Restaurants in Broward Palm Beach
Showing 1 - 22 of 38This restaurant in a former home is cozy and warm, and you can’t go wrong with pretty much any order. Expect richness and decadence from menu items including veal bone marrow served with pane casareccio, homemade bucatini with wild boar ragout or carbonara.
Finding good pizza outside of New York is a tall order — particular in South Florida, where many picky former Northeasterners make their home. But Annie’s Pizza and Subs in Margate makes the cut. Their pies have all the necessary ingredients: copious quantities of cheese, plenty of grease, just the right amount of sauce. They […]
Big Dog’s Station is a casual indoor/outdoor Oakland Park watering hole and sports bar with a sizable, generally middle-aged local following. Flat-screen televisions that play football and baseball packages line the top of the bar and one inside wall. The long U-shaped bar is lined with people during happy hour, and a small outside bar […]
Friendliness and casual comfort define the sports haven Billy’s Tavern in Davie. Located on the tail end of a strip mall, Billy’s gathers Pittsburgh enthusiasts and football regulars whose hearts pump black and gold blood and whose eyes are glued to the large projection screen on Sundays. But Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens fans don’t […]
There’s barbecue, and then there’s good barbecue. At Blue Willy’s BBQ in Oakland Park, you’ll get some of the best Texas-style barbecue around, meats such as beef brisket and pork spare ribs prepared the same way chef-owner Will Banks’ grandfather cooked them at the family’s butcher shop-turned-restaurant. It all starts with the meat, delivered by […]
At the corner of A1A and Oakland Park Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale you’ll find the Cheesesteak Experience, a family-owned and operated establishment that makes a sandwich that rivals most others in the area. Open since 2006, they’re serving some of the best cheesesteaks around, each made with chopped South Philly Brand sirloin steak imported straight […]
Proving grounds for the students of the International Culinary School at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and open only a few nights a week, Chef’s Palette provides an unusual dining experience. The school is located just beside the 17th Street bridge, and its see-through design lets you get a view of the action in […]
At this unassuming Portuguese restaurant, there’s cod-and-jumbo-clam stew; deep-fried cod with onions and fried potatoes in garlic sauce; grilled cod with steamed potatoes, olive oil, and garlic sauce; cod covered in onions and mayonnaise with mashed potatoes; and a lot more. Of the 30 or so entrées on the regular menu, 15 are cod dishes […]
Chuck’s Steak House founding partner Chuck Rolles opened his first steak house in 1959 in Waikiki, Hawaii. Today, there’s one other location, in Fort Lauderdale. The place offers all the usual steak house offerings presented to you on a hand-painted wooden bottle menu. That includes a teriyaki ribeye, filet mignon, Angus New York strip, and […]
In the back of a strip mall on Federal Highway in Deerfield Beach is the City Pub, an enormous bar in which to catch some live music or take in some interesting conversations with the locals. The dimly lit bar is smoky and filled with an older crowd sipping scotch and whiskey. An enormous bar […]
La Cucina Veneziana is owner Fabio Cracco’s small piece of Venice in South Florida. The nondescript 35-seat cafe looks like a place to grab a quick salad or sandwich, but inside, Cracco is turning out bold Northern Italian cuisine, inspired by his family and the food he grew up eating. The 40-ish chef, who originally […]
Fabulous Fernanda’s isn’t only the best gourmet market around; it also sells huge, deluxe sandwiches for lunch, the kind of serious fuel you need to keep you slogging through another six hours in the old cubicle. Muffelettos are made on homemade ciabatta bread, stuffed with many inches of paper-thin salami, ham, cappacola, and provolone, tarted […]
Jack Mays’ barbecue sauce, a family recipe handed down from his father, lends a tangy zip to the meats — as do the hickory and oak logs that they simmer over for hours. The fare here is consistently delectable, from supermoist spare ribs to catfish, pork, beef, and chicken and the best square of warm […]