Check, Please! Starts New Season: Hakkasan, Hy Vong, and a Female Impersonator

Michelle Bernstein returns to host Check, Please!, the popular WPBT program where everybody is a critic. There will be an updated graphic opening, a revamped logo, new theme music (I can't remember the last theme song), and most importantly, new restaurants to critique.This season's guest reviewers include a South Beach...

By Lee Klein

January 12, 2012

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Michelle Bernstein returns to host Check, Please!, the popular WPBT program where everybody is a critic. There will be an updated graphic opening, a revamped logo, new theme music (I can't remember the last theme song), and most importantly, new restaurants to critique.

This season's guest reviewers include a South Beach model, a Palm Beach financier, a golf caddy from Hollywood and Miss Finesse, a local female impersonator. Insert your own punchline.

So season seven begins Monday, January 23 at 7:30 p.m.; episodes repeat same time on Wednesdays and at 5:30 each Saturday.

Here is the schedule of restaurants to be reviewed:

Jan. 23: La Brochette Bistro in Cooper City; Lifefood Gourmet in Coral Gables; Macita's Colombian Restaurant in Palmetto Bay.

Jan. 30: 32 East in Delray Beach, Snapper's Seafood & Wine Bar in Boynton Beach, and Taqueria Doña Restaurant in Pompano Beach.

Feb. 3: Hakkasan in Miami Beach; Ristorante Sapori in Boca Raton; Candel Restaurant in Wilton Manors.

Feb. 13: Darbster in West Palm Beach, Bistro Chez Jean-Pierre in Palm Beach, and Geronimo's Bar & Grill in Davie.

Feb. 20: Hy Vong in Miami, Café Seville in Fort Lauderdale, and Lorna's Caribbean & American Restaurant in Miami Gardens.

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