It’s #FloridaBeerFriday. Every Friday, we take a look at a beer brewed in the Sunshine State, giving analysis to the burgeoning craft beer movement of Florida. This week we’re setting our eyes on a beer made for a specific purpose: pairing with food. Earlier this week, we spoke about Funky…
Valentine’s Day is today and the way we see it, you’ve got two alternatives. You can take your significant other to a schmancy restaurant filled with other people…or you can prepare a decadent dinner-for-two at home. Don’t know what to make? Allow Fabio Viviani to assist you. The Top Chef…
There have been a rash of robberies at South Florida restaurants in the past few months. Luckily, no one has gotten hurt, and thanks to surveillance videos and some good police work, most of the perps have been apprehended (we’ve been watching some old CSI reruns, lately). And, because this…
Coming up at the end of the month, on Tuesday, February 25, at 7 p.m., Broward’s upscale beer bar and food hangout Tap 42 will host one of the season’s most interesting tap takeovers: six rare beers from indomitable barrel-agers the Bruery. The Bruery produces relatively small batches of beer…
Unlike our northern brethren (many of whom are currently expecting buckets of snow), South Floridians are privy to beach days throughout the year. Even so, it gets a bit chilly — and lately rainy — through the winter month, which sends many of us slightly-weathered-sun-worshipping-skantliy-clad-folks indoors for weeks on end…
Few countries have culinary traditions as rigorous as the French. While the cuisine was influenced by the Italians during the Renaissance, during the 17th century chefs like François Pierre La Varenne and Marie-Antoine Carême took the basics and pioneered movements that would create a unique national cuisine of their own…
Sure there’s crime everywhere, but it takes a truly soulless character to steal from a Girl Scout. Nevertheless, that’s what happened this past Sunday, February 9, when two teens robbed a troop of Girl Scouts selling cookies outside the Winn Dixie at 3260 Davie Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. That’s right…
Want to play a drinking game? Every time something happens that’s a complete clusterf**k during the Sochi Winter Olympics — take a sip of your cocktail. Every time an athlete gets locked inside a bathroom — drink! Every time a stray dog wanders into the stadium – drink! Every time…
Few activities are more relaxing than getting drunk at nine o’clock in the morning. While it’s generally not acceptable to get wasted in the early hours of the day, it’s all right as long eggs are involved, as long as it’s brunch. For all you early morning inebriates another bottomless…
The friendly bucolic motif of Sweet Nectar is a stark departure from the space’s former inhabitant, arctic-themed Tundra Restaurant — and the rest of Las Olas, for that matter. Contrasting weathered x-back and lacquered wood chairs sit under slatted wood tables topped with sturdy bistro glasses and simple, blue-striped white…
Valentine’s Day can be tricky. A) It’s expensive. B) It can be difficult to determine what is appropriate. Whether you’ve been with someone for years and you’re on a budget or you’ve recently started seeing someone and you don’t think it’s time to let out your full-on romantic side, there’s…
Today Fresh Market opened the doors to its 153rd retail store in Delray Beach. The 21,400-square-foot market is the 34th in the state, employs a total of 92 staff members, and is celebrating its first week of business with a variety of store-wide specials available all week long. Located in…
Valentine’s Day is the most romantic day of the year. We know this because Hallmark tells us so. Seriously, though. We think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with having a holiday devoted to lovebirds. After all, there’s nothing better than romance, happiness, and deciding to spend the rest of your life…
Just two more days until the international day of love is here. Hopefully, you’ve made big plans for romance. If not, you’ll need to figure something out, like, now. While most of the world is getting ready to dress to the nines for some big extravagant dinner, some of us…
So, knowing what we do about about the Catholic Church, saints, Christianity, and religious types in general, getting people laid on February 14th probably wasn’t what St. Valentine had in mind – nor the Vatican when they beatified him. The story of St. Valentine is complicated, vague, and steeped in…
By Regina Kaza In a sleepy town like Boca Raton where almost every restaurant stops serving food by 11 p.m., late night cravings are a struggle. Luckily, there’s a new place with a large enough menu to satisfy your midnight munchies in ways the Denny’s down the street or that…
Certain food items are just supposed to go together: spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, burgers and fries, nutella and bananas. Beer and pizza, however, is one of the best combos since sliced bread — with peanut butter and jelly, obviously. One of South Florida’s favorite pizza joints has recently…
Ah, the Ren Fest: The perfect time for larping, drinking beer, and violently ripping apart deep-fried turkey legs with your teeth. Starting last weekend, the Florida Renaissance Festival is back for the 22nd year at Deerfield Beach’s Quiet Waters Park. While there’s one food item the festival is best known…
Long before Lindsay Lohan, Drew Barrymore, and Macaulay Culkin, there was Shirley Temple. The child star started her film career during the Great Depression. Often portraying a plucky orphan who remains cheerful in dire circumstances, the tiny talent sang her way into the hearts of the world. The ringlet-haired ragamuffin…
Boynton Beach’s Due South Brewing Company can pat itself on the back with the deal struck to distribute its beers into the thirsty and tourist heavy region known as Central Florida. That means places like Orlando, Sanford, Oviedo, Altamonte Springs, Apopka, and Winter Garden will have the opportunity to pour…
Method actors are a dedicated lot. In the quest for authenticity, these actors have been known to gain (or lose) half their body weight for roles, train with the military, and live in remote terrain. Sometimes there are casualties, like when Johnny Depp fell off a horse while filming The…
The friendly bucolic motif of Sweet Nectar is a stark departure from the space’s former inhabitant, arctic-themed Tundra Restaurant — and the rest of Las Olas, for that matter. Contrasting weathered x-back and lacquered wood chairs sit under slatted wood tables topped with sturdy bistro glasses and simple, blue-striped white…
