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New Food Truck Alert: Red Zeppelin Rockin' Lobster Rolls

By Nicole Danna Thu., Feb. 28 2013 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, Food Truck News
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Nicole Danna
 The next time you're in the mood for an authentic Maine lobster roll, look for South Florida's new mobile kitchen, the Red Zeppelin Rockin' Lobster Roll. After hitting the streets last November, the crustacean-focused food truck based out of Dania Beach has been handing out some of the best around. A lobster roll smothered in lobster bisque? Who could resist?

The owners are a family team: Miami-born Bob Barnett and his daughter and mother, Heather Barnett and Robyn Rahman. Together, the trio rolled out their bright-red food truck late last year, selling several specialty dishes that include their own take on the famous New England-born sandwich.

See Also:
-- Lobster Season Starts Today: Six Restaurants Serving Lobster Rolls


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Pizza Fusion to Open Flagship Corporate Restaurant in Boca Raton

By Nicole Danna Tue., Feb. 26 2013 at 7:40 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, New Spot!, Openings/Closings
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Pizza Fusion was named one of the year's leading green businesses in 2010 by Green America.
Pizza Fusion, the South Florida-based pizza chain with the slogan, "Saving the Earth, One Pizza at a Time," recently announced plans to open two new locations -- one in Naples and a second in Boca Raton, which will be the brand's first corporate location. Currently the leading green franchise in North America, the two new additions make for a total of seven Florida restaurants for the all-natural pizza franchise offering fresh, natural food with an eco-friendly approach.

Today, the health-focused franchise has more than 30 U.S. locations, and has expanded overseas to include dozens of international restaurants in countries like Dubai.

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Wall Flowers: LiveRoof's "Living" Green Wall System Could Turn Your Wall Into a Vegetable Garden

By Nicole Danna Thu., Feb. 21 2013 at 11:17 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, Eco-Friendly
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Indoor living walls are popular in homes and businesses throughout Europe, Australia -- even Mexico.
In the not-too-near-future, your next home or office lobby may not be painted, or even decorated with wall paper. It could be alive.

Alive with plants, of course. But before we go planting gardens indoors, perhaps we should start with "living" exterior walls and roofs, first. Here, in South Florida, the idea hasn't taken root (sorry, I had to) the way it has in cities like Manhattan, Chicago, Seattle and Portland, where green building has become a popular trend.

When it comes to living roofs and walls on commercial buildings, the U.S. is still far behind many countries across Europe, where green roofs and walls -- both indoors and out -- have been in use for close to 30 years. Taking the trend one step further, cities like Toronto, Canada and Copenhagen, Denmark have started specific mandates for the installation of green roofs on most new construction.

Why? Turns out growing a garden on your building can save a lot of money -- and the environment.

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Hukilau 2013: June Dates Announced for Polynesian Pop Tiki Party at Mai-Kai

By Nicole Danna Thu., Feb. 7 2013 at 7:48 AM
Categories: Blog Watch
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The 2013 Hukilau will take place in June at Mai Kai.
Aloha, South Florida. This June Fort Lauderdale's Mai Kai will once again be hosting the annual Polynesian pop-lovers paradise, The Hukilau. 

This year marks the 13th annual Hukilau, a four-day tiki fest that draws all manner of tikiphiles from across the globe to kick back and revel in all that retro era culture including live music, dancing, symposiums, art shows -- and more -- served up alongside some of the world's best rum punch cocktails.

The Hukilau as we South Floridians know it began in 2003 when the event founders decided to move their super-sized tiki celebration from California to Fort Lauderdale. Otherwise known as "Tiki Kiliki" the Hukilau creator said he was inspired to create a tiki celebration similar to the Tiki Oasis -- currently the world's largest tiki event held in San Diego, California -- a festival designed to celebrate Hawaiian and Polynesian pop culture while also honoring one of our nation's historic tiki bars. 


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Field of Greens Gets a Makeover, Moves to Clematis Street

By Nicole Danna Wed., Feb. 6 2013 at 8:03 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, For Vegetarians
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All photos by Nicole Danna
Field of Greens (or FOG, for short), Palm Beach County's healthy salad and sandwich shop offering nutritious, made-to-order dishes, has relocated its original location to downtown West Palm Beach, and made a few improvements while they were at it. 

The family-run business began in 2003 when owners Debbie and David Steinhardt opened their FOG in City Place. They wanted a lunch spot that would give people healthy, homemade eats that also offered vegan and vegetarian dishes, and soon expanded to open locations in Wellington and Palm Beach Gardens.

Now in downtown West Palm Beach off Clematis St., their newest location means a few changes to the winning formula, with new menu items and a better way of doing business.


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The Barber's Bar in Fort Lauderdale: High-End Spa for Men Serves Food, Beer

By Nicole Danna Tue., Jan. 29 2013 at 6:40 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, Look What I Found, New Spot!
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The bar at The Barber's Barber in Fort Lauderdale serves beer, wine, sake and more.
There's barbershops. And then there is The Barber's Bar, a place for those looking to get more than just a shave or haircut. According to owner and Fort Lauderdale native Lee Garpoli, a trip to either of his establishments -- Mankind or the newly opened Barber's Bar -- is more than just a quick-stop experience. 

Sorry ladies. This one is for men only. Guys in need of grooming: Listen up.

"I wanted to open a classy place, an old-fashioned barbershop that offered high-end spa services just for men with a great atmosphere. I didn't need to reinvent the wheel. I just needed to tweak the concept a little," Garpoli told Clean Plate Charlie during a recent interview. 


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Deal of the Day

"SOUPer Bowl" at Panera Bread Benefits the Paps Corps

By Nicole Danna Fri., Jan. 25 2013 at 5:08 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, Deal of the Day
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South Florida may not be hosting the Super Bowl anytime in the near future, but at least we have the chance to host another kind "bowl" this year.

Panera Bread and The Pap Corps are teaming up for a second-run with a food-focused fundraiser, a promo event that aimed at raising awareness and funds for The Pap Corps, the largest all-volunteer organization in the United States dedicated solely to funding research on all types of cancer.

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How to Eat Durian, AKA Stink Fruit

By Nicole Danna Tue., Jan. 22 2013 at 7:43 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, Eat This, How To
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If you've ever walked into your local Asian grocer and gasped for air, just wait until you get up close to a durian. Also known as "stink fruit," this exotic import can have an odor so offensive it's actually banned from most public places in Southeast-Asia, including hospitals, buses, trains and hotels.

See also:
- A Fruit so Stinky, It's Illegal

Even so, Clean Plate Charlie was intrigued enough to sample some fresh, cut straight from the spiked seed pod that resembles a giant pinecone on steroids. Eating it wasn't the hard part -- finding one was.

A seasonal fruit, durian are most readily available in the summer. We found ours at New Oriental Market in West Palm Beach where they have been selling last season's fruit for the past several months. Many purveyors will freeze the late harvest, the store owner tells us, and will thaw them before putting them out for sale. If you can't find the whole fruit, don't worry. It's likely many will carry frozen durian meat out of the pod, which is guaranteed to be just as stinky.
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Booze Hound

Low-Calorie Cocktails: Florida-Based Jordan's Skinny Mixes

By Nicole Danna Tue., Jan. 8 2013 at 7:50 AM
Categories: Blog Watch, Booze Hound
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If part of your New Year's resolution is to lose weight and slim down, taking it easy on the alcohol may be on the list of things to avoid -- especially if you love sugary-sweet cocktails. The average margarita can deliver as many as 800 calories, while a traditional frozen pina colada rings in at around 550 calories. Even a simple mojito or cosmo martini has at least 230 calories.

Now if only there was a way to get your drink on with fewer calories. Well, thanks to Florida's own Jordan Engelhardt, founder of Jordan's Skinny Mixes, those wishes have already come true. When her career as a real estate appraiser started to suffer several years ago, she turned to drinking -- but in a good way -- to develop a product every South Floridian could use.


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Food Trends for 2013: Technology at the Table, Sour Foods, and Lots of Veggies

By Nicole Danna Thu., Jan. 3 2013 at 8:15 AM
Categories: Blog Watch
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Top forecasters predict the future food trends of 2013.

It's that time of year again -- a chance to see what's in store food-wise, as dozens of publications, companies and agencies pin down celebrity chefs, food product developers, specialty purveyors -- even the U.S. culinary ambassador -- to get their opinion on what they think will be the hot new thing coming out of the kitchen in the new year.

Clean Plate Charlie has dug through a multitude of trend lists (right now there are at least a dozen, with more to come) to highlight what we think will be hot in the coming year here in South Florida. 


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Food Trends 2013, Sour foods
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