Sure, you can slop a few scoops in a bowl, add some peanuts, and call it a sundae. Sometimes, if you’re feeling fancy, you’ll twirl some whipped cream on top. That may be good enough for your family, but Breyers says, “No go!”The company is looking for the next best…
The End of History from BrewDog on Vimeo.Holy crap, where is all this discretionary income coming from? $70 hot dogs, $100 burgers, and now… $800 beers? That’s right, the supergourmet, superexpensive trend has extended into the craft beer category with a new brew from Scottish beer maker BrewDog. And boy,…
If there’s one thing I love about Tex-Mex-style fajitas, it’s the veggies. That sizzling mix of onions and peppers is about my favorite part of the whole fajita entourage. To me, it’s all about the caramelization. When the vegetables are rendered down, they become the sweet and luscious backbone behind…
It may seem like forever since anybody was slinging food in the old Bennigan’s location in Fort Lauderdale. But after a complete rehab in and out, J. Mark’s has finally opened its second location. If you haven’t been to the original in Pompano Beach, J. Mark’s is a comfortable restaurant,…
This week’s cover story in New Times is a photo essay on local chefs and restaurant workers with tattoos. We fit a few of the photos in the print edition, but you can find many more in this slideshow. There’s also more to the interviews, which were pared down for…
You’ve heard of ultraluxe burgers made with braised short ribs and foie gras selling for $100 a pop — in fact, a similar burger made news when it debuted at the Old Homestead Steakhouse in the Boca Raton Resort & Club in 2006. But supped up hot dogs costing nearly…
It was 12:30 p.m. last Saturday, and I was starving. I’d just finished an extremely sweaty yoga class and was eagerly speeding off to Sunrise to meet some friends for dim sum. Toa Toa, the highly acclaimed Chinese-food institution in a strip mall, would surely be worth the half-hour schlep…
Looking for a quick road trip this weekend? Book it down to Key Largo for the start of the Key Largo Food and Wine Festival.Friday, Saturday, and Sunday have three food and liquor events each. But the price isn’t free; check out the schedule of events for more information about…
Some people love rocky road. Others love chocolate chip or even Superman (remember that flavor?). But me? I love vanilla. Something about the purity of flavors in a good scoop of vanilla ice cream is irresistible. You can taste everything: the velvety cream, the sweet sugar, the lightly floral vanilla…
This week in Dish, we take a look at the maestro of meatballs that is Steve Martorano and his latest restaurant in Seminole Paradise at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. This third incarnation of his restaurant is bigger and glitzier than the original Cafe Martorano on Oakland Park. But…
Toby Cecchini has discovered that it’s hot in New York in the summer. Stop the presses! Writing last week in the New York Times, he weighed in on the heat-soothing aspects of the chelada and michelada, beer-based Mexican cocktails that include, in varying number and proportion, tomato juice, clamato juice,…
The most exciting news in celebrity endorsements — besides Lindsay Lohan getting paid to tweet shoutouts on her way to the clink — is coming from the spirits world. This March, entertainment mogul Sean Combs, AKA Diddy, went around promoting Ciroc vodka. He declared all other brands “pee-pee” and ignited…
The deal: This blue shack is little more than a takeout window with a modest porch and a few patio tables, but it gets packed during the week with area workers looking to grab a quick lunch to go. It’s been open in Fort Lauderdale since 1975 and is famous…
Spending an afternoon at World of Beer, a new beer bar in Coconut Creek, is really like entering a different world, one where the right answer is always another pour. I hung out there for a few hours this weekend, wasting away the afternoon with espresso stouts and hoppy strong…
No, seriously… guess. It’s a chain restaurant. It is not located in a strip mall. Yet it is on a busy street. The booths are rather cramped, and if Kevin Smith had a tough time getting his fat ass onto a plane, he’d have trouble squeezing into the leather labyrinth…
• You can never be too rich, too thin, or too full of pizza. Or at least, that’s the way it seems around here nowadays. Latest to jump into the local pizza wars is Stevi B’s, an Atlanta-based buffet-style pizzeria chain that has opened the second of what is intended…
Huge week on the blog:Ceviche is easy and tasty with Whole Foods’ new MSC-Certified swordfish.Part 2 of our interview with this season’s Top Chef front-runner, Kenny Gilbert.Pompano steak house and cabaret NY Strip shuts its doors.Johnny V’s casual eatery Smith & Jones closed for good, and the fallout has been…
We here at Clean Plate Charlie are usually too busy judging the judges on the Food Network, puréeing foie gras for our little baby Emeril, or just generally stuffing our ding-dangled faces to get out to any concerts these days, but we were excited to live vicariously through our sister…
Down at SUSHISAMBA dromo in Miami, beverage manager Mackenzie Parks added sake knowledge to her vast repository of wine smarts. Since pairing sake with sushi (and other foods, for that matter) is a true art, Parks has done her research into helping New Times recommend five bottles that’ll never do…
Drum roll, please.Olde English “800” Malt Liquor. Yep, users at ratebeer.com have voted pretty much unanimously, giving the “swilly” malt liquor a dismal 0.97 average out of a possible 5 (the lowest possible is 0.5). Users of the website have ranked it lower than hellaciously bad beers like Natty Ice…
• July 30 is National Cheesecake Day; can you guess which restaurant is celebrating? (Hint: The name starts with “Cheesecake” and ends in “Factory.”) Anyway, on July 30 that place will be offering “any slice, half price,” a promotion that’s fairly self-explanatory. Comers can try the chain’s new Reese’s Peanut…
We’ve learned to swallow juice from a pouch, wine from a box, and even yogurt from a bag, but is there really any reason to get our bread from a can?B&M’s Brown Bread — we tried the raisin variety — undoubtedly can outlast the shelf life of any loaf sheathed…
