• Medic! Delray’s new Heart Stoppers Café may be on life support with the filing of a federal lawsuit alleging the local temple to caloric and cholesterolic consumption illegally swiped its unhealthy medical theme from an Arizona eatery called the Heart Attack Grill. Heart Stoppers’ owners don’t see it that…
This week on the blog:Our new columnist, Patty Canedo, dishes on cooking with liquid nitrogen.We hold a queso blanco party in the office and detail the fun. A whole new week of 100 Favorite dishes rolls out with Peruvian-style pollo from La Granja. The Jupiter Craft Brewers Festival was last…
Last month, chain Domino’s Pizza launched a ballsy new ad campaign that completely fessed up to serving near-inedible crap product. In addition to publicly taking it on the rear, Domino’s also asserted it had a new, better formula with which to win back the hearts of you, the consumer. The…
For years, the Funky Buddha Lounge in Boca Raton has been a destination for beer drinkers looking to sample something crafty while getting down on a hookah. But tonight, the Lounge is officially launching the newest facet of its operation: homebrew. That’s right, the Funky Buddha will now be brewing…
For weeks we’ve been serving up Super Bowl insanity every few days. From awesome restaurants to check out to how easy it is for lazy people to throw a Super Bowl shindig. But we have yet to showcase the best deal for Sunday’s main event: free food. Whispers around South…
Idris brand Fiery Ginger Beer, an import from England seems to question your manhood. “Try me if you dare!!” it boasts on the label. The top of the “Y” in Fiery curls into a devil’s tail. And with the painted flames bursting from behind the letters, it seems clear this…
“What about Meat Cupcakes?””The what now? Are you making reference to that insipid Michael Jackson song from the Grammys?””No, no – I just had a vision of meat cupcakes and thought you’d like to make them for your column.”I’d been wondering about what I should do for this week’s Meatist…
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…
A chicken cutlet, pounded to a perfect quarter-inch thickness, coated in breadcrumbs, and baked until a luscious, crisp coating forms on the surface will set you back just $5.95. That same breaded slice of love topped with two over-easy eggs, crisp at the edges, a few salty anchovy filets, and…
Football, babes, booze and food. . . are we talking Guy Heaven or what? Best of all, you don’t have to die to get to Il Bacio’s Ultimate Celebrity Super Bowl Party. All you have to do is show up at the Delray hotspot at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb…
Seeing a group of Floridians try to keep warm in a cold wave is like watching the pope perform a bris: We have absolutely no idea what to do with ourselves in such conditions. All those pained expressions, the shivering, the wardrobe problems — it’s God’s cruel joke on a…
Thirty years of deep-frying wings in one building builds a lot of history (and plaque in a lot of arteries). Even so, Roosters packed up the poultry operation in May 2008, moving from the dark, wood-paneled confines of its longtime Southgate Boulevard location to a shiny new space just a…
• Nothing says “I love you” like a bowl of ramen… at least according to Ramen Girl, the 2008 comedy starring the late Brittany Murphy. (Not to be confused with this ramen girl.) Imagine Lost in Translation, The Karate Kid, and Chocolat combined. Murphy plays an American gal in Tokyo,…
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…
What’s better than a plate of chicken-fried steak, sausage gravy, three eggs over easy, home fries, and a cream cheese-covered bagel? How about the four of South Florida’s most unique breakfast eateries, all being covered in this week’s Dish review. On the plate: Cypress Nook, a German breakfast spot in…
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…
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. This scoop really is a scoop — Uncle Louie G’s is the latest eatery on Clematis Street’s new Restaurant…
The Food Network is dominated these days by reality-TV-style cooking shows, and one of the best of them is Chopped. Hosted by Ted Allen, it pits four chefs against one another in timed matches with mystery ingredients. It’s often more drama than cooking, with chefs splattering one another with hot…
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…
Burrito lovers rejoice! With their biggest menu roll out in their 15 year existence, fast-casual Tex-Mex restaurant Tijuana Flats welcomes half a dozen new menu options to the South Florida Mexican food-loving masses starting today. All six new items were featured items in test stores throughout the Central Florida area…
Photo by John LinnLet’s not get distracted by the allegedly devious manner through which I acquired three complimentary packages of El Venadito cheese. Or, at the very least, allow me to first make my case in words and pictures before I make my confession. This being a food blog, the…
Patty Canedo is a pastry chef at a famed, private country club on Palm Beach and writes weekly about her kitchen exploits.Banquet Chef Darren walks out of his office holding a notebook. He explains that tomorrow’s party just went from 60 to 100 guests. The head chef wants a “wow”…
