One of the things I like about this gig is observing how a region’s food culture reflects the demographics, education, priorities, and values of the people who call it home. So when I was asked to write this week’s review as a companion piece to Lee Klein’s reflection on Miami,…
It may sound like some truly bad straight-to-DVD movie, but Scientific American is reporting the discovery of zombie honeybees in Northern California, which may provide a clue in the search behind colony collapse disorder.A research article recently published in Plos One, a peer-reviewed science site, stated that the parasitic phorid…
We’ve learned tons of restaurant news and will keep you updated as the details unfurl. For now, here’s the skinny on openings this week.Tony and Lori Bova of Vivo Partenza have resurrected Mario’s of Bova and renamed it Mario’s Osteria. December 15 marked the soft opening of the 300-seat restaurant…
Chef Brandon Whitestone has been replaced by Joel Christy at PL8, the restaurant formerly known as Himmarshee Bar & Grille owned by Dave Nicholas. Christy has served stints at Louie Louie and Max’s Grill…
Part of my job (and obsession) is eating at restaurants. While taking pictures of food, interviewing chefs, and dissecting menus, there was one restaurant position that I was always curious about — the server…
Tomorrow is the Miami food truck rally at the Seminole Hard Rock, the last-Thursday-of-the-month event sponsored by BurgerBeast. I find that a strategy among the land mine of offerings helps, so I don’t end up eating five tacos, fries on a stick, and an ice cream sandwich over more popular…
Like many declarations uttered somewhere between 11:30 and 11:59 last Saturday night, it sure seemed like a great idea at the time to start January with a fruit juice fast. But now, staring at this table of lemons, cayenne pepper, and maple syrup and facing the challenge of a three-day cleansing…
Perez Hilton noted today that The Chew’s Christmas episode with Dancing With the Stars’ Maksim Chmerkovskiy hit an all-time viewership high with 2.7 million people watching the unwatchable show.Hilton also noted that this was week two in which the foodcentric talk show hit a new ratings high. Honestly, we’re not…
Last Friday, the FedEx guy came by my house with a rather large box from Cushman’s Fruit. As I signed for it, I noted that it was addressed to my husband, so I left it unopened.When he came home, I told him someone sent him fruit. We opened the box…
If you’re tapped out after spending all your money on the big New Year’s Eve blowout party (not to mention the dozen or so boxes of Alka-Seltzer that you bought and consumed New Year’s Day), then head over to Sonic Beach in Fort Lauderdale for your free breakfast burrito…
Late one evening in a tiny bungalow in Tarpon River, the intoxicating fragrance of chicken broth simmered as a backdrop for friends sipping wine. Open windows, the warmth of candlelight, a farmhouse table, and old concentric wood floors framed a sensory scene to invoke an earlier era.The interplay of homemade…
Happy 2012! Inspired by Harper’s Index, here reads our restaurant trends for the past year. Restaurants to open in Fort Lauderdale: 23Burger restaurants to open in Broward/Palm Beach: 6Restaurants to open in Boca Raton: 10Taco shops to open in Broward /Palm Beach, not counting Chipotle: 4Restaurants to open in Palm…
New Year’s Eve is one jacked up holiday. Long known as amateur night, it’s basically one of two evenings each year (the other being Valentine’s Day, but don’t get us started on that one) in which people gladly pay $200 for some surf and turf and a glass of lukewarm…
We just knew that Festivus was Tony Bourdain’s kind of holiday. At first we thought that Tony was becoming a modern-day Grinch with a heart that grows three sizes in one day, after viewing pictures of him assembling a Disney Princess castle for his adorable daughter. In his jammies.But just…
When making dinner plans with friends, I usually ask something along the lines of, “What type of food are you in the mood to eat?” Recently, after two botched outings with friends, I’ve realized that the first thing I should ask is, “Are you gluten-intolerant?”Last month, I met with a…
I’ll admit I’m totally obsessed with shows on the Food Network, Travel Channel, and Cooking Channel. In fact, I recently upgraded my cable service (and bill) in order to get the Cooking Channel when the free trial period ended — just so I could watch Emeril tour the USA and…
Chef Jorge Fernandez brings the tastes, sights, and sounds of the Iberian Peninsula to South Florida with the debut of his new restaurant, the Spaniard Tapas Bar and Café. The restaurant, located in Boca Raton, adjacent to Royal Palm Place, serves traditional tapas items like cured meats and cheeses as…
Despite the holiday rush, December saw no abatement in restaurant openings. Nice weather, tourism, and delayed fall debuts were the incentives. Most new restaurants fill a niche: The Wine Dive, Havana’s, Le Macaron, or Brooklyn Water Bagel, for example.January and February will feature more anticipated openings, with projections for Tropical…
“Don’t get that,” said our Chinese server in a voice that was quiet but firm. “It’s really stinky.” My friends and I were well into our meal at Silver Pond Chinese Restaurant in Lauderdale Lakes. We had already ordered a first round and were deciding on main dishes. Adam wanted…
“We can shoot guns after dinner,” I said to my friend J.J. in the parking lot of the strip mall that houses Silver Pond in Lauderhill, the subject of this week’s review. In the window, a man gearing up for target practice wore a long-sleeved shirt with Mickey Mouse on…
No doubt at this point you’ve got a handle on what you’re doing for New Year’s Eve. Right? Right?! Slackers can find more than 100 ideas for NYE in the handy Broward-Palm Beach New Times calendar.But what about if you’re one of the peeps in the service industry who will…
If you’ve always dreamed of going to culinary school (or know of a teen who spends more time in the kitchen than at the mall), the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale has two culinary scholarship competitions you should check out.The Art Institute’s Best Teen Chef…
