Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill

Gilbert’s, which sits in the corner of the harbor shops in Fort Lauderdale, is a clean, family-run restaurant, with an all-glass façade and plenty of bright-orange tables. It features a big list of nearly a dozen burgers, plus fish, chicken, and steak sandwiches, some grilled entrées, and a daily rotating cadre of lunch specials. The […]

Ginger Bay Cafe

Ginger Bay Café is known for its smooth Caribbean vibe, featuring tunes as spicy as the jerk chicken. With live music five nights a week, you’ve got several options to choose from. Wednesdays at the Bay is “dance hall night.” Thursdays feature soca and calypso music. Round out the weekend with reggae on Friday and […]

Giorgio’s Brick Oven Pizza

There’s a world of difference between dull, ordinary table bread and the ethereal bodies of wheat born from Giorgio’s time-tested brick oven. Hold it up to your nose and you’ll immediately sense the difference: there’s the sweet, heady fragrance of fresh dough, a yeasty pungency that puts the swirl of great food memories in motion. […]

Giovanni’s Coal Fire Pizza

Giovanni’s cooks its pies in one of three coal ovens, taking rounds of dough to extreme temperatures and submitting them to the kind of heat that persuades crusts to form delicious blackened air bubbles and to develop strips of charring on the bottom. A large pie will run you $13.95; toppings cost $1.95 each, and […]

GoBistro

We’ve all had ramen. For most Americans, it comes from styrofoam cups in flavors like “oriental” and “seafood.” We eat it when we are short on time, hungover, broke, or living in a dorm. If cup o’ noodles instant ramen is all you’ve ever known, it can be hard to get excited about a bowl […]

Gordo’s Grill

Peruvian places are popping up faster than fans can get their fill — but Gordo’s Grill is a standout in a sea of ceviche spots. This Margate eatery serves up simple, authentic Peruvian dishes, from causas (spicy, cold mashed potato cakes stuffed with different meats) to ceviches (citrus-marinated fish and seafood) to papa a la […]

Gou Lou Cheong Chinese BBQ

The Zhang family’s Gou Lou Cheung Chinese BBQ has the best Chinese roast meats in Broward. The tiny takeout shop’s traditional red-honey-roasted pork is buttery soft inside and wonderfully charred and chewy on the edges. Classic roast duck is meaty and tender, the skin perfectly crisp. Fans of pork rinds will understand the terrific crispy […]

Grampa’s Bakery and Restaurant

This sprawling, immensely likable restaurant-bakery has a fetching old-timey family-restaurant feel and has been pleasing customers for so many years that if your grandparents lived in Dania Beach, they’d tell you what it was like to eat here as little kids. Nothing radical about the menu at Grampa’s — home-cooked food that tastes good and […]

Gran Forno Bakery

To find Gran Forno, you could look for the storefront window that displays bakers at work or you could simply close your eyes (mind your step) and follow your nose. The smell of bread, savory with rosemary, wafts to the street. On weekends, Gran Forno is crowded and clubby. Regulars gather in tennis togs to […]

Gran Forno Pronto

Down the street from the lauded Gran Forno bakery resides its sit-down sibling, Gran Forno Pronto, an old-fashioned-looking Italian shop with wainscoted walls, black-and-white-tiled floors, and a cast of characters. Tourists and locals drink espresso and Menabrea on a sprawling patio dotted with umbrellas. A busy, graceful pizzaiolo mans a brick oven. A handful of […]

Greek Express

Across the street from the beach and next to that place where you got your first piercing is a little Grecian place that serves all of the classics a beach bum or trendy tourist could ask for. Neon signs and iconic blue and white paint add just enough character for the serve-yourself and seat-yourself arrangement. […]

Greek Islands Taverna

Even if you’re not from New Jersey, chances are you’ll consider Greek Islands Taverna a good Greek diner for various reasons: its wide-ranging menu of classic Greek dishes, bustling atmosphere, and reasonable prices. The top items at this Fort Lauderdale spot include baby back ribs grilled with lemon and oregano and a fluffy moussaka with […]

Green Bar & Kitchen

When Green Bar & Kitchen Owner Elena Pezzo’s brother Anthony suffered a stroke and coma, doctors told the family to “pull the plug.” Yet Pezzo, a nutritionist, refused to give in and fed her brother superfoods like Omega 3 fish oil intravenously. Slowly but surely, he began to improve, talking and even beginning to walk […]

Green Papaya

The only unfortunate thing about this Broward version of the Miami Lakes eatery is the location: Hidden away in a corner of a mostly vacant retail complex, Green Papaya is almost impossible to see from busy Atlantic Boulevard. But the wafting smell of simmering pho will command you to stay a while. The menu is […]

Green Wave Cafe

Raw food continues to grow in popularity, even though its South Florida contingent is small. But Green Wave Café, a Plantation kitchen and organic market that serves raw, vegan lunches, may change that. Chef Lisa Valle takes wholesome, organic produce and creates a small menu that changes daily. Grab a seat at the wide orange […]

Greenbrier Restaurant

Promised the ol’ Battle Ax that you wouldn’t go to the strip bar tonight? Well, if you’re a man of your word and you have a hankerin’ to be around scantily clad women, that could be a problem. Happily, Greenbrier has got you covered. On many nights, admittedly, standards have to be set a little […]

Grille 66 & Bar

Grill 66 & Bar is an upscale waterfront restaurant known to draw Broward’s recession-proof crowd. Located on the Intracoastal Waterway adjacent to Pier 66 and the Hyatt hotel, the eatery boasts white tablecloths and a lovely view of yachts floating by. The lollipop lamb chops with mixed baby leaf lettuce and a house sauce are […]