I would die in combat if I didn’t have my iPhone, and I mean that sincerely. Next to my dog, my iPhone is my favorite thing in life. It’s gotten me through the trenches of downtown Miami. It’s made sure I didn’t overdraft money from my bank account. It’s found…
It’s not easy being a housewife, especially when that housewife is Teresa Giudice. With four daughters and filming the latest of a hit reality TV show, she barely found a little time to chat with Clean Plate Charlie. And by “barely,” I mean it was while she was eating dinner…
There are few breaks in the house of chef Ingrid Hoffmann. If she’s not recording one of her shows, she’s making appearances on others. When that stops, she has meetings to discuss her cookware, books, the future of her mobile application, and a spices line. This Friday, she gets one…
Shopping and sharing consume our holidays so much that we rarely get to stop and taste the sweets. Thankfully, the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek has a strict no dessert left behind policy. More than 50 of them, and that’s not sugarcoating it. From December 9 to 25 on Thursdays to…
The Place: Morton’s The Steakhouse – Three locations in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The Hours: Daily, bar only. Boca, Fort Lauderdale: 5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.; 9 p.m. – close. West Palm Beach: 5 p.m. – close. The Deets: Select wines, beers, Morton’s “Mortinis” – the restaurant’s take on…
The Place: More than half a dozen locations in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The Hours: Monday – Friday, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. The Deets: Half-price on selected wines by the glass, single well liquor mixed drinks, selected premium liquors, and $1 off all draft beers. The Boca Raton…
The Place: Zed451 Boca Raton The Hours: Weekdays, 4:30 – 7:30 p.m.; 9 p.m. – close (on weekdays, this is 11 p.m.) The Deets: Everything in the bar is half-price except for the Liquid Market menu (specialty drinks). Also half off is the “cravings” menu, which includes pad Thai chicken…
The Spot: Grand Lux Café in Boca Raton The Hours: Monday – Friday, 4:00-6:30 p.m., Bar Only The Deets: Grand Lux Café has extremely large portions for relatively decent prices. When those prices get sliced in half for two and a half hours a day, the extremely large portions look…
Besides Mother Nature’s damage, the only other thing hurricane season brings is a massive barbecue. After last week’s announcement from the National Hurricane Center that this year’s season will be “extremely active,” veteran hurricane survivors (AKA me) who saw Andrew, Frances, Jeanne, a little Katrina, and Wilma shrugged it off…
The Spot: Champps Americana in Fort Lauderdale The Hours: Monday- Friday, 4-7 p.m. and 9 p.m. – close The Deets: $1 off all drinks except bottled beers, and half off all appetizers, excluding the sampler platter and apparently, the Kobe beef sliders. The Scene: Champps is huge. It’s not snug…
The Spot: City Oyster – Downtown Delray Beach The Hours: Monday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m. The Deets: During City Oyster’s daily happy hour (weekends included!), there isn’t a drink in the house that isn’t half-price. Anything you ask for — including one of the delicious watermelon martinis — is on special. The…
There are few things I appreciate more than my iPhone. One of them is alcohol. Luckily, my employers felt the need to combine my two favorite things, and thus we introduce my new best friend: the Happy Hours App. Available for iPhones and Droids, the free application lets you choose…
The Spot: Himmarshee Side Bar The Hours: Monday- Friday, 5-8 p.m. The Deets: Payless isn’t the only one with a famous regular buy-one-get-one free special. Himmarshee’s Side Bar offers it every weekday. The special includes the majority of premium liquors, cocktails, and specialty drinks — but not top shelf and…
In my house, I was raised to believe that unless you wrote your name on a box of leftover takeout, it was free for anyone to eat. You stuck food in the fridge at your own risk, since my three brothers and I we were always hungry. This past Sunday,…
The Spot: Tarpon Bend in Fort Lauderdale The Hours: Sunday-Thursday 4-7 p.m.; Friday 4-9 p.m.; Saturday 6-9 p.m. The Deets: Don’t be too surprised; they were voted Best Happy Hour a few years back. Two-for-one on all beers (bottles and drafts), house wines, and mixed drinks, even top shelf. Not…
When we’re kids, Mom always tells us not to buy her anything, that she is perfectly happy with whatever we make her. In my house, she was thankful if my three brothers and I let her sleep in. Mother’s Day has always proven to be the busiest day of the…
The Spot: The Cheesecake Factory Nearly half a dozen spots in Broward and Palm Beach. The Hours: Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. The Deets: Cheesecake offers a small plates menu with more than a dozen restaurant favorites, including the roadside sliders and the guacamole made to order. Homemade mojitos, spiked…
For three straight weeks, Monday morning has welcomed me with open rainy arms. Either there’s some sort of conspiracy that I missed the memo on, or Mother Nature continuously has a strong case of the Mondays. I cure my case of the Mondays (especially the rainy ones) by baking. Banana…
The Spot: BRIO Tuscan Grille Three locations in Broward and Palm Beach The Hours: Monday – Friday, 3 – 7 p.m.; Monday – Thursday, 9 p.m. – close…
Since migrating to South Florida 16 years ago, I cannot leave (the place formally known as) Joe Robbie Stadium without eating an arepa. Introduced to me on a class field trip to see the Florida Marlins one year, I tried an arepa — a South American corn bread — when…
Garlic isn’t just a fascination; it’s a way of life. In my life, I use it in damned near everything. Especially when I make guacamole. I’ve tried guac sans garlic. Many restaurants that serve tableside guacamole combine the smashed avocado with more spices and ingredients than necessary and exclude garlic…
In the world of instant gratification, Twitter provides us with more quick and up-to-date information than we can actually swallow. With more than 50 million tweets per day, keeping up with the traffic has proven to be difficult. Since it’s next to impossible to follow every foodie in the Twitterverse,…
