Italian Food and Cooking

Italian Red Sauce in Sunrise: Big Plates, Big Personalities

Osteria Acqua and Farina: New Fort Lauderdale Pizzeria Prepares the Pies Pungently but Just Right

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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

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​

Vivo Partenza: Outrageously Pricey but Damned Good

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Among a Crowd of Italian Restaurants, Caruso Stands Out

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

D'Angelo Pizza in Fort Lauderdale Does Everything Right

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

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

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 >>

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 >>

Easy Does It

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

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

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 >>

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

The Dish Ran Away With the Silver Spoon

And the cow jumped over the mooney

It's a Living

A beautiful day in the neighborhood at Dolce de Palma

Whatever happened to Toby Joseph?

A Good Chef Is Hard to Find

It's election season: Stephen Asprinio needs your vote

Eismann Enters The Pizza Biz

Cooking Like a Rock Star

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

Carolina's on My Mind

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

Flavor Palm Beach Starts Today

Miami Spice Review: Soyka

They Might Be Giants

Count blessings, not calories, at Del Vecchio's

Cheap Eats: La Nonna Restaurant

Whine Tasting

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

Cheap Eats: La Estancia Argentina