Roy Villacrusis

Lindsay Autry of Sundy House is South Florida's Top Chef

Being a finalist on season nine of Bravo's Top Chef, may have brought Tastemaker number 9, Lindsay Autry into our living rooms, but the chef had been working on her culinary career long before that. The Johnson & Wales University graduate's career started as a kid in North Carolina, trying to figur ... 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 >>

Roy Villacrusis, Chef at Studio, Plays Fill in the Blanks With Us

In South Florida, restaurateurs can take a good, innocent trend...and beat it to death. Haven't we heard enough about beer bars, farm-to-table fare, and good ole' gastropubs?But it's nothing but new at Roy Villacrusis' latest pop-up, the Studio, where a different menu is served up each night. Inside ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: # 3 -- Fried Jumbo Prawn at Studio

We're counting down our top 100 favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, email them here.Roy Villacrusis began his career under the watchful eye of the infamous South Florida chef, Mark Militello, at Mark's City Place in West Palm Beach. And it's been ... More >>

Scenes From Roy Villacrusis and Lindsay Autry's Pop-Up (Photos)

If you missed last weekend's Sunday Supper/Monday's Leftovers pop-up at Chef Corp Cook's Studio in Palm Beach Gardens, you missed some good food prepared by Roy Villacrusis and Lindsay Autry.  Villacrusis told Clean Plate Charlie that the secret of the meals was teamwork and honest ingredients. ... More >>

The Next Traveling Plate Supper Club Tickets Go On Sale Tuesday, May 8

Tickets go on sale at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, for the next Traveling Plate supper club hosted by ARC Broward Culinary Institute. The dinner is Wednesday, May 23, at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Lauderdale and seating is limited to a total of 50 guests.Reservations are $60 per person. The Traveling Pl ... More >>

Roy Villacrusis and Top Chef Lindsay Autry: Sunday Supper/Monday Leftover Pop Up

Roy Villacrusis and Lindsay Autry are teaming up for a two-night pop-up dinner series at Chef Corp Cook's Studio in Palm Beach Gardens on Sunday, May 20 and Monday, May 21.The five-course Sunday supper and Monday "Leftovers" dinners, which will have the same menu both days, will feature ingredients ... More >>

The Deerfield Beach Wine & Food Festival is Today: Get There Fast if You Want Tickets

The Deerfield Wine & Food Festival kicked off last night with a Grand Tasting Launch Party, and will continue today with two events in Quiet Waters Park in Deerfield Beach.If you're an early riser, the Jazz Blues Brunch is 10 a.m. to noon with the typical brunch offerings: scrambled eggs, fruit, ... More >>

Legacy Place Food and Wine Experience, Get Downtown, and other Food & Drink Events this Week in South Florida

Multiple wine and culinary tasting events throughout South Florida should keep food lovers plenty busy and with any luck, the weekend weather will hold tight for the variety of outdoor foodie events (which was not exactly the case this past weekend). For a look at some of the food and drink events a ... More >>

Top Chef Contestant Lindsay Autry Stages Pop-Up Series

Lindsay Autry, Top Chef contestant from this past season, will host her next pop-up at kitchen store and culinary school, In The Kitchen, in Tequesta on April 17. The former executive chef at the now-closed Michelle Bernstein's at The Omphoy, Autry is staging pop-ups to feed her creativity and formi ... More >>

Menu for the April 5 Traveling Plate Supper Club Revealed

​Acclaimed South Florida chef Roy Villacrusis has revealed the menu for the ARC Broward Traveling Plate's next event, planned for Thursday, April 5, at the Girls' Club Collection gallery in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The menu for the sold-out, four-course dinner -- which also includes two passed it ... More >>

Sought-After Traveling Plate Supper Club Tickets on Sale Tonight

​If you're quick and maybe just a little lucky, you might be able to grab a spot at the Traveling Plate's April 5 event. Tickets go on sale tonight at 8, and the 30 spots are expected to go quick.Clean Plate Charlie is sponsoring the event, and proceeds will go to the ARC Broward Culinary Institut ... More >>

New Chef and a Few Menu Changes at Kapow! Noodle Bar in Boca Raton

​This month, without a lot of fanfare, Anna Feinberg stepped into the role of executive chef at Kapow! Noodle Bar. Feinberg (whom you may have recently noticed in a rather badass new ad for the restaurant) assumes the spot previously held by Roy Villacrusis, who parted ways with Kapow! in January. ... More >>

The Big Trend for 2012 May Be the Death of Restaurant Trends

Chef Roy Villacrusis to Step in as Guest Chef for Supper Club in April

​South Florida's newest supper club is already off to a fine start. The Traveling Plate held its first event Wednesday night and served 80 people at Allied Kitchen & Bath. It also -- and perhaps more importantly -- raised $2,500 for ARC Broward Culinary Institute.And the next event is shaping ... More >>

Where to Spend Super Bowl Sunday in South Florida if You Don't Care About the Game

​During a recent lunch meeting over tacos, the Clean Plate Charlie crew debated the relative merits of the entertainment juggernaut known as the Super Bowl. While some looked at the sporting extravaganza as a sort of second Thanksgiving -- wake up late, start drinking early, and stuff yoursel ... More >>

Villacrusis Has Left Kapow! Noodle Bar

​ Updated.Kapow! Noodle Bar has gone the way of Banana Republic by introducing sliders to the menu. This item signals a move to a conservatism to align with its Mizner Park location, prompting chef Roy Villacrusis to depart for other projects. The noodle bar conceived by Rodney Mayo and Scott Fri ... More >>

Dinner Theater and Burgers Dominated 2011, So What's Coming for 2012?

Kapow! Noodle Bar in Boca Raton: Engaging Menu, Ambitious Chef, but What Are They Doing in Mizner?

Broward/Palm Beach County Noteworthy Chefs of 2011

chef Angelo Elia of Casa 'd Angelo​Being a chef has never been a glamorous job as anyone who's made it her life work will tell you. The rise of cooking shows and the fetishizing of food has ushered the profession in the limelight. As restaurants garner attention, it's natural to become more aware ... More >>

Kapow! Noodle Bar's Chef Roy Villacrusis Has Got A Problem

The wood-framed interior and an ocean of mural give the illusion of being on an old ship.​"I think I have a problem," said chef Roy Villacrusis of Kapow! Noodle Bar, the subject of this week's review. "I don't care what people think."He's not just talking about the menu the Mizner Park noodle hous ... 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 >>

Tap 42 and Kapow! Noodle Bar Open for Lunch

Melissa McCart​In the event you've made the rounds on our Fort Lauderdale lunch list, there's a new one in the queue.

Kapow! Noodle Bar in Boca Raton Opening November 23: A Sneak Peek Inside

Giving passers-by a peek inside Kapow! Noodle Bar. ​ Noodle fans in Boca Raton have been champing at the bit for the opening of Kapow! Noodle Bar in Mizner Park. The brainchild of Rodney Mayo and Scott Frielich (of Dada, Tryst, the Dubliner, Respectable Street, and Vagabond, to name a few) and Vau ... More >>

Roy Villacrusis Named Executive Chef of Boca Raton's Kapow! Noodle Bar

​This just in: Roy Villacrusis, the man behind the innovative small-plates menu at the new Palm Beach Gardens hot spot Dirty Martini and the owner of North Palm Beach's Kubo, has been named executive chef for Kapow! Noodle Bar in Boca Raton.Villacrusis' brand of "Asiatic Cuisine" forms the ba ... More >>

Tonight: First Ladies' Night at Dirty Martini in Palm Beach Gardens with American Idol's Taylor Hicks Live

Nicole DannaThe Charlie Sheen, a "very dirty" martini ​​The perfect dirty martini isn't just shaken, not stirred. It's also not too strong or too sweet -- and definitely not too weak. No, the perfect dirty martini is made to your precise specifications -- which is exactly how you'll get it ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes -- No. 4: Gyu San From Kubo Asiatic Cuisine

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. 4: Gyu San  from Kubo Asiatic Cuisine​ Meat, heat, eat. ... More >>

American Idol Winner Taylor Hicks Singing at Dirty Martini June 1

Hicks​American Idol fifth-season winner Taylor Hicks will sing for the first 400 guests at Dirty Martini (11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave.; 561-799-1115) on June 1. The new martini bar opens this week in Palm Beach Gardens.Cleve Mash, a veteran of lounge clubs around West Palm Beach, is behind Dir ... More >>

Dirty Martini to Debut in Palm Beach Gardens

​Martinis from clean to very dirty, as well as 'tinis channeling everything from watermelon to chocolate cake, plus bar bites like you've never seen before from Kubo chef Roy Villacrusis are all on the menu of Cleve Mash's Dirty Martini (11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave., 561-799-1115)  bar 'n ... More >>

Zach Bell vs. Dean Max at Taste of the Nation

Zach Bell​Palm Beach County's first annual Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation benefit, to be held Wednesday, April 13, in West Palm's Kravis Center, will feature a cooking competition between two of NoSoFla's (that's North South Florida to you) hottest chefs.  Zach Bell of Café Boulud an ... More >>

Kubo Asiatic Cuisine in North Palm Beach: Daring and Delicious Dishes

Villacrusis Wins Food & Wine Fest Throwdown

​In the first annual Grand Chef Throwdown at the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival last night, Roy Villacrusis's cuisine reigned supreme.  Villacrusis, chef-owner of the new (and terrific) Kubo Asiatic Cuisine in North Palm Beach, smacked down former Top Chef contestant Howie "Bulldog" Klei ... More >>

Kubo Debuts in North Palm Beach

​Pan-Asian-slash-fusion cuisine inspired by izakaya--the casual, tapas-style Japanese bistro--is what's coming out of the kitchen at Kubo Asiatic Cuisine (1201 Hwy. 1, 561-776-7248), a newly opened eatery in North Palm Beach from former Mark's CityPlace sushi chef Roy Villacrusis.  With a spa ... More >>

Strange Sushi

Mark's Mizner Park expands its raw-fish horizons