Being a famous chef has its ups and downs. On the plus side, you ride in private jets, write cookbooks, host television shows, and generally have a really good time. On the minus side, publications write lots of crap about you (and yes, we put ourselves in this bracket). Usually…
Unless you have been living under a rock, or north of West Palm Beach, you may have noticed the rise of the gourmet food truck scene in South Florida over the past two years. The popular rolling cafes are often credited with revitalizing underused land parcels and parking lots in…
This week Deerfield Beach will be celebrating the grand opening of a new restaurant, Angelo’s Station House Grille, a partnering of longtime South Florida chef Angelo Morinelli and owners Silvio and Marianne Trentalange. In three months the former Station House space at the center of the Cove Plaza in Deerfield Beach was renovated…
Palm Beach entrepreneur Virginia Philip is an undisputed rockstar in the wine world. It only makes sense that she’d play a part in this weekend’s Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival, where she’ll lend her skills to three different festival events. Philip was but the tenth woman in the world…
HasbroEasy Bake — should we make one in blue? If you ask any chef working in an American kitchen today, you’ll probably hear that the industry is male-dominated. Though there are a fair share of women behind the burners, the kitchen is physically demanding, sometimes dangerous, and usually off-color. There’s…
The Boca Raton-based Rainmaker Restaurant Group has taken a huge gamble, leasing out the prime corner where Rare and Bova Prime once stood on Las Olas Boulevard. In place of the high-priced steakhouses that made gauche attempts to be fashionable, the group led by Kevin Blair and Jeffrey Anderson has…
It’s offiical: the holiday season is now in full swing. Christmas on Las Olas has come and passed. The Delray christmas tree is well it. Now it’s time to settle down, enjoy the parties, and get ready for the next big holiday event. The Winterfest Boat Parade is coming up…
If there is one thing that comes to mind when you think of Palm Beach it’s luxury. And, well, Money. Obviously, the two go hand in hand. And what could be more luxurious than eating some expensive gourmet delicacies? If you ask us, not much.It should come as no surprise that…
UPDATED 12:13 p.m. Tuesday, December 4: Naumko alerted us that because the tax collector’s office system is down, the restaurant can’t pull their permits this week. They’ve pushed the opening date to December 14. Craft beer and food enthusiast Daniel Naumko will realize a long-held dream this Friday December 14…
Sure – you say you love your dog…then you go out to dinner, leaving poor little Bambi or Nibbles home alone to sleep on the couch and await whatever table scraps you remember to have packed into a doggie bag. You know that’s just not right, don’t you? Dogs have…
Quick! What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “Red Stripe”. If you think hoisting a cold bottle of the brew on a beach in Negril while a reggae band plays in the distance, you’d pretty much hit the nail on the head.But did you…
For Chosen People who love the holiday season, it can be a conflicting time of year. Sure, the sons and daughters of Abraham like to shop and celebrate and raise of cup of good cheer as much as any goyim, but with red and green decorations everywhere you can start…
Oh, they’ve been around. For a while now. But a few weeks back Clean Plate Charlie stumbled onto a Japanese ball-perfecting machine. Sounds sort of lecherous. Right?Fortunately, it is not. Ice balls have become a popular means for improving the quality of spirits on the rocks. In fact, Macallan even…
This week is the calm before the storm of Palm Beach Wine & Food Festival and the full holiday onslaught. Keep things chill with a progressive dinner at a food truck rally, or treat yourself to a hard-to-come-by craft beer. After the jump, find a roundup of some of this…
Got someone on your holiday gift list who’s a sucker for the sticky, starchy delight of an order of fried plantains? Pollo Tropical is getting all festive this coming week by introducing a few new holiday promotions, including a gift card deal that also includes a little something for the…
At a time of year when half the population of New York is migrating to South Florida (and specifically to the line at your favorite bagel shop), chef Angelo Elia is bucking the trend and heading north for a few days. His whirlwind visit to New York City next week…
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has issued an action alert, asking “people of conscience” to demand an apology from Subway’s President and CEO Fred DeLuca after a muslim couple were denied service at a Shreveport, Louisiana Subway.According to CAIR, A “63-year old New Orleans resident of South Asian heritage”…
In case you’ve been living under a rock, the holiday season is in full swing and that means one thing and one thing only — you’ve got to buy presents for just about everyone you know. Your kid’s teacher, the mailman, the condo super, your office mates all become names…
Charolette and Ellis Moore moved to South Florida about eight years ago, when a new job tempted Ellis away from his native New Orleans. They intended to return to the Big Easy, then Hurricane Katrina hit, flooding vast swaths of the city. “After that all of our plans changed,” Ellis…
It is no secret. We have major issues with our food system: pesticides we eat, pollution from fertilizers, genetically-modified food, trans-fats, you name it. One such issue, animal cruelty, is often taken up by animal rights groups through ad campaigns — many of them shocking and grotesque. A series of…
Dining in the dark: some people will never get sick of the concept; others turn up their noses, saying it’s been done for years and to many the novelty has worn off. When Market 17 brought dining in the dark to Fort Lauderdale a few years back our own New…
Ground has been broken–in more ways than one–on the new Funky Buddha in Oakland Park. The first anchor of what is slated to become Oakland Park’s new culinary district celebrated the start of construction this week. The former warehouse will be converted into 18,000 square feet of brewery, production facility,…
