West Palm Beach

Trader Joe's Coming To Palm Beach Gardens

Palm Beach county has been granted its wish. Trader Joe's is coming to Palm Beach Gardens. The grocer with a cult-like following will open sometime in 2014 at PGA Plaza, on the corner of PGA Boulevard and Prosperity Farms Road. Construction on the 12,500-square-foot store is slated to begin in the ... More >>

Palm Beach Cops Being Investigated for Possible Steroids Charges, According to Report

Some deputies at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office might be going the A-Rod route (allegedly!) and getting jacked up with illegal steroids, according to a Gossip Extra report. The report says that the FBI and the DEA are conducting a major investigation into the possible juicing of some of Pal ... More >>

New Fast Food Concept PDQ Now Open in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale

A new fast food concept has extended its reach to South Florida, starting with two locations including Fort Lauderdale and the newly opened West Palm Beach restaurant Known as PDQ -- which stands for "People Dedicated to Quality" -- the concept is simple: fresh food served fast, and in a high-end ... More >>

Sunfest 2013: What to Eat, From Gator Bites to Vegan Fare

Today begins SunFest 2013, West Palm Beach's five-day waterfront music and arts festival that manages to wrangle in some exceptional national and local musical talent -- and lots of food -- to the city's downtown area. The event has been known to attract upwards of 165,000 visitors each year, and wi ... More >>

Big Voices Stand Strong for Little Voices

Art to Hang, Wear, and Eat

Hippocrates Executive Chef Ken Blue: How to Make Raw Vegan Sushi

Raw food is good for you. Vegan food is good for the animals. But raw vegan screams boring. Plus, let's face it: Trying to make anything appetizing that is both raw and vegan isn't easy. And it's certainly not something that's on everyone's to-do list. But if eating healthier, more nutritious foo ... More >>

Five Best Restaurants on Clematis Street in West Palm Beach

West Palm Beach has never been known for its dining scene, but several new restaurants have helped to make the Clematis St. strip a new downtown destination for South Florida foodies. These days there's a little bit of everything, from sports bars and Mexican at Rocco's Tacos, to Cuban-style eats at ... More >>

Obama Coming to West Palm Beach To Get Away From It All

The President of the United States has his very own airplane and can travel anywhere in the entire world he wants on a whim to kick back and relax. And for President's Day Weekend -- which is a weekend named after him, he's choosing West Palm Beach. It's about to get sexy all up in hurrrrrr....

Field of Greens Gets a Makeover, Moves to Clematis Street

Field of Greens (or FOG, for short), Palm Beach County's healthy salad and sandwich shop offering nutritious, made-to-order dishes, has relocated its original location to downtown West Palm Beach, and made a few improvements while they were at it. The family-run business began in 2003 when owne ... More >>

January's Restaurant Openings and Closings in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

The new year is off to a brisk start, with more than a dozen restaurants, specialty food stores, and bars opening for business in the first month of 2013. Of course, a few places fell by the wayside in the start of the year, though there are plenty of up-and-coming businesses angling to fill the voi ... More >>

West Palm Beach Man Indicted For Running Dungeons

A West Palm Beach man and four others have been indicted in Philadelphia for beating and locking several mentally disabled people in basement dungeons in three states for years at a time to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars of Social \Security benefits. The 196-count indictment accuses West Pa ... More >>

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Best Darn Kettle Corn and Cafe Sweets Cupcakes Come to Clematis St. in West Palm Beach

Two new extra-sweet shops specializing in foods made with sugar, spice and everything deliciously indulgent recently opened on the 500-block of Clematis St. in downtown West Palm Beach.Serving up a few of our favorite foods -- like flavored kettle corn, fancy cupcakes, special order cakes, coffee an ... More >>

West Palm Beach Police Caught On Video Punching Man With Taser and Kicking Him In the Head

A bystander with a camera phone captured West Palm Beach Police kicking a man in the head, and punching him with what appears to be a Taser gun in Clematis, the downtown district of West Palm Beach, in the early morning hours of Sunday, December 12. The video shows a young man being forced to lay o ... More >>

Nerd Alert: New Year's

Resolutionary Winetasting

Get Cracking

Vanilla Ice and His Holiday Friends

The Sweetest Treats

West Palm Beach Commissioners to Hear Proposals For Intracoastal Hotel

West Palm Beach Mayor Jeri Muoio believes a hotel with intracoastal water ways can potentially be a big deal for the downtown area. So the city commission will be hearing three different proposals for one to be built where city hall used to be. Included in the plans is the old Helen Wilkes hotel si ... More >>

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Beer and Cheese Pairing

Cupcake Decorating Class

Five South Florida Food-Related Events This Weekend: Brazilian Independence Day and More

If Flavor Palm Beach isn't dominating your dining calendar this weekend -- read more about the month-long restaurant promotion here -- that means you've got a little bit of room to explore the other food-related happenings this weekend in Broward and Palm Beach counties. After the jump find five thi ... More >>

Get Offline and On the Starting Line

Tequesta Cask Night

Respectable Street 25th Anniversary Block Party, Saturday in West Palm Beach

Five New Dining Options in West Palm Beach

Several recent restaurant additions -- all newly-opened within the past six months -- are bringing more dining options to West Palm Beach. From a dive that's not quite a dive, to a few new Asian-themed eateries, downtown's Clematis St. in West Palm Beach is finally on its way.Here, a list of We ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Weekend: Food Truck Rally and More

A great weekend in food and drink should offer a chance to go from high- (wine dinners with renowned chefs) to low-brow (food truck rallies and eating competitions) without breaking a sweat. After the jump, find a list of five genre-spanning dining events going down this weekend in Broward and Palm ... More >>

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Beer Bar Crawl Thursday in West Palm Beach

Ever wish you could dress up like a Ninja Turtle and actually be rewarded for it? Well, now is your chance...This Thursday, Clematis by Night and Aaron Wormus -- AKA "A Guy on Clematis" -- are hosting a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Bar Crawl in preparation for the first annual Palm Beach Craft Beer F ... More >>

South Florida Dining Events This Week: National Tequila Day and More

The London 2012 Summer Olympics kick off on Saturday and it'll be hard to not feel a bit like an undisciplined couch potato once you catch a glimpse of all those hard bodies in skimpy uniforms achieving amazing feats of strength, speed, and agility. Before those incredible physiques guilt you into r ... More >>

The Thai Room Opens in West Palm Beach

As a Florida native, non-natives tend to whine open up to me about why they hate Florida, disdainfully referring to my beloved sunshine state as "the foot of the nation" (in which case New Jersey is clearly the armpit). They lament about nearly everything--the suffocating humidity, our lawless pill- ... More >>

South Florida Restaurant News: Mellow Mushroom, Bar Louie, Deck 84, and More

Summer is ostensibly the slow season, but there are still some shakeups and new ventures to keep an eye on in the Broward and Palm Beach county restaurant scenes. Here's a look at a few South Florida food news items that have popped up on the radar.Mellow Mushroom to Open in CityPlaceFans of stoner- ... More >>

McDonalds McCafe Fusion Tour: Free Chillers In WPB Today

If you look at the calendar, you'll notice it's the end of another work week.  Instead of the usual, McDonald's wants you to say "thank God it's Free-day" if you live in West Palm Beach.McDonald's McCafe Smooth Fusion Tour is hitting West Palm Beach today, bringing free samples, interactive gam ... More >>

Honk(y Tonk) If You Like Summer

We’re Jammin’

A Talent Show, Sans the Hoff

Summer Thyme Market Wednesdays on the WPB Waterfront

Usually summer in south Florida means green markets have packed up for the end of the growing season are on hiatus until the fall, so we're really liking the fact that there's a trend toward summer markets opening their doors to vendors who provide not only summer produce, but prepared foods and mea ... More >>

Sunfest Starts Today: Here's What To Eat!

Sunfest, the annual multi-day festival of music, art, and food with a water view, starts today along Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach. The festival, which runs through May 6th, has some killer musical acts on this year's roster including Pitbull, Creed, Herbie Hancock, and the All-American Rejects. ... More >>

Five Guys Burgers and Fries Opens Clematis Location

Five Guys Burgers and Fries, the burger chain that features fresh spuds and unlimited peanuts, opens a location just off Clematis Street in West Palm Beach today.The location, which seats 70 people, is the sixth Five Guys to open in Palm Beach County and the only location to stay open well into the ... More >>

Cheap Drinks in West Palm Beach: The Bus Loop Makes Its Debut This Weekend

Northern Palm Beach County will soon get to see what all of the party-bus fuss is about when the bus loop so popular in Fort Lauderdale and Delray Beach expands to West Palm Beach. The first West Palm Beach Bus Loop will roll out Friday with routes connecting participating bars in CityPlace, on Clem ... More >>

Flavors of Wellington, Local Beer Dinner at Howley's, and Other Food and Drink Events this Week in South Florida

The snowbirds may be gearing up for their return flights to the north, but that doesn't mean the events calendar is following suit. Beer dinners, tap takeovers, and pairing events top the list of food and drink events this week in South Florida, while West Palm Beach welcomes an event that has enjoy ... More >>

West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale Make Cut of Most Overpriced City

​If you need affirmation that West Palm Beach is too rich rich for your blood, Forbes has you covered. Using a semiscientific method that accounted for things like housing affordability, the cost-of-living index, and median salaries for college grads, the magazine produced a list of ... More >>

West Palm and Lake Worth Versus Wilton Manors: Help Decide Which Dining Scene Is Better

​Clean Plate Charlie is pitting our eight best dining areas against one another in a March Madness-style bracket. Later this month, we'll crown a winner -- an undisputed champion city that can boast to have the best food scene in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Below, read up on number-three-seed ... More >>

New Ordinance Will Make It Tougher to Buy Booze in West Palm Beach

​We're filing this post under High Suckage Factor.  According to the Palm Beach Post, an ordinance was passed yesterday that would make it more difficult to buy alcohol in downtown West Palm Beach.Ordinance No. 4394-11, which was passed on January 23, restricts "the sale of alcoholic beverage ... More >>

Get Cultured on Cocktails

Two Dogs Walk Into a Bar...

Modern English at Respectable Street, September 22

Villiage Commons in West Palm Beach Hosts Food Truck Frenzy Tonight

Slow Food Truck and nearly two dozen others will serve dinner at Village Commons tonight.​Food truck fans in West Palm Beach usually have to make do with the trucks that hang out in the northernmost reaches of south Florida like Curbside Gourmet or Out of Many Cafe.   Until tonight. Vill ... More >>