Historic Sundy House has just created a new use for items in your garden — turn them into cocktails. Starting this week, the restaurant will feature a different weekly cocktail, made with fresh ingredients found in the Sundy House garden. Each cocktail is created by Sundy House beverage manager Michael…
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…
Time flies when you’re having fun. As we’ve been carefully selecting the best this and the greatest that, compiling top ten lists, and counting down the 30 Tastemakers of Broward and Palm Beach, the clock has kept right on ticking. The Best Of issue’s June 13th debut draws near and…
If your name has something to do with everyone’s favorite meat sandwich stop by any Smashburger today and get a free burger! So, if your name is Burger, Berger, Weisberger, Hamburgler, or Burger Beast (we’re sure our blogger friend would be able to score a free meal), bring photo ID…
Everyone knows how to scramble an egg, in theory. After all, scrambled is probably the easiest egg cooking method there is, even easier than boiling. Scrambled is what you do if you’re aiming to make some other kind — sunny side up, over easy — and you screw it up…
We’re moving to a newer, larger townhouse. Of course, lots of space means the need for more furniture. And that means spending Memorial Day at Ikea instead of the beach. As you might imagine, the mega-store filled with Lacks and Malms and Vanligs was bustling with slightly confused families trying…
It’s pretty much common knowledge that Fort Lauderdale — Wilton Manors, in particular — is home to one of the largest per capita gay populations in the country. Unfortunately, in terms of gay rights, Florida has a long way to go. One Fort Lauderdale resident wants to see that change…
As craft beer bubbles into South Florida’s mainstream Ryan Sentz and the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery in only two short years have risen to the head of the pack. Maybe it’s the Maple Bacon Porter that has craft beer enthusiasts packing their bar three deep. Maybe it’s the speakeasy…
The west coast of Florida is a popular destination spot for out-of-town tourists and South Floridians alike. Just follow US 80 west and you’ll hit Fort Myers, a city that has a revitalized downtown, access to beautiful Gulf beaches, the Boston Red Sox spring training facility nearby, and now it’s…
Individuals are starting to take greater concern with issues of health–kind of a necessity given our obesity and diabetes epidemics. In response to customer demands and new laws forcing them to publish calorie contents, many restaurants and chains are beginning to offer healthier eating options. Duffy’s Sports Grill just jumped…
Quick! Name all the restaurants you can that donate all their profits to non-profit organizations? Sublime does just that. Sublime’s owner, Nanci Alexander, is number five on our Tastemaker countdown. She founded the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF). The creation of Sublime is an extension of her efforts to…
Hopefully, you’re enjoying your extended weekend. Whether it was was filled with partying or just sitting around on the couch, this week brings its own set of fun food-related activities. Even if we don’t get to enjoy some relief from the rain, we have options galore. Whether you’re looking to…
You better get ready. One of the biggest drinking holidays is just around the bend. Whether you’re looking to barbecue on the beach or let the professionals take care of matters for you, it should be a big one. For those of you looking to pawn those party planning duties…
As part of a global day of action, over 1,300 protestors turned up to Miami’s Omni/ Adrienne Arscht Metro station to take part in the worldwide March Against Monsanto. Organizers say more than two million people took part in rallies across more than 400 cities spread throughout 52 countries –…
When Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt released their Miraval Rose wine a few months ago, the 6,000 available bottles sold out within five hours. Maybe it’s because the wine, created in collaboration with the Perrin family of Château de Beaucastel, is actually good. In a Vanity Fair article, Joe Bastianich…
It looks like the storms are clearing up for Memorial Day weekend. You can thank your lucky stars and stripes, because there’s plenty of Memorial Day barbecue merriment in store, as well as ample options for celebrating the change in weather — and having three days off. From Havana nights…
Friday’s here, so it’s time for beer. Every Friday, so long as the creek don’t rise, this beer enthusiast will take a look at a Florida beer that, hopefully, should be readily available in a local shop or on tap at your favorite bar. Memorial Day is coming up this…
When it comes to downtown Fort Lauderdale restaurants, many have come and gone. If it wasn’t lack of interest, it was the recession. If that didn’t kill their business, changing trends did. Point being: it’s a fickle business and you have to be on top of your game to stay…
It’s hard to count just how many local restaurant’s closed down through the recession. Definitely, more than a couple. For the businesses that survived, fortunately, things are looking up. Except for Coral Spring’s Mythos Greek Taverna. After weathering the storm of the worst recession since the Great Depression, the locally…
Right now, people pretty skeptical about big ag, specifically Monsanto. As a result of the failure of California’s Prop. 37 last November–the state’s GMO mandatory labeling initiative — and the passage of the ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ — i.e. the Farmer’s Assurance Provision, a part of the Continuing Resolution Act–a large…
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 –…
A little over 20 years ago, Steve Martorano — number seven on our Tastemaker countdown — was on his way back up north. His dreams of opening a restaurant in Fort Lauderdale didn’t work out and the cook (he doesn’t like the word chef) was at the airport, waiting for…
