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…
Known for its sweet and spicy pungent taste, garlic is used as a flavorful ingredient in cuisines around the world. It also benefits the body in numerous ways, helping with high blood pressure and high cholesterol and serving as an immune system boost, an antioxidant, acne prevention, and vampire repellent…
Holidays tend to be hectic. Valentine’s Day is no different. Between getting a reservation, finding a parking space, dealing with hundreds of people, and the highly probable restaurant wait, showing that special someone you care can end up being a stressful endeavor. Why not just stay home this V-Day? For…
Weekdays are the worst, unless you live in South Florida where we refuse to let a moment go by without cramming it full of entertainment. Whether you’re looking to relax and recover from the weekend, or would prefer to fill your weekday evening with distracting doings, there’s something for you…
With the end of football season and the passing of Super Bowl, South Floridians needed some sort of friendly competition to occupy time this past weekend. No, it wasn’t baseball, or basketball, or even the Olympics — we’ve all watched some version of those a million times over — it…
This past Saturday, ten contestants from all across the country, including places like Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco and San Diego, converged on Miami Beach’s Shore Club for the first annual National Duvel League Finals, the brewery’s country-wide beer pouring competition. It was an evening of competitive fun and an attempt…
LauderAle is on the cusp of opening, and when it does, it will be Fort Lauderdale’s first microbrewery. The venture is headed by friends Kyle Jones and Joe Farrell, who are both from Fort Lauderdale and have only recently caught the craft-beer bug. See Also: Broward’s Homebrew Craft Beer Scene:…
Yes, it seems like the holidays just passed, but now it’s time to gear up for the next big consumerist holiday. Valentine’s Day will be here in the coming days, and you better get ready to woo somebody. Whether your looking to show your longterm partner how much you care…
Besides a few drunk people behaving rowdy, Las Olas Boulevard is basically a safe place to be on on a Friday night, which is why the news of an armed robbery at American Social is so shocking. Early this morning (Friday, February 7 at around 1 a.m.), three armed suspects…
Monsanto gets a bad rap, y’all. Sure they’re genetically-altering food and people are in a huff about it. But let’s play Devil’s advocate here, shall we? Maybe genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) foods aren’t so bad? Maybe the whole debate was started by other corporations like Whole…
BurgerFi, the fast-casual restaurant that serves all-natural Angus beef burgers, hot dogs, fries, and cold craft beer has our hearts and stomachs. After all, any burger joint that shares their “secret menu” freely and has an average dinner check of about $12 (that includes a burger, fries, and drink) is…
If you eat meat, chances are you love a good burger. Whether it’s wood-fired, charcoal grilled, or seared in its own fat on a flattop, nothing beats the taste of ground up meat between two buns and the sensation of grease dripping down your chin. Although we’re good to go…
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 taking a look at a surprising hybrid beer created by brewers Bill Taylor and Dustin Jeffers of Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach, called…
Drinking a beer made with a man’s beard is as close to the human anatomy you probably feel comfortable putting in your mouth, but then again someone out there also made a beer with ingredients from a woman’s snatch. These odd brewing practices have one thing in common: yeast, the…
Ever feel like you spend so much money on Dunkin’ Donuts coffee that you really do run on Dunkin’? Well, now you can put your coffee guzzling skills work for you thanks to a newly-launched rewards program that gets frequent customers a chance to earn free coffee. Like fellow coffee…
No matter how you look at it, Valentine’s Day is the worst day of the year. If you’re in a relationship, you’re obligated to spend tons of money to prove to the person you’re with that you love them. Let’s be honest: you shouldn’t need a holiday. And for those…
The 2014 Winter Olympics are about to begin in the ‘resort’ town of Sochi on the Black Sea in Russia. As you may know, scandal after scandal has hit the administration of president Vladimir Putin, including the Olympic site not being finished and the numerous human rights issues aimed at…
