefit The World's Kitchen, a charity dedicated to feeding hungry children, tonight, September 4th, from 6-10 p.m.There's no cover to enjoy one of World of Beer's ... More >>

Reason Number 102 for Why Women Prefer Cucumbers to Men

Photo Courtesy of Jeff Kaplan​Click here for the first 101 cheesy, sexual innuendo jokes.Schoolyard humor aside, a micro-bottler from Pompano Beach wants you to enjoy his Mr. Q. Cumber -- a 90-calorie soda, flavored with cucumber extract. Owner of Global Beverage Enterprises, Jeff Kaplan, asks: Wh ... More >>

The List : Five Dishes to Celebrate Mardi Gras in South Florida

Photo by Misha Grosvenor"It's hand-grenade time!"​It's that time of year again when thousands of drunk college students, fratdults (grown up frat boys), and creepy mustachioed men with fists full of beads and a penchant for buxom drunk girls take to the streets of New Orleans to celebrate Mardi Gr ... More >>

Are You a Believer in Miracles?

Free Tricks, All Month Long

Instead of Resolving to Lose Weight This Year...

flickr.com; alancleaver_2000​We here at Charlie enjoy a snarky blog here and there, and we like to poke fun at the South Florida dining scene. Joking aside, there is a growing epidemic resulting from unhealthy relationships with food. 2011 has just begun, and many of us are making resolutions to l ... More >>

Wake up for Sweet Dreams 2010

​Shopping and sharing consume our holidays so much that we rarely get to stop and taste the sweets. Thankfully, the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek has a strict no dessert left behind policy. More than 50 of them, and that's not sugarcoating it. From Dec. 9-25 on Thursdays-Saturdays, nosh on dessert ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Steve Martorano makes fresh mozzarella in his new Hard Rock digs.​The new World of Beer in Coconut Creek has made quite a splash since opening. Check out our inside look into the place, and read about how its lack of a proper kitchen is making a big impact on Promenade businesses. Cheap lunch is j ... More >>

Scarfone's Coal-Fired Pizza Needs a Little Work

World of Beer Opens Today at the Promenade

​Ever see that episode of the Simpsons when Homer goes to the Land of Chocolate? That's about how imagine myself reacting to the World of Beer's official opening today at 2 p.m.: Running around like a school-age girl, shrieking at display cases of frosty craft beers, admiring the glassware. What e ... More >>

Summer Specials at Tuscan Grill, Whole Foods Anniversary, City Fish Specials

​• Tuscan Grill on Las Olas is introducing its Summer menu, four-courses for just $24.95. Enjoy live music and outdoor dining, plus four courses from chef Luigi DiMeo. Includes antipasti (choice of calamari fritti, spicy cherry tomato insalada caprese, caesar salad, or baked long island clams or ... More >>

Grilled Pork Bun at MAMA Asian Noodle Bar

John Linn​Pictured above: One steaming hot grilled pork bun. No, not pork bun as in the sticky, Chinese dim sum stuffed with bbq pork. Pork Bun as in the Vietnamese vermicelli rice noodle dish, bun thit. It's from MAMA Asian Noodle Bar, a new pan-Asian eatery in the Promenade at Coconut Creek.

World of Beer Coming to Your World

​If beer is your world, then start saving up your thirst for World of Beer, a purveyor of fine suds set to debut first in Coconut Creek (4437 Lyons Road, no phone yet) and later in West Palm Beach.  According to Richard Reeves, president of the company that holds the rights to WOBs in Miami-D ... More >>

Finally - Some Swine Flu Vaccine!

​Here's a cut-and-paste press release about where and when you can -- finally -- get the swine flu vaccine. Officials at the Broward County Health Department announced Broward County's first H1N1 Vaccination Clinic which shall be open to all members of the public starting Monday, November 30, 2009 ... More >>

Morning Juice: Vigilante Justice in Coconut Creek; Saints Light Up the Fins

​Nothing like a server crash to start your week! Here's an abbreviated edition of MJ:Madoff associate Jeffry Picower dead after being found at the bottom of the pool in his Palm Beach home. Gatsby-esque, isn't it? [Palm Beach Post] A Davie man is in jail for beating the hell out of a man who ... More >>

If I Was Royalty in a Past Life, Why Do I Live in This Dump?

Slideshow: Behind the Scenes at Big Al's Steak

Photo by Michele Sandberg​Philly may be far away, but that doesn't stop Big Al's Steak from serving authentic cheese-steak sandwiches to South Floridians. With locations in Coconut Creek and Delray Beach, the sandwiches are done so authentically that they even include the Cheese Whiz and include a ... More >>

Slow Boats and Smoked Bacon

You couldn't pay me the $500 prix fixe to get me to eat "dinner in the sky" at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek -- apart from my terror of heights, I haven't been strapped to a dining chair since I was 6 months old and I'm regressing fast enough as it is; I don't need any help. No, a slow boat brun ... More >>

Coconut Creek suburbanites team with neo-hippies to fight Lowe's

Royal Flushed

Becoming a pro poker player isn't as sweet as it sounds

He'll Ferret Into Your Heart

Concert Preview--Stevie B at Nectar Lounge 9/20

If Waldman's a Dem, What's With the GOP Cash?

Another in the long tradition of Broward elephants posing as donkeys.

Mama Said

A Light Christmas

The Holiday Fantasy of Lights at Tradewinds Park keeps things merry and bright

The Band Played On

Disc Drives