* Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral.

Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats saw the show years ago in NYC- and I’m telling you, that this interactive comedy will absolutely crack you up!

Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral is in for 4- performances at the Boca Black Box:

Sunday Afternoon, March 26, 2017 (2pm)
Monday Night, March 27, 2017 (8pm)
Tuesday Night, March 28, 2017 (8pm)
Wednesday Night, March 29, 2017 (8pm)

Boca Black Box
8221 Glades Road #10
Boca Raton, Florida 33434
Box Office: 561.483.9036
Tickets: bocablackbox.com goldstar.com (discount tickets)

from goldstar.com
The Grossman family cordially invites you to the funeral of their dearly departed Grandma Sylvia — but you’ll spend more time laughing than crying at this over-the-top interactive theater production lampooning a Jewish funeral gone wrong. This hit Off-Broadway comedy is a blend of scripted and improvisational theater in the vein of Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, where you and the other audience members will pay your respects, kibbitz with the cast and nosh on a bagel brunch as this dysfunctional family spins hilariously out of control. Grandma Sylvia’s Funeral comes to the Boca Black Box in Boca Raton.

***** Fortuna Bakery, 12701 South John Young Parkway, Orlando, Florida 32837, (407) 855-7070.

Got a real good Colombian bakery for you guys, Fortuna Bakery in Orlando.

Real simple concept at work here, tons of reasonably priced delicious cakes, cookies, pastries, breads, arepas, tamales, turnovers, sausages, empanadas- order/pickup at counter- handful of tables inside and outside- open Monday-Saturday 7am-7:30pm, Sunday 8am-2:30pm.

Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats recently “visited” the Fortuna Bakery- and felt like kids in a candy store…

Trust Jeff Eats on this one, this Fortuna Bakery joint is a real good one! For you guys who maybe wondering, super pleasant English speaking counter-staff who’ll ‘splain (I know, Ricky Ricardo) whatever needs ‘splaining!

You can checkout menu/prices/info at fortunabakerycafe.com.

This contest started on 3/17/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $50 Culver’s Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $50 Culver’s 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 $50 Gift Card is good at any Culver’s location (check Culvers.com for locations, menu, prices).

Jeff Eats has eaten in a handful of Culver’s- and I gotta tell you guys, this joint’s frozen custard, burgers, fries are absolute- dynamite!

Jeff Eats is kinda thinking that some of you guys may not be all that-familiar with Culver’s, so…Culver Franchising System, Inc., doing business as Culver’s, is a privately owned and operated fast casual restaurant chain featuring frozen custard and hamburgers that operates primarily in the Midwestern United States. The first Culver’s opened in 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin. As of March 8, 2017, the chain had 611 restaurants across the United States with 38 currently in the State of Florida!

This contest started on 3/17/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $100 Culver’s Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $100 Culver’s Gift Card to give to one of you guys…

The game- the first 30 “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 $100 Gift Card is good at any Culver’s location (check Culvers.com for locations, menu, prices).

Jeff Eats has eaten in a handful of Culver’s- and I gotta tell you guys, this joint’s frozen custard, burgers, fries are delicious!

Jeff Eats is kinda thinking that some of you guys may not be all that-familiar with Culver’s, so…Culver Franchising System, Inc., doing business as Culver’s, is a privately owned and operated fast casual restaurant chain featuring frozen custard and hamburgers that operates primarily in the Midwestern United States. The first Culver’s opened in 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin. As of March 8, 2017, the chain had 611 restaurants across the United States with 38 currently in the State of Florida!

* Johnny Quest Presents The 3rd Annual- LOTOS 2017 MUSIC FESTIVAL.

Sure hope the weather is good, ’cause Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats are definitely gonna be there!

* 4th Annual The Concert for The Children starring Jennifer Hudson.

BIG, BIG, BIG charity event!

If memory serves Jeff Eats correctly, last year’s headliner was Diana Ross!

You can check details at jafco.org.

***** Diner By-The Sea, 215 Commercial Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33308, (954) 491-0642.

You guys into “mom & pop” diners are gonna love Diner By-The-Sea in Fort Lauderdale.

Simple concept working there- open 7 days a week 6am-2pm, breakfast/lunch, flat-top grill cooking, booth/counter seating, Saturday & Sunday complimentary mimosas with breakfast/lunch, cash only!

Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats recently did breakfast at Diner By-The-Sea and the joint’s 1960’s retro decor, cool vibe, super pleasant service, reasonable prices and dynamite food-hooked (pun intended) us as fans!

Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats absolutely loved Diner By-The-Sea… other than for a humongous sailfish (or whatever kinda fish it is!) mounted on the wall, flat screen tvs and some nautical chozzerai (Yiddish: junk, trash) for decor- we were back in Brooklyn 1962!

You can check menu/prices/info at dinerbytheseainc.com

This contest started on 3/18/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 Menchie’s Gift Card

Jeff Eats got a $25 Menchie’s 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 Menchie’s location (menchies.com for locations, menu, prices).

Posted on June 27th, 2011

***** Menchies Frozen Yogurt, 11057 Pinese Boulevard, Pembroke Pines, Florida 33026, (954) 495-4044.

Holy Moly!!!—just what we need, a-n-o-t-h-e-r self-serve yogurt joint. Say hello to Menchies Frozen Yogurt…franchise chain with loads of locations all over America… When you check its website–www.menchies.com you will find, that (for our purposes) it currently has outlets in Pembroke Pines, Davie, Hialeah and Tamarac. Menchies also has spots in Orlando, Lake Mary, Kissimmee and Winter Park- Florida. The chain’s website has a “huge” list of furture South Florida-locations with addresses and phone numbers…so, if Pembroke Pines, Davie, Hialeah and Tamarac don’t “work” for you, don’t cha worry, you’ll soon be able to fill a cup at 44 cents an ounce with 10 rotating flavors and loads of toppings.

For the record…yesterday (Sunday), I tried the Pembroke Pines’ joint out. Got there about 3:30pm and there must have been at least 20 people on-line waiting to load their cups up. You regular Jeff Eats’ readers…know that I am not a big-yogurt-fan…give me a Dairy-Queen Chocolate Heath Bar Blizzard, any day. With that in mind, I found the chocolate-vanilla-original tart “samples” to be delicious. To be perfectly honest with you, I gotta rate Menchies right-up there with the best self-serve joints that I’ve been to. The yogurt was right on the money…the toppings bar literally had “tons” of offerings (check website for list), the joint was as clean as a whistle and the toppings bar was constantly being tended to by an employee who was as pleasant and helpful as could be.

You-regular readers know, that I consider the self-serve yogurt business to be a huge FAD…which will soon have loads of unhappy owners and franchisees. That said, for as long as this party lasts, from what I can tell…Menchies has a terrific product and knows how to operate stores on the ground level.

If self-serve is your game, you will really enjoy Menchies.

Menchies is open Sunday-Thursday 11am-11pm and Friday-Saturday 11am-midnight.

This contest started on 3/17/17. This contest has a winner.

* Win A $25 Culver’s Gift Card.

Jeff Eats got a $25 Culver’s 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 Culver’s location (check Culvers.com for locations, menu, prices).

Jeff Eats has eaten in handful a of Culver’s- and I gotta tell you guys, this joint’s frozen custard, burgers, fries are absolute dynamite!

Jeff Eats is kinda thinking that some of you guys may not be all that-familiar with Culver’s, so…Culver Franchising System, Inc., doing business as Culver’s, is a privately owned and operated fast casual restaurant chain featuring frozen custard and hamburgers that operates primarily in the Midwestern United States. The first Culver’s opened in 1984 in Sauk City, Wisconsin. As of March 8, 2017, the chain had 611 restaurants across the United States with 38 currently in the State of Florida!

* Chuck Berry Dead At 90!

But it was perhaps John Lennon — who died in 1980 — who put it most succinctly. “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry.'”