Trying to take “eat locally” from cliché to reality is Edible South Florida, a dead-tree and online magazine devoted to the gastronomic bounty of our own little corner of paradise, set to debut midmonth. Edible Publisher Katie Sullivan is a Miami native who went over to the Dark Side (AKA…
It wasn’t something in the water but maybe in the soil, the climate, the vines, the heads of winemakers… whatever and wherever, for some reason, the 2007 vintage of California sauvignon blancs generally, well, sucks. Or at least puckers up really, really hard. As thin as Ashley Olsen, as bland…
Seeing as South Florida has at least temporarily morphed into Buffalo with palm trees, the ability of a cup (or bowl or railroad tank car) of soup to ward off the cold has never been more important. And though we don’t have our normally gorgeous, balmy weather, we do still…
• The coal-fired pizza craze continues to be hotter than a. . . coal-fired oven. The latest example is Bellini’s Coal-Fired Pizza, now dishing up those crisp-crusted pies on North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. The menu goes beyond the usual pizzeria suspects with dishes like truffled mac ‘n’ cheese,…
If you have a functioning taste bud anywhere in your body, a trip through San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace is like ascending to heaven. Better, because you don’t have to die to get there. The 121-year-old waterfront building with its replica of the 12th Century Giralda bell tower of Seville,…
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. Put the eclectic flavors of South Florida — the “New American Riviera” — on your own kitchen table with…
The Office will open the New Year in Delray, and we don’t mean Steve Carell. We do mean Mark Militello and David Manero, the original Mango Gangster and creator of Vic & Angelo’s and DeVito South Beach, who will debut their first collaboration in January in the Atlantic Avenue site…
• The entertainment scene at CityPlace just got a whole lot more interesting with the opening earlier this month of B.B. King’s Blues Club. Taking over the spaces once home to Legal Sea Foods and Bar Louie, this sixth club in the B.B. King mini-empire boasts four bars, stages for…
Let’s face it, if 2009 was a fish, most of us would throw it back. But if there is anything to celebrate come Dec. 31, it’s that this terrible, very bad, not so hot disaster of a year will very soon be outta here like last week’s garbage. And, of…
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. One of Broward’s largest and most ambitious dining and entertainment complexes made its debut last week in, yes, Wilton…
Despite an economy that has many local restaurateurs down to seeds and stems, a second Mustard Seed Bistro has sprouted up in Broward. Tim and Lara Boyd’s original Cooper City Seed now has a sibling in Plantation, taking over the former Grapevine Gourmet space. This new Seed is a more…
• You may have to be Jay-Z to afford a bottle of Cristal, but if you’re one of the lucky guests at the Ireland’s Steakhouse-Roederer Estate dinner at Weston’s Hyatt Regency Bonaventure, you may win a bottle of the 2002 vintage of this acclaimed champagne. The Tuesday, Dec. 22, dinner…
Cook your way around the country without ever leaving Hollywood at the “regional American cooking series” at Michael Wagner’s witty contemporary American Lola’s on Harrison.The third in the six-part series features the cuisines of the Gulf Coast–Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi (Florida will get its own session later)–and takes place at…
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. Local, artisanal, gorgeous, and damned tasty too. What’s not to like about the holiday cookie assortment from Lake Worth’s…
Here’s a blast from the past. Back in the 1980s, when I was living in Northern California wine country, Liberty School Cabernet Sauvignon was the cork dorks’ go-to red for every-day drinking. The second label of expensive-even-then Caymus, it offered its parents’ high-toned pedigree at a price we wage slaves…
You say to-may-to, he says to-mah-to. I say San Marzano. San Marzano tomatoes are, not to put too fine a point on it, simply the best sauce tomatoes in the world. Better than any other canned tomato. Better than 99.9 percent of the fresh tomatoes out there. Accept no imitations…
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport isn’t Las Olas Boulevard or Delray’s Atlantic Avenue just yet, but at least there are a couple rays of culinary hopes shining through the clouds of pre-fab sandwiches, microwaved crud and muffins made from the by-products of coal smelting. Earlier this week, Charlie reported that Mango…
Santa may have a sleigh and eight mangy reindeer, but the 2009 Winterfest Boat Parade has Kim Kardashian and Alonzo Mourning. This pair of hoops-loving celebs are the grand marshals for this 38th-annual orgy of seagoing Christmas spirit — call it Boats Gone Wild — which kicks off tonight at…
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.Expected to debut just in time for anyone flying out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport for the holidays is Chef…
Paulette and Gordon Callendar want to spice up your life. And they’re not kidding. To prove it, they’ve just opened Spice and Tea Exchange in Boca Raton’s oh-so-tony Mizner Park. One of a dozen of the upscale boutiques in the country, the Boca Exchange features whole and ground spices, herbs…
A little of this, a little of that, and sometimes you get a damned good little wine. That’s the deal at Washington’s Kamiak winery, where they blended a bit of Chardonnay, a rasher of Sauvignon Blanc, and a dash of late-harvest Sauvignon Blanc and came up with Windust White, a…
