Weekend Blog Watch

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Gluttonous Festival Alert

Like misery, gluttony loves company. So if the chance to eat like a pig and drink like a fish in the company of a few thousand of your close personal friends gives your inner glutton a woodie, check out the Las Olas Wine & Food Festival. From 7:30 to 10…

Breaking News: I’m a Twit

Hello Fellow Twits! Er, I mean, Twitterers. Get lightning-fast updates about new restaurant openings, microscopic food news, and Lilliputian-sized restaurant reviews by following me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/gailshepherd Its th ftur of fud wrtng…..

Beer of the Week: Rogue Double Dead Guy Ale

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…

Two New Restaurants Take On CityPlace

It’s a brave businessman, wearing balls of steel, who opens a restaurant in West Palm’s CityPlace. It helps, of course, to have done it at least once before, and Lirim Jacobi has done the deed twice. He owns Taverna Opa and City Pizza, and now he’s giving it another go…

The Daily Mouthful: On Ordering Dinner

“The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.” — Aemilius Paulus, conqueror of Persia, quoted by Plutarch…

What you might have missed in April

Honestly, you should be all caught up on this by now. It’s been a whole month, plenty of time to read the single greatest food blog in South Florida. But just in case you haven’t been a super-faithful reader, here’s some of the best blogging of April on Clean Plate…

Heaven Now Open for Dinner

That would be Hamburger Heaven, the Palm Beach purveyor of finely charred discs of ground beef slapped into a soft white bun. For the past couple of years just a breakfast and lunch joint, the type of place whose clientele sports Gucci with no socks just as often as ratty…

Morton’s the Steakhouse

The upside of recession: Steak houses around the country are rolling out special deals to lure new customers and reward the old. The “Power Hour” at Morton’s, one of our poshest chophouses, almost defies logic. How they scrape out a profit serving “bar bites” for $5 each and a limited…

Mother’s Day Road Trip to Costa D’Este

Almost makes me want to be somebody’s mother, this news: The new oceanfront luxury resort in Vero Beach owned by South Florida royals Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Costa D’Este, is putting together Mother’s Day packages Latina-style, serving Cuban-fusion cuisine for breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the resort’s restaurant, Oriente. The…

The Daily Mouthful: On Smell

“Presently, we were aware of an odour gradually coming towards us, something musky, fiery, savoury, mysterious — a hot drowsy smell, that lulls the senses, and yet enflames them — the truffles were coming.” — William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)…

Stephen Starr’s 954 Opens Tomorrow at W

Remember how we warned you about Stephen Starr’s new steak house, Steak 954, scheduled to open this month at Lauderdale’s new W Hotel? Well, here it is the end of the month, and the place is rolling it out right on schedule: You can call and make your reservation for…

Global History of War, the Ultimate Food Fight

OMG, how did I miss this? An animated history of war, with each country represented by its most popular foods. Hilarious, in a totally gruesome, juvenile, and thoroughly un-PC way. Anybody who correctly identifies the players in each scene wins my undying admiration. Check it out. …

In Search of a Real Philly Cheese Steak at Big Al’s

This year, I’ve been tasked with heading the Best Cheese Steak category for New Times’ annual Best Of edition — a monumental challenge if there ever was one. I mean, cheese steaks are one of those foods that people are furiously passionate about. Those from Philly claim that their version…

The Daily Mouthful: On Cooking

“You will never get out of pot or pan anything fundamentally better than what went into it. Cooking is not alchemy; there is no magic in the pot.” — Dishes & Beverages of the Old South, by Martha McCulloch-Williams (1913)…

Cucina Verite: Movies Worth Eating

I need junk food for the brain as well as the stomach, so I’m launching my own little mini Food Film Festival this month, beginning with movies I haven’t seen yet and later circling back to my old faves (if I can keep from cheating. I can’t wait to see…

Why Buy Local? Because We Say So!

Given the amount of interference run by naysayers, it’s no wonder you’re still pondering the question of whether it’s better to buy your produce, meat, eggs, and dairy from small farmers who live within 100 miles — or whether the super-smart thing is to spend your dollars with the gigantic…

Eats for Under $7: Everything at the Little Bakery

No matter if you’re in the mood for breakfast or lunch on a budget, The Little Bakery in Hollywood has you covered. If breakfast is your thing, the Good Morning sandwich is calling your name. $5.33 (after tax) gets you scrambled eggs, turkey, ham or bacon, and American cheese on…

The Daily Mouthful: On Gluttony

“It is a curious fact that no man likes to call himself a glutton, and yet each of us has in him a trace of gluttony, potential or actual. I cannot believe that there exists a single coherent human being who will not confess, at least to himself, that once…

One-Minute Review: Hong Kong City BBQ

Reopened under the aegis of a new family and staff last year after the previous owner, Ray Ng, was shot during a robbery, this 18-year-old Hong Kong-style restaurant in a Tamarac strip mall remains essentially unchanged, much to the relief of local foodies addicted to their pan-fried noodles. The authentic…