Miami resident Michal Amedia grew up eating bologna sandwiches. Not the bologna you’re familiar with, however — you know, the kind you find in round plastic packages or sliced at your local grocery store deli case. In the Midwest, where Amedia hails from, true bologna is something of a regional…
With so many restaurants in South Florida and more opening all the time, just picking where to go for dinner on a Saturday night or lunch on a Wednesday can be an overwhelming task. Sometimes, you just need a reason. This ongoing list of the favorite dishes from food writers…
Here’s one way to help solve the invasive wild hog problem in South Florida: buy a mobile pig roast franchise. Don’t worry, it’s classy; this is an upscale, white linen pig roast. PigOut Catering is a Canada-based company known for popularizing mobile meat roasting with a classy and convenient catering…
New Times Broward/Palm Beach Pairings is back for another epic evening of good food, paired with fine wines and beers. The eighth-annual Pairings takes over the Broward Center for the Performing Arts from 7 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, September 10, with more food, drink, and fun than ever before. Pairings, as…
With so many restaurants in South Florida, and more opening all the time, just picking where to go for dinner on a Saturday night or lunch on a Wednesday can be an overwhelming task. Sometimes, you just need a reason. This ongoing list of the favorite dishes from food writers…
Uber — the everymans’ ridesharing service taking the country by storm — is about to come to an end in Broward County. On July 31, Uber plans to withdraw its services in Broward County due to a rideshare ordinance that puts a number of restrictions on Uber drivers operating in…
At Toa Toa Chinese Restaurant, you can start your meal with what seems like dessert: egg custard tarts, silky, yolk-stained custard cradled in rich, flaky pastry crust. But this is not dessert. This is Hong Kong-style dim sum. When Americans think of Chinese food, most picture white cardboard boxes and…
According to a report known as the 2015 Kids Count — issued by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, an annual publication that assesses child well-being nationally and across the 50 states — one in four South Florida children are living in poverty. And where there is poverty, there is hunger…
This week American Social Las Olas launched a new dinner menu with new dishes that offer a sophisticated twist on classic American comfort food. The revamped recipes incorporate the culinary favorites served at the restaurant’s original Brickell location founded by Paul Greenberg and Richard Mijares, with nearly half the menu presenting…
A self-taught home cook turned professional pastry chef, Amy Bouzaglo’s perseverance and dedication to her craft is evident in every aspect of her brand and business. Bouzaglo says she and her husband Samy aren’t satisfied with mediocracy and will stop at nothing to ensure their infamous patisserie & cafè, Amy’s…
Chipotle is giving away free burritos starting July 21 through the end of August. All you have to do to get free food is play Chipotle’s new online quiz game “Friend or Faux.” Do so, and you’ll get the restaurant’s “buy-one-get-one-free” burrito deal, and be entered for a chance to win…
Argentine food is easy to love: flavorful chargrilled meats soaked in a sauce of aromatic parsley, olive oil, and garlic and chased with bottles of strong red wine or a light, lager-style beer. It’s meat-and-potatoes simple. It’s man food. It’s good. And it’s exactly what you’ll get at the 7-month-old…
With so many restaurants in South Florida, and more opening all the time, just picking where to go for dinner on a Saturday night or lunch on a Wednesday can be an overwhelming task. Sometimes, you just need a reason. This ongoing list of the favorite dishes from food writers…
Taco Tuesday just a got a little more interesting, Broward County. On Tuesday, July 21, Nacho Bizness — the Fort Lauderdale-based food truck known for its gourmet tacos — will be hosting its first pop-up Taco Tuesday at The Village Cafe in Fort Lauderdale. And while any excuse to celebrate…
“Hey Sweetie, how’ya doin’? Café con leche?” This is, undoubtedly, the first thing you’ll hear when you sidle up to the perennially packed bar at 925 Nuevo’s Cubano’s in Fort Lauderdale. And, undoubtedly, you’ll reply, “Si!” Even if you really didn’t want a café con leche—maybe you wanted a Cuban…
With so many restaurants in South Florida, and more opening all the time, just picking where to go for dinner on a Saturday night or lunch on a Wednesday can be an overwhelming task. Sometimes, you just need a reason. This ongoing list of the favorite dishes from food writers…
Did you that July is National Ice Cream month? To celebrate this monthlong extravaganza of frozen delight, Sloan’s Ice Cream is asking customers to give them their best Blue Steel or Magnum by submitting a photo of themselves at any Sloan’s location through its Facebook page, from July 1 through19. In case…
You could waste an entire afternoon on YouTube watching Siberian Huskies say, “I wuf you” to their owners and listen to goats screaming like children. As humans, we tend to anthropomorphize animals and even inanimate objects (haven’t you ever picked up a rock that has a smiley face)? But what happens…
The scene at Louie Bossi’s Ristorante Bar and Pizzeria in Fort Lauderdale is fueled by intense energy. On a recent weekday evening, every inch of the main dining room is jammed like the Dolphin Expressway at rush hour. Except here, people seem perfectly agreeable with being elbow to elbow. From…
The next time you get an invitation to a barbecue where there’s an overabundance of food, take a good look at the man behind the grill. Does he resemble one of the faces in the above surveillance photo? If so, your chef for the evening could be a wanted man…
Hundreds of burger enthusiasts made their way to Sanborn Square in Boca Raton on Saturday, July 11 to experience the fourth-annual Boca Burger Battle, where a total of 19 establishments from Miami to West Palm Beach battled it out for the title of “Grill Master.” The melée pit restaurants, chefs,…
You probably work with one or may even be friends with one of them. Who knows? With the world the way it is, you might even be living under the same roof with one. We’re talking, of course, about vegetarians. According to Raw Food World, about five percent of Americans…
