South Florida’s hot chefs, including Talay Thai’s Charlie Soo, get the calendar treatment. Oysters that clock in at eight inches long? We’re gonna need a bigger boat.Food trucks are back. Here’s a comprehensive list of South Florida’s kitchens on wheels.Palm Beach has some great specialty markets. Here’s our Top Five.This…
“You call this spicy?” said Brad, a broad, bearded New Yorker with a penchant for heat. “I gotta tell you, sister, this ain’t hot at all.” Brad, a friend of my parents’, was talking about my mother’s homemade enchiladas. Since I was a kid, she would make the chicken- and…
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…
The past two days, we’ve shared with you Chef Mark Millitello’s insights on his past and his future. Now it’s time for one of his recipes, savory semolina crepes stuffed with ricotta and prosciutto.Mark’s Semolina Crepes Stuffed With Homemade Ricotta & ProsciuttoFor the Ricotta (makes 2 cups) 6 cups whole…
The place: 101 Ocean, 101 E. Commercial Blvd., Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. Call 954-776-8101. The hours: 5 to 7 p.m. every day. The deal: All drinks half price. The digs: If they ever decide to add another number to the Ocean’s (Eleven) Trilogy, 101 Ocean would make an ideal filming location. But not…
Potato chips aren’t exactly considered exotic fare in America, but when we saw our favorite brand, Archer Farms, was offering Macaroni & Cheese, General Tso, and Greek-Inspired versions, we had to give ’em a go. After all, the brand’s traditional and Salt & Vinegar-flavored chips have long been favorites, mostly…
In the bad old days, drinking wine-in-a-box had about the same cachet as swilling Mad Dog from a bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag. In the good new days, drinking box wine is one of the smartest decisions a thrifty wine lover can make. It still may not have…
Every neighborhood has one of those cursed locations that seem to turn over restaurants, and in the Flagler Arts Village, it’s the little cafe in the Avenue Lofts. After a couple failed coffee shops, though, the new one looks promising. Brew La-La has something the others never got quite right:…
• Lips, Fort Lauderdale’s drag show dinner theater, deserves credit: It’s tough to continually pump out menu items that feature nearly as many witty double entandres as the riotous stage show. But somehow, the drag supper club continues to do it. The restaurant is rolling out a host of new…
We’ve seen plenty of restaurants close for summer vacation, but when a place shuts down for the entire summer, it’s usually bad news. That’s what’s happening at the 90-year-old Palm Beach institution Testa’s. The restaurant announced Wednesday that it would be stopping all operations for the rest of the summer…
That’s all, folks. Top Chef and new Florida resident Kenny Gilbert was forced to “pack up [his] knives and go” on last night’s episode of Top Chef D.C.Gilbert was sent home following the show’s Restaurant Wars episode, which pits two teams of four cheftestants against each other. The chefs took…
Face it, you can’t always eat healthy.Now don’t argue. There are times when you can’t hit up the specialty market to make the gourmet salad. Next option? McDonald’s!But there are things you can eat to make sure you don’t completely overload on lard. The problem is that your food’s nutritional content…
Yesterday Mark Militello, executive chef at Trina, the Fort Lauderdale beach restaurant at the Atlantic Hotel, shared some of his background and how he got to where he is today. In this next part, we’ll hear more about what he has in store for the relaunch of the restaurant later…
Whine not, wine lovers… Il Mercato Café & Wine Shop is here. The 3-week-old establishment is the brainchild of restaurant vets Mike and Emily Lynch. (He: certified sommelier formerly of such local spots as Bar Rosso and Govind Armstrong’s now-deceased Table 8. She: chef from a …
The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau (GMCVB), in cahoots with a klatch of corporate sponsors, is orchestrating the eighth-annual Miami Spice event. The two-month program presents diners with a chance to select from discounted prix fixe menus at any of 119 participating restaurants. More specific: a three-course lunch for…
There are so many Thai/Japanese restaurants around Broward and Palm Beach counties serving the same exact menu that they may as well all be photocopies. With nothing to differentiate them but their cutesy names (Too Too Thai or Bo Thai or Thai One On, etc.), there’s little to draw you…
Kick back tomorrow night at City Oyster and Sushi Bar. Have a drink. In fact, have a drink made by a celebrity.OK, so maybe Johnny Depp won’t be stirring your dirty martini, but Dara Torres, the Olympic medalist could be. And it’s all to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.Even if…
We told you about Chef Dean Max of 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale competing this past weekend in the Great American Seafood Cook-Off in NOLA. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service sponsored the seventh-annual contest, held again in New Orleans. We now present you with his winning recipe; he brings the…
To some, Billy Mitchell is a villain of the likes of the Joker, Dr. Evil, or Skeletor. But to others, he’s a Donkey Kong champ, a master manipulator of the joystick, and testament to the power of human will.Last weekend, the veteran videogamer and owner of Rickey’s Restaurants in Hollywood…
Chef Mark Militello is a man of few words. This self-proclaimed “Doctor of Food” has taken the helm at Trina, the Fort Lauderdale beach restaurant at the Atlantic Hotel. Not one to share a lot of secrets, he did not give us many details on the menu or décor, but…
Nothing goes better with cheap liquor than cheap food. And these days, many restaurants and bars are luring in customers with low-priced happy-hour menus. So which bar or restaurant has the best happy-hour menu? Tell us in our survey below…
Florida-grown dragon fruit are now in season, and if you’ve seen one in the supermarket recently, you probably wondered what the hell it is. It’s football-shaped, bright purple, and has dried-up leaves shooting out like thorns. Although the dragon fruit looks pretty damned imposing, it’s actually easy to prepare. Here’s…
