See also: Pairings 2012 at Broward County Convention Center photo gallery and Pairings 2012: The Five Best Things I Ate If the number of slain bottles and shimmying hips was any indication, there were more than a few rough wake-up calls this morning for the 1,500 or so attendees at…
Judging Pairings is a little daunting. With nearly 50 different restaurants serving up as many dishes on three levels of the Broward County Convention Center, you’ve got to have a strategy if you plan on sampling each and every one. The plan was simple — start on the third floor…
If your way of celebrating Mexican heritage is making your standard 2 a.m. Taco Bell visit, freeze and put down the Chalupa. Clean Plate Charlie has got your covered on where you can celebrate Mexican Independence Day on Sunday, September 16, by visiting authentic Mexican restaurants in Broward. Andale!…
Ahhh, shoulder season. That slightly awkward, but not entirely unenjoyable, point in the year when the air is starting to feel less like the inside of someone’s mouth and the local dining scene is gearing up for an explosion in business. This weekend, bid adieu to a summertime favorite and/or…
Steve White is a folk artist in Albuquerque, New Mexico who works out of a studio called The Folk Farm. Like all artists, White has a favorite medium. Is it oil on canvas? Clay? Nope! It’s Pez.Pez. As in those plastic candy containers that resemble bunnies, Snoopy, or Batman. White transforms…
In the not -too-distant past, evening farmers’ markets were nonexistent in Palm Beach County. That was until Farmer Jay McCobb and Ellenville Garden Center teamed up to invent the Moonlit Farmers’ Market in Boca Raton once a week. Now Palm Beach County hosts two others: one newly opened at Florida…
See also: New Times Pairings: Wines You’ll Be Swirling and Sipping on Thursday Night and New Times Pairings: An Event for Beer Geeks and Novices Alike Alright, slackers and/or procrastinators. If you’ve been putting off purchasing tickets to the fifth annual New Times Pairings — which goes down tonight at…
In the past few years, Vietnamese cuisine has exploded on the contemporary food scene, thanks in large part to a filling and fun-to-eat dish called pho — beef broth and noodle soup that’s considered the national dish of Vietnam. A flawless pho (commonly pronounced fuh) is achieved through the lengthy…
Breakfast, some experts say, is the most important meal of the day. Yet in our fast-paced lives, cooking up a hearty breakfast before hitting rush hour traffic… It just doesn’t happen. When pressed for time, the egg sandwich is the answer. It’s packed with flavor and protein and keeps those…
South Florida’s favorite serial killer with a heart of gold, Dexter, returns to Showtime on September 30 at 9 p.m., and Steak 954 is making a special dish in his honor. Even more surprising, it’s a dessert. The Dexter dessert ($9) starts with a crème brûlée cheesecake topped with seasonal…
Even with the Food Network offering meal plans and tutorials 24/7, not everyone feels at ease in the kitchen. Some of us have nightmares about hosting a dinner party, trying to look composed in front of guests while managing rambunctious children and messy eaters (ahem, Grampa). Wah! We need Giada…
Are you always the poor sap sent out for office coffee? Do you like taking a break for a mocha but can’t seem to slip out quietly before your office mates notice and pile on their orders?Starbucks has picked up on your frustration. It has heard your howls of pain…
See also: Fifth Annual New Times Pairings: Who’s New to the Lineup This Year and Five Reasons You Should Go On Tuesday, Clean Plate Charlie showed a little love for the craft beer to be offered at Thursday’s fifth-annual New Times Pairings. The beer camp makes a very compelling case,…
If you’ve got a little food ADD or possibly a case of restless leg syndrome, we feel for you. After all, it can be challenging sitting in the same restaurant for hours on end during one of those endless course-tasting dinners. If we’re talking to you, check out the Tastemakers…
Baskin-Robbins is introducing a new way to eat ice cream that may just blow your mind. Forget carrying your ice cream around inside the waffle cone, making it all soggy and mushy by the end. Ever had one of those things leak out the bottom all over your new pants…
This week’s restaurant review is about Pho Vi, a Vietnamese restaurant that opened in March in downtown Hollywood. In the past few years, Vietnamese cuisine has exploded on the contemporary food scene, thanks in large part to a filling and fun-to-eat dish called pho — beef broth and noodle soup…
What do you call an accident that leaves 40,000 pounds of bacon just sitting on the side of a highway? If you said “massive fail,” you’d be correct.That’s what happened in Peoria, Illinois, when a Wenger Trucking Co. semi overturned, spilling its precious porcine cargo all over the median. According…
Wine tends to get top billing at New Times Pairings — in part, because Wine Watch and crew do such a fine job of it — but the craft-beer department is no slouch either. This year especially is a must for beer geeks and hops nerds. In addition to familiar…
There’s only one thought that comes to mind when we watch Hell’s Kitchen, the combination cooking show/fraternity hazing hosted by foul-mouthed chef Gordon Ramsay on Fox television — “Is it worth it?”For local chef Robyn Almodovar, the answer is yes. The Le Cordon Bleu graduate’s food truck, Palate Party, continues…
The old-fashioned milkman is back, but like every recycled trend, he’s been updated. No longer is he merely a milkman but a delivery dude. The Delray Delivery Dudes provide what in more provincial times might have been delivery service but is now called “concierge service.”And while back in the day…
There’s this little thing happening this week called the fifth-annual New Times Pairings. Perhaps we’ve mentioned it? And as if you need any other activity (you don’t) to keep your spirits up as you slog through another week at the office, there are plenty more wine, beer, and dining events…
When President Barack Obama was campaigning in Florida this weekend, he stopped at Big Apple Pizza and Pasta in Fort Pierce. This detour was meant to be one of those typical campaign visits where the president, in a bid for reelection, visits local merchants, shakes hands, and has a nosh…
