Jan Norris: Food and Florida

Seems a popular tweeter in Houston was kicked out of a restaurant after tweeting a negative comment about the bartender and his service. You can read about the ordeal of Allison Matsu and the DownHouse on the Houston Press blog, but the synopsis is this: Matsu was drinking at the bar and tweeted that the [...]

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Just when you think you’re over all this gourmet, fresh burger craze, along comes one that gets it right: BurgerFi. David Manero, of Vic and Angelo’s and The Office fame, opened the off-beach BurgerFi on A1A in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea in February. It’s slated to be the first of many. BurgerFi stands for “burgerfication” of the nation. [...]

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It finally happened: Flora and Ella’s, a homespun cafe in LaBelle, has closed. It’s weathered a number of recessions, a couple of moves and diet swings away from its signature country cooking. But the financial wolves finally won. The restaurant on State Road 80 at a bend in the road in La Belle closed March [...]

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A tangle of chefs, restaurateurs, and diners are all over the recent story in the New York Times where certain New York chefs and restaurateurs have said they won’t make substitutions on their menu, and in certain cases, have rules about diners ordering the same things as other tablemates. South Florida chefs spoke out on [...]

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A  New York Times story has the food world all a-twitter. It’s about a new generation of “purist” chefs who are joining with New York City’s Momofuku restaurateur David Chang to say, “The customer is not always right.” These are chefs who are saying “no” to diners who want to make substitutions to their dishes. [...]

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