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A LeTub Virgin No More

Photo by: Dori Zinn

It’s embarrassing, really. It’s shameful, regretful, and even disgraceful. With the legend of Hollywood Beach’s LeTub Saloon, I felt immensely awkward walking in there for the first time this past March.

I’ve been in South Florida 16 years. By unwritten law, that makes me a native. It’s my job, as a “native,” [...]

Charm City’s Milkshakes bring all the Fat Kids to the Yard

Now solidified in Deerfield Beach culture, I have discovered the secret to Charm City Burger Company’s amazing chocolate milkshake: U-Bet chocolate syrup.

I say that only because I grew up on U-bet. Hershey’s chocolate syrup is all well and good, but my Mommy taught me right: U-bet chocolate. Or bust.

Well maybe my Mom never said “or [...]

Pile high the pastrami at Primanti Bros.

Photo by Rachael Joyner

The first time I went into a Primanti Bros., I squeezed into a small chair at their very snug Fort Lauderdale location. I took a friend – a Pittsburgh native who said a taste of Primanti’s was like a taste of home. So I took him for his birthday.

“I’ll have the [...]

Gilbert’s has the secret to simple

Photo by: Lindsay Moore

“We have the best burgers in South Florida.”

She told me, and I didn’t believe her. Not because she’s a bad person (far from it) or her burgers were bad (far from it), but because once you hear the same line constantly, you tend to take is less and less seriously.

“Oh really? [...]

It’s all about the bacon-ness, baby

If it were any regular cheeseburger, I wouldn’t have to talk about it.

But it’s the Cowboy burger from Charm City Burger Co. in Deerfield Beach, and it’s like it was made just for fat kids like me.

I get it sans-sautéed mushrooms, but that doesn’t take away from its awesomeness. It’s also loaded up with sautéed [...]