Bamboo Beach Club & Tiki Bar

Drinker, partiers, and tiki bar lovers rejoice. Ocean Manor Beach Resort’s Bamboo Beach Tiki Bar has been the longtime go-to for Fort Lauderdale residents who want to daytime drink near the pool and in the sand. What more could you possibly want in life? As long as the sun is out — or there is […]

Cafe Sharaku

This boutique, six-table restaurant located off of Federal Highway in Fort Lauderdale takes French technique and merges it with the ingredients of Japanese chef/owner Iwoa Kaita’s homeland. The result is as enticing as a well-written line of poetry. A specials board denotes what’s fresh daily and includes offerings like vibrant Florida stone crab baked with […]

China A

It’s been an awful day. Now, it’s getting dark. The rain is coming down. The exhaustion settles in. Those two rental movies on your passenger seat look awfully enticing. At times like this, the difference between good Chinese takeout and bad Chinese takeout is based on three factors: taste, price, and speed. China “A” aces […]

China Grill

This SoBe pioneer is still bold, boisterous, big on a grand scale. Let’s use one dish to illustrate: Sake-marinated chicken was a half-bird crisply grilled and sliced into thick, moist wedges imbued with smoke and spice. A mound of vinegary napa cabbage salad countered with an acidic tang, as did a thin, dark sauce based […]

China Grill

Jeffrey Chodorow’s famed China Grill waited 20 years to land in Fort Lauderdale, but now that it has, this glitzy pan-Asian fusion eatery is attracting the young and beautiful in droves. From the infused saketinis and Poire cocktails to the giant platters of spareribs, moo shu duck, overwrought sushi rolls, mountains of toro and Kobe, […]

Dapur

Dapur is the place to be when the scene over cuisine is what you crave. A chic waitstaff wearing heels and silk shantung sheaths and a dining room as elegant as orchid accents offer visuals that sate an appetite for style. No decorative detail is unattended, right down to backlit Asian antiques, a giant golden […]

Hong Kong Market

Owner Benjamin Wong is big into numbers. Ask how many Chinese videos he has available for rental and he’ll quickly inform you, “More than 100,000.” (That’s including the ever-popular Kung Fu Hustle.) If you inquire about a special type of teapot, he’ll invite you to choose from more than 100,000 of them. OK, so perhaps […]

Lemon Grass Asian Bistro

Lemon Grass is swank, but the price is right. The menu at this Fort Lauderdale spot verges on gigantic, but it?s easy to navigate, and your bill will be just as easy on your wallet. And unlike other multipage menus, this one hangs together beautifully and never loses focus, effortlessly drawing out Vietnamese, Chinese, Hawaiian, […]

Mama Asian Noodle Bar

The menu at Mama Asian Noodle Bar in the Coconut Creek Promenade doesn’t stop at noodles. In fact, its list of Thai-, Chinese-, Japanese-, and Vietnamese-inspired dishes is more extensive than restaurants that focus on just one country. It’s the third restaurant from Mike and Lisa Ponluang, who previously ran Coral Springs favorite Thai Pepper […]

New Hong Kong Chinese Foods

Experienced Chinese food consumers can get soy sauce stains out of their undershirts, and they never let the faded photos of Hunan beef above the counter of a takeout eatery deter them. If the grub is going to be consumed elsewhere anyhow, atmosphere doesn’t matter; the truth is in the General Tso’s sauce. Leave it […]

Nu Sushi

Nu-Sushi has been operating silently in the same dim spot on University Drive for going on 20 years now. In that tiny space that seats about 30, chef-owner Yuji Azuma turns out fresh sushi culled from local and international waters, as well as an extensive array of authentic Japanese dishes that you won’t find in […]

Red Ginger Asian Bistro

Red Ginger covers all bases with a pan-Asian menu that stretches from China to Thailand. The spacious restaurant is draped in steely grays with lipstick-red accents. The food showcases similar contrast. Chinese classics like kung pao chicken and Szechuan beef share space with wok-fried Thai soft-shell crab and spicy beef and lime salad. Sushi from […]

Saigon City Vietnamese Restaurant

Tucked in a suburban strip mall, this modest Vietnamese restaurant offers an extensive list of authentic dishes in a bright, spartan dining room, coupled with friendly, efficient service. Go for a refreshing starter, such as spring rolls in rice paper, stuffed with pork, pickled vegetables, and cilantro. Or if you’re inclined, segue right to a […]