This article first appeared on 7/16/17. Jeff Eats just checked the Arts Garage’s box-office and there are only a handful of seats left for tomorrow night’s (Sunday-7/23/17 (7pm)) show! If you wanna go and don’t yet have tickets- it’s time to make your move! Tickets/Info: 561.450.6357 – artsgarage.org floridapoptarts.com.

Posted July 16, 2017
* The Florida Poptarts

For you guys who might be wondering where Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats are gonna be this coming Sunday, July 23rd around 7pm- wonder no more!

Just between you guys and Jeff Eats, I’ve been hearing some really terrific things about The Florida Poptarts’- Greatest 60’s Girl Groups Show!

Killing two birds with one stone- on July 23rd, Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats are gonna check-out both The Florida Poptarts and the Arts Garage, 94 Northeast 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, Florida 33444, (561.450.6357) – a 168 seat cabaret-style venue which steadily features an eclectic schedule of music-acts and encourages tickeholders to bring their own food and beverages!

By the way, during the show- Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats will be “dining” on subs/ salads/ beverages from Bambini’s Garden Pizzeria, 14466 Military Trail, Delray Beach, Florida 33484, 561) 638-6442- (Reviewed 3/3/15). It’s got a sausage/ peppers/ mozzarella/ onions/ marinara sauce sub that absolutely kills!

You guys who would like to join Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats at what looks to be a really cool outing- read on…

The Skinny:

The Florida Poptarts

Arts Garage
94 Northeast 2nd Avenue
Delray Beach, Florida 33444
Scheduled Show: 7/23/17- (Tickets: $15, $20, $25)
Tickets/Info: 561.450.6357 – artsgarage.org floridapoptarts.com

from floridapoptarts.com

This is So Very Exciting!!!
Our First South Florida
Concert Theater Performance and at this performance we are so happy to announce that we have added our band “The Electric Toasters”
The Arts Garage is located in Delray Beach
Please reserve your seats today
Here’s How It Works:
BRING YOUR OWN … WHATEVER!
This is cabaret style table seating, where patrons can bring their own food and drinks, including alcohol.
BUY A TABLE, BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND HEAD BACK TO THE 1960’S FOR A SHAGADELIC GOOD TIME
TICKETS: artsgarage.org floridapoptarts.com $15.00 GENERAL, $20.00 AND $25.00 RESERVED Per Person

Get ready to twist, jerk, swim and head back to the 1960’s! Ultra-cool and loads of fun, the PopTarts are 4 groovy chicks who sing the most popular hits from the 60’s girl groups while dressed in matching 60’s outfits. Their crowd-pleasing favorites sound just like those old records you know and love! Their retro look and sound are addictive and sure to delight audiences of all ages! Each Poptart has a flavored name so get ready for Outrageous Orange, Bluezy Blueberry, Charming Cherry and Passionate Plum.

This contest started on 7/20/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill 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 Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill, 1821 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316 (954) 768-8990. Check gilberts17thstgrill.com for menu, prices, info.

Posted June 24, 2009
***** Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill, 1821 Cordova Road, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316 (954) 768-8990.

Got a real good “mom & pop” American-diner joint for you…Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill.

The menu is not large…but has enough soups, salads, burgers, sandwiches, grilled items and desserts…so nobody’s gonna starve. A recent outing netted me a cheeseburger, bbq ribs and a philly cheesesteak sandwich…everything was delicious and priced just right. Nothing fancy here, just real good food. Take a look at the joint’s website www.gilberts17thstgrill.com for menu/prices/details.

Gilbert’s is open Monday-Saturday 11am-9pm. The joint is closed on Sunday.

This contest started on 7/19/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice Gift Card to give to one of you guys…

The game- the first 15 “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 Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice, 8001 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, Florida 32809. Check menu/prices/info at fatsonedogs.com.

Posted on October 23rd, 2016
***** Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice, 8001 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, Florida 32809.

Got a real good one for you guys…Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice- fast food, order/pickup at counter, hot dogs/French fries/Italian Ices located in The Florida Mall’s 105,000 square foot Dining Pavilion in Orlando. Give or take 25 different fast food concessions, communal seating!

Simple concept, all-beef foot long grilled hot dogs that can be topped with all kinds of stuff- French fries, Italian Ices.

Just so you know, Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice which opened about a month ago is owned by Joey Fatone a former member of the legendary boy band NSYNC- which helps explain the Fat One’s brand name!

Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats did a recent lunch and loved the joint.

Like I said a few seconds ago, real simple concept, hot dogs/toppings, French fries. Italian ices…

Just between you guys and Jeff Eats, I’m kinda thinking that Joey Fatone has a “franchise” concept here- I can easily see Fat One’s Hot Dogs & Italian Ice in mall food courts all over America!

For additional menu/prices/info- fatonedogs.com

Fat One’s is open Monday-Friday 10am-9pm, Saturday 10am-10pm, Sunday 10am-8pm.

* Coconut Grove Summer Comedy Festival.

Charity event with some of South Florida’s best comedians scheduled to perform!

The Skinny:

From CoconutGroveComedyFest.com

Coconut Grove Summer Comedy Festival

Date: Saturday July 29, 2017
Time: Show at 7:00 PM / Doors open at 6:00 PM
Location: St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Theatre – 2750 McFarlane Rd, Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Ages: 18+
Tickets: eventbrite.com & goldstar.com (discount tickets)
$15 early bird / $25 at the door / $125 VIP Table (includes 4 tickets, premium seating and bottle of wine)
Additional: First come first serve seating. 2 item minimum purchase. Event benefits St. Stephen’s AIDS ministry. Event is subject to change and cancellation. Refunds will not be issued unless show is cancelled by venue or producer.
Coconut Grove Summer Comedy Fest
Performers include (alpha order):
Angela Nacca – 2017 Florida’s Funniest Female Finalist
Annette Gallagher – 2017 Coconut Grove Comedy Festival Winner
Ben Zieper – 2015 & 2016 Brickell Comedy Festival Winner, 2016 Pride Comedy Festival Winner, 2015 Wynwood Comedy Festival Winner
César Muñoz – 2016 Latin American Comedy Festival Winner
CinCin Boisson – 2017 Florida’s Funniest Female Finalist
Cristian Munarriz – 2016 Brickell Comedy Festival Winner, 2016 Coral Gables Comedy Festival Winner, 2016 Latin American Comedy Festival Winner
Fasil Malik – 2017 Coconut Grove Comedy Festival Winner & 2016 Coral Gables Comedy Festival Winner
Jamal Hattar – 2017 Coconut Grove Comedy Festival Headliner
John Everyman – 2017 Coconut Grove Comedy Festival Winner
Justin Wales – Editor, ThePlantain.com, Miami’s Satirical News Site
Shana Manuel – 2016 Pride Comedy Festival Winner
William “Rock the House” Lewis – 2016 Wynwood Comedy Festival Winner & 2016 Palmetto Bay Comedy Festival Winner

Perdue will increase its use of gas stunning, according to the first annual progress report on animal care released by Perdue on Monday. The process exposes birds to a gas mixture that renders them insensible to pain or distress before slaughter. (J.SCOTT APPLEWHITE / Associated Press)

* Chicken Slaughter Gets Makeover As Perdue Addresses Welfare.

Just read this article on bloomberg.com.

Not sure where Jeff Eats is going with all of this- but I’m sure that the chickens who read the article were thrilled with the good-news!

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Chicken slaughter gets makeover as Perdue addresses welfare
MONDAY , JULY 17, 2017 – 9:45 AM

Shruti Date Singh
of Bloomberg

(c) 2017, Bloomberg.

Perdue Farms, known for its namesake chicken brand, is rolling out gentler slaughter practices as part of its efforts to reduce trauma and discomfort for birds.

The company will increase its use of gas stunning, according to the first annual progress report on animal care released by Perdue on Monday. The process exposes birds to a gas mixture that renders them insensible to pain or distress before slaughter.

It’s the latest step in the poultry industry’s campaign to respond to consumers, especially Millennials, who are increasingly concerned about animal welfare. The Salisbury, Maryland-based company, the fourth-largest U.S. chicken producer, is pushing for better poultry care, improved relationships with its contract farmers and transparency with consumers, according to Chairman Jim Perdue.

“There are a lot of reasons for us to move forward on better care,” Perdue, whose grandfather started the company in 1920, said in a telephone interview. “It’s good for the chicken, farmer and the meat.”

The company will introduce the gas stunning at a Delaware chicken plant in November and gradually implement it in all its facilities. The process is already used at its turkey plant in Indiana.

Discerning consumers are rapidly leaving their mark on U.S. agriculture, whether it’s through surging demand for organic products, increasing focus on food that’s considered sustainable, or greater attention on animal treatment. The poultry industry has come under fire after reports from activist groups in recent years highlighted poor conditions for both animals and employees. Last month, Tyson Foods Inc., the largest U.S. chicken producer, introduced a series of measures to make its operations more humane.

Perdue has made several other recent changes to address bird welfare, adding more space, daytime light, windows in chicken houses, dark resting time and physical activity. The company has introduced incentives for farmers who adopt the practices.

“Not only is it the right thing to do for the birds, but it’s the right thing to do for the business, given the certain direction of the market,” Leah Garces, the U.S. executive director of Compassion in World Farming, said in a statement. Perdue’s efforts will put pressure on other poultry producers to do the same, Josh Balk, vice president of farm animal protection at the Humane Society of the U.S., said in a a telephone interview.

Perdue is also continuing to study slower growing birds. The industry has been criticized for producing fast growing big birds with disproportionate top half for white meat. Some animal welfare groups have filmed birds that can’t walk under their weight because of faster growing.

While less than 1 percent of Perdue’s birds are breeds considered slower growing, the company has been studying them for five years, evaluating health, growth rate, feed efficiency and meat quality, according to Bruce Stewart-Brown, Perdue’s senior vice president of food safety, quality and live production. The so-called woody breast texture problem that’s appeared in some chicken meat doesn’t show up in slower-growing birds, and chefs say birds raised for longer offer enhanced flavor, particularly in broths, he said.

* Steve Marshall.

Hilarious, insightful and brilliant “medium blue” material about growing up Jewish in Brooklyn -and coping with everyday life in general!

The national headlining comedian is in for 1-show, tomorrow night-Friday, July 21st (8pm) at the Boca Black Box in Boca Raton!

If you haven’t yet seen Steve Marshall, Go!- you’ll love the guy!

The Skinny:

Steve Marshall

Friday, July 21, 2017 (8pm)
Boca Black Box
8221 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33434
Box-Office: (561) 483- 9036
Tickets: bocablackbox.com goldstar.com (discount tickets)

from bocablackbox.com

New York-based national headlining comedian Steve Marshall plays all the big clubs across the country, and now he’s making a stop at The Boca Black Box. He’s been featured on national television platforms such as CBS News and CNBC, plus Hot Off the Grill With Bobby Flay and NBC’s Dare to Dream. Riffing relentlessly on topics such as his negative Jewish family and why one should never make fun of Chinese people who work in a Chinese restaurant, Marshall’s no-holds-barred approach will have you laughing and gasping in equal doses.

This contest started on 7/19/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 Charm City Burger Company Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 Charm City 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 Charm City Burger Company, 1136 East Hillsboro Boulevard, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441, (954) 531-0300. Check charmcityburgers.com for menus/prices/info.

Charm City Burger Company (Deerfield Beach)
Posted on February 24th, 2015

***** Charm City Burger Company, 1136 East Hillsboro Boulevard, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441, (954) 531-0300.

Last night Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats ate at fast-food burger joint, Charm City in Deerfield Beach.

Nothing for nothing, we have been eating at this- order at/pickup at the counter joint since April 17, 2008-so last night’s terrific- bacon cheeseburger, turkey burger, French fries, onion rings came as no “surprise”…

Seeing all of those New York, New Jersey. Ontario license plates on the road,

Just thought I’d mention Charm City to you guys- who have yet to eat there…this joint is an absolute winner! Trust Jeff Eats when I tell you that Charm City runs circles and I do mean circles around fast food burger players like Five Guys and BurgerFi -now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with either of them (Jeff Eats is a real steady customer of both chains), but they are cookie cutter mold type operations, like-you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all!…Charm City is a one-shot-deal, there is only one…so on and so forth.

Great food. Super reasonable prices. Cool vibe!

Printed down below is Jeff Eats’ “review” from October 20, 2009.

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October 20, 2009
***** Charm City Burger Company, 1136 East Hillsboro Boulevard, Deerfield Beach, Florida 33441, (954) 531-0300.

Back on April 17, 2008 I did a review on a “burger” joint named Charm City Burger Company. If you check that review, I absolutely loved the food. At that time, the joint had only been open for something like 3-months…and I questioned its “longevity” based on its piss-poor location. To make a long story short…the joint is still around– has new owners– has a cult-like following—and the food is absolutely DELICIOUS.

At this stage of this re-review check www.charmcityburgers.com for menu/prices.

All I can tell you, is that I was in the joint last week…delicious bacon cheeseburger, terrific french fries, great sweet potato fries, incredible chicken wings. sensational grilled chicken and soft shell crab rolls.

Order/pickup at the counter. Absolutely nothing fancy here. Just…outstanding food.

Charm City is open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner.

This contest started on 7/18/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 The Dandee Donut Factory Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 The Dandee Donut Factory 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 Dandee Donut Factory, 1900 East Atlantic Avenue, Pompano Beach, Florida 33060, (954) 785-1461. You can check dandeedonuts.com for menu/prices/other info.

Posted on September 26th, 2014
***** The Dandee Donut Factory, 1900 East Atlantic Avenue, Pompano Beach, Florida 33060, (954) 785-1461.

Let me start by saying that Jeff Eats LOVES-The Dandee Donut Factory-in Pompano Beach.

For the record, Jeff Eats originally told you guys about Dandee on 11/19/11-but some stories warrant “re-telling”…

Just so we are straight, there are two other Dandee Donut outposts in South Florida-Deerfield Beach and Hollywood…Pompano Beach and Hollywood are owned by the same guy, while the Deerfield Beach store has a totally different-unrelated owner.

For the purposes of today’s story…I’m only talking about the Pompano Beach joint…which is open 24/7-which has indoor table/counter–outdoor patio seating…which makes amazing donuts and serves-up delicious “diner” food. If you are wondering why Jeff Eats is “featuring” Pompano Beach–it’s because this is the joint that Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats have been frequenting -to the tune of something like twice a month for years. While I’m busy telling you my life story- Hollywood’s donuts/food are as good as Pompano’s…Deerfield Beach’s donuts are OK-but not great (Remember! I told you -this joint has a different owner not to mention a different baker)-but its diner food is decent enough.

At this stage of the game I’m gonna let you check dandeedonuts.com for menu/prices/other info.

If you got the time, you can “read” (or re-read, whatever the case may be) Jeff Eats’- The Dandee Donut Factory write -up (11/19/11).

I’m gonna close this story out by telling you, that if you want- terrific donuts, delicious diner food, fabulous pleasant service, perfect diner-decor (whatever that is!)…then you gotta get yourself over to The Dandee Donut Factory in Pompano Beach.

Oh! One other thing…

In surfing the net, Jeff Eats caught on TripAdvisor what I think is one of the greatest food reviews of all-time…
*****
Palermo, New Jersey
Senior Contributor
24 reviews 24 reviews 9 restaurant reviews
29 helpful votes 29 helpful votes
“Fantastic donuts!!”
5 of 5 stars Reviewed September 21, 2014 NEW
We rolled into Dandees about 1:00 AM at the end of August. Despite Pompano Beach being almost completely shuttered, Dandees was bustling. The donuts are far superior to Dunkin and the atmosphere was worth the trip. I believe my son met his future ex wife there!!

This contest started on 7/17/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 Carvel Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 Carvel Gift Card to give to one of you guys!

The game- the first 20 “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 any Carvel location (carvel.com for locations, menu, info).

* Ladies’ Fun Night Out With Mario Lopez.

Just between us- and I’m not exactly sure why, but every time I see Mario Lopez and for that matter John Stamos, I think of the movie The Diary Of Dorian Gray!

Anyway…

The Skinny:

from seminolecasinococonutcreek.com

LADIES’ FUN NIGHT OUT WITH MARIO LOPEZ
SPONSORED BY LORD & TAYLOR

Thursday, July 27 • 7PM • The Pavilion

An exciting evening featuring Lord & Taylor® pop-up shops, slots & live blackjack, signature cocktails & small bites, and live entertainment.

The Mario Lopez Lounge Experience includes:

Complimentary Veuve Clicquot® champagne
Lord & Taylor® swag bag ($125 value)
Exclusive 30-minute Meet & Greet with Mario Lopez
Autographed photograph
Tickets: $250
Seating is limited. To purchase tickets, visit Ticketmaster.com or call 800-653-8000.

Proceeds benefit Impact 100 Palm Beach County, a donor-advised fund of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin counties.