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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Having made the trip to Palm Beach – a place awash with a different sort of sin – Miami’s own Michelle Bernstein is at her most self-assured. The restaurant itself is secured on the third floor above a quiet lobby bar and terrace eatery, and everything within seems to mask dimension –... More >>
Chef Hubert des Marais is one of our great celebrity chefs; at the tender age of 31, more than a decade ago, he was fingered by Food & Wine as one of 10 Best New Chefs in America. During his long stint at the Four Seasons, des Marais has put in a splendid garden at the resort, where he plucks... More >>
This is a steak house of great refinement, in spite of a menu that looks like the same-old, same-old. You walk past a tank full of black-lit jellyfish to get to Stephen Starr’s Steak 954, set in the austerely swank W Hotel, and by the time you’ve finished dinner, you’ll feel nearly as graceful... More >>
Chef Tony Sindaco has left Sunfish Grill after a decade of good work, but Erika Di Battista is carrying on the tradition without a hitch. The only changes she seems to have made is to reduce the prices. The good vibrations at Sunfish Grill are in an entirely different register from its... More >>
Located at the far end of a hotel lobby overlooking the ocean, this divine eatery elicits praise from both vacationers and South Florida residents. Executive chef Dean Max's menu provides opportunity for guests to sample local flora and fauna via perfectly executed dishes like black grouper,... More >>