New restaurants: Timon Balloo’s The Katherine in Fort Lauderdale, Truli Italian in Coconut Creek

Chef Timon Balloo, the James Beard semifinalist who launched Miami’s Sugarcane a decade ago, is ambling up to downtown Fort Lauderdale with this seafood- and vegetable-focused restaurant named for his wife. The intimate restaurant debuts Jan. 20. 723 E. Broward Blvd., TheKatherineRestaurant.com 

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New Royal Caribbean Ship Features Southern Dining, 20+ Restaurants

Royal Caribbean has announced new dining details on its upcoming vessel Wonder of the Seas, which just so happens to be the largest cruise ship in the world. Setting sail this March, passengers will be able to choose from over 20 dining venues, including a brand-new restaurant called The Mason Jar Southern Restaurant & Bar. 

The Mason Jar Where southern comfort food meets Royal Caribbean’s hospitality, The Mason Jar invites guests to share a meal and drinks in an inviting, casual setting. The new specialty restaurant sets the scene with a farmhouse style complete with rustic decor, live country music, and a porch decked out with a swing for lounging. At the center of it all: a bar serving up an assortment of southern specialties. 

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New Candles Smell Like Campbell’s Soup

While most of us are patiently waiting for warmer weather and summer fun, even those who don’t like the cold have to admit there is something magical about the winter. The sparkling snow, cozy socks and your favorite comfort foods, like a warm bowl of soup, all add to winter’s charm. Capturing that cozy winter vibe is the idea behind a new line of merchandise from Campbell’s. The soup brand has launched two limited-edition candles based on two comforting winter meals: Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese and Chicken Noodle Soup. 

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The Largest Open-Air Food Market In The Country Is Coming To South Florida

Florida residents, get ready for the ultimate food market to pop up in Miami this coming spring. Smorgasburg, as it’s known in New York and now Los Angeles, is opening up shop in Miami for a once-a-week open-air food market that is the largest of its kind in the entire country. If you’re a food lover, you do not want to miss out on this incredible offering. 

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FORBES / South Beach Wine & Food Festival Founder Shares His Top Event Picks For 2022

The Food Network & Cooking Channel South Beach Wine & Food Festival Presented by Capital One (SOBEWFF®) is gearing up for its 21st year with a star-studded lineup featuring Food Network & Cooking Channel personalities and more than 400 chefs and wine and spirit producers. These talented chefs and stars are coming together for a weekend of food and booze-filled events consisting of walk-around tastings, intimate dinners, late-night parties, brunches, lunches, master classes, wine seminars and more. Widely recognized as one of the country’s largest and most popular, the four-day Festival returns to the sand February 24 to 27, 2022 with 90+ events spanning Miami-Dade and Broward counties. 

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Feasts from burden: South Florida’s food festivals still pack a punch after rebounding from COVID

That faint, sweet-salty aroma of elephant ears, bacon, garlic and tacos reaching your nostrils is no lie: South Florida’s bounty of food festivals are back. Starting with the deep-fried decadence of this weekend’s South Florida Fair (Jan. 14-30) and ending with more battered sea creatures at the Pompano Beach Seafood Festival (April 22-24), the calendar once again brims with food and drink, COVID be damned. Call it a remarkable rebound, a testament to the resilience of the South Florida food community, which endured two straight years of COVID delays, postponements and outright cancellations. Just about every festival on this list has survived one pandemic burden or another. 

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How Louisiana’s Biggest Crawfish Farm Sells Three Million Pounds of Crawfish Every Year — Dan Does

Rice farmers like Mike Frugé of Cajun Crawfish in Louisiana figured out that the two year growing cycle of crawfish synced perfectly with the two year cycle of the rice crop. He shows us how his rice fields are seeded with baby crawfish every other year, creating a new source of food and income for farmers in the area.

 

Can restaurants provide different prices not listed on the menu?

(WSVN) - The menu said the meal was one price, but the restaurant charged a different price. Can they do that? If you get the new COVID variant, do you get paid time off from work? Answers to these and other questions in tonight’s Help Me Howard with Patrick Fraser. Alexandria and her sister were running an errand, and decided to pick up lunch. Alexandria Lindsay: “And we saw a little shop, and we’re like, ‘let’s go eat there, it looks really good.'” 

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Fat Tap Beer Bar and Eatery in Oakland Park abruptly shuts down after six months

A scant six months after opening on Oakland Park’s downtown Dixie Highway drag, Fat Tap Beer Bar and Eatery has poured its final pint. The neighborhood gastropub and brewery, which debuted in late June, has permanently shut down, unable to draw a strong beer-drinking audience as COVID continues raging across the state, owners Robert and Yvette Robayna posted this week on Fat Tap’s social media. 

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Fort Lauderdale’s got Moxies: Canadian restaurant to land on Las Olas Boulevard

Moxies, a popular Canadian restaurant chain, will shuffle onto Fort Lauderdale's Las Olas Boulevard with poutine, hamburgers, steaks, sushi cones and a one-pound serving of nachos. 

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