The State of Florida requires that every food-service operation be registered and licensed with the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. But that hasn’t stopped a handful of local eateries from skirting state practices and operating entirely off the grid. But don’t worry, intrepid eaters: Leave it to our FDBR…
Courtesy of DarbsterEven better than the real thing: Vegan Buffalo wings from Darbster.This week in Dish, we look at Darbster, a vegan restaurant located on the banks of the West Palm Beach Canal. Owners Allan Gould and Ellen Quinlan redesigned the old dive-bar spot at 8020 S. Dixie Highway and…
Some kids probably hate it when summer comes to an end and homework season rears its head like Putin visiting Alaska.But we’d bet the kids over at Shepherd of the Coast in northeast Fort Lauderdale don’t feel quite as deprived of fun. They’ve put together a big community garden, growing…
• The 15th Total Wine & More in Florida should debut sometime late this year or early next in the space soon to be vacated by World Market in Wellington’s Shoppes at Isla Verde. The gigabooze warehouse joins brethren in Palm Beach Gardens, Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and…
Corelino’s Pizza opens in Lantana beach.A great milk shake is only a few steps away with these pictorial instructions.We go behind the line with a homeless chef. Here’s the inside scoop on the closure of Soma Center’s West Palm location.Our review this week is on Trata Greek Taverna on Las Olas.Now…
Another fine Rosh Hashanah is nearly over. Happy New Year! A few days of good food, old stories, not much work, and lots of family can really do you some good. Or, if you’re like us, you probably need a drink pretty soon. But what’s the right spirit for this…
In the second part of our interview with Chef Anthony “Radar” Risoli (see here for part 1), we learn more about his trendy Las Olas eatery, SoLita, and what’s in store for the season. SoLita is one of about 40 restaurants participating in New Times’ food and wine event, Pairings,…
This blog is going to be short for one reason and one reason only: Nestle’s Yorkie bar is all talk and no action.The bright-blue, shiny label on this British treat not only announces the product is “NOT for girls!” but also goes so far as to show a little lady…
Chef Anthony “Radar” Risoli is a true Italian American with a passion for cooking. His route to the kitchen has been long and arduous, so now, he says, he’s here to stay at SoLita. The modern lounge ambiance attracts the young and the beautiful while Risoli cranks out dishes with…
The bottle that holds Luna Sueño Tequila Añejo is hand-blown, with little imperfections along the edges, air bubbles floating in the clear glass, and a cork topped with a glass crescent moon. You have to figure what’s inside is damned good.And it is. It’s also part of New Times Pairings…
After a controversial stint in Hollywood and a less-than-satisfying one in Sunny Isles with a pair of Michael’s Kitchens, local top toque Michael Blum has landed in Palm Beach Gardens, where he’s heading the kitchen of the new Holy Smoke’s American Bistro & Bar (2650 PGA Blvd.; 561-624-7427). The 4,700-square-foot…
To see more photos from Trata Greek Taverna, click here. You know that old saying from the Reese’s peanut butter cup commercial: Peanut butter and chocolate are two great tastes that taste great together! During a procession of appetizers at Trata Greek Taverna on Las Olas Boulevard, it was more…
As a food blog, we’re supposed to be an appetizing read. But there’s nothing appetizing about the three Broward eateries shut down over the past week by the Florida Department of Business and Regulation. Health Inspectors deemed the following three restaurants so unsafe for consumers that they needed to be shut…
Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we’ll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere. Anthony Bourdain dishes on his blog about the 100th episode of No Reservations, which aired Monday night and featured Paris. Michael Ruhlman, food writer and good buddy of Bourdain’s,…
Throwing a party can be, for some people, a real drag. They create for themselves a whirl of faux stress, brought on by popping open a can of Pringles and procuring a five-pound bag of ice from 7-Eleven. Whew, exhausting! But it is the guests who suffer most. We’ve all…
Last week, an investment firm bought South Florida-based Burger King Holdings, and hopefully the move signals an improvement in what has always been the fast-food industry’s ugly burger stepchild.So where does the new owner take Burger King now? Here are five ideas on how to remake the fallen burger royalty…
With Pairings coming up next week, we’ve got one final set of tickets to give away to the all-you-can-eat food and wine event. Then it’s time for wine, beer, and so much more on September 16 at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.All you have to do to get…
This week in Dish, we look at Trata Greek Taverna. The restaurant, opened on Las Olas last January, removes all the flashy bellydancing and napkin throwing from the Greek formula. Instead, it focuses on simple, homey Greek food with an eye for authenticity. The menu is full of complementary flavors…
• So long, Soma; we hardly got to know you. That would be the West Palm Beach Soma Center, the veggie-vegan-raw café and “holistic wellness center,” which closed last week after opening only two months ago on booze-and-greasy-burger Clematis Street. No reason for the sudden shutdown, but the Lake Worth…
It’s the hottest thing to hit the pizza world since Wolfgang Puck smeared a crust with crème fraiche and topped it with smoked salmon and caviar. That would be the coal-fired oven, both figuratively and literally the hottest, as it can crank up to a fearsome 800 to 900 degrees,…
How to make the perfect roasted chicken with just salt and a little know-how.Five wines to bunker down with for hurricane season.Here’s seven milk shakes made with beer that you’ll love.The burger at Gilbert’s 17th St. Grill is big, bold, and full of Angus beef.Now that spiny lobster is in…
• Get ready for posh Mexican cuisine on the beach. Upscale cantina Dos Caminos will move into the newly renovated Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel this November, bringing with it the slick, modern vibe of its New York and Las Vegas counterparts. Expect authentic dishes like lamb barbacoa and cochinita…
