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Ten Best Inexpensive Restaurants in Broward County

Eating out tends to have negative effects on the size of your wallet. And while cooking at home tends to have positive impacts on your cash flow -- and waistline -- it can eat away at your free time. If you're broke and too busy, lazy, or culinarily challenged to cook at home, we have a list of the ... More >>

Orlando Company Wants to Purchase Mangos Restaurant and Lounge on Las Olas

Mangos Restaurant and Lounge, the iconic island-style restaurant and lounge on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, may be in the process of being bought out by Big Three Restaurants Inc. The Orlando corporation is in the business of owning and operating franchise restaurants. Big Three is an ea ... More >>

Man Bites Off Girlfriend's Thumb, According to Police

Ricardo Davis and his girlfriend got into a verbal spat, as some couples are apt to do. And sure, sometimes the arguments between you and your lady end badly, like someone calling the other's mother a bad name. But according to Palm Bay Police, Davis apparently decided to end this argument by biti ... More >>

Rocco's Tacos Holds Chihuahua Fundraiser During Tacos & Tatas Tuesday

It makes sense that Rocco's Tacos is holding a Chihuahua fundraiser, since it was another, larger taco joint that helped to make Chihuahuas one of the most popular breed of dog in the United States.Back in 1997, fast food chain Taco Bell started an advertising campaign featuring a talking Chihuahua ... More >>

Sunday Is Mexican Independence Day: Three Places to Find Authentic Tacos in Broward

If your way of celebrating Mexican heritage is making your standard 2 a.m. Taco Bell visit, freeze and put down the Chalupa. Clean Plate Charlie has got your covered on where you can celebrate Mexican Independence Day on Sunday, September 16, by visiting authentic Mexican restaurants in Broward. And ... More >>

Florida's Tomatoland Is Still Awfully Bleak

This video has been sent to me a couple of time this week, filmed during a visit to Immokalee, Florida by Daniel Klein of The Perennial Plate. It's where a third of the country's tomatoes are grown for grocery sales.During his visit, Klein interviews Lupa Gonzalo from Guatemala, a tomato picker and ... More >>

Why Do These Reviewers Love Olive Garden?

​Whether we're talking about the Olive Garden's "five worst dishes" or Anthony Bourdain boiling with rage when he drives past one, the chain's bottomless breadsticks have incited loathing in South Florida and elsewhere.Not so in Grand Forks, North Dakota or Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where two l ... More >>

What Kind of Burrito Eater Are You?

​The opening of Lime has been pushed back one more day until tomorrow's dinner, Clean Plate Charlie learned when we stopped by the chain. Damn. We've been hankering for burritos all week. To distract ourselves from the disappointment, we sized up each burrito place on Federal Highway and paired ea ... More >>

Eating Chicken Wings, Squirrel, and Wu Tang Clams

​Happy day after Super Bowl. Yesterday, the country ate 1.25 million chicken wings. Today, it's wing sauce and blue cheese smoothies. Read on for today's food-related links.1. The National Restaurant Association projects that restaurant sales will grow by 3.5 percent in 2012, with two out of five ... More >>

Should Publix Use Styrofoam?

​Publix, the largest private company in Florida and the 15th largest retailer in the U.S., is again the focus of criticism from do-gooders.

Takeru Kobayashi Eats 7.5 Pounds of Turkey in 10 Minutes (Video)

​If you thought you ate too much at yesterday's Thanksgiving feast, ponder this.Extreme eating champion Takeru Kobayashi ate 7.5 pounds of turkey at an eating competition. Kobayashi tore into the bird much like some natural predator would in the wild.This is just a light snack for the world record ... More >>

Trader Joe's Says "Ef You!" to Florida Tomato Pickers, Middle Class Eats the Most Fast Food, and More

​​Each week, we cull eclectic stories from the internets so you don't have to. 1. Author of Tomatoland Barry Estabrook reports that a 20-year old labor rights group representing tomato pickers in southwestern Florida marched to Trader Joe's headquarters in Los Angeles to ask execs to work w ... More >>

Class Action Suit Involving General Mills' Digestive Health Yogurt: You Mean, It Doesn't Help Me Poo?!

everydayhealth.com​Gotta love a good ol' fashioned placebo effect. Although many problematic poo-ers across the country swear that probiotic yogurts improve their digestion, the lack of scientific evidence has landed a few yogurt producers in hot toilet water (sorry).

Top Ten Drunchies

andrew_mc_d​You get home from a long night out and what is the first thing you want to do? Crawl into your bed and hope tomorrow does not bring sickness from the night's mistakes? Yes -- but first, Must. Have. Grease.We all know the feeling. You just can't quite roll into bed until you stuff your ... More >>

Hard Rock Standup

Q&A With Rocco Mangel of Rocco's Tacos: "I Really Am Just a Glorified Bus Boy "

Rocco Mangel Rocco Mangel of Rocco's Tacos​ With its first location on Clematis Street back in 2007 and an additional location in Boca Raton, Rocco's Tacos has been a big hit in the South Florida restaurant scene. The fact that the menu holds more than 220 different types tequila doesn't h ... More >>

Nine Ways to Order Meat-Free Without Annoying Your Server

Ildar Sagdejev"OK. Meatball sub, hold the meatball; extra saliva."​Face it; despite vegetarianism being a rather widely accepted lifestyle, there's still people who cringe or roll their eyes when you tell them you don't eat meat. Most of the time you can brush it off, but if that's the kind of&nb ... More >>

Nevin Shapiro Is the Caligula of South Florida's Ponzi Empire

All-You-Can-Eat at Rocco's, Sushi House Twilight Menu, Table 42 Love at First Slice

​• Taco Tuesdays have arrived with force at Rocco's Tacos in Boca Raton and West Palm Beach. That's when you can dig into the restaurant's All-You-Can-Eat taco offer. For $14.99 per person, comers can dish on Rocco's signature chicken, pork, steak, beef, shrimp, or mahi tacos, each outfitted wit ... More >>

Immokalee Workers Plan Major Push on Publix This Weekend

Pressure mounts on Publix.​Thirty-year-old Romeo Ramirez has worked on Florida farms for his "whole life," he says. And despite the conditions he's seen -- stagnant wages, no benefits, and even migrant farm workers forced to work against their will -- he still seems to see the state he lives in as ... More >>

CIF Launches Mobile "Modern Day Slavery Museum"

Slavery museum has a captive audience​Ever wondered what it feels like to lift a 32-pound bucket of tomatoes? When the Coalition of Imokalee Workers' Modern Day Slavery Museum, which kicked off its statewide tour last week, hits town you'll have a chance. That 32-pound  bucket is part of the ... More >>

Guantánamo's Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms.

Last Night: Meat Loaf at Pompano Beach Amphitheatre

The Ween Abides

Ten reasons Ween is better than your favorite band

Last Night: Concert for Fair Food at Bayfront Park

Web Exclusive: Interview with Michael Ian Black

Culture Pooped

When you're having fun, the red is all in the mind

South of the Border

Guajiro shores up a Latin punk audience, Castro excluded.

Chain-Scape

It's a mall world after all

Tune In

Arrest His Development

Damn it, Beck gets older with Guero

Monkey Biz

Rock the Vote

A father assesses his anarchist son's chances of becoming Lake Worth's next mayor

Flick Fixation

Gary Davis' cinéma is so vérité, sometimes it brings the cops rushing to the set

Gone on 60 Spare Ribs

27 Holes on the Fourth

Our Own Smarty-pants

Yes, last week's "exclusive" was a ruse, but it still fooled a few cops and reporters

Brazilian Summer

Carnival comes to Hollywood

Don't Mess with Tex-Mex

The South Florida outpost of the Cafe del Rio chain doesn't explore any culinary frontiers

The Enforcer

John Garon may be a partial quadriplegic, but he wields federal civil-rights lawsuits with consummate skill

A Fresh Start

The upcoming year looks to be a weird one in the South Florida culinary scene

Longshot

Florida House minority leader Lois Frankel is waging an impossible campaign for governor

Letters to the Editor

Letters for August 16, 2001

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell knows why bad movies happen to great actors

Hair Apparent

Evol Egg Nart fights the evil music industry empire by ignoring it

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

Taking a Scalpel to Plastic Surgery

"Body Buy Back: A Temporary Installation Reflecting on the Practice and Social Dimensions of Cosmetic Surgery"

Drive-Thru Discrimination

Leon Hendricks is suing his former employer, fast-food giant Pepsico, for racism. He has the EEOC on his side.

Return of the Prodigal Chef

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

Globetrotting Seminole Indians Take Singapore by Storm -- Sort Of