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,…
A friend of mine really got into the Halloween spirit this year. We went to a party over the weekend, where she served the witch finger tea cookies I posted about on Monday. She and her sister also made a main course to go with that: Stuffed rats with green…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
solarnavigator.netWhat 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(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…
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…
