For some, IKEA means hours of torture assembling some bookcase named “elfenhammer”. For others, the giant blue and yellow warehouse is a place where Swedish meatballs and lingonberry jelly are abundant.Look, take that snobby look off your face and confess here and now — you love IKEA’s “so-cheap-it’s-gotta-be-a-front-for-buying-more-pressboard-furniture” cafeteria. Because…
Though Hurricane Sandy left south Florida relatively untouched, her legacy lives on. The storm, coupled with a full moon, caused the ocean tides to swell and come over the Fort Lauderdale beach wall, flooding A1A and causing water damage to some local restaurants…
Pop up restaurants always seem to get foodie hearts a-racing. After all, scarcity drives demand. So folks hungry for some pre-holiday eats should be pretty stoked for the opening of Green Room Pop Up, a new restaurant by the chefs behind JAZZIZ. Read also: Boulud Sud Pop-Up in Palm Beach…
In less than two weeks, one of South Florida’s most exciting food events, the 6th annual Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival, will be upon us — a time when the country’s most famous chefs come to cook at Palm Beach’s most prestigious resorts and restaurants. The food fun starts…
South Florida is full of little mom and pop shops churning out authentic, homemade Latin fare. You want Cuban ropa vieja? Done. Peruvian ceviche? We’ve got it. Brazilian feijoada? No problem.Last week brought the grand opening of south Florida’s newest Latin restaurant: Paladar Latin Kitchen and Rum Bar.See Also:- Paladar…
My Key West Kitchen ($20.33 at BN.com) by Norman Van Aken and Justin Van Aken is part cookbook, part love note to Key West, the quirky city at the end of A1A. It’s fitting that Van Aken and son collaborate on this book. After all, it’s where Justin was born and…
We gave thanks. We ate. We drank. We gained ten pounds in a day. We put out the turkey fryer fires. We assaulted people in malls at midnight.The holiday season is now officially in full swing.We may have palm trees, mild winters, and, well, no snow, but we still know…
Sisters Kourtney and Kim Kardashian have been seen practically everywhere in Miami since they started filming the upcoming season of Kourtney and Kim Take Miami, but rarely have they ventured slightly north to Fort Lauderdale, which seems a shame.Read Also: Kim and Kourtney Kardashian Have Shacked Up in North Miami…
Just a few months ago, if you were to head west on Atlantic Ave from the Turnpike in Delray Beach, you would have found yourself in what feels like the middle of nowhere. Well, not anymore. Construction is well under way for a new shopping center on the corner of…
The breakthoughs in food science just keep coming. First it was the genetically-modified yeast in our beer, now it’s ice cream with distilled spirits somehow frozen into them.SnoBar is gracing Florida with its entire line of alcoholic ice cream indulgences. This isn’t a frozen daiquiri or a slushy treat with…
Time to shake off the turkey and mashed potato hangover and jump back into the fray. Since the Monday after a long holiday weekend is always the worrrrrst , Clean Plate Charlie has rounded up a few fun food and drink related activities this week in Broward and Palm Beach…
Chef Johndavid Henlsey — the new chef at Prime in Delray Beach — made his name in the culinary scene in New York City and the Hamptons, in such places as the Russian Tea Room and Indian Cove. But the lure of a slower, less pretentious lifestyle and a beachside…
Over the past few years, it seems as though a million “better burger” chains have hit the south Florida market: BurgerFi, Evolution Burger, Five Guys. The list goes on and on. South Floridians obviously love their burgers.While most of these chains have similar offerings– i.e., burgers–the newest such chain stands…
I’ve seldom made a secret of the great, big spot in my craft-beer-loving heart that’s reserved solely for Michigan’s popular Founders Brewing Co. The Grand Rapids-based brewery is where I first cut my craft teeth nearly — gulp — ten years ago, when my future best friend took me to…
What happens when the Epic Meal Time crew decides to volunteer at a soup kitchen? The people who come to the kitchen for a hot meal get something a little more…filling than the usual lunch. Harley Morenstein and the gang decide to volunteer at Someone Cares in Costa Mesa, California, where…
Sure the economy is getting better little by little, but if you’re a small business looking to upgrade, there are still few funding options on the table. Banks are still wary of lending to even the most stable of small businesses, and going public is not a viable option. Read…
Describe your favorite Asian market. The ceilings are low and the aisles are tight, right? There’s the strong smell in the air of of dried seafood and soy products, correct? Well, the New York Mart in Sunrise is as far from that as possible. Inside, it’s as large as any…
Need a break from drinking and eating and drinking and eating some more? Well, too bad. There’s more to be done in the food and drink department this weekend, and it doesn’t necessarily involve turkey sandwiches. After the jump, find five food and drink related activities going down this weekend…
Happy Thanksgiving. Ideally, your holiday is being spent gathered around a table (or bar, if that’s more your style) sharing food and drink with people you love, or at least tolerate. Here’s hoping you won’t be losing any valuable family- and recovering-on-the-couch time by getting in line for early-early-early bird…
Karin Fields pauses while weaving among the aisles of the Yellow Green Farmers Market, where she’s been a vendor for two years. She gestures to two clear, cylindrical dispensers filled with deep-orange and pink liquids on a high countertop. “That’s the juice place,” she says, holding up and shaking a…
Mr. Food loved people, easy-to-make dishes and his favorite meal “in the whole world” — a simple tomato sandwich with lettuce and mayonnaise.It’s fitting fare for one of South Florida’s own TV chefs and cookbook authors, also known as Art Ginsburg. The owner of the Fort Lauderdale-based Mr. Food company…
If you’re the poor slob who always gets stuck making a trip to the drive-thru with a list of value meals and a fistful of cash, the following important announcement is for you:Burger King Now Delivers in Broward County!…
