“I don’t know, dude… veal… not sure how I feel about eating it.”My friend Andy, an avid meat eater, wasn’t saying anything I hadn’t heard before. Hell, I’d considered it myself.”Look, Andy, a lot of the anti-veal stuff you’ve heard isn’t true. The industry has changed in the last 20…
No, not the French Quarter in New Orleans; the French Quarter Bar & Grill in Pompano Beach. I stopped in there recently to sample their version of the iconic Crescent City sandwich, and here’s what I came away with. …
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…
Chef Jason Smith’s culinary career literally sprouted right out of the ground. Raised on an organic farm just outside Indianapolis, Smith learned the value of cooking with fresh, farm-raised ingredients, as his mom grew and sold edible flowers. He then attended Johnson & Wales in Miami and landed a primo…
• Clogging strong arteries 12 ways is the heart-stopping menu at the new Heart Stoppers Sports Grill in Delray Beach. Have your “nurse” (yes, server hotties really do wear lab coats and carry stethescopes) bring you an order of Chili Chest Pain Fries or Flatliner hot wings or the Heart…
Initial impressions play a big part in setting the tone for a meal, as I found out while visiting two Mediterranean restaurants recently. The first experience happened at Anatolia Mediterranean Cuisine, an attractive, year-old Turkish restaurant near Mizner Park in Boca Raton. The place has become so popular among Boca…
Although it has moved from its Oakland Park location to this West Broward spot inside a Quality Inn, India House continues to turn out stellar food. Its menu is a train ticket through India, stopping in Portuguese-influenced Goa with Goan fish and vinegary vindaloos, weaving through Northern Punjab with its…
With the Super Bowl just around the corner, a game plan for homemade fried food is in order. On Monday and Tuesday, we talked about how to make the perfect French fry at home. And if there’s one thing that’s true about deep-frying, it’s that you don’t want to do…
That’s right: Crawfish are back in season. Just in time for the Super Bowl.While mudbugs have no official season like lobster or crab, they typically are best when eaten spring through summer, when they are their largest. But many restaurants begin packing in on the fresh buggers as early as…
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…
The rosés of France’s Cotes du Rhone region are what most rosés from other parts of the world want to be when they grow up. Crisp, refreshing, with aromas and flavors of freshly picked fruit yet as dry as Gore Vidal’s wit, Cotes du Rhone pinks have nothing whatsoever in…
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…
Yesterday we talked about the prep work involved in making the perfect French fry at home. To recap, we chose Russet Burbank potatoes and cleaned them thoroughly. We left the skin on and cut them into quarter-inch sticks. Afterward, we soaked the soon-to-be fries in a bath of cold water…
This week in Dish, we take a look at two Mediterranean restaurants, Anatolia in Boca Raton and Al Bawadi in Plantation. Both feature a take on Med-style eats like hummus and falafel, but Anatolia’s menu ventures a bit further into Turkish pizzas, grilled seafood, and a litany of hot and…
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.Palm Beach is not exactly the place you’d expect to find a pizzeria that seems plucked from the Italian region…
This weekend, I decided, in the spirit of the conference championship games, to bust out my rarely used deep fryer and have a sort of hot oil brouhaha. After all, what goes better with football than fried food? (Hmmm, maybe I can think of something.) So I called up the…
Now that we know it’s going to be the New Orleans Saints against the Indianapolis Colts, the official buildup to Super Bowl 44 is on. After yesterday’s amazing NFC Championship game, the game on February 7 has a lot to live up to. But where can you go where you…
I never grew up cooking. My mother kicked me out of the kitchen because she never wanted my help. She favored my brother — now a cook — and disregarded any interest I had in learning how to cook or bake. Caring, right? It wasn’t until I moved out for…
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…
• It took almost as long as a stone crab to grow another claw, but after months of speculation, the long-awaited McCormick & Schmick’s seafood house is set to make its CityPlace debut on Monday, February 8. Expect the usual McSchmick formula — lots of fresh fish and shellfish done…
This week on the blog:A fish wagon-turned-shack makes the best burger in Key West.You say banana, I say banana pancakes.We roll through six more of our 100 Favorite Dishes this week, starting with these amazing cannolis from Mona Lisa in Deerfield. The Beer-Offs are returning to Whole Foods in February…
The beer and burger craze on South Beach is getting absurd. Can’t we go back to Cubanos and cortadito, please?You know it’s time to give up when Burger King gets in on the deal. The company’s new Whopper Bar will debut in mid-February in the heart of South Beach. Now…
