A 31-year-old man threw a hot dog at Tiger Woods at yesterday’s golf tournament at CordeValle in San Martin, California, as he ran toward the seventh green. The motive is unclear: perhaps a phallic reference to Woods’ epic infidelities? Woods was getting ready for his putt, said the golfer. “Next thing…
We’ve scoured the internets to find today’s selection of food news from the Sunday papers and elsewhere. According to Good Magazine, Florida is one of three states with the fewest number of families to report struggling to feed themselves and their kin. At percentages falling between 7 and 9.9 according to Census Bureau statistics,…
I’m blogging from Charleston, South Carolina, this week during the Association of Food Journalists’ conference. In addition to hearing talks from the likes of the Lee Brothers and Nathalie Dupree, I’ve been eating my face off and exploring spaces such as Two Boroughs Larder, a newish little restaurant housed in…
Why are hops-forward, American craft beers so popular right now? And why are there so many hoppy Marzen beers, a style that has not been a traditionally hoppy beer? These are the questions that grew out of our beer exploration in this week’s review. For an explanation, I asked expert Greg Engert — the…
Tucked away in a Tudor-style meeting house on Washington Street, a hearty-looking German Frau in a dirndl serves frothy beer in giant mugs at the German American Society of Greater Hollywood. A brass band belts out the John Denver anthem “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” followed by a round of…
Attention, Oktoberfest junkies: Cafe Heidelberg is hiring. Though no requirements are articulated, I would imagine knowing German and harboring a love of Deutsch bier wouldn’t hurt. Check it out here. Are you from Chicago? A Chicago bar is opening in Fort Lauderdale and the owners are looking to hire people from…
Only two more days until Clean Plate Charlie Night at PL8, during which diners at the restaurant between 6 and 9 p.m. on Thursday can weigh in on menu items to help determine the final cut.At dinner, you’ll receive this ballot, on which you can rank delicious dishes a 5,…
It’s Decorative Gourd Season, inspiration for our second round of seasonal beer tastings. For those who’d prefer drinking pumpkin pie to eating it, these are the beers for you. At the Great American Beer Festival in Boulder, Colorado, last week, there were 37 entries for the pumpkin beer category, with…
In “What Would You Order for Your Last Supper?” in the Food and Drink issue of the New York Times Magazine, New York chef and cookbook writer David Pasternack lists a dozen local oysters and clams paired with Pabst Blue Ribbon in a can on his fantasy menu, while Mario…
October ushers in the month of ghastly visions, including those at Saturday’s Endless Night Vampire Ball featured on today’s slide show. Vampires’ thirst for blood has inspired today’s roundup of blood-themed food and drink, either in name or reality. Sound disturbing? Just this past weekend in the New York Times’…
Prohibition, the latest documentary by Emmy-award winning Ken Burns that airs October 2 through 4 on PBS, focuses on how the law that tried to prevent drinking was based on an effort to “cling to the myth of an agrarian Jeffersonian America that never really was,” Burns told sister publication…
Josef and Beth Shibanetz have found a new location for Josef’s, the former Plantation restaurant that will debut in Boca Raton as Josef’s Table. The restaurant had earned the chef-owners accolades in the Miami Herald as a Broward top 20 restaurant and a Best Of in this paper in 2008 during…
September matches August for the numbers when it comes to restaurant openings and closings: slowed by the off-season, an iffy economic outlook, and the dog days of summer. This month, I’ve also included restaurants on deck, since a handful of restaurateurs aspire to October openings for in-season. Without further delay,…
Domino’s founder and former U.S. Marine Tom Monaghan, 74, announced over the weekend his plans to open the first Gyrene Burger in Naples, Florida, in two months, with the third slated to open in southwest Florida in January, announced Nation’s Restaurant News today.Branded the Marine nickname (G.I. and Marine),…
James Beard-nominated “Rising Star Chef of the Year” Michael Saperstein and partner Evan David signed a lease in Boca Raton this week to open a third restaurant by December 2011: a chef-driven, eclectic, small-plates restaurant that’s “unlike anything we have in the area so far.” Saperstein and David are the…
Sunset on a Wednesday at Longboards in West Palm Beach: Wicker table lamps glowed at place settings around the lacquered bar. Surfboards served as wall murals. Dick Dale’s reverb piped through speakers. The dinner crowd trickled in, but the bar was packed. A slim woman with long blond hair faced…
Georgie’s Alibi burger maestro Ron Kerr confirms that tomorrow, he’ll be serving his award-winning burgers in his new rig calledBites GastroTruck at the weekly food truck roundup at Seminole Hard Rock Casino beginning at 5:30 until 10 p.m. Kerr’s menu consists of flat-top cooked burgers for $7.50 offered with an…
Tap 42, the beer, burger, and bourbon spot that made an appearance at New Times Pairings a month before the place opens, is hiring front- and back-of-the-house staff today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Featuring 42 beers on tap and 100 bottles, Tap 42 has apparently hired an executive chef,…
A neighbor told me there’s always a band and a ruckus at Old Heidelberg during October. Not so in the early part of last night, a rainy Tuesday with a half dozen people huddled around the square bar. Waitresses in dirndls and nurse shoes stood in a doorway whispering in German…
We’re doing a little housekeeping on the blog with a one-two punch. The first is a reminder to mark your calendar for October 6, Clean Plate Charlie Night at PL8, during which diners at the restaurant between 6 and 9 p.m. can weigh in on menu items to help shape…
Even if it’s a quiet hour between lunch and dinner, inside Deerfield’s El Jefe Luchador, it’s as animated as a Mexican streetfest. Tables and chairs wear primary colors like a box of fat crayons. Against one wall, flamboyant masks stare from empty eyes: a reference to its “chief fighter” name. A…
Over at Good Magazine, it’s Sandwich Week, when the site reveals results for each state’s official nominations. Earlier in the month, the editors had asked Trina Sargalski of the Miami Dish blog for her selection. The choice, as you’d imagine, is a Cuban sandwich. She breaks it down as…
