Research library and cultural center, featuring traveling and permanent exhibitions, general library materials, computer labs, a children’s activity area, and special collections.
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Few places offer a taste of Black Southern cuisine as complete and inexpensive as this place, tucked between Sistrunk Boulevard and 22nd Road. The menu boasts pig tails, catfish, fried chicken, and of course chitterlings. Try the oxtail with collard greens, pillow-soft cornbread, and candied yams.
For treasure hunters, flea markets are the Holy Grail. But too often they’re filled with crap from the corner of grandma’s basement, better left to the garbage bin. But at the Pride Center Flea Market the first Saturday of every month in Wilton Manors, you can score some serious finds. Rare records, Mardi Gras masks, […]
Boardwalk male dance club’s four platforms feature men in skintight briefs and boots or sneakers undulating to club versions of Top 40 mixes. The dancers range from svelte boyish men who can do dead-on “Single Ladies” impersonations to beefy dudes who can hold the room’s attention just by marching and flexing. Despite the sexual energy […]
Indian food is such a rare find in South Florida that diners can’t be as picky as they can about, say, sushi. But that works out well for Bombay Cafe, which draws a sizable crowd to its lunch buffet and does a brisk business with neighborhood fans in the evening too (Wednesday night is another […]
Downtown day workers have been grabbing a quick lunch at this Cuban sandwich stand along Andrews Avenue for years, since it was known as Sury’s. But recently, the walkup counter has been taken over by the property’s original owners, who have cleaned the place up and revamped the menu. Where the old stand was dirty […]
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Operating from a brick-red trailer parked in the Exxon parking lot on 31st Avenue and Sunrise Boulevard is Deep Down South Barbecue – the honest-to-goodness real deal when it comes to Florida ‘cue. Owner Albert Houston, a former Marine cook and restaurant developer for Marriott Hotels, focuses on creating consistent, competition-style barbecue – meaning he […]
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 […]
When you get a craving for grapefruit soda and jerk chicken, you want to go where the meat is spicy and tender. This Jamaican strip-mall staple knows how to stew its ox, curry its goat, and jerk its chicken better than anyone else around, and they built window boxes into each booth’s wall so you […]
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Monkey Business squeezes a whole lot of action into one little hole in the wall. This 5-year-old, casual, neighborhood gay bar is a ways away from the Wilton Drive scene, but the weekly calendar of live drag shows, karaoke nights, and game-show-style entertainment makes it a world unto itself. There’s a horseshoe-shaped tiki bar on […]
Hearty breakfast burritos, foot-long subs, and dense homemade soups by the large bowl qualify this sub shop for its “monster” status. Located right off of I-95, the shop offers about 24 different sandwiches, 10 breakfast meals and a handful of salads to satisfy. You can dine in but the majority of customers grab and go.
Awash in pink linen tablecloths, the dining room at Silver Pond in Lauderhill is framed by assertive maroon wallpaper with a Chinese mural at one end and a wall of tanks at the other, with lobsters and Dungeness crabs on display. Small groups of Chinese families using chopsticks flank a dining room peppered with tourists […]
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