Hot Stuff hits you where you need it when you crave an American-style comfort meal. High-quality fast food available from a drive-through window or via walkup, and it serves breakfast all day long? No downside to that. Among the customer-is-king benefits: a sausage/egg hoagie with a quarter pound of cheese…
Vaughan Lazar is pissed. The Pizza Fusion czar is definitely not down with elephant slaughter, and when GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons bragged about killing a male on video in Zimbabwe (which experts say was actually a protected female), Lazar lost it. And Parsons lost business. A lot of it. Lazar…
Starting with the emblematic still-life paintings of the Renaissance, artists have found ways to make food look mouthwatering on canvas. Reproductions of some of those old-school works are still found in fashionable restaurants, acting as visual cues to tease taste buds and get your tummy growling.After the jump, check out…
The other farmer’s market (Riverwalk) can’t compare to Sundays at the chemist parking lot on 12th Avenue and Las Olas Boulevard. Typically frou-frou gourmet offerings aside, this feels like a small street festival more than a farmer’s market. Didn’t used to be you could find five kinds of fancy salt…
Bermuda’s Collie Buddz’s cultural authenticity still runs pretty high despite his position as a white guy doing reggae. Is it his worldly credentials or his vanilla-yogurt-smooth voice? Check out his recent Playback EP for yourself. It’s far from Jamaican roots, but Collie never sounds like he’s trying to be anything…
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. 84: Guacamole From Dos Caminos…
If you like the combination of Pyrex and Facebook (and who doesn’t?), you’ll enjoy this chance to win a free set of Pyrex bakeware worth $250.When you’re done chuckling at the juxtaposition of “Pyrex” and “bakeware,” keep in mind that, if you’re lucky, you’ll get a signed copy of Sandra…
March 5, don’t you know, is National Absinthe Day. Well, that’s the word on the street — the Wormwood Society, devoted to all things absinthe-y, doesn’t say a thing about it. Rimbaud loved it, so that’s good enough for us. It’s true that March 5 is the four-year anniversary of absinthe…
On Sunday, February 27, up there at the Roger Dean stadium in Jupiter, spring training begins for the Florida Marlins. That’s great news for people who want to see them go up against… the University of Miami Hurricanes. It’s also nice for people who want to believe the two teams’ll tangle on…
In a lawsuit filed this week, a young woman who hostessed at a Las Vegas nightclub — Jet nightclub at the Mirage — claims her bosses at the Light Group and Dancing Monkey coerced her to drink at work, do massive amounts of coke, and get a boob job.According to…
Talk about having your work cut out for you: chef Ardasher “Alex” Asadullaev is responsible for all seven restaurants at the sprawling Mardi Gras casino complex.That’s what you get when you snag your job by beating out other contestants in a reality-showy cook-off competition…
It’s great when restaurants have websites. Makes life easier than trudging through a thicket of Yelps or merry bands of Advising Tripsters. But just because an eatery has some HTML skills doesn’t mean they have to use them. The Oatmeal has identified some of the worst traits of food-based websites. And it’s…
Look around — do you sense a shortage of hamburger joints? Didn’t think so. Into this burger-besotted market, Don Shula strides, head high. “If you like our steaks” — and many do! — “you’ll flip for our burgers!”That’s the Shula Burger slogan. “Coming soon” is the only other message.Don Shula…
There’s no shortage of drinking songs — here’s a list of 360 of ’em — but not all that many about specific liquors or cocktails. That’s sort of odd, considering how alcohol and live music go hand in hand. According to musicologists, drinking songs can be Irish (like Ween’s “The Blarney…
Garlic — it’s not just for vampires anymore. With all the soft-core neck-biting pornucopia of teen vampire fiction clogging the media pipeline, you’d think the lowly bulb would be up on billboards or the backs of buses by now.But no. Thankfully, every year Delray Beach rights that wrong and hosts…
Who even realized there was a market for marine fleas?OK, scratch that. Who knew there was a giant boat corral at the second-annual Palm Beach Marine Flea Market?Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, February 11 to 13, come check out the giant boat corral at the South Florida Fairgrounds. It’s just like…
Dolphins wide receiver Davone Bess has big Super Bowl plans. For the Sunday matchup between the Steelers and the Packers, he’ll be holding court not in front of his flat-screen but at Shula’s On the Beach in Fort Lauderdale. Happy hour starts at 4, and with kick-off two and a half…
Chef Victoria Allman does most of her cooking while traveling around the world on a yacht. Her first book, Sea Fare, was full of travel stories and recipes, which is what her new book, SEAsoned, is about as well.Actually, this is what it’s about:”Add two inexperienced crewmembers, an anorexic diva…
Duck season, wabbit season, Girl Scout cookie season — all things must pass. This is the last weekend you can buy Girl Scout cookies in South Florida. Last month, we turned viciously against the manipulative little sprites, and then we went all-out telling readers exactly how to find the girlies and…
Anyone who’s ever been in a recording studio knows the value of a tasty take-out meal to stoke the creative fires. And along with, wine, women, and song, it never hurts to have a big turkey leg to gnaw on.Almost every genre has an ode to food. Maybe not classical…
Over the years, eating has inspired music and musicians. Anyone’s who’s ever spent time in a studio knows how much a takeout gutbomb can help nail down that pesky chorus you’ve been working on all night.Favorite musician meals is a different blog post, however. Bands that actually took their name…
A decade of chocolate. A decade of decadence.On Thursday, February 3, join the Junior League of Boca Raton for the Tenth-Annual Chocolate Decadence bash, also known as “The Sweetest Party in Town.” This cocolicious soiree starts at 6 p.m. and brings together tasty food items and, of course, chocolate, wine, and…
