Unleash your inner Jeffrey Steingarden and decide whose hamburger, er… Glamburger will reign supreme (but you don’t have to be a dick about it) in the Cheesecake Factory’s “Great Glamburger Challenge.” For six weeks in April and May, the national chain known for its endless crowds and monstrous portions solicited…
Las Olas has lots of pricey options, but aside from the Floridian, that solid-for-breakfast-dead-for-dinner mainstay, and old stalwart bakery Gran Forno, there are few places to score a quick and cheap lunch. So that’s the hole Eten Food Co. is hoping to fill, with takeout-only soups, sandwiches, and prepared foods.Eten…
In honor of International Sushi Day this Friday, RA Sushi in Palm Beach Gardens and Pembroke Pines is offering anyone who “likes” them on Facebook a coupon for a free Tootsy Maki roll. It’s kani kama crab mix, shrimp and cucumber, rolled in crunchy tempura bits, and drizzled with a…
Todd English’s Da Campo Osteria in the Il Lugano Hotel is known for its table-side mozzarella. What exactly is table-side mozzarella? It’s when a chef comes out of the kitchen with a bowl of warm curd, dons a pair of rubber gloves, and literally hand-pulls fresh mozzarella for you table-side…
Dad probably wants to spend some time on Sunday watching Slovakia take on Paraguay or see Italy face New Zealand. More likely even, he’ll be glued to the set watching the U.S. Open until it ends on Sunday night. But after those sports, he’ll have worked up a man sized…
Every year in our Best Of issue we have to make some tough choices. Take the category of Best Barbecue, for example. There are probably a good half-a-dozen restaurants that would qualify for this award depending on who you talk to. For example, some people think Tom Jenkins should win…
The Place: More than half a dozen locations in Broward and Palm Beach Counties. The Hours: Monday – Friday, 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. The Deets: Half-price on selected wines by the glass, single well liquor mixed drinks, selected premium liquors, and $1 off all draft beers. The Boca Raton…
Here’s a tip: The next big white wine thing will be. . . Torrontes. Oh, probably not. But it should be, because the Torrontes grape makes a quite lovely, easy to drink, affordable wine that’s particularly suited to the South Florida climate and palate. Think a less complex but still…
Delicately seared fish a glistening rare in the middle. Corn succotash and parsnip puree. Local turnips. If it sounds like an amazingly prepared plate, it is. Just tell us: Where are we eating?Bonus: Name the variety of fish for extra kudos…
Bamboo Fire — which we yesterday named Best Caribbean Restaurant in South Florida — finally got that visit from food writer Mark Bittman. His review of the mom and pop, posted on his blog, is glowing and sincere. Score one for the home team.In case you didn’t follow, Bittman popped…
Medflies are back in South Florida and creating a serious outbreak, according to Department of Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson. He deems the threat from the Mediterranean fruit fly, first discovered in Boca Raton traps over the weekend, “disturbing.” Not since 2002 has South Florida has seen the destructive flies — tiny insects…
Another year, another list of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs. And none of them is from South Florida. The food magazine’s annual list of 10 Best New Chefs in America gathers the young, creative toques who have caught national attention over the past year. The only rule — none…
There were some big shoes to fill at 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale after former Chef de Cuisine and Hell’s Kitchen contestant Paula DaSilva left last month to take over at the Eden Roc Resort in Miami Beach. But today, Executive Chef Dean James Max has just named DaSilva’s successor…
New Times’ annual Best Of issue is out today and live on the site. Pick up your copy, or check out the online archive now up to date with 2010 entries. Dish was one of the largest sections in this years’ issue with more than 40 winners. We’ve got some…
Man does not live by barbecue and beer alone, even in the summer. Sometimes he needs wine and cheese. Man — that would be you, bunky — is therefore in luck, as over the next several weeks, five local Whole Foods Markets will be pouring their top ten summer wines,…
By now, everyone’s heard of the Cooking Channel. The new cable station launched two weeks ago with a focus on food programming for “food people” (so named because foodies don’t like to be called foodies). It comes courtesy of the Food Network, which basically means there are two almost identical…
The deal: This fast-casual Mexican joint in Fort Lauderdale makes its tacos, burritos, enchiladas, and more with ultrafresh ingredients…
Most of us will probably spend the Fourth of July grilling hamburgers and hot dogs in our backyards and narrowly avoiding injury to the extremities via explosives (Holy crud, is it almost July already?). The Third of July, however, is a day solely reserved for fish fries. And there’ll be…
• Looks like barbecue has gone viral in Palm Beach County, with the recent debuts of Rib Bizz and Sheila’s and the weekend smokefest at Harvest Time Market. Now Allen Susser’s Taste Gastropub has been bitten by the barbecue bug, launching Monday Night Backyard BBQ, an all-you-can-eat chowdown with a…
This week on the blog:We recap the Burger Battle in two posts — the best, and the worst.Our custom chocolate bar from Chocomize arrived this week, and it was everything we had hoped for.To go with all the burgers, we sip some milk shakes at WPB’s Relish.Dine Out for the…
What was New York Times writer and the author of How to Cook Everything Mark Bittman doing in South Florida this week?Well, among other things, he was eating at a Delray Beach restaurant and having a not-so-good experience in the process. He wrote about the restaurant — which he declines…
I love a good boba (or bubble) smoothie after a big bowl of pho or a banh mi. There’s something so fun about sucking up cold, sweet smoothie and finding those little tapioca pearls capriciously running up your straw. The best boba drinks, I’ve found, are all about the texture…
