Pictured: The Prime CEO burger from the Office in Delray Beach, a sandwich so emblematic of the restaurant that it’s literally been branded with its logo. The burger is thick and steak-like and smothered with blue cheese, tomato confit, and — like almost everything else at the restaurant — bacon…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 34: Georgia Pig’s Bacon Georgia Pig’s bacon is sliced thick and sizzled on the griddle,…
If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. You might think a name like Beerfest smacks of everything you need for a booming party. And you’d be…
Update: I just received word that the nutrition education director for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Susan Levine, has issued a letter to Yum! Brands Inc. (operators of KFC) urging the chain not to advertise the Double Down to children. The letter claims the fat-laden sandwich is a “troubling…
Leftovers make the best omelets, and this dish is proof. When I was growing up, my parents used to take leftover spaghetti from the night before and make an omelet out of it. That was a trick my mother learned from her frugal, Polish father. They would fry the cold…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 35: Tacos al Pastor from Taqueria Dona RaquelThere’s something awe-inspiring about meat roasting on a…
Update: Check out the slideshow of brewing at Big Bear, online now.Since 1996, Big Bear Brewing Co., Broward’s only independently owned and operated brewpub, has been crafting award-winning beers in suburban Coral Springs. For the past nine of those years, the man behind the kettles has been Brewmaster Matt Cox…
• Cynics among you (though certainly not Charlie) might consider it akin to choosing between typhoid and malaria, but the Hollywood City Commission has picked Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville over Sly Stallone and Bruce Willis’ Planet Hollywood to build a $100 million hotel/restaurant/resort complex on the city’s six-acre beachfront property at…
It’s pathetically easy to get depressed nowadays. Look at your bank account. Try to find a new job. Watch network television. Hell, just crawl out of bed in the morning. And here’s another one: Check out the produce at your local giantsupermegamarket. Talk about depressing. Fruits and veggies that look…
Sometimes the best accompaniment to a good wine is a little history. A million or so years ago, I read a review in the old Gourmet magazine about this great little French restaurant in Sausalito, just across the Golden Gate Bridge from where I lived in San Francisco. In it,…
Passover is about more than matzo ball soup. Like many Jewish holidays, it’s about religious freedom, eating, and… drinking.So I was thrilled when a friend brought a fantastic new culinary tradition to our seder table last week: potato vodka, flavored with horseradish.Stop gagging. It’s delicious.Horseradish is one of the staple…
This week on the blog:Danish meatballs with a rock ‘n’ roll heritage in this week’s the Meatist.Two longtime SoFla restaurants, Las Olas Cafe and L’Anjou, close shop.Our 100 Favorite Dishes continue with an unconventional upside-down pizza, surf-and-turf sushi rolls, and yakitori Tokyo-style.We look back at the third-annual Blues, Brews, and…
If you’re in Fort Lauderdale and looking for lunch plans, think the car wash, where Latin Burger is making a rare Broward County stop today. Specifically, the Ultimate Car Wash at 321 S. Federal Highway.That’s according to Latin Burger’s Facebook page, where the Miami-based burger and taco truck has 2,700…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 36: A Slice from Pizza RusticaStaring down the display of huge, square slices at any…
In the world of instant gratification, Twitter provides us with more quick and up-to-date information than we can actually swallow. With more than 50 million tweets per day, keeping up with the traffic has proven to be difficult. Since it’s next to impossible to follow every foodie in the Twitterverse,…
Not to be confused with FlossFish nor the dental floss fish (AKA Hawaiian cleaner wrasse), stir-fried shredded marlin fish floss is supposedly something used in Asian cooking, though we’ve never seen it on any local menus. It can be found in Asian markets, most often in clear plastic tubs or…
I’ve got to admit: I’m a bad conscientious foodie. I’ve had a copy of King Corn sitting on top of my DVD player at home for about six months now. At least once a week, I look over at it and think, “I need to watch that damned movie.”Thanks to…
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…
As a countdown to the Best Of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 37: Whole Fresh Fish from Marumi SushiPerhaps the most intriguing offer among all the exotic…
Sharpen your sweet tooth and consider making an appointment with your dentist if you plan on hitting up two coming additions to the dining mix at CityPlace. Sometime this month, look for the debut of Sugar Chef, a cupcake specialist and custom-cake design shop that will go into a tiny…
Ordering a plate of chicken curry with roti at Lovey’s Roti in Sunrise (8336 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise; call 954-741-9212) isn’t a one-step process. As in many of the dozens of West Indian-style eateries scattered throughout West Broward, questions abound: “Roti or rice?” Or “Wrapped or on the side?”…
Balti curry, while widely popular in the U.K., isn’t the most authentic of Indian dishes. Yet the version served at East Boca’s Curries and More is deeply satisfying, full of slow-blooming, peppery heat and the flavors of lemony coriander, musty cardamom, and a vindalooesque sour tang. It’s just one of…
