The most motherfucking stars of any Spanish restaurant in the U.S.,” Mario Batali bellowed from the stage in what he thought to be an overly generous rating. The moment was noteworthy only because it occurred at last year’s South Beach Wine & Food Festival dinner honoring attendees King Juan Carlos…
The SoBEWFF kicked off today, with glitzy food- and chef-driven events running through Sunday. While eager fans get ready to trek to Miami for grub, Clean Plate Charlie is prepping you with everything you need to know about the fest.We’ll start off the fun after the jump with a revealing…
The gastro-revolution is so widespread these days, it’s almost impossible to escape food or something connected with it. So when I turned on my Xbox 360 for the first time in ages last night looking to kill some time between feed sessions (that’s what I’m calling them), I wasn’t at…
Burger Bros. drive-in/takeout opened on Dixie Highway just south of Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard to eager crowds. The server said they are a chain from California, and the sign indicates it has been around since 1964 — but we were unable to find them in a search of online burger…
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…
Gratify American Gastropub debuted in earnest this past weekend, to ride the hoopla that was focused on yet another downtown West Palm rebirth — this time on the waterfront. Gratify replaces the old Spoto’s Oyster Bar on Datura.Chef Scott Helm returns to the downtown as its co-owner and chef –…
Cabo Flats, a Cali-Baja tequila bar and cantina-style Mexican restaurant, opened Friday after its initial night for family and friends. It replaces Rosa Mexicano, the successful-until-the-boom-bust-days chain that drew families and party groups to Downtown at the Gardens.Open till the wee hours, likely playing off its night-owl neighbor, the Yard…
Anyone who regularly dines out will tell you professional service is an issue in South Florida. In a recent column, I had some pretty harsh criticism for the service at Wild Olives by Todd English in Boca Raton. The service just wasn’t up to snuff for a meal of that…
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…
This week we’re putting off our normal restaurant review in favor of a guest column from Miami New Times’ own award-winning restaurant critic, Lee Klein. It’s a great read on the history of the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, which kicks off in Miami tomorrow and runs through Sunday,…
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. For great people-watching without the worry of bare feet dancing tabletop next to your appetizer, pay a visit to…
Although David Manero’s Delray gastropub The Office only opened a month ago, New Times has confirmed that Chef Mark Militello has already left the building. Militello, who at one time presided over four namesake restaurants in South Florida, came to The Office after a short time as executive chef of…
A late-afternoon lunch of boeuf bourguignon and a glass of pinot noir was under $20 at Wilton Manor’s quaint little boutique eatery Le Patio. I sat outside among mismatched furniture in Le Patio’s tiny “backyard” at a table made out of an old New Orleans sewing machine. The beef dish…
I am not a soup savant. Although I could talk about sushi, cheeseburgers and gelato until I’m in a food coma, soup knowledge is not my forte. I just know that I’m a South Floridian, and I am cold. Soup warms my insides. Everyone’s version of cold differs. Personally, anything…
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…
Patty Canedo is a pastry chef at a famed, private country club on Palm Beach and writes weekly about her kitchen exploits.Its 8:20 a.m., and the kitchen is already filled with the sound of knives running across cutting boards, sizzles from sauté pans, and the walk-in door continuously opening and…
• Tommy Billante’s restaurant empire just keeps growing. The SoFla restaurateur, whose stylish, accessible, and wallet-friendly Italian eateries give new meaning to the phrase “familiarity breeds content,” has opened his fourth local Villagio, this one in the Colonnade Outlets at Sawgrass Mills in Sunrise (1760 Sawgrass Mills Circle, 954-846-2176). Expect…
Like foreclosures, unemployment and pin-striped bankstas lugging home million-dollar bonuses, restaurant happy hours are a sign of these very unhappy economic times. What you don’t see much of–at least not yet, anyway–is an entire mall going happy for a few hours a night. But that is the deal at CityPlace,…
This week on the blog:We show you how to recreate La Cigale’s char-grilled artichokes.Patty Canedo gets physical with a box of lobsters in Half Baked.This week’s 100 Favorite Dishes continues with the stuffed poblanos at Fort Lauderdale’s Canyon.National chain Target puts the kibosh on farm-raised salmon. The retailer will now…
When the brand new Customs House restaurant and gastropub opened earlier this year in Boca Raton, Hell’s Kitchen alum Ralph Pagano was at the stove. But that arrangement didn’t last long. An employee at the restaurant confirmed this morning that Pagano is no longer working there. In addition, the restaurant…
• Join the folks at Table 42 (formerly Coal Mine Pizza) on Wednesday nights for $5 burger night, where Harris Ranch beef burgers cost just — you guessed it — five bucks. Also $5: Cocktails from the specialty cocktail list. There’s complimentary valet parking as well. Other specialty nights at…
Nominees for this years’ James Beard Awards were announced yesterday, and South Florida has a few representatives in the list. Zach Bell of Cafe Boulud and Dean James Max of 3030 Ocean were both nominated in the Best Chef: South category. In recent years, Bell has really come into his…
