For some, eating Thanksgiving at a restaurant might seem weird. But since when is it un-American to have someone else cook your meal, serve it to you, and clean up everything when you’re done with your third helping? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Thanksgiving out on the town every once…
• Council Oak Steaks & Seafood, an upscale eatery at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, has come out with a couple of seasonal dining deals. One is a three-course, $35 prix fixe menu that includes dishes like jumbo lump crabcake with whipped avocado and roasted tomato-chili gazpacho, petite…
I thought pretty hard for the past few weeks about what to write as my farewell blog post on Clean Plate Charlie. I’ve been writing for this thing for more than two years now and working at New Times for four. And at the end of this month, I’ll be…
I’m seeing red!The red-tinged pic to the left is this week’s “Where Are We Eating?” clue. Before you ask — no, that’s not just bad photography (though it may be that as well). Click the image to see a bigger version. Then tell us the restaurant’s name in the comments…
Pan-Asian-slash-fusion cuisine inspired by izakaya–the casual, tapas-style Japanese bistro–is what’s coming out of the kitchen at Kubo Asiatic Cuisine (1201 Hwy. 1, 561-776-7248), a newly opened eatery in North Palm Beach from former Mark’s CityPlace sushi chef Roy Villacrusis. With a spare, clean look that matches its Japanese aesthetic, Kubo…
The Brits can be scary folks with their superior verbal skills and sophisticated disdain: Americans hear the accent and expect decorum, tact, painfully perfect manners. And then you get called an “ignorant fucking cunt” and are left wondering what the hell just happened – but the funny thing is, you…
Atlantic Ocean Club and Buddha Sky Bar debut in Delray Beach.The Yellow Green Market kicks off in Hollywood.This week in Dish, we reviewed Pizzeria Oceano and Corelino’s Pizzeria & Cucina.Check out the Jerk Festival this Sunday at Markham Park.Q & A with Drinking Made Easy host Zane Lamprey.Behind the line…
A new look, new menu, and new name are all in the cards for Delray Beach’s popular French bistro-bakery Café de France.By the end of the year, chef-owner Olivier La Gloahec aims to have completed a major expansion of the chic but tiny eatery, adding some 70 seats on a…
A cookie diet sounds delicious. Like everyone else, I imagined some gooey chocolate-chip cookies, maybe some macadamia nut.The reality was much spongier — although not bad.After writing about Smart for Life’s new gluten-free cookie diet and learning the cookies’ ingredients, I decided to try it out for myself. So for…
Pictured above: Crispy marinated pork loin with cucumber, green onion, and sweet chili sauce nestled into a house-made Chinese bao (bun) from Dim Ssam A-Go-Go, one of the latest gourmet food trucks to hit the streets…
A menu of accessible modern American cuisine and décor modeled after the Prairie School movement of Frank Lloyd Wright mark the latest restaurant to set up shop in the Town Center mall in Boca Raton. Pinon Grill (6000 Glades Road; 561-391-7770) makes its debut this Saturday in sprawling mall’s Terrace…
To see more photos, click here. It’s Saturday night, and you’re driving around Palm Beach County looking for pizza. Where do you go? That’s the question my friends Eric and Cristina had posed to me a few weeks ago when I visited them at their home in Boynton Beach. According…
Finally, the sustainable-urban-farming movement is taking root in Broward County! The Urban Farmer, a hydroponic urban farm and learning facility, opened its doors to the public Saturday, October 30. Jessica Padron says she was inspired to start the business when she had a child. “A few months after my daughter…
For the more frugal diner, the idea of lavishly throwing inordinate amounts of moolah at women and meat may seem a bit superfluous. Patrons of Rachel’s Adult Entertainment & Steakhouse in West Palm Beach don’t seem to mind, though. Perhaps this is where winning recipients of the Florida Lotto come…
Reader “NT” nailed our “Where Are We Eating?” post: The answer is of course Tokyo Blue, a new restaurant/lounge in the Ocean Manor Resort. The restaurant has a broad menu of Japanese classics, mixed and match with Thai, Peruvian, and contemporary influences. It has a full sushi bar with everything…
Ordinarily, when you’re standing at a carving station and you say something like, “Give me some of that meat,” it’s a pretty straight-forward conversation. But if you’re at a swingers club, like Trapeze in western Broward, it seems every word takes on a new, more complicated meaning.If you saw the…
A conversation I had with a friend recently had me thinking: His claim was that, despite the proliferation of coal-fired and gourmet pizza joints, the great majority of restaurant pies falls squarely in the “average” category. “About 85 percent of the time,” he instructed, “one pizza is really no better…
South Florida’s relationship with local foods is a conundrum: The soil is rich and the climate is suitable for plenty of organic, local produce to be available year-round, yet accessibility to that would-be cornucopia is limited. The mission of the Yellow Green Market, which opened in Hollywood this fall, is…
Happy Monday, folks. It’s time for another entry in our series, Where Are We Eating?Not much information needed here. Just tell us where we took this swank-looking pic.Leave your email in the comments field and we’ll award the first correct answer with a New Times swag package…
The rich just keep getting richer, on Atlantic Avenue as well as Wall Street. Or at least, that’s one way of looking at coming debuts of two more high-style, high-concept eateries on what’s become Delray Beach’s increasingly trendy Restaurant Row. Set to open in the next few months are Atlantic…
Here are some tips to duplicate Scott Conant’s $24/bottle tomato sauce, touted as the best in the world.Celebrate National Homebrew Day at BX Beer Depot this Saturday.Rack’s Downtown Eatery is hosting a five-course beer pairing dinner featuring Rogue Beers.There’s a new top chef at PGA National Resort.Take heart, veggie lovers:…
Before we had the chance to try and explain what we thought was inside the bottle, our beautiful blonde buddy had already popped the top, sucked some of the contents down, and exclaimed, “Oooh! What an interesting flavor! What kind of soda is this?”The truth was, we had no idea…
