If you’re not a subscriber to our weekly Café Bites dining newsletter for Broward and Palm Beach counties, here’s a taste of what you missed this week. Click here to subscribe. The ritzy, glitzy, over-the-top China Grill is giving us one more reason to visit: It’s trying to be not…
It’s official: Chef Allen Susser’s gastropub Taste will open on Monday, April 12, in downtown Delray Beach.The 125-seat indoor/outdoor eatery will feature three bars, a sidewalk “café,” two indoor dining areas, and a backyard garden replete with a waterfall. Hours of operation will be Sunday through Wednesday 6 p.m. to…
The third-annual Blues, Brews, and BBQ rocked the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek this Saturday, dropping more than 100 beers, plenty of great tunes, and lots and lots of smoked pig on the sizable crowd. With live music sets from Bonerama and the Radiators, the sectioned-off tent outside of the casino…
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. 40: Upside Down Sicilian From Nino’s Restaurant & PizzeriaThe upside down Sicilian pizza from Nino’s…
A fixture on Las Olas Boulevard for 20 years, Las Olas Café will shut its doors May 30 to make way for… well, nobody knows. The venerable Fort Lauderdale eatery with the Continentalesque menu couldn’t get its lease renewed, says proprietor Paula Pace, who believes building owner Las Olas Co…
If you go backstage at Antone’s, the legendary music venue in Austin, then head upstairs past whatever band is lingering on the first floor, look closely at the back wall of the small balcony and you’ll see a small door, plenty wide but only about three feet high, marked “Lilliputians…
• After more than 30 years on Lake Avenue in downtown Lake Worth, it’s time to bid adieu to L’Anjou, one of a fading breed of old-school French restaurants in ever-trendy South Florida. Declining business and illness in the owning Cela family were reportedly the cause. Though generally flying under…
Hidden in President Obama’s health-care initiative is a regulation that requires chain restaurants to begin posting nutritional information on the food. This may seem like trouble for burger joints, but it might be Tex-Mex burrito purveyors that face the most trouble.That’s because those Chihuahua-sized burritos, overstuffed tacos, and Dumpster-style taco…
This week on the blog:We go behind the line with that classic fondue place, the Melting Pot.Passover is easy with this matzo ball soup recipe.This week, 100 Favorite Dishes covers coco bread, gator fritters, and rock shrimp from an Iron Chef.California Burger makes creamy shakes and hand-cut fries in Fort…
Well, not quite as seen on TV. On the episode of Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives that featured the Deerfield Beach institution the Whale’s Rib, Guy Fieri sampled the Key West dolphin sandwich in fried form. But on a recent visit, a longtime waitress at the Rib told me to try…
It’s no secret that bluefin tuna is endangered. Since 1970, stocks of bluefin have dropped by more than 80 percent, thanks in no small part to its status as a prized sushi fish. In fact, scientists predict that if the rate of consumption of the fish stays the same, it…
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. 41: Gator Fritters from Corner Cafe and BreweryAt the Corner Cafe and Brewery in Tequesta,…
The two guys behind the Falcon House in Delray Beach have picked up their original concept and opened a few blocks away in Pineapple Grove.Two Thirds Tavern — named for the cross streets of Third Avenue and Third Street — is in the former Monterey Cantina spot.”We took it over…
Potato chips aren’t really a hard sell. Sure, some like ridges, some like baked versus fried, and some prefer original instead of the flavored varieties, but Calbee’s seaweed and salt flavored potato chips could be the next big thing. Really!…
Another restaurant is coming to Delray Beach’s East Atlantic Avenue, and it’s not a trattoria or a gastropub. It’s Mexican. Well, gringo Mexican, anyway. It’s Carlos & Pepe’s, a fixture in Fort Lauderdale for more than three decades, now branching out with a Delray spot in the tony Worthing Place…
Here’s an idea: The Chinese Zodiac calendar should rename this year “The Year of the Gastropub.” There has been a whole mess of notable gastro-openings across South Florida in the past few months, many of them bringing big names to high-profile locations. Gratify American Gastropub is one of those recent…
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. 42: Kielbasa and Eggs from Cypress NookThe combo of spicy German mustard and breakfast eggs…
We watched Veronique Leroux put together lunch from our table in the rear garden at Le Patio in Wilton Manors. There were no other people eating outside besides my partner and me, so Leroux had propped the back door open to give us a view inside the petite restaurant, no…
West Palm’s Clematis Street is becoming too “watering-hole-ish” for the owners of Maison Carlos, a white-tablecloth eatery that held down a spot across from the venerable Pioneer Linens for some time. So Carlos and Lanie Farias have moved a scaled-back version of their eatery to Dixie Highway south of Belvedere…
Some days are just hard to top — especially when the Outlook calendar reads: “Dream Car tour” at 3 p.m. and “Dinner at Lamborghini Café” at 8. Talk about two great reasons to wake up, even on a rainy day… Any occasion that begins by driving not one but six…
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. 43: Rock Shrimp Tempura from MorimotoEach chopstick-sized bite of tender, juicy Florida rock shrimp at…
Two weeks ago, I signed up for Annie’s Organic Buying Club, which works under the slogan: “making organics affordable for everyone.” Annie’s is part of a trend these days, with companies popping up across the country that promise to deliver fresher and cheaper organics than your supermarket.So, is it cheaper?…
