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Mother's Day Local Brewery Ideas: Some Afternoon Brews, A Little Dinner, and Beer Truffles

Mother's Day is an annual event dedicated to your first love--mom. If you're racking your brain trying to come up with something different to do this year, try thinking outside the box. Perhaps mom would enjoy kicking back with brewski? After all, she might just be as tired of burned homemade brunc ... More >>

Craft Beer Cans Kick Bottles in the Glass

Ever crack open a bottle of beer that smells and tastes past its prime? That beer is probably "skunked," which will make it taste quite awful. (Beer nerd alert: "Skunked" or "light struck" beers occur when isomerized alpha acids imparted from hops get bombarded with ultraviolet radiation. That reac ... More >>

Going Wild For Beer At Inaugural Brew At The Palm Beach Zoo

For the first time, this humble writer can put the words 'party animals' down and mean it with literal truth. That's right, it's Brew at the Zoo time! The inaugural event at the Palm Beach Zoo welcomed one thousand area beer aficionados (in both quality and quantity) to come hang out amongst the p ... More >>

Food and Drinks in South Florida This Week: Free Food, Cheap Wine, and More

This weekend was jam-packed with food and drink related events in South Florida. Between Brew at the Zoo, Deerfield Beach Wine and Food Fest, and Pompano Seafood Festival, you're probably exhausted. And broke. If you're looking to keep the food-related fun coming and want to save some money--or not- ... More >>

Try Experimental Local Beers on Cask Days at Tequesta Brewing

The bar is filled with the aroma of fresh hops. The brew team is hard at work and in full force, making additions to one of the massive fermenters that dominates the rear of the space. Locals already line the bar at 3 p.m. in the afternoon; part of me wonders if they ever left from the previous days ... More >>

Was Banksy in Florida? Artwork in Tequesta Makes Us Wonder

Was Banksy in Florida? Mysterious Mural Appears in a Tequesta Strip Mall

Could the mythical, England-based street artist known as Banksy have painted his latest bit of street art in... Tequesta?The small city (population 5,629) is a retirement haven in northern Palm Beach County. Last week, a New Times reader noticed this mural artwork on the wall of a vacant space insid ... More >>

For A Cause

12th Annual Men’s Florida Lacrosse Classic

Tequesta Brewing Co. Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary Today With $3 Pints

Talk about timing. Tequesta Brewing Co. today will celebrate its two-year anniversary, just days before the kick-off to the second annual South Florida Beer Week. Florida craft fans can get an early start to basking in the glory that is homegrown brew by heading today to the microbrewery in north Pa ... More >>

South Florida Beer Week: Here's Your Complete Event List For Broward/Palm Beach

South Florida Beer Week is coming and just about everywhere you turn in Broward and Palm Beach counties there are multiple places to celebrate our state's growing brew culture., culminating in one giant beer festival.From tap takeovers to tastings, it's all here. If you're venturing south, check out ... More >>

Best of Palm Beach This Year: Carpe Annum

Back in the early '90s, shortly after the Fire Ant crash-landed in Palm Beach, we hooked up with some other malcontents and put out an alternative rag called Red Herring. It was an alternative that looked alternative, mainly because it depended on the largesse of a string of eccentric businessmen wh ... More >>

South Florida Beer Week: Hollywood Beer Crawl to Benefit Covenant House

South Florida Beer Week 2013 continues to grow with another event added in Broward. The Hollywood Craft Beer Pub Crawl on January 24 visits four different pubs, each featuring limited edition beers from a different Florida brewery, including Cigar City Brewing, Tequesta Brewing, Due South, and ... More >>

South Florida Beer Week is January 19-26, 2013 (Check out the Initial Schedule of Events)

Craft drinkers -- gird your loins and put your liver on notice, cause South Florida Beer Week is almost exactly one month away. The second annual celebration of homegrown and national craft beers kicks off on Saturday, January 19, 2013, and will wrap up with the seventh annual Jupiter Craft Brewers' ... More >>

The State of Food and Beverage at Sun Life Stadium (Leaves Lots of Room for Improvement)

Let's talk about beer and grub at Humid Life Stadium (where the Miami Dolphins play) for a sec. In recent years, the trend in American sports stadiums has been a shift away from the "foodservice" grade staples of my youth, such as stale pretzels and dirty water hot dogs whose only function is as s ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy: What's Closed, Canceled, Re-Scheduled and Operating in Broward-Palm Beach

That Hurricane Sandy is quite a nuisance.Even though the storm is hitting Cuba and the Bahamas directly, she's still sending her winds and rain all over our faces. And, as it usually goes with these kinds of storms, rumors of cancellations, closings, and re-schedules run rampant.So far, we've s ... More >>

Tap 42 and The Blind Monk Want You To Drink Florida Beer This Week

The biggest news this week in the craft beer world -- aside from the announcement that Goose Island will finally! hit Florida shelves this year -- is the concerted effort to get President Obama to release the super-top-secret recipe for his White House home brew Honey Ale. There's eve ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: Hoptimism and More

Sad (but not surprising) to say, tonight's beer and cheese pairing at Funky Buddha Lounge is sold out. But there are still plenty of other barley-soaked happenings, plus other food and drink events, this week in Broward and Palm Beach counties. After the jump, find a list of dining events in South F ... More >>

Inaugural Palm Beach Craft Beer Festival Tickets On Sale Now

Summer in West Palm Beach has just gotten a little cooler with the announcement of the first ever Palm Beach Craft Beer Festival.  On July 28 from 4 - 9 p.m., head over to the Meyer Amphitheatre and sample as much brewski as you want from a mind (and gut) boggling selection of over 100 craft be ... More >>

Las Olas Wine and Food Festival, Old School Beerfest, and other Food and Drink Events this Week in South Florida

With wine competitions, wine festivals, beer festivals, and all manner of pairings on the docket, this is a busy week for food and drink fans in South Florida. In addition to the typical end-of-season flood of events, there are a few special observances this week. Tax day is Tuesday and if you need ... 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 >>

Counting Down to New Times' Beerfest: John Linn Talks Craft Beer and Why It's Gaining Traction in South Florida

​With the New Times' Beerfest just a few short weeks away, Clean Plate Charlie is focused on all things beer and particularly the beer scene as it stands in South Florida. To get an understanding of where our region and our state are fall in line with national trends, we connected with John Linn, ... More >>

Local Roaster Oceana Coffee Opens in Tequesta

​Oceana Coffee debuted last week in Tequesta, one of the only local roasters in the area. It's the brick-and-mortar result of three years of work for Amy and Scott Angelo, who spent time tasting beans, learning sourcing, experimenting with roasters, and building the cash to start the shop. The cou ... More >>

Festival of Chocolate and Other Events This Weekend in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

Hozinja via Flickr Creative CommonsSaturday and Sunday: Stuff your face with chocolate without judgement. ​With Thanksgiving only a week away, those of us who aren't dining in a restaurant for the gut-busting holiday may be busy planning elaborate menus or stocking up on cans of green beans and pu ... More >>

Tequesta Fest This Weekend at Paradise Park: Food Trucks Will Be There

Uriel 1998 via Flickr Creative CommonsRides: better when you approach after eating at least three tacos. ​If you love the idea of slamming a plateful of food-truck tacos and hitting the Silver Streak, the Tequesta Fest may be your opportunity to do just that. The Tequesta Fest, from 1 to 7 p.m. Sa ... More >>

Our Top Picks for Florida-Brewed Craft Beers

Nicole Danna​Beer. Floridians love it. We may not be California or Colorado, where craft breweries reign on high. But we do have a growing craft scene, and a population willing to guzzle it all down. Here, our list of the top Florida brews available in Broward and Palm Beach countie ... More >>

Ales on the Avenue Tonight in Delray Beach

​This week is American Craft Beer Week, which means there are a host of beer events each night through Sunday. Tonight, one of the coolest events of the week goes down in Delray Beach. Ales on the Avenue is a full-fledged pub crawl hosted by a host of Delray Beach restaurants and Fresh Beer, Inc. ... More >>

Ten Must-Try Beers at the Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival

Got stout?​The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival is less than a week away, and with it comes over a hundred amazing craft beers from Florida as well as nationwide. With that many brews on tap, making your way from booth to booth sampling will be something like a scavenger hunt. To cross everything of ... More >>

Steal Art

Two Incubator Rental Kitchens Open in Palm Beach County for Want-to-Go-Pro Cooks

Is there a food lover out there who doesn't think they'd like to cater, or open their own eatery or bottle their own hot sauce? Here are two places that will let you give it a whirl before commiting to a retail space. Why rent a kitchen? Mise en Place hot kitchen in Tequesta​

100 Favorite Dishes: Gator Fritters From Corner Cafe and Brewery

​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. 41: Gator Fritters from Corner Cafe and BreweryAt the Corner Cafe and Brewery ... More >>

Deep-Fried Oreos Are the Chocolate Bomb

​Ever bite into a deep-fried Oreo? A favorite treat of fairs and carnivals from Texas to Tequesta, these battered and fried versions of the classic cookie are stellar. They're coated in funnel cake batter and fried so that the batter forms a balloon-like crust. The chocolate part of the cookie mel ... More >>

Top Beers of the Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival

​The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival went down this weekend, and again it turned out to be one heck of a beer event, drawing more than 3,000 fans of craft beer to Roger Dean Stadium near Abacoa Town Center. The four-and-a-half-hour event featured more than 50 beer booths, and each of those had at l ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

C. StilesA lomo saltado sandwich from this week's Behind the Line slideshow of Bravo Gourmet Sandwich Shop.​This week on the blog:A fish wagon-turned-shack makes the best burger in Key West.You say banana, I say banana pancakes.We roll through six more of our 100 Favorite Dishes this week, startin ... More >>

Custom Brew and Food Are on Tap at Corner Café and Brewery in Tequesta

Order Up: Corner Café and Brewery

John LinnCorner Café's slow-braised lamb shank with root vegetables is a hit.​This week in Dish, we look at Corner Café and Brewery in Tequesta, a brewpub and restaurant that serves homespun dishes with international flair. Here's an excerpt from the review:

2009 Restaurant Roll Call - Closures

​Yesterday we posted a comprehensive list of those restaurants that opened in 2009. Here comes the bad news: We had a bunch of closures last year, some by prominent restaurants we're very sad to see go. Such is business in South Florida. So here's our list, from A to Z, of restaurant closures in 2 ... More >>

Joe Namath: Needs Fewer Dogs; More Commercials

As we told you in Morning Juice, Joe Namath's been having to defend the beastly behavior of his two dogs, which he apparently trusts to keep "gawkers" away from his Tequesta home. But whose fault is it that people are curious about how the Super Bowl III MVP spends his days? I'd say it's the guy who ... More >>

Jack and the Canned Sprout

Start Your Engines

Soviet Block Party

Some people just prefer the taste of Russian dressing

Will Feds Investigate Michael Satz, Too?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Place to Paddle

Whiskey Creek

Park It Somewhere Else

The man on the street says no to the Hollywood arts park

Making Airwaves

At the wackiest stop on your AM dial, a loudmouth host plays the politics of personal destruction -- and gets his station in big trouble

It's Our History, Dig?

Broward's official archaeologist, Scott Lewis, is leading the charge to explore the county's rich past -- which means saving the land from rampant overdevelopment

Historical Relic or Load of Crap -- You Make the Call

The Amazing Randi claimed the Miami Circle site was actually a septic tank, not an archaeological find. He's having second thoughts.

Night & Day

March 4 - 10, 1999

You Spray, You Pay

A pilot program in Fort Lauderdale challenges the notion that the grass is always greener when treated with chemical pesticides