In September, 50 Food Trucks from 50 cities nationwide will be competing in Thomas’ Breakfast Battle for the opportunity to win $25,000, and several South Florida food trucks are among the competitors. Broward-based B.C. Tacos, Palm Beach County-based Curbside Gourmet, and Tampa’s The Twisted Iron have signed on to be part…
Poised and elegant in her silk blouse, ivory foulard, and gold jewelry, you’d never know Raquel Valencia Gutierrez had a hard life. “I always knew I wanted to open a taquería,” says Gutierrez in Spanish, tapping perfectly manicured nails against a well-used table in the bustling Taquería Doña Raquel (791 S…
Chef vs. Chef is a 16-week competition at Max’s Harvest hosted by chef Eric Baker that has become like therapy for culinarians. Each Wednesday, two local chefs cook up surprise ingredients for a panel of judges as their peers and the public come together to support a charity (The Milagro Center…
Every week, we take a look at a craft beer brewed in Florida. Follow #FloridaBeerFriday for more reviews of Sunshine State brews. Get out there and #DrinkLocal. This week, I’m looking at the Sunshine City IPA from Green Bench Brewing Company, a brewery out of St Petersburg that constantly surprise with…
Friday Ruth’s Chris Boca Beer Dinner Ruth’s Chris Steak House (225 Northeast Mizner Boulevard, Suite 100, Boca Raton) will be the host of a four-course beer dinner. Starting at 6:30 p.m., guests can enjoy beer cheese soup paired with Craft American Lager, fried green tomatoes paired with Category 3 IPA,…
Football season is here, which means your list of day drinking excuses just got that much longer. Football is synonymous with alcohol and food. Walk through the parking lot of a game and you’ll find all kinds of glorious meats sizzling on the grill, adults beverages in the cooler, and…
A lot of people want to eat healthy, but not everyone has the time (or the resources) to prepare organic meals. You carve out time to get to the gym, schedule in training runs for that marathon, and take your bike to work, but by the end of the day…
On Saturday, September 10 local celebrity chef Lindsay Autry (formerly Sundy House) and restaurateur Thierry Beaud (Pistache French Bistro, PB Catch) will open the doors to their long-awaited The Regional Kitchen & Public House in West Palm Beach. Over the past 18 months, the restaurant’s cofounders have worked tirelessly to…
Fans of the wildly popular vegetarian hotspot Christopher’s Kitchen in Palm Beach Gardens are in for a treat — or maybe three. Co-owners Richard Slawson and Christopher Slawson have just opened Meraki Juice Kitchen in West Palm Beach, with plans to expand south to Boca Raton and Delray Beach in…
Bobby Gordash, founder of Holy Mackerel Beers and a South Florida craft beer original gangster, is bringing a new brewery to Pompano Beach and is seeking devotees who can help make the extra push for the location’s final touches. The brewery is called The Holy Mackerel Project and it’s located…
If you can’t get enough ‘cue, a new barbecue establishment will be making its way to Broward County this month. 4 Rivers Smokehouse will open its first South Florida location in Coral Springs on Thursday, September 8. The restaurant, tucked inside The Walk of Coral Springs shopping center, will span more than 5,000-square-feet…
Tuesday Happy Hour at Angelo Elia the Bakery Bar Angelo Elia the Bakery Bar (2104 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Fort Lauderdale) will offer guests half off bottles of wine, two for one glasses of wine and bottled beer as well as $8 gelato cocktail of the night. This is from…
You can add the Delray Beach Bacon & Bourbon Fest to the list of foodie-focused festivals Delray Beach will lose in 2017, now one of three such annual events its organizers, Festival Management Group (FMG), has decided to relocate, postpone, or cancel altogether so far this year. On Friday, September 2,…
Chef vs. Chef is a 16-week competition at Max’s Harvest hosted by chef Eric Baker that pits local chefs against one another, cooking up surprise ingredients for a panel of judges — and our tasting pleasure. This week, Jessie Steele of CWS Bar + Kitchen returned to battle Kevin Darr of City…
Friday Old Town Untapped Bailey Contemporary Arts (41 NE First St., Pompano Beach) will host Pompano Beach’s craft brew and arts festival, Old Town Untapped. There will be free craft beer samples from Pompano breweries, art, food trucks, live music, art, and more. This event is from 6 to 9…
Have you ever had a Zombie? No, not those syrupy sweet buckets of booze you’ll get from just about any beachside bar. A real Zombie, one of the first tiki libations created by Don the Beachcomber (born Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt) who opened what is considered to be the world’s…
There’s buying fish from a commercial chain grocery store, and then there’s buying fish from a local fish market. If you’ve ever walked past your local supermarket fish department and gasped for air, you know exactly what I mean.Especially after recent concerns of area fish fraud and mislabeling, we decided…
The heat wave is almost over, another uneventful hurricane season is just about to end (knock on wood), and football season kicks off September 8. August was a good month for restaurants. A few new places celebrated their official grand openings, including Valentino chef Giovanni Rocchio’s long-awaited One Door East…
Forget farm to table: How about restaurant to table, instead? It’s a thing at 50 Ocean in Delray Beach, which recently debuted its own aeroponic and hydroponic in-house gardening system that allows executive chef Joseph Bonavita to grow everything from root balls of herbs and microgreens to lettuces and spinach. …
If a bowl filled with cilantro noodles, ponzu marinated tuna, and maple-roasted butternut squash drenched in a zingy carrot ginger sauce sounds like the perfect “healthy” meal, now more Palm Beach County residents can create a dish just like it at a new fast-casual concept that’s expanding its local footprint…
If you’re looking forward to attending New Times’ all-new food festival, get ready: E.A.T! is gearing up to be bigger, better, and more action-packed than ever before. This week, event planners announced the names of the area’s two top toques who will face off during a head-to-head cooking competition slated to…
When Big Storm Brewery owner Jonathan Golden learned that his brewery could face legal action from use of a trademark, he instead sued Boynton Beach’s Due South Brewing Company. But he’s not suing for damages or even asking for a trial. Golden told the New Times that he wants to get…
