A friend of mine really got into the Halloween spirit this year. We went to a party over the weekend, where she served the witch finger tea cookies I posted about on Monday. She and her sister also made a main course to go with that: Stuffed rats with green…
Rack’s (reviewed here) does from-scratch, comfort-style food everyday. Some things are expensive there, but the scenery — and quality — is often worth it.Well, $12 is all it takes to get you lunch at Rack’s. It’s daily blue plate specials cost only a dozen cool ones (plus beverage purchase). That’s…
Everyone’s fantasized about being a bartender (Ooh, ooh, can I be Tom Cruise in Cocktail?) Now you can be your own at West Palm Beach bar O’Shea’s, where a special new table puts you behind the tap.The table is called a Draft Master. It’s a specially designed table that houses…
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…
Colombian food is hearty fare, and Medellin — an attractive restaurant on the edge of Coral Springs — is no exception. Here, the platos tipicos are loaded with the kind of meaty, starchy fare to keep you going all day long. Bandeja paisa, Colombia’s national dish, is represented here with…
Just the sight of the hellishly red noodle dish called nakjikuksu at Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston is enough to send spicephobic eaters into heat stroke. The pencil-thick udon noodles are napped in a chili sauce so intensely red, it looks like it was painted into existence by…
Who says $25 can’t take you far?Stop into Crown Wine and Spirits Boynton Beach this Saturday, October 23 and that admission price will take you all the way to South American wine country.Frank Reider, author of Wines of Passion: The Best of South America, will be in attendance at this…
What’s amazing about empanadas is how versatile they are. Last week, I grabbed some of the Spanish pastries from Colombian restaurant Pal Rancho. Those were filled with shredded beef and potatoes, with a supremely crunchy corn shell that was fried. Another version I had yesterday from Argentine/Peruvian bakery, Manny’s (10281…
Allez cuisine!Just like the addictive Japanese import Iron Chef, Thursday’s Iron Fork event at Grand Central (697 N. Miami Ave., Miami) will test the mettle of two chefs to determine a champion. The only difference: no Mark Dacascos. The annual event from our brothers and sisters at Miami New Times…
Spicy nakjikuksu is chili-covered udon noodles with octopus, onions, carrots, and zucchini. This week in Dish, we look at Korean food, and what better place to sample that than Myung Ga Tofu & Barbecue in Weston? Weston? Yes, it’s way the hell out there (sorry to our Weston readers). But…
Noles86 was the first to correctly answer yesterday’s “Where Are We Eating?” quiz. The restaurant where we ate the dish to the right is Eduardo De San Angel in Fort Lauderdale.Open for more than 13 years now, this East Lauderdale restaurant is the playground of Eduardo Pria, a Mexican-born chef…
Now with less salmonella.Seems like every few months, we’re hearing about a salmonella or E. coli scare. Lettuce, tomatoes, eggs, and more are seemingly becoming gateways to pathogens in our food system.Leave it to food science to strike back. Cincinnati-based producer Chiquita announced Friday that it had successfully developed a new…
(Cue my best Dr. Farnsworth impression) Good news, everyone! We’ve got prizes!OK, not as good as Pairings tickets. But we do have New Times hats and shirts to give away to the first person to correctly guess where we’re eating today…
Getting creative with Halloween can be fun, especially when it comes to food. I remember eating all sorts of Halloween-themed treats as a kid. There’s nothing like being dressed up as the grim reaper and eating eyeballs (skinned grapes) or intestines (dyed pasta).I went to a party this weekend with…
Eat, drink, and be merry at Old Heidelberg in Fort Lauderdale.Here’s a poor man’s guide to snagging free food.St. Demetrios Flavors of Greece festival took place last weekend; here’s a look.Deviled eggs are the new ultratrendy food stuff at local restaurants. What do you think? [Recipe]Burt Rappaport is one scheduled…
Eat Your Kimchi is a great website created by a couple from Toronto who moved to Bucheon, Korea, more than two years ago to teach English. They started the website to document what life was like for two foreigners living in Korea. These days, the website tracks all facets of…
Two beef empanads with a cafe con leche and tart green onion salsa at Pal Rancho.Empanadas are like little presents: They come wrapped, and what’s inside is often a pleasurable surprise. That was definitely the case with the house-made empanadas at Colombian restaurant Pal Rancho on the edge of Parkland…
Triple Eight Lounge at the Falcon House is hosting a decidedly New England-style Oktoberfest party this Sunday starting at 2 p.m.Proper pronunciation is key: “Awk-toe-beer-fest” will feature chef Jimmy Dean’s own take on German pub grub, starting at the cutesy price of $8.88 a plate. To further up the New…
Tokyo Blue debuted in late August in Fort Lauderdale.September is typically the slowest month of the restaurant season in South Florida. But there was a lot of moving and shaking going on. Here are some of the highlights…
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…
This hideous little bugger is on display at Lake Worth’s Little Munich.My review this week covered four German restaurants in and around Fort Lauderdale where you can celebrate Oktoberfest. But there are plenty more places that I didn’t cover, and some of those are worth mentioning too.Bierbrunnen Pub: Amid the…
To see more photos, click here. Ordering beer in a giant boot is like entering into an unspoken bet. In which you are gambling your pride. Finish a whole one and you’ll be the toast of your colleagues. Fail and you’ll face ceaseless ribbing, slights against your manhood, and unparalleled…
