• Too late to dial 911 for Doc’s All-American Café in Boynton Beach. The cheap-cheap-cheap burger ‘n’ fries joint on Congress Avenue, sister to the original Doc’s in Delray Beach, is locked up tight, and its phone is disconnected after barely seven months in existence. The Delray Doc’s is still…
Another week, another chance to guess Where Are We Eating?This week: A “neighborhood” place with a local vibe. The pic on the left tells the story — click it to get a larger version.Tell us the name of the restaurant where this photo was snapped and we’ll send you some…
You’ve surely heard of “The Cookie Diet” as a way to lose weight by eating several specialized, high-protein cookies a day. Well this isn’t it — kind of.This gluten-free cookie diet is actually a product of “The Cookie Diet” inventor’s breakup with his businessman, Dr. Sasson Moulavi, thus resulting in the…
Here’s a list of five foods we’d like to see more of in South Florida.Halloween is right around the corner; here are a few themed recipes to try out! [Cookies][Stuffed Meatloaf]Chiquita unveils a new salad wash that should keep those salmonella scares at bay.Steer clear of Whole Foods’ burrito bar,…
Continuing on with our theme of Russian foods we don’t recognize but are willing to try for the sake of science, we dug into a jar of what we later discovered was adjika, something that looked like it belonged between the categories of “dip” and “sauce.” Before we flipped the whole…
A pair of local restaurant vets have opened their own Italian restaurant in Jupiter’s Fisherman’s Wharf Plaza. Roberto Cavaliere, former owner of Ocean Grille in Palm Beach Gardens, and Stefano Paggetti, an alum of Jetty’s in Jupiter and Galaxy Grille in Palm Beach, have joined forces at Casa Mia Trattoria…
If you like to eat it raw, you’ll cheer the debut of the Raw Kitchen (509 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; 561-820-0144), a raw/vegan/organic eatery that recently opened its doors on Clematis Street. The creation of partners (and sisters) Gigi and Iris Garcia and chef Brenda Kunkler, the Raw Kitchen…
Just the sight of the hellishly red noodle dish called nakjikuksu at Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston is enough to send spicephobic eaters into heat stroke. The pencil-thick udon noodles are napped in a chili sauce so intensely red, it looks like it was painted into existence by…
What’s amazing about empanadas is how versatile they are. Last week, I grabbed some of the Spanish pastries from Colombian restaurant Pal Rancho. Those were filled with shredded beef and potatoes, with a supremely crunchy corn shell that was fried. Another version I had yesterday from Argentine/Peruvian bakery, Manny’s (10281…
solarnavigator.netWhat if Dracula moved to South Florida? Could you really blame our favorite blood-sucking villain if he abandoned the harsh climate of central Romania in exchange for lovely tropical seasons? If he comes, he has a welcoming place to eat. With Halloween just around the corner, we decided to check…
Dr. Siegal with Snooki. A few years ago, I visited Dr. Sanford Siegal in the Miami-area kitchen where his bakers produce the cookies that made him famous. The white-haired doc told me all about his business-partnership-gone-wrong with Sasson Moulavi. Long story short (here’s the long version), Siegal had invented the…
Spicy nakjikuksu is chili-covered udon noodles with octopus, onions, carrots, and zucchini. This week in Dish, we look at Korean food, and what better place to sample that than Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston? Weston? Yes, it’s way the hell out there (sorry to our Weston readers). But…
Noles86 was the first to correctly answer yesterday’s “Where Are We Eating?” quiz. The restaurant where we ate the dish to the right is Eduardo De San Angel in Fort Lauderdale.Open for more than 13 years now, this East Lauderdale restaurant is the playground of Eduardo Pria, a Mexican-born chef…
Boca’s Whole Foods Market now has a burrito bar. If a giantmega salad bar, dozen-plus steam-table dishes, sushi bar, pizza station, barbecue station, deli counter, and impressive array of entrées to go aren’t enough, now you can build your own burrito. Hey, it worked for Chipotle. Burning question of the…
Now with less salmonella.Seems like every few months, we’re hearing about a salmonella or E. coli scare. Lettuce, tomatoes, eggs, and more are seemingly becoming gateways to pathogens in our food system.Leave it to food science to strike back. Cincinnati-based producer Chiquita announced Friday that it had successfully developed a new…
(Cue my best Dr. Farnsworth impression) Good news, everyone! We’ve got prizes!OK, not as good as Pairings tickets. But we do have New Times hats and shirts to give away to the first person to correctly guess where we’re eating today…
Eat, drink, and be merry at Old Heidelberg in Fort Lauderdale.Here’s a poor man’s guide to snagging free food.St. Demetrios Flavors of Greece festival took place last weekend; here’s a look.Deviled eggs are the new ultratrendy food stuff at local restaurants. What do you think? [Recipe]Burt Rappaport is one scheduled…
Eat Your Kimchi is a great website created by a couple from Toronto who moved to Bucheon, Korea, more than two years ago to teach English. They started the website to document what life was like for two foreigners living in Korea. These days, the website tracks all facets of…
Two beef empanads with a cafe con leche and tart green onion salsa at Pal Rancho.Empanadas are like little presents: They come wrapped, and what’s inside is often a pleasurable surprise. That was definitely the case with the house-made empanadas at Colombian restaurant Pal Rancho on the edge of Parkland…
This is a first, and it’s not something to be proud of, but I have to be honest: I didn’t actually ingest this week’s “I’m Eating What?!?” products. Yes, the whole aim of this column is to chomp down on unusual things, swallow, research and report. But when something smells…
• Even as local restaurant maestro Burt Rapoport readies his new Deck 84 for a November debut, a pair of other eateries on restaurant-rich Atlantic Avenue have gone out with the tide. Sonoma Café & Bistro is history, as is sleek ‘n’ trendy Blue Fish, a restaurant that always seemed…
A month later than expected, really only milliseconds in restaurant-slash-government bureaucracy time, Market 17 (1850 SE 17th St., 954-399-0017) will make its Fort Lauderdale debut Thursday, October 21. The restaurant, from local industry vets (and siblings) Aaron and Krista Grauberger, aims to put itself squarely in the burgeoning farm-to-table, organic,…
