Clean Plate: Restaurants with zero violations in Broward County in April, May

Burger Fi - Lauderdale By Sea - Perfect score 

A list of places that had ZERO VIOLATIONS on their unannounced routine food safety inspection in Broward County in April and May 2022. Most places are inspected twice a year, but it’s a risk-based system. Restaurant inspections are performed by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. We thank them all for making our health and safety a priority. 

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Blind Spicy Chicken Sandwich Taste Test

Leave the Sweatshirt at Home. Dining Dress Codes Are Back.

A number of restaurants are betting that Americans want to get gussied up again, but not everyone is thrilled about the fashion screening. 

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Tantrum At McDonald's

Here’s a Florida farm that attracts tons of visitors, thanks to this drool-worthy shortcake

Strawberry season is over in Florida -- and one sad part about that is, it means no more world-famous strawberry shortcake from Parkesdale Farm Market. But as is the case in general when trying to reserve rentals or map out vacations for next winter in Florida, it never hurts to start now if you’ll be planning a visit to Parkesdale.

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You'd never guess all the ingredients in Worcestershire sauce!

Worcestershire sauce has been around since 1837, when it was invented in England. It adds body to pasta sauce, spice to red beans and rice and depth of flavor to French onion soup. And you can’t make a good Bloody Mary without it. But what’s really in that paper-wrapped bottle at the back of your pantry? 

 

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Going to Plantation Walk, the hot new food-and-shopping paradise? Be prepared for surcharges

Tacocraft is the first — and so far, only — restaurant to open inside the $350 million food-shopping playground known as Plantation Walk. Diners and shoppers should be prepared for a 1 percent surcharge on their receipts, which was added by the shopping center's developer to finance entertainment events at the complex. (Susan Stocker / South Florida Sun Sentinel) After eating her shrimp salad at the new Tacocraft Taqueria and Tequila Bar at Plantation Walk in April, Ashley Munson scanned her table’s $61 lunch check. There it was, right at the bottom: a 61-cent fee called the “Plantation Walk Surcharge.” Munson and her three girlfriends flagged a server. “I just asked the waitress what it was, and she was like, ‘It’s for the entertainment in the center, I think?’” Munson recalls. “So I joked to the table, ‘Uh, that’s kind of stupid. Tacocraft is the only place here.’ And the waitress laughed and said, ‘Yes, lots of people have been saying the same thing.’ " 

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Fort Lauderdale mayor takes aim at noise: ‘I do not want Las Olas to turn into Ocean Drive’

FORT LAUDERDALE — Mayor Dean Trantalis was trying to enjoy dinner on Las Olas with family and friends when the ambiance was ruined by an unwelcome but familiar part of life in tourist-friendly South Florida: The deafening vroom vroom vroom of a parade of motorcycles and souped-up cars. “It was loud,” Trantalis griped at a recent City Hall meeting. “I do not want to see Las Olas Boulevard turn into Ocean Drive — and that’s where we’re headed.” 

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Weekend things to do: Rooftop sunset dancing on Fort Lauderdale beach, doughnut beer in Boynton Beach, a garden of rosé

Here we are knee-deep in May, having gotten rid of the Spring Breakers and other random ne’er-do-wells, and we can finally be ourselves. So La Playa Dayclub will finally show locals what it’s about this weekend — an entirely different energy on Fort Lauderdale beach. A new rooftop spot to chill, tucked away on the second floor of the oceanfront restaurant Bo’s Beach, La Playa is bringing world-ranked DJ talent to the southern end of the beach this weekend, with performances by UK-spawned duo Audiojack on Friday and fellow Brit Steve Lawler on Saturday. 

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