Oli’s Fashion Cuisine of Wellington will be opening on Clematis St. in West Palm Beach on Friday, June 28.A second location for Wellington’s Oli’s Fashion Cuisine will be celebrating a grand opening today on Clematis St. in downtown West Palm Beach. The restaurant will be the fourth restaurant for owner…
Don’t ever be “sorry for partying” — especially at the soon-to-open Palm Beach Gardens country bar and club, JR’s Buck Wild, which is celebrating its grand opening this Thursday. Here, the statement is more motto than promise, as well as a favorite saying for one of the club’s creators, owner…
The next time you and your friends get into an argument over which is better — the double D’s or Starbucks — throw them a curve ball and wager there may not be a cup of coffee better than the one you’ll get at newly-opened Coastars Coffee Bar in Lake…
As with most men, we at Clean Plate Charlie say the way to a dad’s heart on Father’s Day is through his stomach. Instead of cooking dear old dad his favorite food, why not treat him to something truly special? To help with ideas, we’ve gone ahead and whipped up…
The north Florida establishment known for annually hosting Gainesville’s largest tailgate party is coming to Boca Raton, setting up shop in the Royal Palm Place space most recently occupied by Dennis Max’s The Mexican. While The Mexican recently swapped ownership — no word on why — it has retained much…
To say the South Florida nightclub and restaurant scene would be a much more bland and boring place without Rodney Mayo and Scott Frielich would be a huge understatement. While Mayo was opening his long-established West Palm Beach nightclub and live music venue, Respectable Street, in the mid-80s, future business…
Summer is here, and that means grilling season. And what summer picnic, poolside party or background barbecue would be complete without some sort of grilled vegetable? Packed with natural sugars, veggies like zucchini, asparagus, peppers, mushrooms, eggplant, and onion get incredibly sweet and smokey when cooked on the grill –…
Ah, the dive bar. Some might think the term is an insult, but we mean it as a compliment – an endearment, really. Basically, it refers to any establishment where the cigarette smoke obscures your view of the aging barkeep, fights break out at 2 a.m., the jukebox plays only…
Before Cleve Mash became one of Palm Beach County’s nightclub and restaurant owners, he was just an 18-year-old boy manning the door at his favorite South Florida nightclub. Sure, he wasn’t old enough to be a bouncer — but no one else knew it. Back then, he imagined opening his…
Pizza may be one of America’s favorite foods, a food that has become more American than Italian, with slices in cities from east to west offering a different take on how to best combine three basic ingredients: dough, cheese and sauce. There’s New York-style, Chicago and Sicilian. Some bake up…
Tastemaker #14, Tim Lipman, and his wife Jenny, are the cool kids behind Coolinary Cafe, Jupiter’s 47-seat eatery that is so often so packed, reservations are recommended for the nightly seatings. What’s most impressive, however, is that Lipman changes his specials menu twice daily. Such frequent menu changes is a…
There’s a new food truck in town specializing in a dish that not many have tackled via mobile kitchen: grilled chicken wings. Based out of Aventura, the truck hit the streets several weeks ago, proudly serving up fresh-grilled chicken wings in delightfully unique sauces. For $10, owner Leanna Martinez –…
The Palm Beach food scene wouldn’t be what it is today without the Coniglio family and its most notable family member – number 16 on our Tastemakers list – Frank Coniglio, co-owner for a string of Florida establishments that includes Palm Beach Island’s Cucina dell’Arte, Nick & Johnnie’s and Cha…
A new fast food concept has extended its reach to South Florida, starting with two locations including Fort Lauderdale and the newly opened West Palm Beach restaurant Known as PDQ — which stands for “People Dedicated to Quality” — the concept is simple: fresh food served fast, and in a…
There seems to be a perennial line at the walk-up window to the small stucco building at the corner of Congress Ave. and 2nd Ave. N that houses La Michoacana Natural, the Mexican ice cream shop in heart of Lake Worth. Whether it’s the middle of winter, or a blistering-hot…
With more than 300 bottles under his roof (and 35 by the glass offered daily), since opening in August of 2010, The Blind Monk wine and tapas bar in West Palm Beach has garnered a devoted crowd, revelers as far as Miami making the trek to owner Ben Lubin’s wine…
Let’s face it: with South Florida’s heavy colorful Latin population, finding good latin cuisine isn’t exactly challenging. But finding a good Mexican restaurant? Now, that’s another story. While lots of restaurants in the area produce a decent variation of authentic Mexican fare, true Tex-Mex or a good take on latin…
Today begins SunFest 2013, West Palm Beach’s five-day waterfront music and arts festival that manages to wrangle in some exceptional national and local musical talent — and lots of food — to the city’s downtown area. The event has been known to attract upwards of 165,000 visitors each year, and…
When it comes to good Cuban food, Miami has it covered. Outside the island itself, it’s hands-down the best place in the country — never mind Florida — to find authentic Cuban fare. But in Broward and Palm Beach County? It’s not as easy as you might think. Luckily, that’s…
This weekend the City of Deerfield Beach held its third-annual Deerfield Beach Wine & Food Festival at the Quiet Waters Park from Friday, April 26 to Sunday, April 28th. The festival featured a number of events, including a VIP party dubbed Dinner Under The Stars, a Vineyard Party featuring plenty…
New Times’ Best Of Broward-Palm Beach 2013 issue arrives June 13. To celebrate, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up 30 of our favorite tastemakers — restaurateurs, chefs, bartenders, and other foodies who make the South Florida food scene what it is. We’ll start with number 30 and lead up to…
Can you remember the first time you had a root beer float? It was probably summer, and your mom decided to give you a special treat. Just one taste of that combo of carbonated, sugary-sweet soda with cold, creamy vanilla and you were hooked. No matter how old you are,…
