Myhotchefs.com recently rolled out a calendar featuring a dozen of South Florida’s hottest chefs. We won’t tell you our favorite (but we do have one!), so you can judge for yourself.By “hottest,” the calendar creators didn’t factor in looks, but rather reputation. Alas, we were still excited when we got…
It was more than three years ago that Eat, Pray, Love, the book about a New York writer getting divorced and traveling the world, dominated the bestseller lists. Just when we thought we had shaken our hate-her-because-we’re-jealous feelings for Elizabeth Gilbert (she grew up on a Christmas-tree farm!), the movie…
Usually, he’s walking around swinging one of those big old jailers’ key rings (better to shackle us to our desks) and sipping a fancy-toity beverage from an establishment that we staffers are too poor to patronize. So we were mighty innerested when we stumbled across this interview of our esteemed…
Yesterday we ran part 1 of our interview with Jeremy Ford, the new chef de cuisine at 3030 Ocean — perhaps Fort Lauderdale’s finest restaurant. Ford told us how he got tortured by French chefs and how he landed his prestigious new gig at the ripe old age of 22…
Jeremy Ford sits in a prime spot, geographically and careerwise. He’s chef de cuisine — that means he pretty much runs the show — at 3030 Ocean. The beachfront eatery inside the Marriott Harbor Beach hotel is perhaps the swankiest restaurant in Fort Lauderdale. Not bad for a 22-year-old. Ford…
We are back with famed Miami chef Michelle Bernstein, and she has kindly shared her recipe for fried chicken that is featured at her restaurants, Michelle Bernstein at the Omphoy in Palm Beach and Michy’s in Miami. If you can never have too much of a good thing, then make…
Today we are back with Michelle Bernstein as she gives us the lowdown on Common Threads, the foundation she champions in Miami, and how she is aiming to expand Common Threads throughout Florida and beyond. We also get her view on where to eat in South Florida, the trials of…
Michelle Bernstein is arguably the busiest chef in Florida. She owns the hugely successful Michy’s and SRA. Martinez in Miami; won the James Beard award for Best Chef in the South in 2008; and kicked Bobby Flay’s butt on the Food Network’s Iron Chef America. She’s also the author of…
Here’s the last bit of our interview with chef Chris Miracolo of Himmarshee Bar and Grille, who’s been doing superpopular beer and wine pairings for the past few months. (Shameless plug: New Times is hosting a Tweet-Up at the venue tonight, July 9.) Earlier this week, he told us about…
Today we present Part Two of our interview with chef Chris Miracolo of Himmarshee Bar and Grille, who’s been doing super-popular beer and wine pairings for the past few months. (Shameless plug: New Times is hosting a Tweet-Up at the venue this Friday — Free drinks for all from 7-9…
Thirteen years ago this month, chef Chris Miracolo helped open Himmarshee Bar and Grille, which soon became a local institution and shows no sign of decline. A few years later, he worked the same magic for Tarpon Bend, which enjoys a similar stature. He and his chef hat then moved around…
What could be worse than eating at a McDonald’s?In this post-Fast Food Nation, post Super-Size Me, anti-corporate clime, there’s hardly anything less PC than taking your jalopy through a Mickey D’s drive-through for a greasy gut-bomb. Especially now that the Indie Burger Revolution has rolled through, what with all those…
Today, we continue our Q&A with celebrity chef Tal Ronnen, author of The Conscious Cook, who will be cooking a one-night-only meal at Sublime on Wednesday. Has the success of your cookbook surprised you? It’s been great. You know, the book takes a very different approach from most vegan cookbooks,…
Tal Ronnen made history when his book The Conscious Cook — the first full-color vegan cookbook to be published in North America — hit the New York Times bestseller list last fall. Since hitting the big time (thanks also to Oprah, who had Ronnen develop a 21-day vegan cleanse for…
We chatted with Chef Dean Max, a man noted for his seafood dishes but also for his push to use fresh, local products whenever possible, unusual in a hotel restaurant setting. Max, a Virginia and Florida farm boy, runs five restaurants: 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale’s Harbor Beach Marriott; the Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada, AMP…
Chef Allen Susser, one of the original Miami Mango Gang of chefs, so named because of their commitment to using Florida foods, opens in Delray Beach tomorrow with Taste. It’s a gastropub, and we chatted with him about this new venture — far from Aventura’s more formal sitdown, Chef Allen’s,…
Bell has methodically worked his way up to lead chef at Cafe Boulud, where Daniel’s standard of excellence is the brass ring.
My best girlfriend and I have always had a long-distance relationship. She lives in the same state, but somehow we always end up at least five counties away. Now she’s up in Volusia, but we make excuses to see each other regularly. This time, I had to pick up a…
Now that Mr. Persnickety and I are nearing the sixth month of our courtship, I’ve started to become obsessively concerned that he try new foods nearly every time we go out to eat, and I have become more vocal in my insistence that he join me on my quest to…
It really sucks to have to scrimp and save. Let’s face it — the economy has made all of us cut back on our regular indulgences, and at least what I’m finding is that even when we don’t aim to get less, we do anyhow. The same dishes I’m used…
OK, OK. In the interest of fairness and equality in light of last week’s column about where to meet men, I guess I also have to disclose where hot girls in their mid-20s-plus go when scoping for gents. There are two places that are perfect — YOLO in Fort Lauderdale…
Back when I was on the prowl, and even now that I’m fully entrenched in coupledom, I often get asked where the boys are. Meaning, where should a great gal go to find some available, fresh male meat? The truth is, I got fixed up a lot and I even…
