The life of a restaurant critic isn’t always healthy. And lately, I’ve been feeling the effects of a rather luxurious diet. A couple of weeks ago, I came down with a case of food poisoning so severe it knocked me flat out for four days. And just a week before…
The Village at Gulfstream Park, a massive, billion-dollar outdoor shopping mall adjoined to the Gulfstream Race Track, is struggling in the summer heat, at least according to this article from the Sun-Sentinel. The story, which cites intense heat and the economy as contributing factors in the mall’s troubles, comes hot…
The deal: This long-standing restaurant serves Tex-Mex-inspired dishes in a quaint setting that looks like a Mexican cottage. It’s named after a classic Mexican tune played by Mariachi bands and not the famous Los Angeles restaurant. The Lighthouse Point location is now closed, but this Cielito Lindo on 44th St…
Chain sushi joint RA Sushi has long been an active contributor to charity organizations. It’s annual Nicky’s Week event held in early June each year has raised more than $700,000 for the St. Jude Research Children’s Hospital. And tomorrow, its inaugural “Roll ‘N With RA” sushi contest held at the…
In the first part to our interview with the star of Bravo’s latest season of Top Chef, Kenny Gilbert, we spoke to the chef about what it was like to live in the house and cook on the award-winning show. Today, we dish with Kenny on his appointment as executive…
Last week, I wrote about the MSC-certified swordfish on sale throughout the summer at Whole Foods. Well, this weekend, I decided it would be fun to try to actually cook something with it. So I hauled on over to the Coral Springs store and took a look firsthand at the…
Watch any of this season’s episodes of Top Chef and it’s clear that the level of competition has been raised higher than ever. There have been furious quickfires with crab parts exploding across the kitchen, heated battles between fierce competitors, and plenty of gastronomic masterpieces to marvel at. And at…
• Saturday and Sunday are decidedly happier days than any ol’ weekday. So why is it happy hour is restricted to Monday through Friday? It’s not at City Oyster and Sushi Bar in Delray Beach, where happy hour runs all week ’round. From 4 to 7 p.m., folks can get…
It was less than six months ago that national retailer Target completely ditched farm-raised salmon in favor of the environmentally conscious wild-caught variety. Now Whole Foods is getting in on the action. The national retailer has announced it will carry only Marine Stewardship Council-certified sustainable swordfish from Nova Scotia this…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…
Tonino Lamborghini Caffe Corsa, the restaurant named after the son of auto industry icon Ferruccio Lamborghini, has closed its doors for good. The restaurant located in the new, outdoor shopping mall the Village at Gulfstream Park married authentic Italian food with the kind of sleek design the younger Lamborghini is…
The menu at Mama Asian Noodle Bar in the Coconut Creek Promenade doesn’t stop at noodles. In fact, the list of Thai-, Chinese-, Japanese-, and Vietnamese-inspired dishes is so extensive that it can be difficult to decide what to order. A recent visit proved as much. I had brought my…
If you missed last month’s Boca Beer Lovers gathering at New Times’ Best New Bar in Palm Beach, the Lodge, it’s no biggie. You can hit up the next meet-up, taking place July 20 at the new World of Beer in Coconut Creek. The sudsy Valhalla, which opened last Tuesday,…
The deal: This duo of mom-and-pop Jamaican eateries offers a bunch of stick-to-your-ribs meals for under $10. One is near Broward Boulevard on 441, the other on 441 near Southgate. What you get: Daily lunch specials cost $4.77, which is crazy cheap for what you get: fried, brown stew, curry,…
Want to drink your wine and eat it too? Check out Wine Cellar Sorbet, a gourmet sorbet I found this week shopping at health food store Tunie’s in Coral Springs.The pint tubs of wine-flavored sorbet take the gourmet-ice-cream trend to another level. It comes in nine flavors, ranging from sangria…
Lobster is a steal nowadays, but that steamed tail on your plate could get even cheaper if Darden Restaurants has anything to say about it.According to the Orlando Sentinel, the company behind such national restaurant chains as Red Lobster and Capitol Grille is moving forward with lobster aquaculture. If all…
This week in Dish, we review Mama Asian Noodle Bar, a 5-month-old pan-Asian restaurant located in the outdoor shopping mall Promenade at Coconut Creek. It’s an attractive family-run restaurant bathed in red and black that serves a wide range of Thai entrées, inventive modern fusion dishes, plenty of Vietnamese- and…
I remember those narrow halls well — navigating the crowds of acid-jazz heads that packed all the way to the front door. Sidling up to the crowded bar to order La Fin Du Mondes and alligator tenders. Listening to the Pastorius brothers belt out hours of non-stop riff-age from the…
The article I wrote on Fort Lauderdale rogue restaurant Squat-N-Gobble got a little bit of national attention thanks to AOL site Rented Spaces. This piece from the site talks about apartment restaurants serving coq au vin in Fort Lauderdale and even links to our original story as well as Squat-N-Gobble’s…
If you’ve been keeping up with Top Chef this season, you’ve seen that one of the front runners to win the whole season is chef Kenny Gilbert. Each week, Kenny’s deep, complex food seems to land him in the running for a Quickfire or Elimination win. And even in those…
After Spain’s narrow World Cup victory yesterday, it’s likely folks in Madrid are still partying hard. Not only do the Spanish have the World’s best football team; they also have the World’s best hangover cure. It’s called a Spanish tortilla, and it’s essentially a thick omelet eaten either on its…
Eating a meal at Taste, the new Delray Beach gastropub from Allen Susser, is the gustatory equivalent of a World Cup draw. It’s like watching a Brendan Fraser film or listening to the latest U2 single. In other words, it’s wallpaper for your tongue. The entirety of the sterile-looking restaurant…
