Ever dream of running your own cheese shop? Maybe you have ambitions of owning a store with rows and rows of kitchen gadgets for sale or a candy store to rival Willy Wonka. The West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority is hosting the Great Shop Showdown — and the…
7-Eleven, everyone’s favorite place to stock up on slurpies, beef jerkey, big gulps and coffee at any time of day or night, is celebrating its birthday on (what else) July 11th! That’s crazy, huh? Like, 7-Eleven’s birthday is July 11th (do you think that’s a coincidence?) In any event, we…
Eduardo Bruno wakes up before the birds every morning to start slow cooking the meats and stocks for Papa’s Tapas, the food truck he owns with wife Lisa. Bruno knows about cooking. He’s been behind the burner at some of south Florida’s best kitchens, including Morton’s and China Grill. But…
Burger Business has reported that a new McDonald’s English-style pub burger is in the works. The English Pub Burger is an Angus third-pound burger, garnished with hickory-smoked bacon, white cheddar and American cheeses, grilled onions, steak sauce, and smoky Dijon mustard sauce on an artisan roll. The burger is set…
Food trucks hit Broward again tonight for the weekly Hard Rock rally. We’ll feature a different truck each week so you can get acquainted with the food and the people running them. Today, we’re going to feature Ms. Cheezious. Brian and Fatima Mullins are the humans behind the cheesy pinup known…
Taking a cue from the upcoming Miami Spice month that features specially priced three-course dinners at Miami’s best restaurants, Michelle Bernstein’s at the Omphoy in Palm Beach is offering a special three-course PB tasting menu for $35. Guests can savor chef Bernstein’s fare in a special dish selection while ogling the magnificent…
The producers of such “high-brow” television fare as Kitchen Nightmares and Celebrity Fit Club have finally realized where to merge their two successful concepts into one big, fat concept of a show — make a show about overweight food-industry workers trying to lose weight! The television reality show docu-series is…
P.F. Chang’s, the Chinese restaurant chain that features giant soldiers as sentinels to the gates of fancy mall dining, is celebrating its 18th birthday, and you get the gift. Become a fan of P.F. Chang’s Facebook page and you’ll be able to print out a coupon good for a free…
AOL Martha as a child – who knew? Domestic goddess Martha Stewart has taken over pretty much everything – television, cooking, crafting, books, and the internet. That’s all well and good, because we believe that adults have the right to choose whether or not they want to bake meringue mice,…
Just in time for Independence Day grilling, Myron Mixon, author of The New York Times bestseller Smokin’, demonstrates some Barbeque techniques to Team Coco. Of course, this degenerates quickly from a serious cooking lesson to hilarity. First, Mixon asks Conan help him make Sausage stuffed bacon wrapped turkey. Here’s a…
The Miami food trucks are invading Sunrise this weekend, with two stops in west Broward. On Saturday, enjoy food trucks while you shop for a new car at Sawgrass Ford and on Monday, enjoy an old-fashioned Independence Day celebration with live music, a parade, kiddie rides and food trucks. Stay…
Troy Thomas and mom Pat roll out on their flame-engulfed truck once again. After hours of prep time, including marinating chicken in Thomas’ specialty jerk seasoning for five to six hours, it’s time to get The Rolling Stove to the roundup and set up for dinner service. The finished product is…
When making a cake, there are required ingredients like eggs, sugar, butter, fireworks, and hydraulics. Well, those are the ingredients in Cake Boss Buddy Valestro’s gigantic robotic Transformers cake, made to celebrate the new movie Transformers:Dark Side of the Moon. Modeled after “good” transformer Bumblebee, the cake depicts the robot morphing…
In this new Pepsi commercial, Santa’s on vacation with Mrs. Claus and some elves in what looks to be a Club Med-like resort. While dancing to “This Is How We Do It” with Mrs. Claus (who looks pretty good for her age), Santa takes a beverage break. The bartender tries to…
More than two dozen food trucks will line the parking lot of Boca Center this evening at the Gourmet Food Truck Expo. Admission is free at 6:30 p.m., with trucks serving until 10 p.m. Families can enjoy live music, a DJ, magicians, face painters, and balloon artists. For $10, a…
Smokey Bones is holding a burger-eating contest tomorrow, June 29, at all of its South Florida locations. The contest is in two parts. Round one has entrants building their own burger to eat. Winners will advance to round two — an all-out eating competition. The contest starts at 7 p.m…
Although we love Top Chef here at Clean Plate Charlie, sometimes we can’t help wondering if maybe the show would be a little bit better if the cheftestants had to, say, catch their own poisonous water moccasin and cook it in the desert with only a book of matches and…
The machine is basically an extremely high-tech version of a soda machine. An LCD display guides you through the process by which you can choose to make a custom beverage using various traditional and new Coca-Cola products, including Coke, Minute Maid Lemonade, Dasani, Fanta, and Powerade, to name a few…
Hooter’s, the restaurant chain best-known for its boobs chicken wings, held its 15th-annual International Swimsuit Pageant this past Saturday at the Fillmore Jackie Gleason Theatre. Out of the 100 girls chosen from Hooters restaurants throughout the world to compete for $50,000 and the crown, Lindsey Way, a Fort Lauderdale…
Just in time for beach and boating season, Reef has introduced the flip flop flask. For about $40, you can hide a few shots of booze in your shoe. We’re thinking this is perfect for smuggling a little pick-me-up to the beach or on a boat. Heck, we might even fill them…
M Bar, Jack Mancini’s tapas concept, will have a soft opening this evening, June 24, with a grand opening planned for July 7. Mancini has tapped the brother-and-sister team of Kevin Anderson (formerly of 1500 Degrees at the Eden Roc) and Lauren Anderson (of Moto in Chicago) as co-executive chefs. …
In an interview with the Associated Press in Japan, Lady Gaga said that if you want to help Japan recover from its recent earthquake and tsunami disaster, come on down. Gaga, in Tokyo for a benefit concert for tsunami victims, MTV Music Aid Japan, said that she’s making a point of…
