UPDATE: The number four restaurant on this list, Hibiscus Cafe, is now closed. The rest, however, remain open and delicious. Talk to any dietician, or mom, and you’ll hear that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It may sound counterintuitive, but consuming calories in the morning –…
Since the opening of Oakland Park’s highly lauded Funky Buddha Brewery, we’ve been eagerly awaiting more news of culinary progress. Fortunately, that moment has come. The first step of the urban farm park has recently been implemented; the Urban Farmer has set up its farmers market in Jaco Pastorius Park,…
If you’re looking for a job or a career change, head over to the Sheraton Plantation hotel on September 11 for the “Putting America Back to Work” event. From 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., representatives from over 35 different companies in south Florida will be on hand to accept resumes…
Maybe we’re just getting excited, but it feels like there might be a slightly cooler breeze in the air. We’re getting closer and closer to ‘season’ being here, which means that more and more food and drink events will start popping up every weekend. Either way, the end of this…
Pairings, the annual celebration of South Florida food and fine wines, storms the Broward County Convention Center on Thursday, September 26. From 7 to 10 p.m., south Florida’s finest establishments will serve up choice offerings paired with the perfect wine to accompany each morsel. Each wine is carefully curated by…
After using blackface in theater to proliferate racist stereotypes in the early 20th Century, Americans eventually wised up. Eight thousand miles away in the South Pacific, Thailand didn’t seem to get that memo. Dunkin’ Donuts there released an ad to promote its chocolate donut using blackface. Human Rights Watch groups…
When we think of dining out, we picture servers and bartenders, maybe a smiling hostess. If someone were to ask us about the people responsible for creating our meal, we’d probably think of a chef. But in every restaurant, big or small, there is a bustling and hard working back…
As the world moves toward complete autonomy, what with self-driving Google cars and automatic payment systems, the desire to remove as much human interaction from life has never been higher. Society is enamored of the idea of self-checkout and “do everything yourself without bothering anyone” systems, so it’s no surprise…
There once was a day in which downtown Fort Lauderdale’s riverfront and Himmarshee area was full of a variety of different restaurants and bars. From Hooters and laid-back sports bars to high-end Italian restaurant and upscale martinis, there used to be divergent spots for everyone — and every possible mood…
It used to be that wine dinners were the “in” thing in terms of food pairing events. It’s been done for hundreds, if not thousands of years; so it definitely makes sense. Beer pairings, on the other hand, are a slightly newer occurrence. Given the popularity of craft brews and…
UPDATE: A lot has changed since this article was written. These ten restaurants are all still open (and delicious) but you also might enjoy our most recent list of the ten best new restaurants in Fort Lauderdale after you’re done with this. Fort Lauderdale isn’t as flashy as Miami nor…
People get into new relationships and even marriages everyday. In the beginning, its all new and exciting; you date, buy each-other presents, and do fun things together all the time. A few years in, however, life kicks in: work is stressful, you’re tired, you just want to turn off the…
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…
What would you do if you saw two boys walk away from a picnic table at a busy restaurant, leaving their expensive iPads on the bench? If you were like most people, you would pick them up and return them to the kids or their parents on your way to…
One thing you can count on happening every week is beer, which is essentially a barometer of news itself. But beer is better, because you can’t drink the news. This week, the beer news is bittersweet. A man died in a brewery accident last week, a sober reminder that working…
You’ve heard it before: Wine is like a metaphor for life. As cheesy and pompous as it sounds, it’s actually kind of true. Take the same exact grape, grow it in different terroir — that’s wine-speak for growing place — with different growing methods, fermentation techniques, or bottling procedures and…
Fall has officially begun. But, you say, the weather is hot and sticky out (plus the calendar clearly states it’s still Summer)? Bah…we say. Fall has started because Starbucks has relaunched its Pumpkin Spice Latte for the tenth straight year…
Davie is the cowboy capital of South Florida, boasting rodeos, horses, and great country/western bars. So it’s only fitting that John Wayne is coming to this quaint town on the western side of Broward. Technically, The Duke is dead. But we’re talking about a larger-than-life mural of Wayne perched by…
This year has been a big one for food combinations. First, it was the cronut, invented by pastry chef Dominique Ansel at his New York bakery. The croissant/donut hybrid made its way down to South Florida in the form of Master Cake Bakery’s “dossants” — the term cronut has been…
These days everywhere you turn there’s another Mexican place looking to run you through the line of burrito and taco “customization” for a quick and easy lunch or dinner. Now, West Palm Beach has a new option: Taco Vida, the assembly-line free fast and fresh place to order up all…
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. If that’s the case, the city of Delray Beach certainly has something to blush about; many rundown and forgotten parts of town in Broward and Palm Beach counties are trying to copy the efforts of its Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Oakland…
The wafts of patchouli incense and bluesy acoustic guitar beats emerge from Underground Coffeehaus. Over the years, the joint has attracted Fort Lauderdale’s tattooed and skinny-jean crowd with coffee concoctions topped with whip cream and sprinkles, and over 40 flavors of tatter tots. Putting a pale cyan streak of hair…
