New York’s cult favorite eatery Junior’s — best known for its cheesecake — will open its first South Florida location in Boca Raton next week. When it does, Junior’s owner Alan Rosen will be carrying on the family tradition; his father, grandfather, and uncle founded the original Brooklyn restaurant on…
Over-the-top burgers stuffed between grilled cheese sandwiches, decadent lobster-topped hot dogs, a build-your-own-salad bar, and, even, peanut butter and jelly chicken wings are just a few of the crazy menu items at newly-opened B Square Burgers & Booze in Fort Lauderdale. Located in the old Mediterranean Market space, right on…
This December, the Palm Beach Food & Wine Festival returns December 8 to 11, celebrating its decade mark with an expanded celebrity chef lineup and the addition of several new foodie-focused events. Headquartered at the Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach, this year the 10th-annual festival will offer everything from intimate…
In honor of National Cheeseburger Day, Wayback Burgers in Coconut Creek has announced it will participate in the company’s ninth annual Triple Triple Challenge, where guests compete against the clock to take down the restaurant’s massive nine-patty Triple Triple Burger. The competition will take place on Sunday, September 18 at…
South Florida has two types of Italian restaurant: the upmarket ristorante with regional specialities aligned into indecipherable menu items that require a Google search, and their no-frills, red-sauce kinsmen that dole out the type of hearty, oleaginous fare any Sicilian grandmother would feel compelled to stuff every family member with…
In September, 50 Food Trucks from 50 cities nationwide will be competing in Thomas’ Breakfast Battle for the opportunity to win $25,000, and several South Florida food trucks are among the competitors. Broward-based B.C. Tacos, Palm Beach County-based Curbside Gourmet, and Tampa’s The Twisted Iron have signed on to be part…
A lot of people want to eat healthy, but not everyone has the time (or the resources) to prepare organic meals. You carve out time to get to the gym, schedule in training runs for that marathon, and take your bike to work, but by the end of the day…
On Saturday, September 10 local celebrity chef Lindsay Autry (formerly Sundy House) and restaurateur Thierry Beaud (Pistache French Bistro, PB Catch) will open the doors to their long-awaited The Regional Kitchen & Public House in West Palm Beach. Over the past 18 months, the restaurant’s cofounders have worked tirelessly to…
If you can’t get enough ‘cue, a new barbecue establishment will be making its way to Broward County this month. 4 Rivers Smokehouse will open its first South Florida location in Coral Springs on Thursday, September 8. The restaurant, tucked inside The Walk of Coral Springs shopping center, will span more than 5,000-square-feet…
You can add the Delray Beach Bacon & Bourbon Fest to the list of foodie-focused festivals Delray Beach will lose in 2017, now one of three such annual events its organizers, Festival Management Group (FMG), has decided to relocate, postpone, or cancel altogether so far this year. On Friday, September 2,…
Have you ever had a Zombie? No, not those syrupy sweet buckets of booze you’ll get from just about any beachside bar. A real Zombie, one of the first tiki libations created by Don the Beachcomber (born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt) who opened what is considered to be the world’s…
There’s buying fish from a commercial chain grocery store, and then there’s buying fish from a local fish market. If you’ve ever walked past your local supermarket fish department and gasped for air, you know exactly what I mean.Especially after recent concerns of area fish fraud and mislabeling, we decided…
The heat wave is almost over, another uneventful hurricane season is just about to end (knock on wood), and football season kicks off September 8. August was a good month for restaurants. A few new places celebrated their official grand openings, including Valentino chef Giovanni Rocchio’s long-awaited One Door East…
Forget farm to table: How about restaurant to table, instead? It’s a thing at 50 Ocean in Delray Beach, which recently debuted its own aeroponic and hydroponic in-house gardening system that allows executive chef Joseph Bonavita to grow everything from root balls of herbs and microgreens to lettuces and spinach. …
If a bowl filled with cilantro noodles, ponzu marinated tuna, and maple-roasted butternut squash drenched in a zingy carrot ginger sauce sounds like the perfect “healthy” meal, now more Palm Beach County residents can create a dish just like it at a new fast-casual concept that’s expanding its local footprint…
If you’re looking forward to attending New Times’ all-new food festival, get ready: E.A.T! is gearing up to be bigger, better, and more action-packed than ever before. This week, event planners announced the names of the area’s two top toques who will face off during a head-to-head cooking competition slated to…
A new non-profit in Wilton Manors is the perfect spot to thrift, grab a beverage, and adopt a cat — all in the same building. Boomerang’s Thrift Store — the retail fundraising side of Boomerangs Animal Rescue Fund in partnership with Good Karma Pet Rescue and Lady Luck Animal Rescue…
Nearly two decades ago, American English Kitchen + Bar chef/owner Russ Simon wasn’t cooking in any fancy kitchen. Instead, he was studying business management at the University of Central Florida. At the time, no one — not even the future chef himself, who would go on to cook alongside a…
Instacart, an internet-based grocery and retail delivery service where personal shoppers hand-pick and deliver items from local partnered stores, is now available in Fort Lauderdale. The expansion into Broward County marks the second market to launch in Florida outside Miami-Dade. Starting August 24, Fort Lauderdale residents in 11 zip codes…
Some things just pair perfectly with one another: wine and chocolate; champagne and strawberries; beer and pretzels; tea and crumpets. Or, for the weekend warrior shopper hiding inside us all, coffee and donuts. For those of you who like to wholesale shop until you drop, here’s your perfect match: BJ’s Wholesale…
Well-known Miami-based chef and Hell’s Kitchen contestant Joshua Wahler, who spent time in some of the country’s most lauded kitchens including New York City’s Gramercy Tavern and Spice Market, and Miami’s Nobu, will launching his first restaurant in Broward County this week. The concept takes the place of Thasos at…
A famous Milan-based restaurant best known for its coffee and lunch-heavy fare, is coming to South Florida this fall. Sant Ambroeus, a celebrated Italian pasticceria and confetteria with several stateside locations in Manhattan, has announced it will open its first establishment outside New York this November at The Royal Poinciana…
