Velvet Creme Doughnuts.

My buddies at Burger Beast (burgerbeast.com) are telling Jeff Eats that Velvet Creme Doughnuts which had a great 1947-2000 Miami run- is readying a major south Florida “comeback” featuring food trucks, kiosks and full retail shops.

Time will tell- if all this comes to be!

What I do know- if Velvet Creme Doughnuts “builds” trucks, kiosks and most importantly stores that capitalize on the original “look” below-it will have won at least- half of its comeback battle from the get-go!

Jeff Eats absolutely loves the “retro” feel- of the original Velvet Creme Doughnuts’ store…

You can follow Velvet Creme’s story at velvetcremedoughnuts.com.

***** Dune Deck’s Mimosa Café.

Recent e-mail from reader Marilyn G…

Jeff,

Need a really good breakfast joint to take my ‘new’ NJ in-laws to. Nothing too fancy, but really need solid food.

Something in Boynton would work perfectly.

Thanks,
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Marilyn G,

Got a real good one for you.

Read the “below” review.
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Dune Deck’s Mimosa Cafe (Boynton Beach)
Posted on June 27th, 2013 · American Boynton Beach Breakfast

***** Dune Deck’s Mimosa Café, 10833 South Jog Road, Boynton Beach, Florida 33437, (561) 742-8005.

Real fast…back on February 15, 2008 Jeff Eats “did” a story on the Dune Deck–a breakfast/lunch joint located on the public beach in Lantana. That 2008 “review” is reprinted below…

Just so you know, the Dune Deck in Lantana is one of Jeff Eats’ favorite breakfast joints…I would bet that over the past 5 years, I’ve eaten something like 40 breakfasts there. Can’t remember each and every meal, but I can’t recall even-one bad outing at this joint. Its menu is packed with all kinds of breakfast stuff, salads, burgers and sandwiches. For you guys not-familiar with the Dune Deck in Lantana…it is basically a covered-outdoor patio joint right on the Lantana beach….the Dune Deck draws “tons” of people every day and in “season” the tourists make it a nightmare-wait for “us” regulars.

Anyway…

About two months ago, the folks that own the Dune Deck opened “another” breakfast-lunch joint—Dune Deck Mimosa Café in Boynton Beach. From what I can tell, they took over a bagel-joint that was there…soooo Dune Deck Mimosa Café looks “just” like a bagel-joint (and I know that “you” guys know what a South Florida bagel joint looks like).

Anyway…

The other morning, Jeff Eats and some of his buddies- had breakfast in the Dune Deck Mimosa Café and I gotta tell you that this joint has the “same” great food and service as the one in Lantana…the only difference, the Boynton joint (which is in a strip center)–doesn’t have the terrific Atlantic Ocean patio views that the Lantana outpost does. Now- nothing for nothing… we will soon find out if the “ocean views” are a necessary factor in the Dune Deck success equation. Personally, Jeff Eats thinks that the food/service alone will make the Boynton joint a huge winner…time will tell on that!

You can check Dune Deck’s Mimosa Cafe’s menu/prices at www.ddmimosacafe.com.

Dune Deck Mimosa Café is open 7 days a week 7:30am-4pm.

Here’s the February 15, 2008 “story.”

***** Dune Deck Cafe, 100 North Ocean Boulevard, Lantana Florida–(561) 582-0472

Over the years, I have eaten breakfast in this breakfast-lunch joint at least 20 times. Located directly on the beach, this tee shirt/shorts joint has great food, great service and beach atmosphere which is why we all live down here in South Florida. Don’t miss this one.

* Free Springsteen Tribute Band Concerts.

* Party City Miami Heat Tivkets Contest.

Pretty self- explanatory!

***** Mr. Shen’s Peking Chinese Restaurant, 9228 Glades Road, Boca Raton, Florida 33434, (561) 482-1086.

Not exactly sure on this, but I’m thinking Mr. Shen’s has been around for something like 25 years.

Anyway,

Best way to describe Mr. Shen’s- a decent enough American Chinese Restaurant.

Jeff Eats got friends who swear by this joint…despite the fact that they are born and bred Queens’ boys circa- 1950’s-1960’s- they really don’t know dick (I know that this is suppose to be a family friendly blog site!) as to what constitutes real good Brooklyn Jewish American Chinese Food or in their case, what constitutes real good Queens Jewish American Chinese Food- applying 1950-1969 parameters.

Long story short, for as long as Jeff Eats has been down here (22 years)-at least twice a year- to keep the peace, I let these guys and their wives schlep me and Mrs. Jeff Eats to this Mr. Shen’s Chinese Restaurant joint.

Anyway,

Last night was the latest schlepping- wonton soup, egg drop soup, fried dumplings, egg rolls, bbq ribs, chicken fried rice, sweet & sour pork, pepper steak, shrimp with lobster sauce, roast pork chow fun and like I said 3.6 seconds ago, these guys don’t know dick as to what consitutes real good Brooklyn or Queens Jewish American Chinese Food applying 1950-1969 parameters. I will tell you, in all fairness- the egg rolls weren’t half bad!

If you are looking for decent- enough American Chinese food, checkout menu/prices/other info at shenspeking.com. If you are looking for real good Brooklyn/Queens Jewish American Chinese Food- as Dionne Warwick sang…”Walk on By.”

Mr. Shen’s Peking Chinese Restaurant is open 7 days a week 11:30am-9:30pm.

* An Evening With Emil Emil Stucchio & The Classics.

My good friend Lola-of Lola & The Saints is annoying the crap out of me!

Just got this e-mail from Lola…

Do Jeff Eats a huge favor and go see HER. Nothing for nothing, Emil Stucchio is one of the greatest doo-wop singers of all-time…Nothing for nothing, Lola & The Saints is one of the best doo-wop “acts” currently working the oldies-circuit! So, nothing for nothing…you’ll have a great time, assuming you like doo wop!

By the way, if Lecanto isn’t- your “neighborhood”- according to-Lola & The Saints’ website (lolaandthesaints.com) Lola & The Saints is gonna be headlining:

Feb 15 SUNDAY WEST PORT HIGH SCHOOL
PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
3733 SOUTH WEST 80TH AVENUE
OCALA, FL 3448
SHOW TIME 3PM DOORS OPEN 2PM
Tickets $15.00 Call: 352-861-0252
or www.tlcocala.org

MARCH 7 SAT. LAUDERDALE WEST
1141 NW 85 Ave., Plantation, Fl 33322
For Tickets: 954-473-8219
Call mornings 9am – Noon
Call evenings 7pm – 9pm
$7.00pp SHOW TIME 8:00PM
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

MARCH 8 SUN. KINGS POINT
7000 W. Atlantic Ave. Delray Beach, Fla 33446
Call for tickets Box Office 561-499-3335 ext 225
SHOWTIME 8:00PM
TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Thank you for your kind attention.

By the way, Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats are looking forward to seeing Lola & The Saints at Kings Point on Sunday, March 8th!
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Hi everyone,

This show is going to be a KNOCKOUT! Buy your tickets now.

Send to all your friends and make this a night out you won’t forget.

ps: LOLA & THE SAINTS will be debuting our new cd entitled

“AT LAST”. You will absolutely enjoy the choices of songs

on this cd and the vocal harmonies will send you back to the

good ole’ days.

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE…

Curtis Peterson Auditorium

3810 West Educational Path

Lecanto , FL. 34461

For any printed promo, use the website www.poprockdoowopp.com
For a direct ticketing link (for e-mail and websites) use http://www.showclix.com/event/ClassicsLecanto
Phone number for tickets is 1-888-718-4253

* Fruit and Vegetable Diet.

Just finished reading about-this diet on everydayhealth.com.

I’m thinking- this rodeo isn’t for this cowboy!

The way Jeff Eat sees it, if God didn’t want me to eat Five Guys burgers and Chinese boneless ribs- he wouldn’t have -let them build so many franchises and dumpy strip centers.

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Fruit and Vegetable Diet

With all of the fad diets available, the fruit and vegetable diet has yet to become popular. Many people do not know about this easy to follow diet and those who do believe it is a vegan lifestyle and not one they are interested in pursuing. You may have to avoid some foods to prevent problems with your health. How long you will be able to follow this diet plan will depend on your weight and health so follow your doctor’s advice carefully.

Fruit and Vegetable Diet
This diet is not saying never eat meat. The proteins and other nutrients in meat are needed to help our bodies stay healthy. Most people do not eat enough fruits and vegetables and our bodies need other vitamins and nutrients to ensure good health.

Raw fruit is always the best choice for the nutritional value. If you have to change the way the fruit is served, cooked, baked or steamed is best, as boiling lowers the nutritional value. Juice does count as fruit, but it does not contain as much fiber, so eating the fruit itself is better for you.

Like fruits, vegetables are best eaten raw and they tend to have fewer calories than fruits. They also contain complex carbohydrates that our bodies do not convert as easily as sugar so you will feel full longer.

The table below manifests the best fruits and vegetables which can be included in your fruit and vegetable diet.

Fruits
The best choices:
Blueberries, strawberries, oranges, grapefruit, cantaloupe, apples (green have less sugar), cranberries (including cranberry juice), pears, boysenberries, papaya, blackberries, guava
Those should be eaten less frequently because of sugar content:
Bananas, grapes, dates, coconut, dried Fruit, canned and processed fruit
Vegetables
Carrots, broccoli, celery, green beans, mushrooms, turnip greens, tomato, artichokes, cabbage, collard greens, onions, lettuce, alfalfa sprouts, zucchini, leeks, turnips, Brussels Sprouts, eggplant, scallions, spinach, kale, okra, summer squash
Fruit and Vegetable Diet Plan
Going on a fruit and vegetable diet plan can help you lose weight, but lean meat can be included if you want it. If you want to try only fruits and vegetables, use this diet for 6 months then choose one helping of lean meat a day. By reintroducing meat slowly, you can keep from putting the weight back on and readjust to eating meat.

To lose weight properly, you need to eat several small meals a day to keep your metabolism working at its best all day. You cannot lose weight if your metabolism slows down because of hunger. Exercise is also needed to lose weight and maintain that weight loss.

Meal
Time and Recipe
Meal 1
Time: Breakfast
Recipe: 2 eggs (whites only, boiled), 1 slice of brown bread and 1 cup of green tea or black coffee
Meal 2
Time: Two hours after breakfast
Recipe: Non-fat yogurt with your choice of fruit
Meal 3
Time: One hour later (lunch)
Recipe: Egg salad with boiled whites and vegetables of your choice
Meal 4
Time: Two hours after lunch
Recipe: An apple, with the skin
Meal 5
Time: Two hours later
Recipe: A small bowl of cherries
Meal 6
Time: Between 7:30 and 8:00 PM – the last meal
Recipe: Brown bread sandwich with vegetables
You can lose weight quickly if you take this fruit and vegetable diet seriously. Always use non-fat add-ons when choosing a fruit or vegetable salad and limit dairy products. Make sure to drink plenty of water and eat nothing after 8:00 PM. Exercise is also needed to help lose weight.

***** Barone’s La Pizzeria.

I’m gonna save you guys the “trouble” of e-mailing me…to find out where Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats are going for Valentines Day-2015…

Just this very minute, I asked Mrs. Jeff Eats to make a reservation at Barone’s La Pizzeria which is one of our favorite mom & pop red sauce South Florida Italian joints.

We “did” Valentines Day-2014 there…and had an absolute blast.

By the way, if some of you guys are like Jeff Eats…Saturday, February 14, 2015! Your welcome!!

Anyway,

Printed down below, is- Barone’s La Pizzeria- Valentines Day’s 2015- “flyer”–Yeah, I caught the spelling errors,,, and some of the text doesn’t make sense… and there is no pricing…hey!- they are Italian restaurant guys- not Jewish Brooklyn lawyers-Capice! All I know, is Barone’s makes great food, has great service, has reasonable prices and its owners are the nicest people going! By the way, I see that falsetto-singer extraordinaire, Michael D’Amore will be performing…the guy absolutely kills!

So, if you want to go out- real easy nothing fancy schmancy- go call Barone’s at (954) 068-4396- find out what the “story” is and if it makes sense to you, make a reservation.

Printed below is Jeff Eats’ Barone’s La Pizzeria review from February 15, 2014.

Looking forward to seeing some of you guys there!

February 15, 2014
***** Barone’s La Pizzeria, 5632 West Sample Road, Margate, Florida 33073 (954) 968-4396.

Call it crazy, but at least once a week -Jeff Eats gets asked among other things-to name his favorite south Florida Italian/pizza joints…very flattering -to think that so many of you guys actually believe that I know what I am talking about…

Anyway…

Way back on June 28, 2010- Jeff Eats “reviewed” Barone’s La Pizzeria…and I gotta tell you, that over the ensuing years, Barone’s has become one of Jeff Eats’ “go to joints.” Personally, I would match Barone’s food/prices/service up-against the best “mom & pop” red sauce players in South Florida.

So…you now know where Jeff Eats goes when he is craving -outstanding New York Style pizza, amazing garlic knots, fabulous minestrone soup, delicious veal marsala—so forth and so on.

One final thought…Barone’s has been around for something like 40 years…that should tell you something!

The original (6/28/10) review is reprinted below.
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***** Barone’s La Pizzeria, 5632 West Sample Road, Margate, Florida 33073 (954) 968-4396.
Barone’s La Pizzeria is a “Mom & Pop—red sauce” pizza joint located in Margate.
You can check its menu/prices at www.lapizzeriamargate.com.

You know and I know that “Mom & Pop” pizza joints are a dime a dozen-down here in old South Florida. I think the way it works…the strip center landlord first signs Publix, then Walgreens, then a Chinese takeout, then a pizza joint, then a dry cleaners…then a —-(you fill in the blanks)….then half of the businesses go bust…

Anyway, the other evening, I gave Barone’s La Pizzeria a shot- and I gotta tell you, the food is real-good. My party did pizza, shrimp scampi, veal parmigiana, meat lasagna, chicken & shrimp alfredo, penne ala vodka—and like I just said, real good.

As you know– over the past few years, old Jeff Eats has eaten-in his fair share of “mom & pop” Italian joints…and, to be perfectly honest with you, most of them barely get the job done, but then again, that’s the nature of the beast…”cheap is cheap”….”you get what you pay for”…”one if by land, 2 if by sea.” Trust me on this one, Barone’s La Pizzeria is REAL GOOD…if you live or work near the joint, I highly recommend that you give it a try.

By the way, Barone’s La Pizzeria is right across Sample Road from the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek and is maybe a 3-minute drive (west) from the Festival Flea Market on Sample Road.

Barone’s La Pizzeria is open Sunday-Thursday 11am-10pm and Friday-Saturday 11am-11pm

* The Legendary Groups & Voices Of Doo Wop.

Just this very minute, Jeff Eats “picked-up”- 6 tickets online for January 24th’s- The Legendary Groups & Voices at Kings Point. Call me a big spender, but as a non Kings Point-resident, I had to pay 17 bucks instead of $14 per ticket.

Trust me on this one, I’ve seen Cleveland Still & The Dubs, Jimmy Gallagher (lead singer of The Passions) and Michael D’Amore and they all-put on a great show. Throw in guest appearances by- various members of South Florida based-The Doo Wop Mob and Johnny T (formerly of The Mystics)-and for $17 a head, Jeff Eats, Mrs. Jeff Eats and some friends are gonna see a great doo wop show.

If this kinda stuff interests you…while I was online- I noticed that there were a handful of really good seats left. You can catch tickets at kingspointdelray.com.

* Galo’s Tribute to Santana.

Jeff Eats has seen this Santana tribute band…you’ll think that freaking Santana is on the stage!

This is a free-concert…

Just so you know, Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats would love to have been there, but we already got tickets to see comedian- Bobby Collins over-by-where-we-live!

Catch good weather and this Galo’s Tribute to Santana event- should be a blast!

from delraycenterforarts.com
Galo’s Tribute to Santana
January 23, 2015

Free Friday Concert, 7:30 p.m. Outdoor Pavilion. The band started in early 2002 with the idea of duplicating the Santana stage experience… and they have succeeded! Come out and hear Galo Rivera and the band share some of the best music in the world thanks to the original Santana.

Weather permitting; bring your blankets and chairs, and bring the family… but PLEASE, no pets or outside food or beverages. Food trucks and cash bar available.