This contest started on 2/22/23. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $10 Domino’s Pizza Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $10 Domino’s Pizza Gift Card Card to give to one of you guys…

The game- the first 10 reader-comments” received – will be entered in a “blind hat pick”! You can submit as many comments as you’d like but- Please, only 1- reader comment – per day…play fair!

The $10 Gift Card is good at any Domino’s Pizza location (dominospizzacom for locations, menu, prices, info).

This contest started on 2/21/23. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $10 Burger King Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $10 Burger King Gift Card to give to one of you guys!

The game- the first 10 “reader-comments” received – will be entered in a “blind hat pick”! You can submit as many comments as you’d like but- Please, only 1- reader comment – per day…play fair!

The $10 Gift Card is good at any Burger King location (burgerking.com for locations, menu, info).

This contest started on 2/21/23. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $10 Pizza Hut Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $10 Pizza Hut Gift Card to give to one of you guys…

The game- the first 10 “reader-comments” received – will be entered in a “blind hat pick”! You can submit as many comments as you’d like but- Please, only 1- reader comment – per day…play fair!

The $10 Gift Card is good at any Pizza Hut location (pizzahut.com for locations, menu, prices, info

This article first appeared on 8/26/14. Just between you guys and Jeff Eats, before you buy tickets to concerts/shows/festivals/comedy clubs/food events-a wise move would be to check sites like goldstar.com, groupon.com, eventbrite.com and livingsocial.com…no bs-here, there are tons of discounts/deals out there- you just gotta be smart enough to go and get them!

Posted August 26, 2014
* Gold Star Events (goldstar.com).

I don’t know about you guys, but every day Jeff Eats gets bombarded with all kinds of “internet” discount-deals…restaurants, manicures, movie tickets, cosmetics, facials, hotels, foot massages, acne treatments, nose hair clippers, parachute jumping lessons, toenail fungus removal treatment…there is literally a “deal” for everything and anything out there in Internet Land. Now don’t get me wrong, Jeff Eats likes to save money- but I gotta tell you, most of the deals “presented” are of absolutely no interest to me whatsoever…

Anyway, to make a long story short…

About a month ago, Jeff Eats started getting emails from a company named Goldstar Events, Inc. (goldstar.com)–which features “deals” on Florida-EVENTS that I (and I emphasize the word I) would actually buy and use…concert tickets, show tickets, theater tickets, comedy club tickets, food event tickets, sporting event tickets, tours, expos…at 50% off face-value!…and every so often- “comp” tickets.

Just so you know, I “used” Goldstar and got exactly what was advertised.

Let me wrap this up for you,

If you want to save some bucks (and who doesn’t!-other than my good friend Nick who for some unknown reason-thinks he is above all this “bargain” stuff) you gotta checkout this goldstar.com site-which services major cities all over the United States.

Printed below is Goldstar’s “description” from its website.

One last piece of business. The nose hair clipper that I got through livingsocial.com was a pretty decent buy!

*****

About
Goldstar is the place to find half-price tickets to theater, concerts, sports and a ton of other great events near you. http://www.goldstar.com/
Mission
Making it easy for people to go out more by providing fun ideas, half-price tickets, member reviews and everything you need for a great time out.
Company Overview
Goldstar is the first place people go to find something great to do. We have half-price tickets to all sorts of live entertainment — everything from theater, music, comedy and sports to walking tours, festivals and even dance and sushi-making classes.

You’ll find us in Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Inland Empire, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Paul, National, New York, Oakland/East Bay, Orange County, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

Originally posted on November 29th, 2016.

* A Baker’s Dozen.

I know that most- if not all of you guys think that Jeff Eats knows everything!

Anyway, hate to burst your bubbles…but until 5 minutes ago- I didn’t know this Baker’s Dozen “thing” and unless you’re a graduate of the Betty Crocker School Of Cooking- I’ll bet you didn’t know about it either-(here’s one that Jeff Eats knows- but you guys probably don’t…Betty Crocker wasn’t a real person, just a fictional character created by some advertising firm).

Just between you guys and Jeff Eats- I will never look at a box of 13 donuts or for that matter a bag of 13 bagels in the same way ever again!

from theoldfoodie.com

2011
A Baker’s Dozen.

Did you ever wonder why and where the ‘Baker’s Dozen’ idea originated? The written phrase was first recorded in 1599, but we know that for a long time – centuries, in fact – bakers routinely gave one or two extra loaves or buns for the price of a dozen. Customers love to get something for nothing and tend to see the practice as a generous gesture on the part of the baker, so from that angle it is a smart marketing idea. It did not start out that way however. Originally the motive was to avoid the possibility of an unpleasant punishment if the baker inadvertently sold underweight bread.

In olden times, bread was truly the staff of life. It was the staple, essential food on which most people lived, and even for the wealthy it was the basis of every meal. The corresponding everyday beverage in these days was ale. Ale was a weakly alcoholic drink brewed for immediate consumption in every moderately large household, and it was the regular drink even of children, because the brewing process made it much safer than water, which was frequently contaminated. The absolute importance of these two products to the life of every ordinary citizen meant that even from very early times their production was subject to regulation.
In 1266 in England, King Henry III revived an ancient statute that determined the price of a loaf of bread and a quantity of ale in relation to the price of wheat. This Assize of Bread and Ale remained on the statute books in England until 1863! The aim of the Assize was to fix the size (weight) of a loaf of bread, regardless of the cost of wheat (called ‘corn’ in those days). Loaves were sold at a farthing, a half-penny, or a penny. As the price of corn went up, the size of the loaf purchased for a particular price went down. The limits were set once a year at harvest time, after the Feast of St Michael on September 29, but were occasionally modified during the year if the price of corn varied significantly.

As all professional bakers are aware, even with the most honest of intentions, there are so many variables in the process that it is difficult to produce a loaf of consistent weight. In order to avoid being accused of selling underweight loaves, bakers would add an extra loaf (when selling a quantity of bread to a middleman) or an extra piece of bread to a small purchaser. This extra was called the inbread or vantage loaf, and it is the origin of the ‘Bakers Dozen’.
There are of course, unscrupulous members of every profession. Dishonest medieval bakers developed some creative ways of cheating both the public and the official Bread Examiners. An obvious technique was to keep the full-weight loaves on the shelves when the Examiners were due, and hide the low-weight ones out the back. Another method was to hide coins or bits of metal in the dough, which were presumably taken out once the bread was weighed. Even more creatively, in the sixteenth century there is a record of some bakers found to have been soaking stale bread in water and mixing it with the new dough ‘to the great abuse and scandall of their Mysterie [their Trade] , and the wrong of his Majesties’ subjects.’

Up until relatively modern times, most ordinary households did not have ovens, and it was usual for housewives to take their own dough to the baker, where for a small fee it would be cooked in the residual heat of the oven after the baker had cooked his own bread for the day. The prize for the most creative deceit must go to bakers at a public bakehouse in 1327. There were secret cavities built under the moulding boards from which an assistant would reach up and pinch off a chunk of the dough from a customer’s loaf, and over the course of the day built up a nice supply for themselves.
Those bakers who did get caught cheating their customers were punished in a variety of ways. In England they could be fined (usually for the first three times), lose their occupation, be put in the pillory, or sent to gaol. The pillory or ‘stretch neck’ was a very public humiliation. The accused was locked with head (sometimes shaved) and hands fixed in holes made between two horizontal boards set up in the market place where he or she could be pelted by disgruntled customers with anything noxious that came to hand. There was a strong feeling in medieval times that the punishment should be seen to fit the crime, and in the fraud of 1327 the offending bakers were placed in the pillory with slabs of the dough around their necks. In other instances, bakers were forced to sell the underweight loaves at a loss (which was a gain for the customer.)

In other parts of the bread-eating world the punishments varied. In Vienna, bakers caught selling underweight bread were put in the baeckerschupfen – a sort of cage which was then plunged into the river several times. In Turkey, a bad baker was stretched out on his own kneading table and the bastinado (foot-beating with a stick) was administered. Perhaps the most public and painful punishment was in ancient Egypt, were an offending baker could be nailed by the ear to the door of his shop, where no doubt his customers gave him even more abuse.

We may feel that we live in an over-regulated society, but think on these punishments next time you are frustrated by the rules, and be glad you did not live and bake in ‘the good old days’!

* Happy Presidents’ Day- 2023.

***** DISH OF THE WEEK (Sunday- 2/19/23- Little Hen).

One of Jeff Eats’ favorite menu items…

CHICKEN & WAFFLE
($22- fried chicken/waffle topped with maple syrup/powdered sugar/fresh fruit

Little Hen
4579 Weston Road
Weston
(954) 626-0855
littlehen.com
Latest Review: 7/18/22

Trust Jeff Eats on this one- Little Hen’s food is outrageously delicious!

Posted on July 18th, 2022

***** Little Hen, 4579 Weston Road, Weston, Florida 33331, (954) 626-0855.

Got a real good breakfast-lunch joint for you guys to checkout, Little Hen in Weston.

Simple tale to tell, yesterday morning Jeff Eats, Mrs. Jeff Eats and our friends Stuart and Ellen “discovered” Little Hen and I gotta tell you, the joint’s food absolutely killed! Inside table/booth seating, outside table seating, reasonabled priced breakfast/lunch menu, open Monday-Friday 8am-3pm/Saturday-Sunday 8am-3:30pm.

Trust Jeff Eats when I tell you- Little Hen is an absolute home-run joint that you guys gotta try!

For menu, prices, info check littlehen.com.

This contest started on 2/18/23.This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 The Grille on Congress Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 The Grille on Congress gift card to give to one of you guys!

The game- the first 25 “reader-comments” received – will be entered in a “blind hat pick”! You can submit as many comments as you’d like but- Please, only 1- reader comment – per day…play fair!

The $25 Gift Card is good at The Grille on Congress, 5101 Congress Avenue, Boca Raton, Florida 33487, (561) 912-9800.

Check menu/prices/info at thegrilleoncongress.com.

Posted on June 19th, 2011.

***** The Grille on Congress, 5101 Congress Avenue, Boca Raton, Florida 33487, (561) 912-9800.

“Out of sight, out of mind.”

The Grille on Congress is a real good-casual-reasonably priced “American-Style” restaurant, located in the back of one of the worst layed-out strip centers probably ever built. Trust me on this…make sure, your GPS system is working- if you haven’t been there before.

Way back when…not exactly sure when, I ate in this joint a handful of times. Suffice it to say, its crap location, actually made me forget that it even existed. Anyway…friends. Harvey and Judy “picked” The Grille on Congress last night, refreshing my memory.

Now, let’s talk about the joint…separate bar area, upscale wood interior…like I said before, casual, really good food and reasonable prices. You can check menu/prices/photos at www.thegrilleoncongress.com.

Last night I got to “sample”– bbq ribs ($24), asian glazed salmon ($23), New York strip steak (16oz-$30), baked stuff shrimp ($24)–entrees came with a salad and two sides.
Everything was absolutely delicious. A special shout-out to the “biscuits” that promptly arrive when seated—sensational. To be perfectly honest with you, 1-maybe-2 of those suckers with butter—and this joint will have you hooked, before your salad or entree hits the table.

For those of you too lazy to check The Grille’s online menu—the joint has meat/chicken/seafood eaters covered. You will definitely find something to eat with entrees running $15-$30…so nobody is gonna need a second job to pay the bill.

As a point of reference, if joints like Houston’s, J. Alexander’s, J. Mark’s are your style…then, you will really enjoy The Grille on Congress.

The Grill on Congress is open Monday-Friday 11:30am-9pm, Saturday 5pm-9pm, closed on Sunday.

Originally posted on February 14th, 2023.

* Celebrating Tom Jones Starring David Burnham.

Just picked-up 2 tickets!

Hearing real good things about this show!

From kingspointdelray.com

Celebrating Tom Jones Starring David Burnham

Sunday, February 19th, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Tickets: kingspointdelray.com $19.00 Residents / $25.00 Non-Residents

Through stories and songs and with a live band, award-winning Broadway star David Burnham celebrates Tom Jones, one of the most electrifying performers of the past five decades. He will tell you how a simple factory worker from a Welsh mining town became one of the biggest superstars in the world as well as perform his unique renditions of some of Tom Jones’ hits such as It’s Not Unusual, Delilah, What’s New Pussycat?, Green Green Grass of Home and She’s A Lady. BroadwayWorld called Burnham “A Hottie – with a voice that melts your heart” and the Miami Herald called his performance… “a knockout both visually and vocally – as good as it gets.”

This contest started om 2/17/23. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 Warren- American/Whiskey/Kitchen Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 Warren- American/Whiskey/Kitchen Gift Card to give to one of you guys!

The game- the first 25 “reader-comments” received – will be entered in a “blind hat pick”! You can submit as many comments as you’d like but- Please, only 1- reader comment – per day…play fair!

The $25 Gift Card is good at Warren- American/Whiskey/Kitchen, 15084 Lyons Road, Delray Beach, Florida 33446, (561) 455-4177.

You can check warrendelray.com for menu/prices/reservations/info.

Posted on July 5th, 2021

***** Warren- American/Whiskey/Kitchen, 15084 Lyons Road, Delray Beach, Florida 33446, (561) 455-4177.

Got an absolutely killer American-Style joint for you guys to checkout, Warren- American/ Whiskey/ Kitchen in Delray Beach.

Way-back on June 11th, 2021 I told you guys that I had been hearing terrific things about Warren which had literally just opened in Delray Beach and that I planned on giving Warren a shot in the very near future- Long story short, last Saturday night (7/3/21)- Jeff Eats, Mrs. Jeff Eats and two other couples ate dinner at Warren and I gotta tell you guys that Warren didn’t disappoint with its food, decor and service absolutely killing it!

Save me some-time and checkout Jeff Eats’ 6/11/21- story (down- below) for background color…

Right out of the gate, Warren’s mind blowing main dining room’s walls are lined-with something like 1,000 bottles filled with different whiskey, bourbon and scotch brands- its open kitchen allows diners to see “their” food prepared, a separate indoor bar-room’s windows permits- patrons to counter dine/drink on an outdoor patio which also has table seating and is set-up to accommodate live music acts and other entertainment!

On the food front, based on our waiter’s recommendation our party of 6 shared a whole bunch of “dishes”- all of which were delicious…

Crispy Calamari
Caesar Salad
Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes
Gloria’s (KFC) Korean Fried Chicken
Warren’s Damn Good Burger
Buttermilk Fried Chicken Sandwich
Lobster Seafood Bolognese
Roasted Heirloom 1/2 Roasted Chicken
Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake

If you insist on a pecking order, Jeff Eats would rate Gloria’s (KFC) Korean Fried Chicken, the Warren Damn Good Burger, Lobster Seafood Bolognese and the Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake as the definite home-run stand-outs! Now you guys do know, what I like you may hate and vice versa…for the record, Mrs. Jeff Eats raved about the Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes, but then again, the name of this blog site is Jeff Eats and not Mrs. Jeff Eats- am I right or am I right!

Let me wrap Warren’s up by saying that this joint is an absolute must try.

You guys can check menu/prices/info at warrendelraycom.

Warren- American/Whiskey/Kitchen is open Tuesday-Sunday 5pm-10pm, closed on Monday.

Originally posted on June 11th, 2021.

* Warren- American/Whiskey/Kitchen.

Hearing absolutely terrific things about Warren, 15084 Lyons Road, Delray Beach, Florida 33446, (561) 455-4177 which opened about a week ago in Delray Beach.

Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats have reservations for later this month.

Hearing that the American-Style joint’s food kills, that it has 2 indoor liquor bars that-literally serve everything imaginable, an outdoor patio that in the coming months will feature all types of musical entertainment, a well trained and professional staff, an everyday 3-6pm by the clock happy hour and a decor that is as cool and hip as can be!

As I mentioned a couple of seconds ago, Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats have reservations later this month- so be on the look -out for a Warren update…

In the meantime, check warrendelray.com for menu/prices/reservations/info.

By the way, if you beat Jeff Eats to Warren, let me know what you think!

Warren is open Tuesday-Sunday 5pm-10pm, closed on Monday.