Food & Drink

It’s happened again. Your friends have invited you to an upscale, sit-down restaurant—pulling you away from your carefully measured bowl of quinoa and kale. You glance at the menu and see enticing options that tempt you to throw your new diet right out the window. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to play out that way. To

The Balcony on Las Olas brings New Orleans flare to South Florida with new additions to their dinner menu. The expansions to the appetizer portion of the menu include vegetable dumplings with sweet serrano chili sauce and coconut crusted shrimp with sweet mango serrano sauce. New Orleans jumbo lump crab cakes are also available, made

Chill, shake, and serve. With Miami Cocktail Co., that’s all it takes to sip and savor a gourmet cocktail in the comfort of your home. Think of the Wynwood-based business as a bartender in a bottle, where each cocktail blend—from mimosas to margaritas—is meticulously crafted with organic ingredients, like Florida grapefruit and Sicilian oranges. Created

Where: 20 SE Fifth Ave., Delray Beach; 6020 N. Federal Highway, Boca Raton Website: lesorellerestaurant.com [image_with_text_over icon_size=”fa-lg” image=”18641″ title=”Sister Act”] As evidenced by the five-star raves on social media, diners in Boca and Delray are delighting in the authentic Italian cuisine and familial warmth at the two Palm Beach County locations of Le Sorelle, the

[image_with_text_over icon_size=”fa-lg” image=”18544″ image_shader_hover_color=”#ffffff” title=”Taurus Beer and Whisk(e)y Bar” title_color=”#ffffff”] Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with live music from 5pm to 8pm and specials on Jameson shots, pints of Guinness, Car Bombs and Reuben sandwiches. Chef Michael Beltran will also have an a la carte menu featuring the Chug burger, fritas, wings, and butter grilled oysters.

Food images by Gyorgy Papp Photography In Japanese, the word sensei expresses reverence to someone who has achieved a mastery in their art. The sensei at Casa Sensei is executive chef Richard Huang, who was born in Thailand. Huang and co-owners Victor and Patricia Diaz are putting their stamp on the Las Olas restaurant scene,

Food and cooking equal comfort for Paul Youngstrand, chef at NYY Steak at Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. As a youngster growing up in Plymouth, Minnesota, 15 miles west of Minneapolis, he would escape to the kitchen during large family gatherings. “We didn’t go out and eat at restaurants very often, so there was always activity

Where: 2460 E. Commercial Blvd., Fort Lauderdale Phone: 754.332.2125 Website: gatsbysjoints.com When she first started her apparel business in and around Chicago (her franchised stores include Once Upon a Child and Plato’s Closet), Elaine Krieger used Krispy Kreme doughnuts as a lure when sweet-talking prospective customers. As proprietor of Gatsby’s Joint, Krieger (who still has

The 18th annual South Beach Wine & Food Festival, which ranks as one of the largest food events in the nation, returns to Miami this month. From Feb. 20 to 24, you’ll find a schedule complete with more than 100 events in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties. Some of the events on this year’s

When you hang your salt-rimmed glass on the kind of craft margaritas that El Camino creates, only the freshest ingredients make the cut. So, it should have come as no surprise to customers at the restaurant’s Delray Beach outpost a few years ago when the watermelon-jalapeño margarita quietly rotated off the menu for a brief

Luisa Castillo jokes that she sometimes wears heels to seem older than she is. It’s hard for some people to believe the 24-year-old owns Belove Creamery in Coconut Creek. But it’s actually not the first time she’s taken a walk on the sweet side and launched a business. In her native Colombia, she worked at

There’s a lot more to a Miami burger these days than a meat patty with a slice of cheese on a sesame bun. It might be layered with sizzling strips of candied bacon, topped with heaps of macaroni and cheese, or hugged between two crisp, golden plantains. Today, South Florida restaurants and fast-casual spots are