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. The basic elements of human life are oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus, garlic, and olive oil.Or at least…
A friend stopped by for dinner recently with a bottle of Lindemans Pêche Lambic. He had to leave before dessert, and not being a fan of fruit-flavored beers, I have to admit I was glad I didn’t have to open the bottle he brought. Now that I have, Jim, sorry…
IIf you’ve ever been tempted to plunk down a hundred bucks an ounce for truffles, you know there’s a pressure that comes with such a purchase, because the rest of the dish better hold up to that exorbitant purchase.Chef Angelo Romano at Paradiso Ristorante in Lake Worth hopes to help…
If there’s one dish that symbolizes Jewish food, it’s the kugel. Sure, the matzo ball is better known, and a well-baked brisket can just about revive the dead. But the kugel is everything good Jewish cooking ought to be — simple comfort food cooked in one dish. If you’ve never…
If you smoked a turkey this Thanksgiving, you probably ended up with what’s been on my plate in the past: a juicy, flavorful bird with skin as supple as rubber bands. So in an attempt to avoid that this year, I tried a new trick: After the bird hit 165…
I love me some good poultry. I’ve basked in the glory of wings, become reverent in the presence of a well-cooked turkey, waxed lyrical about Thanksgiving leftovers. But it’s right about this time every year that I find out I have a poultry limit. It’s time to flush the bird…
It’s never good when you’re first thought after biting into something is, wait, there’s something wrong here. And there’s definitely something wrong in this package of Rubi brand rosquillas. Perhaps it’s that the package is “para exportacion” only — maybe the Hondurans …
Well, the Next Iron Chef is Jose Garces, proprietor of six restaurants in Philadelphia and Chicago and dubbed (insulted?) by some as “the Latin Emeril,” who over the past weeks blew off nine other chefs from around the country and last night edged New York toque/pastry chef Jehangir Mehta to…
It’s impossible to know whom I’m surrounded by. There are likely real estate magnates, local politicos, social sceners, and their hangers-on. They look like Palm Beach’s version of Dynasty, complete with well-dressed skeletons taking tea in closets bigger than your house. Here they are at Michelle Bernstein’s at the Omphoy,…
Raw food continues to grow in popularity, even though its South Florida contingent is small. But Green Wave Cafe, a Plantation kitchen and organic market that serves raw, vegan lunches, may change that. Chef Lisa Valle takes wholesome, organic produce and creates a small menu that changes daily. Grab a…
• Says a Boca Raton friend to me a few weeks ago: “There are no good hot dog places in Boca Raton!” Not so now, as Hot Dog-Opolis opened on November 16 at 6020 N. Federal Highway. The hut slings Chicago-style weiners made with Vienna Beef in a plethora of…
Cheap Wines That Don’t Suck (for Thanksgiving) There’s nothing like a holiday to bring the latent suckitude in everyone and everything. Sucky relatives, sucky jobs, sucky airports, sucky traffic, sucky food, sucky weather, sucky expectations. . . it’s a sucky world, and we’re just living in it. But even if…
• New to the ever-burgeoning restaurant scene in Delray Beach is Jimmy’s Bistro, a casual, affordable café on Swinton Avenue from long-time East Coast chef Jimmy Mills. Po-boys are on the menu at lunch, while dinner might see anything from braised short ribs to pasta with salmon. • The Coniglio family,…
Time management is key to a successful Thanksgiving.Thanksgiving no longer serves as a time families can peacefully get together, sit down at a table, and give thanks. Nowadays, it’s more like competing in the food Olympics. We’ve got divorced parents and grandparents, we’ve got significant others, and we’ve even got…
The 15 minutes of that fat, stupid, ugly bird bred to have tits bigger than Dolly Parton’s are almost upon us, so you may be reasonably wondering what else to do with the Thanksgiving turkey besides jamming it in the oven to slowly incinerate while consuming immoderate amounts of alcohol…
This week in Dish we take a closer look at the newest restaurant from Miami’s own James Beard magnet, Michelle Bernstein. Michelle Bernstein’s at the Omphoy is the Latin-Jewish chef’s Palm Beach answer to Michy’s; a restaurant that showcases the best of Bernstein’s simple, soul-drenched cookery. The review is now…
By Dori Zinn Thanksgiving, in all of its food-coma glory, comes but once a year. And for eating my Aunt’s dried out, overcooked, over-prepared turkey, once a year is entirely too much. Some family members suck it up and eat it anyway, hoping to numb their taste buds by drowning…
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t want to think about gorging myself on a five-course meal for at least a week after Thanksgiving; but Slow Food Glades to Coast’s upcoming Farm Stand Dinner at Cafe Boulud looks too good to pass up. Taking place December 2, the gathering will bring together local Slow…
Has the holiday season crept up on you so fast you’ve barely had time to take your Halloween decorations down, let alone plan for Turkey Day? It’s cool. (Please get rid of that pumpkin, though, it’s scaring the neighbors.) Here’s a couple last minute Thanksgiving ideas to help make your…
If there’s anything suckier than cheap sparkling wine it probably ought to be illegal. You’ve probably had your share, whether the ubiquitous black bottle or the fruit-infused swill that makes Kool-Aid taste like Chateau d’Yquem or any of the legion of insipid imitators lurking on supermarket shelves everywhere. In addition…
Let’s do the numbers:Regulate this: Antinori’s Neprica is a blend for the ages.Vietnamese grub has arrived in Coral SpringsBash Wine Cafe gets the review treatment this week, and comes out strong with economical comfort food.Lots of new arrivals this season: Atlantique hits Delray and French Quarter opens in Pompano.Riki springs…
If Wednesday’s Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup wasn’t enough for you, we’re here to help. Here are some highlights of other Thanksgiving related blogs.The Foodista Blog has some helpful pointers for you vegetarians and vegans planning on eating at normal people’s houses for Thanksgiving. Plus, there are plenty of recipes at the…
