Lighthouse Point

Your Pie: Custom Pizza in Lighthouse Point

Pizza is one of the most personal food items ever. With so many toppings to choose from, it's gotten difficult to just opt for the standard cheese or pepperoni variety. That's the basis behind Your Pie, a new pizzeria in Lighthouse Point. Part of a Athens, Georgia chain, this is the first Your Pie ... More >>

Gourmet Passover Dinner

South Florida Food & Drink Events This Week: Craft Beer, Food Trucks, and More

The big happenings this week are centered around beer. Specifically, good beer. (And if you really want to get to the very core of it, good, Florida-made beer.) The second annual South Florida Beer Week is upon us and there's plenty to do every night of the week. Check out the South Florida Beer Wee ... More >>

Cooking Class

Pistache Relaunches Supper Club: Cardholders Get 50% off Bill

Secret dining clubs are a big thing in major cities like New York or San Francisco. Here, not so much. Or perhaps most of them are so top secret that we don't even know about them. Pistache French Bistro is now restarting its insiders' supper club. And for the first time, you're invited.See Als ... More >>

Elin Trousdale of Le Bistro Responds to the Review

We review restaurants all the time--almost once a week. But, rarely, do the chefs and restaurants' owners get the opportunity to respond. After this week's review was published, we received a call from Elin Trousdale of Le Bistro. She was concerned with the description of kidneys in a dish, "the met ... More >>

Christmas Dinner a Day Early

Restaurants Serving Vegetarian Thanksgiving Dinners in South Florida: Darbster, Sublime, and Le Bistro

For people who'd prefer to coddle, not cook, a turkey, Thanksgiving can be hell. Yeah, yeah, it's nice to see the family and wine is fun and all, but there's only so many helpings of mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie one can handle (trust me, I've tried, and the number is much smaller than one would h ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: Funky Food, Karaoke, Cooking Classes, and More

With Halloween just around the corner, next week is going to be big. Unfortunately, it's more than a week away. Looking for something to do before Halloween week? We've got you covered.  From pre-Halloween events to sustainability forums to cooking classes and more, there is plenty to do in sou ... More >>

County Commissioner Chip LaMarca Facing Foreclosure on Home

The Florida mortgage crisis has hit the Broward County Commission: Lighthouse Point Commissioner Chip LaMarca is facing foreclosure on his home after, records show, he stopped paying his second mortgage, per Gossip Extra."I've been on the phone with the bank and I'm hoping they'll work with me," LaM ... More >>

BREAKING: Broward County, There Is Poo in the Water

A Broward County water plant serving Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, Lighthouse Point, and Coconut Creek has tested positive for "fecal indicators," according to a statement just sent out by the county. The affected well has been shut down, but authorities are telling residents in those areas to not ... More >>

Totti's Mediterranean Kitchen Opens in Lighthouse Point

Totti's Mediterranean Kitchen serves custom light fare.​Totti's Mediterranean Kitchen is celebrating their grand opening at the Beacon Light Shopping Center in Lighthouse Point.Featuring fresh Mediterranean dishes, Totti's allows you to enjoy your favorite protein as either a wrap, pita sandwich o ... More >>

Deal of the Day: $8 for $20 Worth of Food & Drink at JC Wahoo's Sports Bar & Grill in

​JC Wahoo's Sports Bar and Grill in Lighthouse Point looks like it belongs on the California coast instead of this quiet enclave in South Florida. It has a laidback feel that even us Floridians haven't mastered as well as the West Coast.Which is why, be it for lunch or dinner, now is the time ... More >>

Delray Beach Garlic Fest This Weekend!

​Garlic -- it's not just for vampires anymore. With all the soft-core neck-biting pornucopia of teen vampire fiction clogging the media pipeline, you'd think the lowly bulb would be up on billboards or the backs of buses by now.But no. Thankfully, every year Delray Beach rights that wrong and host ... More >>

A Night With Cars

Local Police Down With OPP: Other People's Property Up for Auction

propertyroom.com​Several local police departments are bringing in extra money by auctioning off the goods left in their evidence rooms. Police auctions have long been a great place to "steal back" some nice loot cheap (plus there's always a chance it has cocaine hidden inside), but a new website, ... More >>

Order Up: A Guide to Florida's Divey Seafood Joints

​Get ready to shuck, peel, and slurp -- our Dish column this week is on South Florida's cheap seafood dives. These joints are the types of places where you can soldier up to a worn bar top and order Gulf oysters by the dozen, slurping down briny shellfish with pints of frosty beer. They're the las ... More >>

Doggy Bag: This Week in Charlie

John LinnElevation's organic burgers are good, but do they top Five Guys?​This week on the blog:If Cab is King, Five Rivers Central Coast Cabernet Sauvignon is a prince. This week's installment of 100 Favorite Dishes takes us to Tom Jenkins' BBQ in Fort Lauderdale, Talia's Table in Boca, and more. ... More >>

Seafood World in Lighthouse Point Has Old Florida Nailed

​A fried seafood combo costs just $20 at Papa Hughie's Seafood World in Lighthouse Point. The platter comes with three fat diver scallops, three jumbo shrimp, three conch fritters made from homemade batter, and four thick wedges of local hog snapper. Each piece of seafood is lightly coated in a si ... More >>

Lighthouse Point's Le Bistro Still a Kitchen Nightmare

New Sicilian Oven Opens in Coral Springs

C. StilesCo-owner Andrew Garavuso samples one of his wood-fired pies.​Charlie was at the private opening of the new Sicilian Oven in Coral Springs last night. The second location of the popular and (quite frankly) outstanding pizza joint is now in business at  10140 W. Sample Road, formerly h ... More >>

Morning Juice: Dolphins Get Hosed in Tennessee; Gallagher Looks Trial-Bound in Corruption Case

​It's Christmas week. And here's what's in the news in Broward and Palm Beach:The Dolphins staged an amazing comeback yesterday in Tennessee, only to have their inspired effort wrecked by a bullshit call against Greg Camarillo. [NFL.com]Adderley elaborated on his statement last week about Rothstei ... More >>

Lighthouse Point Man Shot Dead in Pompano Beach

A 22-year-old man was murdered early this morning in Pompano Beach. Broward Sheriff's Office detectives say that Michael Frank, a Lighthouse Point resident, was sitting in the passenger seat of his friend's car around 2 a.m. when someone walked up and fired at him. It occurred in the 200 block of No ... More >>

Oven Lovin'

Sicilian Oven bakes pizza with wood, not coal, and it shows.

Order Up: Sicilian Oven - Updated With Slideshow

C. Stiles​ The Perfect Pizza is an elusive animal. Mostly because everyone has his or her own idea of what makes a great pie. But I'd like to think of the pizza at Sicilian Oven as the Great Uniter; no matter what the preference -- Napolitan or New York style, wood- or coal-fired, thin and thick - ... More >>

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Meat Market

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Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

Cap's Place Island Restaurant

Letters for March 3-9, 2005

To the Lighthouse

Old Florida still exists. It's over there behind those condos.

A Singular Chef Returns

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters for March 27, 2003

A Hate-Love Relationship

Best Neighborhood Restaurant in Broward

Humperdinks

Taco Heaven

At Avila's, the tortilla is more than half full

A French Connection

The food at these two former French joints is magnifique

Foodstuff

Padaria 2000

Over the Hump

Humperdinks surmounts political obstacles to bring another excellent outdoor-dining locale to South Florida

Foodstuff

Mediterranean Food Corner

Foodstuff

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Fear of Failing

Au-Bar

Letters to the Editor

Letters for August 17, 2000

The Jinx Continues

Toys Not For Tots

The Cuban Preservation Society

Foodstuff

Using Her Noodles

Here Today, Gone to Maui

Isle Seats