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. 1: Trout Amandine from Rack’s Downtown Eatery + TavernHow do you pick something like the number-one…
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. 3: Seared Wahoo from 3030 OceanThe amazing thing about Fort Lauderdale’s 3030 Ocean is the deftness…
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…
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. 5: “The Basic” from Pizzeria Oceano”Pizza is the Cheers rerun of the food world,” my friend…
Last week, my fiancee’s father returned from a trip to Northern Florida with a veritable bushel of wild blueberries purchased from a roadside vendor. These things were amazing — monstrously big, ripe, and practically bursting with juice. For the next few days, we had blueberries on everything: in our cereal…
If you’ve been following the Miami Heat during this NBA post-season, you know the Three Kings and company have been white hot, tearing through playoff teams like Philadelphia and Boston with ease. Now, the Heat are poised to knock off Chicago in game five of the conference finals tomorrow night…
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. 7: Hog Snapper Oreganata from Sette BelloI have a request for you, Mr. Italian Restaurant Server…
It’s official: M Bar, the global tapas restaurant and bar from Mancini’s owner Jack Mancini, will open in June at 1301 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. The space, formerly belonging to Bar Amici, has been completely overhauled and is located adjacent to Rocco’s Tacos.To make way for the…
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. 9: Bucatini Carbonara From Cafe Martorano and Martorano’s Italian American KitchenSteve Martorano is as divisive a culinary figure…
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. 11: “Guido” Rib Eye From Vivo PartenzaSorry, folks. The jig is finally up for “value cut”…
American Craft Beer Week continues tonight with three outstanding events throughout Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Which means you don’t have to drive too far to get a taste of great craft beer. If You’re in Palm Beach……then you’ve got to hit up BX Beer Depot’s (2964 Second Ave., Lake Worth)…
It’s a good thing no one got too attached to the Atlantic Ocean Club, Delray Beach’s farm-to-table restaurant that set sail for good last weekend. The much-hyped restaurant’s stay on the avenue was a brief one. It lasted just four months total. Now set to take its place: The Pop…
This week is American Craft Beer Week, which means there are a host of beer events each night through Sunday. Tonight, one of the coolest events of the week goes down in Delray Beach. Ales on the Avenue is a full-fledged pub crawl hosted by a host of Delray Beach…
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. 13: Tomato Bisque en Croute From Jimmy’s BistroFew dishes out there can make an entire restaurant…
We love chef Lillo Teodosi’s Boca Raton Italian eatery, Caruso Ristorante. So after our 100 Favorite Dishes extolling his antipasti amuse posted yesterday, we were shocked to see a comment from a reader claiming Teodosi was no longer in the kitchen.Posted by Michael, 9 hours ago Unfortunately Chef Teodosi is…
Just months after it opened with chef Jamie DeRosa at the helm, Atlantic Ocean Club in Delray Beach shut down. According to Twitter, the final service for the “farm-to-table” restaurant came Saturday night, after which the entire staff was let go. The determinate nail in the coffin was posted on…
Great news, everyone! It’s American Craft Beer Week!What’s American Craft Beer Week? It’s a nationwide celebration of all things craft beer, running from May 16 to 22. And it’s going on right now at restaurants and bars all across South Florida.Getting involved is simple: Just pony up to any one…
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. 15: Antipasti Plate at Caruso RistoranteI don’t know Lillo Teodosi personally, other than the time I…
The votes are in, folks, and for the second year in a row, Wilton Manors’ Georgie’s Alibi claimed victory in the Riverwalk Trust Burger Battle, held Friday on Las Olas Boulevard. For Georgie’s, winning this competition two years in a row proves it can’t be a fluke. This burger, a…
Friday night’s Burger Battle continued the ongoing debate over which Fort Lauderdale restaurant is the champion of the chuck. And for the second year in a row, that champ is…Georgie’s Alibi. Click here for a full slide show from the event. The veteran Wilton Manors restaurant and bar wowed the…
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. 17: Pan-roasted Clams With White Beans From Himmarshee Bar and GrilleTo turn the expected into something…
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. 19: Hearts of Palm Cake From DarbsterThe problem with a lot of vegetarian cuisine is that…
