It was about 7 on a Wednesday night when we arrived at Bamboo Fire in Delray Beach. We picked out a cozy seat near the restaurant’s front window looking out on Fourth Avenue. Fifteen minutes later, we were still waiting to be recognized by someone other than the riotous five-top…
With all the restaurants closing their doors lately, it’s easy to get a little jaded. But it’s a shock when a powerhouse like Bova Ristorante quits, which, according to employees at the restaurant, is just what happened Saturday night.The restaurant, at 1450 N. Federal Highway in Boca Raton, closed for…
Pete’s Tuscan Hibachi Grill was the Joey Bishop to Cafe Bella Sera’s Sinatra: classy, oddly entertaining, a good sense of humor. But now, the unique concept that fused Japanese hibachi-style cooking with Italian-American eats is officially closed.The Parkland restaurant, which sat right next door to owner Pete Lombard Jr.’s successful…
If Palm Beach is known for anything its as an enclave for the rich and powerful, a place where the Rush Limbaughs of the world can duck into their mansions like shells on a crab’s back. But halfway across the world, Palm Beach is known as the birthplace of one…
Do me a favor: take a look at that plate of curried Florida golden crab pictured above and imagine a scenario in which you can eat it and stay clean. Then I’d like you to please share your findings with me. Because after I was done the savory, spicy dish…
Dozens of local bakeries and chocolate shops participated in the Aventura Mall Chocolate Festival over the weekend, the gathering a monument to the world’s greatest sweet. There were contests, fashion displays, and, of course, gobs and gobs of decadent chocolate — on cupcakes, in truffles, and baked into all manner…
Pictured: Winter seasonal salad with mixed greens, sliced pears, spiced pecans, dried cranberries, roma tomato, and Gorgonzola cheese. Serve with roasted apple vinaigrette.Roasted apple vinaigrette: Sliced apples. Roast. Pulse. Olive Oil. Salt. Pepper. Dijon mustard. Champagne vinegar.Enjoy. …
I know many of you were looking forward to celebrating Festivus this year, but Slow Food has an even better winter holiday to take part in. Terra Madre Day is being held around the world on December 10 with the basic goal of celebrating food diversity. The grassroots campaign is…
This week according to Chucky:Troy’s Bar-Be-Que in Boynton Beach has great ribs and pork, but skip the sides.Women love the Frenchified eats at Mustard Seed Bistro in Cooper City.More eateries hit the skids this week, as Italian Oven Cafe and Frankies 124 shove off.Riki greasy spoons with her new beau…
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…
Get those crackers ready, folks; stone crab season officially opens today. The meaty claws will be available from now through May 15. You can stop drooling on your keyboard now.The start of the season also means the haven for all things crabby, Joe’s Stone Crab, reopens today for the 97th…
Haitian-born chef Ron Duprat lasted six episodes on Top Chef Las Vegas, eventually succumbing to some subpar paella. A jovial guy with a hearty laugh, Duprat is an easy person to like — if only the same could be said of the food at his restaurant in the Hollywood Beach…
Make no mistake; Tim Boyd is a lady’s man. There’s something about Boyd, the 42-year-old chef and owner of the Mustard Seed Bistro in Cooper City, that seems to attract women. Maybe it’s his amber brown hair and his deep, pronounced cheekbones or his lanky, boyish gait. Because when Boyd…
In one of the most-talked-about moves in food journalism since… well, as long as I can remember, Frank Bruni hung up his silverware at the New York Times in August, leaving a gaping chasm for his successor, the Times’ own Sam Sifton, to wedge into. Sifton’s very first column –…
Here’s what New Times wrote about Gran Forno Bakery in our 2001 Best Of Issue:To find Gran Forno, you could look for the storefront window that displays bakers at work, or you could simply close your eyes (mind your step) and follow your nose. The smell of bread, savory with…
Jazziz Bistro, the swank supper club in the Seminole Hard Rock and sister “venue” to Jazziz magazine, closed in April of this year. Since then, the site has remained empty, with a lot of speculation as to what is going in there. Now the rumor mill is brewing, and some…
Last week I checked out Ron Duprat’s restaurant in the Hollywood Beach Marriott, Latitudes Beach Cafe. I high hopes for Duprat’s food after catching the Haitian-born chef on this season of the Bravo series Top Chef, even if longtime critic Gail Shepherd had once ravaged the place with such a…
On deck this week: our review of Mustard Seed Bistro, a quaint French-inspired eatery in Cooper City. It’s the product of Tim and Lara Boyd, a pair of restaurateurs now in their second location since selling Plantation’s Upper Crust Cafe in 2004. Like their last effort, Milk and Honey, the…
Pictured: World’s Best egg salad sandwich with Florida avocado salsa.Egg salad: Hard boiled eggs. Mayonnaise. Dijon Mustard. Louisiana hot sauce. Salt. Pepper. Cayenne chili powder. Avocado salsa: Florida avocado, diced. Campari tomato, diced. Spanish white onion, sliced long. Cumin. Lemon juice. Salt. Pepper. Olive oil.Finish: Toasted, whole grain bread. Big…
For me, passing a barbecue stand on the side of the road is like seeing a leprechaun handing out gold bullion — I pull my car over as fast as possible and get in line. So when I came across Troy’s Bar-Be-Que this weekend, I had to check it out…
This week on the blog:Top Chef contestant Ron Duprat does it for the kiddies, and serves some great sea bass at Whole Foods’ Lifestyle Center. Southern-fried Louisiana cookery lands out west with Creolina’s Dixie Takeout, and the staff is still just as sweet.In Love Bites, Riki finds true love, but…
Last week we suggested our top five Dine Out Lauderdale choices, a list punctuated by one Cafe Maxx. Based on our visit this week, we were right: Cafe Maxx has come up with a spectacular Dine Out menu that gives you more than just a little sample of the restaurant’s…
