It was a tale of two starters: One was a velvety-rich squash soup topped with a dollop of Greek yogurt. The bright flavors of carrots, celery, and onions in the stock emboldened each bite. Even if some of the ingredients, such as the squash, were locally sourced as advertised, the…
Basketball star-turned-actor-turned-rapper-turned-doctor-turned-beer-spokesman-turned-police-force-hopeful (and so on and so forth) Shaquille O’Neal will help to welcome the Dry Fried Wing Company to Fort Laudy on Friday afternoon. The Shaq is just one of several sports stars who will spice up the grand opening celebrations at the franchise wing shop, which shares space…
Being a famous chef has its ups and downs. On the plus side, you ride in private jets, write cookbooks, host television shows, and generally have a really good time. On the minus side, publications write lots of crap about you (and yes, we put ourselves in this bracket). Usually…
Unless you have been living under a rock, or north of West Palm Beach, you may have noticed the rise of the gourmet food truck scene in South Florida over the past two years. The popular rolling cafes are often credited with revitalizing underused land parcels and parking lots in…
Palm Beach entrepreneur Virginia Philip is an undisputed rockstar in the wine world. It only makes sense that she’d play a part in this weekend’s Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival, where she’ll lend her skills to three different festival events. Philip was but the tenth woman in the world…
HasbroEasy Bake — should we make one in blue? If you ask any chef working in an American kitchen today, you’ll probably hear that the industry is male-dominated. Though there are a fair share of women behind the burners, the kitchen is physically demanding, sometimes dangerous, and usually off-color. There’s…
The Boca Raton-based Rainmaker Restaurant Group has taken a huge gamble, leasing out the prime corner where Rare and Bova Prime once stood on Las Olas Boulevard. In place of the high-priced steakhouses that made gauche attempts to be fashionable, the group led by Kevin Blair and Jeffrey Anderson has…
If there is one thing that comes to mind when you think of Palm Beach it’s luxury. And, well, Money. Obviously, the two go hand in hand. And what could be more luxurious than eating some expensive gourmet delicacies? If you ask us, not much.It should come as no surprise that…
Sure – you say you love your dog…then you go out to dinner, leaving poor little Bambi or Nibbles home alone to sleep on the couch and await whatever table scraps you remember to have packed into a doggie bag. You know that’s just not right, don’t you? Dogs have…
Got someone on your holiday gift list who’s a sucker for the sticky, starchy delight of an order of fried plantains? Pollo Tropical is getting all festive this coming week by introducing a few new holiday promotions, including a gift card deal that also includes a little something for the…
CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has issued an action alert, asking “people of conscience” to demand an apology from Subway’s President and CEO Fred DeLuca after a muslim couple were denied service at a Shreveport, Louisiana Subway.According to CAIR, A “63-year old New Orleans resident of South Asian heritage”…
In case you’ve been living under a rock, the holiday season is in full swing and that means one thing and one thing only — you’ve got to buy presents for just about everyone you know. Your kid’s teacher, the mailman, the condo super, your office mates all become names…
It is no secret. We have major issues with our food system: pesticides we eat, pollution from fertilizers, genetically-modified food, trans-fats, you name it. One such issue, animal cruelty, is often taken up by animal rights groups through ad campaigns — many of them shocking and grotesque. A series of…
Dining in the dark: some people will never get sick of the concept; others turn up their noses, saying it’s been done for years and to many the novelty has worn off. When Market 17 brought dining in the dark to Fort Lauderdale a few years back our own New…
I tried to get the story behind World Market & Café out of owner Mikhail Galkin. He refused to talk, and instead challenged me to peruse the Eastern European market on Federal Highway in Hollywood, and see if I could find anything familiar. Indeed I did. I spied sliced pickled…
Hot dogs aren’t just hot dogs at Das Dog in Jupiter. They’re gourmet dogs.Das Dog first opened in the Abacoa Town Center in May 2011, where it began with a short menu of just several specialty hot dogs featuring fun, creative toppings.The spot was an instant hit with the locals,…
There is certainly no dearth of places to eat in downtown Delray Beach. Thai, Italian, French, sushi, organic, farm-to-table, fine dining, or counter service … A new restaurant opening in the area almost isn’t even news. But recently, just off the main path of Atlantic Avenue on Second Avenue, in…
If you haven’t already seen Food Matters, the 2008 documentary that uncovers the dangers in what we’re putting into our bodies for sustenance, you should. The movie features a host of doctors, scientists, and nutritionists sharing their insights on how illnesses and diseases like stroke, cancer, and depression can be…
The Sardelli family spent five years and their life savings to buy an empty lot and build a four-story building just east of Federal Highway and steps from Hollywood Beach. From the outside, the $1.6 million Sardelli Italian Steakhouse looks like an Italian villa plucked from the countryside and dropped…
Starbucks has long had a reputation of serving a good albeit expensive cup of coffee. That business model has served the chain well, with each store seeing lines of people trading their hard-earned money for lattes, coffees, and teas. Recently, though, Starbucks outdid itself by introducing its most expensive cup…
A recent change to the noise ordinance governing downtown Delray Beach might mean the end of live music at Deck 84. According to Burt Rapoport, managing partner of Deck 84 and president of Rapoport’s Restaurant Group which owns the downtown eatery, the sudden change came as a surprise. “A policeman…
There are few things in this world that go together better than football and grilling. After all, what could be better than watching the game while chowing down on a rack of ribs or tailgating in the parking lot with a brew and a burger?…
