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Dinner at Canyon Southwest Cafe Fort Lauderdale

This longtime Fort Lauderdale favorite sits quietly and modestly smack dab in the middle of the Sunrise Boulevard traffic loop; Canyon is so inconspicuous that if you blink you’ll miss it. Thus making it one of those favorite places for locals who know how to maneuver the traffic and parking. This Southwestern adobe-esqe structure lures in legions of fans [...]

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Happy Hour at Racks Boca Raton

The official name is Racks Downtown Eatery & Tavern. Racks is located in Mizner Park behind the valet area. Happy Hour is served daily; Saturday-Thursday 4pm-7pm and Friday all day from 11:30am – 7:00pm. Racks’ Happy Hour is solid with a half price bar & bites menu including the raw bar. Monday night we found ourselves in [...]

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An afternoon at Morikami Japanese Gardens Delray Beach

Wikipedia defines zen as: “A Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition rather than ritual worship or study of scriptures.”  ”Zen emphasizes the attainment of enlightenment and the personal expression of direct insight in the Buddhist teachings. As such, it de-emphasizes mere knowledge of doctrine” Urban Dictionary explains zen: “One way to think of zen is this: [...]

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Dinner at Yakko-San, North Miami Beach

Yakko-San Japanese Restaurant, for me, is one of those places where you go to order obscene amounts of food, [preferably with your posse] and taste a little bit of this and a little bit of that. Quite frankly everything is that good so it’s difficult to order just one item and be happy with it [...]

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Happy Hour at Market 17 Fort Lauderdale

Market 17 is one of my favorite wine Happy Hour places; has been since it opened two and a half years ago. Here’s what they do oh so right: All glasses of still wine are half price, in both the 3-oz and 6-oz pour which is offered daily from 4:30-7pm. The appetizer menu is also [...]

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Boulud Sud pops open again in Palm Beach

The summer sleeper hit, Boulud Sud at Cafe Boulud Palm Beach is back again for another run beginning July 3rd through September 2. Last year the Cafe Boulud Palm Beach team, executive chef Jim Leiken,  pastry chef Arnaud Chavigny, Mariya Kovachera, chief sommelier and Andrew Burns, general manager brought the Manhattan namesake to “the Island” with much local approval [...]




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