Kosher Food and Cooking

Ben's Kosher Delicatessen Anniversary Party

Pastrami Wars: A Rebuttal

Here at New Times, we're accustomed to getting comments on our blog, invitations from PR flacks, and queries from friends wondering whether the food critic might be a tad lonely and need a companion for dinner. But it's not every day that a reader sits down to write a full-fledged literary criticism ... More >>

Ben's, Flakowitz, and Zinger's: Exploring the Jewish Delis of Palm Beach County

Great Food Truck Jam in Delray To Benefit Kosher Food Pantry

If you're looking for a little family fun for a good cause this Sunday, head out to the Great Food Truck Jam on May 6 at Old School Square Park in Delray Beach. From 12:30 - 4:00 p.m. spread a picnic blanket on the grass and enjoy lunch from seven different food trucks. Music, live entertainment, ... More >>

A Lapsed Jew's Guide to Passover Week

Yes, it's still Passover. The Jewish holiday lasts eight days, which means this is day five, a hellish kind of Hump Day. If you're like me, the matzo bloating has set in, and things are looking desperate.I was raised in a very Reform household -- as in, my family orders Vietnamese food instead of ho ... More >>

South Florida Restaurants Serving Passover Dinner

​Looking for a place to celebrate with a Passover feast in South Florida? If you don't feel like cooking at home, there are a handful of restaurants offering special Passover menus during the holiday weekend/week. Reservations are required for most of these special dinners and it pays to book earl ... More >>

Golden Matzah Bowl Names The Best Balls In South Florida

​The third annual Forest Trace Golden Matzah Bowl was held yesterday March 22. Over 100 people turned out at the upscale resort retirement community to watch both local restaurants and individuals compete for the coveted golden matzah bowl prize. Also at stake were cash donations to the winners' c ... More >>

Forest Trace Asks: Who Has The Best (Matzah) Balls?

​Forest Trace at Inverrary seems like the kind of place we want to retire to. The 30-acre retirement community offers entertainment, dining, a lake -- and a contest to see who has the best balls!For the third year in a row, the community is seeking out the best matzah (or matzo, or matzoh) ball fo ... More >>

Jewish Food Festival in Cooper City This Sunday (Nosh Fest II: Electric Matzo Boogaloo)

Jessica Spengler ​Secret: Some of us Gentiles are crazy about Jewish food. So much so that we'll even date Jewish girls just so we're sure to be invited for brisket at her grandmother's apartment in Delray Beach every year. That's the thing about the second-annual Nosh Fest, South Florida's Jewish ... More >>

Restaurant News: Carmine's Big Plans, Nosh in Cooper City, Get Rummy at Reef Road

​•    First, Palm Beach Gardens. Then, the world. That seems to be the mantra of local restaurateur Carmine Giardini, who's planning a national expansion of his upscale burger joint, CG Burgers. First up will be CGs in the old Bice Bistro space in the Gardens, followed by two more ... More >>

New Menu at Lips, Kosher Demos at Winn-Dixie

​• Lips, Fort Lauderdale's drag show dinner theater, deserves credit: It's tough to continually pump out menu items that feature nearly as many witty double entandres as the riotous stage show. But somehow, the drag supper club continues to do it. The restaurant is rolling out a host of new menu ... More >>

Let's Help Our Neighbors in Palm Beach Create a "Palm Beach-Worthy" Publix

Flickr: Jonathan Vazquez​Attention, working-class mortals! There's a crisis atop our local Mt. Olympus (the island of Palm Beach), where the high-society luminaries are in danger of having an ordinary Publix grocery store blight their otherwise extraordinary commercial space.At a recent symposium ... More >>

Passover's Gift to Drink: Horseradish Potato Vodka

flickr user: BetsssssyVodka and horseradish, a stellar combo.​Passover is about more than matzo ball soup. Like many Jewish holidays, it's about religious freedom, eating, and...drinkingSo I was thrilled when a friend of mine brought a fantastic new culinary tradition to our seder table last week: ... More >>

Restaurant News: Heart Stoppers Clogs Arteries in Delray, Wine, Spirits and All That Jazz in Davie, Super Bowl Goes Kosher

​•    Clogging strong arteries 12 ways is the heart-stopping menu at the new Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Delray Beach. Have your "nurse" (yes, server hotties really do wear lab coats and carry stethescopes) bring you an order of Chili Chest Pain Fries or Flatliner hot wings or ... More >>

South Florida Jewish Food Festival: A Likely Place for Fine Kugel

Photo by Flickr user marilyn819​If there's one dish that symbolizes Jewish food, it's the kugel. Sure, the matzo ball is better known, and a well-baked brisket can just about revive the dead. But the kugel is everything good Jewish cooking ought to be -- simple comfort food cooked in one dish. If ... More >>

Food Network Returns, This Time for the Matzo Balls

Guy came back for our matzo balls.You think Guy Fieri likes our local drive-ins, diners and dives? Just two weeks after a big shout-out to Havana Hideout in Lake Worth, last night the porcupine-haired host of "Triple D" did the same for the home away from home for deli-deprived New Yorkers: Flakowit ... More >>

Promised Land

Patout Out At Christabelle’s

How Can We Pander To You?

Best Caesar Salad

The Deli Den Readers' Choice: Houston's

Foodstuff

Let My People Eat

Best Prepared Foods

Kosher Albertson´s Food & Drug

Best Delicatessen

Wolfie Cohen's Rascal House

Chicken à la King

The Poultry King rules

Best Mediterranean Restaurant

Boca Pita Grill

Best Rock Band

Baby Robots

Foodstuff

Finjan Bar & Grille

Best Middle-Eastern Restaurant

New Tel-Aviv Restaurant

Best Vegetarian Restaurant

Terrace Oceanside

Foodstuff

Heavenly Ham

Foodstuff

Terrace Oceanside

Hungary in Hollywood

Worth the Wait