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James Beard 2013 Semifinalists Announced: Būccan's Clay Conley Makes the List

Every industry has its own prestigious award. Film has the Academy Awards. Television has the Emmys. Journalism: the Pulitzer Prize. For the culinary industry, it's the James Beard Award: the ultimate nod to the diligent work of chefs. Today, the list of semifinalists were announced for 2013; f ... More >>

Delish 2013: Meet Michelle Bernstein... for $175

South Florida is home to some amazing chefs. Numerous James Beard award-winners and nominees can be found behind the line at tons of local restaurants.But one would be hard-pressed to find a face more recognizable than Michelle Bernstein. Aside from her weekly PBS show Check, Please! South Florida, ... More >>

A Few Last Pictures: Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival -- The Last Supper at Buccan (Photos)

Yes, we know it was last Monday... but we just got our film developed, and wanted to sahre these pics of an all-star cast of celebrity chefs and guests at the Last Supper hosted at Buccan. James Beard Award nominee for Best Chef of the South 2012, Clay Conley hosted this years winner Chris Hastings ... More >>

Event Coverage: Food4Thought Lunch at Swank Farms (Part of PB Food & Wine Fest)

Palm Beach and farming have about as much in common as left-wing hippies and blue blood one percenters. Have you ever seen someone in Lilly Pulitzer working with dirt? Unless it has something to do with keeping up with those perfectly manicured hedges, we didn't think so. Well, this weekend bro ... 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 >>

Aran Goyoaga of Cannelle et Vanille Talks About The Blog and Her New Cookbook, Small Plates & Sweet Treats

Aran Goyoaga, acclaimed pastry chef, photographer, food stylist, and James Beard Award-nominated blogger at Cannelle et Vanille, will release her first cookbook, titled Small Plates and Sweet Treats: My Family's Journey to Gluten-Free Cooking, on October 23.The cookbook has been Goyoaga's project fo ... More >>

Ruth Bourdain Writes a Book

It seems like everyone and their mother has a book deal. Don't believe us?  Well, let's see...nearly every Real Housewife has one (even the ones who can't seem to be able to read on the show), Mr. Winkle the dog is a constant best seller, and now Ruth Bourdain has a book deal. And we didn't eve ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Weekend: Food Truck Rally and More

A great weekend in food and drink should offer a chance to go from high- (wine dinners with renowned chefs) to low-brow (food truck rallies and eating competitions) without breaking a sweat. After the jump, find a list of five genre-spanning dining events going down this weekend in Broward and Palm ... More >>

Pilar Restaurant and Bar in Aventura Stays the Course With Well-Priced, Perfectly Cooked Fish

My Ceviche's Fresh Take on Seafood Brings Unpretentious Delights to South Beach

3800 Ocean on Singer Island Offering "Kitchen Table" Dinners for Off-Menu Dining

When chef Dean Max parted ways with 3800 Ocean -- the restaurant he helped to open last year inside the Marriott Singer Island Beach Resort & Spa -- at the end of 2011, chef Larry LaValley was given the reins (plus the role of resort assistant general manager). LaValley has been with the restaur ... More >>

Mark Militello Hosts James Beard Dinner at 3800 Ocean

Mark Militello is taking over the kitchen at 3800 Ocean at the Palm Beach Marriott Singer Island Resort & Spa for one night only. The special James Beard tribute dinner is limited to 18 diners, who will enjoy an eight course tasting menu with wine pairings on Thursday, June 21.The evening will k ... More >>

Stephane's Brasserie to Open This Summer in Boca Raton

​Restaurateur Stephane Lang-Willar is bringing his European brasserie restaurant concepts to Boca Raton this summer with Stephane's.The combination brasserie/lounge will feature an almost mind-boggling host of specials, menus, and cocktail hours.  For instance, Monday is mussels day, when you ... More >>

Imoto: Buccan's Little Sister Opens in Palm Beach

​It's not quite March, but already Clay Conley has had one busy 2012. After recently being named a semifinalist for a James Beard Award in the Best Chef (South) category, Conley has opened an intimate, 40-seat, Asian-inspired bistro featuring small plates.Imoto, which translates into "little siste ... More >>

Union to Open December 30 in Delray's Caliente Kitchen Space

Rich Achaia, executive chef of Union​Union: An Asian Gastro Lounge will have its soft open a week from tomorrow, says owner/restaurateur Scott Kennedy. He and partner Stephen Chin acquired the restaurant seven weeks ago, built out the former Caliente Kitchen space, and revamped the patio to open i ... More >>

Kapow! Noodle Bar: Restaurant Crib Notes

​Kapow! Noodle Bar chef Roy Villacrusis won the "Grand Chef Throwdown" at the fifth annual Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival last night, a five-day benefit for the James Beard Foundation. Villacrusis, who helmed the short-lived Kubo that earned New Times' Best Restaurant in Palm Beach in 2011, com ... More >>

Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival, Beer Events, and Other Food & Drink Happenings This Week in South Florida

Drink up: Both PBC World of Beer locations are hosting special events this week. ​In some ways, this is a relatively quiet week in terms of events, but with a few big names on the bill -- the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival and Steve Martorano's battle of the meatball, to name a few -- there' ... More >>

What Makes a Good Butcher? Sharp Knives and Good Customers

​My grandfather ran a company in which he made sausages for Italian, Polish, and German immigrants throughout Boston. My father worked there in summers between college. My uncle worked there for decades. I remember my grandfather telling stories about his craft and his customers, scenarios that cu ... More >>

Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival Starts December 9; Tickets Available Now

Hey, Michelle -- what's cooking? ​What to get the food snob on your holiday list when a membership to the Stinky Cheese of the Month Club won't do? How 'bout an early gift, by way of a ticket to one of the five events that are part of the Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival from December 9 to 13?

3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale: Beautiful Food, Mindful Sourcing, Dated Dining Room

Five Post-Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Restaurants Where Rich Yachters Will Dine

Hey girl, want to see my yacht?​Yesterday marked the end of the annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. If you missed the show we can give you a small yet correct synopsis now:Many extravagant yachts floated through the intracoastal waterways from Oct. 27-31. Those yachts were hosted by ya ... More >>

Chef-Driven Restaurant Slated for Boca From Charm City and El Jefe Luchador

​James Beard-nominated "Rising Star Chef of the Year" Michael Saperstein and partner Evan David signed a lease in Boca Raton this week to open a third restaurant by December 2011: a chef-driven, eclectic, small-plates restaurant that's "unlike anything we have in the area so far." Saperstein and D ... More >>

Judgment Day? South Florida Chefs Share Their Last Meals

Judgment Day?....not so much, actually.​It's 6:00 pm on May 21st in New Zealand and people at the far end of the planet are Tweeting that the Apocalypse hasn't arrived like crackpot radio evangelist Harold Camping (who, by the way is rumored to have raised $100 million during his end-o ... More >>

Gwyneth Paltrow is Bon Appetit Cover Girl

Gwyneth Paltrow: better looking than a roast?​Bon Appetit is usually known for its food porn covers - juicy roasts, steaming bowls of pasta, a cake that makes you want to eat the paper its printed on. But the June issue has a different kind of "dish" on it - Gwyneth Paltrow. In the magazine ... More >>

Farmers' Markets vs. Grocery Stores: Which is More Expensive?

flickr/kthreadRecent studies about produce price may surprise you...​Potatoes, puhtahtoes, tomatoes, tomahtoes. What's the difference, right? For most of us, what we buy comes down to price. Most people assume that farmers' markets in the U.S., while lovely to look at, are not as affordable to reg ... More >>

Chef Allen Susser Talks Burger Battle and the Future, Part One

Chef Allen Susser is a confident burger battle contestant.​Chef Allen Susser has been a fixture on the South Florida dining scene for over a quarter of a century. Part of the original "Mango Gang," the group of chefs in the '90s who put Florida cuisine on the map, Susser has published three ... More >>

Chef Allen's to Close After 25 Years In Business

Chef Allen to close his Aventura restaurant.​ Chef Allen Susser has announced he will close his iconic Aventura restaurant, Chef Allen's. Susser is a cooking instructor, a celebrity chef at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, a consultant to large corporations like American Airlines, S ... More >>

Chef Zach Bell Named James Beard Award Finalist

Cafe Boulud Chef Zach Bell​Chef Zach Bell of Palm Beach's Cafe Boulud has been named a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef (South). Chef Bell is the only South Florida chef to be named a finalist for the award. Other finalists in this category include John Harris ( ... More >>

Two Local Chefs Make James Beard Semifinals

​Perennial James Beard Foundation nominee Zach Bell of Palm Beach's Café Boulud is getting a third crack at being named Best Chef South, joining Dean James Max of Fort Lauderdale's 3030 Ocean as two of three South Florida semifinalists for the 2011 Beard award.  The third SoFla chef is Phili ... More >>

Interview with Chef, Restaurateur and Author Michael Schwartz, Part I

​In 2007 Michael Schwartz opened Michael's Genuine Food & Drink in Miami's Design District. Almost immediately it became "the" place to go for good, clean food that was friendly to the environment and the community. in 2009, Michael's Genuine Food & Drink opened a second location ... More >>

Top Chef Recap: A Tom Colicchio Smackdown (He Is So Hot)

NBC Universal Tom Colicchio​Top Chef is probably Bravo's last and only foray into "real" reality television. For eight seasons we've gotten to enjoy the drama of cooking rather than drunken behavior, screaming matches and random hookups (though the show has had its fair share of all t ... More >>

New Year's Eve at a Restaurant: Five Deals in Palm Beach / Delray Beach / Boca Raton

The way to forget 2010.​If 2010 was a fish, most of us would throw it back. So say good riddance to the old and check out the festivities at this quintet of Palm Beach County restaurants.  5. Café BouludDaniel Boulud's Palm Beach outpost with James Beard Award-nominated chef Zach Bell at the ... More >>

Chef Mark Militello Out at Trina in Fort Lauderdale

​News flash: renowned local chef Mark Militello is out at Trina, the chic restaurant inside the beachfront Atlantic Resort and Spa in Fort Lauderdale. Today, food and beverage manager Rochelle Burns confirmed his departure, saying,

Mario Batali to Cook at Morikami Monday, December 13

​The critically acclaimed, James Beard award-winning chef Mario Batali -- known for his love of olive oil, Italian cooking and his animated TV personality -- is scheduled to perform a cooking demonstration at the Morkiami Museum and Japanese Gardens on Monday, December 13. Batali long ago gre ... More >>

Meet Zach Bell and Sample Free Food at Cafe Boulud

Man of the hour.​Chef Zach Bell, a three-time James Beard Award nominee, will be hosting a meet and greet with guests on Saturday night at Cafe Boulud for his participation in the South Florida's Hottest Chefs calendar. (A chef pin up calendar sure sounds a lot like something from this week's Sout ... More >>

Palm Beach Gardens Duck Killers Barely Rank Against History's Duck Murderers

These ducks will no longer be featured in Aflac commercials.​Blain and Robert Aymond, the middle-aged duck killers of Palm Beach Gardens, have taken their place in history.A judge on Tuesday declared the couple guilty of misdemeanor ducknapping after they hired a trapper last year to round up a ga ... More >>

Chef Interview: Mark Militello at Trina

​Chef Mark Militello is a man of few words. This self-proclaimed "Doctor of Food" has taken the helm at Trina, the Fort Lauderdale beach restaurant at the Atlantic Hotel.  Not one to share a lot of secrets, he did not give us many details on the menu or décor, but suffice to say that Chef Ma ... More >>

Doggy Bag: This Week in Charlie

Raw clams from Tarks of Dania, new in 100 Favorite Dishes this week.​This week on the blog:Our 100 Favorite Dishes this week cover Chinese curry noodles, spicy rock shrimp, and a killer dolphin sandwich.$10 at Panaretto in Fort Lauderdale will get you an affordable Italian lunch.South Florida had ... More >>

2010 James Beard Winners Announced

​Last week, the James Beard Foundation announced its 2010 winners for food media and restaurants. Although South Florida had a few dogs in the race, Broward and Palm Beach didn't come up with any wins. But Miami's own Michael Schwartz of Michael's Genuine Food & Drink managed to snag Best Chef ... More >>

Thank God It's Over, but 2009 Does End With the Promise of Better Things to Come

Amuse Your Bouche

Night of the Living Word

Smith & Jones Doesn't Live Up to Johnny V's Name

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

The Undersea World of Toby Joseph

A Cero-sum game where the diner always wins

Foodstuff

Savor the Moment

Missing the Mark