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Italian Food and Cooking

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Derby Day at Tap 42, Cinco de Mayo, and Other Food Events This Week in South Florida

    The food and drink event calendar in South Florida is pretty quiet this week, and with the weather taking a dive, it's a good time to hunker down with your couch and streaming Netflix (try this list of five Florida-based movies). By the weekend, it will be time to party down for Cinco de Mayo and th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2012

    South Florida's Best Inexpensive Italian

    Resisting the urge to once again take a few playful swipes at a certain low-cost Italian sit-down chain, suffice it to say that no behemoth national brands made their way onto this list of the best sources for inexpensive Italian in Broward and Palm Beach. Know of a great little mom-and-pop pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2012

    A1A Marathon and Half Marathon: Where to Carbo-Load Before The Big Race

    A1A MarathonYou've gotta carb up if you want to win!​The A1A Marathon and Half Marathon is this Sunday, February 19, and thousands of runners will take to the streets on a 13.1- or 26.2-mile tour of the most beautiful parts of Fort Lauderdale. Starting at the Museum of Discovery and Science, the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Guiseppe's Italian Sausage at Seminole Hard Rock Food Truck Roundup Tonight

    Guiseppe's Italian Sausage is a taste of the Big Apple without the trip.​Is there anyone out there from New York?  If you are, you'll know that the San Gennaro Feast starts next week.  Taking up all of Little Italy and running into Chinatown in New York's southernmost reaches, The Feast ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes -- No. 2: Gnocchi From Caruso Ristorante

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 2: Gnocchi from Caruso Ristorante Alchemy is the ancient "scien ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 8 -- Truffle-Parmesan Fries From Il Mercato

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 8: Truffle-Parmesan Fries from Il Mercato The potato is a culinary c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 13 -- Tomato Bisque en Croute From Jimmy's Bistro

    ​As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 13: Tomato Bisque en Croute From Jimmy's BistroFew dishes out the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 14 -- Keste Pizza From Scuola Vecchia

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com. No. 14: Keste Pizza from Scuola Vecchia  Let's not beat around the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 20 -- Bouillabaisse From Café de France

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 20: Bouillabaisse from Café de France There are reasons certain dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 26 -- Chicken Rosario's From Rosario's Ristorante

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 26: Chicken Rosario's from Rosario's RistoranteIf you want to instan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    Davito's Italian Does West Boca

    ​Put chef Vito Raneri and front of the house maven David Acker together and you've got Davito's Italian Restaurant (19635 State Road 7, 561/482-2323), dishing all your familiar Southern Italian dishes in a piazza-like dark wood and marble space in West Boca Raton.  Raneri, for more than 20 ye ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: Tiramisu From Arturo's Ristorante

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 28: Tiramisu from Arturo's RistoranteHaving gone from obscurity to u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 30 -- Frisee Salad With Egg From The Office

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 30: Frisee Salad with Egg from The Office In France, they call this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 32 -- Vitello Tonnato From Apicius

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 32: Vitello Tonnato From Apicius For some reason, the best dishes of any ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 40 -- Chivito From Cilantro's

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 40: Chivito From Cilantro'sCalling the chivito a mere sandwich is like ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    100 Best Dishes: No. 43 -- Gelato Cup from Sonny's Gelato Café

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com. No. 43: Gelato Cup from Sonny's Gelato CaféTyler KromeFrom left to right: ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 17, 2011

    Fiorentina in Lake Worth: It's the Small Plates That Shine at This Trendy Osteria

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com. No. 43: Gelato Cup from Sonny's Gelato CaféTyler KromeFrom left to right: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    100 Favorite Dishes: No. 76 -- Linguine Vongole From Il Bellagio

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com. No. 76: Linguine with White Wine Clam Sauce from BellagioNicole Danna​

  • Dining

    February 17, 2011

    Vivo Partenza: Outrageously Pricey but Damned Good

    As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com. No. 76: Linguine with White Wine Clam Sauce from BellagioNicole Danna​

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Q&A With Apicius Ristorante e Enoteca Owner Leopold Balestrieri

    Nicole DannaApicius Ristorante e Enoteca Owner and Chef Leopold​Chef Leo Balestrieri is larger than life - and so is his new ristorante and enoteca, Apicius, in Lantana.His vision is unique, his dishes extravagant, his style flamboyant -- and his taste -- arguably incomparable. We sat down wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Luigi's Opens on Clematis

    ​Clematis Street's challenge to Atlantic Avenue as Palm Beach's premier Restaurant Row calls and raises one more with the debut of Luigi's Italian Restaurant (118 Clematis St., 561-833-4456) in the former Cabana space a meatball's throw from West Palm's revitalized waterfront.  Proprietor Gle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Top Chef Recap: Fuggedaboudit! Cooking Family Style At Rao's

    NBC Universal Cheftestants​Last episode we had Marcel pack his knives after he led his team to defeat in restaurant wars.  Quickfire Round The Cheftestants walk into the kitchen to find Padma and Isaac Mizrahi. It's fashion week and Padma is plugging her jewelry line and Isaac is ha ... More >>

  • Dining

    October 28, 2010

    Among a Crowd of Italian Restaurants, Caruso Stands Out

    NBC Universal Cheftestants​Last episode we had Marcel pack his knives after he led his team to defeat in restaurant wars.  Quickfire Round The Cheftestants walk into the kitchen to find Padma and Isaac Mizrahi. It's fashion week and Padma is plugging her jewelry line and Isaac is ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2010

    Recipe: Risotto with Shrimp, Preserved Lemon, Asparagus and Pea

    ​If you have a lemon, you make lemonade.  If you have a preserved lemon, you can make just about any damn thing taste a little more interesting. Except lemonade. That would really suck.  Preserved lemons are a staple of Moroccan cooking, basically just lemons stuffed in a jar with lots o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Fiorentina Opens in Lake Worth

    Fiorentina's Joshua Santangela and Jamie Fournier​Downtown Lake Worth gets a welcome shot in the arm when one its prime restaurant locations, shuttered since Ouzo Blue went into the great beyond, is thriving once again with the debut of Fiorentina (707 Lake Ave., 561/588-9707).  Chef-propriet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2010

    Five Familiar Dishes Done Right

    ​Everybody's a critic. Everybody's a rock 'n' roll guitar player. Everybody's an expert.  Problem is, most times, "everybody" isn't. They just can't do it. Not very well. Not very often. Not really.   Some dishes are like that, too. It seems almost every restaurant serves Caesar sal ... More >>

  • Dining

    July 1, 2010

    D'Angelo Pizza in Fort Lauderdale Does Everything Right

    ​Everybody's a critic. Everybody's a rock 'n' roll guitar player. Everybody's an expert.  Problem is, most times, "everybody" isn't. They just can't do it. Not very well. Not very often. Not really.   Some dishes are like that, too. It seems almost every restaurant serves Caesar sal ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 27, 2010

    At Tonino Lamborghini at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, the Food Is Authentic Italian

    ​Everybody's a critic. Everybody's a rock 'n' roll guitar player. Everybody's an expert.  Problem is, most times, "everybody" isn't. They just can't do it. Not very well. Not very often. Not really.   Some dishes are like that, too. It seems almost every restaurant serves Caesar sal ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 6, 2010

    Food at Talia's Tuscan Table in Boca Raton Is Impressive

    ​Everybody's a critic. Everybody's a rock 'n' roll guitar player. Everybody's an expert.  Problem is, most times, "everybody" isn't. They just can't do it. Not very well. Not very often. Not really.   Some dishes are like that, too. It seems almost every restaurant serves Caesar sal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    Mambo Italiano's Has 'Balls

    ​Think of the world as a giant meatball. Mambo Italiano's does.   The latest eatery to land on West Palm's ever-burgeoning Clematis Street is all about the 'ball--Italian "nachos" with mini-meatballs, meatball sliders, meatball parmigiana, meatball subs, meatball lasagna, spaghetti 'n' m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Food Fight: Battle Prosciutto Sub

    John Linn​ Say what you will about Fort Lauderdale, but America's Venice knows how to put together a sandwich. It's not that there's a higher concentration of sandwich joints than elsewhere; it's just that what local places here are tend to make some badass, honkin' big sandwiches. There are some ... More >>

  • Dining

    May 7, 2009

    Easy Does It

    At Casa d'Angelo, the surprises come where you least expect them.

  • Dining

    April 16, 2009

    Café Martorano, Broward's Most Successful Restaurant, Goes Global

    At Casa d'Angelo, the surprises come where you least expect them.

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Gaia Ristorante Arrives In A Bentley

    Gaia Ristorante opens today at the Hilton Bentley Hotel at 101 Ocean Drive in South Beach. This is the latest venture from Tommy Billante, the man behind Carpaccio, Luna, and a whole bunch of other successful Italian places. Gaia moves into the space formerly occupied by Vivi, one of Billante's few ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 18, 2008

    A celeb chef's name is on da Campo's menu. But is Todd English really coming out of the kitchen?

    Gaia Ristorante opens today at the Hilton Bentley Hotel at 101 Ocean Drive in South Beach. This is the latest venture from Tommy Billante, the man behind Carpaccio, Luna, and a whole bunch of other successful Italian places. Gaia moves into the space formerly occupied by Vivi, one of Billante's few ... More >>

  • Dining

    December 4, 2008

    The Dish Ran Away With the Silver Spoon

    And the cow jumped over the mooney

  • Dining

    November 20, 2008

    It's a Living

    A beautiful day in the neighborhood at Dolce de Palma

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2008

    Whatever happened to Toby Joseph?

    A beautiful day in the neighborhood at Dolce de Palma

  • Dining

    November 6, 2008

    A Good Chef Is Hard to Find

    It's election season: Stephen Asprinio needs your vote

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    Eismann Enters The Pizza Biz

    It's election season: Stephen Asprinio needs your vote

  • Dining

    October 23, 2008

    Cooking Like a Rock Star

    No need for nostalgia at Giovanni Rocchio's Valentino's

  • Dining

    October 9, 2008

    Carolina's on My Mind

    There's more than one way to skin a recession: Coal Pizza

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Flavor Palm Beach Starts Today

    There's more than one way to skin a recession: Coal Pizza

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Miami Spice Review: Soyka

    There's more than one way to skin a recession: Coal Pizza

  • Dining

    May 22, 2008

    They Might Be Giants

    Count blessings, not calories, at Del Vecchio's

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    Cheap Eats: La Nonna Restaurant

    Count blessings, not calories, at Del Vecchio's

  • Dining

    January 10, 2008

    Whine Tasting

    I'd complain about Pa' Degennaro's, but my mouth is full

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2007

    Cheap Eats: La Estancia Argentina

    I'd complain about Pa' Degennaro's, but my mouth is full

  • Dining

    November 1, 2007

    The Big Eaty

    The only thing everyone agrees on at Il Mulino? Nice prices.

  • Dining

    July 26, 2007

    Split Decision

    Our meal at Limoncello ended in a draw

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