• With oil continuing to spill into the Gulf and moving towards Florida’s coastlines, our local waters are in dire straits. It’s appropriate, then, that June 8 is World Oceans Day, a world-wide recognition of the importance of the ocean and its protection. On Friday, June 11, the Restaurant at…
I figured I’d make this one harder since people are getting these so fast. But obviously this place has a lively bar scene and some interesting lighting. It’s been reviewed by the paper before as well. And that’s about all the hints you’re going to get! So tell us: Where…
Yup, Homer, there really is a National Doughnut Day, established in 1938, if you look into it. Dunkin’ Donuts is offering a free doughnut today in all its stores (one to a customer) in honor of the “hole-a-day.”…
If it has been a while, or if your diploma’s from a dotcom, here’s a refresher on College 101: You can make vodka out of anything. Anything anything? Not gym shorts or freshmen, no, but if it can be fermented and distilled, it can be 80 proof. In this case,…
The West Palm sibling of Fort Lauderdale’s Off the Hookah, the nightclubby restaurant where water pipes aren’t the only things smoking, is now up and running on — where else? — Clematis Street. The newest Hookah (314 Clematis St., 561-837-8577) is 14,000 square feet of faux exotica, complete with “ancient”…
Dania Jai Alai is like the ultimate Den of Iniquity: if you want vice, they’ve got it. There, you can gamble on ponies or poker, watch balls zip around at 150 miles-per-hour in “The World’s Fastest Game,” and smoke cigars to your hearts content. It’s also known for its $.99…
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…
Bova Prime, that Las Olas staple of chic, appears to have closed its doors for good this week. But before it did, Bova hosted a gathering May 20 for members of Emerge Broward, the popular young professional’s organization. The party was packed, but it was also symbolic of what went…
The Spot: Grand Lux Café in Boca Raton The Hours: Monday – Friday, 4:00-6:30 p.m., Bar Only The Deets: Grand Lux Café has extremely large portions for relatively decent prices. When those prices get sliced in half for two and a half hours a day, the extremely large portions look…
Back in January, we asked you to vote on your favorite local bands, bars, restaurants, and everything in between for our Readers’ Poll. And you sure voted — we logged 2,351 of them. The full results will be printed in our Best of Broward-Palm Beach edition July 17. Below is…
‘Tis the season of the ritual charring of the flesh–aka, barbecue season–(check out John Linn’s review of Sheila’s here) so a young man’s fancy turns to what beverage of the alcoholic persuasion is best to wash down some killer ‘cue. Many of you (philistines) will say beer, and while it’s…
Barbecue is a truly geeky pursuit. Think about it: Here you’ve got grown men and women obsessing over an antiquated and inefficient cooking method, one that’s been effectively replaced in popular culture by push-button smoke ovens and prepackaged sauces. These are people who trumpet tradition over innovation, bemoan the spread…
Curtis and Marquita Houston’s barbecue haven moved from its longtime Boynton Beach location to north Boca Raton in March. The new digs are more spacious, with a 50-seat dining room that wraps around the restaurant’s sunny halls. The staff’s disposition is just as cheery, which is good, since Rib Bizz…
If you’ve entered a Barnes & Nobles since October 2009, you may have seen Chef Tal Ronnen’s book The Conscious Cook, dominating the food books aisle. In years past, vegan cookbooks have appealed to just a niche audience, but Ronnen’s tome — the first full color vegan cookbook to be…
It’s pretty tough to find grocery store tortilla chips that are any good. Most commercial varieties just don’t taste like corn to me. Instead, they taste artificial and stale.My favorite chip to buy in grocery stores is Santitas Yellow Corn Chips. Sure, they’re made by Frito Lay, but they also…
The deal: This Vietnamese lunch counter serves spicy banh mi sandwiches and the requisite boba teas to cool your mouth off afterward…
Nowadays you can design your own pizza, customize your own hamburger, build your own ice cream cone, and create your own pasta from a selection of noodles, sauces, and proteins. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do the same with chocolate? Uh, well, yes. And, in fact, you can…
This week in Dish, we review Sheila’s Famous BBQ, Conch, & More, a two-month old Caribbean/barbecue shack in Lake Worth. I count myself among the geek crowd simply because I find barbecue – like most good things in life – to be worth the extra time and effort. That, plus…
Chef Dean Max, a farmboy, knows corn.
This Sunday, Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs in Coral Springs turned into a rabid festival ground as it held a Tour Launch Party for Iron Maiden. Drummer for the legendary metal band and co-owner of RNR Ribs, Nicko McBrain was sent off in style. The lot was filled with tents where…
Besides Mother Nature’s damage, the only other thing hurricane season brings is a massive barbecue. After last week’s announcement from the National Hurricane Center that this year’s season will be “extremely active,” veteran hurricane survivors (AKA me) who saw Andrew, Frances, Jeanne, a little Katrina, and Wilma shrugged it off…
It would’ve been easy to assume that the trophy for Riverwalk Trust’s Burger Battle on June 4 would be a simple trophy-store special, with a baseball player replaced by a plastic hamburger. Yeah, no. Instead, the Riverwalk Trust commissioned Tamarac artist George Gadson to create a burger sculpture. His finished…
