While other restaurants hold monthly wine tastings, Stephen Starr’s Steak 954 offers something a bit different: a wine battle, where you’ll be the judge. Hosting a new monthly Wine Wars Dinner series ($85 per person) starting at 6 p.m. May 24, Chef Jason Landon Smith will create a five-course meal…
Seasons 52 has announced that beginning May 29, the restaurants will be offering wild Copper River salmon from Alaska. Due to its short season of availability, the fish will be offered for seven weeks. It will be served grilled over summer corn risotto with roasted asparagus, grilled red peppers, and…
Whole Foods Market in Pembroke Pines has been open less than two months, but it’s already embedded itself into the community.The purveyors of clean foods (and the best cheap wine this side of Trader Joe’s Two-Buck Chuck) is throwing a Memorial Day-themed block party on Saturday, May 26, just in…
By now, you’ve (hopefully) celebrated American Craft Beer Week by toasting with a quality beer made right here in the U.S. If not, try one of South Florida’s best brewpubs or one of these spaces for great craft beer before the week is up. Another way to mark the occasion is…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page. 33. Green Cay…
If anyone had any doubt that the food scene in Fort Lauderdale is exploding, she needs only look to the announcement of the Flavors of Fort Lauderdale festival.The four-day event, which runs from November 8-11, 2012, will feature a series of events spread throughout venues and restaurants in Fort Lauderdale. …
As part of a multimillion-dollar project to renovate Dania Beach Pier and the surrounding marina and beaches, city commissioners have entered into a 10-year lease agreement with Quarterdeck Restaurants.Quarterdeck’s Paul Flanigan told Clean Plate Charlie that the Dania Beach Quarterdeck should be open by late August 2012. Flanigan described the…
Several new food truck roundups have been announced in Broward County. These new, smaller roundups may prove to be the future of food trucks, which in the past have seen mega events with more than two dozen trucks — many serving the same types of fare. Each mobile kitchen in…
South Florida came late to the microbrewery trend, but we’ve got a fine array of local brewpubs. Skip the commercial brew and hit one of these local restaurants that feature taps of house-made beers. Brewzzi With two locations in West Palm Beach County, Brewzzi is the spot to watch sports,…
Enter a nondescript warehouse near the junction of the Palmetto Expressway and Bird Road in Miami and you’ll smell something like supercharged cream of wheat. Move in a few steps and you’ll find Nick Armada, a 31-year-old man of average stature with salt-and-pepper hair, stirring a kettle of grain mash…
After 36 years manning the kitchen at 1833 Tyler Street, Conca D’Oro Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria owner Dominico DeLuca has just one thing to say. “Thank you Hollywood,” DeLuca said in between taking orders and working the range. “This city has played a wonderful host.” Conca D’Oro has played as…
Todd Lough, the executive chef at the Pelican Grand Beach Resort, started at his new gig on April 9. And while he and the resort’s manager Bob Keesler said the property won’t unveil a revamped menu until the fall — in order to give Lough time to learn the lay…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page.34. South Indian Thali…
Palm Beach County restaurateurs will show off their goods in the first Palm Beaches Restaurant Week scheduled for Sunday, June 3, through Saturday, June 9, at dozens of top restaurants throughout the county. Marquee names like Seasons 52, Pistache French Bistro, Café Boulud, Buddha Sky Bar, Kapow! Noodle Bar, and…
On his quest to crafting his latest featured burger, Duffy’s Sports Grill Chef Eric Parker found inspiration at this year’s South Beach Food and Wine Festival Burger Bash. Noticing a trend of meat-on-meat burgers, he decided to come up with his own hefty version. The result: the Rachel Burger, packed…
SoLita Italian Restaurant and the Parlor Lounge locations in Delray Beach and Fort Lauderdale will host a chef wine series this week, with a dinner Tuesday night in Delray and Wednesday night in Fort Lauderdale. The restaurants each will host a similar event in June. The menu, created and prepared…
South Florida is a boozy, tourist-driven economy. With American Craft Beer Week upon us — Cheers! And so help you god if you consume a Budweiser product this week — it’s a fitting time to contemplate why the region is moving at a positively glacial pace to tap into the…
Today kicks off American Craft Beer Week, a seven-day celebration of all that is good about barley and hops bred and brewed within our borders. There are dozens of official ACBW activities — beer dinners, pairings, movie screenings, parties, etc. — throughout the week. Or if you’re simply in the…
The Shops at Pembroke Gardens will host the second part of their progressive Tastings event on Tuesday, May 15. Restaurants and cafes offering bites include: Brio Tuscan Grill, The Pub, Lime Fresh Mexican Grill, Stir Crazy Fresh Asian Grill, That Wine Place, Village Tavern, Fuddruckers, and Kilwin’s Chocolate and Ice…
Steak 954 has introduced a new menu for summer, with ten new dishes created by chef Jason Smith, who has been at the restaurant in the W Fort Lauderdale Hotel for three years. Clean Plate Charlie caught up with the chef in an email interview last week to learn more…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top hundred favorite dishes. Click here for a full archive. If you have any nominations of your own, please add them to the comments or visit our Facebook page. 35. Pasta of…
Tap 42 in Fort Lauderdale has named David Peck as its new executive chef, restaurant partner Andy Yeager confirmed in an email interview this week. “We are happy to have (Peck) as part of our team and look forward to continued improvement in all facets of our operation,” Yeager said…
