“It was a brave man who first ate an oyster.” Jonathan Swift said that, but he could have just as easily been talking about the artichoke, a member of the thistle family with spiky little thorns that looks like the Jolly Green Giant’s fist. You gotta give credit for at…
Grenache is a grape in search of a bandwagon. It’s one of the most widely planted grapes in the world, but most wine drinkers know it — if they know it at all — as one of the varietals that make up the blends of France’s Rhone and southern regions…
• Well, that didn’t last long. Carousel Can Can Café, the CityPlace restaurantainment venue whose high-kicking can-can babes were supposed to make its ersatz French food go down easier, has kicked the bucket after only six months. Reportedly the CP folks are negotiating with a new tenant, whose concept will…
• Medic! Delray’s new Heart Stoppers Café may be on life support with the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging the local temple to caloric and cholesterolic consumption illegally swiped its unhealthy medical theme from an Arizona eatery called the Heart Attack Grill. Heart Stoppers’ owners don’t see it that…
Nothing kicks a taco from good to great like fresh, hand-made tortillas. Good luck finding those in our moonscape of Mexican cuisine. So, food-obsessed taco addict that I am, I did the next-best thing: fill my suitcase with packages of hand-made corn tortillas at Trader Joe’s (if you didn’t know,…
One of the first questions someone will typically ask about an unfamiliar wine is, What is the vintage? Though some vintages are certainly better than others, it’s not quite as important a question as it once was, as modern growing and winemaking practices have enabled vintners to smooth out Mother…
Football, babes, booze and food. . . are we talking Guy Heaven or what? Best of all, you don’t have to die to get to Il Bacio’s Ultimate Celebrity Super Bowl Party. All you have to do is show up at the Delray hotspot at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb…
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. This scoop really is a scoop — Uncle Louie G’s is the latest eatery on Clematis Street’s new Restaurant…
The best way to save money dining out is to cook at home, right? (And, no, opening a can or nuking some shriveled food-like substance in the micro is not “cooking.”) Real cooking, believe it or not, is easy. Learning to cook, on the other hand, is hard. Often time-consuming…
Forget psychology, astrology, and numerology. If you really want to know what someone is like or whether her or she might be the bread to your mayo, you have to turn to the science of sandwichology. WTF? Yes, the fuck. Did you know that people who prefer club sandwiches are…
• Clogging strong arteries 12 ways is the heart-stopping menu at the new Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Delray Beach. Have your “nurse” (yes, server hotties really do wear lab coats and carry stethescopes) bring you an order of Chili Chest Pain Fries or Flatliner hot wings or the Heart…
The rosés of France’s Cotes du Rhone region are what most rosés from other parts of the world want to be when they grow up. Crisp, refreshing, with aromas and flavors of freshly picked fruit yet as dry as Gore Vidal’s wit, Cotes du Rhone pinks have nothing whatsoever in…
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.Palm Beach is not exactly the place you’d expect to find a pizzeria that seems plucked from the Italian region…
• It took almost as long as a stone crab to grow another claw, but after months of speculation, the long-awaited McCormick & Schmick’s seafood house is set to make its CityPlace debut on Monday, February 8. Expect the usual McSchmick formula — lots of fresh fish and shellfish done…
Oops, I did it again. Well, sort of. Several days back I was so jazzed about finding a California Cabernet Sauvignon that didn’t bite my grapes I went out and found another one. And this one’s even better. It carries one of the most storied names in California winemaking,…
Think of the world as a giant meatball. Mambo Italiano’s does. The latest eatery to land on West Palm’s ever-burgeoning Clematis Street is all about the ‘ball–Italian “nachos” with mini-meatballs, meatball sliders, meatball parmigiana, meatball subs, meatball lasagna, spaghetti ‘n’ meatballs. You can even get a side order of meatballs…
• The old Rosa Mexicano in Palm Beach Gardens is getting a new high-concept but moderately priced MexiCal replacement. Early February should see the debut of Cabo Flats, a huge (8,000 square feet) and casual space that channels Mexican food and décor through the Chicano community of Los Angeles. There…
A seemingly jinxed location and two weeks of shitty weather don’t make getting a restaurant off the ground any easier, but Delray’s new Surf Sliders is putting the finishing touches on its beachfront property and hopes to succeed where its two most recent predecessors have failed. …
Let’s face it, things are pretty ugly nowadays. War, famine, pestilence. . . can the plague of locusts be far behind? Maybe what we need it a good shot of pretty. Pretty flowers, good food, fine wine, cool jazz. That’s the deal at “Wine & Jazz Under the Stars,” a…
“Drink the wine that was banned in Alabama!” That’s not quite the marketing slogan of the folks at Cycles Gladiator, but you gotta admit that having your product proscribed by a bunch of crimson-necked troglodytes in Doofusville, USA, is at least one good reason to go out and buy a…
The humble burger is humble no more.Truffles, foie gras, all manner of designer beef, exotic cheeses, infantile greens, confit-ed everything, artisan buns, more aiolis than you can shake a whisk at have all collided with the basic meat patty to take the burger from blue-collar grub to high-end cuisine.High-end prices…
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. B.B. King’s Blues Club isn’t the only newbie to start slinging barbecue and blues north of the Broward County…
