This Pompano neighborhood bar is for storytellers. Sure, the bartender will tell you, sometimes they’re the same stories. You’ll be the thousandth ear that’s heard that Buccaneer regular, the middle-aged ex-yachtie or rabble-rouser, relate the time he got pulled over with rum and pot. Spoiler: The cop let him go — phew. But here you’re […]
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Old gambling dens never die; they just fade away. Cap’s Place, set on an island in what used to be acres of scrub and beach sand, is now surrounded by million-dollar condos and even pricier yachts in Lighthouse Point, but that just makes the nostalgia even richer. In 1928, Cap Knight and friend Al Hasis […]
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 […]
Our inaccessible geography aside, one major reason bands have forsaken us is our preponderance of pathetic venues with nasty bathrooms, bad sound, no parking, and just a general all-around malaise. Part of the problem is that few live music venues were designed as such – believe it or not, we’ve had everything from Cuban restaurants […]
Hardly anybody beyond Willie and Donna Schlager seems to want to run a cozy little seafood café anymore, the kind of place where you order blackened dolphin or broiled yellowtail; where oysters are sautéed to order for a cream-rich stew and waitresses stagger under the weight of bristling platters of Alaskan King crab legs; where […]
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For some of us, the French Quarter in New Orleans conjures images of French architecture, lively street musicians, and great food. For others, the quarter is a neon blur of blues bars, beads, and atomic green cocktails. The French Quarter Bar and Grill in Pompano seems to be going for a restaurant/sports bar hybrid – […]
This intimate bistro has been serving modern French dishes & fine wines since 2001. The menu features the highly sought after Beef Wellington, as well as mushroom soup, grass fed rack of lamb, Long Island duck and more. End your meal with a homemade dessert: the creme brûlée and the apple tart are two favorites.
This restaurant and fish market looks every bit of its 1976 vintage, though that’s not a bad thing. Being inside the winding corridors decked floor to ceiling in dark wood feels like dining in the galley of an old fishing boat. A display case by the front door highlights the day’s catch: To the right, […]
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Floribbean, best described as a fusion of island-inspired fare mixed with locally grown tropical fruits and fresh-caught fish. And at Papa’s Raw Bar in Lighthouse Point, it’s what’s on the clipboard menu. Owners Joy and Hugh Ganter, and their son Troy, built the neighborhood eatery in a newly vacated space next door to Seafood World, […]
For more than two decades, Pizza Mia, though it’s changed hands a couple of times, has been serving the same menu in its cramped, narrow space in Lighthouse Point – a walk-in closet lined with tables and bad murals – to the sound of slamming oven doors, the grumbling of the dour pizza guy (“I’ve […]
Coal-fired what? The Sicilian Oven, a partnership between Andrew Garavuso, an ex-Anthony’s Coal Fired pizza guy, and Ralph DiSalvo, whose family ran DiSalvo’s Pizzeria for years, uses two beautiful wood-burning ovens to cook its pies. Pizzas here sport golden-brown crusts with a moderate amount of caramelized char along the lip. Because they cook at a […]