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. Here’s a little diatribe on why now, more than ever, it’s important for journos to stick to the SPJ Code of Ethics.The Burger Beast braves the new…
In my review of the Living Room in Boynton Beach, I talk about how owner Lisa Mercado transformed the restaurant into a highly personal, almost schizophrenic collection of knickknacks and oddities. But one thing I left out was how she inventively altered the men’s bathroom.Get up to go to the…
This week we’re skipping a Dish review in lieu of a column on Miami Spice. The annual prix-fixe meal deal is designed to draw in diners during the slow summer/fall months and incorporates some of Miami-Dade’s better-known restaurants (119 all told). But each year, the excitement of Miami Spice is…
Tired of spending your hard-earned pennies on antique produce, meat that tastes like the styrofoam package it comes wrapped in, fish that’s fresh only from the freezer, and canned, bottled, and packaged stuff full of ingredients you can’t pronounce and don’t want to eat? If you answered yes, here’s the…
Gulf oysters are renowned for two things: Being cheap and being large. Compare an Apalachicola oyster to a pricey Blue Point or Wellfleet, and you’ll see why real oyster fans go for the Gulf. When I eat an oyster, I want some bite — not just a wimpy little bivalve…
Another week, another chance to win two free tickets to Pairings, the unlimited food and wine tasting event taking place on September 16. The photo to the left needs no hints. It’s so easy, I’d be surprised if we don’t have a winner within minutes. As always, click the image…
• National restaurant mega-chain Landry’s Restaurant Inc. is switching its Fort Lauderdale Charley’s Crab eatery over to the Chart House brand. Renovation of the space has added a new patio and lounge, and while no one at the Houston-based company responded to several queries, the difference in menus between the…
New Times Pairings is coming in September, and we’re asking you what local restaurants you’d like to see there.A chef embroiled in legal troubles, asking for help on Craigslist? Name that local toque. East Coast Barbecue uses high-tech smokers to turn out slow and low Southern cooking.Read an interview with…
• Lunch isn’t always easy for a practicing vegetarian. Stop into Whole Foods Market Fort Lauderdale this Monday, August 9, for its Vegetarian Lunch Club. On the menu: Sweet corn soup with peaches, pasta with roasted tomatoes and “hidden” zucchini (insert joke here), and shortcakes with cherry compote. The class…
Though it usually would take an act of Congress to get us to eat anything that rhymes with turd, we had to try cheese curds when we found ourselves smack dab in the middle of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, last week. No, this is not a joke. There is an actual city…
“The craziest thing I ever saw?” ponders Tarpon Bend General Manager Aaron Abramoff. “Well, there was this one time that a bagpipe troupe decided to march through the restaurant out of nowhere. Everyone got up and just started dancing like nuts. There was so much energy, it was really cool.”Yes,…
Yesterday the economy was booming, everyone was making money, and it was steak and lobster for all. Today the economy is in the shitter, everyone is broke, and it’s Hamburger Helper and ramen for dinner. It’s times like these that test a cook’s ingenuity. If you want to eat like…
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…
Steak 954 — the posh steak house from Philadelphia restaurateur Stephen Starr — might be able to make a mean rib eye or tuna-foie gras taco. But for a lot of locals, the posh steak-house prices don’t exactly translate into casual lunch. Well, if you’ve been itching to try the…
The place: Bru’s Room Sports Grill, 235 S. Federal Highway, Pompano Beach. Call 954-785-2227.The hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. every night.The deal: Daytime happy hour gets you half-price domestic drafts, well drinks, and house wine and $2 domestic longnecks. Late night,…
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…
If you want to catch a game on TV, drink a few beers, grab a burger or a pizza or some wings, you head to your neighborhood sports bar, right? Or you can head to Boca to the new Neighborhood Sports Bar & Grill, which staged its grand-opening party yesterday…
This second location of the popular Coral Springs restaurant takes owner Ilan Cohen’s formula for fresh Mediterranean food and plops it in a sultry wine bar on the edge of Parkland. The menu in this larger space is deeper, with more wraps and salads to complement the authentic Israeli falafel…
To view a slide show of the Living Room, click here. My friends and I were lounging in cushy, mismatched chairs in our own little section of the Living Room in Boynton Beach. We were full, having just eaten an eclectic meal that included pear and Havarti pizza and a…
What’s long, hard, and holds about 100 ounces of ice cold beer?Pizza Rustica’s new beer tubes, of course.These cylindrical, chemistry-beaker-looking vessels are finding their way onto tables at the pizza haven’s Hollywood Boulevard location. The service device — which is a replacement for normal beer pitchers — may look gimmicky…
Last week, we reported that Dean James Max, executive chef at 3030 Ocean and at four other restaurants worldwide, will represent Florida at the Great American Seafood Cook-Off this Saturday. Competing head-to-head against 15 other chefs from different states, Max will have to woo judges with a dish that represents…
When I think of summer food, I think bright, bold flavors that won’t weigh you down. And this summertime orzo pasta salad delivers on all fronts. It’s got everything you’d want to awaken your palate in this brutal heat: There are woody kalamata olives; tart marinated artichoke hearts; cooling-sweet tomato;…
