Fort Lauderdale beach restaurant La Dolce Vita was named for Italian director Federico Fellini’s intricate, three-hour, 1960 masterpiece of the same name. But the place is deceptively simple. The movie was set among Roman landmarks and followed a journalist’s hopeless search for passion and romance while covering a Swedish-American celebrity’s…

You’re unlikely to spot the simply named Mexican Supermarket while speeding down Atlantic Boulevard. It’s on the backside of yet another Broward County strip mall, requiring you to turn your head at least 90 degrees to catch a glimpse. If you do see it you’ll know where to go next…

After butting heads with the Riverside Hotel’s Executive Chef Toby Joseph, Jon Sanchez, the 28-year-old chef de cuisine at Wild Sea Oyster Bar & Grille, has parted ways with the restaurant. “The executive chef asked me last week to ‘dumb down’ the menu for the clientele,” Sanchez said. “I refused…

When it was announced that Paula Da Silva, chef at farm-to-table restaurant 1500 Degrees inside the historic Eden Roc Miami Beach would move to Fort Lauderdale’s 3030 Ocean, Miami’s loss was Fort Lauderdale’s gain.DaSilva returned to Broward County, the place where she began her well-publicized career under chef Dean Max way…

When Hot & Soul’s husband-and-wife owners, Mike Hampton and Christy Samoy, moved to South Florida, “I didn’t know anything about Fort Lauderdale,” Hampton says. “I’d never heard of Las Olas, and we’d been to Miami once on vacation.” The expense of living and running a restaurant in San Diego had…

Hollywood restaurateur Fulvio Sardelli Jr. is turning the third floor of his family’s pricey, beachside steak house into a chef’s room where he’ll soon serve tasting menus for groups as small as four and as big as 30. “For me, it’s not about eating,” he says. “It’s all about entertaining…

When Hot & Soul’s husband-and-wife owners, Mike Hampton and Christy Samoy, moved to South Florida, “I didn’t know anything about Fort Lauderdale,” Hampton says. “I’d never heard of Las Olas, and we’d been to Miami once on vacation.”…

It’s only been a few months since The Restaurant People opened their beachside, small plates spot called Sun, Surf and Sand, S3 for short, but the owners of YOLO and Tarpon Bend will soon be ready to show their balls. Err, you’ll see what we mean. See also: Tim Petrillo…

Even on a blistering August weekday, a healthy flow of people struts up and down the Broadwalk, the paved pedestrian walkway that lines Hollywood Beach. There’s a strand of blue-collar businesses to the west and wide-open sand and waves to the east. Walking down the strip is a pair of…

Even on a blistering August weekday, a healthy flow of people struts up and down the Broadwalk, the paved pedestrian walkway that lines Hollywood Beach. There’s a strand of blue-collar businesses to the west and wide-open sand and waves to the east. Walking down the strip is a pair of…

Wilton Manors has a problem, and it has nothing to do with the density of same-sex couples living in the Fort Lauderdale suburb. “I think within a half a mile there are five Thai and sushi restaurants,” said Nancy Goldwin, a co-owner of 13|Even, the craft beer and small plates…

Each step of construction at 13|Even was a labor of love. It began with a raw, empty white room. Then, as photos show, the weathered chocolate-brown wood bar was framed. Later, test stripes of different colors were painted onto a wall so owners could decide which hue to choose (ultimately,…

Each step of construction at 13|Even was a labor of love. It began with a raw, empty white room. Then, as photos show, the weathered chocolate-brown wood bar was framed. Later, test stripes of different colors were painted onto a wall so owners could decide which hue to choose (ultimately,…

At a Monday night food truck roundup in downtown Hollywood’s Young Circle people walk by David Peck’s Box of Chacos truck and squint their eyes trying to grasp what the former Tap 42 chef is serving. “This is too much for me,” one woman concedes before walking away. That “too…

The sweet perfume of molasses and slow-burning hickory wood punches you in the face when you step inside Elliot Wolf’s new restaurant, Red Cow, near the impossible-to-navigate intersection of Sunrise Boulevard and Federal Highway. As you take your seat in an apple-red chair, you don’t realize that first shot was…

The sweet perfume of molasses and slow-burning hickory wood punches you in the face when you step inside Elliot Wolf’s new restaurant, Red Cow, near the impossible-to-navigate intersection of Sunrise Boulevard and Federal Highway. As you take your seat in an apple-red chair, you don’t realize that first shot was…

“I would cover myself in foie gras if I could,” proclaims a heavyset, 30-something woman who’s wearing a flowing, sleeveless white top. She pops a cube of pungent Cabrales, a Spanish variety of blue cheese, into her mouth along with a sweet and spicy pecan from Johnny V’s famed $28…

The dearth of variety of kosher food along Stirling Road frustrated Orlee Arfi when she and her husband, Mike, moved to South Florida five years ago. “It’s Israeli food or a steak house,” she said of the nearby choices. The stretch of Stirling in between Interstate 95 and U.S. 441…

I would cover myself in foie gras if I could,” proclaims a heavyset, 30-something woman who’s wearing a flowing, sleeveless white top. She pops a cube of pungent Cabrales, a Spanish variety of blue cheese, into her mouth along with a sweet and spicy pecan from Johnny V’s famed $28…