For a fun, casual take on Vietnamese, Green Papaya Vietnamese Cuisine in Coral Springs is a great deal. The above dinner is called a Hau Giang “barbecue pork chop,” but is actually a breaded piece of pork loin that’s been seared on a flat top or griddle. The cutesy plate…
Pictured: Wok-sauteed broccoli with garlic and chili. Prep: Clean and trim broccoli into inch-wide pieces. Steam using steamer basket for about 5-6 minutes, or until broccoli becomes bright green and flesh softens slightly. Immediately shock in a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking and preserve color. Drain. Dice…
When Piero Antinori produced the first Tignanello in the 1971, it was a real kick in the ass to rule- and tradition-bound Tuscan winemakers, most of whom had long been make Chianti in accordance with government regulation. At first 100 percent Sangiovese, later blended with varying amounts of Cabernet Sauvignon,…
This week on the program:What’s up there, Cupcake? A pretty good, cheap Riesling, that’s what.A nomadic, artisan barbecue cart out of Lake Worth is pulling pork at bar near you.Bad customers are just as awful as bad servers. Don’t be a bad customer.Downtown’s newest barbecue joint is pumping up the…
Although Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you need to read every day, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights of other local food blogs worth checking out.Fat Kids Club, aside from having an awesome name, also have a hell of a great idea for…
Chow.com, that home for intrepid foodists popularly known as Chowhound, published the Chow 13 last week, its list of the 13 most influential food fighters of 2009. The article is essentially 13 mini profiles complete with a host of graphic novel-like illustrations. And it’s a really fun read. Among the…
Dead turkeys are aerodynamic disasters. I chose to prove this many Thanksgivings ago by hurling one at my sister as she ran screaming down the stairs from my Brooklyn apartment after a fight. It was cooked, it was in a broiling pan, and I was unable to get a clean…
At least not according to the Brewers Association, the organization that advocates for the craft brewing industry. Out of the top 50 craft brewers in the country, Florida isn’t represented by one. In fact, Florida is among the states with the fewest number of breweries per capita with one per…
• The 11th annual Riverwalk Get Downtown happy hour ramps up in front of YOLO tomorrow night at 5. The huge, outdoor party will feature music from Fourth Dimension as well as food from Big City Tavern, Chima, the Downtowner Saloon, Sublime, YOLO, and more. Get your tickets for $20…
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…
• Allen Susser, one of the original Mango Gangers (with Norman Van Aken and Mark Militello), will open a gastropub, Taste, in the Pineapple Grove area of Delray Beach sometime early next year. Look for small plates of comfy food and a roster of swell cocktails. • Also in Delray,…
Over the years, the old Texas Hold ‘Em BBQ location on Sunrise Boulevard felt sadder with each visit. It was always empty, especially near the end of its tenure there earlier this year. The benches in front of the brown- and cream-colored building looked lost and lonely; the only activity…
An order of corn fritters at any one of the eight Park Avenue BBQ and Grill locations costs just $3.49 and nets you six fried balls of dough along with three condiments to decorate them with. This two-to-one condiment-to-food ratio is a recipe for fun, and the way you play…
My editor found a Honduran Market in Fort Lauderdale and decided to go on a shopping spree. Thankfully, he didn’t return with a basket of pig brains or things that look like tapeworms. I’m still left with quite a few questionable-looking items sitting on my desk that I’m required to…
I’ve been on the lookout lately for good breakfast places for an upcoming column, but for some reason I had forgotten about Dyan’s Country Kitchen, a diner-style breakfast spot in northern Coral Springs. Now the place is firmly locked in my memory as a great neighborhood joint to nab the…
The folks who have been dishing up huge and hugely delectable meat blankets to sammie-savvy Browardites for 36 years have brought their overstuffed hoagies across the border to Boca Raton. The fourth LaSpada’s Original Hoagies is now slapping together their appetite-busting eight- and 12-inch subs in The Commons shopping center,…
It’s about three hours into a four-hour road trip, so I’m finally hitting the home stretch, but I can’t wait another hour to get home and eat. So I pull off the Florida Turnpike into the Lake Worth Rest Stop (mile marker 94 for those deranged enough to follow along…
This week in Dish, we take a look at Texas Hold ‘Em BBQ, that recently relocated Fort Lauderdale smoke shack. Now on Seventh Street downtown just a block from the Andrews Avenue Publix, Texas Hold ‘Em is enjoying a renaissance thanks to more foot traffic and an invigorated approach to…
If you’ve ever wondered why restaurant workers sometimes want to gouge their own eyes out or shave off all their body hair and stow away on a tramp steamer bound for Guatamala, New York restaurateur Bruce Buschel’s pair of blog posts that ran recently in the New York Times (part…
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. “Happy hour” is sooo pre-recession. If you really want to show cash-strapped gazillionaires a deal, you gotta go “happy…
Amateur pizza chefs, unite: the first ever Worstpizza.com Great Pizza Cookoff is going down tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. at Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza in Aventura. Five amateur competitors will throw down with their own personal take on great pie, while the public in attendance gets to act as judge…
Aside from the occasional hot dog, it’s difficult to find food served from street carts in Broward or Palm Beach these days. But the pulled pork sandwich from Swanky’s Low and Slow Barbecue out of Lake Worth is argument enough for a return to street cookery. The clean, shiny, silver…
