Warning: This review has not yet been rated and may contain nudity and graphic language. Children are advised to read this review only under adult supervision. Either that or disregard it altogether — because minors aren’t allowed to enter the establishment. Why? Because Rachel’s, a steak house in West Palm…
To borrow a phrase from Martin Luther King, Jr. — and perhaps trivialize it just a bit — I have a dream. But my subconscious interlude isn’t about racial equality, or sexual equality, or any other kind of political correctness. My dream is about dining. I have a dream that…
A restaurant must meet only one requirement in order to qualify for the title of “neighborhood restaurant” — it has to match said neighborhood. That means the fare should appeal to the locals, the décor should neither disgust nor intimidate them, and the prices should be geared to reflect their…
I was ordering the house wine in a small outdoor café in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, where I was attending a writers’ conference, when I felt a hand on my arm. “Don’t do it,” a colleague warned, shaking his head. “You won’t like it.” Of course Mexico isn’t known for its vintages…
I don’t like surprises. In fact, I despise them. I can’t stand not knowing something that other people know; whatever the secret is, I have a pathological need to be informed. I read the ends of mysteries before the beginnings. I got an ultrasound to determine the sex of my…
The whole media-watching, People magazine-reading world undoubtedly now knows the name of Essex County Airport, the modest airstrip in Fairfield, New Jersey, from where JFK Jr. took off on his final, fatal flight. And I don’t mean to sensationalize or trivialize the death of Kennedy, his wife, and his sister-in-law…
Having a hard time deciding where to dine? Not sure what you want to eat tonight? Try turning to your astrological sign. It gives dining under the stars a whole new meaning. Astrologer and columnist Sydney Omarr, along with the late chef Mike Roy, put together a cookbook of culinary…
Somebody spank me. I’ve been a bad girl. Instead of waiting three weeks for the brand-new La Palma Grill, a nouvelle Mexican restaurant onClematis Street in West Palm Beach, to get its act together, I reviewed the narrow, high-ceilinged eatery only seven days after it opened. I usually like to…
Mai-Kai. 3599 N.Federal Hwy., Fort Lauderdale, 9545633272. Open nightly for dinner from 6p.m.; call for showtimes and appropriate seatings.
Pupu platter
$13.95
Lobster Tahitienne
$32.00
Bananas Bengali (for two)
$11.75
Aegean Isles. 297E.Palmetto Park Rd., BocaRaton, 5613687788. Dinner nightly from 5till 10p.m.; Friday and Saturday till 11p.m.
Tzatziki
$5.95
Saganaki
$8.95
Pikilia
$14.95
Galaktobouriko
$2.95
Aegean Isles. 297E.Palmetto Park Rd., BocaRaton, 5613687788. Dinner nightly from 5till 10p.m.; Friday and Saturday till 11p.m.
Tzatziki
$5.95
Saganaki
$8.95
Pikilia
$14.95
Galaktobouriko
$2.95
So you can’t afford to dine at La Vieille Maison, the highly regarded French restaurant on Palmetto Park Road in Boca Raton. Here’s a solution: Go across the street. The restaurant also runs a charming wine store called Great Taste (285 E. Palmetto Park Rd., Boca Raton, 561-391-6701). The store…
Years ago, when I was a college student in Boston, I frequented a restaurant in Harvard Square called the Hong Kong. Done up in red Naugahyde booths and fringed souvenirs from the Orient, the place was usually packed, which meant that I often had to wait on line for a…
Flu season is supposed to be over, but don’t mention that to the Soup Doctor (7491 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton, 561-988-9381). This “soup bar and retail outlet” — actually a friendly storefront deli in the Publix Boca Valley Plaza with a few tables scattered around so you can sit…
Though I come from a family of fishermen, I’m not much of one myself. Oh, I’ve trawled for my share of yellowtail in South Florida waters, and I pride myself on the three piranhas I caught while visiting the Peruvian Amazon. But for most of my life, I’ve avoided the…
The problem with most cooking classes, as I see it, is that they take place in a kitchen — a hot, humid, sweaty place where you wind up smelling like whatever it is you learned how to make. Well, Oliver Saucy, chef-proprietor of the famed Cafe Maxx, has come up…
OK, here’s a question: What does a chef who is a native of Lebanon, speaks five languages, has trained in Paris restaurants, and has attended culinary school in Oslo, Norway, do next? Easy — he marries an American girl from Davie and opens a restaurant in a strip mall in…
Many moons ago, Food & Wine magazine called up a bunch of us so-called food professionals and asked a staggering number of questions that required far too much thinking on the spot. Where would we eat our last meal on earth? Whom did we think was the greatest chef of…
It may not seem, at first, like the ideal way to escape the ever-escalating heat and humidity, but in my summer-doldrums book, it’s high time for high tea. Not the iced variety but the steaming Darjeeling kind, brewed in a pot at Tea at Lily’s (3020 N. Federal Hwy., Fort…
Forget springtime in Paris. How ’bout summer in Germany? OK, not literally. But you can pretend to be touring the Continent at Old Heidelberg (914 State Rd. 84, Fort Lauderdale, 954-463-3880), a cozy, welcoming little deli carrying German books, magazines, newspapers, and music. Of course the cultural arts pale in…
My favorite cameo in the cult film This Is Spinal Tap has got to be Billy Crystal’s. Wearing a mime’s classic face makeup, he’s cheering on a group of fellow waiters who also happen to be mimes. He claps his white-gloved hands and says something like “C’mon people. Mime is…
Whoever said the finest things in life don’t come cheap never visited Hot Dog Heaven (101 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, 954-523-7100), a walk-up joint where you can order at the window then sit at a picnic table and eat an excellent Chicago-style dog with the works — mustard, relish,…
