Do you really need 101 reasons to attend the 101st South Florida Fair? No. You don’t.Of course, we could all use a few good excuses as to why we’re about to spend a whole lotta dough on tickets, rides and fair food. We all love the fair, but no one…
Boca’s reputation as a place for old rich people to live out their final days on gated golf courses makes it easy to forget that the city is home to a major university. And wherever there are college kids, there’s a thirst for cheap beer and plenty of it. Enter…
A short waitress with a high-pitched voice and a thick, almost indecipherable accent set a golden, grapefruit-sized orb — topped with a dollop of whipped cream, surrounded by strawberries, blueberries, and their sweet sauces — on the table. Inside of a thin, deep-fried crust of panko bread crumbs lay a…
Just at the last possible minute, the House pulled the United States back from the brink of the dreaded fiscal cliff.During a vote late Tuesday, 172 Democrats and 85 Republicans voted for the bill, while 16 Democrats and 151 Republicans opposed it, raising taxes for the wealthiest Americans, while maintaining…
If you’re like us, your New Year’s resolution was to get more exercise and drink more beer. If those two goals sound like they’re somewhat conflicting, think again..because we’ve found the most awesome of races to sign up for — The Tap ‘N’ Run!This 4K race is a healthy fun run…
It’s about time: the holidays are over. And your body could not be more grateful. The time has come to stop the binge drinking and junk-food eating. Let’s be honest: there’s a reason new gym memberships astronomically explode after the New Year. After the past month’s excess, you’re probably feeling…
A new year is a great opportunity to practice the “out with the old, in with the new” mantra. If you’re like most people “the old” includes piles of obsolete junk hidden in dark corners of the house or stuffed into impossible-to-open drawers. In every secreted-away collection of crap exists…
Champagne: the classic New Year’s Eve drink. You toast with it, cheer with it, drink it straight from the bottle Diddy-style.Of course, champagne isn’t for everyone — especially when taste largely depends on how much you want to spend.Sure, there are uber-cheap knock-offs (think cava, prosecco and Cooks) that taste…
Come Tuesday morning, you won’t just be going back to work. Chances are, you’ll be going back to work with a killer hangover. Since the usual options like hair of the dog, Bloody Mary’s, and another shot of tequila aren’t going to be something you can partake on during the commute…
Is everything too loud this morning? If you partied so hard on New Year’s Eve that your hair hurts, you need to act fast to ensure New Year’s Day isn’t spent shriveled in a ball on the couch. Clean Plate Charlie has been searching high and low this week to…
It’s difficult to find people who do not like wine. (Why would you want to?) And even harder to find someone who doesn’t love cheese. (Well, besides vegans, of course.) As much as the vast majority of the population enjoys eating cheese and drinking wine, most people have no idea…
No, really. We’re completely serious here. The Hulkster is opening a restaurant in Tampa and if you’ve got no New Year’s eve plans you could start driving now and be able to celebrate at the New Year’s Eve grand opening tonight (which is selling out quickly).The 20,000 square-foot Hogan’s Beach,…
Have you ever watched that Michael Bublé music video where the entire grocery store breaks out into a dance? Have you ever thought about organizing a supermarket choreographed dance on your own? It’s okay, we have too. Unfortunately, on January 2, someone will be beating you to it.The cast of…
Every man and his dog has some kind of at home hangover remedy: greasy food, bananas, coffee, ceviche, aspirin, whatever. Some actually help. Others ease the pain. The rest do nothing.Whatever the case, we’ve decided to look up some of the weirder options. Hopefully, you won’t have to test them…
Happy New Year! The over-priced parties, the drunk drivers, the immense pressure on the midnight kiss forever dividing the happily coupled from the desperately single… We hope it will be magical. But New Year’s Day will remind you that you’re 365 days older and less able to handle your liquor.Your…
Hopefully, 2012 was an awesome and successful year. If not, that kind of sucks. On the bright side, there are some good luck remedies you can conjure up for the New Year. Do they work? Heck if we know, but trying never hurts.We present to you five foods to help…
Tonight, millions of people around the world will gather around their televisions to see a big lighted ball drop from One Times Square in New York City at midnight. Since 1907, the New Year’s Eve ball has dropped at 11:59 p.m., traveling 77 feet in 60 seconds to signify the…
How will you spend the last day of 2012 and the first week of 2013? Clean Plate Charlie has rounded up a few food- and drink-related options to consider this week, most of which center around New Year festivities (go figure). Find some celebratory options after the jump. See Also:…
You can’t look back on a year without taking a moment to reflect on those who won’t forge ahead to greet 2013. At Clean Plate Charlie, that means a roundup of bars and restaurants that shuttered their doors in 2012 in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Some (Charcuterie Too) are…
As we prepare to close the books on 2012, it’s time to look back over the roll call sheets for the year to see who came to Broward and Palm Beach counties in the last 12 months. The burger glut of 2011 has cooled a bit, but there were still…
In an effort to lure consumers with even more ways to get obese, McDonald’s is launching their Fish McBites. Basically, pieces of every Grandma’s Mickey D’s staple on acid, these are little nuggets of battered and deep fried Alaskan Pollock with lots of fattening tartar sauce to dip them into.The…
A genetically modified salmon, ominously dubbed the Frankenfish, recently took another step from the farm to your plate. The Food and Drug Administration last week released an environmental report on the impact of the AquaAdvantage salmon, developed and patented (yes, patented) by Massachussets-based AquaBounty Technologies. The FDA concluded the salmon…
