Police are investigating a shooting and car crash outside the Floridian restaurant on Las Olas Boulevard.According to reports, several shots were fired at a Rolls Royce around 5 a.m. Monday Morning in front of the Floridian Restaurant, causing the vehicle to crash into a building. At first WSVN reported the…
South Florida Beer Week, which wrapped up yesterday, inspired Smashburger to release a local craft brew and burger pairing menu at all South Florida locations. See also:- Cigar City Brewing at South Florida Craft Beer Week: CCB’s Phil Palmisano Explains Why Cans are Better and More- South Florida Craft Beer Week: Here’s Your…
If you are even remotely into food, you know that the locavore movement has been making some serious progress. In cities like Chicago, urban farms are so prolific that 65 acres of city space has been utilized to produce food. Like most things, in South Florida, the movement has taken…
Super Bowl Sunday is just one week away and the countdown is on to get your condo party-worthy. Don’t worry about scrubbing the grout in the shower or vacuuming the rugs, there’s only three things your guests care about: food, beer, and the TV. Duffy’s Sports Grill may be able…
Behold the power of garlic, its pungent bulb able to keep both vampires and bland vegetable side dishes at bay. With the 14th annual Delray Beach Garlic Fest just around the corner, it’s time to start fantasizing about all the ways in which allium sativum makes life more palatable. Oh,…
Albie and Chris Manzo, the sons of Real Housewives of New Jersey matriarch Caroline Manzo have grown up — sorta. The boys (can you call 20-something year old men boys?) have turned their strange idea into a fast-selling product. The idea? Get people to buy bottled water. Wait? What’s so…
This week Delray Beach welcomed a newcomer to the Atlantic Ave. restaurant row: RACKS Fish House and Oyster Bar, which opened for business on Monday.Billed as a New England seafood house, the concept is an extension of owner and South Florida restaurateur Gary Rack’s RACKS Downtown Eatery Mizner Park. Rack,…
Fort Lauderdale is known for having a dodgy past. Strip-clubs galore, topless donut shops, topless car washes, the bar that invented the body shot, and the notorious Bimini Bay Bar. Voted as 2012 Best Bar to Scare Visiting Friends and 2011 Best Hole in the Wall, we figured it would…
As South Florida Beer Week winds down, livers across the region breathe a sigh of relief. But not so fast; there’s still a few brewed events on the weekend agenda to keep you from sobering up for too long. After the jump, find those, plus a few other food- and…
South Florida may not be hosting the Super Bowl anytime in the near future, but at least we have the chance to host another kind “bowl” this year.Panera Bread and The Pap Corps are teaming up for a second-run with a food-focused fundraiser, a promo event that aimed at raising…
Tropical Acres Steakhouse has been a landmark South Florida restaurant since opening in 1949, long before condo towers lined the coast and the nearby highway connected the region. Nearly four generations of the Studiale family have run the restaurant as a second home for both longtime customers and employees. Although…
It’s Girl Scout cookie time and that means everyone frantically running around trying to locate a troop of girls in green uniforms to stock up on Thin Mints and Samoas.More than 9,000 Girl Scouts participate in the annual cookie sale, which runs through February 17, which means that you’ll probably…
Nothing beats bacon. And we’re pretty sure that means nothing beats a bacon happy hour, either.It seems the staff at The Gypsy’s Horse Irish Pub in Wellington think so, too. After all, they’re claiming to be the first and only establishment in the Broward or Palm Beach County area to…
Laine Doss’ report in New Times yesterday regarding the alleged shoddy treatment of a foodie blogger in a newly opened establishment in Miami brought to mind painful memories of a similar experience I had years ago, and begs the question, at what point during a “horrible” dining experience is it…
It’s Girl Scout cookie season, and whether you’re loyal to Thin Mints, Tagalongs or Samoas, chances are you look forward to their annual arrival as much as the rest of us. And who deserves to chow down Cookie Monster-style more than our American heroes? Turns out, concerned citizens can send…
Sushi joints are a dime a dozen in South Florida, even in Boca Raton, where kosher delis and Italian restaurants seem to hold sway. It takes a bit of creative leverage to stand apart from the sea of places following the standard sushi-Thai model. “Everything’s so Americanized (in South Florida)…
As plates were cleared from our table, sitcom-style hilarity popped up in a steak house that has long been popular among snowbirds and grandpas. “In honor of your birthday, how’s about we go home and fool around?” a man asked of a woman who announced she was celebrating her 70th…
What would it take for you to switch from your daily Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts coffee addiction? Would it take cheaper java, a richer roast…or babes in bikinis?That’s the question that begs to be answered when Bikini Coffee opens on Singer Island. WPEC Channel 12 News reports that the shop,…
Let me start by saying as respectfully as possible that I think many people with food allergies are, um, not as sick as they make themselves out to be?I recall an episode of Sex and the City where Carrie tells a server that she’s allergic to parsley, when in actuality…
For me, very few shelves at Total Wine are more confounding than the sake section, and still more are far less mysterious. When it comes to sake, choices abound. There are small bottles, big bottles, mini bottles — even champagne-style bottles. Some are cloudy and cloyingly sweet; others are clear,…
For months, the sign in the window at 517 Clematis St. has promised the coming of a new establishment for downtown West Palm Beach, the hint of wood-fired fare, charcuterie, artisanal beer and craft cocktails.This Friday, all questions over what that means will be answered with the grand opening of…
One of the best/worst jobs I ever held down as a high school student was slinging Blizzards and Peanut Buster Parfaits at a Dairy Queen in Lapeer, Michigan, in the late ’90s. Some aspects of the gig sucked pretty hard — like the time a grumpy, grown-ass adult literally threw…
