Every minute in the morning is vital. The alarm goes off and you lie in bed, sometimes with your eyes open, sometimes closed, but you’re always doing the daily math problem in your head. “If I lie in bed for an extra 15 minutes, what am I cutting out so…
Most of the time, I love this gig. But damn — not so much today. I just bit into a “coconut crisp ball” made in Malaysia, and I’m still cringing. It’s not that the little thing tasted badly. Actually, it didn’t have much taste at all. But it’s this film…
“What are you doing?” My wife, Joanna, had returned unexpectedly from some errands was staring at me from the doorway.”What? The house is always filled with kids. I had some time alone — what do you think I’m going to do? You, uh, want to help me out a little?”…
The owner of John G’s Restaurant in Lake Worth, John Giragos, died on Wednesday following a stroke.Giragos, who was 81, founded the popular breakfast and lunch spot in the Lake Worth Casino in 1973. The restaurant is operated by his children, and still enjoys the long lines that made 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…
Think of the world as a giant meatball. Mambo Italiano’s does. The latest eatery to land on West Palm’s ever-burgeoning Clematis Street is all about the ‘ball–Italian “nachos” with mini-meatballs, meatball sliders, meatball parmigiana, meatball subs, meatball lasagna, spaghetti ‘n’ meatballs. You can even get a side order of meatballs…
The Gnarly Barley pale ale I was sipping at Corner Café and Brewery in Tequesta was rich and full-bodied, with a yeasty finish that reminded me of the bread my mother used to bake when I was a kid. Mom didn’t bake bread often, so when she did, it was…
• Iron Chef Cat Cora will be giving a cooking demo on February 27 at 5 p.m. at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa. Tickets cost $35 in advance through Ticketmaster. The celeb chef will be giving a free appearance at 3 p.m. in the hotel lobby that same…
• The old Rosa Mexicano in Palm Beach Gardens is getting a new high-concept but moderately priced MexiCal replacement. Early February should see the debut of Cabo Flats, a huge (8,000 square feet) and casual space that channels Mexican food and décor through the Chicano community of Los Angeles. There…
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…
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…
This week in Dish, we review Corner Café and Brewery in Tequesta, a brewpub and restaurant that serves homespun dishes with international flair. Here’s an excerpt from the review:…
A seemingly jinxed location and two weeks of shitty weather don’t make getting a restaurant off the ground any easier, but Delray’s new Surf Sliders is putting the finishing touches on its beachfront property and hopes to succeed where its two most recent predecessors have failed. …
This quirky, roadside eatery is a fun lunch and breakfast spot. But in back of it is a small parking lot with a blue painted driveway and interesting artwork hung along the fence. It’s one of the more original parking lots we’ve found in South Florida, which makes a great…
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…
The annual New Times Best Of Broward-Palm Beach edition doesn’t cover the Keys, so it seems reasonable that we could name the best burger in Key West any other time of the year. So after a recent visit down to the end of U.S. 1, I’m ready to declare a…
This shadowy photo of the Le Tub cheeseburger is appropriate to the experience of eating one: While some say it’s the best burger they’ve ever eaten, probably just as many will swear to never go back to the place.Sure, nothing chars a burger patty better than the blazing charcoal grill…
The humble burger is humble no more.Truffles, foie gras, all manner of designer beef, exotic cheeses, infantile greens, confit-ed everything, artisan buns, more aiolis than you can shake a whisk at have all collided with the basic meat patty to take the burger from blue-collar grub to high-end cuisine.High-end prices…
This week on the blog:Here’s a sauvignon blanc that actually lives up to the name.Tired of brownies? (Are you crazy?) Then try its little sister, the blondie.We kicked off our 100 favorite dishes of Broward-Palm Beach this week, which will run every day until our 2010 Best Of comes out…
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…
I didn’t know about surgical gloves when I was cooking. Tune into any cooking show these days and you’ll eventually see a chef who looks like he’s about to perform an unpleasant exam on someone. That surgical glove is likely being used to keep a Band-Aid on, and raw chicken…
Some people see a bag of pink chips with Japanese characters and illustrations reminiscent of either Red Fraggle or someone’s head being molested by a crab and pretend like it doesn’t even exist. Me, I grab the pouch and count the minutes until I can tear it open, eager to…
