Hallelujah for Bangkok Palace, where delicious Thai dishes are made from family recipes. Dont expect goopy pad Thai or the usual lineup of boring curries, because the Kasinpila family makes its curry pastes from scratch and turns out a few dishes you probably havent seen before.... More >>
This restaurant and brewpub handcrafts their own award-winning beers, like the Black Strap Porter, made with molasses, or the rich and dark Belgian Dubbel. Just 5 bucks will buy you a pint of the freshest brew youre likely to get in all of Broward. More >>
The Ring has been open, run by the same family, since 1986, and it has served the perfect bar burger for just about that long. Here's a half pound of grilled beef, purchased from a neighboring butcher, Nebraska Meats. The cooks shape the burgers by hand and throw them on a grill (they're cooked... More >>
Remember Friar Tuck, that rotund disciple of Robin Hood whose proselytizations involved food and booze more often than God? Well, if the goodly Father had found his way from 11th-century England and somehow landed smack in the middle of Pompano Beach, he'd have quit the priesthood and opened... More >>
With its glittery M on the door, the DJ booth in the kitchen, the polished sheen of silver-and-white marble, and the walls of flat screens pulsing like blue strobes, Café Martorano looks as much strip club as supper club. Lines snake out the doors on weekends, and the wait for a table can be up... More >>
Nearly a quarter-century old and showing no signs of retiring or resting on its leches, Café Seville is as full of surprises as ever, from a special appetizer of baby eels cooked in garlic oil and a soothing potato stuffed tortilla Espanola to a lineup of seafood preparations (trout,... More >>
Chef Chris Wilber has a thing for Southwestern flavors chili peppers, roasted corn, black beans, cilantro. You can get any or all of these ingredients in palate-tingling main courses like the shrimp-and-scallop burrito. But his sensibilities extend to Europe and beyond, as proven by crisp... More >>
The bubbly, blackened, coal-oven crust is only one reason a good pizza parlor like Carolinas is universally loved. Other considerations go into the mix price, the delectability of salad and antipasti, the availability of decent table wine, the quality of the sauce, the cuteness of... More >>
Jeffrey Chodorows famed China Grill waited 20 years to land in Fort Lauderdale, but now that it has, this glitzy pan-Asian fusion eatery is attracting the young and beautiful in droves. From the infused saketinis and Poire cocktails to the giant platters of spareribs, moo shu duck,... More >>
Chops is divided, like all of Caesars Gaul, into three parts. Theres a spiffy mirrored bar room with marble floors and a piano player. The main dining room is a warren of glam-mahogany nooks and crannies brilliantly accommodating the needs of mink-jacketed ladies to be seen,... More >>
Just when you thought it was over, along comes a diner to restore your faith in this languishing genre. Who knew chi-chi Palm Beach restaurateur Jo Larkie had meat loaf, pot pie, banana splits, blueberry pancakes, grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, and hot apple pie a la mode in her bag of... More >>
City Fish Market is an outpost of Buckhead Life Restaurant Group, which also owns Chop’s Lobster Bar in Boca Raton. This Atlanta outfit runs a smooth operation with a come-hither approach: 40 wines under $40 and a menu of the freshest, local, and sustainable seafood available in Broward/Palm... More >>
With a full liquor bar and outdoor patio, this coal-fired pizza joint draws crowds. The salads, like the fine Tuscan, made with romaine, white beans, salami, tomato, artichokes, and diced pecorino, are terrific, but youre here for the pizza, which is well-nigh-perfect. Your thin-crust pie... More >>
Named for the irrational art-and-literary movement that characterized Europe in the early 1920s, Dada features Salvador Dali-inspired art on the walls of this revamped Key West-style cottage, a breezy outdoor patio with "counter" seats circling a gigantic banyan tree, and alternative-type... More >>
The 1950s — a time when most 12-year-olds were virgins, rock music was as wholesome as Wonder Bread, and the frothy drinks Americans sucked down were not lattes or frappucinos (blackberry-flavored to match their PDAs) but milkshakes. It's hard to imagine unless you were there. Doc's All American... More >>
If you can figure out how to get to the West Palm location (call for directions), breakfast and lunch at this warehouse-district paninoteca are worth a few wrong turns. In addition to the Mama-style breakfast, Dolce offers excellent grilled paninis on ciabbata (Italian meats, grilled vegetables)... More >>
Fungi, chilies, and squash blossoms date back to the Aztecs, but Mexico didn’t develop asadero, a stringy, whole-milk curd cheese, until Europeans started importing their sheep, goats, and cattle into the New World. Chef Eduardo de Pria incorporates them all at his award-winning gourmet... More >>
The third in the trio of stellar Asian fusion/sushi/Thai restaurants opened by Tammy Grayson and company (Lemon Grass in Delray Beach and Sushi Thai in Boca Raton are the others), this may be our favorite. As with its siblings, Grayson is selling upscale atmosphere, lovely presentation, and... More >>
The first week they opened in downtown West Palm Beach, the staff at Forte di Asprinio reported that a table of customers had spent $25,000 on dinner and tipped the waiter another five grand. But you dont have to spend like Imelda Marcos on Ritalin to get a good meal here. In fact,... More >>
Questions, questions. Why cant all food taste this good? If a single family can turn out seven kinds of bread, each more pillowy, buttery, fragrant, and delicately spiced than the last, what the hell is going on at other restaurants? The puri, chapati, roti, and naan at India Palace is... More >>
This place, Jughead's idea of heaven, is so good that you'll overlook the missing ed after fashion in its name. The atmosphere is starker than Ellsworth Kelly's tomb. Sink your teeth into a half pound's worth of ground-fresh-daily-from-whole-briskets-of-USDA-inspected-beef burgers. Why not?... More >>
Japango owner Kevin Lee makes it look so easy but here, any bite is a revelation of flavors youve probably never tasted all in one place before. Youll never again eat plain old tataki without yearning for Lees version; its like discovering a higher calling.... More >>
In his decadelong run as one of South Floridas most praised practitioners of New American cuisine, Johnny Vinczencz has been nicknamed everything from The Caribbean Cowboy to The Guava Gaucho, but his food is always recognizable by familiar flavors rooted in our... More >>
This funky/elegant Plantation restaurant specializes in the Northern Italian fare of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region; its run by an Austrian chef and his American wife. This region of Italy was dominated by the Austrian Hapsburgs for years, and its cuisine incorporates Greek and Turkish... More >>
Lolas menu draws on American home-style and Southern regional, gussied up with trendy international spices and flavorings and fresh seasonal vegetables. Sun-dried tomatoes are comfortable on the same menu with white anchovies, tobiko or American sturgeon, sesame seeds, red pepper... More >>