Bars & Breweries

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Seeing as South Florida has at least temporarily morphed into Buffalo with palm trees, the ability of a cup (or bowl or railroad tank car) of soup to ward off the cold has never been more important.  And though we don’t have our normally gorgeous, balmy weather, we do still…

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…

•    The coal-fired pizza craze continues to be hotter than a. . . coal-fired oven. The latest example is Bellini’s Coal-Fired Pizza, now dishing up those crisp-crusted pies on North Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale. The menu goes beyond the usual pizzeria suspects with dishes like truffled mac ‘n’ cheese,…

Some steak sauces claim they’re “how steak is done.” But in my opinion, no steak sauce is better than chimichurri. With fresh herbs, garlic, and citrus, nothing brightens up the bold, earthy flavors of a steak quite like it. Not to mention it’s totally easy to make…

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…

I know, I know: The only drinking you’re thinking about doing at the moment involves the New Year, bubbly, and maybe a drunken text message or two. That’s great and all, but if you really want to be a proactive drinker you’ll hop over to jupitercraftbrewersfestival.com and preorder your tickets…

I first wrote about the Persian dish fensenjan in a review for the now defunct Darius Palace in Fort Lauderdale. The slow-stewed walnut and pomegranate dish that Darius served reminded me of a version I used to enjoy at a childhood friend’s house. After an afternoon of playing Nintendo and…

The most important thing about the holidays next to family? What’s on the table, of course. My family usually starts preparing their holiday meal a day in advance, and this year is no different. We’re going to be doing an Italian-themed Christmas with lasagna, slow-cooked gravy, chicken rollatini stuffed with…

Now that we’re enjoying one of our rare cold fronts, you may as well make the most of it by making some wintry, homemade soup. This pumpkin spice soup takes canned pumpkin puree and turns it into an easy, cheap, and tasty meal that will warm you up in this…

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…

•    You may have to be Jay-Z to afford a bottle of Cristal, but if you’re one of the lucky guests at the Ireland’s Steakhouse-Roederer Estate dinner at Weston’s Hyatt Regency Bonaventure, you may win a bottle of the 2002 vintage of this acclaimed champagne. The Tuesday, Dec. 22, dinner…

This delicate fish is so simple, even the most inexperienced cooks can make it. Start with inch-thick fillets of the fleshy white fish — fresh is best, though even the frozen packages available at Publix are of decent quality. Just be sure to defrost properly by placing the fillets in…

Walking through Total Wine in Boca Raton last night, I felt like Homer Simpson in the Land of Chocolate. I simply didn’t have enough hands to grab everything I wanted. And then I came across this: Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Releases of 2009. For a reasonable $5.95 a copy, this…

You say to-may-to, he says to-mah-to. I say San Marzano.  San Marzano tomatoes are, not to put too fine a point on it, simply the best sauce tomatoes in the world. Better than any other canned tomato. Better than 99.9 percent of the fresh tomatoes out there. Accept no imitations…

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…

I made this pork loin last week while staying with my fiancee’s family in cold, western Colorado. I wanted to cook something that would feel special, so I bought a six-pound pork loin that still had a nice layer of fat attached to the top and decided to brine it…

A little of this, a little of that, and sometimes you get a damned good little wine.   That’s the deal at Washington’s Kamiak winery, where they blended a bit of Chardonnay, a rasher of Sauvignon Blanc, and a dash of late-harvest Sauvignon Blanc and came up with Windust White, a…

Pictured: Giada De Laurentiis’ eggs in purgatory with a potato pancakeCombine: Two cups of leftover mashed potatoes with five eggs and a handful of flourSear: Both sides of the pancakes in a pan with butter until they’re golden…

• It’s hard to beat the “Recession Buster” bar bites menu at Falcon House. All night every night, the artfully funky Delray Beach eatery is dishing a short menu of goodies, plus domestic and imported bottle beer, for a miserly $1.99. A few examples: crispy calamari with Cajun aioli, chicken…

Sublime in Fort Lauderdale is hosting a Vegan Drinks happy hour from 5:30 to 7:30 tonight. I have to admit that the name threw me a bit — most drinks are vegan, right? So I asked over at South Florida’s most famous vegetarian restaurant. Turns out, yes, the drinks are…