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Tipico Cafe

To Hell with Fresh Mexican Grills; who needs that stuff when you can get real Mexican food at Tipico? With one of these fast food "Fresh Mexican" places opening every month, it's easy to forget why we like Mexican food in the first place. The Tipico Cafe refreshed my memory.

It's easy to miss this place in a shopping center where it partially hides behind some shrubberies. There are a couple of tables outside, and the inside is one small room with a bar where I wouldn't want to dine; no TVs and music you might not expect; from Teenage Dream to Smashmouth.

I've gotten a lot of wrong impressions of this place from Yelp, which is why you can't use Yelp to make your choices. There servers here are professional; no nonesense; they just [Full Article]

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The Restaurant People, operators of Tarpon Bend, YOLO and VIBE, plan to open a 7000 square foot restaurant on the ground floor of the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Beach. The name of the new venue will be S3, an acronym for Sun, Surf and Sand (or Sushi Steak and Seafood). Partners Peter Boulukos, Alan Hooper and Tim Petrillo have been considering the move for 3 years. The group has received plan approval from the city and construction will begin

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New River Pizza has moved across the street; which only makes a difference if you would consider dining in at a pizzeria. Before they had some counters and tables but it wasn't a place you could come for a meal. The downside of the new location is that there's a separate area for picking up takeout, and it's much worse that picking up at the old location. There's a small, cramped area, which is bad enough, but it's also where all of the

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Morton's is one of the best known steakhouse brand names in the country, and they were recently acquired by Landry's, a restaurant group that currently has 37 brands in it's portfolio. Last spring, Morton's put itself up for sale, and in February Landry's closed the deal. They quickly shuttered 8 locations, primarily in areas where there were 2 stores in the same city (they closed the Miami Beach location in favor of the location in Brickell).

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Red, The Steakhouse opened their second South Florida location in the Wyndham Hotel. It's located on an annoyingly difficult to get to strip of Military Trail, in the former location of Bova Cucina, one of the restaurants that went down in the Rothstein ponzi scandal. What's annoying about it is that Military Trail runs under Glades just west of Route 95, and there's no direct way to get here. So you have to circle around or drive through Executive

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In early March, Inside Fort Lauderdale broke the news that Paul Lynch, owner of a number of Hooter's restaurants and a partner in Lulu's Bait Shack, will open a "high end" Irish pub called the Royal Pig Pub in the space previously occupied by the Samba Room at 350 E Las Olas Boulevard. Originally to be called "The Dancing Pig Pub"; perhaps the name was a little too suggestive for conservative Las Olas Boulevard. The Royal Pig

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