Glamour isn’t a word applied much to restaurants nowadays, but the glamour and cachet of 1940s-era supper clubs was the inspiration behind Prime Delray (110 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach; 561-865-5846), the newest restaurant to debut on the town’s dining-rich Atlantic Avenue.Steven Pellegrino, also proprietor of another Atlantic Avenue eatery,…
Patty Canedo is a chef in Palm Beach. Every week, she shares her kitchen exploits. I grab my knife bag and temperature gauge and run out the door. Chef hates it when I’m late. I arrive to find her prepping the kitchen, setting up cutting boards, and downing a cup…
Saber a bottle of Champagne for New Year’s – anyone can do it.
Bringing in the New Year mainly consists of copious amounts of alcohol, mass texting, and food. Lots and lots of food. To celebrate the New Year, Chick-fil-A is giving out their new spicy chicken biscuit a week before they are officially on the menu. Visitors get to taste the new…
We mistakenly thought everyone knew about halva, the sesame-based treat found in nearly every deli and Middle Eastern market. But when one of our friends spotted this plastic container in our pantry and exclaimed, “What the heck is that?” we suspected perhaps an “I’m Eating What?!” column was in order.Halva,…
News broke this week of a 50-year-old man from Gulf Breeze who allegedly had an unfortunate incident with Tabasco sauce on a flight to Idaho. He told police he spilled the sauce on his lap, causing uncontrollable burning and itching. The 17-year-old girl sitting next to him thought he was…
Eighty-two-year-old film director and marketing guru Herschell Gordon Lewis lives well. He’s made millions from his books (like Sales Letters That Sizzle) and enjoys unending notoriety from his movies (such as Wizards of Gore). He lives in a magnificent condo on Fort Lauderdale beach overlooking the Atlantic. A Beethoven lover and…
Pretty much all worldwide celebrations nowadays involve mass texting. While I’m not an advocate of such a lazy and boring practice, I am a recipient. I expect many at midnight this Friday, December 31. Maxim has realized the bland mass text craze and created the Champagne Popper — a free…
Yeah, you know — meat glue. Transglutaminase. No?Let’s start at the beginning. Ever picked up the wrong thing at the store by accident? Like, thinking you’d grabbed linguine but you come home with cupcake tins? Or you think it’s salt, but it was really ajinomoto?It sure looks like salt, but this…
“Seventy dollars! You spent seventy dollars on strawberry plants!”This was my wife talking not too long ago, looking over the bank statement. Now, if you ask me, there was a tiny bit of over-reaction there. It wasn’t like I took money from our children’s mouths to feed my strawberry habit…
At first glance, the Prawlockis seem like your average couple.The two met at Florida State University, where 28-year-old Natasha majored in anthropology with a minor in museum studies, while 30-year-old Adam followed a fine arts major with a focus in sculpture.By day, Natasha works for the Palm Beach County school…
One of Palm Beach County’s best-known restaurateurs has teamed up with one of Palm Beach County’s best-known chefs to create a contemporary, Asian-esque eatery in the space once home to Noche restaurant-niteclub in Palm Beach Gardens. Carmine Giardini and chef John Belleme are the duo behind Umi Fishbar + Grill…
I had two reactions looking over Roy Villacrusis’ menu at his new Kubo Asiatic Cuisine. “Oh, wow!” And “Oh, shit!” “Oh, wow!” because just reading the thing (“Green tea-cured salmon with longan, fried basil and yuzu kosho jelly,” “Lao-grilled beef, somen noodles, romaine hearts and nouc nam”) was like taking…
The “84” in 84 Thai refers to its location in a nothing-much strip mall on West State Road 84 in Fort Lauderdale. It does have a certain utility, if not much originality; just be thankful the place isn’t on Peepee Way or Little Schmuck Road. Utility, not originality, is actually…
Kicking off a rather flabby and blabby column, fashion expert and style columnist Simon Doonan announced in Slate this week that he spied some famous folks enjoying a holiday dinner at Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach. “A shocking and riveting tableau” he called it. Riveting, maybe. Shocking, no.Apparently publisher Conrad Black (he…
Every summer up north when I was a kid, we used to go to this U-pick berry farm and load up on fresh berries. It was awesome … even when it wasn’t. You ever tried to eat three pounds of berries in one day? Yikes. Let’s just say there’s a…
Yes, cocktails contain calories and if you’re downing a few of them, it adds up. Over the holidays, folks tend to imbibe more than usual and then, before they know it, they’re sitting on the tarmac with Kevin Smith, slimming down enough to fit in a seat.RA Sushi — with…
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With so many South Florida drinking establishments serving till the wee hours, it’s easy to wrap up a seemingly good night, only to wake up with a nasty banging headache that feels like tiny angry elves are hammering away at your temples rudely reminding you that you’ve outdone yourself, again…
Can’t decide what to do on New Year’s Eve or can’t afford a pricy restaurant bash? Clematis Street to the rescue. The 500 block of West Palm Beach’s resurgent dining-nitelife venue will be the site of a free block party beginning at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 31, and continuing until,…
Maybe I made this too easy on you guys. Congrats to Dennis for correctly guessing The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. in Delray Beach. This location has been here just over a year, but the Palm Beach Gardens location had a grand opening last month. They also have a spot…
People who keep regular dining hours are not morally superior to people who don’t. It just makes you feel like a lowlife when restaurants shut their doors in your face at 10 p.m., after the last of the respectable dinner crowd has finished its daily feeding and trickled out. Dinner…
