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  Humble, Hearty Flatbreads at Fort Lauderdale's Noor Bakery and Deli

  Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 8:52 a.m.

  It's just before 9 a.m. and Marcel Az still hasn't had breakfast. Standing on the sidewalk outside Fort Lauderdale's Noor Bakery, the slender, baby-faced trucker cups his hands around his eyes and desperately signals for help. When the door of the beige building with a red clay-tiled roof clicks open,...

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  Geoffrey Zakarian's Point Royal at the Diplomat Is Not a Typical Hotel Restaurant

  Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 9:34 a.m.

  Of all the dishes on the menu at celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian's new restaurant, Point Royal, the lobster roll is the item worthiest of a trip to the strip of A1A where Hollywood meets Hallandale Beach. There's no chopped or minced meat here. A whole Maine lobster is steamed until...

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  Family Comes Full Circle at Louie Bossi's Ristorante, Pizzeria, and Bar

  Wednesday, December 21, 2016 at 8:44 a.m.

  Christopher DePasquale Seiler is a rock star. At 6’1”, he is lean and handsome, sporting a goatee speckled with white hair and a shiny bald head. He walks through the bustling aisles of his workplace, Louie Bossi’s Ristorante, Pizzeria, and Bar, seamlessly and at ease. He is not due into...

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  Closer Look: 4 Rivers Smokehouse in Coral Springs

  Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 8:55 a.m.

  It’s hard to believe 4 Rivers Smokehouse once cooked out of his garage for fellow churchgoers, relatives, and friends. The recipes — all his own — are developed from old-fashioned experimentation with rubs, wood chips, and temperature and whether to marinate or inject and how long to smoke. Today the restaurants sell as much as 12,000 pounds of brisket, pulled pork, and ribs each week. Read more on 4 Rivers Smokehouse here.

  
  

  
  

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  The Story of 4 Rivers Smokehouse Founder John Rivers

  Tuesday, December 6, 2016 at 8 a.m.

  A single mistake can change the course of your life. For John Rivers, whose growing barbecue business 4 Rivers Smokehouse began "very unintentionally," that couldn't be truer. Rivers launched a charitable fundraising cookout to help a local couple pay the looming medical bills in their daughter's battle with cancer. He...

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  Bubbles & Pearls Specializes in Champagne and Oysters in Wilton Manors

  Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 8 a.m.

  There's simply no getting around some truths: Grass is green, Trump is president, and Wilton Manors is the last place in Broward County you'd go for a raw bar. Until now. When Bubbles & Pearls chef/owner Josie Smith-Malave left her hometown of Hialeah nearly 20 years ago, she had no...