* The Shirelles.

Jeff Eats has known Beverly Lee-one of the original-founding members of The Shirelles since I was 23 years old…let me do the math for you, that’s 42 years! A nicer, classier, more talented lady- you won’t meet.

Beverly and her “Shirelles” have 2 very rare-upcoming South Florida dates…all I can tell you, is that if you want to see a great show-you gotta go see The Shirelles.

For you history buffs out there…there were 4 original Shirelles- Micki, Doris, Beverly, Shirley. Micki and Doris have passed and it would be fair to say that Shirely and Beverly haven’t spoken no less worked together in years. Beverly owns The Shirelles’ trademark, while Shirley is allowed to perform under the name-Shirley Alston Reeves former lead singer of The Shirelles. So you now know who is who. Both “originals” have their own “backup Shirelles.” Jeff Eats has seen both groups perform- same songs…totally different show-styles. Nothing for nothing, both ladies put on great shows-stylistically, they are night and day–It’s kind of hard to describe their respective productions, but personally I just enjoy Beverly’s more. Just so you know, like Beverly I’ve also known Shirley 42 years and she’s an absolute doll and a phenomenal performer. Trust me when I tell you, you don’t get into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame-on good looks alone…both ladies are LEGENDARY PERFORMERS!

Now to the point…there are two ways that you can get to see Beverly…your choice! Then again, you could see her twice…

The Shirelles Starring Beverly Lee
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When:April 18, 2015 @ 7:30 pm
Where:Coral Springs Center for the Arts
2855 Coral Springs Drive
Coral Springs,FL 33065
USA
Tickets: online- coralspringscenterforthearts.com ($50.52-$79.02 all fees/taxes included)
Categories: Cabaret Series – The RRazz RoomThe Shirelles Starring Beverly Lee @ Coral Springs Center for the Arts | Coral Springs | Florida | United StatesROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES!
AMERICA’S ORIGINAL DREAM GIRLS!
THE SHIRELLES
Starring Original & Founding Member BEVERLY LEE
All The Great Hits LIVE …
SOLDIER BOY, WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW

* Light Up The 8th Night Of Chanukah.

No fooling, at first Jeff Eats thought the “flyer” said, that- The Sammy Hagar Band was appearing, gotta get the old eyes checked! Laugh! Not so crazy, after all David Lee Roth is Jewish…and while Jeff Eats is on the subject of Chanukah- what’s with all of the different spellings for this holiday? Christmas is Christmas but why it’s a national holiday is something I just can’t get my head wrapped around!

Anyway…

This Light Up The 8th Night Of Chanukah sounds like a real- nice family event…and it’s free- (don’t even think of going there and I’m not talking about the event)!

Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats have this-one on our calendar…

***** 2 Chef’s Souparee, 6338 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, Florida 33463, (561) 432-2477.

Just got this email from reader Norman D.

Jeff,
Just finished reading your review of the show ‘When You’re In Love The Whole World is Jewish.’ Sounds like a cute show.
I love Jason Alexander. His George on Seinfeld was classic. I note your ‘No Soup For You’ reference, that Soup Nazi character on Seinfeld was also classic. Just wondering with all of this recent cold weather, as to whether or not you got a good place for takeout soups?
*****

Norman D:

Not exactly sure as to where you live-here in sunny freezing cold South Florida…that said, the soups at 2 Chef’s Souparee in Lake Worth are off the chart. Jeff Eats loves this joint’s stuff.

Just an observation, every restaurant I know that has soup, can make it to go…based on your Seinfeld references I’m thinking that 2 Chef’s is more in-line with what you are looking for.

By the way, the guy who owns 2 Chef’s is a whole lot nicer than the Soup Nazi- so don’t be a-scared to ask for a few taste- samples!

Printed below is Jeff Eats’ 7/16/11 review…

***** 2 Chef’s Souparee, 6338 Lantana Road, Lake Worth, Florida 33463, (561) 432-2477.

I know that it’s something like 103-out there…but you absolutely-positively gotta try 2 Chef’s Souparee that makes some of the most amazingly delicious- soups, salads, sandwiches, dinner entrees and desserts that you have ever tasted. 2 Chef’s is basically a takeout, but it does have indoor seating for about 16…order at/pickup at counter.

2 Chef’s menu has 17 soups, 4 dinner salads, 8 sandwiches, 6 dinner entrees, 6 desserts. From what I can tell, only the breads and rolls are not home-made.

I recently tried mushroom barley soup (bowl-$4.90), french onion soup (bowl-$4.90), chicken pot pie soup (bowl-$5.90), new England clam chowder (bowl-$5.90). Let me state unequivocally that all of the soups—were outstanding. On the sandwich front, chicken salad and tuna salad ($6.90) were dynamite…same for the sirlon patty melt ($6.90). Dinner entrees “sampled” ($11.90–come with bread. soup or salad, potato or pasta) “sampled”… meatloaf–chicken parmigiana–1/2 roast chicken…All were delicious.
On the dessert front- the chocolate cake and peanut-butter chocolate cake—were definitely worth the calories

Every so often old Jeff Eats “stumbles” upon a homerun. 2 Chef’s Souparee is a grand-slam!

2 Chef’s is open Monday-Saturday 10am-9pm. The joint is closed on Sunday.

One final piece of business, if “discount coupons” are your game…www.southfloridadines.com has a $7.50 gets you $15.00 deal going.

***** DISH OF THE WEEK (Sunday- 12/14/14)

One of Jeff Eats’ favorite menu items…

CHICKEN PARMIGIANA SUB
$6.99

Bella Nonna Gourmet Pizza
7400 North Federal Highway
Boca Raton
(561) 989-8870
bellanonnapizzeria.com
Latest Review: 12/28/13

Just so you know, Jeff Eats “just” picked Bella Nonna’s chicken parmigiana sub-to get the conversation going. This hole in the wall Italian joint…has the full boat of appetizers, pizzas, subs, burgers, pastas, meat/chicken/seafood entrees, desserts and I am telling you, everything it makes is right on the money! If you’re looking for fancy-schmancy forgetaboutit- Bella Nonna’s eat-in is about as bare-bones as it gets. Before I let you go, if you like garlic rolls, you gotta try Bella Nonna’s- delicious.

* Annual Holiday Car Show.

Over the years Jeff Eats has been to a handful of these Festival Flea Market Mall Car Shows-between you and me, a great way to kill some time on a Sunday afternoon- assuming that the weather cooperates! Just so you know, old-cars and looking under some hood-ain’t my game- but I do enjoy seeing “what” makes other folks tick…and the food trucks that dot the parking lot landscape-make walking around all that more enjoyable.

Next show is scheduled for Sunday, December 14, 2014- from 10am-4pm.

The Festival’s Holiday Car show is the LARGEST Semi-Annual CAR SHOW in South Florida. OVER 600 Registered cars attended last year’s Holiday Show. This is an ‘Open Show’ for all types of cars – Classic, Foreign, Rods, etc. are all welcome. You don’t want to miss this MEGA show. Music, Fun, Food and Lots and Lots of GREAT CARS. Oh, by the way, GREAT SHOPPING for you, your friends and your family both outside at the car show and inside the mall. Over 300 Indoor Air-Conditioned Shops.

* When You’re In Love the Whole World Is Jewish.

Last night Jeff Eats and Mrs. Jeff Eats “attended” the SRO opening of- When You’re In Love The Whole World Is Jewish the music/comedy revue directed by Seinfeld’s Jason Alexander at the Mizner Park Cultural Center…I know, fancy shmancy…Now, I’m no Clive Barnes, but I gotta tell you that the cast of 6 -backed by a 4-piece “orchestra” through a series of sketches, had the crowd in stitches for 90 solid minutes. For sure, I had heard a number of the “punchlines” before- as the revue features some of the greatest Jewish comedy bits-of all time…but I still cracked-up as the actors’ accents and mannerisms turned-great “jokes and bits” into living color.

As you can see from the above, Jeff Eats is no- Clive Barnes, so I’m gonna quit while I’m ahead…

All I can tell you, is that if you are Jewish or even if your’re not…you gotta go see this show!

Finally, for those of you who might care, George, I mean Jason was there…and after the show-graciously fielded tons of “No Soup For You” questions, photo/autograph requests…Jeff Eats can’t resist- the man is a real mensch!

When a young Jewish boy decides he wants to marry his very gentile girlfriend, who knows nothing about Jewish customs or culture, he seeks the help of his Rabbi. The learned man then acts as a guide, taking the couple on a ride through the Jewish way of life, as a way of educating the young girl. This laugh-filled journey, incorporating twenty-five legendary comedy sketches and songs, covers every facet of Jewish life, from business and travel, to marriage and family, and is sure to appeal to all, because as the title of the show says, “When You’re In Love, The Whole World Is Jewish.”

* Smart Dog?

Jeff Eats read the below- story on aol.com.

The question I have: Was- Jake The Dog really sensing that something was physically wrong with his master, or was he just smelling a big fatty bbq-brisket sandwich which his master may have had in his front right pants pocket? The article did say that the owner owns a bbq joint, didn’t it?

In any-event, the dog made a good call!
*****
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX17) – A Grand Rapids restaurant owner says he probably wouldn’t be alive today If not for his dog.

Steve Elkowitz, 43, suffered a massive heart attack at the end of November, but at the time said he didn’t even know it.

Elkowitz owns Memphis Smokehouse, a barbecue joint in downtown Grand Rapids. He says he started having chest pains on Nov. 30 but didn’t think it was anything more than indigestion. It wasn’t until the family dog, Jake, began acting unusual–refusing to leave Elkowitz’s side–that Elkowitz realized the dog, whom he and his wife had rescued a few years ago, was now trying to rescue him.

“I’m thinking this is a dog that we got four years ago for $20 off Craigslist that somebody didn’t want to spend the time and effort training, and four years later he saved my life,” he said.

In and out of the bathroom that day with what he described as ‘crushing’ chest pain, Elkowitz said Jake, a 5-year-old rat terrier, refused to leave his side. “When I came out, Jake had followed me to the bathroom and was waiting outside the door,” he said. “He normally doesn’t do that. He does his own thing around the house.”

“A heart attack did cross my mind at one point, but I didn’t really think anything of it until the second time when he was following me, and I just thought, ‘He’s sensing something weird.

***** Grandma’s Brooklyn Pizza, 10045 Belvedere Road, Royal Palm Beach, Florida 33411, (561) 793-3323.

Got a terrific “mom & pop” red sauce Italian joint for you guys…Grandma’s Brooklyn Pizza in Royal Palm Beach. Real tiny joint, with just a handful of tables-so don’t be planning no big high school graduation parties or nothing!

You can check menu/prices at grandmasbrooklynpizza.com.

Just so you know, the joint has the full boat of expected appetizers, salads, pizzas, pastas, subs, meat/chicken/seafood entrees, desserts. For those of you who might be wondering, yes- entrees come with soup or salad, garlic rolls and a pasta side.

The other night Jeff Eats, Mrs. Jeff Eats and another couple gave Grandma’s a shot…large cheese pizza (16″-$12.99), chicken parmigiana sub ($8.59), eggplant parmigiana sub ($8.59), shrimp scampi over pasta ($19.19), meat lasagna ($13.09)- and I gotta tell you everything and I do mean everything was delicious. You guys know that Jeff Eats isn’t a big proponent of pecking-order lists-but I must tell you that the pizza (thin, crisp, sweet sauce) was terrific and the eggplant parmigiana sub alone- was worth the drive-up-to Royal Palm Beach.

Trust Jeff Eats on this one, this hole in the wall is a dynamite joint.

Grandma’s Brooklyn Pizza is open Monday-Saturday 11am-10pm, Sunday noon-10pm.

* Life In Color Festival.

Jeff Eats seriously doubts that there is a college kid in America- that doesn’t know what the LIFE IN COLOR FESTIVAL is all about…them-trying to explain to you what Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is-would be-like what I went through trying to explain The Beatles to my parents… and many of you trying to explain Elvis to your parents.

All I know- is that this 2-day festival (per Son Jeff Eats) is going to draw something like 60,000 people, the “acts” appearing are incredible and that Groupon (groupon.com) is currently running a “deal” on 2-day Life In Color tickets.

The beautiful thing about this EDM-stuff, 15 years from now- these college kids’ kids will be trying to explain to “them” the latest music-scene. Remember the old South Korean saying… “What goes around, comes around.”

* Happy Daze Band.

Got a real-good 1950s-1960s “oldies” band for you guys…Happy Daze Band.

Happy Daze Band based out of South Florida, has been around for something like 3 years…

Jeff Eats recently caught the-5 member group at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek- and the crowd had an absolute blast listening and dancing to some real strong covers.

If you are into 50s-60s oldies…Happy Daze Band plays all over South Florida-at country clubs/restaurants/festivals/casinos.

You can check happydazeband.com for the band’s schedule/info.