Key West

Key West Bacchanalia: Get Half-Priced Tickets Now Through Voice Daily Deals

When was the last time you took the Overseas Highway all the way to the end of the line? We're talking about the United State's southernmost city, the town that gives "laid-back" living an all-new meaning -- Key West. If you've been meaning to go but just haven't found the right excuse, may we sugg ... More >>

When Jay Miscovich Found a Multimillion-Dollar Haul of Emeralds, Mel Fisher's Treasure-Hunting Family Attacked

Chefs and Cookbook Authors @ 2012 Miami Book Fair This Weekend

The Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday with what must have been an awkward conversation between famed author and journalist Tom Wolfe and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz. People talk plenty of smack about South Florida, but we get one of the world's biggest book fairs one month and then t ... More >>

New Times Pairings: An Event For Beer Geeks and Novices Alike

Wine tends to get top billing at New Times Pairings -- in part, because Wine Watch and crew do such a fine job of it -- but the craft beer department is no slouch, either. This year especially is a must for beer geeks and hops nerds. In addition to familiar faces like Shock Top and Key West Sunset ... More >>

Study Shows Oxitec GM Mosquitoes Work: What It Means for a Florida Experiment

See also "Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Glow Red and Self-Destruct; Can They Keep Away Disease?" and "Petition Against GM Mosquitoes in Key West Has Nearly 100,000 Signatures" Opposition to the potential release of Oxitec's genetically modified mosquitoes in Key West caught a h ... More >>

International Business Times Exaggerates Opposition to GM Mosquitoes, Spreads Fear Not Fact

See also "Genetically Modified Bugs Glow Red and Self-Destruct, but Can They Keep Away Disease?" and "Petition Against GM Mosquitoes Has Nearly 100,000 Signatures"The International Business Times on Monday morning published an article about the potential release of genetically modified mosquitoes in ... More >>

Shakespeare in a New Key

Should Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Be Let Lose In Key West?

The latest battle over genetically modified organisms is brewing in Key West. On one side, a British biotechnology firm called Oxitec and a mild-mannered Midwesterner by the name of Michael Doyle, who heads mosquito control operations in the Keys. Together, they want to release millio ... More >>

South Florida Dining Dished Up in Our Food Issue

Captain Morgan Statue Recovered From College Dorm Room

squidoo.com​The Monroe County Sheriff's Office got a hot tip yesterday on where the missing Captain Morgan statue was -- he was "wherever the party was taking place."Someone stole a statue of fictional rum salesman Captain Morgan from outside a Key West Walgreens store last week, and sheriff's dep ... More >>

Campaign Against Sucky Restaurant Websites

theoatmeal.com​It's great when restaurants have websites. Makes life easier than trudging through a thicket of Yelps or merry bands of Advising Tripsters. But just because an eatery has some HTML skills doesn't mean they have to use them. The Oatmeal has identified some of the worst trai ... More >>

Angle Reopens as Ritz(y) Supper Club

​There's a new angle on Angle, the ritzy restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach that's been shuttered after discovering that its starched-shirt atmosphere didn't go over well in ultracasual South Florida.  The newly reopened, reinvented Angle is now a Slow Food supper club, embracing what ... More >>

Where We Were Eating: Guanabanas

​OK, so this week's Where Are We Eating? was a bit easy. Reader Goombah Mickey (ha ha) nailed it: The image to the left is of Guanabanas, Jupiter's own subtropical seafood haven.This Key West-style restaurant is shrouded in foliage and well-manicured scenery, making it feel like a s ... More >>

Key West Food and Wine Festival Serves Up Fun in January

Bear witness to the Shrimpy King at this year's Key West Food and Wine Festival.​How about this for a good time: You could become this year's Shrimp King. I know, I know -- it sounds like a name fit for a bad comic book villain. But it's actually the title bestowed on the winner of the Key West Fo ... More >>

Adam Gopknik, Gael Greene, Ruth Reichl, Jonathan Gold, and More Convene at Key West Food Writing Seminar

Greene famously slept with Elvis and ordered him an egg sandwich from room service. ​Foodies/literary geeks (often one and the same) might overdose on sensory/intellectual goodness when legends and legends in the making of the food-writing world convene in Key West for the 29th-annual Key West Lit ... More >>

Bimini Boatyard Sold How Much Seafood at the Boat Show?

The Busy BrainSeriously?!​We hear that Bimini Boatyard had its best sales days ever during last week's International Boat Show.The numbers are in, and they are ridiculous. 

Morning Juice: Quit Biting Me!

​Sometimes bad news strikes, occasionally it creeps up from behind, sometimes it smothers, and every once in a while, it bites, like it seems to have done down in Key West and could start happening up here as well.One thing no one wants to wake up to is dengue fever, that tropical, mosquito-borne ... More >>

Morning Juice: Spirit Pilots Have a Deal; Final Arrest in Shootout With Boca Police

​Here's what's happening in South Florida this Thursday morning:On the jailhouse phone, 15-year-old Wayne Treacy talks to his parents about living in Key West after serving time for nearly beating to death Josie Lou Ratley at a Deerfield Beach school bus stop in March. [Sun-Sentinel]Hollywood eye ... More >>

Buy a Boat, Meet a Mermaid

Morning Juice: Oil on the Way to Our Beaches; Felony Charges Looming for Broward Commissioner

​Here's a look at what's in the local headlines this Tuesday morning:"Tar balls" have been found in Key West, the harbinger for oil in the Gulf of Mexico spreading to the South Florida coast, with potential for a dramatic effect on the marine ecosystem. [WPLG]Judging by remarks made by her defense ... More >>

BO's Fish Wagon: The Best Burger in Key West

Photos by Eric Barton​The annual New Times Best Of Broward-Palm Beach edition doesn't cover the Keys, so it seems reasonable that we could name the best burger in Key West any other time of the year. So after a recent visit down to the end of U.S. 1, I'm ready to declare a winner: BO's Fish ... More >>

A Seafood Hater's Guide to Eating in Key West: Part One

​Confession: I write for a food blog, but I can't stand seafood. Like at all. I just about refuse to eat anything that swims: fish, shrimp, lobster, and scallops are all completely off my menu. So when my girlfriend (who thankfully has the same aversion to eating things that swim) and I decided to ... More >>

Audience With the Queens Fails to Capture Key West's Drag Culture

A Better Fantasy Than the Football Kind

Side Dish: Key West Edition

Adventures in the Conch Republic: Key West Dining

​Last week, I took some much needed vacation time and made the three-and-a-half-hour drive down to Key West for a bit of R and R, Conch-style. And what a great trip. I hadn't been to the Keys in nearly 10 years, which is far too long an time for any self-respecting South Floridian with liver intac ... More >>

Better Than Good Eats: Our List of the Best We've Eaten

915 in Key West is home to some amazing Fries with aioli.The Food Network has a new show called The Best Thing I Ever Ate (9 and 9:30 p.m. tonight), and it features the usual roster of the network's chefs and celebrity foodies running down the best things they've stuffed in their constantly yapping ... More >>

City Fish Market Rides the Fresh Fish Wave in Boca

Wastin' Away at Hibi House

You could spend a lot of happy hours at this Key West-flavored hideaway.

Lake Worth to Debate the Birds and the Bees Tonight

Chicks and ducks and bees better scurry: Tonight at 8 p.m. the Lake Worth City Commission is set to discuss an ordinance to allow up to seven chickens and ducks and "a limited number of bees" to be raised within city limits. The "chicken on every plot" movement has taken off around the country, as ... More >>

Let's All Move to the Land of Sweets

The Nutcracker dances into our hearts

Post: Afflicting The Afflicted?

New Year’s Dinner Options

Howard Livingston and Mile Marker 24

Blame It on the Margaritas (Southernmost Entertainment)

Delivery Boy Says Oops

Winging It

Post-hurricane, it takes some ingenuity to keep cooking

Let's Get Lost

Six ways to do it in the Keys

Best Happy Hour in Broward

Samba Room

Best Outdoor Dining

Florida Tap Room Dockside Restaurant & Bar Readers' Choice: Dada

Best Weekend Getaway

Flamingo Lodge, Marina, and Outpost Resort Readers' Choice: Key West

Best Raw Bar

Southport Raw Bar

Best Ice Cream

Key West Crossing

Best Weekend Getaway

Eden House

The Bread Crumbs of Life

The Islamorada Fish Company market offers both fine seafood and its favorite crispy coating

Conch Train

Don't let the name fool you -- Key West Crossing serves up homemade ice cream along with the tchotchkes

Letters for November 15, 2001

Crabbing About Jen

The Quest for the Catman

The peculiar allure of Key West fixture Dominique LeFort confounds even the most dyed-in-the-fur Catfans

Best Beach

Dania Beach

High-Volume Eating

Best Weekend Getaway

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