Food and Drink Festivals

Father's Day Foodie Gift Ideas For the South Florida Father

As with most men, we at Clean Plate Charlie say the way to a dad's heart on Father's Day is through his stomach. Instead of cooking dear old dad his favorite food, why not treat him to something truly special? To help with ideas, we've gone ahead and whipped up a few gift suggestions for all the f ... More >>

Pig Out in Pompano

Five Food-Related Activities in South Florida This Weekend: Champagne, Brew at the Zoo, Food Festivals, and More

We obviously write about a ton of events over here. For the most part, they tend to be fairly spread out. Well, not this weekend. South Florida foodies need to get ready this week: no matter your location or culinary preferences, there are food-related events galore. The five best, after the jump. ... 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 >>

Andrew Balick to be Tap 42's New Executive Chef

Andrew Balick has been "tapped" to be the new executive chef at Tap 42. Balick will take over duties on April 29, though he is executing the gastropub's menu for the Las Olas Food and Wine Festival.The young chef has quite the pedigree, by the way. His resume reads like a Zagat Guide of beautiful So ... More >>

WMC North of the 305 Border

Five South Florida Food & Drink Events This Weekend: Food Trucks, Chefs' Dinner, and Passover Prep

Good news, thin-blooded South Floridians. Last weekend's "frigid" (read: glorious) cooler temps will start melting away in the next few days, and the forecast for the weekend is looking pretty damned fine. Get out of the house, sans parka this time, and check out what's shaking in the Broward and Pa ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival: Five Reasons To Schlep to Miami

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival comes to Miami Beach in one week and if you didn't get your tickets, better hop to it. The festival, which turns the white sand of South Beach red with vino, may be expensive and a bit of a drive, but if you're into food, wine, and chefs-turned-celebrities it ... More >>

Whole Foods Is Your Travel Agent: Foodie-Inspired Trips with Whole Journeys

So, you consider yourself a foodie. But are you an adventurous foodie? You haven't really taken the plunge into becoming a full-fledged gastronome until you've traveled to some far off destination with stories about how you hand-picked coffee berries straight from the tree in Costa Rica.If you think ... More >>

Chic (but not Cheap) Eats

Virginia Philip Talks Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival and How to Saber a Champagne Bottle Without Hurting Yourself

Palm Beach entrepreneur Virginia Philip is an undisputed rockstar in the wine world. It only makes sense that she'd play a part in this weekend's Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival, where she'll lend her skills to three different festival events. Philip was but the tenth woman in the world to earn ... More >>

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival 2012 Starts Friday: What's on the Schedule?

If there is one thing that comes to mind when you think of Palm Beach it's luxury. And, well, Money. Obviously, the two go hand in hand. And what could be more luxurious than eating some expensive gourmet delicacies? If you ask us, not much.It should come as no surprise that the Palm Beach Food ... More >>

Five South Florida Food-Related Events This Weekend: Gridiron Grill-Off, Jazz Brunch, and More

Now that all those bossy, made-up holidays are behind us -- Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Shut Up and Consume Sunday -- the weekend is yours to do as you'd like. On the calendar in Broward and Palm Beach counties are some laid-back parties and celebrations of food, drink, and good company. ... More >>

Chef Wes Bonner Talks about High School Cooking Classes and This Weekend's Boca Wine & Food Festival

Unlike most chefs, Wes Bonner didn't grow up cooking with his parents, or experimenting in the kitchen at home. Instead, it was school -- not culinary school, but a high school cooking program -- that would help him develop a passion for cooking.Today, 28-year-old Bonner has done a lot over the cour ... More >>

Tonight: Rocktoberfest and Latin Food Fest

The U.S. in general is thought of as a melting pot. People have travelled from all-across the world in with dreams of better lives for their children--whether those dreams come true or not is a whole other story. Regardless, the many people have crossed these borders brought with them different cult ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Festival: Tickets Go On Sale Soon

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival has announced its 2013 event schedule. The multi-day festival that brings a host of celebrity chefs, events, parties, and dinners to Miami Beach, runs from February 21-24, 2013. While that may seem far away, we suggest you start making plans and circling ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Weekend: Palm Beach Craft Beer Festival and More

It's a good weekend for hottie spotting, what with the 2012 Olympics set to air, and an unusually high number of local events involving attractive people putting themselves on parade of one sort or another. How is this tied to dining and drinking you ask? Because of alcohol, my friends. All of these ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: National Tequila Day and More

The London 2012 Summer Olympics kick off on Saturday and it'll be hard to not feel a bit like an undisciplined couch potato once you catch a glimpse of all those hard bodies in skimpy uniforms achieving amazing feats of strength, speed, and agility. Before those incredible physiques guilt you into r ... More >>

South Florida's Best Cupcakes

The cupcake craze has peaked, but that doesn't mean a sugar bomb topped with a thick layer of fat-laden frosting doesn't occasionally hit the spot. In anticipation of the New Times' annual Best Of issue premiering in June, Clean Plate Charlie has put together a list of some of the best cupcakes in B ... More >>

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 >>

A Glutton's One-Stop Destination

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 >>

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 >>

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

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

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 >>

Do That Conga

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

South Eats

Soul Refill

Chow Time

Stick a Cork In It!

Benevolent Bacchanalia

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

To Dionysus For

Building Buzz for the Boca Bacchanal

Waiting for Bacchus

The Boca Bacchanal is only nine months off

Tap into This

Tipple at this Fort Lauderdale eatery and you might get soaked