Trattoria Pizzeria Panaretto

This sunny Italian restaurant with exposed brick and a simple, spacious dining room offers a number of $9.99 lunch specials daily. For that price, you get a house garden or caesar salad with crisp croutons, a soda or iced tea, and one of a dozen specialty panini or Italian dishes like lasagna or pizza. We […]

Treasure Trove

A beachside hideaway for the local drinkers is found within Fort Lauderdale’s Treasure Trove. Nautical trimmings and beer knickknacks are scattered along the walls where locals sharing stories occupy the high top tables and barstools. The jukebox fills the room with rock ‘n’ roll favorites, and the ocean breeze blows through the open-air dive. The […]

Tropical Acres Steakhouse

Ever since 1949, long before I-95 connected South Florida and high-rises covered the coasts, Tropical Acres Steakhouse has sat on the outskirts of Fort Lauderdale, serving steaks, formality and a taste of the good life. More than six decades after opening, and after surviving two restaurant-gutting fires, the menu has grown but remains centered on […]

Tropical Cafe

When you walk into a local joint and encounter a table of cops tucking into the grub, it’s generally a pretty good sign. After all, peace officers, like couriers, often have a leg up on some of the best out-of-the-way places to score a solid meal at a good price. Cuban sandwiches are a big […]

Tropical Tacos

On the West Coast, taco trucks are as ubiquitous as Starbucks. But alas, South Florida isn’t so lucky. But we do have Tropical Tacos, which serves up tasty meals on wheels right off of Fort Lauderdale’s State Road 84. They serve Mexican style street food, from Baja-style fish tacos to burritos, quesadillas, nachos and even […]

Tropics

This longtime kitsch bar/restaurant caters to older GLBT gents who relax with solid cocktails poured by chatty barkeeps before dinner. A younger professional crowd drops in around happy hour. A faux tropical aviary and bamboo theme adorns the central room, with oversized art of tropical birds and plants as unifying artwork throughout the dining room. […]

Tucker Duke’s Lunchbox

When Tucker Duke’s Lunchbox chef-owner Brian Cartenuto opened his first South Florida location at 32 he was already approaching a near 20-year career that had brought him from Anthony Bourdain’s Brasserie Les Halles in Miami to the French bistro Lavandou in Washington, D.C. Now a two-time winner of Cutthroat Kitchen, the Florida native is best […]

Two Georges at the Cove

Begun as a neighborhood dockside fish shack and open-air bar in 1957, Two Georges has expanded to an outdoor dining complex and sports bar along the waterfront northwest of the Boynton Beach Boulevard bridge. The all-outdoor (but covered) seating is at tables and hightops in the tiki and along the deck, with a group of […]

Udipi Cafe

Our version of the national South Indian chain, Udipi serves exotica like the mildly sour iddly, steamed rice and bean-flour cakes dipped in yogurt/coconut chutney and lentil sauces; the vada, fried lentil doughnuts; and paneer pakoras, fingers of homemade cheese in chickpea sauce. There’s “street food” like stuffed puris filled with potatoes, rice, onion, tomatoes, […]

Undergrounds Coffeehaus

This quaint little coffee and tea shop in Fort Lauderdale is like a hobbit hole for adventurous minds. At Undergrounds Coffehaus there’s a jam station equipped with piano, guitar, and bass and a bunch of board games for busting out with friends. The walls are lined with local art, and used books are stacked around […]

Upper Deck Ale & Sports Grille

Good sports bars are hard to find, but lucky for fans in Hallandale Beach, there’s Upper Deck. This epic outpost for all things sports boasts more than 50 flat-screen TVs, pool tables, projection screens, a 1,000-square-foot deck, a jukebox, free wi-fi, karaoke nights and lots of other assets. If you’re looking for a place to […]

Urban Rustic Bagel

Good bagels are hard to come by, particularly in South Florida. But it’s not hopeless. Our faith in the round, doughy delights is restored at Urban Rustic Bagel, Hollywood’s kosher caf

Usmania

Usmania is the lone South Florida location of the popular Pakistani franchise with outposts in Karachi, Pakistan, and Chicago. It’s run by Aftab Katia and his wife, Fouzia, two natives of Karachi with a background in catering. The place is a real family affair: Their children work in the restaurant, and on weekends, it fills […]

Valentino’s Cucina Italiana

The already upscale Valentino’s Cucina Italiana has received an upgrade. The restaurant moved from a small storefront in one of the many shopping centers that line Fort Lauderdale’s South Federal Highway to shiny new space a few blocks north. The food, as innovative and trendy as ever — venison tartare, grilled sardines, ham and egg […]

Valentino’s Cucina Italiana

Valentino’s Northern Italian menu is not something your Nona would have recognized, with its beet purées and warm goat Brie. Trendy specials — whole bronzino; grouper with rock shrimp; turbot with lobster; skirt steak rollatini; a stuffed zucchini blossom appetizer or a special salad made with corn and mushrooms; pasta with lobster sauce, hot chilies, […]

Vienna Cafe & Wine Bar

South Floridians don’t get the chance to eat Austrian cuisine often, certainly not in Davie, and much less in a setting that resembles the cottage where the Big Bad Wolf found Grandma. That makes Vienna Café a destination for those craving “something different” — an inclination that strikes without warning. It’s unfortunate that fate has […]

Village Cafe

Thanksgiving is a time to share with family and friends who are near and dear, so leave the cooking to us this year! North Beach Village Resort’s Village Caf