You’re hungry. You’re thirsty. You’re ready for the sun, sand, and celebrity chefs at the 16th-annual Food Network and Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival.But what you really want right now is a game plan. What you need is some professional insight into the best way to tackle what has become one of the nation’s largest annual food festivals.
This week, Grandview Public Market is celebrating its official grand opening in the new District area of West Palm Beach. Dubbed the first multivendor food hall of its kind in the area, the 14,000-square-foot center includes a melding of eateries, boutiques, fitness studios, and event spaces created from repurposed midcentury warehouses.
It’s the most delicious time of year — the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Each year, the five-day event attracts many of the nation’s best in the food-and-beverage industry, from wine and spirits professionals to chefs and culinary personalities. Since its inception, the fest has morphed into a world of dinners, seminars, spirits and wine tastings, brunches, lunches, and late-night, celebrity-filled parties.
Fort Lauderdale’s fifth brewery, Tarpon River Brewing, will open at 280 SW Sixth St. Saturday, February 24. The brewery, formerly known as New River Brewing, is a joint venture among Riverside Market owners Julian and Lisa Seigel, Native Brewing Company, and the Restaurant People (TRP).
For the first time ever, Funky Buddha Brewery will release its award-winning peanut butter and jelly brown ale, No Crusts, in bottles this year as part of a new release schedule. The Oakland-based production brewery will also begin canning its core beers alongside a new lineup that will also include new packaging, a year-round beer, and a year’s worth of limited and seasonal beers hitting statewide distribution for the first time.
On December 15, Mathews Brewing Co. will open the doors to its Lake Worth brewhouse and taproom located just west of the city’s downtown, in the newly recognized Artisanal Industrial District.
This week, the annual Whisky Extravaganza returns to Fort Lauderdale, one of just three host locations on the East Coast this year. On Thursday, December 7, the event will offer whiskey novices and aficionados the chance to explore a wide range of the most prestigious single malt, premium, Scotch, and other unique whiskeys from around the world in addition to curated culinary pairings.
Sports celebrity Michael Jordan is one of the names behind a new Palm Beach County restaurant and private club set to debut in Jupiter later this year. The luxury dining establishment known as 1000 North, named for its address at 1000 N. U.S. Hwy. 1, will offer near panoramic views of the Jupiter Inlet and Jupiter Lighthouse.
Florida’s first brewery dedicated to American wild ales is now open in Pompano Beach. The day after Thanksgiving, Odd Breed Wild Ales owners and brewers Matt Manthe and Dan Naumko debuted their tasting room. The intimate space is located in the city’s industrial-like Old Town Pompano area.
This weekend, the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery will celebrate its seventh anniversary with more than 40 rare Funky Buddha beers, food trucks, and live music from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Saturday, October 7. For Funky Buddha founders and husband-and-wife team Ryan and Giani Sentz, who opened the…
A highly coveted beer from Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon will be available to South Floridians for the first time when it goes on tap at Laser Wolf in Fort Lauderdale later this month. And if there’s one thing we all need after Irmageddon, it’s a good drink.
In South Florida, a number of breweries offer their own version of the IPA. Most recently, some brewers are also developing varieties infused with tropical fruits and flavors to reflect the regional climate. Here are the ten most interesting IPAs from Miami-Dade to Palm Beach County.
Wawa has officially expanded into Broward County this month with the opening of two stores. On Thursday, July 27, fans of the Philadelphia-based convenience store chain can celebrate the launch of the company’s 119 and 120th Florida stores with the grand opening of locations at 4290 Davie Rd. in Davie and 3601 N. Federal Hwy. in Pompano Beach.
Etaru, a restaurant specializing in Japanese robatayaki, will open its first location in South Florida later this year at the former Hyde Beach Kitchen + Cocktails space in Hallandale Beach. The restaurant and beach club closed a few months ago.
Invasive Species Brewing has officially invaded South Florida. The 2,800-square-foot facility and taproom, located in Fort Lauderdale, is one of several breweries slated to open in Broward County in the coming year. Following a private friends-and-family debut last weekend, Invasive Species Brewing is now holding temporary business hours from 5 p.m. to midnight this week at its Flagler Village taproom just south of North Flagler Drive.
Fans of diner fare can get a taste of celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s favorite meat loaf he sampled during Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives when Metro Diner opens its Tamarac location on Tuesday, July 18. Established in 1992 by the Davoli family with a single eatery in Jacksonville, this Florida-based chain is…
The Can Cans, a national awards competition that recognizes canned craft beer excellence, has tapped a pair South Florida breweries. Boynton Beach’s Due South Brewing Company and MIA Beer Company were two of four breweries to win two medals apiece. More than 25 styles and 400 beers…
If you’ve never had a chance to try the world-famous pastrami at Katz’s Deli, there’s good news: The New York City-based establishment is taking its meat to Miami.
Deerfield Beach resident Bryan Turner was first in line for J. Wakefield Brewing’s most recent bottle release this past weekend. He arrived at the Wynwood taproom just after 9 p.m. Friday, June 9, and set up chairs in front of the brewery bay doors about 13 hours before bottle sales began.
This past weekend, the Fort Lauderdale-based Hukilau — considered one of the world’s largest and most authentic celebrations of tiki culture, cocktails, art, and music — kicked off its annual festivities. It was bigger and better than ever thanks to an expanded schedule of events and educational symposiums.
This week’s National Doughnut Day isn’t just another silly, made-up food holiday. It’s actually a 78-year-old day of remembrance established by the Salvation Army in 1938 to commemorate “doughnut lassies,” women volunteers who were sent to France during World War I to help distribute the fried-dough treats in an effort to make soldiers feel more at home. That translates to specials on plenty of doughnuts when the annual holiday rolls around, this year Friday, June 2.
This Memorial Day weekend, some of the leading ladies of the country’s craft beer industry will be gathering in Fort Lauderdale for what is being hailed as the nation’s first all-female beer fest. On May 28, the local women’s advocacy group the Fem Collective will launch its inaugural FemAle Brew Fest, organized by Fem Collective CEO Frances Antonio-Martineau.
