At Italian Red Sauce it’s all about family. Black-and-white stills of the families of those running the 200-seat eatery, who hail from Napoli, are the first thing you see upon entering. Family also follows you when you take a seat in the dining room, which has been laid out to…
South Florida’s sizable Jewish community is no secret. The same goes for the community’s food. Urban Rustic Bagel, just off I-95 at Stirling Road, isn’t exactly a Jewish deli, but with Israeli owner Shlomo Rozen and chef Gai Bessif – the former from Haifa and the latter Yafo – the…
With Chanukah in full swing you’ve probably had your fill of gelt, the chocolate coins given to children on the holiday. Your fingers and wrists are swollen and sore from all that dreidel spinning, but thankfully it earned you a bank account full of shekels. The fried potato pancakes, called…
The Chimney House: The Intimate Fort Lauderdale Restaurant Is Almost Like Abuelita’s Cooking
Turnover in the restaurant industry can come a matter of months. Yaddi and Frank Rodriguez invested six years and a sum business-types might call crazy to open The Chimney House on Las Olas Boulevard west of downtown Fort Lauderdale. The pair have transformed the historic building from a bombed out…
Tucked behind an empty lot with anemic-looking trees, you can barely see Chapultepec while flying down Hallandale Beach Boulevard. Yet it’s there, and it’s a Mexico-Aztec-Incan oasis replete with cheap beer and slow-roasted meats stuffed inside everything from corn tortillas to tamales. The restaurant’s name is deep-rooted in history. Chapultepec…
It was a tale of two starters: One was a velvety-rich squash soup topped with a dollop of Greek yogurt. The bright flavors of carrots, celery, and onions in the stock emboldened each bite. Even if some of the ingredients, such as the squash, were locally sourced as advertised, the…
The Boca Raton-based Rainmaker Restaurant Group has taken a huge gamble, leasing out the prime corner where Rare and Bova Prime once stood on Las Olas Boulevard. In place of the high-priced steakhouses that made gauche attempts to be fashionable, the group led by Kevin Blair and Jeffrey Anderson has…
Charolette and Ellis Moore moved to South Florida about eight years ago, when a new job tempted Ellis away from his native New Orleans. They intended to return to the Big Easy, then Hurricane Katrina hit, flooding vast swaths of the city. “After that all of our plans changed,” Ellis…
I tried to get the story behind World Market & Café out of owner Mikhail Galkin. He refused to talk, and instead challenged me to peruse the Eastern European market on Federal Highway in Hollywood, and see if I could find anything familiar. Indeed I did. I spied sliced pickled…
The Sardelli family spent five years and their life savings to buy an empty lot and build a four-story building just east of Federal Highway and steps from Hollywood Beach. From the outside, the $1.6 million Sardelli Italian Steakhouse looks like an Italian villa plucked from the countryside and dropped…
After opening just three and a half months ago along East Oakland Park Blvd. a block away from the ocean, Thasos Greek Taverna has changed up its top toque. Gone is William D’Auvray who opened the upscale Greek eatery with chef/consultant Giorgio Bakapsias. Both were from North Carolina. In their…
In an opulent, Italian-style villa steps away from Hollywood Beach Fulvio Sardelli Jr. is doing what he was born and bred to do: cook. The Sardelli family has fed South Florida for decades. They started in the 1980s, at Franco’s Pizzeria in Davie. Fulvio Sr. then began dishing out the…
Describe your favorite Asian market. The ceilings are low and the aisles are tight, right? There’s the strong smell in the air of of dried seafood and soy products, correct? Well, the New York Mart in Sunrise is as far from that as possible. Inside, it’s as large as any…
The Miami Book Fair International kicked off Sunday with what must have been an awkward conversation between famed author and journalist Tom Wolfe and former Miami Mayor Manny Diaz. People talk plenty of smack about South Florida, but we get one of the world’s biggest book fairs one month and…
Just in case altruism isn’t enough to get you to donate Thanksgiving provisions to families in need, the weeks old Copacabana Supper Club is hosting a food drive benefiting The Pantry of Broward. From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, November 16, the price of admission is one frozen turkey. Inside…
The much-loved German restaurant Checkers Old-Munchen re-opened for a packed house this past weekend. Eager customers threw back boots of beer or slowly filled up on drinks thanks to an eight-part beer tasting menu. Nearby was a German buffet, which staff struggled to keep stocked, as the dining room chowed…
More often than not, today’s clubbing experience goes something like this: You stand outside in a long line that’s blocked with a velvet rope, waiting to be given a nod by some self-important tool with a clipboard in his hand and an earpiece in his ear. As you wait, some…
For almost eight decades New York City’s Copacabana nightclub has earned itself both notoriety and infamy thanks to a litany of now legendary performers and gangsters who passed through its doors. The New York club has since taken over several spaces around the city and now exists as a kind…
Courtroom throwdown-a-comin.Village Voice Media Holdings (now Voice Media Group), which owns New Times Broward/Palm Beach, is suing Yelp in Arizona federal court over its use of “Best Of” in at least 10 cities. The firm is seeking to stop the social networking, user review and local search website and app from using…
[jump] Beef tartar with black horseradish cream was fresh and balanced, with just enough horseradish to tickle the sinuses. The beef, however, could have been served a bit colder and finely diced.Salt and pepper seafood is a classic take on a Chinese classic. In this case shrimp was deep fried, tossed…
It’s a classic immigrant story: A pair of Greeks set out to create a restaurant providing fresh food inspired by their homeland. But along the way, Sophia Mylona picked up a degree in nutrition from New York University, and her husband, Gus Leontarakis, ran a New Jersey catering company. After…
