The Balti curry from Curries & More in Boca Raton was brick-red and thick, with large chunks of boneless, white-meat chicken. Scooped up with naan or eaten over basmati rice, it had a peppery, slow-blooming heat that built up to a fierce boil. Behind that heat was a tremendous amount…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
Shrimp chips may not seem so foreign — after all, they used to be served at Chinese restaurants long before those crunchy little brown noodles we’ve come to expect. But plenty of people have never tried these funky, crunchy treats, which may cause a new addiction.The first thing anyone notices…
The Rise and Shine Family Food Co-Op, operated by teens from the Boys & Girls Club, kicks off Saturday at the club on SW Seventh Street in Delray. It’s based on an already successful program operating in West Palm Beach.Families who sign up by noon today and pay $30, plus…
There’s wine snobbery; then there’s reverse wine snobbery. We all know classic wine snobbery. It’s the snooty sommelier at Le Grand Boof making you feel like an idiot because you don’t know that the chief grape of St. Emilion is Merlot. Reverse wine snobbery is perhaps best displayed in the…
• Matisyahu in the sky with… Cajun-rubbed cowgirl rib eyes and ahi tuna? That’s the idea, anyway, as the Hasidic reggae artist will perform a special, free show at Sky309, also known as Roxy’s Rooftop Bar in West Palm Beach. The food and drink outfit will be unveiling a new…
I was completely worn out by the time we’d finished dinner last night. It was all I could do to keep my eyes open as Dani and I watched the latest episode of LOST on TiVo. But when we thought about dessert, I managed to get a second wind (that…
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…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
As we mentioned in our South Beach Wine and Food Festival “Top Tastes of the Tent” blog, VeeV’s Spa Cooler cocktail was a true standout. So, gosh, why would we try to keep the recipe from you? After all, you deserve a taste of the spa, dontcha? [And this is…
There’s a scene in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather in which Clemenza, having just overseen the assassination of Paulie in the back of his car, says to his partner, “Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.” It figures a rough mobster like Clemenza would turn his thoughts to food immediately after whacking…
There’s a lot to be said for a huge bowl of pasta, a mixture of starch and sauce that seems indomitable in its sheer size. That’s just what you’ll get at Sazio, a Delray Beach Italian joint that takes the premise of chain eateries like Olive Garden and Carrabba’s and…
The chicken curry at Curry Hut in Pompano Beach reminded me of the cumin-heavy Indian food my friend’s mother makes. Her family is from India by way of Guyana, which lends her dishes a Caribbean influence. At family gatherings, they eat a mixture of vegetarian aloo (potato), channa (chick peas),…
Granted, it’s tough to justify the $212.50 ticket price for the Grand Tasting Tent if expecting to get the food value equivalent, but if you’re willing to pay the price for an experience and an all-out tasting orgy, you got it. Now we weren’t able to try every last morsel and…
The relationship between Debbie Lauricella and her 20 years at Whale’s Rib in Deerfield Beach is like a marriage: consumed by it constantly, and even when she thought about leaving, she loved it too much to walk away. She arrived from Boston fresh from a divorce with her 3-year-old son…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. Behind our favorite red door in Delray Beach is a new reason to order some small plates and big…
This week in Dish, we take a look at Mona Lisa Coal Oven Pizza in Deerfield Beach. Here’s a quick glimpse of the review:At Mona Lisa – the South Florida leg of an 80-year-old bakery from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn – the cannolis are worth offing someone for. The shells are made…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to John.Linn@BrowardPalmBeach.com…
The new SoLita Las Olas sure looks South Beach chic. It’s as much a bar as a restaurant, with two lounge areas and a living-room-style hangout with couches and love seats smack in the middle. There are tables for dinner too, but it’s clear by the trip-hop bass thumping in…
The 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival wrapped up on Sunday, and among the festivities was the Grand Tasting Village, a food- and spirits-tasting extravaganza stretching across half-a-dozen city blocks on the sand in South Beach. The multi-tent display offered all you could eat vittles from local restaurants, bottomless…
Our sister blog, Short Order, has a ton of coverage and post-game analysis today of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.Miami New Times restaurant critic Lee Klein dishes up the Top Five Screw-Ups of SBWFF 2010, and while a famous food celeb dropping trou is not among them, there…
