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30. Robyn Almodovar of Palate Party Food Truck

New Times' Best of Broward - Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers -- restauranteurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies -- that make the South Florida food scene what it is. We'll start with number 30 and lead up to t ... More >>

Chef Andy Trousdale of Le Bistro: A Q&A on Cooking Across the World and Gordon Ramsay

Chef Andy Trousdale, an expat form northern England has been in the South Florida culinary scene for a number of years. A former yacht chef and culinary instructor at the Art Institute, he's had ample experience with teaching culinary enthusiasts about a wide range of strange and exotic foods.  ... More >>

The Funky Food Club at Le Bistro in Lighthouse Point: For the Truly Adventurous Eater

MasterChef Casting in South Florida

If you've always dreamed of going on television and being verbally assaulted by Gordon Ramsay, your opportunity is coming soon to south Florida.MasterChef is casting for its fourth season. The Fox cooking competition features Ramsay mentoring amateur chefs who think they've got what it takes to make ... More >>

Q&A With Hell's Kitchen Winner (and Cooper City High Alum) Paul Niedermann

Cooper City High School has a reputation for many things: high academic standards, football, hooking scandals, the kids responsible for the murder in the book Bully, and, now, celebrity chef Paul Niedermann. Since winning season nine of Hell's Kitchen, Niedermann, a Cooper City High alum, has t ... More >>

Palate Party's Robyn Almodovar Hosts Hell's Kitchen Watch Party Tonight

There's only one thought that comes to mind when we watch Hell's Kitchen, the combination cooking show/fraternity hazing hosted by foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay on Fox television -- "is it worth it?"For local chef Robyn Almodovar, the answer is yes. The Le Cordon Bleu graduate's food truck, Palate ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Art Institute Students, Ralph Pagano Star in New Cooking Show

All Mixed Up, a new half-hour cooking competition, is premiering on Lifetime Television on September 7 at 7:30 a.m. What makes this show stand out in a sea of culinary-based reality shows? Both host and contestants are from South Florida.This three-part series' contestants are all current students a ... More >>

Wicked Awesome Snackbar in Boca Raton Serves Wicked Good Eats

The plaza- and stripmall-saturated landscape of South Florida means that dozens of interesting independent restaurants and bars are lost in the shuffle, visible only to those who know to seek them out. Wicked Awesome Snackbar in west Boca Raton is one of those all-too-easy-to-overlook spots. It's a ... More >>

The Simpsons' Food Blog Rap: Blogging a Food Blog

Courtesy FoxMario Batali makes a guest appearance on The Simpsons​The Simpsons' episode The Food Wife aired last night, bringing the jaundiced cartoon family into the food blog world.When Marge, Lisa and Bart start their Three Mouthkeeters blog, they immediately turn into food snobs, taking Anthon ... More >>

Ovenella Heats Up in Boca

​Artisan pizzas, inventive pastas and specialties ranging from chili-roasted "angry prawns" to citrus and ginger-marinated skirt steak with salsa verde are coming out of the kitchen of chef Mennan Tekeli at the new Ovenella (499 S. Federal Hwy., 561-395-1455) in Boca Raton. Proprietor and former B ... More >>

Ten Ways to Ruin Easter Dinner

Tricia WoolfendenThis lumpen bunny cake mess is a great start to ruining Easter Dinner for everyone!​Have you been saddled with hosting Easter dinner when you'd much rather spend the day kicking back your misanthropic heels and hiding from the family? Below are ten ways that can all but guarantee ... More >>

Half Baked: Top 10 Reasons Why Chefs Go Ramsay on Their Staff!

Photo by andrew d miller It's been a long season for this Chef!​Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half Baked. His voice may send shivers down a young cook's spine and his temper may be infamous -- but Gordon ... More >>

10 in '10: The Top Food News Stories of 2010

RealityKings.com​Video that gave new meaning to the term "food porn," trucks that gave a new dimension to take-out meals and new restaurants from celebrity chefs were all among the food and restaurant stories that tickled our taste buds (or other organs) in 2010. This list of the top 10 local food ... More >>

Must-See TV: Six Food Shows We'd Like to Watch in 2011

​Anyone who's watched food TV since its inception has seen a steady evolution of the medium, from a staid Mario Batali cooking for three friends to Gordon Ramsay going batshit in Kitchen Nightmares to the snarky food soap opera that's Top Chef to Adam Richman snarfing down burritos as thick and lo ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Open Casting Call

​The Brits can be scary folks with their superior verbal skills and sophisticated disdain: Americans hear the accent and expect decorum, tact, painfully perfect manners. And then you get called an "ignorant fucking cunt" and are left wondering what the hell just happened - but the funny thing is, ... More >>

Health Inspectors Fry KFC for Sewage Leaks

​Health inspectors have been busy little bees over the past month, tracking down kitchen nightmares like Gordon Ramsay on a coke binge. Their latest haul: a KFC location in Oakland Park that found itself in deep water -- literally. Want to check out restaurant records for yourself? Search the Flor ... More >>

Lunch at the Art Institute: Three Courses for $12.99

The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale​Before arriving for lunch at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale's culinary training restaurant, Chef's Palette, I admit there was an apprehensive thought or two that entered my mind. Not knowing what to expect from chefs-in-training, I wondered if I should I ... More >>

Tal Ronnen Interview: Q&A with The Conscious Cook (Part 1)

​Tal Ronnen made history when his book The Conscious Cook -- the first full-color vegan cookbook to be published in North America -- hit the New York Times bestseller list last fall. Since hitting the big-time (thanks also to Oprah, who had Ronnen develop a 21-day vegan cleanse for her), Ronnen ha ... More >>

Lighthouse Point's Le Bistro Still a Kitchen Nightmare

Food Events on the Radar

Chef Gordon Ramsay duking it out with Anna Vincenzo's owner Concetta Menna.​• Last year, three South Florida restaurants were chosen to be a part of Fox's reality TV series Kitchen Nightmares, with host Gordon Ramsay. The second of those episodes is airing tonight at 9 p.m. on Fox. It's on Anna ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

John LinnElevation Burger debuted this week, and its sustainable take on beefy goodness rocks.​This week on the blog:The Meatist gets up close and personal with sausage balls.Tulipan, Jack's, Woodlands, and more end up in this week's 100 Favorite Dishes.Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares visit to ... More >>

Kitchen Nightmares Overhauls Le Bistro in Lighthouse Point

Andy Trousdale, chef/owner of Le Bistro.​This season of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nighmares has the British chef visiting two South Florida restaurants. The first, Le Bistro, had its television debut on Thursday night. If you missed the episode and didn't TiVo it, you catch it in its entirety here.

The South Beach Wine & Food Festival: A Short, Wacky History

Food Season on the Boob Tube

Move over, Rachael; there are some new shows in town.​It seems as if food has become almost as popular a subject for television programming as reality shows -- when the two are combined, like on Top Chef, Kitchen Nightmare's, and Hell's Kitchen, the result is stratospheric. To be honest, I've neve ... More >>

Reviewing the Chains: Wendy's Sweet & Spicy Asian Chicken

​I didn't exactly have high expectations when I was tasked with reviewing Wendy's new boneless chicken creations. I've certainly had a square hamburger or two from the red=headed temptress' chain, but it's never the first choice I make. So it's with a very real sense of dread that I walk through t ... More >>

Do Gordon Ramsay's Restaurants Need a Kitchen Nightmare Overhaul?

Last week, Gordon Ramsay wrapped up his Kitchen Nightmares transformation of Anna Vincenzo's, an Italian "pizza and" joint in east Boca Raton. As we reported, the celeb chef stopped in on Thursday afternoon to treat a crowd to a pizza contest starring athletes and commentators from local sports tea ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay Films Kitchen Nightmares Segment @ Anna Vincenzo's in Boca Raton

Although I like cranky British Chef Gordon Ramsay, I'm not really a huge fan of his Fox show Kitchen Nightmares. It's far too formulaic, for one - every episode shares the same story arc, with only the set pieces changing - and it's 99% about drama and only 1% about food. The show on which the it w ... More >>

Blind Drunk

flickr user: Christina SnyderEver get the urge to make like Gordon Ramsay or Tom Colicchio? You know, "This tastes like shit! Pack your knives and go!" Well, at Rustic Cellar in Boca you can feed your inner megalomaniac in a blind wine tasting and judging set for Thursday, May 28. Beginning at 7 p.m ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay to Chastise Video Gamers this September

Hot Scoops On The SoBe Wine & Food Festival

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White on White: An Iconic British Chef Dishes It Out