Food & Drink

I’ve been on a quest to track down restaurants that cook with beer, pinning down less than a handful. This morning, I was reminded that beer is used as an ingredient in my own neighborhood at Riverside Market.It was quiet before the brunch crowd,…

Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. She writes frequently about her kitchen exploits in this column, Half-Baked. Earlier this week, I advised a sick friend the only real remedy to any illness is chicken noodle soup. Not having the energy or capacity to make soup, she curled her lip up at…

Well, here’s a food-oriented legal proceeding that’s more Big Lebowski than Law & Order. Coral Springs-based Pizza Time, Inc., claims that a Washington-based pizza chain — that’s also called “Pizza Time” — has stolen its name, according to a lawsuit recently filed in the Broward County Civil Court. The conflict is rooted in chronology, it…

There’s only one rule to live by – you must have popcorn while seeing a movie. But, after paying over $10 to get into the movie, sometimes shelling out another $10 for popcorn and a soda turns a simple night out into a crazed spending spree.Luckily, two theater chains are…

Terrific weather, a great turnout, and delicious eats marked last night’s New Times Pairings at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. Without further delay, we are pleased to announce the winners for Best Overall, Most Unique Dish, Most Decadent Dish, and Best Sweet…

Food trucks are heading up north tomorrow. Since the weather is turning beautiful, it’s going to be a good day to check out some street food al fresco with a location and theme for everyone (including sshhhhhh…..a history lesson for kids of all ages). Here’s the scoop:…

The Clean Plate Charlie team and plenty of South Florida food devotees will spend tonight sipping, sharing, comparing notes, and possibly loosening waistbands at the 4th Annual New Times Pairings event from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale. Time is limited…

Turn on the radio or the television and you’ll hear the usual nightly coverage of stocks tanking, unemployment rates rising and other tales of doom and gloom.  Many pundits say the best hope for our country’s economy is by encouraging entrepreneurship through small business.If that’s the case, the south Florida…

Dennis Max is at it again. The high profile restaurateur behind Max’s Grille and Max’s Harvest has joined forces with Fred Stampone and a silent investor to create two new restaurants that will open this fall. The first, Frank and Dino’s -an Italian-American restaurant that pays homage to the Rat Pack- will…

Tonight’s weekly edition of food truck goodness at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino comes with a liberal dose of head banging and air guitar.From 5:30 – 10 p.m., the Hard Rock is hosting Be A Rock Star Night at the food truck roundup. Not only will you be able…

It was a Monday at 8:30, and the parking lot at Sea was fairly empty. (It is the offseason.) I contemplated turning around, but no: I had been dreaming about the soup since Saturday. I could get it to go. I walked inside. A server, Joe, recognized me and greeted…

Are you In the Biz but out of work? Check here every week, where we round up some of South Florida’s most promising job leads. (you’re welcome. Just be sure to tip us off when you hear of any juicy scandals in the kitchen.) Just in Time for Octoberfest, Biergarten…

Food truck fans in West Palm Beach usually have to make do with the trucks that hang out in the northernmost reaches of south Florida like Curbside Gourmet or Out of Many Cafe.   Until tonight. Village Commons in West Palm Beach is hosting their first ever Food Truck Frenzy tonight…

It may be hot outside, but things are chilling out at Tundra, the ice-themed restaurant conceived by David Berman and Alex Podolny. Scheduled to open in the former Mancini’s space at 1017 East Las Olas Blvd., the restaurant is the first of three concepts by the pair, which will include…

Tomorrow, September 15th is National Chicken Lover’s Day. Now, before you go out and get some roses and candy (corn) for that special chicken in your life (not that there’s anything wrong with that), we’re talking another kind of celebration.Pollo Tropical wants to give you a free 1/4 chicken meal…

Legal Sea Foods, the Boston-based restaurant chain, has produced a series of commercials and print ads that start out as a message of conservancy and humanity…then turn to bloodshed (if crabs had blood, that is).One ad starts all Greenpeace-like, with a crab preening itself by ocean waves. A voiceover says,…