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Voodka in Fort Lauderdale: Style Over Substance

Where Are the New Year's Eve DUI Checkpoints in Broward and Palm Beach

Right out of the gate, let's set the obvious into stone: Don't drink and drive. At all. Ever. Especially tonight. It's not only dumb but expensive. Worse, all your friends will find out. They'll laugh at you. But let's say you have a friend. This friend has a big New Year's Eve date scheduled for th ... More >>

A Veggie Round at Energy Kitchen

​Look at that forlorn veggie burger.After a weekend plus of double dinners, today seems to have warranted a meatless Monday. Inspired by a commenter who sent me a note about Energy Kitchen's burger as "a bitter disappointment," I ran over for a late lunch to try the vegetarian options. I second gu ... More >>

Food Town Throwdown: Vote Early and Vote Often (Results So Far)

​If you think the pinnacle of games is this Sunday, then maybe you haven't heard about Clean Plate Charlie's Food Town Throwdown.Clean Plate Charlie is talking smack and taking names -- pitting our favorite food neighborhoods against each other in a raging death match of wits and eats.  OK - ... More >>

Our Intrepid Reporter Goes Undercover and Takes Your Order

Bimini Boatyard Hires Jason Shipman As New Executive Chef

Photo providedChef Jason Shipman takes over for the departing Michael Bennett.​Bimini Boatyard, long a Fort Lauderdale favorite waterfront restaurant, has hired Jason Shipman to replace chef-turned-author Michael Bennett. Shipman is a Johnson and Wales grad who got his break in 2002 in the Cheesec ... More >>

Where to Work: Best and Worst Restaurants Chains

​This month, the Restaurant Opportunities Center United ranked nearly 200 national restaurants in an effort to alert consumers where they can go to patronize more socially conscious chains. The report is also a shout out to the growing numbers of workers in the hospitality industry. Restauran ... More >>

Cyber Monday Food Deals

​First there's Black Friday, then there's Cyber Monday -- the shopping day that's devoted to letting you shop in your underwear (assuming that you're not taking advantage of the deals at work).After you snag the latest cameras, tablets, and TV's online, take advantage of some cyber savings on food ... More >>

Hiring All Positions: Chef Allen's Burger Bar, Caliente Kitchen, Tap 42, a New Organic Brewery, and a Butcher Shop-Restaurant Combo

​Chef Allen's Burger Bar in Palm Beach Gardens is hiring for all positions: line cooks, servers, hosts, and bartenders. Come by from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays to apply. For more information, check it out here. An organic brewery that's opening in Hollywood is looking for ba ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Most Popular Restaurants for Foursquare Users

​This week, Eater National is buzzy about Foursquare's newest feature that allows users to create their own lists and follow others'. Eater is so excited about it they've created a series of lists based on every Eater city's top restaurants in the Eater 38, including Miami. And here I th ... More >>

Cheesecake Factory to Open in Pembroke Pines

Cheesecake FactoryPembroke Pines residents - this cheesecake is coming for you!​The Cheesecake Factory, the chain with the five-hundred-page menu best known for its vast cheesecake selection including Chocolate Tuxedo Cheesecake and Snickers Bar Chunks and Cheesecake, is opening a Pembroke Pines l ... More >>

A Less Drunken Bus Loop

Ritter Campaign: Receipts Tell More Of Story

​​Digging into the Florida Elections Commission reports on Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter's campaign case and a few things quite literally don't add up. Then again, nothing about Ritter's campaign makes sense. It appears to have been a big-spending free-for-all.   ... More >>

South Florida Happy Hours: Where Great Food and Booze Collide

Order Up: Happy Hours

​Happy hour: It's not just for drinking anymore. This week in Dish, we look at three local happy hours that, aside from having great booze and good vibes, pack some diggable food as well.First, we trucked up to Delray Beach to check out the Triple Eight Lounge at the Falcon House. Long a cherished ... More >>

The Envelope, Please: The Winning Glamburger

Three of The Cheesecake Factory's new "Glamburgers"​After some 30,000 submissions and more than 63,000 votes, the winning "Glamburger" hamburger in The Cheesecake Factory's "Great Glamburger Challenge" not only doesn't contain any ham, it isn't even made of meat.  Oh, the horror.  Yes, t ... More >>

CityPlace Now a Venue For Protesters; Let's Protest CityPlace

Flickr: livingonimpulseCityPlace: Where they deliver lattes to the picket line​Do you have an issue close to your heart, but don't want to go anywhere scary to protest it? Do you define "scary" as any place without valet parking? Then have we got news for you! For the low, low fee of permanent yup ... More >>

Choose the Glam for Your Hamburger

The Cheesecake Factory's Memphis, Monterey and blue cheese BLT "Glamburgers"​Unleash your inner Jeffrey Steingarden and decide whose hamburger, er. . . Glamburger will reign supreme (but you don't have to be a dick about it) in The Cheesecake Factory's "Great Glamburger Challenge." For six weeks i ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Say... that's not the real Johnny V!​This week on the blog:A Haitian Top Chef partners with Whole Foods to cook for his homeland.Hurricane Grill and Wings debuts its newest store in Boca Raton.OG American restaurateur Fred Harvey gets profiled in a new book, examined in this segment from NPR.Our 1 ... More >>

Happy Hour: The Cheesecake Factory

​ The Spot: The Cheesecake Factory Nearly half a dozen spots in Broward and Palm Beach. The Hours: Monday - Friday, 4-6 p.m. The Deets: Cheesecake offers a small plates menu with more than a dozen restaurant favorites, including the roadside sliders and the guacamole made to order. Homemade moji ... More >>

Top Five Soups for Survival in South Florida's Cold Snap

Flickr: HonMun​ I am not a soup savant. While I could talk about sushi, cheeseburgers and gelato until I'm in a food coma, soup knowledge is not my forte. I just know that I'm a South Floridian and I am cold. Soup warms my insides. Everyone's version of cold differs. Personally, anything below 6 ... More >>

Canyon Southwest Café Is Worth Its Wait in Gold Dust

Superstar Drummer Josh Freese Sells Himself to Promote His New Album

Dan Marino Reports: Smoking Trial Goes Out, UF Admissions Blows, Killer Lighters

Dan Marino has ninja problems. Dan Marino Says: Mistrial Declared in Tobacco CaseA Broward County judge has declared a mistrial in the tobacco lawsuit filed against Philip Morris by the widow of a guy from Cooper City. That's the big news this morning, at least according to The Juice's news partner ... More >>

Miami Spice Review: Soyka

In With the Old, Out With the New

Café Chardonnay holds steady in boom and bust

Dessert Hearts

Canyon is worth its wait in gold-dust

Las Dull-as

Risky Business

Jinja makes a stab at CityPlace

Letters for November 9, 2006

Parlez-vous American?

At Spontané, two Yanks make peace with France.

Unsolved Mysteries of the (Foodie) Universe

Miscellaneous news to chew over.

A Weekend Warning

Pimp My Chopper

Big wheels, little wheels, and ugly wheels keep on turnin' at CycleFest

Best Chain Restaurant

Sweet Tomatoes Sweet Tomatoes

Best Desserts

Sonny's Gelato Café

Best Place to Spot Celebrities

The Cheesecake Factory Readers' Choice: South Beach

Gold in Boca

The Bong Show

This fusion joint almost has it together

The Real Boca

A new Mediterranean joint will nicely fill your void

New Brass at the Brasserie

Changing times at Brasserie Las Olas

Big for Its Britches

Big City Tavern should eventually break free from its chains

Scent of a Wonton

Follow your nose to the sophisticated Northern Chinese fare at Jasmine

Letters to the Editor

Letters for October 11, 2001

Thrill Mexicano

Anita’s Grill Mexicano, the sibling of Eduardo de San Angel, is also heaven-sent

Best Chain Restaurant

Buca di Beppo

Mezzano-no

Jen braved a two-and-a-half hour wait at the new Mezzanotte — but then, she gets paid to put up with that crap

The Wolfgang Factory

Wolfgang Puck Grand Cafe

Malled!

Six shoppertainment malls, three eager mallrats, one day of shopping nirvana

Worth Its Wait in Gold