How About We... Date Only Food Nerds

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Single people are reminded every day how vast the dating pool is and how difficult it can be to juggle choices. How to separate the wheat from the chaff? Base your dating life on a partner's appetites. If you too are looking for an easy way to find someone ravenous with an exquisite palate, Eater.com's got you covered.

This week, the website announced it has teamed up with HowAboutWe to offer foodcentric dating site EaterDating. The gist: "You, the dater, post the kind of date you'd like to go on and choose from those who like the sound of that date. We never thought we'd be offering such a service via these pages" --neither did we -- "but then we met the good folks behind HowAboutWe, who have done nothing less than turn online dating on its head."

Who's on the site from these parts? Most dates are of the... straightforward variety, with suggestions for coffee, tapas near the sea, or a progressive dinner. Yawn.

Some joiners display more imagination, but does it pay off? After the jump, ten trending food and drink-focused dates, ranked by popularity.

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Brunchables: A Boxed Meal for Your Hipster-in-Training (Video)

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Brunch? Give 'em cereal.
It's Sunday, and your kids are hungry. Before they head out for their Mozart appreciation class or their Actors Studio Improv workshop, make sure your little hipster has a good meal.

Because breakfast is blah and lunch is lame, serve them Brunchables, the new meal-in-a-box from Oscar Meyer's Brooklyn headquarters.

Who needs processed ham and crackers, when these new Brunchables come with egg frittatas, grits, dutch pancakes, and caramelized grapefruit with mint! And every Brunchable comes with a mini Cerveza, a mimosa in a juice pack, and a mini New York Times!

Watch this video from CollegeHumor.com as you're feeding your child Pop Tarts and Cheerios, after the jump: More >>

East End Brasserie in Fort Lauderdale: First Look

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Photos by Eric Barton
The sweet venison dish is like a primer for Thanksgiving.
"Hello, bonsoir," said the manager as he breezed through the dining room of the East End Brasserie last night. His mix of English and French would seem appropriate for the 2-week-old restaurant. The menu is somewhat French, a bit English, and, overall, pretty impressive.

Impressive is applicable here, at the least, because the restaurant renovation is a gutsy move for the Atlantic Resort & Spa. Tourists would probably show no matter what kind of frozen fish they dropped on a plate, but the Atlantic clearly wanted to shoot higher,
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Riddlez Cafe: New Sandwich Shop in Fort Lauderdale

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Last week, Clean Plate Charlie stumbled into Riddlez Cafe, located in the shops below the parking garage at 100 SE First St. -- near the main Broward County library (near the intersection of Andrews Avenue and Broward Boulevard). This is the former home of Bob & Wilson's and, before that, Sushi Ko-ko.

The place offers
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Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House: Fancy Breakfast, but It'll Cost Ya

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Seems a Fort Lauderdale farm-to-table breakfast spot is a big enough deal to make news all the way down in Miami

The day after it opened, a couple of friends and I defected to visit Old Fort Lauderdale Breakfast House (O-B House) to check it out. Here's the skinny out of the gate: 

The Pluses:

Service:
Peter Hardy, a salty mate from across the pond, entertained us with tales of his 20-plus years of living in Fort Lauderdale. Service was pretty great too.

Décor: Clean, bright, and open, it's retro diner meets Pottery Barn, with marine pendant lighting and chocolate accents. The crowd was more fashion-forward than at most restaurants I've so far visited. Guys in oversized nerd glasses and gingham checked shirts dined with lovelies in maxi-dresses. Ink, per usual, was the accessory.

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Jo-Jo's Tacos in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea: Small Place, Big Flavor

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 New York, New Jersey, and Philly were in the house on Saturday night  at JoJo's Tacos, where I put back a Corona while I waited for a seat at the bar. 

I felt like I was back in my hometown at the Jersey Shore as I chatted with Aneillo, a sales guy who moved down from Deal, New Jersey, back in November. I was also reminded that I'm in de facto Northern territory by the proliferation of the uptown Manhattan men's uniform: a black, short-sleeved, untucked, buttoned-down shirt; jeans; and loafers. Then there were the sharp elbows, as those who had just arrived jockeyed for seats, since there are plenty of greeters but no host manning the door. 

Jo-Jo's is about the sixth local taco joint to open in the past year, in the bones of what appears to have been a Waffle House. I actually found it charming. I liked the scene and the order in chaos.
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Free Frozen Yogurt Today at Red Mango, New FroYo Shop

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​Ice cream is awesome in the hot summer months, but after that study about how fat Americans are getting, let's look at alternatives.

What about frozen yogurt?

Red Mango -- a pretty cool name, that -- is celebrating its grand opening today at


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M Bar Open on Las Olas; Prepare to Swoon Over the Sweetbreads

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Photos by Melissa McCart
M Bar's excellent sweetbreads.


M Bar has quietly debuted at the corner of East Las Olas and NE 13th Avenue as a sibling to the evergreen Italian restaurant Mancini's. Owner Jack Mancini closed his namesake restaurant a couple of doors down with plans to open it next door to M Bar in August.

At this spiffed-up corner hangout, M Bar's plate-glass windows and 360-degree bar offers a slew of vantage points for people-watching. Flat screens animate overhead at the bar. Orange accents, dark floors, and leather upholstery warm up the 3,500-square-foot space.

Apparently there's a garden as indicated by the Handcrafted Drinks From the Garden list, which features herbal, fruit-forward cocktails such as the East Las Olas with
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Tuesdays: Five Dollar Burgers at PrimeBar in Hallandale

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by Anthony Cave
The PrimeBar burger.
At The Village at Gulfstream Park, the weekday 3-6pm time frame is ripe with food deals.

Take Tuesdays at PrimeBar for example.
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The Hoffsicle: David Hasselhoff's Popsicle Impostor

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Go ahead. Lick my abs.
Thanks to Del Monte, you can beat the summer heat by licking fruit juice off of David Hasselhoff's chiseled abs.

No, it's not the newest summer reality show. It's a Popsicle. The design is flawless, from the sweeping mane to the chiseled abs. The cold treat mixed with the sweltering summer temperatures will make you think you're doing body shots off the iconic Baywatch star.

Here's a video of Hasselhoff having an incestuous love affair with his fruit-juice impostor. More >>
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