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Surprise! LaSpada’s Original Hoagies Opens in Boca

Monster Madness enters LaSpada's new Boca Raton location

No signs. No memo. No email blast. No Facebook update. No twitter announcement. On November 2, LaSpada’s Original Hoagies quietly opened up their doors to their new Boca Raton location without telling anyone. But that didn’t mean people didn’t know.

Manager Phil Kappes, whose parents have owned and [...]

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 [...]

Breaking a Pizza Tradition

In South Florida, we get the luxury of exploring different ethnic foods on a daily basis. Miami-Dade gives us Little Haiti and Little Havana. Our grocery stores have isles dedicated to ingredients for meals used in other countries. Our neighbors can make a pizza that looks foreign to us, and yet, we can accept it [...]

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 [...]

Sun-Sentinel bans microwavable popcorn

First popcorn, then what? Do you take away their Hungry Man dinners? What did Orville Redenbacher ever do to the Sun-Sentinel that Publisher Howard Greenberg had to send out a memo on Thursday afternoon to his staff telling them microwaving popcorn was banned from the building?

Did Greenberg ever make popcorn in the alleged “hazardous” microwave? [...]

Team Mike LaMonica wins the first Great Pizza Cook-off

Winner Mike LaMonica had a total of 31 votes (including himself) out of nearly 70 that were cast at the First Annual Great Pizza Cook-off.

With a not-so-surprising, overwhelming majority, Team Mike LaMonica took home the inaugural victory of the Great Pizza Cook-off on Tuesday night. The contest was sponsored by Worst Pizza and the [...]

My lifelong meal: Grandma’s Homemade Mac ‘n Cheese

As children, there are three questions repeated profusely.

Are we there yet?

Do you love it so much that you would MARRY it?

And, of course….

Could you eat it every day for the rest of your life?

While the first two eventually fade, the third question sticks around. To this day, I think about that one meal that I [...]

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? [...]