This week on the blog:Put some lamb in that hamburger, son.We add eats from Aleyda’s, Pine Garden, Rosey Baby, and more to our list of 100 Favorite Dishes in South Florida.Celebrity Chef Ralph Pagano left the Customs House to return to television. His new show will be called RST RV.Check…
The Balti curry from Curries & More in Boca Raton was brick-red and thick, with large chunks of boneless, white-meat chicken. Scooped up with naan or eaten over basmati rice, it had a peppery, slow-blooming heat that built up to a fierce boil. Behind that heat was a tremendous amount…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
• Matisyahu in the sky with… Cajun-rubbed cowgirl rib eyes and ahi tuna? That’s the idea, anyway, as the Hasidic reggae artist will perform a special, free show at Sky309, also known as Roxy’s Rooftop Bar in West Palm Beach. The food and drink outfit will be unveiling a new…
I was completely worn out by the time we’d finished dinner last night. It was all I could do to keep my eyes open as Dani and I watched the latest episode of LOST on TiVo. But when we thought about dessert, I managed to get a second wind (that…
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 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
There’s a lot to be said for a huge bowl of pasta, a mixture of starch and sauce that seems indomitable in its sheer size. That’s just what you’ll get at Sazio, a Delray Beach Italian joint that takes the premise of chain eateries like Olive Garden and Carrabba’s and…
There’s a scene in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather in which Clemenza, having just overseen the assassination of Paulie in the back of his car, says to his partner, “Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.” It figures a rough mobster like Clemenza would turn his thoughts to food immediately after whacking…
The chicken curry at Curry Hut in Pompano Beach reminded me of the cumin-heavy Indian food my friend’s mother makes. Her family is from India by way of Guyana, which lends her dishes a Caribbean influence. At family gatherings, they eat a mixture of vegetarian aloo (potato), channa (chick peas),…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
This week in Dish, we take a look at Mona Lisa Coal Oven Pizza in Deerfield Beach. Here’s a quick glimpse of the review:At Mona Lisa – the South Florida leg of an 80-year-old bakery from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn – the cannolis are worth offing someone for. The shells are made…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
The 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival wrapped up on Sunday, and among the festivities was the Grand Tasting Village, a food- and spirits-tasting extravaganza stretching across half-a-dozen city blocks on the sand in South Beach. The multi-tent display offered all you could eat vittles from local restaurants, bottomless…
Our sister blog, Short Order, has a ton of coverage and post-game analysis today of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Miami New Times restaurant critic Lee Klein dishes up the Top Five Screw-Ups of SBWFF 2010, and while a famous food celeb dropping trou is not among them, there…
Ralph Pagano, the Hell’s Kitchen alum and erstwhile executive chef of the restaurant formerly known as Customs House, is headed back to television. It turns out his split with the Boca Restaurant (detailed last week on Clean Plate Charlie) was mutual. While Customs House will now be known as Chris…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
It was a huge week on the blog. Check out what you missed below:Chef Patty Canedo gave us another look into the life of a busy chef in her weekly column, Half Baked.Our list of 100 Favorite Dishes continued this week with Fort Lauderdale favorite Zona Fresca, Galanga sushi’s lobster…
A week after learning that Hell’s Kitchen veteran Ralph Pagano was no longer executive chef at Customs House in Boca Raton, the restaurant has undergone a massive face-lift. No longer Customs House, it will now move forward as Chris Michael’s Restaurant and Lounge.Charlie spoke to the restaurant’s general manager, Angelo…
The tacos at El Guanaco sport made-to-order tortillas as thick as three normal corn tortillas pilled up. Order one and you’ll hear the chefs in the kitchen (separated from you by only a bit of tinted glass) pat and mold fresh corn masa by hand, then slip it on the…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
• New Times’ Annual Beerfest is just around the corner again. The fest will go down on April 17 from 7 to 11 p.m. in Fort Lauderdale’s Esplanade Park (across the street from the Museum of Discovery and Science, next to the river). There’s already a ton of great craft…
