It’s not every day that your wine tasting is interrupted by a thumping tail, but then not every wine tasting is conducted by a self-titled blind wine chick.I met Alex Elman at the South Beach Whole Foods Market to chat about her wine on Halloween where we were interrupted by…
This Sunday, we all gain an hour of sleep when daylight-saving time ends and we set our clocks back one hour. Which means, technically, we can start drinking at the Seminole Hard Rock Wine and Food Festival earlier.Sample fare from 20 restaurants, including Martorano’s, Bongo’s, Sea Level, and China Grill,…
Bimini Boatyard is one of the closest restaurants to the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, and every year, the staff prepares for an onslaught of boaters, salespeople, and daytrippers with an appetite for seafood.Tropical-storm-like rains and flash flood warnings wreaked havoc during the weekend but didn’t deter tens of thousands…
Last month we told you the tale of the barista who was fired from Starbucks after writing a most excellent song about how it feels to serve caffeine to douchebags for a living.Frankly, nothing he sang was shocking – I mean even Clean Plate Charlie knows he’ll burn in a…
Halloween’s all about scary creatures — vampires, werewolves, zombies, and Sandra Lee. While others may choose undead creatures, ghosts, and goblins as their favorite fright — we’re sticking with the soul-sucking Lee to bring us to our knees.Don’t believe us? We’ve complied five of Lee’s most gruesome Halloween clips. Bring…
For Halloween, Clean Plate Charlie has selected a group of celebrities and newsworthy individuals that are scarier than any creature lurking in a shopping mall haunted house. See if you can guess whose eyes are lurking behind these jack-o’-lanterns (answers are on the bottom of the page):…
Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have plans to open a vegan restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, reports the Hollywood Reporter.Other investors include rocker Chrissie Hynde and entrepreneur Steve Bing. Hynde’s Ohio vegan restaurant, the Vegiterranean, closed in early October…
Trick-or-treating is hard work – first you have to dress up as your favorite monster, comic book character or Disney princess. Then you have to scour the neighborhood for the good candy, while avoiding the people who give out pennies and black licorice. It works up quite the appetite.Luckily, there…
On last evening’s The Daily Show, Jon Stewart reported that a study about global warming, funded in part by Tea Party backers/oilmen The Koch Brothers, found that, indeed, global warming exists.Stewart noted that this should have been the lead story of the day. Stewart then shows us the lead story…
Your dog gives you unconditional love every day of his life. Seriously! Has a human ever greeted you with such fierce devotion? Sure, he peed on the carpet and he licks his butt, but if you want to punish your dog, take away his favorite chew toy. But in the…
You know the saying – it’s no use to cry over spilled wine…or something like that. But what if it’s 6,810 bottles of wine. That’s something to cry over.That’s exactly what happened at Superior Discount Liquors in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. According to ABC News, a 31-year old shelf collapsed at the…
We love Paula Deen, and when we grow up, we want to become just like her — eternally buzzed, with a constant cackle and stylish stretch pants. Ladies like this eat life. Their joy is infectious, so when they do completely inappropriate things — like try to make out with…
Every Halloween, Clean Plate Charlie buys an awesome pumpkin, takes it home… and just lets it sit by the doorway because we’re too wimpy to try to carve the damned thing.If you’re like us and the idea of carving a pumpkin leaves you in cold sweats, we found a helpful…
In an interview with Mercury News, Anthony Bourdain was asked what he thought about The Chew, the ABC foodcentric daytime talk show.Bourdain said, “(Heavy sigh) I’m really shaken. Honestly, I don’t know what to believe anymore. Mario Batali is a better chef than I am, a better businessman. And Michael…
This weekend we’re getting a pumpkin and carving it in the scariest image we can find – Justin Bieber. Then we’re tweeting a picture of our Bieber O’ Lantern to Dunkin’s Donuts for a chance to win one of five $50 DD gift cards in the Trick or Tweet CarveDD…
We wish we had a category entitled What the F**K because this certainly makes the grade.Here’s a video of Louis, who apparently like to eat weird stuff. That’s fair we guess…Andrew Zimmern made a career out of it with his Travel Channel show Bizarre Foods. But here’s the difference between…
The weather is finally beautiful. What seems like a week of rain has cleared up, leaving clear skies and cool weather. Which makes tonight’s food truck roundup at The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood the perfect place to be.If the fact that over two dozen food trucks…
Halloween is around the corner, and every year, you run into the same problem — do you wear the sexy or funny costume? Our answer is, as always — it depends on whether you want to get laid… ever.Here is a collection of Halloween costumes that are truly terrifying… and…
Sure the weather looks lousy today, but the forecast calls for clearing by this afternoon, and you’re going to need to bust out of the house after three full days of rain. Lucky for you, Boat Show Night Out, the official preparty for the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, is…
At its best, YouTube videos are entertaining and informative. Usually, however, the site is filled with douchebags doing extremely stupid things.Take, for example, L.A. Beast (aka Skippy62able). This muscled frat boy, complete with promotional baseball cap and shirt that reads “Guns don’t kill people… I kill people,” makes an attempt…
Former Hell’s Kitchen contestant survivor Ralph Pagano has been named executive chef for Gulfstream Park’s Ten Palms restaurant, as well as the racetrack’s concession operations.Pagano hinted at his departure from STK Miami on his Facebook page, with the note, “big things happening around here….big things.” …
Presidential hopeful Herman Cain is turning into the breakout candidate for the Republican nod in 2012. The former head of Godfather’s Pizza is now best-known for his proposed 9-9-9 tax plan that would have all Americans paying a flat business, income, and sales tax of 9 percent.Cain has also written…
