The new World of Beer in Coconut Creek has made quite a splash since opening. Check out our inside look into the place, and read about how its lack of a proper kitchen is making a big impact on Promenade businesses. Cheap lunch is just around the corner at Mr…
Want the scoop on South Florida food news as it happens? Sign up to be a Broward Palm Beach Insider and receive our weekly newsletter and text alerts. • You know what tastes good? Free. This Summer, you can get a sample of that courtesy of Cantina Laredo. Just text…
At the new World of Beer in the Promenade at Coconut Creek, customers can enjoy more than 500 craft beers from places like Belgium and Japan. But the beer bar, which opened earlier this month, actually has no kitchen. Instead, World of Beer has a special arrangement with restaurants located…
Chef Dean James Max, executive chef at 3030 Ocean with restaurants in Cayman and Cleveland, is a Florida homeboy at heart. Talk to the charismatic chef and it’s easy to see that his love for Florida’s unique foodways — particularly its seafood — run strong. So it’s no surprise that…
Unrepentant beer drinkers, rejoice! Each week, Clean Plate Charlie will select one craft or import beer and give you the lowdown on it: How does it taste? What should you drink it with? Where can you find it? But mostly, it’s all about the love of the brew. If you…
High-heat, coal-fired ovens have lit up all over South Florida, bringing charred crusts and specialty toppings to just about every strip mall. Among them is Scarfone’s, a modern pizzeria in the mold of Anthony’s that recently debuted its second location in the Promenade at Coconut Creek. The cavernous bar and…
To see more photos from Martorano’s Italian-American Kitchen, click here. We had just been seated at a small, white-clothed table at Martorano’s Italian-American Kitchen. The four of us — starving thanks to our late-night reservation and screaming over the blasting sound system — couldn’t help but laugh at the title…
The End of History from BrewDog on Vimeo.Holy crap, where is all this discretionary income coming from? $70 hot dogs, $100 burgers, and now… $800 beers? That’s right, the supergourmet, superexpensive trend has extended into the craft beer category with a new brew from Scottish beer maker BrewDog. And boy,…
If there’s one thing I love about Tex-Mex-style fajitas, it’s the veggies. That sizzling mix of onions and peppers is about my favorite part of the whole fajita entourage. To me, it’s all about the caramelization. When the vegetables are rendered down, they become the sweet and luscious backbone behind…
You’ve heard of ultraluxe burgers made with braised short ribs and foie gras selling for $100 a pop — in fact, a similar burger made news when it debuted at the Old Homestead Steakhouse in the Boca Raton Resort & Club in 2006. But supped up hot dogs costing nearly…
Some people love rocky road. Others love chocolate chip or even Superman (remember that flavor?). But me? I love vanilla. Something about the purity of flavors in a good scoop of vanilla ice cream is irresistible. You can taste everything: the velvety cream, the sweet sugar, the lightly floral vanilla…
This week in Dish, we take a look at the maestro of meatballs that is Steve Martorano and his latest restaurant in Seminole Paradise at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. This third incarnation of his restaurant is bigger and glitzier than the original Cafe Martorano on Oakland Park. But…
The deal: This blue shack is little more than a takeout window with a modest porch and a few patio tables, but it gets packed during the week with area workers looking to grab a quick lunch to go. It’s been open in Fort Lauderdale since 1975 and is famous…
Spending an afternoon at World of Beer, a new beer bar in Coconut Creek, is really like entering a different world, one where the right answer is always another pour. I hung out there for a few hours this weekend, wasting away the afternoon with espresso stouts and hoppy strong…
Huge week on the blog:Ceviche is easy and tasty with Whole Foods’ new MSC-Certified swordfish.Part 2 of our interview with this season’s Top Chef front-runner, Kenny Gilbert.Pompano steak house and cabaret NY Strip shuts its doors.Johnny V’s casual eatery Smith & Jones closed for good, and the fallout has been…
Drum roll, please.Olde English “800” Malt Liquor. Yep, users at ratebeer.com have voted pretty much unanimously, giving the “swilly” malt liquor a dismal 0.97 average out of a possible 5 (the lowest possible is 0.5). Users of the website have ranked it lower than hellaciously bad beers like Natty Ice…
• July 30 is National Cheesecake Day; can you guess which restaurant is celebrating? (Hint: The name starts with “Cheesecake” and ends in “Factory.”) Anyway, on July 30 that place will be offering “any slice, half price,” a promotion that’s fairly self-explanatory. Comers can try the chain’s new Reese’s Peanut…
It’s hot out. Like standing sweat, hair-matted-down, ass-stuck-to-the-seat hot. And thanks to the six months of virtual summer we get around here, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be relenting anytime soon. When it’s this hot out, all you want to do is sit inside with a cold drink…
South Florida’s own Michelle Bernstein made an appearance as guest judge on Top Chef last night in what turned out to be an interesting episode. The program may have also revealed a little bit of a chef rivalry between Miami-based chef-testant Andrea Curto Randazzo and Bernstein herself.It all started with…
Jamie, chef/owner of underground restaurant Squat-N-Gobble, appeared Wednesday and Thursday morning on the Paul and Young Ron Show. The show brought me on a few weeks ago to talk about the phenomenon of rogue restaurants after I wrote this article.For the unfamiliar, a rogue restaurant is a word-of-mouth eatery typically…
One of my friends — we’ll call him the esteemed Dr. Niles — recently posted a question on Facebook that had a bunch of people talking. The question goes, “your ideal hamburger… what’s on it? how’s it cooked? bun type?… go!!”Naturally, few can resist this type of inquiry. What is…
September 16 is like a holy day for beer nerds across the U.S. That’s the start of the Great American Beer Festival, held annually in Denver. Each year at the fest, more than 500 brewers from across the nation gather to share, sample, and compete for top honors in the…
