Curbside Gourmet, the creation of former movie-TV caterer and private chef Rick Simek and culinary grad Mary Cheatham, is now roving along Dixie Highway and Flagler Street, dishing breakfast, lunch and afternoon snacks that aim to hit the sweet spot described in the logo: “local, honest, seasonal street food.” What…
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. 90: Pork Buns From Umi Fish Bar + Grill It goes without saying that South…
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. 91: Mariquitas From Cabana Potato chips, you’re outta here. Tortilla chips, take a hike. Corn…
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 Food@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 92: Meatballs With Ricotta and San Marzano Tomato Sauce From Deck 84 Like any uncomplicated…
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 Food@BrowardPalmBeach.com.No. 93: Crème Brûlée With Berry Compote From Mojo”But it’s only crème brûlée,” I hear you…
With the addition of a slew of new menu items, there’s a lot more to relish at Relish, West Palm Beach’s sleek purveyor of designer burgers. Proprietors Daniel and Desiree Tobin have bulked up their eatery’s dining options by adding new sides and snacks, an extensive salad bar, and cooked-to-order…
Perennial James Beard Foundation nominee Zach Bell of Palm Beach’s Café Boulud is getting a third crack at being named Best Chef South, joining Dean James Max of Fort Lauderdale’s 3030 Ocean as two of three South Florida semifinalists for the 2011 Beard award. The third SoFla chef is Philippe…
It’s a long way from the wannabe avant garde cooking of former Top Chef contestant Stephen Asprinio to standard-issue Italian to burgers and ESPN, but that’s the journey of the spot at 225 Clematis St., which morphed from Forte di Asprinio to Forte (minus Asprinio) to — coming April 1…
Michael Schwartz’s genuine food has made him one of South Florida’s most acclaimed chefs. At a time when foams and gels and airs and kitchens outfitted with the kind of equipment better suited to a science lab than a place to cook have been lavished with more hype than the…
Jumping on the ever-growing food truck bandwagon is Curbside Gourmet, the creation of former TV-movie caterer and private chef Rick Simek and culinary school graduate Mary Cheatham, who aim to put the now way-trendy farm-to-table ethos on four wheels. The duo’s truck, outfitted with a complete professional kitchen at the…
In the days when “modern medicine” meant bleeding, leeches and sacrifices of small animals, there was no little blue pill to turn a limp noodle into a Large and Terrible Shaft of Rigid, Throbbing Steel. So our primitive ancestors had to rely on more, ah. . .. natural means to vanquish…
Sometimes everything you need to know about a restaurant is in its name. Take Mugs Sports Grill. The logo on its website shows the u in Mugs as a mug full of a carbonated yellow liquid, which we will assume is beer. Then come the words Sports and Grill. What…
At the oh-so-romantic Wish in SoBe both the regular menu and a three-course, $75 per person menu will be offered from 6 to 10 p.m. Begin with hamachi sashimi with yuzu-lime gelee and cilantro dressing, then choose between butter-poached Maine lobster with bacon vinaigrette or pan-seared beef tenderloin with red…
It’s not too early to make those rezzies for you and your honey to get all sloppy and romantic over Valentine’s Day dinner (which, for those of you who don’t want to be sleeping on the couch for the rest of the month, is Monday, Feb. 14). So here are…
• Suck my beans, Starbucks. West Palm Beach’s latest ode to caffeinated beverages is anything but another corporate purveyor of designer coffee. Harold’s Coffee Lounge (514 Northwood Road; 561-833-6366) pours a nice cuppa amid local art, occasional live music, free WiFi, and pastries from the estimable Le Petit Pain. And…
When was the last time an omelet or frittata or a simple hard-boiled egg was something special? Easier question: When was the first time? If your omelet, frittata, HBE, whatever are nothing special, it’s probably because your eggs are nothing special. Lucky for you, the cure is as close as…
Clematis Street’s challenge to Atlantic Avenue as Palm Beach’s premier Restaurant Row calls and raises one more with the debut of Luigi’s Italian Restaurant (118 Clematis St., 561-833-4456) in the former Cabana space a meatball’s throw from West Palm’s revitalized waterfront. Proprietor Glenn Frechter, who also owns the Cabana chainlet,…
Come Sunday, February 6, there will be super parties, super food and booze, super commercials, super hype, and super hangovers. Oh, yeah. And a football game too… the Hardhats versus the Cheeseheads. Or something like that. This year, however, the football part of the annual Super Bowl ritual might really…
Dear Taco Bell: I heard about the false-advertising lawsuit filed against you by a California woman alleging that the “seasoned ground beef” in your tacos, burritos, chalupas, etc., doesn’t contain a whole lot of, you know… beef. In fact, the woman’s attorney is quoted as saying that only 15 percent…
Despite its reputation as a nothing town at the northern edge of nowhere, when it comes to restaurant openings this month, Palm Beach Gardens is where it’s at. Whether you want thick, juicy, blood-rare burgers or gastronomically correct vegan fare, nouveau Asian cuisine and sushi or contemporary American cuisine that…
Just in time for national Blueberry Pancake Day (Friday, Jan. 28) and just on the heels of the Taco Bell faux beef scandal comes a report that those “blueberries” you think you’re eating in many cereals, pastries and muffins actually aren’t blueberries at all, but rather chemical concoctions of sugar,…
If the image of George Gershwin sitting at a picnic table with his sleeves rolled up, a big ol’ rib bone in his mouth, and barbecue sauce and pork grease dripping down his chin, seems hard to wrap your eyeballs around, that’s because it is. But I’d also be willing…
