Hypocrite, n. One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises. –Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary Chris Consentino and Mark Pastore’s taking on of the anti-foie gras jihadis, posted here, took more stones than you…
Let us all praise the humble disc of ground beef stuffed between two slices of bread this month of May 2009. May, you see, is National Hamburger Month. And after all, if you can have National Prune Breakfast Month (January) or National Pickled Peppers Month (October) or National Peanut Butter…
You think Guy Fieri likes our local drive-ins, diners and dives? Just two weeks after a big shout-out to Havana Hideout in Lake Worth, last night the porcupine-haired host of “Triple D” did the same for the home away from home for deli-deprived New Yorkers: Flakowitz in west Boynton. Manager…
It’s a sign of the times that black clouds of economic gloom hang over even Palm Beach. So to shine a little sun on local restaurants and build on the good work of October’s Palm Beach Restaurant Week, a dozen or so island eateries are teaming up with the Palm…
Like misery, gluttony loves company. So if the chance to eat like a pig and drink like a fish in the company of a few thousand of your close personal friends gives your inner glutton a woodie, check out the Las Olas Wine & Food Festival. From 7:30 to 10…
That would be Hamburger Heaven, the Palm Beach purveyor of finely charred discs of ground beef slapped into a soft white bun. For the past couple of years just a breakfast and lunch joint, the type of place whose clientele sports Gucci with no socks just as often as ratty…
Clematis Social is getting even more sociable with the rollout of its penny-pinching “Lunch for Locals,” a $9 meal that features choice of entree, side, and soft drink. And just to hear that penny squeal, they throw in gratuity (or as Charlie would say, tip) for good measure. Some of…
The gods smiled on Havana Hideout last night, celebrating its shout-out on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.A nasty little rainstorm that pissed down buckets ended just a half-hour or so before the party was slated to begin. And the usual screw-ups with Comcast that pixilated TV pictures at…
Havana Hideout isn’t hiding any more. The postage stamp-sized tiki bar, lounge, restaurant and generally cool place to hang in downtown Lake Worth hits the big time tonight with its debut on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins and Dives with Guy Fieri. To celebrate, Hideout owner Chrissy Benoit is throwing…
Every day he has the blues, and a hundred and some-odd days from now he’ll be bringing them to CityPlace. “He” is Riley B. King, aka Beale Street Blues Boy, aka Blues Boy King, aka B.B. King, and the fourth of his B.B. King’s Blues Clubs is slated to occupy…
They’re dancing on the tables in Palm Beach Gardens — literally — with the debut of Palm Beach County’s second Ouzo Blue. The first Blue set up in Lake Worth in January, bringing Greek faves from dolmades and spanakopita to moussaka and lamb kebabs, plus lots of table dancing, belly…
Yes, it seems even Palm Beach can’t escape the iron clutch of impending economic doom. Fortunes strip-mined by Bernie Madoff, trendy uber-boutiques slinking off Worth Avenue like mangy dogs, billionaires reduced to poverty-stricken multimillionaires. And now an affordable restaurant is heading for the streets-paved-with-18-carat gold island.Oh, the horror. . …
They say the restaurant business is a good way to lose your shirt, but over the past dozen or so years, Richard Day has managed to have his shirt and wear it too, along with a series of local restaurants, culminating in his latest venture, 33480 Bar & Grill.Though wearing…
Let’s face it, west Delray isn’t exactly the most happening place on the planet, so anything that might goose the action potential of an area best known for traffic jams and early bird (i.e., blue hair) specials has got to be a good thing. Right?Wendy Rosano thinks so, anyway. The…
The steakhouse is South Florida’s culinary equivalent of the undead, an immortal presence stalking the earth in search of new victims, attracting ever-larger numbers of flesh-munching zombies. Must. Eat. Meat.So if you’re jonesing for animal protein (cattle, not human. . . sorry, George Romero) still isn’t satisfied, here’s one more…
So you can’t turn around without someone shoving a bloody hunk of designer beef in your face. But you can turn around and see we really could use some better Thai restaurants.Could the new Atchana’s East West Kitchen in Coco Grove’s Mutiny Hotel be one? Well, it’s got a good…
The universe has but a few immutable laws. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Gravity does, in fact, suck. Politicians always lie. And a new steakhouse will open somewhere in Miami. The latest meatery making its debut is 5300 Chop House at The Blue, an…
If the fabulously unique, inventive cuisine of Peru doesn’t give your taste buds a woodie, you can leave the room now. The rest of you get ready for a new El Gran Inka, Miami’s third, coming in May to The Plaza building on Brickell Avenue. The menu will range from…
Can the owner of TGI Fridays and Krispy Kreme franchises find happiness and truly Italian cuisine in a giant shopping mall in Boca Raton? In a word, yes. Hey, I didn’t believe it either. But in the case of Pranzo, a spacious, airy space in the sprawling shopalopolis of Mizner…
A clue is a terrible thing to waste. Take Indigo, the upscale pan-Asian restaurant in the charming but inept Riverside Hotel on Las Olas Boulevard. There is, in fact, the whiff of a hint of a semblance of a real clue here: that a hotel with tony pretensions on Fort…
