Cafe Boulud is hosting a wine pairing with two Walla Walla, Washington, wineries this Thursday at 7 p.m.Amavi Cellars and Pepper Bridge Winery will showcase their output alongside chefs Zach Bell and Matthew Petersen’s cuisine. The four-course meal will run $85, not including tax and gratuity. Reservations can be made…
This week in Dish, we review Wild Olives in Boca Raton, a collaboration between celebrity chef Todd English and local restaurateurs Lirim Jacobi and Dixon Li. A spinoff of English’s premier, Italian/Mediterranean eatery, Olives, the Boca restaurant took over where the celebrated Opus 5 left off in the Boca Center…
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…
That’s right: The retail megachain will no longer sell any farm-raised salmon at its grocery outlets. Instead, all salmon sold at Target stores will now be wild-caught Alaskan salmon only.Pretty conscientious for a national retailer.Now, all the frozen, fresh, and smoked salmon you find at Target will be the wild…
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 on the blog:Make your own corn tortillas at home with Maseca Corn Masa. Our new columnist Patty Canedo has another edition of Half Baked.We start off this week’s 100 Favorite Dishes with sliders from Zed451.Charlie cooks a feast using dried Mexican chilies. Part one teaches you how to…
Tell us what is the best pizza in Broward and Palm Beach counties in the comments section below. Voting ends May 26.Need some suggestions? Click here to view our pizza guide with critics’ picks.And click here for a master list of all Readers’ Poll items…
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…
Welcome back to Charlie’s dried chili adventure. In previous installments, we talked about how to prepare dried chilies as powder or puree and how to transform those ingredients into award-winning chili con carne. Today, we’re going to use our chilies to make pork al pastor, a Mexican dish I put…
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…
I barely even have to chew,” my friend Jeffrey said, pausing for a moment from sucking sticky-sweet barbecue sauce off the business end of a baby back rib. “They fall right off the bone.” He and I and about a dozen of my friends were hovering over aluminum trays outfitted…
If you’ve ever had a poor boy in New Orleans, you know that it’s not the freshly fried seafood that makes the sandwich. That honor goes to the flaky, airy bread shipped around the Crescent City by the G.H. Leidenheimer Baking Co. It should come as no surprise, then, that…
We’ve added a bunch more special menus and Valentine’s Day deals going on at local restaurants to our already long list. If you don’t have plans yet, now is the perfect time to check out our full list and make a reservation for the most romantic night of the year…
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…
If there’s one way to your Valentine’s heart, it’s through candy. Chocolate, caramels, suckers, toffee…there are so many ways to say “be mine” that involve sweets. At To The Moon Marketplace in Wilton Manors, you’ll undoubtedly find the most interesting, quirky selection of candy around, from novelty treats to fine…
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…
That’s right, folks. This week in Dish we finally hit the metal and review the rib and ‘cue joint from Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain, Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs. We first took a look at the now mega-popular rib shack when we interviewed owners McBrain and Rick “Moby” Baum back…
Yesterday, I talked about how to turn dried, Mexican chiles into powder or paste that can be used in any number of dishes. Today, we’re going to put those ingredients to use in a batch of chili con carne, Texas-style. I haven’t always made chili sans beans, the method most…
A couple weeks ago, I asked readers if they had any suggestions on what to do with some dried, Mexican chiles I had purchased at a local grocery store. I bought a bag of cascabel chiles and a bag of ancho chiles, and was looking to make something fun with…
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 on the blog:Our new columnist, Patty Canedo, dishes on cooking with liquid nitrogen.We hold a queso blanco party in the office and detail the fun. A whole new week of 100 Favorite dishes rolls out with Peruvian-style pollo from La Granja. The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival was last…
