The Great Shop Showdown Wants to Give You a Store

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…

Seven-Eleven Offers Free Slurpies on 7/11

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…

Food Trucks at Lexus of Pembroke Pines: Meet Papa’s Tapas

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…

Michelle Bernstein’s at the Omphoy Offers Summer Dining Deal

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…

New Reality Show Casting Overweight Chefs, Foodies

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 Offers Free Lettuce Wraps for Facebook Fans

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…

Animated Martha Stewart Set to Brainwash Our Children

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,…

Conan O’Brien Pumps and Strokes His Meat With Myron Mixon: Video

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…

Food Trucks Invade Sunrise This Weekend

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…

The Rolling Stove and Other Food Trucks at Seminole Hard Rock

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…

Cake Boss Makes One Ton Transformers Cake

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…

Santa Prefers Pepsi While on Vacation

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…

Gourmet Food Truck Expo in Boca Raton Tonight

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 Holds Burger-Eating Contest

​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…

Coke Freestyle at Miami Subs: 100 Flavor Combos in One Machine

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…

Fort Lauderdale’s Lindsey Way Wins Hooters 2011 Swimsuit Pageant

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…

Regis and Kelly Try Out Flip Flop Flask

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 Opens Tonight on Las Olas

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.  …

Lady Gaga: Japan’s Food Is Great

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…