While we were feasting outside Rock Hard Tacos yesterday, a half dozen of people asked us what we liked among the many items in our spread, which led to inspiration for today’s post. After all, how often have you dined at a place that’s new to you, wishing you had…
We here at Clean Plate Charlie have a pair of tickets to the August 27 Bus Loop, a $20 value worth admission to 25 venues and a free drink or food item at each. Make like a drunk tourist and ride the trolley from Cafe Bluefish to McSorley’s, Cafe Del Mar,…
There’s a mid-August languor in food news. Despite the slow going, here’s a handful of link-worthy stories on food and drink from around the internets. Not just for garnishes anymore, herbs are apparently the new vegetable, though the article isn’t very convincing. In the Sunday Times Magazine, Mark Bittman suggests that herbs…
Sometimes you’re in the mood to skip the weekend’s amateur hours and pony up with the professionals. Morning bars are just the spots. Here’s a list of places to tie one on just a coupla hours past sunup.1. The Hut. Though the bar reads “package store,” the place attracts more…
South Florida is flooded with temples to craft brews. Next up? Biergarten Boca Raton, a casual Tyrolean restaurant conceived by Arturo Gismondi of Cannoli Kitchen. Slated to open October 1st, the restaurant concept- for now, anyway- is German-inspired interior with an international menu…
I’ve been sampling dozens of sandwiches around Fort Lauderdale the past two weeks and it seems that Lauderdalians like their portions huge. Take the sandwiches for example. My first fore into Florida Eats Big was on my first day of work when I went with my editors to My Market,…
Glen Manfra’s Pop Up restaurant — which was always envisioned as a temporary eatery (and which has delicious food, according to my predecessor John Linn) will hold out two more weeks until it folds for the summer to undergo transformation for its next incarnation as Spoon Fed, a comfort-food, Italian-inspired…
After checking out Bill Citara’s review of Palm Beach’s Cafe Boulud — our Dish coulmn this week — Clean Plate Charlie followed up for a debrief with executive chef Jim Leiken. We talked about his new gig, settling in, and what’s to come at Cafe Boulud by Daniel. Clean Plate…
Julian Siegel is a sandwich aficionado. He’s also confessed to some cheap bastard tendencies. The owner of Riverside Market grew up eating subs from LaSpada’s and My Market once he moved downtown. “I was paying $11 for a sandwich,” he said. “I wanted to pay $9 for a sandwich.” Eventually…
Tacky toys made for getting off are downright depressing. For example, a lady can try and please herself with a corpse-like shaft or she can go for the cheery purple, pink, or blue equivalent that’s about as hot as a Muppet’s member. It’s enough to make a girl want to…
Though Eater Miami reports on a chef change-up at the organic-focused DIG in Delray Beach, owner Robert Greenfield told New Times today that Chef Joey Giannuzzi was never a partner, but rather a consultant. That’s funny, since it’s reported here, here and here the two were partners.”If things would have worked out, he would…
Restaurants are already gearing up for fall, as the trickle of tourists is destined to become a flood when the temperature drops up north. Good ol’ Craigslist tells us what’s slated to open, which restaurants are touting their own hotness, and a few other tidbits. . . .After the fallout following…
Seems a Fort Lauderdale farm-to-table breakfast spot is a big enough deal to make news all the way down in Miami. The day after it opened, a couple of friends and I defected to visit Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House (O-B House) to check it out. Here’s the skinny out of the gate: The…
Calling all cougars: It may not be high season, but there’s no shortage of women on the prowl in these parts. Here’s our list of wines we’ve noticed among your favorite sips. And if you really want to coug it up, you may get a little crazy and add ice…
Last month, Bob Denison and Beck Hammontree, who own the Victoria Park location of Brew Urban Cafe, quietly purchased the shop on Himmarshee from Rick and Dede Hunter. Hammontree confirmed the sale to New Times today. “It’s a good store,” said Hammontree of the downtown location. “We’ll try not to…
Thought I’d share some of the most interesting food-related links I’ve read from around the internets over the past few days: Another Shake Shack is slated for South Florida — Coral Gables, to be specific. The New York Times Magazine illuminates restaurateur Danny Meyer’s plans to take over the world, one…
New York, New Jersey, and Philly were in the house on Saturday night at JoJo’s Tacos, where I put back a Corona while I waited for a seat at the bar. I felt like I was back in my hometown at the Jersey Shore as I chatted with Aneillo, a sales…
At the end of every month, we look back and take stock of restaurants that have opened and closed. (I know we’re a few days into August already; forgive us!) Though the crowds may have migrated north for the summer and the temperature has soared, things around here aren’t as languid…
Give me your shittiest beer,” I said to Nicole, the bartender at Laser Wolf who was lamenting a Wednesday night in the off-season, this one especially quiet sans vinyl. The bar is among my favorites of the six I’ve been to in the week I’ve lived here.Ordering the shit beer…
Having moved here just a week ago from a landlocked, wonky metropolis, I’m still surprised by the novelty of ending up in a beachfront dive bar with a room full of people wearing flip-flops and some semblance of a shirt getting drunk in the middle of the day. Such was the…
Though the weather may be sultry, the lobster bisque (served very hot) at East End Eats — which opened 11 days ago — is worth a detour. Stocked with loads of Maine lobster claw, the soup is so decadent that Vice President Joe Biden asked for quarts to take home…
Change is afoot at M Bar on Las Olas Boulevard — already.M bar, which opened just over a month ago as a sibling to longtime Las Olas staple Mancini’s, began serving lunch yesterday. But that’s not the big news. More notably, the brother/sister team of chefs — who opened the…
