Happy Hour: Da Big Kahuna in Fort Lauderdale

​The Place: Da Big Kahuna, 17 S Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. 954-530-4867. The Hours: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day. The Deal: $3 well cocktails. The Digs: Beach Place is filled with sadness, and perhaps it’s most apparent at the Da Big Kahuna. Seemingly only half alive,…

I’m Eating What?! Adjika

​Continuing on with our theme of Russian foods we don’t recognize but are willing to try for the sake of science, we dug into a jar of what we later discovered was adjika, something that looked like it belonged between the categories of “dip” and “sauce.” ​Before we flipped the whole…

Casa Mia Makes Home in Jupiter

​A pair of local restaurant vets have opened their own Italian restaurant in Jupiter’s Fisherman’s Wharf Plaza.   Roberto Cavaliere, former owner of Ocean Grille in Palm Beach Gardens, and Stefano Paggetti, an alum of Jetty’s in Jupiter and Galaxy Grille in Palm Beach, have joined forces at Casa Mia Trattoria…

Blue Plate Lunch Specials at Rack’s Downtown Eatery & Tavern

Rack’s (reviewed here) does from-scratch, comfort-style food everyday. Some things are expensive there, but the scenery — and quality — is often worth it.Well, $12 is all it takes to get you lunch at Rack’s. It’s daily blue plate specials cost only a dozen cool ones (plus beverage purchase). That’s…

O’Shea’s New Draft Master Lets You Tap a Keg at Your Table

Everyone’s fantasized about being a bartender (Ooh, ooh, can I be Tom Cruise in Cocktail?) Now you can be your own at West Palm Beach bar O’Shea’s, where a special new table puts you behind the tap.The table is called a Draft Master. It’s a specially designed table that houses…

Beer of the Week: Cigar City Humidor Series IPA

Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…

Recipe: Dracula’s Tochitura (from John Baleanu of Restaurant Transylvania)

Dracula’s favorite eatery serves up all sorts of spooktacular cuisine in downtown Hollywood. Today, Restaurant Transylvania’s owner, John Baleanu, shares a recipe for Dracula’s Tochitura — a pork stew. Tochitura is a traditional Romanian dish — each region of the country has its own version. Surely Dracula’s favorite would be…

Raw Kitchen Is (Not) Cooking in West Palm

​If you like to eat it raw, you’ll cheer the debut of the Raw Kitchen (509 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; 561-820-0144), a raw/vegan/organic eatery that recently opened its doors on Clematis Street. The creation of partners (and sisters) Gigi and Iris Garcia and chef Brenda Kunkler, the Raw Kitchen…

Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston: You Can Handle the Spices

Just the sight of the hellishly red noodle dish called nakjikuksu at Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston is enough to send spicephobic eaters into heat stroke. The pencil-thick udon noodles are napped in a chili sauce so intensely red, it looks like it was painted into existence by…

Giant, Affordable Dishes at Medellin Colombian Fusion

Colombian food is hearty fare, and Medellin — an attractive restaurant on the edge of Coral Springs — is no exception. Here, the platos tipicos are loaded with the kind of meaty, starchy fare to keep you going all day long. Bandeja paisa, Colombia’s national dish, is represented here with…

Crown Samples South American Wines

Who says $25 can’t take you far?Stop into Crown Wine and Spirits Boynton Beach this Saturday, October 23 and that admission price will take you all the way to South American wine country.Frank Reider, author of Wines of Passion: The Best of South America, will be in attendance at this…

Manny’s Empanadas Are La Bomba

What’s amazing about empanadas is how versatile they are. Last week, I grabbed some of the Spanish pastries from Colombian restaurant Pal Rancho. Those were filled with shredded beef and potatoes, with a supremely crunchy corn shell that was fried. Another version I had yesterday from Argentine/Peruvian bakery, Manny’s (10281…

New Times’ Iron Fork This Thursday

Allez cuisine!Just like the addictive Japanese import Iron Chef, Thursday’s Iron Fork event at Grand Central (697 N. Miami Ave., Miami) will test the mettle of two chefs to determine a champion. The only difference: no Mark Dacascos. The annual event from our brothers and sisters at Miami New Times…

Restaurant Transylvania in Hollywood: Dracula Would Love It

solarnavigator.net​What if Dracula moved to South Florida? Could you really blame our favorite blood-sucking villain if he abandoned the harsh climate of central Romania in exchange for lovely tropical seasons? If he comes, he has a welcoming place to eat. With Halloween just around the corner, we decided to check…

Cookie Diet Doctor, Sanford Siegal, Releases a Cookbook

Dr. Siegal with Snooki. ​A few years ago, I visited Dr. Sanford Siegal in the Miami-area kitchen where his bakers produce the cookies that made him famous. The white-haired doc told me all about his business-partnership-gone-wrong with Sasson Moulavi. Long story short (here’s the long version), Siegal had invented the…

Order Up: Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue

Spicy nakjikuksu is chili-covered udon noodles with octopus, onions, carrots, and zucchini. ​This week in Dish, we look at Korean food, and what better place to sample that than Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston? Weston? Yes, it’s way the hell out there (sorry to our Weston readers). But…

Where We Were Eating: Eduardo De San Angel

Noles86 was the first to correctly answer yesterday’s “Where Are We Eating?” quiz. The restaurant where we ate the dish to the right is Eduardo De San Angel in Fort Lauderdale.Open for more than 13 years now, this East Lauderdale restaurant is the playground of Eduardo Pria, a Mexican-born chef…

The New Burrito Bar at Whole Foods: a Taste Test

​Boca’s Whole Foods Market now has a burrito bar. If a giantmega salad bar, dozen-plus steam-table dishes, sushi bar, pizza station, barbecue station, deli counter, and impressive array of entrées to go aren’t enough, now you can build your own burrito.  Hey, it worked for Chipotle.  Burning question of the…

Sick of Salmonella? Chiquita’s New Salad Wash Wards Off Bacteria

Now with less salmonella.​Seems like every few months, we’re hearing about a salmonella or E. coli scare. Lettuce, tomatoes, eggs, and more are seemingly becoming gateways to pathogens in our food system.Leave it to food science to strike back. Cincinnati-based producer Chiquita announced Friday that it had successfully developed a new…

Where Are We Eating?

​(Cue my best Dr. Farnsworth impression) Good news, everyone! We’ve got prizes!OK, not as good as Pairings tickets. But we do have New Times hats and shirts to give away to the first person to correctly guess where we’re eating today…

Halloween Recipes Add Some Scary to Your Spice

Getting creative with Halloween can be fun, especially when it comes to food. I remember eating all sorts of Halloween-themed treats as a kid. There’s nothing like being dressed up as the grim reaper and eating eyeballs (skinned grapes) or intestines (dyed pasta).I went to a party this weekend with…