Arun’s Indian Kitchen

Arun’s is the number-one-rated Indian restaurant in the area, serving Indian staples like biryani, paneer korma, butter chicken and galubjamun for dessert.

Big Bear Brewing Co.

This restaurant and brewpub handcrafts its own award-winning beers, like the Black Strap Porter, made with molasses, or the rich and dark Belgian Dubbel. Just five bucks will buy you a pint of the freshest brew you’re likely to get in all of Broward.

Bru’s Room Sports Grill

Adore the new girlfriend but still not sure whether she can handle your Sunday football fanaticism? Then take her to this game-day headquarters and test her endurance. If she’s a keeper, she won’t mind your attention drifting to one of several TVs broadcasting football, baseball, basketball, wrestling and NASCAR because she’ll be entranced in the […]

Doris Italian Market & Bakery

Grocery stores around South Florida are pretty boring. You have your Winn-Dixie, your Publix, the occasional Albertson’s, and a handful of independents. And that’s about it. Seems as if there should be more competition in a region with five million hungry souls. Thank God for Doris’s places. These stores, which are located in Hollywood, Sunrise, […]

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 […]

India Garden

Since it debuted in 2008, India Garden has revamped and refined its sprawling menu, which passes through Kerala and Goa, Indo-China and Sri Lanka. You’ll still find familiar dishes in tikka masala and vindaloo and korma, but some of the more adventurous options like duck vellayappam flavored with toddy, kingfish moilee, and cashew-filled chettinadu have […]

La Fontana Pizzeria

This cozy pizzeria by brothers Spartak and Tony Tare of Ferrara, Italy, feels like it came fresh off the boat. The pizza is thin, crisp, and creative, with quality toppings placed in classic Italian “less is more” format. Salumi of all types like juniper-cured speck top the pies, alongside artisanal cheeses and a slick of […]

Larry’s Olde Fashioned Ice Cream & Yogurt

Maybe it’s because ice cream parlors are such ubiquitous fixtures on the American landscape, but for some reason, kitsch and gimmicks have become the rule rather than the exception. If you just want to get a couple of decent scoops on a sugar cone and enjoy it in peace, then pay a visit to Larry’s […]

Manny’s Cafe and Bakery

All hail the empanada, that self-contained food stuff so popular in Latin cafes, bodegas, convenience stores, and bakeries. Every country has its own interpretation of the pocket-sized meals: Colombia offers a crisp, fried corn shell stuffed with rice and chicken or beef and potatoes. Argentinian empanadas – like the kind produced daily at Manny’s Bakery […]

Moon Thai & Japanese Restaurant

You wouldn’t know it by the name, but this place has a sushi bar and a really long list of Japanese specialties. Still, it’s impossible to get past the Thai-ness of the place, from servers in traditional dress to giant prawns in wonderfully rich peanut sauce. Everything from the bright-yellow walls to the tangy tom […]

Nick’ New Haven Pizza

With two locations — one in Boca Raton and a second in Pompano Beach — Nick’s New Haven Style Pizza and Bar owners and longtime friends Nick Laudano and Anthony Giovanniello have a few secrets up their sleeves. And it’s all in the sauce: a 20-year-old homemade recipe. We’re willing to bet it has something […]