Jan Norris: Food and Florida Online

If I’m not getting myself into trouble, my friends are doing it for me. A friend passed my name along to another friend throwing a baby shower, and suggested I was the one to do her cake.
I am getting a reputation for quirky and fun cakes – definitely not the gorgeous, perfect ones.
So because this is a friend, [...]

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Boca Raton’s Opus 5 ,  the fifth restaurant that local restaurateur Burt Rapoport opened, has been sold to Lirim Jacobi.
Jacobi sees potential in the “eatertainment” business — dining with some kind of entertainment alongside. He has seen success with Taverna Opa! – a Greek-style eatery in CityPlace that features belly dancers and music late-night. Right behind it [...]

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La Sirena, the top-rated Italian restaurant in West Palm Beach, is closed for the summer, but chef/owner Marcello can’t stay out of the kitchen.
On Thursday he’ll reopen for one night for a special wine dinner. Mark Spivak, our wine geek on this site, will be there talking about wines. The “classic La Sirena tasting menu” dinner with wines [...]

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One of the most famous cars on the planet, the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, crashed into a house in Wisconsin and poked through their garage. While this is only vaguely food related, it is funny. Anything to do with the Wienermobile is funny – we can’t help ourselves.
Put your best food entendre or pun out there and [...]

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Fans of the original Fire Rock Pizza in downtown West Palm will be happy to know of the newly opened Hot Pie Pizza in the old 123 Olive location – on Olive.
John Reis, enthusiastic owner, has a smaller, cozier spot to do his New York-style coal-fired pizzas once more.
“I went to Washington state,” he said, for [...]

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