• The 15th Total Wine & More in Florida should debut sometime late this year or early next in the space soon to be vacated by World Market in Wellington’s Shoppes at Isla Verde. The gigabooze warehouse joins brethren in Palm Beach Gardens, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and…
Corelino’s Pizza opens in Lantana beach.A great milk shake is only a few steps away with these pictorial instructions.We go behind the line with a homeless chef. Here’s the inside scoop on the closure of Soma Center’s West Palm location.Our review this week is on Trata Greek Taverna on Las Olas.Now…
Another fine Rosh Hashanah is nearly over. Happy New Year! A few days of good food, old stories, not much work, and lots of family can really do you some good. Or, if you’re like us, you probably need a drink pretty soon. But what’s the right spirit for this…
In the second part of our interview with Chef Anthony “Radar” Risoli (see here for part 1), we learn more about his trendy Las Olas eatery, SoLita, and what’s in store for the season. SoLita is one of about 40 restaurants participating in New Times’ food and wine event, Pairings,…
Photos by John LinnHoly arepas, Batman!The Colombian snack arepas are great street food fare. But they’re also easy to make at home. All it takes is a griddle, some masa, and a little love. To prove how simple they are, I made a batch of nontraditional arepas stuffed with mashed…
This blog is going to be short for one reason and one reason only: Nestle’s Yorkie bar is all talk and no action.The bright-blue, shiny label on this British treat not only announces the product is “NOT for girls!” but also goes so far as to show a little lady…
Two days of food, booze, and entertainment at Mizner Park — it’s not exactly Woodstock, but you won’t leave hungry or thirsty. Boca’s toniest mall hosts its annual Tastemakers at Mizner Park progressive food, wine, and cocktail tasting next week, from 6 p.m. until you can’t eat and drink no…
Yesterday, we shared party-planning tips from the drag queens of Lips; today we share a recipe from one of the ladies. OK, so it’s a variation of chocolate Chex mix… but it’s sooo much tastier with the glammed-up name. Here ya go — the recipe for Cha-Cha Chow-Chow from the…
Chef Anthony “Radar” Risoli is a true Italian American with a passion for cooking. His route to the kitchen has been long and arduous, so now, he says, he’s here to stay at SoLita. The modern lounge ambiance attracts the young and the beautiful while Risoli cranks out dishes with…
Last night’s episode of Top Chef that took place in Singapore was easily the best of the season. It featured a series of stunning looking dishes from all four remaining cheftestants that were cooked in a backdrop full of beauty and culture. Everything looked so tasty, it made me want…
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…
The place: Caliente Kitchen, 8 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach. Call 561-450-6940. The hours: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday; 4 to 10 p.m. on Monday. The deal: Two-for-one drinks and $2 tacos. Reggae on Mondays. The digs: The setting is standard these days for a Tex-Mex-themed cantina: faux…
The bottle that holds Luna Sueño Tequila Añejo is hand-blown, with little imperfections along the edges, air bubbles floating in the clear glass, and a cork topped with a glass crescent moon. You have to figure what’s inside is damned good.And it is. It’s also part of New Times Pairings…
After a controversial stint in Hollywood and a less-than-satisfying one in Sunny Isles with a pair of Michael’s Kitchens, local top toque Michael Blum has landed in Palm Beach Gardens, where he’s heading the kitchen of the new Holy Smoke’s American Bistro & Bar (2650 PGA Blvd.; 561-624-7427). The 4,700-square-foot…
This place is called Munchen, as in Old-Munchen, German for Munich. Spirited good times are cooked up at this Pompano Beach eatery, which feels just like a beer bar set in the historic Bavarian capital. The small restaurant is lined with beer bottles and decorative steins and anchored by a…
To see more photos from Trata Greek Taverna, click here. You know that old saying from the Reese’s peanut butter cup commercial: Peanut butter and chocolate are two great tastes that taste great together! During a procession of appetizers at Trata Greek Taverna on Las Olas Boulevard, it was more…
East Coast represent, son!On one side, you’ve got the big, bold flavors of aggressive hops and extreme vertical malts. On another, you’ve got the creative blends of old-world styles kicked up with American ingenuity. That’s the sort of parlance that will be on display at Lola’s on Harrison’s East Coast…
As a food blog, we’re supposed to be an appetizing read. But there’s nothing appetizing about the three Broward eateries shut down over the past week by the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. Health Inspectors deemed the following three restaurants so unsafe for consumers that they needed to be shut…
If you, like me, can’t eat gluten — a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye — you can’t eat regular bread, pasta, and cereals. But oh no, it doesn’t stop there. Many common food items like spices and hard candy have the nasty devil in there too. That’s why…
Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we’ll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere. Anthony Bourdain dishes on his blog about the 100th episode of No Reservations, which aired Monday night and featured Paris. Michael Ruhlman, food writer and good buddy of Bourdain’s,…
Throwing a party can be, for some people, a real drag. They create for themselves a whirl of faux stress, brought on by popping open a can of Pringles and procuring a five-pound bag of ice from 7-Eleven. Whew, exhausting! But it is the guests who suffer most. We’ve all…
Last week, an investment firm bought South Florida-based Burger King Holdings, and hopefully the move signals an improvement in what has always been the fast-food industry’s ugly burger stepchild.So where does the new owner take Burger King now? Here are five ideas on how to remake the fallen burger royalty…
