Let’s face it, many of us treat our dogs like they were our children.

Three seats on the Wilton Manors City Commission are up for grabs in the Nov. 3, 2020 election and the campaigning has begun to heat up.

For helping many people over the years, Compass is awarded SFGN's Best of the Best award for 2020.

After canceling its 2020 culinary event due to the pandemic, the Palm Beach Food and Wine Festival will return with a bang Dec. 9-12 with more events.

Smorgasburg, the largest open-air food market in America with locations in New York and Los Angeles, is launching in Miami in the heart of Wynwood at 2612 NW 2nd Ave. in March.

If you can’t find something to eat at Alibi, you are just too damn picky. We stopped by for drag brunch a few weeks ago and I was again astounded by the breadth of the menu offerings.

Two restaurants opened in Wilton Manors in the past couple of months.

To paraphrase that great philosopher, Dorothy Gale, “Things come and go so quickly here.” In the six years that I’ve been covering dining in South Florida for SFGN, I have reviewed numerous restaurants in the same location.  

While the hospitality industry has been decimated, five area eateries have made adaptations that have allowed them to survive during the pandemic.

Even after we go back to a sense of normalcy, the COVID crisis will have changed the way we dine out forever. Some of these changes are long overdue.

The last two years have brought a radical change to how we do everything from grocery shopping to dining out.

Pride flags waving in the wind, music blaring from boats, and socially distanced solidarity.

(SS) The Florida House voted Wednesday to block transgender children from playing on sports teams that align with their gender.

Gertrude Stein may have famously said, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” Perhaps what she really meant is, “A rosé is a rosé is a rosé.”

The World AIDS Museum (WAM) is adding its own high-profile event to South Florida’s social calendar.

The return of Stonewall Pride Parade & Street Festival was split in two: before a tragic accident and after.

Many residents in Wilton Manors received a legislative action alert request directly from the city, encouraging them to email their State Representatives with the statement that “short-term vacation rentals are bringing down property values, and in many cases, forcing residents to put their home on the market.”

Curtain speeches are a quaint tradition at many South Florida theaters.

OnlyFans, a website popular with sex workers, announced Thursday it will ban “sexually explicit content” Oct. 1. 

During the pandemic, folks have been indulging in their guilty pleasures a little more than usual.

To paraphrase Charles Dickens, “It was the best of dines, it was the worst of dines, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us..."

We’re right in the middle of it now, the dreaded flavor and aroma overload.

Like most businesses, the hospitality industry has been hit hard by the pandemic.

One of the first places I dined at after when I came down to Wilton Manors nine years ago looking to relocate was the original Mason Jar Café (on the land where the now-shuttered TooJay’s on Federal now stands).

One thing you can say about the South Florida dining scene is that it’s never boring.

If you love sushi, and that means you know not to drown it in soy sauce, you know each mouthful is meant to be savored.

Sistrunk Marketplace, which formerly housed the Eli Witt Cigar & Tobacco company, is now a 24,000 square foot food hall, mixed-use event space and retail concept.   

I prefer not to review a restaurant until it’s been open a few weeks, but Tulio’s, the latest place to occupy the corner of Wilton Dr. and 21st. Ct. had folks waiting for it to open for months.

Did you know that Wilton Manors has more restaurants per capita than most major cities? The adult population of Wilton Manors is about 10,000 people and there are 24 restaurants on Wilton Drive alone! That’s not even taking into account the four ice cream shops and the candy stor-gasm that is To The Moon!