Restaurants

Favorite island ice cream shop back in business with new look and streamlined service.

This week in Dish, we look at a restaurant that describes itself as “the tiniest, cutest restaurant in Wilton Manors.” Le Patio, a boutique French bistro from ex-Sugar and Spice Cafe owners Veronique Leroux and Jean Doherty, fits that description nicely. The place is no bigger than a hallway, with…

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. Sushi seems to be a starting point for Palm Beach chefs. Sushi Jo branched out with a Thai place…

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. 44: Daeji Bulgogi from Gabose Korean RestaurantThe fiery, thin-sliced pork known as daeji bulgogi arrives…

Order a double cheeseburger at California Burgers and Shakes off of Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale and it comes wrapped up in wax paper like a classic, 1950s burger shack. As a functional bonus, the paper keeps the burger in one piece as you eat it and keeps grease from…

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. 45: Coco Bread from Charlie’s PastriesIt doesn’t make much sense to wrap a piece of…

For chef Marc Henderson, the recent debut of Sky309 as a dining destination is something of a welcome-home present.  The top floor of Roxy’s Pub (309 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; 561-296-7699, ext. 222) opened late last year, touting its party-friendly bar, open-air “island” vibe, and panoramic view of downtown…

This week on the blog:Estancia: A cheap merlot that actually doesn’t rank on the Universal Suckitude Scale.The Meatist tries to pull a fast one on unsuspecting vegetarians.Our 100 Favorite Dishes this week cover Martorano’s meatballs, ribs from Troy’s, and uni pasta from Yakko-San. Even after its Kitchen Nightmares overhaul, Le…

I’m a coffee fanatic. But, like Jimmy, I refuse to drink “shit.” Insta-coffee? No thanks. Folgers? Please. Nearly anything preground? Step back with that, son.Yes, when it comes to coffee, I have some distinct preferences. I like quality, whole roasted beans. I like them ground fresh before brewing, and then…

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. 46: Spare Ribs from Troy’s Bar-Be-QueThe phrase “fall off the bone” is synonymous with ribs…

​Seems it’s that time of year again when everybody is coming down with a bug of some sort, flu, cold, what-have-you, so testing out hard candies “mit Vitamin C” seemed a timely, welcome task. Well, at least it was easy to assume that the contents were going to be candy,…

I miss Italian Oven Café.  For a quick, inexpensive, Italianesque lunch in a contemporary, cleanly designed room, this now-long gone eatery in West Palm’s CityPlace did it better than just about anybody. What did it in apparently had nothing to do with the food but with a much-delayed opening that…

I receive a lot of media kits in the mail full of freebies. Most of the time, I end up passing them out around the office or otherwise getting rid of them. But this kit sent to me on Monday from New York Strip Steakhouse & Cabaret, a new (ahem)…

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. 47: Vegetarian Reuben From Sara’sSara’s in Hollywood is a vegetarian Mecca (or is that Jerusalem?),…

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What most people know about Japanese food they could cram into a chopstick case, which isn’t to say it’s their fault. For a cuisine so rooted in tradition, restaurants that claim to serve it have strayed pretty far from the source material. Blame the ubiquitous strip-mall sushi joint — those…

This busy, sun-lit restaurant feels like a small Cuban café straight out of Miami. But Don Carlin is way out west in Broward, near the Sawgrass Mills Mall. Area workers filter in for filling lunch specials, none more than $8.99, that for rabo encendido, or stewed oxtail. Steak palomilla, thin…

Fans of the teeny Eggsotic restaurant on Okeechobee Road in West Palm now have reason to head out to the island. Brothers Leonardo and Luis Espin roll out their new small-plate dinner menu Thursday at their 3-month-old Eggsotic at the Garden Palm Beach bistro. Leonardo, the chef of the Venezuelan-born…

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. 48: Key Lime Pie from Le TubWhat’s more Florida than Key lime pie? Well, maybe…

Ever had natto? The Japanese foodstuff is made of fermented soybeans that have a type of bacteria called bacillus subtilus added. The bacteria lends the beans a super-strong smell and also develops a stringy, sticky filament around them called neba. This combination of texture and smell is somewhat acquired, to…

Good Japanese food is rare in South Florida, despite the proliferation of sushi joints scattered into practically every neighborhood strip mall. But this week, we look at two restaurants, Nu-Sushi in Coral Springs and Boynton Beach’s Sushi Simon, that are bucking the trend of boring sushi and bad maki rolls.Nu-Sushi…

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. If you haven’t wandered past the mesmerizing glow of jellyfish gracing the entrance of Steak 954 because you’re put…