No single foodstuff has been fought over with the fervor of of the simple tomato pie. Everybody’s got an opinion, and our guess is you’re no exception. Whether you like the fat, doughy Chicago pie, the New York-style thin crust (soft enough to fold in the middle), one of the…
Island Creek. Barron Point. Fanny Bay. The names sound like marine vistas framed by picture windows: cold, fresh waterscapes that have never seen an oil spill or a toxic dump. But they’re real places — in Massachusetts, in Washington State, in British Columbia. And the oysters harvested there share their…
What’s it gonna be: that thin, greasy patty on a squishy white bun, topped with a Heinz dill slice and served at your favorite all-night diner? Or the $100 chopped Kobe steak on artisanal sourdough with truffled mayonnaise courtesy of some hoity celeb chef? It’s your turn to be the…
Ply her with aphrodisiacs all night, and you’ve got it made, right? This week in New Times, Robb Walsh dispenses pearls of wisdom on the world’s favorite bivalve here. And below, a plan to spend your V-Day shelling out:Sage Bistro and Oyster Bar 2000 Harrison St,, Hollywood, 954-391-9466 This swank new raw bar and…
A grab bag of food-related items this a.m. One of our favorite Lauderdale cafes has closed temporarily while they look for a new home: Sugar n Spice, formerly on Oakland Park Boulevard and the brainchild of a French/Irish chef duo, Jean and Vero, has decided to look for a “more intimate”…
To celebrate their recent Golden Spoon Award for Best Place for a Cocktail, Lola’s on Harrison, in downtown Hollywood, is teaming up with the Glades to Coast Slow Food Chapter on February 17th for a night of locavore mixology and finger foods. Cost is $25*** for cocktails and canapes. Join…
South Florida must seem like paradise to restaurants with expansion in mind. We have rich residents, tourists who’d rather let somebody else handle the spatula, and cheap retail space, thanks to our enduring love affair with the strip mall. You can imagine some poor schmuck who’s slogged through decades of…
Florida Trend’s 2009 Dining Guide is out, with a new editor in chief: Chris Sherman has replaced Robert Toff as the dispenser of Golden Spoons. This year’s guide cites plenty of South Florida gems among the 20 Best New Restaurants. In Fort Lauderdale: Christine’s (pictured above) and Four Rivers (which has…
I’ve gone too long without giving a plug to my favorite little wine bar in Wilton Manors, the Naked Grape, a place where cozy hipness meets an imaginative selection of wines, a tapas menu, and the kind of lighting that makes everybody look good. And, our favorite bartender, Georgie, who…
A hail of darts to the Peanut Corporation of America, who it now turns out KNOWINGLY shipped products that had tested positive for salmonella. The worst of it is, so many of these peanut-infested foods went to schools and nursing homes — they couldn’t have done a better job targeting…
Beef has taken some serious body punches in the last couple of years. Michael Pollen, Mark Bittman, and a merry cast of vegetarians have been steadily hammering away at our poor American steers, calling them expensive, health-hazardous resource hogs that have done little to whittle the national waistline. Now the…
Right, gents, it’s the most perilous time of year to be a man. Every move you make or fail to for Valentine’s Day will pretty much seal up your romantic prospects for the year. My brother once made the hideous gaffe (who knew?) of giving his girlfriend a ring on…
Having dinner at By Word of Mouth is a bit like being invited to dine at the home of a fussy middle-aged matron, a person considered a very good cook in her day, someone who once published a newsletter widely admired by friends and neighbors (“Kathryn’s Kitchen”) and who occasionally…
Jack in the Box is apparently testing a program to outsource their drive-through orders, routing requests for burgers and shakes to call-takers outside the country. The program is getting its first test run in Charlotte, North Carolina, where folks innocently pulling up to the order box are being taken for…
My favorite news item of the week: Swiss researches have discovered a new psychological disorder which they’ve called “Gourmand Syndrome.” Turns out that people who are passionately obsessed with food actually have lesions in their right anterior cerebral hemisphere — lesions which do not appear in people who are not…
You either love a guy like Steve Martorano or you don’t. But you’ve got to make up your mind, because Martorano is everywhere. There’s no escaping his pug-faced mug. It’s plastered on the jars of his signature spaghetti sauce. He’s all over YouTube, including a rap video extolling his eggplant…
Your intuition is correct: Restaurants dropped like tasered protesters at a Republican rally last year. The not-so-bad news is that new eateries opened in many of the vacated spaces, offsetting our net loss. Read on for a partial and unofficial Short Order list of closings in Broward and Palm Beach…
One of our favorite restaurants in Fort Lauderdale, Christine’s on Oakland Park Boulevard, rolled out a new menu this week featuring, in addition to entrees, a pretty delectable line-up of small plates priced between 10 and 14 bucks. A good idea, thinks us, especially because the joint is becoming known…
No, not that kind of beard. It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world these days fer sher, but at least we can take comfort in comfort food, and nobody does it with quite the panache of chef Michael Wagner of Hollywood, one of a handful of chefs invited…
It’s unclear how you take the owners of one mediocre Greek restaurant, combine them with the chef from another similarly unremarkable taverna, and come up with something as wonderful as Ouzo Blue. You could have knocked me over with a feather when I found out that Odis Giakis, former owner/chef…
A friend just sent me a copy of I’m a sucker for these kinds of inspirational rags-to-riches stories, so I’ve been thinking about taking on some crazy year-long project of my own, like training my mutt, pictured left, who we adopted when she was a pregnant, teenage, unwed mother, to…
This month’s Slow Food Glades to Coast dinner, on Thursday January 15, focuses on our local waters with a meal hosted by Chef Dean James Max at 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale. Max, as we know, has a masterly way with anything that sports fins, scales, or claws, and his…
