New Times’ annual Pairings food and winetasting event is coming up fast. Going down September 16 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, the three-hour festival will showcase restaurants like 3030 Ocean, Taste Gastropub, Coco Asian Bistro, Chef Allen’s, Cafe Vico, and much more, along with all the appropriately…
Beastly, as in the Burger Beast.That’s because Sef Gonzalez, the Burger Beast himself, is behind the gathering of food trucks, carts, and stalls that will accompany the Adrienne Arsht Center’s daylong Fall for the Arts Festival. The free event will feature live music, arts and crafts, games, and workshops and…
Andrew Lampasone is the proprietor of Wine Watch — a boutique wine shop in Fort Lauderdale with a selection of more than 3,000 wines. On September 16, Lampasone will partner with New Times for the second year in a row to present Pairings — an event in which participants go…
You only patronize the one sushi joint that you heard has the freshest fish. You sit at the bar and annoy watch the chefs while they work. You bust out your little chopsticks and mix wasabi into your soy sauce with a practiced arrogance while boring regaling your friends with tales of…
The preseason excitement, the fantasy drafts, the fatty food; it could only mean one thing: Football seasoning is ramping up. All across South Florida, sports bars slinging wings and burgers, beers and shots will be prepping for their Sunday rituals. But finding a good sports bar isn’t just as easy…
I love it when food movements cross over and enter the realm of pop culture. Take bacon: Today, it’s almost universally recognized that bacon is something to be horded and consumed like a crack addict, cholesterol be damned. But behind that popcult push was genuine foodie enthusiasm. Would bacon be…
Jennifer Reed is a South Florida pastry chef and proprietor of the Sugar Monkey. Each week, she shares her thoughts about life, food, and the people who make it. Stranded in my house for a weekend after surgery seemed like a real bummer. Could I turn that frown upside down…
Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we’ll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere. Chef Chad Galiano, also known as Chadzilla, talks shu-mai dumplings made with koji aji, an MSG substitute.Jeff Eats takes issue with the Sun Sentinel’s Best Pizza Reader’s pic. Mango…
This week in Dish, we review Jimmy’s Bistro, a six-table eatery in downtown Delray Beach. In the year since it opened, chef/owner Jimmy Mills has earned a reputation for honest, homemade food with a nod to classic technique. His tiny restaurant fills up most night, with Mills cooking behind a…
I made a day trip down to the Keys this Saturday to enjoy the weather and trek around the Marathon area (before it turned into the two-day shit storm we’ve been experiencing). When I was down there, I made a stop at one of my favorite places in Marathon: Keys…
Welcome back to Where Are We Eating? In case you missed it, each Monday we’ve been giving away free tickets to Pairings, our annual food and wine tasting event. Four lucky readers have already walked away with a pair of passes. We’ve got two more pairs to give away until…
The first thing you notice is the onion strips, a golden-fried nest of them cascading off the top of the burger. Below that, a wedge of Brie, creamy white and slightly runny, crowning an inch-thick patty. The char-grilled, all Angus burger is itself cooked medium, but still gushes enough blood…
You know, Mondays suck so hard. They come at the worst time — always at the tail-end of a whirlwind weekend where you enjoyed a leisurely kayak trip in the Keys (or whatever). Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s some kind of hideous “work” attached to them, like a piece…
Sure, a mixture of ice cream and beer sounds like a vomit-inducing concoction. And that is exactly what prompted three young adults (my friends) to recently undertake the tasting of 14 beer milkshakes (which I invented and foisted upon them).All beers on the following list were bought at Total Wine,…
Is there any food more delicious, more comforting, more soothing to the soul and taste buds than a perfectly juicy, succulent, crisp and golden-skinned roasted chicken? In a word, no. Unfortunately, finding that perfectly juicy, succulent, crisp and golden-skinned roasted chicken is about as easy as finding a slab of…
Despite numerous predictions of death, destruction and days of no cable TV, so far this hurricane season we’ve gotten off pretty easy. Well, that looks like it’s about to change. You don’t need to be a professional doomsayer or a WSVN panic-monger. . . I mean, meteorologist, to peek at…
Flavor Palm Beach kicks off next week, and here are a few good deals to consider.Health Inspectors got serious last month as they shut down 15 South Florida restaurants for a litany of gross violations.Think you can pour the perfect Stella? Try your hand and win a trip to Europe.There’s…
I have to admit, I’m completely over “Best” lists. The raging — sometimes infuriating — argument over who makes the best burger, tacos, pizza, French fries, or fried bologna sandwiches is a hopelessly futile one to me. Why? Everyone has a different opinion — none of which, quite frankly, is…
This Summer has been crazy. It’s either so rainy that the streets look like giant Slip and Slides, or so hot out that even your sweat is sweating. I guess, if anything, that translates into good boozing weather. When you’re stuck inside by the elements, the least you can do…
The Place: The Lodge, 200 S Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. 561-392-5003 The Hours: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. every day. The Deal: Two-for-one on select drafts and free chips. The Digs: This place looks and feels like a ski lodge or hunting lodge, or a bar north of the Mason-Dixon and…
Everybody’s a critic. Everybody’s a rock ‘n’ roll guitar player. Everybody’s an expert. Problem is, most times, “everybody” isn’t. They just can’t do it. Not very well. Not very often. Not really. Some dishes are like that, too. It seems almost every restaurant serves Caesar salad, fries, and tiramisu, to…
This week, we wrote about the Falcon House’s recent transformation into the Triple Eight Lounge and how its happy hour delivers on all the right munchy, boozy, homey fronts. You really don’t need any more incentive than the promise of fish tacos and spicy five-cheese fondue to want to hop…
