Most folks probably think of rum as the liquor you shoot on a dock while eating cracked conch, pour into vats with fruit juice, or watch getting mixed at one of those bars with the spinning daiquiri machines. And then there’s a rum like St. Lucia Distillers Chairman’s Reserve Rum…
If there’s one man who typifies today’s homogenized and sterilized corporate country music, it’s Toby Keith. But it’s not his music that makes Toby Keith as fun to hate as your neighbor’s barking coon dog. No, it’s the guy behind the guitar, that loud-mouthed, semipro football washup. So before he…
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek had a lot of reasons to feel good about his primary win last week over Jeff Greene. Despite recent polls that showed Greene doing well, Meek trounced him with 57 percent of the vote.But there’s also something that should worry Meek: Greene took 32 of the…
It came in a nondescript box in the mail one day, this bag of liquor. The container inside had convenient little handles at the top, a spout at the bottom, and a simple promise: mojitos anywhere.And that sounded pretty good. Mojitos have to be one of the most refreshing summer…
With an ear-to-ear smirk and a laugh, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene responded to stories about the parties aboard his yacht, calling the whole thing a “silly sideshow.” The interview, posted today to YouTube by WPBF, mentions the first-person account printed here this week of Greene’s former stewardess. Sharyn Peach…
There have been plenty of attempts to fancy up Cuban cuisine. There’s the overrated Versailles, and the Cabana restaurants in West Palm and Delray do a good Cuban-Caribbean fusion.But the truth is, a fine ropa vieja can be found at lunch-counter Cuban joints, like Las Colinas, a Wilton Manors restaurant…
Things just don’t seem to be going well for Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene. Here he was in West Palm Beach yesterday, hoping his stop at a homeless shelter would be a bit of good press as his campaign for U.S. Senate implodes. But the shelter Greene picked for his…
Every neighborhood has one of those cursed locations that seem to turn over restaurants, and in the Flagler Arts Village, it’s the little cafe in the Avenue Lofts. After a couple failed coffee shops, though, the new one looks promising. Brew La-La has something the others never got quite right:…
Nothing goes better with cheap liquor than cheap food. And these days, many restaurants and bars are luring in customers with low-priced happy-hour menus. So which bar or restaurant has the best happy-hour menu? Tell us in our survey below…
Florida-grown dragon fruit are now in season, and if you’ve seen one in the supermarket recently, you probably wondered what the hell it is. It’s football-shaped, bright purple, and has dried-up leaves shooting out like thorns. Although the dragon fruit looks pretty damned imposing, it’s actually easy to prepare. Here’s…
Police arrested Palm Beach County Commissioner Jeff Koons early this morning on charges of extortion, perjury, and a Sunshine Law violation. Koons resigned at a news conference this morning, and his attorney read a statement from him that said: “I screwed up big time, and I blame no one but…
Jamba Juice put out a viral ad campaign recently by posting a YouTube video for the new “Cheeseburger Chill” smoothie. The ad was a fake, meant to mock McDonald’s and its new line of fruit smoothies. But it also got me thinking: How bad could it be? So this morning,…
It may seem like forever since anybody was slinging food in the old Bennigan’s location in Fort Lauderdale. But after a complete rehab in and out, J. Mark’s has finally opened its second location. If you haven’t been to the original in Pompano Beach, J. Mark’s is a comfortable restaurant,…
This week’s cover story in New Times is a photo essay on local chefs and restaurant workers with tattoos. We fit a few of the photos in the print edition, but you can find many more in this slideshow. There’s also more to the interviews, which were pared down for…
Unless the wheels on your house sit below sea level, you probably haven’t done much to prepare for the tropical depression that’s about 400 miles southeast of Key Largo. It’s expected to turn into Tropical Storm Bonnie today, and then maybe hit South Florida.After living through everything from Andrew to…
To see more photos from Via Luna click here. In the movie version, our waiter would be played by Kevin James or some other likable funnyman. He made quick small talk that always ended with a punch line. He stopped by just when you needed him, not before. And his…
The former home to Smith & Jones on Las Olas won’t sit empty long. A third location of Rocco’s Tacos & Tequila Bar will open in the spot this fall.Rocco Mangel, who co-owns the two other Rocco’s Tacos with the Big Time Restaurant Group, said he has been negotiating the…
This week in Dish, we review Via Luna, the high-end Italian joint in the Ritz-Carlton on Fort Lauderdale beach. Via Luna replaced the much-loved Cero after the Ritz bought the place. The hotel chain brought in a classically trained chef, which sounds promising, but saddled him with an Italian menu…
Since the closing of Smith & Jones last weekend, those who worked in the kitchen and those who paid the bills are trying to figure out who’s to blame for the restaurant’s failure.In an article posted here Monday, sous chef Ted Inserra blamed a steep Las Olas overhead and a…
This video of tests conducted on Gulf water is frightening for two reasons. First, it shows that water that looks clean just might be contaminated. Second, it’s an indication of what may be coming our way in South Florida — water that can literally blow up…
Smith & Jones, the second restaurant on Las Olas opened by venerable Chef Johnny Vinczencz, closed its doors for good after dinner Saturday night. The comfort-food restaurant started a bit rough for Vinczencz, earning a fairly scathing review here at New Times. Our article from January 2009 said the place…
New York Strip opened in Pompano on April 2 with as much fanfare as you could possibly muster for a steak house/strip club. The owners mailed outlandish media kits all around town that included membership cards supposedly valued at $10,000. They flew in strippers from around the country — one…
