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Food and Drink Festivals

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    Fine Food & Wine Festival in Pompano Beach, Memorial Day Weekend, and Other Food Events in South Florida

    Memorial Day is Monday, May 28, but the festivities will start early with a few food-focused events offered throughout the three-day weekend. In addition to that, a few gatherings throughout the week will help you to pass the time until the minivacation. Read on after the jump for food- and drink-fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Legacy Place Food and Wine Experience, Get Downtown, and other Food & Drink Events this Week in South Florida

    Multiple wine and culinary tasting events throughout South Florida should keep food lovers plenty busy and with any luck, the weekend weather will hold tight for the variety of outdoor foodie events (which was not exactly the case this past weekend). For a look at some of the food and drink events a ... More >>

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    April 16, 2012

    Las Olas Wine and Food Festival, Old School Beerfest, and other Food and Drink Events this Week in South Florida

    With wine competitions, wine festivals, beer festivals, and all manner of pairings on the docket, this is a busy week for food and drink fans in South Florida. In addition to the typical end-of-season flood of events, there are a few special observances this week. Tax day is Tuesday and if you need ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Cupcake Battle Contestant: Raine Gottess Award Winning Desserts

    On April 20, some of South Florida's best-loved bakers will compete in the New Times Cupcake Battle at the Las Olas Wine and Food Festival. These brave men and women will serve up thousands of cupcakes, vying for awards like Best Tasting, Best Decorated, and Fan Favorite. We thought you might li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Cupcake Battle Contestant: Five Sisters Bakery

    On April 20, some of South Florida's best-loved bakers will compete in the New Times Cupcake Battle at the Las Olas Wine and Food Festival. These brave men and women will serve up thousands of cupcakes, vying for awards like Best Tasting, Best Decorated, and Fan Favorite. We thought you might li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Cupcake Battle Contestant: Just Cupcakes

    On April 20, some of South Florida's best-loved bakers will compete in the New Times Cupcake Battle at the Las Olas Wine and Food Festival. These brave men and women will serve up thousands of cupcakes, vying for awards like Best Tasting, Best Decorated, and Fan Favorite. We thought you might li ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Cupcake Battle Contestant: Sweeter Days Bake Shop

    On April 20, some of South Florida's best-loved bakers will compete in the New Times Cupcake Battle at the Las Olas Wine and Food Festival. These brave men and women will serve up thousands of cupcakes, vying for awards like Best Tasting, Best Decorated, and Fan Favorite. We thought you might like ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Will Booze-Filled Cupcakes Win This Year's Cupcake Battle?

    ​Cupcakes with booze are a sure-fire means to get your alcohol and sugar fix in one shot. Mini-cupcakes are the specialty from Erica Catalano, a lawyer who bakes for a hobby. Booze inspired cupcakes are among the dozens sold via Cupcakes By Erica, an online bakery Catalano started last year."This ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    Delray Beach Wine and Seafood Festival Announced for November 10 and 11

    ​Sure, it's months away and the details are few and far between at this point, but the food-obsessed like to be able to plan out their calendars in advance. With that said, the Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce confirmed on Tuesday that the city will play host to a new food event this fall. The fir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2012

    SoBeWFF: Bite Gastrotruck, Rolling Stove, BC Tacos Party on the Beach

    ​The South Beach Wine & Food Festival's closing Trucks on the Beach party was a boisterous success. This was the first time the festival had a food-truckcentric party, though the New York Wine & Food Festival has had success with Trucks in the Park, a similar event.Travel Channel's Andrew ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 23, 2012

    The Big Trend for 2012 May Be the Death of Restaurant Trends

    ​The South Beach Wine & Food Festival's closing Trucks on the Beach party was a boisterous success. This was the first time the festival had a food-truckcentric party, though the New York Wine & Food Festival has had success with Trucks in the Park, a similar event.Travel Channel's Andrew ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 23, 2012

    A Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival Guide to What's New

    ​The South Beach Wine & Food Festival's closing Trucks on the Beach party was a boisterous success. This was the first time the festival had a food-truckcentric party, though the New York Wine & Food Festival has had success with Trucks in the Park, a similar event.Travel Channel's Andrew ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 5, 2011

    Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, Beer Events, and Other Food & Drink Happenings This Week in South Florida

    Drink up: Both PBC World of Beer locations are hosting special events this week. ​In some ways, this is a relatively quiet week in terms of events, but with a few big names on the bill -- the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival and Steve Martorano's battle of the meatball, to name a few -- there' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Beerfest & Other Food Events This Weekend in Fort Lauderdale/Broward/Palm Beach

    Join the crowd Saturday at Beerfest. ​Nothing much stands between the cornucopia of stout, ale, and lager selections at the New Times Original Beerfest and you but a few hours. Roughly 48-ish or so hours, to be exact, but still. In case it wasn't obvious, the Clean Plate Charlie crew is pretty fon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    Seminole Hard Rock Wine and Food Festival In Pictures

    All photos by Laine DossAs the sun peeked through the clouds, thousands enjoyed food and wine at the first Hard Rock Wine and Food Festival​Thousands of people flocked to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino's inaugural Wine and Food Festival yesterday. As the sun broke free from late morning c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2011

    Food & Drink Events This Weekend in Broward and Palm Beach

    Phillip Pessar via Flickr Creative CommonsThe trucks don't take a holiday. ​With Halloween just days away, most of the weekend's food and drink related activities in Broward and Palm Beach Counties are geared to costumes, candy, and the undead (oh, and the nautical. The 52nd Annual Fort Lauderdale ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2011

    Do That Conga

    Phillip Pessar via Flickr Creative CommonsThe trucks don't take a holiday. ​With Halloween just days away, most of the weekend's food and drink related activities in Broward and Palm Beach Counties are geared to costumes, candy, and the undead (oh, and the nautical. The 52nd Annual Fort Lauderdale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Yahoo Screen Launches Chow Ciao With Top Chef Fabio Viviani and Blue Ribbon Hunter (Video)

    ​Yahoo Screen has just launched two new food shows -- and one looks like it's an instant hit. Chow Ciao features Top Chef Fabio Viviani butchering both meat and the English language as he shows us how to make Italian-inspired dishes. In this first episode, he tells us that fritatas are like child ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    The Best Cupcake-Themed Haikus (Winners of Tickets to Las Olas Wine & Food Festival and New Times Cupcake Battle)

    memegenerator.netThanks to all the readers who expressed their adulation for frosting and cake by composing cupcake-themed haikus in to win tickets to Friday's Las Olas Wine and Food Festival and the New Times Cupcake Battle.There were some amazing entries, and you kept us laughing all day. We were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Win A Pair of Tickets to the 2011 Las Olas Wine & Food Festival and New Times Cupcake Battle

    flickr.com: lamantin​On Friday, April 29, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. the baking gloves come off when participating bakeries compete for the esteemed title of best cupcake at the first-ever New Times Cupcake Battle, part of the 2011 Las Olas Wine & Food Festival! As promised, here on Clean Plate Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Win Tickets to the New Times Cupcake Battle at the Las Olas Wine & Food Festival

    Flickr: lamantin​Clean Plate Charlie is excited to announce the first-ever New Times Cupcake Battle at the 2011 Las Olas Wine & Food Festival! On Friday, April 29, from 7:30 to 10 p.m. the baking gloves come off when participating bakeries compete for the esteemed title of best cupcake.More go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Sesame-Crusted Tuna Steaks: A Recipe by Geoffrey Zakarian

    Laine Doss Geoffrey Zakarian and wife Margaret​Last night Geoffrey Zakarian represented New York restaurant The National at The South Beach Wine & Food Festival's Burger Bash. Geoffrey will also appear at the sold out The Best Thing I Ever Ate. Clean Plate Charlie recently intervi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    Interview with Chef Geoffrey Zakarian - Part I

    ​Over the past 20 years, Geoffrey Zakarian has built up one impressive resume. He's been the Chef de Cuisine at New York's legendary Le Cirque, Executive Chef at "44" at The Royalton Hotel and "21". He's opened Blue Door at The Delano Hotel in Miami Beach and opened both Town and Country, bac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    10 Survival Tips For The South Beach Wine & Food Festival

    Tony Bourdain will be at the SoBe Wine & Food Festival​This weekend South Beach turns into Disneyworld for foodies as The South Beach Wine & Food Festival Roars into town. The event is larger than life and brings together celebrity chefs and the people who worship them for one wine ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival Features Throwdown With "Top Chef"'s Howard Kleinberg

    ​The 4th Annual Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival, sponsored by Creekstone Farms, is coming December 7. This event is slated to have tastings from the best and most exclusive restaurants in Palm Beach.A highlight of the event will be the "Grand Chef Throwdown" where the two most popular applican ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2010

    Key West Food and Wine Festival Serves Up Fun in January

    Bear witness to the Shrimpy King at this year's Key West Food and Wine Festival.​How about this for a good time: You could become this year's Shrimp King. I know, I know -- it sounds like a name fit for a bad comic book villain. But it's actually the title bestowed on the winner of the Key West Fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

    Make this butternut squash pizza at home using a cheap and easy pizza stone.​Kubo Asiatic Cuisine debuts in Palm Beach.The Beaujolais Nouvea Wine Festival takes place tonight at Gulstream Park.Want to celebrate Turkey Day without the work? Try these restaurants hosting special meals. [Broward/Dade ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 18, 2010

    Lee Schrager: South Beach Food Genius Speaks

    Make this butternut squash pizza at home using a cheap and easy pizza stone.​Kubo Asiatic Cuisine debuts in Palm Beach.The Beaujolais Nouvea Wine Festival takes place tonight at Gulstream Park.Want to celebrate Turkey Day without the work? Try these restaurants hosting special meals. [Broward/Dade ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Order Up: Lee Schrager's South Beach Wine & Food Festival

    Schrager is the man behind the SBWFF.​This week in Dish we skip our ordinary review in favor of an interview with South Beach Wine & Food guru, Lee Schrager. Schrager, a former rep for Southern Wine & Spirits, created the festival 10 years ago, which has since grown into one of the wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Boca Raton Wine and Food Festival Arrives Sunday

    Cue dramatic music: Don't try to run. Don't try to hide. The Boca Raton Wine and Food Festival WILL find you. And when it does, it will rock your mother-lovin' world. Ahem... sorry about that. We were just watching this dramatically scored promo video for the Boca Raton Wine and Food Festival, com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2010

    Cigar City Wins at the Great American Beer Festival

    Courtesy of dosbeerigos.Cigar City's Humidor IPA took home a silver medal at this year's GABF.​The Mecca of beer events, the Great American Beer Festival, was held last weekend in Denver, Colorado. Among the thousands of breweries and beers in attendance was a small contingent of Florida brewers - ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2010

    South Eats

    Courtesy of dosbeerigos.Cigar City's Humidor IPA took home a silver medal at this year's GABF.​The Mecca of beer events, the Great American Beer Festival, was held last weekend in Denver, Colorado. Among the thousands of breweries and beers in attendance was a small contingent of Florida brewers - ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 3, 2009

    Soul Refill

    Courtesy of dosbeerigos.Cigar City's Humidor IPA took home a silver medal at this year's GABF.​The Mecca of beer events, the Great American Beer Festival, was held last weekend in Denver, Colorado. Among the thousands of breweries and beers in attendance was a small contingent of Florida brewers - ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2009

    Chow Time

    Courtesy of dosbeerigos.Cigar City's Humidor IPA took home a silver medal at this year's GABF.​The Mecca of beer events, the Great American Beer Festival, was held last weekend in Denver, Colorado. Among the thousands of breweries and beers in attendance was a small contingent of Florida brewers - ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2008

    Stick a Cork In It!

    Courtesy of dosbeerigos.Cigar City's Humidor IPA took home a silver medal at this year's GABF.​The Mecca of beer events, the Great American Beer Festival, was held last weekend in Denver, Colorado. Among the thousands of breweries and beers in attendance was a small contingent of Florida brewers - ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 4, 2004

    Woodstock for Oenophiles

    Courtesy of dosbeerigos.Cigar City's Humidor IPA took home a silver medal at this year's GABF.​The Mecca of beer events, the Great American Beer Festival, was held last weekend in Denver, Colorado. Among the thousands of breweries and beers in attendance was a small contingent of Florida brewers - ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 2, 2003

    Benevolent Bacchanalia

    At this gathering, you'll help needy kids and enjoy some pretty good vino in the process

  • Dining

    January 23, 2003

    Festivals R Us

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

  • Dining

    October 17, 2002

    To Dionysus For

    Building Buzz for the Boca Bacchanal

  • Dining

    August 8, 2002

    Waiting for Bacchus

    The Boca Bacchanal is only nine months off

  • Dining

    June 27, 2002

    Tap into This

    Tipple at this Fort Lauderdale eatery and you might get soaked

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