• Wretched excess not enough for you? Conspicuous consumption too subtle? Want to lord it over the peasants with their pathetic little well drinks? Maybe the $400 “Elit” martini at Palm Beach Gardens’ Dirty Martini is the status symbol you’ve been craving. Made with Stoli “Elit” vodka and an anonymous…
Healthy, inexpensive lunch and dinner fare cooked on an oak-fired grill is the deal at the newly opened Mia’s Grille (2399 N. Federal Highway; 561-338-6388) in Boca Raton. Though it’s the first eatery for chef-owner Mia Cabrera, she’s a 16-year vet of the local restaurant business, last gee emming in…
OK, so maybe you heard about the restaurant in the thriving metropolis of Monroeville, Penn., that beginning yesterday has banned kids younger than age six. For the record, the place is called McDain’s, and it bills itself as a place for “cocktails and casual fine dining.” After looking over the…
The remaking of Todd English’s Wild Olives into the English Tap & Beer Garden (5050 Town Center Circle, 561-544-8000) will be unveiled for all to see this Friday when the upscale, quasi-German “biergarten” opens its doors in the tony Shops at Boca Center. Taking over the next-door space (the original…
Food is art, the foodie scribes tell us. You eat with your eyes. But is food music? Do we eat with our ears? Well, yes. At least according to musicians Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp — AKA One Ring Zero — who in October will unveil their latest venture, a…
The rumors are true, carnivores. Red, the Steakhouse is coming to Boca, to the Wyndham Garden hotel at Glades Road and Military Trail. The debut of the high-end steak house, which also has outlets in South Beach and Cleveland, Ohio, is expected in early November, according to Red marketing director…
Has Adam Richman jumped the shark? Maybe, if the Travel Channel’s increasingly portly celebrity face-stuffer had some help, a pair of really springy shoes, or a trampoline and a really small shark. That’s at least a pretty fair conclusion after watching his rather odd sequel to Man v. Food, dubbed…
A recent conversation with Stratis Morfogen, CEO of Philippe Chow restaurants, yielded a few more nuggets about the coming debut of Philippe Chow in the downtown Boca Raton space formerly home to III Forks steak house. For one, Morfogen expects the new Philippe to debut in mid-August after a gut-job…
We all know that beer is not just for breakfast any more, but it’s equally true that wine is not just for expensive meals of unpronounceable dishes at snobby restaurants. Actually, it’s perfect for your Fourth of July barbecue. After all, beer only fills you up and cuts down on…
Lately it seems that Delray and West Palm Beach have been getting all the restaurant glory but now it appears that Boca Raton is cutting itself a slice of fine dining glam. Expecting to debut in mid-August is the second SoFla outpost of New York-based high-end Chinese eatery Philippe Chow…
Paris in Town Le Bistro (11701 Lake Victoria Gardens Ave., 561-622-1616), the younger brother to North Palm Beach’s popular Paris in Town Le Café, has opened its doors in the resurgent Downtown at the Gardens mall in Palm Beach Gardens. The 1920s-style bistro boasts indoor and outdoor seating for 150,…
The rabble have invaded Palm Beach. They’re nice enough rabble, I guess. Earnest, polite, well-spoken. It’s just that, you know… They’re not one of us. I mean, really. Those clothes! That cheap little Japanese car! That tacky house in one of those loathsome “bedroom communities”! They never vacation in Gstaad…
They’re putting a little English on Wild Olives in the tony Shops at Boca Center, where celeb chef Todd English’s posh but under-achieving restaurant has already closed and next month is slated to move next door and become a nouveau pub called The English Tap & Beer Garden. Not a…
Blues by the ocean with a side order of brewski and seafood is on tap for the coming Fourth of July, when Boston’s on the Beach hosts its second-annual “Red, White & Blues Festival.” For four days, Friday through Monday, July 1 to 4, the Delray eatery on A1A will…
Just as a new generation of food trucks is replacing the old (and usually terrible) “roach coach,” giant malls are also redoing their “food courts” to be less like mass feeding troughs and more like places people might actually want to eat. Case in point, Boca’s Town Center Mall, which…
Now you can travel to Italy without ever leaving CityPlace. Italy Fast Quality Food, that is. The former Mama Che Buono (700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach; 561-655-1241) has upped the ante on its original panini, gelato, and coffee drinks menu, adding mix-and-match pastas and sauces and a wide…
Nick Laudano, who’s fine but short-lived Nick’s Apizza introduced Lake Worth to the joys of New Haven-style pizza, will debut his new, much bigger and more ambitious pizzeria in Boca Raton’s Glades Plaza this July. Renamed Nick’s New Haven-Style Pizzeria & Bar, the 4,600-square-foot restaurant, bar, and lounge will serve…
It’s cue up more ‘cue for Smokehouse Grill & Wingery, the East Boca barbecue joint of Mark Uffer and Erik Frasco, who are launching their second Smokehouse out in West Boca come July. The new Smokehouse will take over the former Thirsty Turtle seafood eatery on Yamato Road. The much…
Artisan pizzas, inventive pastas and specialties ranging from chili-roasted “angry prawns” to citrus and ginger-marinated skirt steak with salsa verde are coming out of the kitchen of chef Mennan Tekeli at the new Ovenella (499 S. Federal Hwy., 561-395-1455) in Boca Raton. Proprietor and former Brazilian restaurateur Ferraretto Davila tabbed…
Moquila is dead! Long live Moquila! Perhaps that’s being a bit over-dramatic, but it’s true. The old Moquila has bit the eternal agave. But come June 14, the new Moquila will be born in the same space on Southeast Mizner Boulevard, albeit with a new owner, chef and menu. In…
Okay, so last week Big Mommy–I mean, the fed’rull gubmint–unveiled its latest ploy to convince us to eat all the things we really don’t want to. It’s the Food Plate, called My Plate, the successor to the Food Pyramid, which during its lifetime had about as much influence on the…
It’s officially H-word season again, and you’ve probably heard over and over and over again now you’re supposed to prepare for the not-so-blessed event until your ears start to bleed. Stock up on a whole bunch of canned food, they tell you. Canned tuna, canned chicken, canned soups, canned (gag!)…
