With Pairings coming up next week, we’ve got one final set of tickets to give away to the all-you-can-eat food and wine event. Then it’s time for wine, beer, and so much more on September 16 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.All you have to do to get…
This week in Dish, we look at Trata Greek Taverna. The restaurant, opened on Las Olas last January, removes all the flashy bellydancing and napkin throwing from the Greek formula. Instead, it focuses on simple, homey Greek food with an eye for authenticity. The menu is full of complementary flavors…
The Soma Center Cafe in Lake Worth has long been a favorite spot for healthy eating in Palm Beach County. New Times named it Best Vegan Restaurant this year, praising the deliciously fresh, innovative dishes and warm, free-loving atmosphere.But behind the counter at the crunchy, laid-back café, insiders say, chaos…
Ken Grippo has been homeless since January 2009. Before then, he lived in Manhattan in a two-bedroom apartment making $85,000 a year as a chef.Then he moved to Florida and within a week was living in the COSAC Homeless Shelter in Hollywood. To pay his “rent,” he was put to…
• So long, Soma; we hardly got to know you. That would be the West Palm Beach Soma Center, the veggie-vegan-raw café and “holistic wellness center,” which closed last week after opening only two months ago on booze-and-greasy-burger Clematis Street. No reason for the sudden shutdown, but the Lake Worth…
Happy Labor Day, everyone! While today historically signals the end of summer, the chance of the sun’s retreating from its oft-brutal assault on South Florida is nil. So may as well bunker down and prepare with creamy, cold treats — preferably, this milk shake. Its benefits over an ordinary milk…
It’s the hottest thing to hit the pizza world since Wolfgang Puck smeared a crust with crème fraiche and topped it with smoked salmon and caviar. That would be the coal-fired oven, both figuratively and literally the hottest, as it can crank up to a fearsome 800 to 900 degrees,…
How to make the perfect roasted chicken with just salt and a little know-how.Five wines to bunker down with for hurricane season.Here’s seven milk shakes made with beer that you’ll love.The burger at Gilbert’s 17th St. Grill is big, bold, and full of Angus beef.Now that spiny lobster is in…
Andrew Lampasone, owner of Wine Watch in Fort Lauderdale, enjoys a good meal with his wine. This braised beef short rib recipe is a winner at their catered events and at his home dinner table. Braised Beef Short Rib au Thyme JusThis recipe needs 2 days of marinading and has…
• Get ready for posh Mexican cuisine on the beach. Upscale cantina Dos Caminos will move into the newly renovated Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel this November, bringing with it the slick, modern vibe of its New York and Las Vegas counterparts. Expect authentic dishes like lamb barbacoa and cochinita…
Labor Day weekend is here, signaling the end of one heck of a brutal summer. It’s also a chance for one last summer party — including sipping beers on the patio, grilling hot dogs or burgers, and listening to groovy tunes (might I suggest some reggae for this occasion?). But…
With New Times’ annual Pairings food event just two weeks away, things are getting pretty exciting. The list of participating restaurants has grown pretty large to include places like Steak 954, Sette Bello, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs. I’ve just received a list of dishes that covers what many of…
OK, now the bacon craze has just gone too, too far. We were down with the whole bacon-infused bourbon thing; we thought the maple-glazed doughnut with a bacon topper and deep-fried bacon munchies were fun novelties; and the whole bacon ice cream fad gave us a giggle. But now, food…
One of the best reasons to cook Mexican food at home is to avoid the canned and processed foods and giant vats of grease that seem to be mandatory in all too many local Mexican restaurants. If you like golden, crispy tortilla shells (whether flour tortillas for tostadas or corn…
The place: Kahuna Awa Kava Bar, 123 NE 20th Ave., Deerfield Beach. Cal 954-663-0757.The hours: 2 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The deal: Two-for-one kava drinks. The digs: The Kahuna gives off an upscale vibe from the outside that belies the casual, relaxed mood inside. It does the Polynesian…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…
In this, the second part of our interview, Andrew Lampasone, owner of the boutique-style store Wine Watch, continues to share his knowledge of wines and gives us a preview of what we can expect to see at the Pairings event on September 16. For the event, Lampasone has the fun…
It looks like both chefs from Azul, the über-luxe eatery in Miami’s posh Mandarin Oriental hotel, (will) have restaurants in Palm Beach. Michelle Bernstein was first with her eponymous eatery in the opulent but financially troubled Omphoy resort. Now her successor, former Todd English culinary director Clay Conley, is leaving…
To see more photos from Jimmy’s Bistro, click here. My date and I had resolved to eat light at Jimmy’s Bistro in downtown Delray Beach. We vowed to order just one appetizer and split it and to skip dessert. But choosing just one starter was proving harder than we thought…
This quiet restaurant in the old Alligator Alley space is actually the second location of this Hollywood eatery (now reopened), popular for rotisserie chicken and comida Peruana. The space draws in Latin families who eat a wide range of Peruvian specialties, like fresh-made ceviche and papas à la huancaina, a…
Most folks probably think of rum as the liquor you shoot on a dock while eating cracked conch, pour into vats with fruit juice, or watch getting mixed at one of those bars with the spinning daiquiri machines. And then there’s a rum like St. Lucia Distillers Chairman’s Reserve Rum…
Now, you’ve had a good sandwich in your day. Here in Fort Lauderdale, LaSpada’s and My Market and Deli make some of the finest. But regular folks can become sandwich artisans too. If you’ve ever created a kitchen-sink concoction you’re proud of, you could be a winner.A company based in…
