Restaurants

Can you guess this quirky little family-owned joint that offers a small but yummy selection? Click on the jump for another photo and enter your guess there!  I’ll post the answer a little later on. …

This week on the blog:An outdoor nightclub goes live in Delray Beach.Big Bear hopes to serve some malt-fed calf during next year’s Field of Beers.Iron Maiden is hitting the road, which means it’s time for a metal party at Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs.Our Favorite Dishes this week include a Peruvian…

​Ah, sugar. It comes in oh, so many delightful forms. But when the words “Turkish Delight” were spotted on a box in the Middle Eastern market, it admittedly led to some concern. Would these really be delightful? And what’s with this rose flavoring? Bizarro!Yet the box wooed me like a…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in June, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 6: Kobe Beef Sliders From Steak 954Stephen Starr’s Steak 954 is as straightforward as a…

Florida’s not out of the woods yet regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In fact, Gulfstream currents could carry oil as far as the Florida Keys in a little over a week. That means fisheries located in South Florida could be affected soon. (For more on how the oil spill…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 7: Shrimp and Grits From Creolina’s Dixie TakeoutChef/owner Mark Sulzinski’s landmark Cajun and Creole restaurant…

There’s something immutably charming about South Florida’s cheap seafood dives – restaurants seemingly trapped in time, where anyone with a few bucks can eat a small mountain of seafood served raw, fried, or even broiled with a little butter and paprika. At these raw bars and shuck shacks, you’ll find…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 8: Gouda Grilled Cheese With Heirloom Tomato Soup at Cut 432The sexy Delray steak house…

Plenty of people are excited about the debut of Cooking Channel and that fact that it might change the standard cooking-show formula. But IFC — that’s the Independent Film Channel — already has two slightly zany cooking shows that definitely break out of the usual formula. Food Party, airing on…

It’s time to kiss the chef goodbye, folks. Paula DaSilva, Hell’s Kitchen season 5 contestant and longtime Executive Sous Chef at Fort Lauderdale’s 3030 Ocean, is packing up her knives and heading to Miami. DaSilva, who’s worked at 3030 Ocean under Chef Dean James Max for over 10 years, will…

Get ready to shuck, peel, and slurp — our Dish column this week is on South Florida’s cheap seafood dives. These joints are the types of places where you can soldier up to a worn bar top and order Gulf oysters by the dozen, slurping down briny shellfish with pints…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 9: Crepes from Paris Bakery and CaféThe French have been eating simple pancakes, made first…

•    Two big Delray Beach projects on tap for local restaurateur Burt Rapoport. First is a takeover of the now-shuttered Busch’s Seafood on the Intracoastal, which Rapoport will make over as Burt’s at the Bridge, a casual, affordable eatery featuring a wood-fired grill, raw bar, live music, and upstairs wine…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 10: Butifarra from Bravo Gourmet Sandwich ShopThe postcard-sized menu at Bravo! Gourmet Sandwich Shop in…

Fans of Coral Springs barbecue joint Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs have grown accustomed to seeing Iron Maiden drummer and co-owner Nicko McBrain as he parades around the restaurant daily. But with Iron Maiden’s upcoming U.S. tour kicking off in less than a month, McBrain’s will be MIA from the rib…

More than 300 pounds of malted grains are used to make one 11-barrel batch of beer at Big Bear Brewing Co. in Coral Springs. The natural sugars in the grain are extracted in a process called mashing, which is later converted into alcohol via fermentation. But all that spent grain…

This week on the blog:Our 100 Favorite Dishes this week cover Chinese curry noodles, spicy rock shrimp, and a killer dolphin sandwich.$10 at Panaretto in Fort Lauderdale will get you an affordable Italian lunch.South Florida had a few James Beard Award entrants, and here are the winners.With Father’s Day around…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 11: Topneck Clams on the Half Shell From Tark’s of DaniaThis blue- and white-painted seafood…

Is your kitchen smaller than Snookie’s brainpan? Do you barely have enough counter space to spill a can of Bud? Does your refrigerator wheeze like Kirstie Alley running a marathon? Is your stove something Neanderthal Man would have used to roast a hunk of woolly mammoth?  If you answered “yes”…

Continuing my eating adventures with the theme of “funky Middle Eastern foods,” I came across another curious find: Osem’s Falafel Flavor Bissli. I examined the packaging on this “party snack” and wondered who it was meant to attract, since it features two cartoon characters — one confused nerd and the…

As a countdown to the Best of Broward Palm Beach 2010, coming in May, Clean Plate Charlie is serving up a hundred of our favorite dishes in South Florida. Send your own nominations to john.linn@browardpalmbeach.com.No. 12: Fried Rock Shrimp With Spicy Yuzu From Suite 225The Florida rock shrimp story is…

For years, Grateful Palate on 17th Street has been a gourmet yacht provisioner, catering to some of South Florida swankest sea-bound parties. But tonight from 7 to 9, the party for landlubbers begins with the opening of Grateful Palates’ new Wine & Dining Bar and Lounge.The space has been completely…