OK, this is by far the weirdest, messiest edible I’ve ever kept in my kitchen, a thing that performs a sort of vegetal strip tease over the course of a week or so, spilling greenish dragon scales all over counter top and floor. You eat the part that reveals itself,…
Preview with a view. Trina, Cero, Galanga, and Jackson’s Steakhouse started their Dine Out Lauderdale Preview on September 14, offering advance tastes on their $35 three-course prix fixe menus. Full details are at Open Table; make sure to check before you go, since they’re mostly offering the Dine Out menu…
A friend of mine brought me a bagful of Russian candy from Brighton Beach, and after tasting it I’ve decided I’m going to save it for the Halloween trick or treaters. I never have candy to give away on Halloween, and I find myself more often than not cowering in…
Heads up comes by way of a press release, so let’s head in: Proprietors Tim Petrillo and Peter Boulukos (also the chef) chose a 6,300 square feet space on Las Olas Boulevard to house the new YOLO Restaurant & O Lounge. YOLO is expected to open September 30 and will…
Your next free meal is crawling your way. The Florida Spiny Lobster is walking, thanks to the recent hurricanes that passed through the Keys. Our Keys lobsters are taking a mass holiday and sauntering up the coast close to shore — they’re expected to reach Miami today and Palm Beach…
Manny’s Steaks serves steaks, steaks, and more steaks, each thicker than Sarah Palin’s brain. It offers seafood steaks, too, and lobsters larger than Lindsay Lohan. Then there’s shrimp cocktail, hash browns, and creamed spinach — we all know the classic steak-house playbook by now. We’re also familiar with the formula…
Lee Klein Juan Zavala Jr. was sitting with relatives in his native Argentina when someone brought up the age-old question: “What should we get for dinner?” The choice came down to pizza or empanadas, and the latter was chosen near unanimously. That’s when Juan, thinking of the 40 million Hispanics…
Be honest: Does this look like breakfast? This Sunday, September 21, 2008: If you’ve never eaten a Mamey (tastes like a sweet potato crossed with a papaya) or a Jackfruit (juicyfruit candy crossed with bananas) you’ll have a chance this Sunday to give it a whirl, courtesy of Fairchild Tropical…
[ Biba: Haunt of the Hotties We’re officially halfway through Flavor Palm Beach, the only thirty dollar three-course meal you’re likely to get in the foreseeable future. Have you been to Forte yet? Solu? Strip House? I stopped in to Forte last week for cocktails, and before I could say…
I have so much love to give. Serious serial monogamy There have always been things to love about Java Boys in Wilton Manors. Besides the best mocha in the world (seriously: everybody else skimps on the chocolate), Java Boys has pretty good pound cakes, comfy sofas, a friendly clientele, and…
Elyse Wanshel I’ve always felt like Kendall is a Chinese finger cuff of a suburb. It isn’t particularly interesting (other than some dude who drives around with a weather vane and a toilet seat glued to his car), it’s swarmed with identical peach colored strip malls pumped full of Staples…
Dude comes with a price tag. Deconstructed Press Release: Ft. Lauderdale—Fresh from his stint as Oprah Winfrey’s chef for her 21-Day Cleanse… um, correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the point of a “cleanse” to stop eating for a while? Don’t you drink a lot of juice and warm…
Lee Klein We loved everything about M Restaurant (Kertész u. 48), including the goose leg gobbled in the photo above. We’d arrived into the city at dusk, showered, and headed out a bit weary after a very long ride in a van (from Skopje). We were going to eat at…
Lee Klein We were in the city for just four days, but that was long enough to pick up an obvious vibe: Budapest is happening. It is young. It is hip. It is, along with places such as Berlin and Barcelona, part of a new world order of cities worth…
Lee Klein On this stretch of the trip, in a tiny fishing village tucked into a pristine corner of Lake Ohrid (one of the oldest, deepest lakes in the world), we ate almost every meal at “home” — meaning prepared on a small two-burner electric oven outdoors, on a patio…
After almost six years, thousands of meals, and enough accolades to cause any normal person’s head to swell larger than Ohio, there’s only one problem with Edgar Leal’s Cacao. You want to eat everything on the menu. Let’s see, classic Peruvian corvina ceviche or wild boar antichucho? Corn soufflé with…
Lee Klein It was half-past midnight, and folks in the photo above were lining up for late-night street snacks. Actually, they pretty much queue up day and night at this bakery that has been operating for over one hundred years, and now is one of just a few Macedonian-owned businesses…
You could be here. Brunch at Pier 66. The Pier Top lounge on the rotating top floor of the Pier 66 Hyatt Regency hotel closed down some time ago, and it was too damned bad. With its ever-changing view of the marina, the port, downtown, and the beach, there was…
Friends in Skopje, Macedonia, and in nearby Dracevo, are like family to my wife and I; we’ve been here quite a few times over the years. So many people invite us to their homes for dinner that it becomes a rare occasion to eat in restaurants. We did dine at…
Table 8, the chic-Los Angeles import tucked into the Hotel De Soleil at the north tip of Ocean Drive, isn’t too coy on its Miami Spice preview page about why you should pay a visit: the chef, Govind Armstrong, is “famous”, the ambience is “trendy”, and the “celebrity fan-base” includes…
Oh la la, Metronome est bon! Metronome is a relative newcomer to the Palm Beach Gardens dining strip along PGA Boulevard, and in spite of this wearisome location, it’s a darling place both outside and in — oversized French bistro posters, cushy red banquettes, red and white straw chairs, a…
Lee Klein We stayed on a houseboat a bit outside the city, rode rented bicycles all over the place, and enjoyed Belgrade immensely — but truth be told, this particular leg of the journey wasn’t culinarily oriented. Generally our lunches were crafted from goods we’d buy at the market (pictured…
