Soft Drinks

New Fast Food Concept PDQ Now Open in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale

A new fast food concept has extended its reach to South Florida, starting with two locations including Fort Lauderdale and the newly opened West Palm Beach restaurant Known as PDQ -- which stands for "People Dedicated to Quality" -- the concept is simple: fresh food served fast, and in a high-end ... More >>

Party for Billy Boloby

Three Creepy Cocktails Made With Lucid Absinthe

Crime. Social disorder. Chaos.Absinthe has been blamed for them all. The spirit -- originally made as an herbal tonic -- was once thought to produce medical conditions like epilepsy, and illness like turberculosis, and was eventually banned in countries like Belgium, Brazil, the Netherlands, France ... More >>

Death on Coconut Drive: Insecticide in a Bottle of Gin, and Other Things We Learned

The bulk of the background information for this week's feature story about the murder of Ron Vinci came from evidence released by the prosecutor's office at the end of last year, during an initial media inquiry. At the time, media outlets had been reporting that Vinci's body had been found wrapped i ... More >>

Semie Robinson, in Jail on Attempted-Murder Charge, Hit With Unrelated Murder Charge

​Semie Robinson seems to have a habit of leaving his DNA at Pompano Beach crime scenes.According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, Robinson, 30, has been implicated in the November murder of 53-year-old Russell Buddie outside Buddie's Pompano Beach air-conditioning business after leaving his DNA at ... More >>

New Coke at Snooze Theatre, January 2

Cops Say Semie Robinson's Mountain Dew Implicates Him in Shooting of Cab Driver

Broward Sheriff's OfficeSemie Robinson​The Broward Sheriff's Office says a man has been arrested for shooting a cab driver in Pompano Beach last month, after the suspect left the evidence in a cooler inside the taxi.According to the sheriff's office, cab driver Williamson Joseph picked up 30-y ... More >>

Coca-Cola Drops White Polar Bear Cans Because We're Too Stupid

​When Coca-Cola decided to team with the World Wildlife Fund to raise money for endangered polar bears, who would have thought there would be backlash?

Chaz Stevens Invites Allen West to "Root Beer Summit" Over Deerfield's Housing Authority

graffitiworx.com​Several months ago, Deerfield Beach Mayor Peggy Noland announced she was getting rid of the entire board of commissioners from the city's housing authority.Over concerns that federal taxpayer coin was being wasted in the housing authority, Rep. Allen West hopped on the case and as ... More >>

Rick Scott Talks About Selling Soda, Muses Nonsensically on the Role of Government

​Rick Scott held a news conference today at the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association in which said organization presented him with a model of the ship he served on from 1972-74.According to the Herald's Naked Politics blog, Scott waxed nostalgic about supplementing his government paycheck ... More >>

Coke Freestyle at Miami Subs: 100 Flavor Combos in One Machine

Coke Freestyle machines now in south Florida ​Coke Freestyle, the mythical machine that allows you to choose from over 100 different water and soda flavors, has arrived at select Broward Miami Subs locations. The machine is basically an extremely high tech version of a soda machine. An LCD ... More >>

Chef Joey Giannuzzi Talks About DIG and Being Clean and Green, Part 2

​Yesterday, we shared part 1 of our interview with chef Joey Gianuzzi of The Green Gourmet and DIG. If you missed it, you can read it here. We now continue with part 2. Clean Plate Charlie: How do you cook food that's tasty while still being healthful? Chef Joey Giannuzzi: You just use bigge ... More >>

Foods of the '90s That Deserve an Ironic Comeback

Liberalmind1012 via Creative CommonsYou could have your drink and chew it too!​ If Urban Outfitters had the equivalent of IKEA's Swedish Food Market, the shelves would be stocked with products valued either for their mall-ready alt sensibilities or their ironic appeal; e.g. quinoa pancake mix, Jap ... More >>

Boobs for America

Hot Stuff Grille Dishes Upscale Fast Food in Plantation

America's Next Great Restaurant Recap: Cherry Cola Pulled Pork Sandwich, Anyone?

flickr/greencandy8888Put me in a pulled pork sandwich, just see what I can do!​For a few brief moments, last night's episode of America's Next Great Restaurant morphed into Project Runway, as contestants created uniforms and then modeled them in a photo shoot. The judges/investors told contestants ... More >>

Four Booze-Free St. Patrick's Day Drinks to Buy for Your Designated Driver

By admrboltz via Wikipedia CommonsBooze-free doesn't have to mean boring on St. Patrick's Day. ​ We won't patronize you with finger-wagging lectures about the importance of safe and sober driving -- particularly on notoriously boozy holidays like St. Patrick's Day -- but suffice it to say if you'r ... More >>

Reason Number 102 for Why Women Prefer Cucumbers to Men

Photo Courtesy of Jeff Kaplan​Click here for the first 101 cheesy, sexual innuendo jokes.Schoolyard humor aside, a micro-bottler from Pompano Beach wants you to enjoy his Mr. Q. Cumber -- a 90-calorie soda, flavored with cucumber extract. Owner of Global Beverage Enterprises, Jeff Kaplan, asks: Wh ... More >>

I'm Drinking What? Elf Piss

Photo by Riki AltmanFrom the North Pole with love​OK, it's really not elfin pee. It's tarragon soda. But we were swelled up with Christmas spirit and this drink we found at the Russian market was just so damn green that we couldn't pass it up. 'Tis the season for pine-colored items, right? It ... More >>

Health Inspectors Nail Three Broward Eateries This Week

​As a food blog, we're supposed to be an appetizing read. But there's nothing appetizing about the three Broward eateries shut down over the past week by the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. Health Inspectors deemed the following three restaurants so unsafe for consumers that th ... More >>

Everything Old is New Again

Rockstar Zero Carb Energy Drink: Surprisingly Drinkable

After nearly two solid decades of heavy caffeine consumption, I count myself nearly immune to the wonder drug. While my morning coffee/Diet Mountain Dew regimen gets me back to normal, sometimes that's simply not enough. So I've decided to start trying out the bevy of energy drinks on the market to ... More >>

Buzzed in Paradise: Dania Beach Bar and Gril

Clematis Social Offers Lunch Special for Your Inner Socialist

Clematis Social is getting even more sociable with the rollout of its penny-pinching "Lunch for Locals," a $9 meal that features choice of entree, side, and soft drink. And just to hear that penny squeal, they throw in gratuity (or as Charlie would say, tip) for good measure.  Some of the stuff ... More >>

Musings: South Beach Wine & Food, Midtown and Root Beer

In light of the upcoming South Beach Wine & Food Festival, I propose a law requiring that no posted photo of any Food Network personality ever exceed the size of a postage stamp. Our fine dining establishments are much improved in terms of the quality of cuisine served, but they've still got a w ... More >>

Fried, Smoked, Dipped, and Fried Again at the Broward County Fair

The fair is a veritable smorgasbord...                Photos by C. StilesIf there's one thing to be said about the traditional county fair, it's that they're perfect testing grounds for new foods; prime places to push the bou ... More >>

Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 3

I'm going to wrap up this short little porthole into Costa Rican cuisine talking a little bit about everything -- probably in a very rambling, tangential sort of way. Just a fair warning. Native fruit is definitely one of the more unique aspects of eating in Costa Rica. You've got your average tr ... More >>

Culinary Travels in Costa Rica: Part 2

One of Costa Rica's many beach-side sodas, shaded from the hot coastal sun by an umbrella of tall trees. Yesterday I talked a little bit about Costa Rica's plato tipical, casado - and more specifically, rice and beans. Now, when you're producing rice and beans in such quantities as to make it the c ... More >>

A Coke and a Journalistic Quandary

Is "Healthy" Food Healthier than "Fast"? Not Always

Breakout Boys

Fallen From the Sky did the Dew — now it's tour time

Best Sit-Down Deli

H&E Marina Deli

Elephantitis

Of the ego

Hush

Best Roti Shop

Joy's Roti Delight

More than Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

Pumping Up Hialeah

A whole lotta flexin' goin' on

Best Ice Cream

i Fiore

Livin' La Vida Peruana

Cheap, fun, and an Inca Cola to boot!

Best Burritos

Tacos al Carbon

Best Blast From The Past

Sun Seltzer Inc.

Foodstuff

Montego's

Foodstuff

First Frank of Delray

Foodstuff

Undercurrents

The Politics of Pop

Pepsi pays Jeff Koons big bucks to lobby for its causes. And the West Palm Beach city commissioner is worth every cent.

The Straight Dope

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