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Andrew Balick to be Tap 42's New Executive Chef

Andrew Balick has been "tapped" to be the new executive chef at Tap 42. Balick will take over duties on April 29, though he is executing the gastropub's menu for the Las Olas Food and Wine Festival.The young chef has quite the pedigree, by the way. His resume reads like a Zagat Guide of beautiful So ... More >>

The Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale's New Chef: A Q&A With Khaled Ibrahim

With every well-branded name comes an image. Abercrombie & Fitch: preppy, half naked teenagers. Lulu Lemon: hot, yoga moms. Holiday Inn: cheap. Trump: gaudy asshole. And then there's the Ritz-Carlton: special, luxurious, wealthy, 1,000-thread count sheets. It's a brand that every one can recogni ... More >>

Restaurants Open on Thanksgiving Day 2012 in Broward County: Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, and Davie

A sink full of nasty dishes, mountains of fattening leftovers in the fridge, and a rotting turkey carcass; these are the (mostly) unpleasant side effects of cooking a Thanksgiving feast at home. There's a way around this: Let someone else do all the work. After the jump find a roundup of restaurants ... More >>

Hurricane Sandy Washed Fish and Crabs Into Local Restaurants

We've been lucky here in South Florida the last few hurricane seasons. For years after Andrew and then again after Wilma, we all took even the hint of an approaching storm with all due seriousness. But it's been seven years since Wilma.Sandy left mixed effects on Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Tho ... More >>

South Florida's Best Hotel Restaurants

Want access to our Best Of picks from your smartphone? Download our free Best Of app for the iPhone or Android phone from the App Store or Google Play. Don't forget to check out the full Best of Broward-Palm Beach® 2012 online. Hotel restaurants; they're the bane of any food lover's existence, no? ... More >>

Roger Rabbit Full-Moon Party at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale

​Who framed Roger Rabbit?  Was it his sexy wife who didn't mean to be bad (she was just drawn that way), baby Herman, or some other jealous 'toon?  Find out on Thursday, April 5, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Ritz-Carlton, Fort Lauderdale full-moon party on the seventh-floor tropical pool dec ... More >>

Get Your Mojo and Pickled Pig's Head in Norman Van Aken's Weekly Column

​Norman Van Aken -- one of the Mango Gang, along with Douglas Rodriguez, Allen Susser, and Mark Militello -- has started a weekly column, Word on Food, over on the national food site Food Republic -- teasers, perhaps, for his upcoming cookbook, My Key West Kitchen.Currently he helms Norm ... More >>

Q&A with Chef Alberto Ortiz from Rachel's: "I Cook Nice Food... This Is Not Just About Naked Women Running Around"

Photo by Patty Canedo Chef Alberto Ortiz, Executive Chef of Rachel's in West Palm Beach Rachel's Steakhouse may be best known for its ahem, entertainment, but its food also has a reputation --- for titillating tastebuds. Behind the beautiful strippers is a culinary scene of traditional, cla ... More >>

Q&A With Chef Howie Kleinberg of Bulldog BBQ in Aventura (and Top Chef alum)

​ Chef Howie Kleinberg is not just another barbecue cook. Owner of Bulldog BBQ in North Miami Beach, Kleinberg is a classically trained chef with a background that includes stints at the five-star/five-diamond InterContinental Miami and the Ritz-Carlton in Key Biscayne.  Clean Plate Charli ... More >>

Ritz-Carlton and Via Luna Host Napa Wine Tasting

​Decoding wine speak can often be a puzzling experience. But drinking a wine that's actually called Puzzle? That's some crazy, self-referential smack right there. Puzzle, from acclaimed Napa winery Newton Vineyards, will be one of the five wines on display at next Thursday's (December 2) Newton Wi ... More >>

Q&A With "Drinking Made Easy" Host Zane Lamprey

​Zane Lamprey has traveled from sea to shining sea, around the globe and back for the purpose of educating television audiences on a topic close to the comedian's heart -- drinking. The host of HDNet's "Drinking Made Easy" and former host of "Three Sheets" has tallied 77 episodes of globetrotting ... More >>

David J. Stern Is No Rothstein; He's His Own Kind Of Monster

I love it when people say the comments on this blog are even better than the posts. Bill Warner That big(gest) house on the corner is Stern's mansion in Fort Lauderdale. The bigger yacht also belongs to Stern. He also owns $17 million in waterfront property on Hillsboro Beach ... More >>

Good Night Moon

Stargazing & Winetasting at the Ritz-Carlton Wednesday

Randy Son of Robert ​On Wednesday night, September 22, the Temple Orange restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton on the ocean in Manalapan gets transformed into an alfresco planetarium when the Palm Beach Astronomical Society sets up telescopes on its terrace for guests to stargaze and learn about the co ... More >>

Doggie Bag: This Week in Charlie

Johnny V's Smith & Jones closed this week, and is being replaced by Rocco's Tacos. Join the discussion here.​Huge week on the blog:Ceviche is easy and tasty with Whole Foods' new MSC-Certified swordfish.Part 2 of our interview with this season's Top Chef front-runner, Kenny Gilbert.Pompano ste ... More >>

Who Won Best Restaurant in Broward? Best Restaurant in Palm Beach? See New Times' Best Of 2010!

​New Times' annual Best Of issue is out today and live on the site. Pick up your copy, or check out the online archive now up to date with 2010 entries. Dish was one of the largest sections in this years' issue with more than 40 winners. We've got some great restaurants listed there, places that t ... More >>

Memorial Day Grill Recipes: Mango Barbecue Sauce, Fish Marinade, Slaw

Recipes for grilling on Memorial Day or for any cook-outs.

Paul McCartney's Rumored Final World Tour Stops in South Florida

Doggy Bag: This Week in Charlie

John LinnSteak palomilla from Cuban cafe Don Carlin in Sunrise.​This week on the blog:The Meatist rails against flavorless, overpriced cuts of beef.Garlicky hummus is easy to make at home, and here's how.Our list of 100 Favorite Dishes continues with French toast, foie gras, and fish tacos.If you ... More >>

South Beach Wine & Food Fest Grand Tasting in Pictures

Logan FazioIron Chef Morimoto goes Medieval on a fish head.​The 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival wrapped up on Sunday, and among the festivities was the Grand Tasting Village, a food- and spirits-tasting extravaganza stretching across half-a-dozen city blocks on the sand in South Beach. T ... More >>

For Conservatives, the Party's at The Breakers in Palm Beach This Weekend

Flickr: scarletpimpThe shindig will be within stumbling distance of Ann Coulter's Palm Beach home.​Check out the star-studded guestlist for this weekend's conference by David Horowitz's Freedom Center. Among them: Newt Gingrich, Ann Coulter, Fred Thompson, Liz Cheney and the un-flush-able Geert Wi ... More >>

Morning Juice: Coral Springs Teens Perish in Mysterious Car Crash; Pig Out in Southwest Ranches

​A peek at the local stories people are talking about on this Monday:Three Coral Springs teenagers are dead following a strange accident early Sunday  morning, which started with a fender bender. For some reason, the car accelerated away from the scene, then flipped into the canal. [WPLG]Bob ... More >>

Ultimutt Love

Morning Juice: Lantana Police Make a Deposit to Jail

​What's going on in South Florida? Well, this:As Juice insomniacs already know, our local obsession, the so-called Withdrawal Bandit, has finally been caught! Police believe it's Glenn Hooper, a 53-year-old Hollywood man who went to the well one too many times. Lantana police also busted Hooper's ... More >>

The Ritz Offers a Month of Gourmet Burgers

Celebrate the burger. Just don't eat it with a fork and knife.Let us all praise the humble disc of ground beef stuffed between two slices of bread this month of May 2009. May, you see, is National Hamburger Month. And after all, if you can have National Prune Breakfast Month (January) or National Pi ... More >>

Dispatches From NYC: Burger of the Month Club

Thought Shepherd and Linn were serious about their chopped meat? Following the Chowfather's forays into the belly of the burger? Planning to check out the radical gourmet hamburg menu at the Ritz Carlton for National Burger Month? Look at these New York dweebishes with their printed checklists and l ... More >>

Vine Dining

My Cabana, Or Yours?

Florida Trend Dispenses Golden Spoons

Florida Trend's 2009 Dining Guide is out, with a new editor in chief: Chris Sherman has replaced Robert Toff as the dispenser of Golden Spoons. This year's guide cites plenty of South Florida gems among the 20 Best New Restaurants. In Fort Lauderdale: Christine's (pictured above) and Four Rivers (w ... More >>

Waterboy? How About Cabana Boy.

Booze Hound - DiLido Beach Club

After a hard day of filing my nails, receiving deep tissue massages, and ordering Manolo Blahniks from Neiman Marcus's online store (THANK GOD for the plummeting economy - sales are faaaabulous), there's nothing that I like more than grabbing my komodo dragon and baby panda-fur lined purse, driving ... More >>

Ebony, Ivory, and Plantain-Crusted Grouper...

  ...is the answer to: What might you find at a Puerto Rican-owned piano bar/café? Merly Velazquez, niece of the late fashion designer David Fernandez, has partnered with Raymond Klein in opening Miami Arts Café across the street from the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (255 NE ... More >>

Hookah Lounge Happy Hour

Escape reality at the DiLido Beach Club’s happy hour.

Last Night: The Ritz-Carlton's Wine Room and Scotch Bar

New Times was graciously invited to an evening of pampering and boozing last night courtesy of the Ritz-Cartlon Fort Lauderdale's (semi) new and much improved wine bar. And it went.... well, how do you think it went? We were pampered. We were boozed. It was an all around lovely evening, and I would ... More >>

How Much Justice Was Sold in Fort Lauderdale Last Week ?

We may never know. But eventually, maybe our friends who live in the western half of the United States will learn. Exactly 24 of their attorneys general partied up at the Ritz Carlton (formerly the St. Regis) on Fort Lauderdale Beach, flocking for a conference strewn with corporate sponsors.The orga ... More >>

If this Cooking is Light, I Don’t Wanna Be Wrong

Top Chef Fires Up Tonight With SoBe Chef

Strike Hunger

Escape the Great Foodie Depression with Dine Out Lauderdale

Miami Spice Cooking Demos

A Zero for Cero?

Angle of Descent

That moaning sound? It's the ghost of César Ritz.

Restaurants Close: Evolution Debunked, Chispa De-Sparked

The Riptide Guide to Summer Fruit

Dinner in Paradise Hosts its Best Chefs Yet

NYE Guide 2006

Best Restaurant When Someone Else Is Paying

Soleil at the Ritz-Carlton,

Freeway Fiasco

The food? The chef? The wine? Don't take the off ramp.

Best Swingers' Club

Trapeze II