Conservatives eat PB&J, pizza, and mac ‘n’ cheese for lunch. Liberals eat Thai and Indian cuisines. For dinner, conservatives chow down on fried chicken, meat loaf and steak; liberals go for green curries, Ethiopian food, and veggie burgers. Conservatives like McDonald’s fries. Liberals like frites. Cheese-eating conservatives jones for Velveeta…
• It’s hard to beat the “Recession Buster” bar bites menu at Falcon House. All night every night, the artfully funky Delray Beach eatery is dishing a short menu of goodies, plus domestic and imported bottle beer, for a miserly $1.99. A few examples: crispy calamari with Cajun aioli, chicken…
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. The basic elements of human life are oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, garlic, and olive oil.Or at least…
Well, the Next Iron Chef is Jose Garces, proprietor of six restaurants in Philadelphia and Chicago and dubbed (insulted?) by some as “the Latin Emeril,” who over the past weeks blew off nine other chefs from around the country and last night edged New York toque/pastry chef Jehangir Mehta to…
Cheap Wines That Don’t Suck (for Thanksgiving) There’s nothing like a holiday to bring the latent suckitude in everyone and everything. Sucky relatives, sucky jobs, sucky airports, sucky traffic, sucky food, sucky weather, sucky expectations. . . it’s a sucky world, and we’re just living in it. But even if…
• New to the ever-burgeoning restaurant scene in Delray Beach is Jimmy’s Bistro, a casual, affordable café on Swinton Avenue from long-time East Coast chef Jimmy Mills. Po-boys are on the menu at lunch, while dinner might see anything from braised short ribs to pasta with salmon. • The Coniglio family,…
The 15 minutes of that fat, stupid, ugly bird bred to have tits bigger than Dolly Parton’s are almost upon us, so you may be reasonably wondering what else to do with the Thanksgiving turkey besides jamming it in the oven to slowly incinerate while consuming immoderate amounts of alcohol…
If there’s anything suckier than cheap sparkling wine it probably ought to be illegal. You’ve probably had your share, whether the ubiquitous black bottle or the fruit-infused swill that makes Kool-Aid taste like Chateau d’Yquem or any of the legion of insipid imitators lurking on supermarket shelves everywhere. In addition…
• By Dec. 1, Todd English’s Wild Olives in Boca Raton should be going full bore. The former Opus 5 is currently transitioning to Wild Olives’ Mediterranean-esque menu, with the full dinner menu said to be in place by Tuesday, Nov. 24, and lunch a week later. A few items…
The release of the year’s nouveau Beaujolais every third Thursday of November is cause for celebration in France, and for 2009, it is in Pompano Beach too. From 6 to 8 tonight, Bispo’s Cellar (2112 E. Atlantic Blvd., Pompano Beach) will be pouring a trio of the light, fruity, easy-drinking…
New Orleans’ iconic sandwich is under attack. What’s a poor boy to do? Throw a party, what else? That would be the third-annual New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival, which takes place Sunday, November 22. More than three dozen restaurants will be on hand, slapping fried oysters, shrimp, catfish, soft-shell crab,…
The bons temps will roll into Pompano Beach come Monday, December 7, with the opening of The French Quarter Bar & Grill, a moderately priced N’awlins-style eatery from former Tarpon Bend general manager Gene Beach and local chef about town Michael Buterbaugh. The Quarter adds to Broward’s meager stock 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. Almost lost in the hype about all the newbies and newbies-to-be heading for Atlantic Avenue and environs in Delray…
When Piero Antinori produced the first Tignanello in the 1971, it was a real kick in the ass to rule- and tradition-bound Tuscan winemakers, most of whom had long been make Chianti in accordance with government regulation. At first 100 percent Sangiovese, later blended with varying amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon,…
• Allen Susser, one of the original Mango Gangers (with Norman Van Aken and Mark Militello), will open a gastropub, Taste, in the Pineapple Grove area of Delray Beach sometime early next year. Look for small plates of comfy food and a roster of swell cocktails. • Also in Delray,…
The folks who have been dishing up huge and hugely delectable meat blankets to sammie-savvy Browardites for 36 years have brought their overstuffed hoagies across the border to Boca Raton. The fourth LaSpada’s Original Hoagies is now slapping together their appetite-busting eight- and 12-inch subs in The Commons shopping center,…
If you’ve ever wondered why restaurant workers sometimes want to gouge their own eyes out or shave off all their body hair and stow away on a tramp steamer bound for Guatamala, New York restaurateur Bruce Buschel’s pair of blog posts that ran recently in the New York Times (part…
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. “Happy hour” is sooo pre-recession. If you really want to show cash-strapped gazillionaires a deal, you gotta go “happy…
The (alleged) great cupcake craze — the Anna Nicole Smith of food fads — has seen its 15 minutes come, go, and be forgotten in less time that it takes to eat one of the goddamned things. Cupcake wines, on the other hand, just might have some staying power, at…
Wanna know why your gut hits your ankles when you walk? Why your thighs have more ripples than the Gulf of Mexico in a hurricane? Why your ass is big enough to blot out the sun? The “Twinkie Casserole” (24 Twinkies topped with caramel, mini marshmallows and brown sugar, topped…
If you want to get high at Roxy’s, come Saturday, Nov. 28, you actually can. Legally, even. That’s when the Clematis Street complex that includes Roxy’s Pub, 10@2 Saloon and Rome Nightclub is throwing a street-wide beerfest to celebrate the debut of its rooftop bar and restaurant, Roxy’s on the…
• There’s more to IKEA than cheap furniture for suddenly impoverished yuppies. Today from 6 to 8 p.m. Café Maxx chef-owner Oliver Saucy will be at the Sunrise store doing a free presentation under the auspices of Family Circle’s Food University to help you cook something you might actually want…
