Built on the site of the famous old ’40s outdoor burger bar called the Hut, the Top of the Point is located on the penthouse floor of Phillips Point, with 180-degree views of the Intracoastal and Palm Beach. It’s operated as an outpost of the Breakers Hotel. Just the same,…
Ever get the urge to make like Gordon Ramsay or Tom Colicchio? You know, “This tastes like shit! Pack your knives and go!” Well, at Rustic Cellar in Boca you can feed your inner megalomaniac in a blind wine tasting and judging set for Thursday, May 28. Beginning at 7…
An innocuous looking chocolate bar wrapped in silver foil and a paper Whole Foods bag sat on the table in front of me with a note reading “Try this for the food blog and don’t open the bag until you’ve tasted the chocolate.” I was confused as to how this…
While I’m far from the martini-sipping type, I can respect the breed. Powerful types and their wanna-bes, cavorting and carrying on, stemmed glass hoisted in one hand saying loudly to the world, “Bring it on, you bastards. I have gin.” The fact is, though, as the martini has become more…
In the never-ending search for wines that ride the double-yellow between cork dorkery and suckitude, it’s always a good idea to begin in Spain.In the past dozen or so years, Spanish wines have gone from cheap Rioja and a bunch of other stuff to some of the finest wines in…
Rita’s Water Ice is a Philadelphia landmark, selling a product that rivals the cheesesteak in its addictive qualities.The ingredients sound simple enough–ice, fresh fruit, sugar–but this is not your average snow cone. I’ve seen Philly natives travel miles to get their fix, craving the slushy, refreshing goodness the way normal…
You gotta give it up for Grease Burger Bar. . . the name tells you everything you need to know about this Clematis Street newbie.There’s a bar, a big one, about half a city block long — all dark, hulking wood lit by bare bulbs hanging from meathooks suspended from…
File this under: “Amazing things people do for no reason at all.” But I’m not sure I’d want to eat this pizza after he was done with it.Champion Dough Spinning @ Yahoo! Video…
I had the pleasure of checking out the 2nd Annual Blues Brews & BBQ festival at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek this Saturday night; or should I say, I had the pleasure of getting annihilated there. The tented fest took place just outside the casino’s West entrance and featured loads…
“Ice cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.” –Voltaire…
Walking into Barista’s Coffee Boutique in the Ramada Executive Center is more like visiting someone’s kitchen than a restaurant. Order the bacon, egg and onion croissant and rather than seeing a chef slave away over a big stove, she walks to a 20 inch electric skillet, carefully cracks a couple…
This pretty matched set of cupcakes, one chocolate, one vanilla, and both with the most ethereal pink cream icing, comes from a place you wouldn’t ordinarily think to buy your baked goods. But after you’ve tried on many lucite bangles and pillbox hats, bought a ruby-colored patent leather handbag to…
Well, it’s no secret, and by now you’ve heard: I have a gigantic girl-crush on Paula DaSilva, who was clearly robbed of her rightful title last night on Hell’s Kitchen. I talked to Dean Max last night at 3030 Ocean, the Fort Lauderdale restaurant where 28-year-old DaSilva is chef de…
“Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.” — Paul Claudel…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs:Food photographer and critic Matthew Pace recently started his own food blog, loaded with recipes, reviews, and of course excellent photography.MenuPages of South…
A cheap buzz that will impress even cork dorks?Where do I sign up?At your local Total Wine & More, for one, where you can find a wine that, if it isn’t the best goddamned value on the market, I’ll put down my Cabernet and start drinking Bud. The wine is…
I arrived at work and found a pea-green bag on my desk with a note saying “I have no idea what this is.” Printed across the top of the bag is “Vishwas,” and “Roasted Chivda” along the bottom. In the spirit of this blog, I know I’m not allowed to…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Short Order 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 have…
This confirms it, we are in The End of Times. French chef Pierre Gagnaire at Hong Kong’s Mandarin Oriental has created what he’s calling the first entirely food-free restaurant dish, at least according to the PR the hotel is sending out. The recipe for “Le Note a Note”, just one…
“It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.” — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., American diplomat…
A sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich. Unless it’s a chivito. The chivito, for those of you unlucky enough not to have wrapped your gums around one, is the national sandwich of Uruguay, a sort of Latin-esque breakfast-slash-lunch McManwich for the kind of guy or gal who’d jump Ronald…
Misty drops off a hot basket of wings at the table, wishes us luck, and scurries away to her next group of eager sports fans. The smell of the Triple Threat wings (barbecue sauce, hot sauce, and garlic sauce mixed together and topped with minced garlic) mingles with the sounds…
