The Village Taverns (there’s one in Pembroke Pines and one in Boynton Beach) are putting up the Hope-tini as a Cocktail for a Cure. With each sold through October, $2 goes to breast cancer research.Here’s the recipe, so you can make it at home — after you’ve given at the…
It’s a new menu and new pricing but the same owners and building as the old Tavern of Jupiter on U.S. 1 south of Indiantown Road.CentraArchy Restaurant Management, owners of New York Prime in Boca Raton, tried to sell it but had no takers. They instead decided to remake the…
No heavy lifting, exotic ingredients or even kitchen know-how is involved in making deviled eggs, which, incidentally, never fell out of favor with certain regional types (read that: Southerners). Trendy? We scoff at the notion that a simple picnic basket, funeral table, and church supper staple show up on a…
We told you about Chef Dean Max of 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale competing this past weekend in the Great American Seafood Cook-Off in NOLA. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service sponsored the seventh-annual contest, held again in New Orleans. We now present you with his winning recipe; he brings the…
Christian Cotton, chef/owner of Cafe Copenhagen in Jupiter, is calling it quits in Jupiter’s Driftwood Plaza. He’ll be open for dinner Tuesday to Sunday through July 31 and for brunch on the weekends till that date; reservations are recommended if you do want in on one of the final meals.Cotton’s…
The 99-year-old Erickson Farms in Canal Point opens its gates to the public on Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., for its annual Farm Tour. The free tour features rides among the mango groves — 40 acres of them — and around the other tropical trees growing on the other…
Diners can search databases of 500-plus bottle list several ways to match wine with meals and avoid intimidation of sommelier.
Mike (born Michele) Testa III, 60, died July 9 at his home in Bar Harbor, Maine. He was a member of the Testa family whose namesake restaurants have served the Palm Beach and Bar Harbor crowds since 1921. Testa’s, a landmark eatery in Palm Beach, is among the oldest restaurants…
The annual blow-out festival celebrating the mango, including the popular Sunday Mango Brunch, is this weekend at Fairchild Gardens in Miami.Be very British and wear a raincoat – the only proper way to eat a mango – since there will be a vast variety of the tropical fruits representing those…
Friday night at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Boca, it’s drums and sushi and koi at their Summer Sushi & Stroll event. The gardens stay open late, from 5:30-8:30 p.m., so guests can stroll around, get a bite from the Cornell Café (safe American sushi — best bet…
Lobsters and barbecue, tunes by the Urban Gypsy smooth jazzers from Miami — and the beach in Palm Beach — the Four Seasons knows how to throw a cookout.Such a deal! Chef Darryl Moiles will put out a buffet spread tonight of veggie kebabs, barbecued ribs (probably with the house-famous…
Never count him out – Mark Militello, an original South Florida chef who first came to notice with Mark’s Place in Miami, is back at a hotel – The Atlantic on Ft. Lauderdale beach – to revamp and rework restaurant Trina’s menus.”It will be totally chef-driven,” he said. “I’m redesigning…
Leave it to the engineers to come up with this one. A couple of decades ago, a bunch of old Pratt-Whitney guys who were into beer began this bar pedal (not a crawl, get it?) around north Palm Beach County. It’s been kept up in some form annually since then…
UPDATE: SORRY, BUT THE GRAND OPENING HAPPENED LAST SATURDAY, JUNE 19. HOWEVER, SOMA CENTER IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. On Saturday, the Clematis Street outpost of the SOMA Center, a holistic center and café whose original location is in Lake Worth, will have its grand opening.Meditation and yoga classes, workshops, raw…
In honor of International Sushi Day this Friday, RA Sushi in Palm Beach Gardens and Pembroke Pines is offering anyone who “likes” them on Facebook a coupon for a free Tootsy Maki roll. It’s kani kama crab mix, shrimp and cucumber, rolled in crunchy tempura bits, and drizzled with a…
Medflies are back in South Florida and creating a serious outbreak, according to Department of Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson. He deems the threat from the Mediterranean fruit fly, first discovered in Boca Raton traps over the weekend, “disturbing.” Not since 2002 has South Florida has seen the destructive flies — tiny insects…
“We don’t have any old food here — there’s nowhere to put it,” says Fernando Diaz, who is partners with Carlo Sernaglia in the 4-month-old Vagabondi restaurant in West Palm Beach. The restaurant is the first for the duo. Sernaglia, of Venezuela and Italy, is the chef and most recently worked as…
Yup, Homer, there really is a National Doughnut Day, established in 1938, if you look into it. Dunkin’ Donuts is offering a free doughnut today in all its stores (one to a customer) in honor of the “hole-a-day.”…
Chef Dean Max, a farmboy, knows corn.
Recipes for grilling on Memorial Day or for any cook-outs.
We chatted with Chef Dean Max, a man noted for his seafood dishes but also for his push to use fresh, local products whenever possible, unusual in a hotel restaurant setting. Max, a Virginia and Florida farm boy, runs five restaurants: 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale’s Harbor Beach Marriott; the Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada, AMP…
Celebrate American Craft Beer Week in Boca or CityPlace’s Brewzzi brewpub.
