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Top Chefs Throw Pity Party, Dec. 8th

Sandy Skoglund, "The Cocktail Party" Got 100 people coming for a holiday shindig? Stupidest idea you EVER had, right? Believe it, we've been there. But four of Palm Beach's top chefs are taking pity this season and throwing a bash at Cafe Boulud that might help prevent us from totally screwing up ... More >>

Post: No Holiday Party Or Raises for $65,000-plus employees

In what might be called a progressive move, the Palm Beach Post is giving employees at the company who make $65,000 and less a 2 percent raise this year. Those making more than that are out of luck; they'll see no increase. Also on the chopping block: Holiday parties, which will get no funding this ... More >>

Guess Who's Serving Dinner

In what might be called a progressive move, the Palm Beach Post is giving employees at the company who make $65,000 and less a 2 percent raise this year. Those making more than that are out of luck; they'll see no increase. Also on the chopping block: Holiday parties, which will get no funding this ... More >>

Blinded by the Light

In what might be called a progressive move, the Palm Beach Post is giving employees at the company who make $65,000 and less a 2 percent raise this year. Those making more than that are out of luck; they'll see no increase. Also on the chopping block: Holiday parties, which will get no funding this ... More >>

Impressions a la Mode

In what might be called a progressive move, the Palm Beach Post is giving employees at the company who make $65,000 and less a 2 percent raise this year. Those making more than that are out of luck; they'll see no increase. Also on the chopping block: Holiday parties, which will get no funding this ... More >>

Best Place to Buy Antiques

Antique Alley

Best Rich and Famous House Tour

Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club

Best Place to Find What You Never Thought You Could

Gooding's Goodies

Best Homemade Pasta

Arturo's Ristorante

Best Men's Clothing

Twickenham Custom Clothiers

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Best Bakery

EuroBread & Cafe

Best Place to Buy Beer

Case & Keg Beer World

Best Rusty Anchors

Culpepper & Co.

Best Pet Store

Wild Cargo Pets & Supplies

Best Charity

Chief Sitting Bull Organic Garden

Inglés Just Got Here

Spanish roots go deep

Don’t Just Nibble at Your Books: Feast!

Spanish roots go deep

Ming’s Modern-Day Makeover

Spanish roots go deep

Would You Mind Pollinating Me?

Spanish roots go deep

Cleaning House

The Caldwell catches a play hot off its premiere in New York — and nails it

Paper Tigers

Viva Piñata is adorable -- and misleading.

It's Unbelievable

Wet Dreams of the Garden Variety

Daze in the Life

DCOTA throws open its doors to those of us who can't afford interior decorators

Dirty Work

A tale of prison gardeners is this summer's sweetest feel-good comedy

Painting and Parking

A father and son paint the town not just red but green, blue, and more

Mango Madness

The Second Annual Northwood Hills Mango Festival

Chintz Rules!

The Second Annual Northwood Hills Mango Festival

Ernest Appraisals

The Second Annual Northwood Hills Mango Festival

Florida Interior Designers Free at Last

flickr.com Interior design by any other name... Free at last. Free at last. An injunction gives sunshine state interior designers the freedom to advertise their services with controversial, explosive words like..."interior design". That's right, yesterday Federal District Judge Robe ... More >>

Bova Cucina Hosts Thanksgiving for "Underprivileged" -- Do Rothstein Investors Qualify?

After you pay $57 million to get access to funds awarded in a phony court judgment, like Ed Morse did, you're liable to worry about whether you can round up the money to pay for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner -- you know, with the caviar, the Kobe steak, and the cast of celebrity guests. It's the ... More >>

2009 Restaurant Roll Call - Openings

​We all know 2009 was sort of a strange year for restaurants. On one hand, there were dozens of significant openings, places that really added to our overall scene. On the other, there was more attrition than a super-long game of Risk. Here's a comprehensive run down, from A to Z of what opened in ... More >>

Lauderdale Bedbug Lawyer Says Tourists Should Check Registry

Cimex Lectularius, coming soon to an Airport Hilton near you.​The Airport Hilton, Palm Beach. The Marriott Key Largo. The Clevelander Miami Beach. The Ocean Manor Resort Fort Lauderdale. The Embassy Suites in Boca. These are only a few of the South Florida hotels and guest houses riddled with bedb ... More >>

A Street With a View

Cimex Lectularius, coming soon to an Airport Hilton near you.​The Airport Hilton, Palm Beach. The Marriott Key Largo. The Clevelander Miami Beach. The Ocean Manor Resort Fort Lauderdale. The Embassy Suites in Boca. These are only a few of the South Florida hotels and guest houses riddled with bedb ... More >>

Health Inspectors Shut Down 15 Fort Lauderdale/Miami Restaurants

​How would you like to eat at a restaurant where the kitchen is crawling with rodents and bugs, where the walk-ins are filthy, and the line hasn't been cleaned in months? Not to scare you, but it happens, and more often than you think. Florida inspectors have been hitting the motherlode of filthy ... More >>

Three Party-Planning Tips I Learned From Drag Queens

Twat LaRouge ​Throwing a party can be, for some people, a real drag. They create for themselves a whirl of faux stress, brought on by popping open a can of Pringles and procuring a five-pound bag of ice from 7-Eleven. Whew, exhausting! But it is the guests who suffer most. We've all been invi ... More >>

Health Inspectors Nail Three Broward Eateries This Week

​As a food blog, we're supposed to be an appetizing read. But there's nothing appetizing about the three Broward eateries shut down over the past week by the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. Health Inspectors deemed the following three restaurants so unsafe for consumers that th ... 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 >>

Health Inspectors Crack Down on Unlicensed Restaurants

​Better check yourself before you wreck yourself, eateries. Inspectors seem to be cracking down more and more on what they deem unlicensed activity, which could be as simple as not properly displaying licenses to serving food without one at all. Two local digs were shut down last week for that rea ... More >>

Crepemaker Closed Over Roach Infestation

​It's a fact of living in Florida: Roaches are everywhere. But none of us really wants to know about it. Especially not when it comes to where we eat. Well, last week, roaches struck a little closer to home -- at the Coconut Creek Promenade, to be exact. Chain restaurant Crepemaker, located b ... More >>

Fruitful Field/Parkway-Tedder Community Garden Up and Running in Pompano (PHOTOS)

​​                         I've heard about urban garden projects sprouting up throughout the South Florida community, but I've never had the chance to see one. A few months ago, a friend told me about a community garden that was ... More >>

Grow Your Own Food: Classes at The Urban Farmer

Southern Foodways Alliance ​South Florida isn't exactly a locavore's paradise-- "locally grown" around here usually means mangoes filched from your neighbor's tree in the dead of night (at least for me). But maybe that's beginning to change, or at least we're finally starting to get some credib ... More >>

Two Restaurants Closed Over Roaches, Possible Food Contamination

​We hear it everywhere - from the news, cooking shows and our mother - don't let raw chicken and meat play with your vegetables and for God's sake WASH YOUR HANDS! These food prep rules are so basic, any five year old who's ever helped mom in the kitchen knows them. Unfortunately for two loc ... More >>

Federal Court Upholds Florida's Bizarre Interior Designer Licensing Law

​An interior designer is not a medical doctor. An interior designer is not a lawyer, or a pharmacist, or a school teacher, or someone who transports hazardous chemicals that could kill large swaths of society.Interior designers help you decide which colors look good in a bedroom or office and wher ... More >>

Rick Scott Sure Gets You Riled Up (Misleading Supreme Court Judges Doesn't Hurt)

​It would appear that when a suspected fraudster gets elected governor and then uses questionable methods to achieve goals that he won't explain to anyone -- the man even refuses to use email so we won't know what he's thinking -- the public actually still cares. When Rick Scott does something fun ... More >>

Interiors... Designed

​It would appear that when a suspected fraudster gets elected governor and then uses questionable methods to achieve goals that he won't explain to anyone -- the man even refuses to use email so we won't know what he's thinking -- the public actually still cares. When Rick Scott does something fun ... More >>

Boynton Beach Police Follow Trail of Weed Crumbs to "Bubba" and 39 Other Pot Plants

Boynton Beach PoliceA few of the pot plants allegedly belonging to amateur horticulturist Jesse Duncans.​If you happen to have 40 pot plants growing in your apartment, you're probably going to get caught if you leave a trail of cannabis crumbs inside your place for the cops to follow.According to ... More >>