Starting tomorrow Tortuga Music Festival will be taking over Fort Lauderdale. Artists ranging from Grace Potter, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, and G. Love and Special Sauce to Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Avett Brothers, and Kenny Chesney will be playing right smack dab on the beach. Aside from the obvious music aspect,…
When beloved downtown West Palm Beach gastropub Gratify closed their doors last July, a little piece of champagne brunch died along with it. Where most of us saw a fleeting memory of happy hours past, however, Chase Woolard saw an opportunity. Already the Managing Partner of successful restaurant The Local…
Free sammy and soup shot.Forget Christmas — today is National Grilled Cheese Day.Whether you like it with brie and apple or you’re a traditionalist and your sammy of choice has to be American on white bread (with a cup of tomato soup), the simple act of toasting bread and cheese…
If you’re like the the majority of the working adults, you are thanking your lucky stars Friday has finally rolled around. The workweek is finally over. It’s time to kick back, relax, and have some fun. And since you’re looking at a food blog, that probably means you’re into eating…
Michiganders and beer geeks rejoice: Grand Rapids based Founders Brewing Co. is about to make its way on to the Florida market. In 2011 and 2012, the brewery has earned the title as the second best in the world on ratebeer.com. For the record: Tampa’s Cigar City ranked in at…
On your way to work this month skip the long drive through lines and greasy hash browns at those other places and head over to Subway. Your wallet (and waistline) will thank you. Subway is offering a much healthier deal this month – but there’s one catch…..
Just when you thought it was safe to eat ice cream..We recently came upon a list of “eight ingredients you never want to see on your nutritional label” on menshealth.com. As we perused the usual suspects — sodium nitrates, food dyes, partially hydrogenated oil — we came across an additive…
Since the Alice Waters and Chez Panisse came into the scene in Berkeley in the 1960’s, there has been a huge movement to localize our food systems. Obviously, some areas caught on a bit quicker than others. Some areas do make it easier. Iowa, for example, is pretty much one…
What if just about everything you thought you knew about taking vitamins, minerals and supplements turned out to be bogus? What if it was all a scam? According to nutrition expert Dr. Brian Clement, director of West Palm Beach’s Hippocrates Health Institute, there can be dangers to supplementing your diet…
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The famed Mayo Clinic says that eating breakfast could promote weight loss by jump-starting an adult’s metabolism.Eating breakfast is even more important for children. The Mayo Clinic says that children who eat breakfast are more likely to concentrate better, have better…
Farm-to-Table has become a major buzzword over the past few years. And we’re certainly not complaining about the trend. Aside from the benefits to the local economy, individual health, and environmental impact, local and organic foods taste better. Isn’t that what dining out is supposed to be about? Vincent Foti,…
When you crack open a cold one, or have it served to you in a frosted glass, you’re expecting to drink beer, right? But what about heavy metals? No we’re not talking about Iron Maiden, but arsenic. Arsenic, people! A recent report claims that high levels of arsenic has been…
U.S. Highway 27 marks the border between the Everglades and suburbia. The contrast is stark: On one side of the highway, a paved, subdivided, and strip-malled South Florida stretches all the way to the ocean; on the other, mangroves and squat emerald saw-grass marshes go as far as the eye…
The federal government’s budget cuts are being felt everywhere these days — including in the White House kitchen.In an interview with reporters, the White House’s assistant chef and senior policy adviser for the healthy food initiative, Sam Kass, announced that he was being furloughed, according to the Associated Press. Kass…
A lot of people have an intense fear of bees. Whether you were stung as a child or just traumatized from young Macaulay Culkin’s death in My Girl, the buzzing little insect has picked up a bad rep. And yet, the prolific pollinators are integral to our food supply. Without…
Release nights are always a crowd pleaser at the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery, Boca Raton’s current flagship brew lounge. Fifty to 60 people, packed three deep at the bar, managed to find enough room for themselves in anticipation of the beers to be tapped. You could feel the excitement…
Farmer Jay is a public relations dream for the local locavore movement — a smart, personable farmer who’s passionate about sharing tips on healthy eating.You would think that between running Farmer Jay Organics and writing for New Times, the man would just want to curl up with a good book…
There’s a huge Jamaican and West Indian population in the western part of Broward County. While immigration to South Florida is perpetual, it seemed as though the seeds of this community began arriving in the late 1970s. As we wandered around Sunrise and Weston, eating everything from slow-cooked oxtail to…
Are you the type of person that likes to do everything yourself? You change your car’s oil in the garage, do your taxes online, service your own pool — and even mow your lawn without a single complaint. Why? Because it’s getting done the right way, that’s why! Now, if…
Eating out tends to have negative effects on the size of your wallet. And while cooking at home tends to have positive impacts on your cash flow — and waistline — it can eat away at your free time. If you’re broke and too busy, lazy, or culinarily challenged to…
It’s less than a month away. On April 19, the Las Olas Wine and Food Festival will be taking over Fort Lauderdale’s most prestigious boulevard.The four-block festival will be bringing in wine, cocktails, and food galore. And just so you know, the festival has added a bunch of new restaurants…
The time has come, South Florida. New Times writers are busy choosing our picks for the best food, music, shops, services, and anything else that can be categorized for our annual blockbuster Best Of Broward-Palm Beach. But for all our hard work, there are some of you who think you…
