Food & Drink

Clean Plate Charlie is pitting our eight best dining areas against one another in a March Madness-style bracket. Later this month, we’ll crown a winner — an undisputed champion city that can boast to have the best food scene in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Below, read up on number-one-seeded…

Clean Plate Charlie is pitting our eight best dining areas against one another in a March Madness-style bracket. Later this month, we’ll crown a winner — an undisputed champion city that can boast to have the best food scene in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Below, read up on number-three-seeded…

Back in 2008, I started spending almost as much time in restaurant kitchens as in restaurant dining rooms. What struck me was how few women work the hot line. The reasons are apparent: The hours are insane. The pay is middling. The work is grueling. Cooking in a competitive, cutthroat…

Houston-based restaurateur Tilman Fertitta of Landry’s Inc. has acquired 90 percent of Morton’s shares, he announced Wednesday, reports Chicago Business. The purchase means he’ll own Morton’s without shareholders’ approval. Shareholders had been trying to block the purchase because they believed the stocks were undervalued.In Florida, Morton’s resides in Boca Raton,…

South Beach Wine and Food Festival 2012 is a few weeks away: the Nascar of foodie weekends. Though hot tickets are sold out, there’s a slew of events with tickets available. Perhaps a local chef’s attendance might convince you to splurge. Have a weigh-in on South Beach Wine and Food…

Past 8 p.m. on a weekday, the staff at Sunfish Grill polishes glasses and runs credit cards as customers trickle in. “You just coming off work?” says a server. The patrons nod. Curtains like sails are folded for a luff, despite that the restaurant is housed in a strip mall…

It’s nearly time for winter’s Thanksgiving, also known as The Super Bowl. If you haven’t broken your New Year’s resolution about healthy eating, it’s a good day to do so. Some links to rev up the appetite, or something: 1. Check out these amazing Superbowl meat platters found from sister…

I walked past a coworker eating a beautiful spinach salad and asked her where she got it. I should have known:Fresh Market. Today, of course, was opening day.She thought it was pricey, as do many who have never been to a Fresh Market. But more than the all-organic stuff at…

Last week, we told you about the Food List Challenge, the Facebook app of 100 dishes and drinks to prove you’re a foodnik. So far, 335,345 people have tried it, including former food critic for the Washington Post Phyllis Richman (97) and former New Times critic Gail Shepherd (85). Some…

Ahhh, Valentine’s Day. The quintessential Hallmark Holiday, invented to divest coupled folks of hard-earned cash (in turn for typically meaningless trinkets) and to remind singles of how sad they should be about being alone on during this most wondrous day of the year. As baffling as Valentine’s Day seems — so few people seem…

Tomorrow at 9 a.m. is the opening of the Fort Lauderdale Fresh Market, an occasion marked by the breaking of a wheel of Parmigiano-Reggiano. From the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, this cow’s-milk cheese goes through a number of processes as it’s shaped, branded, brined, and aged for a year before…

Attention, health fiends and Meatless Mondayites: Energy Kitchen, a health-conscious concept in which no menu item is more than 500 calories, opens Friday. Does under 500 calories mean healthy? Peruse a McDonald’s menu and a slew of items fits that bill: a hamburger (250), cheeseburger (300), double cheeseburger (440), McDouble…

Chef Roy Villacrusis made big news last week when he claimed he quit Kapow! Noodle Bar after the owners put sliders on the menu. So it only made sense that Clean Plate Charlie try these controversial sliders. And the verdict? Nobody should quit over these sliders. In fact, these damned…

Florida Sen. Ronda Storms is causing an uproar all the way to L.A. — as seen in today’s Los Angeles Times — with her proposal to forbid Florida food stamp recipients from using the program money to buy junk food. Storms’ bill was approved by the Senate Committee on Children,…