Put chef Vito Raneri and front of the house maven David Acker together and you’ve got Davito’s Italian Restaurant (19635 State Road 7, 561/482-2323), dishing all your familiar Southern Italian dishes in a piazza-like dark wood and marble space in West Boca Raton.  Raneri, for more than 20 years chef…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 28: Tiramisu from Arturo’s RistoranteHaving gone from obscurity to ubiquity faster than you can say “mascarpone,”…

Neanderthal Man’s idea of a food truck was probably a wandering brontosaurus. Modern Man has BC Tacos.  Brett Chiavari’s BC Tacos is the latest food truck to come truckin’ on the local food scene, with a planned debut on Wednesday, May 18, at a food truck rally at the Ed…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 30: Frisee Salad with Egg from The Office In France, they call this delightful salad of…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 32: Vitello Tonnato From Apicius For some reason, the best dishes of any cuisine seem…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 34: Fried Calamari With Moroccan Aioli From Sundy House There’s something terribly shameful about admitting…

Sometimes dining out isn’t all about the food. Sometimes it’s about having had a really crummy day, but you went to this restaurant and everyone there was so nice, so pleasant, so glad to see you, like they were inviting you into their own home, that you left feeling better…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 36: Bone-in Filet Mignon from Morton’s In the community of carnivores, the filet mignon (“dainty…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 38: Crab-Avocado Strato From Cielo…

A pair of new faces are gracing Andrew’s Restaurant, the niteclubby “American bistro” in Boca Raton that debuted in December of last year with former Barton G. chef Roberto Hernandez at the culinary helm.  New partner and long-time Boca-ite Vera Weiler has joined founder Andrew Pietrak, and the kitchen is…

•    Hoping they’re launching a really big hit, niteclub impresarios Rodney Mayo and Scott Freilich and Pizza Fusion proprietor Vaughan Lazar are planning to open Kapow! Noodle Bar in July in Boca’s Mizner Park. “Fresh and sustainable” pan-Asian noodles, some dim sum items and cocktails will be on the menu,…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2011, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to Deirdra.Funcheon@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 40: Chivito From Cilantro’sCalling the chivito a mere sandwich is like calling Charlie Sheen your…

With all the new restaurants opening in our fair burg nowadays, you might think all is sweetness, light, milk, honey, and beds of red roses in the local dining industry.  You would be, uh… wrong. Several restaurants have either formally gone to that great Dumpster in the sky or are…

If you can stand the heat, get into the new Caliente Kitchen, which will makes its debut on Cinco de Mayo in the mammoth Renaissance Commons retail-residential complex in Boynton Beach.  The second Kitchen from proprietor Taylor Smith will join its Delray Beach parent with an all-day, “family friendly” festival…

He helped make “California cuisine” popular in South Florida, now Dennis Max is spreading the farm-to-table gospel that originated in California to white-hot Delray Beach, where in June he expects to open his own outpost of that now-nationwide culinary trend, Max’s Harvest.Max, who took a break from the sturm und…

Upscale casual Brio Tuscan Grill, part of the Ohio-based Bravo Brio Restaurant Group chain, is slated to debut in the Shops of Boca Center mall sometime this fall.  The 8,400-square-foot Brio will be the chain’s fourth SoFla location, joining fellows in Hallandale Beach, Pembroke Pines and Palm Beach Gardens. At…

Well, I stopped by the new World of Beer (101 Clematis St., 561-833-3325) in West Palm the other day, and though the space itself is not as large as you might expect, a more accurate name for it might be An Infinite Universe of Suds from Here to Jupiter and…