Anyone who’s watched food TV since its inception has seen a steady evolution of the medium, from a staid Mario Batali cooking for three friends to Gordon Ramsay going batshit in Kitchen Nightmares to the snarky food soap opera that’s Top Chef to Adam Richman snarfing down burritos as thick…
There’s nothing that washes away the taste of the old year and sharpens your appetite for the year to come than sparkling wine. Though true champagne comes only from the Champagne region of France, excellent bubbly is produced all over the world, much of it surprisingly affordable. Which is a…
If 2010 was a fish, most of us would throw it back. So say good riddance to the old and check out the festivities at this quintet of Palm Beach County restaurants. 5. Café BouludDaniel Boulud’s Palm Beach outpost with James Beard Award-nominated chef Zach Bell at the helm is…
Il Mercato is a white-tablecloth restaurant without the white tablecloths. Or any tablecloths, for that matter. But don’t let its lack of table coverings fool you: This cozy café-wine bar is dishing the kind of simple yet sophisticated food you can eat every day… at prices you can afford. Credit…
It’s been a rough year for Santa. He’s underwater on the mortgage on his North Pole digs, and Mrs. Claus had to take a job at Walmart to make ends meet. He laid off 20 percent of his elves because of slack demand for toys and outsourced his gift fulfillment…
RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING Apicius, 210 E. Ocean Ave., Lantana Deck 84, 840 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach Bongos Cuban Cafe, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood Andrews Restaurant, 99 SE Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co., 4403 Northlake Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens Amici Market, 155 N. County Road, Palm Beach…
Real Chinese cuisine in Palm Beach County? Well, stranger things have happened. At least they will if all goes according to plan at the new China Beach Bistro (409 Northwood Rd., 561-833-4242), an upscale restaurant dedicated to …
You might not think a dish as elementary as garlic bread would be featured on one of the Food Network’s most popular shows. But, like Alex Guarnaschelli, if you’ve tasted the garlic bread at Rosario’s Ristorante in Boca Raton, it doesn’t seem odd at all. As a regular on “The…
In the first annual Grand Chef Throwdown at the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival last night, Roy Villacrusis’s cuisine reigned supreme. Villacrusis, chef-owner of the new (and terrific) Kubo Asiatic Cuisine in North Palm Beach, smacked down former Top Chef contestant Howie “Bulldog” Kleinberg and local private chef Jeremy…
• The long-shuttered Market Salamader in Palm Beach is now Amici Market (155 N. County Rd., 561-832-0201) the latest project of Maurizio Ciminella, owner of the late Amici’s Ristorante. Foods to go, organic produce, all-natural beef, seafood and assorted “gourmet” items are all on the shelves. • One of the…
If Boca’s Table 42 Italian Kitchen + Wine Bar keeps adding new dishes, it may have to change its name to Table 43. Okay, not really, but Gary Rack’s stylish trattoria-enoteca in Royal Palm Place is bulking up its menu for the coming season, adding everything from new burgers to…
You’ve seen her on the Food Network, between the covers of glossy food magazines, even hawking Crisco; now you can see Michelle Bernstein actually… cooking. Yes, even celebrity chefs get behind the stove once in awhile, and come Saturday, December 11, SoFla’s biggest culinary star will take her turn around…
Local oenophiles, grazers, and jazz lovers will all have a new headquarters come December 11, when Lake Worth’s Dolce Vita wine shop expects to move from its tiny downtown J Street location to larger, grander quarters around the block, taking over the building formerly home to yoga studio-veggie café Soma…
Taste Gastropub, star chef Allen Susser’s upscale-casual eatery in Delray Beach, has closed, at least temporarily, according to the message on the restaurant’s phone line. Rumors of the closure have been swirling for several days, but Charlie has so far been unable to contact Susser for confirmation, though apparently there’s…
• The chanting of “Ommm” will be replaced by the popping of corks come early December when Lake Worth’s Dolce Vita wine bar moves from its current J Street location to the downtown space at 609 Lake Ave. recently vacated by defunct yoga studio Soma Center. In the works in…
Fans of authentic French patisserie have something to celebrate this holiday season with the debut in the next week or so of a second Le Petit Pain bakery-café in the Boynton Beach Mall. The new Le Petit joins owners Tom and Gaelle Tchernia’s original French bakery in Lantana, which has…
Following the Halloween debut of his Luna Lounge (207 Clematis St., 561/629-5241) nitespot in West Palm Beach, proprietor Osman Mehter has added a restaurant featuring the cuisine of his native Turkey. Doing the cheffing is Rauf Ziya, a long-time industry veteran who was last seen in the kitchen of Anatolia…
Thursday, November 25, is, of course, Thanksgiving Day. It’s a day for Americans from coast to coast to gather family and friends and, in the spirit of the holiday, watch interminable football games between two pathetic teams of losers who couldn’t beat their own grandmother with a tire iron. That,…
You really want something to be thankful for? Be thankful you don’t have to pick one wine to go with everything in the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner. Something that pairs with 18 dishes from mashed potatoes to sweet potatoes to Brussels sprouts to pumpkin pie… it’s enough to give even…
Awhile back, I wrote plugging the Best Chicken Ever, a dry-brined bird based on a recipe developed by Judy Rodgers of San Francisco’s Zuni Café. Rubbed with salt and pepper and stuffed under the skin with fresh herbs, then left to “brine” in the fridge for 24 to 48 hours…
Tomato junkies, your fix is here. If you’ve been jonesing for a fresh, ripe, sweet tomato, one that doesn’t look like it was manufactured from melted-down Evian bottles, you are officially in luck. The season’s first heirloom tomatoes, grown hydroponically by Farmhouse Tomatoes of Lake Worth and Delray Beach, are…
It’s Bahama Mama’s, mon. That’s the latest eatery to set up shop on West Palm’s very own Restaurant Row (340 Clematis Street; 561-659-2912) a Caribbean-themed, seafood-oriented spot only a block from Reef Road Rum Bar, another island-inspired restaurant. Proprietor John Ciulla “has been fishing and diving South Florida and the…
