A small, aging strip mall in West Palm Beach may be the last place you’d expect to find Vanilla Ice taking a lunch break, but if you swing by the Vegan Cafe you might be lucky enough to catch him trying a new flavor of Pond Yum! spirulina popsicle. Located…
With a family rooted into the Texas barbecue industry, Will Banks decided to make his way into the family business about six years ago with his highly lauded food truck, Blue Willy’s Barbecue, parked just steps from the downtown Fort Lauderdale Courthouse. Early on in the summer, Banks packed up…
Yogurt – it’s full of probiotics, it’s soothing to the stomach, and it is conveniently packaged for on-the-go consumption. So it can be a real detriment to one’s morning routine to find breakfast has morphed into an alien life form and is attempting to escape from its packaging and commandeer…
After butting heads with the Riverside Hotel’s Executive Chef Toby Joseph, Jon Sanchez, the 28-year-old chef de cuisine at Wild Sea Oyster Bar & Grille, has parted ways with the restaurant. “The executive chef asked me last week to ‘dumb down’ the menu for the clientele,” Sanchez said. “I refused…
Since the opening of Oakland Park’s highly lauded Funky Buddha Brewery, we’ve been eagerly awaiting more news of culinary progress. Fortunately, that moment has come. The first step of the urban farm park has recently been implemented; the Urban Farmer has set up its farmers market in Jaco Pastorius Park,…
Pairings, the annual celebration of South Florida food and fine wines, storms the Broward County Convention Center on Thursday, September 26. From 7 to 10 p.m., south Florida’s finest establishments will serve up choice offerings paired with the perfect wine to accompany each morsel. Each wine is carefully curated by…
After using blackface in theater to proliferate racist stereotypes in the early 20th Century, Americans eventually wised up. Eight thousand miles away in the South Pacific, Thailand didn’t seem to get that memo. Dunkin’ Donuts there released an ad to promote its chocolate donut using blackface. Human Rights Watch groups…
There once was a day in which downtown Fort Lauderdale’s riverfront and Himmarshee area was full of a variety of different restaurants and bars. From Hooters and laid-back sports bars to high-end Italian restaurant and upscale martinis, there used to be divergent spots for everyone — and every possible mood…
UPDATE: A lot has changed since this article was written. These ten restaurants are all still open (and delicious) but you also might enjoy our most recent list of the ten best new restaurants in Fort Lauderdale after you’re done with this. Fort Lauderdale isn’t as flashy as Miami nor…
People get into new relationships and even marriages everyday. In the beginning, its all new and exciting; you date, buy each-other presents, and do fun things together all the time. A few years in, however, life kicks in: work is stressful, you’re tired, you just want to turn off the…
When it was announced that Paula Da Silva, chef at farm-to-table restaurant 1500 Degrees inside the historic Eden Roc Miami Beach would move to Fort Lauderdale’s 3030 Ocean, Miami’s loss was Fort Lauderdale’s gain.DaSilva returned to Broward County, the place where she began her well-publicized career under chef Dean Max way…
What would you do if you saw two boys walk away from a picnic table at a busy restaurant, leaving their expensive iPads on the bench? If you were like most people, you would pick them up and return them to the kids or their parents on your way to…
You’ve heard it before: Wine is like a metaphor for life. As cheesy and pompous as it sounds, it’s actually kind of true. Take the same exact grape, grow it in different terroir — that’s wine-speak for growing place — with different growing methods, fermentation techniques, or bottling procedures and…
This year has been a big one for food combinations. First, it was the cronut, invented by pastry chef Dominique Ansel at his New York bakery. The croissant/donut hybrid made its way down to South Florida in the form of Master Cake Bakery’s “dossants” — the term cronut has been…
They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. If that’s the case, the city of Delray Beach certainly has something to blush about; many rundown and forgotten parts of town in Broward and Palm Beach counties are trying to copy the efforts of its Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). Oakland…
The next time you’re in the mood for something fast, easy, cheap and tasty, don’t settle for traditional fast food. If you happen to be in the Boynton Beach area, swing by JuiceBerry, instead. One part juice and smoothie bar, one part vegetarian-vegan lunch stop, JuiceBerry is serving up fast,…
Dive Bar owners Gary Marcotte and Cody Cole have racked up almost $2,500 in parking fines at the meters outside their business in the last year and a half (and that’s not including the staff). At $32 a ticket, it hasn’t been easy. They blame vindictive parking enforcement officials. The…
You’ve eaten his cereal. But do you know Cap’n Crunch has his own internet talk show? The Cap’n has traded in his boat for the kind of fame and fortune that only comes to a select few witty personalities who call themselves late-night talk show hosts…
Around the world, millions of people drink wine. While the vast majority probably drink it just for the sake of getting drunk, interest in wine production, tastings, and pairings has seemed to surge. Just take a look at the number of wine events listed in our weekly roundups — there’s…
Kevin Federline’s 15 minutes of fame hit the fan in 2008 when Britney Spears ditched him, provoked an ugly custody battle, and then shaved her head and fell off the deep end. The years since then have been especially rough for K-Fed as a tumor-like bulge of lard began growing…
New Times’ Pairings is only a month away and if you’ve been waiting to purchase tickets for this totally amazing event, now’s your best opportunity. On Thursday, September 26, 40 of south Florida’s best restaurants will serve up delicious food paired with fine wines at the Broward County Convention Center…
The Blue Bell ice cream factory has been churning out creamy frozen treats in much the same way for over a century. The Texas-based company no longer hand cranks its ice cream, but the main ingredients remain milk, cream, sugar, and fruit — much like when the company started in…
