This year’s Best Of winner for Best Cheese Steak went to Mr. Nick’s, a sandwich stand that’s held its ground along Andrews Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale for more than 30 years now. You can read the description of Mr. Nick’s award-winning cheese steak here, or just take a look at…
Remember that kid in elementary school who was always the last one picked for any team sports? You know, the one everybody said was a spaz, who couldn’t hit a ball or catch a ball or tell first base from third base or a touchdown from a free throw? In…
Ambrosia Some folks have been crowing about Ambrosia’s pizza for 30 years, as long as the restaurant has been in business — so the huge “Best Pizza!” sign on the door reminds anybody within squinting distance. Not much has changed at Ambrosia in all that time, least of all the…
“It might have some kind of fish in it, but I’m not sure.” Those were the first words out of the boss’ grinning mouth as he handed me a shrink-wrapped styrofoam plate. I’m not exactly an adventurous eater. For instance, I don’t eat things that swim. I’ve always said when…
In response to last week’s article comparing the dining scenes in Florida and New Orleans – and in particular, the relative lack of fresh, local seafood at affordable restaurants – Clean Plate Charlie received a comment pointing us in the direction of FL-seafood.com, a website created by the “Bureau of…
“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” ~Lin YutangBonus vocab word: “Globesity.” Coined by the World Health Organization…
OK, so if you tried out last week’s little lesson on pork-stuffed shrimp, you’ve got three-fourths of a pound of ground pork, rather assertively seasoned with black pepper, garlic, cilantro, and fish sauce. What do you do with all that pig? Well, you could freeze it for cramming into some…
“I don’t think anybody gives a rat’s ass whether I am about to eat a tuna sandwich. I don’t even care. Some of it is so inane and narcissistic and bizarre I don’t quite get it. I don’t know why anyone would want to read it, much less why I…
The well-heeled boomers who live in the swank Mizner mansions behind the new Joy Noodles & Rice are already steering their Benzes and Beemers into Joy’s cramped parking lot for carry-out cartons of Thai noodle soups and Philippine egg rolls; and they probably don’t demand a whole lot in the…
This year’s Best Of Broward-Palm Beach edition is up online today, folks. And I have to say: this issue is packed full of great food. Want a great place to walk up and get a slice of New York pie, complete with the scowl? How about the very best restaurant…
My intention when I sit down at Big City is usually to order one of their excellent salads. What I get instead is usually something with a whole lot more carbs and fat: a simple-yet-perfect open-faced tuna melt piled onto English muffins and covered in melted cheese. The $11.50 dish…
I just ran across a whole website devoted to great meals to seduce somebody with, seductionmeals.com. And whaddaya know, there’s a recipe for oyster po’ boy sliders right on the first page (po’ boys are also known as “the peacemaker,” a factoid I’d never heard before. But makes sense, right?…
*Ed. Note: Sometimes even Twain can be a fool. Maybe he should have asked the Turks how to drink it. “Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory…
A lot of the time in this weekly feature, we fit just under the $7 budget, leaving little left over for say a drink, a dessert or an antacid. That is most certainly not the case this week: La Granja fast(ish) food restaurants are here to hook your wallet and…
Hollywood’s oldest Turkish restaurant, Istanbul, has been in this same dinky location for 19 years, a small room that opens to ocean breezes and classic views of kids flying kites on the beach. And they haven’t changed a thing from the plastic chairs to a menu of kebabs and Turkish…
My recent trip to New Orleans was largely predicated on two things: 1) that I had never before been to the Crescent City, and it was high time I got there, and 2) it’s known as one of the best food cities in the country. Sure, you could argue that…
“Gourmet /n./ Anyone whom, when you fail to finish something strange or revolting, remarks that it’s an acquired taste and that you’re leaving the best part.” (source unknown)…
via Cook To Bang… mmmm PoonchiladasAlthough Clean Plate Charlie is the only food blog you really need to read daily, some people just can’t get enough. Here are some highlights other food blogs, this time with a focus on less-local blogs:Serious Eats is a… well a serious food blog. Professional…
Dear Insufferable Know-It-Alls:Grilling fresh local fish outside on the old Weber is my own private Waterloo, except unlike Napoleon’s humiliating defeat by Wellington and the Prussians, mine keeps happening over and over like a recurring nightmare — the only thing that changes are which guests are witnessing the battle and…
Clean Plate Charlie had this really cool idea. Take one of your favorite dishes from one of your favorite restaurants and, applying a little time, a few tablespoons of culinary knowledge, and a willingness to eat the inevitable mistakes, attempt to re-create it at home.Since Charlie absolutely adores Thai cuisine…
Dolce de Palma1000 Okeechobee Road, West Palm Beach561-833-6460Even now that Dolce de Palma has been overrun by local hungries, anybody pulling up to this rubble-strewn parking lot behind railroad tracks in an old warehouse district is going to feel like he’s making a personal discovery. Dolce has an intriguing out-of-the-way-ness…
Sage Oyster Bar2000 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood954-391-9466Maybe it takes an old hand to spin something entirely new out of two thoroughly timeworn restaurant tropes: the raw bar and the French bistro. Chef Laurent Tasic, having perfected the bistro genre with his country-quaint Fort Lauderdale Sage Café, has set his Hollywood vessel…
