Flirting for Foodies with the Gourmet Club I’m not usually one for singles events, particularly because I’m married, but these Singles Dinner and Dancing parties put on by the Gourmet Club look pretty damned posh. They’ve been holding them at the Addison, Cafe Maxx, and Pranzo — the next one…

Question: What yummy treat from a national ice cream chain contains this delectable list of ingredients? Ingredients: reduced fat milk, heath bar crunch ice cream (cream, nonfat milk, caramel ribbon (corn syrup, sweetened condensed whole milk (milk, sugar), water, high fructose corn syrup, butter (cream, salt), propylene glycol, sodium alginate,…

I’ve literally eaten nothing but pizza this week, so for lunch today I gotta have some green. I plan to make a fruit salad from the cornucopia pictured above, courtesy of one of my local roadside markets. You’ll of course recognize the watermelon, apples, and mangos, but wanna take a…

Of all the foodist trends to come and go in recent years, the one I’m fervently hoping will survive the swings of fortune and fashion is the fancy cocktail. I’m happy to report that in the couple of decades since New York bartender and mad scientist Dale DeGroff first poked…

You could be he I figure I’m getting too fat, drunk, and impossibly snotty to hold this job much longer, so I hereby give readers a heads up. If you’re planning to try to oust me from my oystershell- and hamhock-encrusted throne as Food Critic at Broward-Palm Beach New Times,…

OK, this is by far the weirdest, messiest edible I’ve ever kept in my kitchen, a thing that performs a sort of vegetal strip tease over the course of a week or so, spilling greenish dragon scales all over counter top and floor. You eat the part that reveals itself,…

Preview with a view. Trina, Cero, Galanga, and Jackson’s Steakhouse started their Dine Out Lauderdale Preview on September 14, offering advance tastes on their $35 three-course prix fixe menus. Full details are at Open Table; make sure to check before you go, since they’re mostly offering the Dine Out menu…

A friend of mine brought me a bagful of Russian candy from Brighton Beach, and after tasting it I’ve decided I’m going to save it for the Halloween trick or treaters. I never have candy to give away on Halloween, and I find myself more often than not cowering in…

Your next free meal is crawling your way. The Florida Spiny Lobster is walking, thanks to the recent hurricanes that passed through the Keys. Our Keys lobsters are taking a mass holiday and sauntering up the coast close to shore — they’re expected to reach Miami today and Palm Beach…

Few restaurants are perfect. And most of us don’t demand perfection anyway. We just want to have a place to hang, eat, and drink, secure in the knowledge that we’re not going to be poisoned, insulted, or spilled upon, n’est-ce pas? Such is the raison d’être for the “brasserie,” a…

Be honest: Does this look like breakfast? This Sunday, September 21, 2008: If you’ve never eaten a Mamey (tastes like a sweet potato crossed with a papaya) or a Jackfruit (juicyfruit candy crossed with bananas) you’ll have a chance this Sunday to give it a whirl, courtesy of Fairchild Tropical…

[ Biba: Haunt of the Hotties We’re officially halfway through Flavor Palm Beach, the only thirty dollar three-course meal you’re likely to get in the foreseeable future. Have you been to Forte yet? Solu? Strip House? I stopped in to Forte last week for cocktails, and before I could say…

I have so much love to give. Serious serial monogamy There have always been things to love about Java Boys in Wilton Manors. Besides the best mocha in the world (seriously: everybody else skimps on the chocolate), Java Boys has pretty good pound cakes, comfy sofas, a friendly clientele, and…

Dude comes with a price tag. Deconstructed Press Release: Ft. Lauderdale—Fresh from his stint as Oprah Winfrey’s chef for her 21-Day Cleanse… um, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the point of a “cleanse” to stop eating for a while? Don’t you drink a lot of juice and warm…

It’s my best friend Phil’s 40th birthday, and Sunday is going something like this: Rounds of $4 wine at Harry’s Banana Farm under the stuffed alligator. Back to our place for a bottle of champagne. Over to Cucina Dell’Arte in Palm Beach for Bellinis and kamikazes (“What’s a kamikaze?” “Never…

Oh la la, Metronome est bon! Metronome is a relative newcomer to the Palm Beach Gardens dining strip along PGA Boulevard, and in spite of this wearisome location, it’s a darling place both outside and in — oversized French bistro posters, cushy red banquettes, red and white straw chairs, a…