Spike Mendelsohn, the tall-hat-wearing, red-bearded contestant on Top Chef Season Four and Top Chef All-Stars, happens to own two fast-casual restaurants in D.C., We the Pizza and Good Stuff Eatery. Both restaurants buck the “fast food as junk food” concept and offer healthy farm-to-table cuisine in a casual setting. He…
Top Chef’s own resident molecular gastronomy twerp, Marcel Vigneron dropped in on Jimmy Fallon to plug his new cooking show Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen, which premieres on SyFy tonight at 10:00 p.m. The awesomeness comes when Marcel starts to make his own version of rice krispie treats for Jimmy. As Marcel starts…
Chef Zach Bell of Palm Beach’s Cafe Boulud has been named a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef (South). Chef Bell is the only South Florida chef to be named a finalist for the award. Other finalists in this category include John Harris (Lilette in New…
When Colt 45 and Snoop Dogg get together you know it’s class all the way. Colt 45 is entering the alcoholic-beverage-disguised-as-a-soda market with its new Blast beverages. According to The Wall Street Journal, Blast will have a 12% alcohol content (twice that of original Colt 45) and be available in…
Five blocks of Atlantic Avenue will turn into Florida’s largest outdoor dining experience this Thursday, March 24th. Over 1,000 people will dine at Florida’s largest communal table at “Savor The Avenue”, a fundraising event for The Office Depot Foundation…
Earlier this week, we interviewed The Office’s Chef de Cuisine, Francy Deskin. If you missed the interview, you can find it here and here. We’re also sharing with you Chef Deskin’s recipe for Wild Boar Ragu Over Chestnut Polenta. Enjoy…
Japan has experienced horrible devastation in the past week, but if there’s one thing for sure about the Japanese people, is that they have a great sense of humor. On Saturday you can celebrate Japanese whimsy with a panel on Wacky Japanese Snacks at The Morikami Museum’s Hatsumi Fair, presented…
Who wants a nice spotted dick?If you live in South Florida and have been looking for a place to stock up on Spotted Dick, Daddy’s Brown Sauce and Barry Norman Pickled Gherkins, chances are you’re not a perv – you’re just homesick for some favorite English foods. When Rob Brady…
Yesterday we posted Part I of our interview with The Office’s chef de cuisine, Francy Deskin. If you missed it, you can read it here. We continue with Part II. Clean Plate Charlie: Does your daughter like cooking? Do you think you’ll have another chef in the family? Chef Francy…
Last episode, Carla was thrown off. First Fabio, then Carla? Who could I possibly root for? Richard? Antonia? I’m a little depressed. Quickfire Challenge Back in the sunny Bahamas, we have Mike, Richard, Antonia, and Tiffany left — boy versus girl. Padma and Lorena Garcia from America’s Next Great Restaurant…
Craig Ferguson and Martha Stewart cozy up (sort of) during last night’s Late Late Show, and make pure television magic. Martha fesses up that she had never met Ferguson before and immediately Craig says she smells as good as he always dreamed she would. Martha says she lives on an…
The Office is restaurant mogul David Manero’s gastropub concept in Delray Beach. With 39 craft beers on tap and dozens more in bottles and creative twists on pub food classics, it’s one of the most popular (and populated) restaurants on the Atlantic Avenue strip. We caught up with chef Francy Deskin,…
Subway is beating the crap out of McDonald’s to win the title of largest fast-food restaurant chain. According to the Wall Street Journal, at the end of 2010, Subway had 33,749 restaurants worldwide, compared to 32,737 for McDonald’s. The number of McDonald’s stores was disclosed in an SEC filing. The majority…
Many St. Patty’s Day celebrations end up with people acting like animals, but this is one celebration where the party animals actually have tails! This Thursday, dress your furry friend in his best green sweater and bring him along to celebrate St. PAW-tty’s Day with beer, food, and music at O’Brian’s…
SAIA, the new South Asian-inspired restaurant at the B Ocean Ft. Lauderdale Hotel opened this weekend. The restaurant features modern decor and a direct oceanfront view. The menu is an ecclectic mix of sushi, hot and cool dishes, getting much inspiration from the spices and ingredients of Thailand. Guests are…
Instead of the usual Friday happy hour, why not watch people shave their heads for charity? Florida Panthers forward Shawn Matthias and others will shave their heads today at Sláinte Irish Pub in Boynton Beach to benefit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. Slainte’s Managing Partner Clem McAuley said $220,000 was raised last year to…
Earlier this week we featured an interview with Emeril’s Miami Beach chef de cuisine, Tim Doolittle. You can read the interview here and here. A recipe for Emeril’s classic Barbeque Shrimp follows. …
Funny or Die Sheen’s new career – warlock chef Charlie Sheen wants to be the next Food Network star. In his “pilot” episode of Winning Recipes filmed for Funny or Die, Charlie shows us how to make Tomato “Winning” Salad and steak with cows that he killed with his own…
We continue with our interview with Emeril’s Miami Beach chef de cuisine, Tim Doolittle. Read part I of the interview here. Clean Plate Charlie: Talk to me about the fact that this is Emerils, a New Orleans restaurant and the Miami Beach menu is not traditional New Orleans food. Chef…
Starbucks is 40 years old, which is weird because I never remembered Starbucks being around when I was a child…or a teen. In fact I remember not knowing what Starbucks was until one day literally ten thousand Starbucks appeared like a mutant strain of alien virus to take over the…
NBC Universal Wer’e in the finals in the Bahamas. The cheftestants walk into a fort where they meet the winners of their seasons and Eric Ripert. Quickfire Challenge Tom Colicchio says they’re going to go head to head against the winner of their particular season. The winner gets $10,000. That means…
Guy Fieri, the crazy-coifed host of Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, had his yellow and black Lamborghini stolen from a San Francisco car dealership today…
