We eat for many reasons: Celebration, sorrow, greed and even addiction. Yet this week is a rare opportunity to put your taste buds to the test and ensure your latest meal goes further than your hips. Restaurants in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties will host “Lights Out” dinners benefitting…
Lakeland-based Publix supermarkets has issued a voluntary recall for 11oz packets of frozenshrimp tempura. Actually, the shrimp is OK. It’s the dipping sauce packets, which that contain soy but aren’t labeled as such, that sparked the recall. No illnesses have been reported, according to a Publix press release. Customers with…
Thasos Greek Taverna is named for the Greek isle where co-owner Gus Leontarkis was born. The restaurant, both outside and in, bears more resemblance to an ultra chic lounge than the windswept island known around the world for its wine and seafood.It’s a leap from the Denny’s that once occupied…
Republic of Korea owner and chef Michael Kwon chose to open his first restaurant in Lauderhil for a pretty good reason. He hoped a cluster of places offering Korean barbecue and Asian-inspired tapas would create a sort of Little Korea in Broward County. Kwon was born in South Florida to…
About a dozen years ago, on North University Drive in Lauderhill, Susan Kim opened Gabose, a Korean barbecue restaurant with charcoal pits at the center of some tables, so diners could custom-cook their own meals. Since then, several other Korean businesses have followed her, opening on the same stretch of…
Tee-Jay Thai Sushi: Middling Asian in Wilton Manors
The original Tee-Jay Thai Sushi is located on Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale north of Commercial Boulevard. This second outpost opened in March 2011 in Wilton Manors. You’ll know you’re in the right plaza when you see the signs for Gay Mart (a menswear store), Humpy’s Pizza (whose mascot is…
After a kitchen fire and smoke damage forced the closure of German restaurant Checkers Old-Munchen, owner Mathew Moore said he’s ready to reopen the Atlantic Boulevard restaurant in about six weeks. Just in time, he said he hopes, to catch the end of Oktoberfest…
Unlike some of our Judeo-Christian brethren who apologize for their wrongdoings throughout the year and flagellate themselves accordingly, we Jewish people condense all of that into one depressing day of fasting, prayer and spending time with extended family: Yom Kippur. The best part of this holiday comes tonight, on Yom…
This Saturday, September 22, at noon sharp local time, the lord mayor of Munich, clad in lederhosen, will lead a procession and tap the first keg of Oktoberfest beer, kicking off a 12-hour-per-day, 16-day-long party that will end on October 7 with 6 million visitors having passed though its tents…
This Saturday, September 22, at noon sharp local time, the lord mayor of Munich, clad in lederhosen, will lead a procession and tap the first keg of Oktoberfest beer, kicking off a 12-hour-per-day, 16-day-long party that will end on October 7 with 6 million visitors having passed though its tents.There’s…
