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Chef Steven Acosta Unveils New Menu at da Campo Osteria

After several years of cooking for some of Miami's most well-known hotel restaurants, including Cascata Grill at Turnberry Isle and the former Solea at the W Hotel in South Beach, chef Steven Acosta has returned to Fort Lauderdale's Il Lugano Hotel to take over the kitchen at da Campo Osteria.Since ... 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 >>

Too Many Cooks

Christmas 2011 in a Restaurant: Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach, and Broward Restaurants Open on Christmas Day

Allison.Hare via Flickr Creative CommonsClass up your Christmas meal by leaving it entirely up to someone else to handle. ​Here's the deal: For whatever reason, you don't feel like making your own damned Christmas meal this year. Maybe you're on vacation with the fam, enjoying a subtropical sojour ... More >>

Calling All Servers, Line Cooks, Bartenders, and Hosts: Burger Bar, Steak 954, Old Calypso, and Sugarcane Need You

​Burger Bar by Chef Allen, slated to open November 15, seeks servers, bar backs, hostesses, runners, line cooks, and dishwashers. The space is across from Scripps, offering indoor and outdoor seating. It's the second of his burger restaurants, with the first located in the airport. Susser's custom ... More >>

Eat Your Salad and Go: Food Critic Kicked Out of the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale

Lounge chairs: so close yet so far.​Last week, I had reported a craving for rooftop dining with a side of swim that was sated by the untzy Sunday scene at The W Hotel's rooftop. In the comments, a few of you weighed in on poolside seats with a view. Commenter RJ Petrucci suggested to "play it cool ... More >>

Get Schooled by Steak 954's Chef de Cuisine!

Publix.comSteak 954 Chef de Cuisine-Jason Landon Smith.​Resist the urge to ask pressing questions about the 15-foot jellyfish tank or the current availability of West Coast oysters at Steak 954 and let the restaurant's chef de cuisine, Jason Landon Smith, do the talking. This Thursday, July 21, Sm ... More >>

Tonight: Zombie Jam at Mai-Kai

Last week, we told you about tonight's Zombie Jamboree at Mai Kai. It begins at 5:00 p.m. Are you going? We met with Tommy Merolla, brand ambassador of Botran Rum, over the weekend and got a sneak peek at what he's mixing for the competition and talked cocktails and South Florida. A first look at ... More >>

W Hotel Fort Lauderdale Trendier Than Every Other American Hotel, Says TripAdvisor

The Epitome of Trendiness. Did you know its towers were built to resemble a sailboat?​The W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale is the trendiest hotel in the country, according to TripAdvisor -- an upscale win for the changing face of Fort Liquordale (Fort Martinidale?). So why, with the bounties of trendy i ... More >>

Truffles: They're in Everything Now (But Beware: Most Truffle Oil is Synthetic)

John LinnDeviled eggs, with paprika and chives, is one of a trio of truffle selections at The Office in Delray Beach.​Picture a breath-taking restaurant perched on the edge of a dramatic gorge in a tiny town in southwest France. The menu, posted beside the door, recently featured a four-course tru ... More >>

Truffle Fries in South Florida

Rok:BrgrYou decide: Are Rok:Brgr's hand-cut truffle fries, with Parmesan Reggiano, cripsy? ​By now, you've probably ordered truffle fries or at least seen them on restaurant menus. The trend started a couple of years ago and has been picking up momentum. But as with everything, some are better -- ... More >>

Electronic Artist-Producer Amtrac Adds Local Flavor to the Dancegiving Music Festival

Talking with Chef Carlos Jorge, Part 2

​Yesterday we started our interview with Chef Carlos Jorge of the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale. Today, he tells specifics of how he'll change the menu at Steak 954, the signature restaurant at the hotel.New Times: You spoke of recharging the seafood menu. Will you be using any new fishes?I used diff ... More >>

Talking to Chef Carlos Jorge at W Hotel and Steak 954, Part 1

​Chef Carlos Jorge, who gained fame for his tropical-inspired menu at Solu in The Resort on Singer Island in 2006, has taken over as executive chef at the W Hotel on Fort Lauderdale beach, where Steak 954 is the signature restaurant. We chatted with him for the Verbal Nosh, and here's an excerpt.N ... More >>

John Offerdahl's Gridiron Grill-Off Pits Chefs Against Football Stars

Offerdahl hits the grill as the Gridiron Griller.​Do you know the Gridiron Griller? That's John Offerdahl, former Dolphin's linebacker and owner of Offerdahl's restaurants. For a few years now, the backyard cook has been producing small segment videos for local TV and his website that shows home c ... More >>

New Afternoon Treats and Drinks at Steak 954

If you're not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here's a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. If you haven't wandered past the mesmerizing glow of jellyfish gracing the entrance of Steak 954 because you're put off ... More >>

Big Promises From Whiskey Blue

Chefs Zach Bell and Dean Max Among South Florida James Beard Nods

James Beard Award semi-finalist, Zach Bell.​Nominees for this years' James Beard Awards were announced yesterday, and South Florida has a few representatives in the list. Zach Bell of Cafe Boulud and Dean James Max of 3030 Ocean were both nominated in the Best Chef: South category. In recent years ... More >>

From San Francisco, a Nostalgic (and Airbrushed) View of Fort Lauderdale

Flickr: R Moncada​For those who live in Fort Lauderdale, the best tour guide is a person who doesn't live in Fort Lauderdale. Like the San Francisco Chronicle's travel editor, who must not have ventured far from his extravagant perch at the new W Hotel.No mention of how the city's housing market w ... More >>

Thank God It's Over, but 2009 Does End With the Promise of Better Things to Come

Our Five Favorite New Restaurants of 2009

​This week in Dish we walk down memory lane and revisit the crazy year that was 2009. Our year-end wrap up answers the following: What notable newcomers made their way onto South Florida's eager palates? What restaurants fell victim to the stagnant economy? In 2009, restaurateurs turned to trends ... More >>

Celebrate New Year's Eve at These South Florida Restaurants

​I don't know about you, but I want to ring in the New Year in style, guzzling champagne and slurping down caviar like a 19th century robber baron. Preferably wearing a top hat and monocle. And riding a pony. And eating something endangered, like a mountain lion. (Just kidding about that last part ... More >>

Big Promises from Whiskey Blue

Head Spins: Dean Michaels 

The W Fort Lauderdale's resident empire builder.

My Love Is Blue

In search of tourists at the hip and glitzy hot spot inside the W.

Fort Lauderdale's Cool 'Cause It's So... Flaming?

Photo: youbebettyTed Gibson​So says our incoming celebrity stylist, Ted Gibson, who I told you about yesterday. Today we find him pimping Fort Lauderdale to W Magazine in an effort promote his salon at the W Hotel. Here's an excerpt from the Q&A:And then you're also opening a salon in Fort Lau ... More >>

New TV Gig, New Lauderdale Location for Celebrity Stylist

Ted Gibson, the celebrity stylist who just joined the cast of What Not to Wear, a TLC show, is opening his third salon in September at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, the city that Gibson declares to be "the new Miami."He'd better hope Lauderdale's the new Palm Beach if he's serious about getting $9 ... More >>

Local Paparazzo Shoots Celebrity Llama

Flickr Users: az29c and Rich66~That's one Lively llama!With Gossip Girl star Blake Lively attending its grand opening party Thursday night, the W Hotel of Fort Lauderdale looked to make a big splash on the celebrity headline circuit. But it seems the luxurious scene was stolen by a single paparazzo ... More >>

Shining Starr

OK, OK, I take it back! Steak 954 is brilliant.

New York Prime in Boca Raton Apparently Bucks the Downward Steak-House Trend

With the help of Rainn Wilson, Aaron Jackson tries to cure a country.

Rainn Wilson Hosts a Party for Broward's Own Ghandi, Aaron Jackson

As you can read in the cover story of this week's "print product," Rainn Wilson - Dwight Schrute from The Office - threw a party last month for Aaron Jackson, a local 27-year-old rich kid living as pauper, giving everything he has to orphanages in Haiti. Aaron's charity, Planting Peace, has sh ... More >>

SoBe Up North