Restaurateur Sophia Mylona is helming Thasos Taverna, named for the Greek Island in the northern Aegean Sea. Former chef at Raleigh’s bu.ku, William D’Auvray has been hired for his expertise in fish, she says. D’Auvray also helmed Raleigh’s Fins restaurant and spent time in L.A. apprenticing for Michel Richard and…
Two local South Florida chefs are competing in a fiery battle to see who has the best grill skills in the Walmart Choice competition. The grill-off, sponsored by Kingsford charcoal and Coca-Cola, will have the chefs of Miami’s Red Fish Grill battle it out in a head-to-head competition to see…
What do you get when you trap a whiskey distiller and a brewmaster in a room together? One hell of a drink, is what we’re thinking. Actually, what you get is John John Dead Guy Ale, which is the collaboration of Rogue brewmaster John Maier and Rogue spirits master distiller…
With Easter-basket shopping in high gear, Peeps obsession is in full swing. But on Sunday night, after the sliced ham has gone cold, the plastic grass ingested by a pet or easily confused human candy hound, and the first glimmer of a jellybean-induced cavity forms, you may start wondering what…
The former Samba Room space at 350 E. Las Olas Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale has been gutted and rehabbed for the debut of the Royal Pig Pub & Kitchen. The Royal Pig is a project of Joe Upchurch, whose restaurants include beachfront locations of Hooters, Ugly Tuna Saloona, Lulu’s Bait…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 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. 66. Super Mozzarella…
Read on for today’s roundup of Floridacentric links. Today’s focus is on drinks.1. Wicked Dolphin Artisan Rum will be the newest booze made in Florida. Created from molasses, water, sugar, and yeast and distilled in aged barrels, the first batches from Cape Coral will be ready by May and distributed by…
Free deep-fried onions and free (possibly pink-slime-laced) burgers won’t necessarily appeal to every consumer, but it seems there’s one national chain promotion with practically universal allure. Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating “free cone day” today from noon to 8 p.m. at stores around the country, including here in South Florida,…
We’re counting down to New Times’ Best Of Broward/Palm Beach 2012 issue in June by serving up our top 100 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. 67. Slim Lady…
The holidays are upon us: Procrastinate no more. Easter and Passover reservations need to be made now, if not last week. If you need some ideas of where to go, take a look at our list of restaurants in Broward County serving Easter meals, restaurants in Palm Beach County with…
When Michelle Bernstein left the Omphoy restaurant back in January, the boutique Palm Beach resort was left without a fine-dining establishment — at the height of the busy and lucrative tourist season.The Omphoy resort has fixed that problem with the recent opening of Malcolm’s. The seaside restaurant has named Michael…
Shula Burger is expected to open later this year in the Quay Shopping Center at 1515 SE 17th St. in Fort Lauderdale. Legendary Dolphins coach Don Shula is the namesake behind Shula’s Steak House, Shula Bar & Sports, and Shula’s on the Beach. His company maintains more than 30 restaurants…
The American Fine Wines Competition gala is set for April 19 at the Boca Raton Resort and Club. At $310 a pop, a spot at the table nets a four-course dinner and tastes of many of the 600 American wines featured in the competition. Late Show With David Letterman announcer…
If there was one big winner from Saturday night’s Beerfest, it was the small brewer. The home brewers and the upstarts took home a couple of the biggest prizes from our Clean Plate Charlie awards, a remarkable feat considering the megabrewers that were present. Here, then, are our winners from…
Michelle Bernstein of Michy’s won last night’s Cochon 555 at the Four Seasons in Miami, an event in which five chefs each cooked a whole heritage pig — offal and all — for judges and several hundred adventurous guests. At the announcement of the win, the crowd held up flutes of…
Though prices at the chef-driven Cafe Boulud aren’t astronomical, it is fine dining and the check will reflect that. Want to get a taste of what the kitchen can do without springing for a full meal? A spring beer tasting on Wednesday night will include tastings of six beers to be…
Know of a great little mom-and-pop place we need to check out or someone great we missed altogether? Please let us know in the comments (bearing in mind that pizza got its own “best of” list, so we went more inclusive with this collection). 1. Talia’s Tuscan Table By eliminating table service,…
The restaurant has “the best sushi around that I’ve had in a while. It’s really good, and the presentation is really cool,” Feinberg said of the hip new space in a thoroughly restaurant-saturated area of downtown Boca (Royal Palm is home to more than 20 restaurants alone). …
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. 67. Terry’s Famous…
This video has been sent to me a couple of time this week, filmed during a visit to Immokalee, Florida by Daniel Klein of The Perennial Plate. It’s where a third of the country’s tomatoes are grown for grocery sales.During his visit, Klein interviews Lupa Gonzalo from Guatemala, a tomato…
It is true that America is home to the Luther Burger. It is true that America invented greasy fast food and continues to love its Burgerdonalds and McKings with heart-stirring (and -stopping) patriotic ardor. It is true that our prolonged prosperity in the 20th Century, our early adoption of refrigeration,…
In this era of locavorism, we’re wondering what restaurants in our towns should get the shadow treatment. We’re nominating a rendition in whites, browns, and reds on the Primanti Bros. sandwich. Or a brown and yellow number for Jack’s Hamburgers. Other options are a YOLO gray lid with a red YO…
