The Manor Complex

Located in the heart of Wilton Manors, this multilevel, medieval-themed megaclub is the place to hit for a long night of dancing, bass-thumping music, and leaving with a bit of body glitter on your skin. Dripping in crystals and filled with cherubs, swirling wallpaper, and pulsating LED lights, the Manor could pass for the Queen […]

The Salad Bowl

Don’t let the name fool you into thinking all you can get here is a tossed salad with a side of salad. No. In fact, the family-owned, downtown Fort Lauderdale eatery features a cafe fusion menu with breakfast items, sandwiches, burgers, and Latin dishes, all of which are a far toss up from a salad. […]

The Snow Factory

Awarded New Times 2013 “best” dessert, this Fort Lauderdale ice cream parlor and dessert shop is sweet-tooth overkill. What to order? The snow cones, made with fresh-shaved ice using old-fashioned, hand-operated, ice-cutting machines? Soft-serve frozen yogurt, offered in hundreds of flavors? Or handmade ice cream cookie sandwiches? The bestsellers at Florida Snow Factory are the […]

The Whole Enchilada Fresh Mexican Grill

There’s a glut of “Fresh Mex” options in and around Fort Lauderdale, but the Whole Enchilada is a welcome addition to the fold. This fast eatery has a quirky, personalized feel, from the vintage books that decorate the high-up shelves to the kooky movies the staff plays during lunch and dinner hours. The food shares […]

Tijuana Flats

The walls at Tijuana Flats are covered with enough silly slogans and “xtreme” flair to base a whole other Mike Judge movie on. But the Tex-Mex ain’t bad: burritos, quesadillas, and tacos filled with carefully grilled meats and fresh ingredients. Better yet is the fast-casual chain’s hot sauce bar, a try-at-your-own-risk collection of chili pepper […]

Tijuana Taxi Co.

For whatever reason, the new breed of Mexican chain restaurant likes lots of hokey, gaudy graphics involving mustached caricatures, lots of margarita-pushing, chili-n-cactuses everywhere, and a late last call on weekends — this Coral Springs spot doesn’t differ. Diversity permeates the Tijuana Taxi menu: You can get ribs here, blackened mahi-mahi or salmon, and more […]

Tim Finnegan’s Irish Pub

Located just south of Linton Blvd on Federal Highway in Delray Beach, Florida, Tim Finnegan’s is truly the Irish cultural center for the region. “In Ireland, the traditional public house is traditionally very much the cultural and social center of the town. So many Irish bars in America lose that sense of community,” said Lisa […]

Times Square Pizza Parlor

As you eat your way through this maniacal world, exposing the recesses of your mind, you might condemn the budded tongue as a forgetful little muscle. Not so. It is a passionate appendage that betrays our animal lust for the simple things in life, and once it’s introduced to the unfathomably delicious slice at Times […]

Timpano Italian Chophouse

Timpano is located on the block surrounded by Las Olas’ chicest and trendiest restaurants. If you want to impress a date with a nice night out in a cozy yet upscale environment with a touch of romantic elegance, Timpano is a good choice. The space has indoor and outdoor seating with tables covered with white […]

Tipico Cafe

Tipico boasts a food lineup that jitterbugs from Mexico to Cuba to Kansas City (cheeseburgers, caesar salads?), flaunting a catholic sense of cuisine as confidently as do all the other local Mexican-and-more places. Highlights on the meandering menu include the Veracruzana combo (chicken tostada, cheese enchilada, beef taco for $10.95); juicy churrasco steaks($11.95); and a […]

Tipperary Pub

It’s always funny to see the retro pubs — this one has the coolest “cocktails” sign ever — now touting Wi-Fi. This dark-wood and Irish-geegaw-decorated bar has it, though, along with some real Irish grub. Breakfast features Irish bacon, bangers, and blood pudding (imported from County Cork), omelets, pancakes, and biscuits and gravy. It’s bar […]

The Tipsy Boar

Going well beyond French fries and chicken wings, this laid-back downtown Hollywood gastro pub serves up comfort food with a twist. A Reuben spring roll comes with corned beef twisted inside a wrapper and fried until crispy. Lobster corn dogs are filled with generous chunks of sweet lobster meat. The dishes may change, but the […]

Toa Toa Chinese Restaurant

With a packed house on a Saturday afternoon and a neon “Hong Kong Style Dim Sum” sign on the front, Toa Toa Chinese restaurant in Sunrise offers the full array of buns, dumplings and fried classics. Items here are ordered off of a checklist menu rather than the traditional steamer pushcart. We think the a […]

Tom Jenkins’ Bar-B-Q

Drive past this Fort Lauderdale roadside log cabin at lunch or dinnertime and you’ll understand exactly why lines stretch out the door. The aroma of meat grilling over red oak and hickory is hard to resist. Today a Fort Lauderdale institution, Tom Jenkins has been smoking up the neighborhood since 1990. Originally a traveling barbecue […]

Totoritas Restaurant

You can’t miss the place: An oversized red-and-white Peruvian flag, nearly always stretched taut in the breezes that whip across the North Perry Airport, perches atop the storefront eatery, serving as a beacon for all lovers of the Andean nation’s sophisticated cuisine. Inside the tiny, wood-paneled dining room, this third outpost of the Las Totoritas […]

Transylvania Restaurant

Admit it – you’ve wandered by Transylvania Restaurant in downtown Hollywood but were always too scared to venture in.. Don’t be – this throwback to Eastern Europe’s yesteryear is the stage for super-nice owner John Baleanu, who might even tell you his tale of absconding over the Romanian border to Yugoslavia and finally to the […]

Trata Greek Taverna

For great people-watching without the worry of bare feet dancing tabletop next to your appetizer, pay a visit to the sleek new Trata Greek Taverna on Las Olas Boulevard. The upscale eatery has several tables outside on a romantically lit covered patio, along with a dozen tables and a chic bar inside. The menu is […]

Trattoria Bella Cibo

Executive chef Tommy Valdes sure knows how to shill – the CIA grad and author is nearly obsessed with getting on Food Network, a fact you’ll find plastered all over his Margate Italian restaurant. Hey, you can’t knock a guy for having lofty aspirations. His menu shares the same ambition, even if it sometimes comes […]