With New Times’ annual Pairings food event just two weeks away, things are getting pretty exciting. The list of participating restaurants has grown pretty large to include places like Steak 954, Sette Bello, and Rock ‘N’ Roll Ribs. I’ve just received a list of dishes that covers what many of…
OK, now the bacon craze has just gone too, too far. We were down with the whole bacon-infused bourbon thing; we thought the maple-glazed doughnut with a bacon topper and deep-fried bacon munchies were fun novelties; and the whole bacon ice cream fad gave us a giggle. But now, food…
In this, the second part of our interview, Andrew Lampasone, owner of the boutique-style store Wine Watch, continues to share his knowledge of wines and gives us a preview of what we can expect to see at the Pairings event on September 16. For the event, Lampasone has the fun…
It looks like both chefs from Azul, the über-luxe eatery in Miami’s posh Mandarin Oriental hotel, (will) have restaurants in Palm Beach. Michelle Bernstein was first with her eponymous eatery in the opulent but financially troubled Omphoy resort. Now her successor, former Todd English culinary director Clay Conley, is leaving…
To see more photos from Jimmy’s Bistro, click here. My date and I had resolved to eat light at Jimmy’s Bistro in downtown Delray Beach. We vowed to order just one appetizer and split it and to skip dessert. But choosing just one starter was proving harder than we thought…
Most folks probably think of rum as the liquor you shoot on a dock while eating cracked conch, pour into vats with fruit juice, or watch getting mixed at one of those bars with the spinning daiquiri machines. And then there’s a rum like St. Lucia Distillers Chairman’s Reserve Rum…
Andrew Lampasone is the proprietor of Wine Watch — a boutique wine shop in Fort Lauderdale with a selection of more than 3,000 wines. On September 16, Lampasone will partner with New Times for the second year in a row to present Pairings — an event in which participants go…
I love it when food movements cross over and enter the realm of pop culture. Take bacon: Today, it’s almost universally recognized that bacon is something to be horded and consumed like a crack addict, cholesterol be damned. But behind that popcult push was genuine foodie enthusiasm. Would bacon be…
Jennifer Reed is a South Florida pastry chef and proprietor of the Sugar Monkey. Each week, she shares her thoughts about life, food, and the people who make it. Stranded in my house for a weekend after surgery seemed like a real bummer. Could I turn that frown upside down…
Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we’ll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere. Chef Chad Galiano, also known as Chadzilla, talks shu-mai dumplings made with koji aji, an MSG substitute.Jeff Eats takes issue with the Sun Sentinel’s Best Pizza Reader’s pic. Mango…
This week in Dish, we review Jimmy’s Bistro, a six-table eatery in downtown Delray Beach. In the year since it opened, chef/owner Jimmy Mills has earned a reputation for honest, homemade food with a nod to classic technique. His tiny restaurant fills up most night, with Mills cooking behind a…
Welcome back to Where Are We Eating? In case you missed it, each Monday we’ve been giving away free tickets to Pairings, our annual food and wine tasting event. Four lucky readers have already walked away with a pair of passes. We’ve got two more pairs to give away until…
The first thing you notice is the onion strips, a golden-fried nest of them cascading off the top of the burger. Below that, a wedge of Brie, creamy white and slightly runny, crowning an inch-thick patty. The char-grilled, all Angus burger is itself cooked medium, but still gushes enough blood…
You know, Mondays suck so hard. They come at the worst time — always at the tail-end of a whirlwind weekend where you enjoyed a leisurely kayak trip in the Keys (or whatever). Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s some kind of hideous “work” attached to them, like a piece…
Flavor Palm Beach kicks off next week, and here are a few good deals to consider.Health Inspectors got serious last month as they shut down 15 South Florida restaurants for a litany of gross violations.Think you can pour the perfect Stella? Try your hand and win a trip to Europe.There’s…
I have to admit, I’m completely over “Best” lists. The raging — sometimes infuriating — argument over who makes the best burger, tacos, pizza, French fries, or fried bologna sandwiches is a hopelessly futile one to me. Why? Everyone has a different opinion — none of which, quite frankly, is…
Sometimes we’re not the brightest stars in the sky. This fact became most painfully obvious when we returned from a recent press trip to Grand Cayman (we were dispatched to check out the second Michael’s Genuine location, which, we’re happy to report, was just as amazing as the original). Anyhow,…
• It’s “pack your knives and go” time for former Top Chef contestant Kenny Gilbert again. This time, though, it’s by his own choice. It seems that less than two months after he signed on as chef at PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, he’s signed off to move to…
My heaviest of bar-going days took place when I was a server for a notorious Italian chain restaurant. After our shifts, the other servers and I would drag our pasta-sauce-speckled selves to whatever seedy dive offered us the most liquor for our crumpled dollar bills. Even so, on most nights,…
It came in a nondescript box in the mail one day, this bag of liquor. The container inside had convenient little handles at the top, a spout at the bottom, and a simple promise: mojitos anywhere.And that sounded pretty good. Mojitos have to be one of the most refreshing summer…
Shane Close is a Miami-based surfer (past chairman of the local Surfrider chapter), high-end web developer, and, now, indie filmmaker. After he read the Omnivore’s Dilemma and became a dad, his wife turned to him and asked the question no barbecue addict wants to hear: “Could you go meatless?”…
Maybe we’ll have to start calling her the Colonel. Michelle Bernstein is taking over South Florida as the fried chicken maven. She initiated all-you-can-eat fried chicken nights in Miami two years ago at Michy’s, and now on Wednesdays, it’s the same deal to cluck over at Michelle Bernstein at the…
