August 20, 2018
Dining & Travel Archive
Endless arrays: Food halls are spreading across Florida
Food halls, the hottest trend in Florida this year, may be the perfect option for diners looking for plenty of choices... read more >
Diners Club: Metro Diner offers a new take on comfort food
Metro Diner skips the cute and stays true to working-class roots. read more >
Happy Hour – On Steroids
Restaurants extend bargain prices earlier, later and longer for sophisticated food and drinks. read more >
Higher grounds: A look at the coffee revolution in Florida
The latest coffee revolution comes with great perks for Florida's java lovers Coffee itself is not local. read more >
Outskirt Steak: Chefs take creations outside central cities
After a decade living and working in Orlando, Laurie and Kevin Tarter found the perfect place to live: Winter Garden... read more >
Divided no more: Regional restaurants branch out across Florida
Put your ear to the table, and you can hear a Florida border crumbling — the one that used to separate east and west coast dining. read more >
Norman Van Aken is a Florida Icon
Chef, Florida Trend Hall of Fame restaurant owner, Miami; age 66 read more >
Florida's Best Places to Dine - The Future
Restaurants will be serving up more liquid meals and ethnic foods. read more >
Florida's Best Places to Dine - The Present
Along with Disney came a slew of chefs to broaden our palates. read more >
Florida's Best Places to Dine - The Past
Florida Trend's Golden Spoon awards are 50 years old this year. read more >
Pearls of wisdom: A new bed of oysters is cropping up in Florida
Many good things come from Florida waters, most deliciously the oyster. read more >
Florida restaurants embrace the upscale veggie trend
The most intriguing gourmet growth sector? Full-fledged vegan read more >
Outside influences step up their presence in Miami
When they say, “the New Yorkers are coming” in Miami these days, they're talking about famous chefs and foods from the Big Apple, not tourists. read more >
Bridging the gap: Restaurants in Fort Myers-Cape Coral grow beyond the familiar
McGregor Boulevard and Tamiami Trail are still the main drags of the Fort Myers-Cape Coral corridor .... But these days dining ... read more >
A new ice age in Florida
Once, Florida depended on ice cut and shipped from frozen lakes thousands of miles to the north... read more >
Skewered in Florida – kabobs in various forms spread across the state
Smart chefs and wise home cooks, my mother among them, suspected there were five or six recipes in the world common to every tribe on the planet... read more >
Menus at Lake Nona go beyond the essentials
For the food-obsessed, hip restaurants are integral to their preferred geography. Smart developers lure trendy chefs to the first floor of a new high-rise, and savvy real estate agents pack menus in their portfolio while showing homebuyers around a neighborhood. read more >
Cod-ified: Portuguese cuisine catches on across Florida
While the cooking of Portugal was once forgotten or mistakenly lumped in with Spanish cuisine, that's no longer true in Florida. read more >
Chick Magnets: A flock of chicken-centered restaurants open in Florida
Get all those hogs, pigs and piglets out of here. They've had their day on top of restaurant names and menus. There's a new star critter on Florida shingles. read more >
