April 19, 2024
Dining & Travel
Combining shopping and eating in Florida
Some of Florida's most intriguing successes now put dining rooms and sales floors together.
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Published on 3/31/2014
Food markets off the beaten path
Across Florida, entrepreneurs obsessed with good food and craft beer have created new restaurant rows that are reviving older neighborhoods.
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Published on 2/28/2014
New global restaurant brands make their way into Florida
A new class of global culinary labels — “chains” may be too crass a label — is moving into Florida, most particularly to Miami. The restaurants are decidedly upper crust, with youthful accents of Asian spice and craft cocktails.
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Published on 1/2/2014
Hog Wild - Florida's Gastropub Revolution
Judging by the amounts of rough wood, chalkboards and pork products in Miami's poshest neighborhood, the Gastro Revolution is now complete.
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Published on 11/25/2013
How sweet it is: Savory treats at Florida restaurants
Breads, desserts and all the pizza dough, exotic ice cream and chocolate truffles in between are playing bigger roles today in top Florida restaurants. These days, pastry chefs share menu credit with their savory partners and, in fact, contribute key breadstuffs to appetizers, gourmet breadbaskets and sandwiches as well as dessert.
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Published on 11/1/2013
Ovations Food Services - Southwest Florida Business Profile
Tampa-based Ovations Food Services manages food and catering operations at more than 120 venues in the United States and Canada...
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Published on 10/22/2013
Yesterday & Today - Florida's Historic Dining
The exotic spice in dining sometimes can be history, which can be hard to find in a state as young, frantic and vacation-driven as Florida...
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Published on 10/11/2013
Unchained: New concepts in local dining
Florida restaurateurs create whole new dining experiences by starting small and trying new concepts.
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Published on 9/6/2013
Steaking their claim: Steak houses in Florida
Restaurant Editor Chris Sherman reviews some notable steak houses in Florida.
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Published on 8/9/2013
The Chef behind the change
Matthias Gervais, executive chef at the Setai Hotel on Miami Beach, talks with Chris Sherman about how a chef changes a hotel's menu.
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Published on 7/12/2013
Check-in time at hotel restaurants
A look at some of Florida's best dining at Palm Beach's The Breakers, Sarasota's Ritz-Carlton, Orlando Marriott and The Setai Hotel in Miami Beach.
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Published on 7/12/2013
Wine bar hopping in Florida
California's vineyards are latecomers. Florida has had wine since the French Huguenots planted grapes here and made their own — call it First Wine in the First City.
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Published on 6/6/2013
Naples' Persian
Boulevardiers who stroll past the Irish pubs, euro bistros, English tearooms and all-American ice cream and fudge shops this season in Naples will find that Fifth Avenue South takes a new turn.
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Published on 5/17/2013
Chris Sherman chats about changes in chain restaurants
FloridaTrend restaurant editor Chris Sherman discusses the changes afoot for Florida's chain restaurants.
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Published on 5/13/2013
Horseplay at Florida polo clubs
Sarasota polo Club, The Villages Polo Club and International Polo Club Palm Beach
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Published on 5/10/2013
The Discovery Continues
There's much to see and do as Florida commemorates the 500-year anniversary of Ponce de Leon arriving on its eastern shore.
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Published on 4/30/2013
Chris Sherman on what makes a restaurant a "Golden Spoon"
A video Q&A with Florida Trend's restaurant editor
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Published on 4/25/2013
Cuisine Classwork
In their day jobs, the guests at the Sheraton Sand Key were sales executives for Davidoff of Geneva, experienced at marketing fine cigars and luxury goods.
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Published on 4/12/2013
Digital Menus
Menus and wine lists are going digital across Florida at all levels of price and style...
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Published on 3/15/2013
Business-- and Beyond: Luxury resorts that cater to business
Resorts that focus on business travel also understand the value of
down-time amenities.
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Published on 3/8/2013
Law Firm Mergers: Careful and Strategic
Last year saw moves by Florida firms looking to expand outside of Florida as well as out-of-state firms expanding their reach into the Sunshine State.
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Published on 2/12/2013
South American Tour
Once upon a time, dining on Latin American food in Florida meant Cuban and Mexican ... Today, the Latin table stretches all the way down the Southern Hemisphere.
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Published on 2/7/2013
Naples Wine Fest
Nowhere else in the wine world do so few give so much with the speed and noise of the bidders at the Naples Winter Wine Fest. They did it again last weekend raising more than $8.5 million in six hours for thousands of at-risk children within 20 miles of 500 donors under an inflated white tent on the lawn of the Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort.
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Published on 1/28/2013
A Tour of Florida's Winter Wine Festivals
Florida Trend's Restaurant Editor Chris Sherman sends notice of the best of the best wine festivals around the state.
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Published on 1/15/2013
Southern Swing
Up north from central Florida to the Georgia-Alabama borders, Southern cooking is hotter than ever.
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Published on 1/11/2013
