Review Digest: All Over The Place
We're doing something a little different today, as we're bored with the old review roundup formula of going by county. Instead, we're just going to run down Thursday's best restaurant-related reviews/features for you in one concise post:
• Enrique Fernandez gives a rundown of classic Cuban restaurants that have stood the test of time and that haven't watered down the food. All good choices, although we wondered at the absence of Las Culebrinas; it wasn't even in the newcomers list. He's got a list of standard Cuban restaurant menu items, with descriptions, for those unfamiliar with the cuisine.
• Lee Klein is also in roundup mode, as he writes a review about three restaurants that serve very different, although equally delicious, food: the student-run restaurant at FIU's School of Hospitality & Management, Lula Kebab House, and Orale Taqueria Mexicana, otherwise known as the taco truck that sets up in Douglas Park.
• Gail Shepherd goes to Il Mulino in Fort Lauderdale and gets stuffed. The two things you must eat there: burrata and the walnut-encrusted sea bass with risotto.
• Two-and-a-half stars to Pancho's Backyard in Dania Beach, one of the few Mexican-Cuban restaurants that actually work, apparently.
• The Post has an interesting price comparison [pdf] between Whole Foods and the new Publix GreenWise; we didn't count, but we think GreenWise won by just a bit. Mostly, it's a wash -- the prices tend to be pretty even.
• And of course, we have to mention the Beer Guy's Watering Holes feature: Harry's Banana Farm in Lake Worth, which has been there since 1954. It used to be named Harry's Open Door, but it became Harry's Banana Farm in order to sponsor a Little League team that couldn't take money from a bar. So, now it's the oddest banana farm in Florida.
Photo: A pan con bistec at Islas Canarias. By Donna E Natale Planas, Miami Herald.
