Briny Irish Pub

A “traditional” Irish bar located smack dab on the corner of Sleazy Street and NE Drunk Avenue in Pompano. Really doesn’t sound like it should work, right? But the clientele that packs the Briny every night (especially Saturday night, when Rob Rage, the Briny’s own rock ‘n’ roll cover band, plays) doesn’t give a shit. […]

Brother Tuckers

Remember Friar Tuck, that rotund disciple of Robin Hood whose proselytizations involved food and booze more often than God? Well, if the goodly father had found his way from 11th-century England and somehow landed smack in the middle of Pompano Beach, he’d have quit the priesthood and opened Brother Tuckers, a saintly themed gastropub that […]

Bru’s Room Sports Grill

Adore the new girlfriend but still not sure whether she can handle your Sunday football fanaticism? Then take her to this game-day headquarters and test her endurance. If she’s a keeper, she won’t mind your attention drifting to one of several TVs broadcasting football, baseball, basketball, wrestling and NASCAR because she’ll be entranced in the […]

Bru’s Room Sports Grill

Adore the new girlfriend but still not sure whether she can handle your Sunday football fanaticism? Then take her to this game-day headquarters and test her endurance. If she’s a keeper, she won’t mind your attention drifting to one of several TVs broadcasting football, baseball, basketball, wrestling and NASCAR because she’ll be entranced in the […]

Bru’s Room Sports Grill

Adore the new girlfriend but still not sure whether she can handle your Sunday football fanaticism? Then take her to this game-day headquarters and test her endurance. If she’s a keeper, she won’t mind your attention drifting to one of several TVs broadcasting football, baseball, basketball, wrestling and NASCAR because she’ll be entranced in the […]

Bru’s Room Sports Grill

Adore the new girlfriend but still not sure whether she can handle your Sunday football fanaticism? Then take her to this game-day headquarters and test her endurance. If she’s a keeper, she won’t mind your attention drifting to one of several TVs broadcasting football, baseball, basketball, wrestling and NASCAR because she’ll be entranced in the […]

Buccaneer Lounge & Liquor

This Pompano neighborhood bar is for storytellers. Sure, the bartender will tell you, sometimes they’re the same stories. You’ll be the thousandth ear that’s heard that Buccaneer regular, the middle-aged ex-yachtie or rabble-rouser, relate the time he got pulled over with rum and pot. Spoiler: The cop let him go — phew. But here you’re […]

Butterfly World

Nothing can bring a smile to a forlorn face like the ever delightful butterfly. And at Butterfly World in Coconut Creek, you can see thousands of the winged wonders. Basically, it’s a 10-acre butterfly bonanza spurred by one man’s love. Here, you’ll catch a glimpse at Biblis Hyperia, Vindula Erota, Euploea Mulciber and all kinds […]

Cafe La Buca

To many Americans, Italian food is Southern Italian: period. While we tend to favor eating our way through the entire spectrum of the peninsula, we wouldn’t have a problem with the red-sauce-only notion if we could keep coming back to Cafe La Buca in Delray Beach. Not the most elegant and not the most expensive, […]

Calypso Restaurant & Raw Bar

Got a hankering for some marinated, pounded, and “scorched” conch? A craving for chicken curry stuffed in roti? A feeling for mahi, fried and squirted with lime? If so, a visit to the islands-inspired Calypso is certainly in order. Casual and ultraclean, the pub serves Caribbean fare to those who have had it with local […]

Cap’s Place Island Restaurant and Bar

Old gambling dens never die; they just fade away. Cap’s Place, set on an island in what used to be acres of scrub and beach sand, is now surrounded by million-dollar condos and even pricier yachts in Lighthouse Point, but that just makes the nostalgia even richer. In 1928, Cap Knight and friend Al Hasis […]

Casa Maya Grill

Deerfield Beach is loaded with Mexican restaurants, but none is as original as Casa Maya Grill. The restaurant focuses on authentic dishes from the Yucatan Peninsula, which means you’ll find specialties beyond the ordinary burritos and tacos. Cochinita Pibil, pork marinated in annatto seed and sour orange juice, is baked in a banana leaf until […]

Charm City Burgers Company

Charm City’s motto is, “Five star chefs, five dollar burgers.” And you’ll get just that: gourmet-style burgers topped with so many quality ingredients that they’re literally bursting open. The messy sandwiches do pose some serious questions, such as, how do you get your mouth around a six-inch-tall burger and keep dry? But finding the answer […]

Checkers Old Munchen

Munchen, as in Old-Munchen, is German for Munich. But it’s also a signifier of the spirited good times cooked up at this Pompano Beach eatery in that the place feels just like a beer bar set in the historic Bavarian capital. The small restaurant is lined with beer bottles and decorative steins and anchored by […]

Cheetah

Strip clubs appeal to the simplest impulse of man: sex. So how did we let the strip club become so damned high-concept? Is the modern man really unsatisfied with merely the sight of impossibly gorgeous nude women? Must he also be seated on some regal piece of furniture within a palatial space throbbing with neon, […]