Carmine’s Gourmet Market Opens Burger and Pizza Joints

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. Sushi seems to be a starting point for Palm Beach chefs. Sushi Jo branched out with a Thai place…

New Afternoon Treats and Drinks at Steak 954

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. If you haven’t wandered past the mesmerizing glow of jellyfish gracing the entrance of Steak 954 because you’re put…

Sage French Café Pairs Dinner With A-list Wines

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. After a few glasses of wine, crunching numbers to figure out the tip for a three-digit bill can get…

Trata Greek Taverna Opens on Las Olas

If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. For great people-watching without the worry of bare feet dancing tabletop next to your appetizer, pay a visit to…

Hey, Visitors: Here’s Your Broward County Super Bowl Itinerary

Welcome to South Florida, you delirious pigskin fans, you! Now that you’re here, remember not to fixate on Miami pre-gaming: The party has been moving steadily northward for years, and anyway, you’ll need to run things on the cheap to afford getting scalped on Super Bowl Sunday. For a complete…

A Year in South Florida SoundsA Year in South Florida Sounds

Below is a selection of New Times music writers’ favorite local albums from 2009. This is by no means exhaustive and appears in random order. For the full list, visit Crossfade, New Times’ music blog, at blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade. The Pretty Faces Another Sound (self-released) myspace.com/theprettyfaces Another threesome leading the new fresh…

New Times Broward-Palm Beach Gets a Glossy New Look

Since 1997, the print version of New Times hasn’t changed much. Sure, we’ve added a website, BrowardPalmBeach.com, that has become South Florida’s best news and entertainment spot on the ‘net, with more than a million pageviews a month. But the printed paper has stayed largely the same.Not anymore. On January…

The Office in Delray Beach Snags Mark Militello

Photo by Jacob KatelChef Mark Militello​ Chef Mark Militello has left 1 Bleu at the One Resort and Spa (formerly The Regent Bal Harbour) to join The Office, a gastropub in Delray said to be opening in late November. Last December Militello took the reigns as executive chef of culinary…

A Burger Goes to Spain

Clean Plate Charlie is obsessed with burgers. Hey, it’s better than sneaking out of the governor’s mansion to rub the bacon with former Argentine TV reporters or performing unnatural acts on small farm animals.   Charlie’s burger fetish plays itself out by coming up with patties that channel the tastes, textures,…

Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2009

They say it’s the year of change. But the change you’re not seeing from the bailout-giving government is the kind that jingles in your pocket. That’s where we come in. New Times Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2009 is filled with more than 200 ways to live large on little —…

Stealing From the Restaurant: Pork-Stuffed Shrimp at Home

Clean Plate Charlie had this really cool idea. Take one of your favorite dishes from one of your favorite restaurants and, applying a little time, a few tablespoons of culinary knowledge, and a willingness to eat the inevitable mistakes, attempt to re-create it at home.Since Charlie absolutely adores Thai cuisine…

Best Of 2009 Preview: Best New Bar in Broward

The Living Room300 SW First Ave., Fort LauderdaleCalling the Living Room a “bar” is like calling a McLaren F1 a “vehicle” or calling Jackson Pollock “messy.” Really, just trying to describe a place this chic and transcendentally futuristic with regular sentences seems inadequate. On a typical Saturday night, you might…

Best Of 2009 Preview: Best Music Venue in Broward-Palm Beach

The Talent Farm20911 Johnson St., Ste. 111, Pembroke Pines954-438-3488Look, everyone knows about the Broward/Palm Beach holy trinity of venues for mid-sized touring acts: Revolution Live, Culture Room, and Respectable Street. But what about hyper-local spots that nurture homegrown talent, especially the kind that can’t legally get into most other venues?…

Best Of 2009 Preview: Best Album

Photo by HectorRachel Goodrich, Tinker ToysIt has been a good year for South Florida’s quirky local indie darling Rachel Goodrich, what with a glowing shoutout from the New York Times this past December and her official debut appearance at SXSW this past spring. It was all well-deserved and timed with…

Best Of 2009 Preview: Best New Restaurant in Broward

Sage Oyster Bar2000 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood954-391-9466Maybe it takes an old hand to spin something entirely new out of two thoroughly timeworn restaurant tropes: the raw bar and the French bistro. Chef Laurent Tasic, having perfected the bistro genre with his country-quaint Fort Lauderdale Sage Café, has set his Hollywood vessel…

Best Of 2009 Preview: Best New Restaurant in Palm Beach

Dolce de Palma1000 Okeechobee Road, West Palm Beach561-833-6460Even now that Dolce de Palma has been overrun by local hungries, anybody pulling up to this rubble-strewn parking lot behind railroad tracks in an old warehouse district is going to feel like he’s making a personal discovery. Dolce has an intriguing out-of-the-way-ness…

Best Of 2009 Preview: Best New Bar in Palm Beach

Hibiscus House501 30th St., West Palm Beach561-863-5633We’re a few hours into a happy hour at this perfect tropical garden when somebody brings up the idea of going someplace else for dinner. Sure, we all probably need something to soak up hours’ worth of alcohol, but nobody likes the idea of…

Charlie’s Menu-to-English Dictionary

Ever notice how restaurant menus are beginning to resemble a politician’s campaign speeches? Lots of buzzwords, catch phrases, empty platitudes — a steaming pile of verbal roughage signifying very little.”Insipid Farms baby greens, picked by virgins at the first breath of springtime, lovingly dressed with balsamic vinegar drawn from ancient…