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Sushi-Thai in South Florida: An Americanized Throwback

Texas Barbecue Addiction and the Equivalent (or Lack Thereof) in South Florida

Photos by Robert SietsemaThis is where the barbecue addiction begins.​Right around 9 o'clock last night, a cheer was raised in the kitchen. The overworked FedEx folk had finally delivered the barbecue.It was Texas barbecue, and for one of the ten individuals staying in our home for the holidays&nb ... 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 >>

Eat Up: The Top Five Airline Food Fails

​Eating a bad meal on a flight is adding insult to injury. Thanks to the post-9/11 security increases, you've already waited in a security line in your socks, slipped on urine in the restroom, and rushed across four different terminals to make it to an early flight... only to find out it had been ... More >>

Free Vintage Cocktails Book: Make Your Own Negroni, Singapore Sling, Harvey Wallbanger

​My cravings for a Negroni and variations such as the Americano have gone unrequited since I moved to South Florida. The bitter apertif, a Negroni dates from 1920s Italy and was invented by Count Camillo Negroni of Florence. Though restaurants such as Dapur

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 >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Homemade arepas in just a few, easy steps.​Corelino's Pizza opens in Lantana beach.A great milkshake is only a few steps away with these pictorial instructions.We go behind the line with a homeless chef. Here's the inside scoop on the closure of Soma Center's West Palm location.Our review thi ... More >>

Make These Winning Top Chef Banana Fritters at Home

​Last night's episode of Top Chef that took place in Singapore was easily the best of the season. It featured a series of stunning looking dishes from all four remaining cheftestants that were cooked in a backdrop full of beauty and culture. Everything looked so tasty, it made me want to hop a fli ... More >>

The Dangerous Durian: Stinky as It Wants to Be

​South Florida abounds with tropical fruit, crazy, exotic fruit many American citizens have never seen (or smelled). You've no doubt encountered guava, carambola, dragonfruit and guanabana -- all yummy fruits, to be sure.But a recent report from Southeast Asia generated some worry: what if weird, ... More >>

Durian: A Fruit So Stinky It's Illegal

​Over on our sister blog, the Juice, Jeff Stratton recounts how Ahmad Lai Bujang, a 61-year-old Malaysian parliament member, "was taken to a hospital after he complained of breathlessness and dizziness from gorging himself on durian, a spiky green fruit resembling jackfruit (or a green hedgehog ... More >>

Red-Light Cameras Come to a South Florida Intersection Near You

​Over on our sister blog, the Juice, Jeff Stratton recounts how Ahmad Lai Bujang, a 61-year-old Malaysian parliament member, "was taken to a hospital after he complained of breathlessness and dizziness from gorging himself on durian, a spiky green fruit resembling jackfruit (or a green hedgehog ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Singapore Noodles From Toa Toa

John Linn​As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 15: Singapore Noodles from Toa ToaDespite its name, Singapore noodl ... More >>

Bizarro Palm Beach Restaurant is the Crab Capital of Singapore

ieatishootipost.sg​If Palm Beach is known for anything its as an enclave for the rich and powerful, a place where the Rush Limbaughs of the world can duck into their mansions like shells on a crab's back. But halfway across the world, Palm Beach is known as the birthplace of one of Singapore's mos ... More >>

Head Spins: DJ Omi

New York's loss is South Florida's gain.

The Cuban Connection

Signing an aging soccer star didn't do the trick. Maybe two stars from Cuba will finally draw some fans to Miami FC bleachers.

Nine U.S. Restaurants Make World's 50 Best List; Ramsey Strikes Out

Once again, S. Pellegrino has ranked the 100 Best Restaurants in the World, and nine of the top 50, including Momofuko Ssam Bar, which made the list for the first time this year, are in the United States. But we South Floridians are going to have to travel (and pay!) if we want to sample the best. ... More >>

Malevolent Creation With Kalakai, Maruta, Upheaval, and Behold the Ruins

Once again, S. Pellegrino has ranked the 100 Best Restaurants in the World, and nine of the top 50, including Momofuko Ssam Bar, which made the list for the first time this year, are in the United States. But we South Floridians are going to have to travel (and pay!) if we want to sample the best. ... More >>

A Short Order Special: Burgers, Bacon, and Why the Recession Really Hurts

Once again, S. Pellegrino has ranked the 100 Best Restaurants in the World, and nine of the top 50, including Momofuko Ssam Bar, which made the list for the first time this year, are in the United States. But we South Floridians are going to have to travel (and pay!) if we want to sample the best. ... More >>

Last Night: Tom Waits at The Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Once again, S. Pellegrino has ranked the 100 Best Restaurants in the World, and nine of the top 50, including Momofuko Ssam Bar, which made the list for the first time this year, are in the United States. But we South Floridians are going to have to travel (and pay!) if we want to sample the best. ... More >>

Letters for September 27-October 3, 2007

Once again, S. Pellegrino has ranked the 100 Best Restaurants in the World, and nine of the top 50, including Momofuko Ssam Bar, which made the list for the first time this year, are in the United States. But we South Floridians are going to have to travel (and pay!) if we want to sample the best. ... More >>

Video Lies

Once again, S. Pellegrino has ranked the 100 Best Restaurants in the World, and nine of the top 50, including Momofuko Ssam Bar, which made the list for the first time this year, are in the United States. But we South Floridians are going to have to travel (and pay!) if we want to sample the best. ... More >>

A Chicken in Every Pot

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Pirates of the Caribbean: At Wit's End

It's time to throw Jack Sparrow overboard

Risky Business

Jinja makes a stab at CityPlace

Camilo's Retreat

He left the war behind to enter a whole new controversy

Discovering Japan

Derek Trucks takes on the world

Rap's the Word

DJ Rap

Bice-Slapped

Palm Beach memories didn't prepare us for this shock.

Gospel Ululations

The Soweto Gospel Choir takes gospel back to the Motherland

NYE Guide 2006

The Soweto Gospel Choir takes gospel back to the Motherland

Trance Is for Pussies

And the beat is like catnip

Mr. Big Shot

The charismatic lawyer and power broker took one last lap in a New River mansion during his run from the law

A Culture Change

If Gretsas ruled the world

Geller's Giveaway

Hollywood peddles prime downtown land for a steal with the help of a developer-loving senator

Getting Served

Hollywood peddles prime downtown land for a steal with the help of a developer-loving senator

Brand Who?

Move over, Bono; here comes Brandtson

Air Head

Romance is dead? Not if Air Supply can help it.

Survey Says!

These are the people in your neighborhood -- and their Top Ten 2002 lists

Clueless on Las Olas

Despite its well-executed pan-Asian cuisine, Indigo can still leave you feeling kind of blue

Tom Waits

Alice, Blood Money (Anti-)

Passing the Bar

A drunk, horny guy hits a drunk, horny town -- to learn how to make people drunk and horny

His Shot at the Sheriff

Lionel Stewart is honest, idealistic, and experienced. He doesn't stand a chance against the Jenne political machine.

Best Chinese Restaurant

Rainbow Palace

Best Pan-Asian Restaurant

China Grill Café and Zen Sum

Little Soldiers in the Culture War

Evangelical radical Bill Gothard's Character First! curriculum teaches students in Fort Lauderdale to obey his will

Short Cuts

Evangelical radical Bill Gothard's Character First! curriculum teaches students in Fort Lauderdale to obey his will

The Miniacis and the Mafiosi

Investigators are discovering a number of links between beach developers Albert and Dominick Miniaci and Broward underworld figures

The Straight Dope

Investigators are discovering a number of links between beach developers Albert and Dominick Miniaci and Broward underworld figures

No Gators, No Rain,... No Problem!

Globetrotting Seminole Indians Take Singapore by Storm -- Sort Of