The 4th Annual Burgie Awards took place during the first weekend of February, featuring twenty plus food trucks and restaurants at this food lover’s event. This yearly food festival celebrates the favorites in South Florida food and features a variety of dishes and desserts, not just burgers. It was the first time the annual event [...]

Ft. Lauderdale, FL – In 2009 South Florida Food Blogger Burger Beast wanted to honor the unsung heroes of the South Florida Food Scene with Awards. His “Burgie Awards”, the first of their kind were a sensation. SFL Restaurants & Food Trucks have now taken to proudly displaying their “Burgie Awards” year round. Voting for [...]

This is my Top 25 of “Most Memorable Food” in 2012. They are all new food and dishes that I experienced this past year, some while traveling and some close to home. A few are from events that I attended and a couple dishes are from restaurants that unfortunately closed. (Try to dine at locally [...]

This past Friday I was really on a bacon kick. It’s not often that I will cook bacon at home for breakfast, then eat a donut topped with bacon, and then finish the day with dinner which includes more bacon. If you follow me on Instagram, you saw my plate featuring bacon, with fried eggs [...]

The combination of chocolate and bacon just keeps getting better for Central Florida. On Saturday, September 1st, Peterbrooke Chocolatier of Winter Park is teaming up with the C&S Brisket Bus food truck to create a special “Chocolate-Covered Bacon”. Using Peterbrooke’s chocolate and C&S Brisket Bus’ hand crafted bacon, the collaboration is to celebrate International Bacon [...]

Whole Foods Market in Phillips Crossing hosted it’s “Fill The Grill Challenge” for 3 weeks in July. The challenge featured chefs from four local food trucks in the Orlando area, where they had a $20 budget, with 20 minutes to shop and then 20 minutes to cook. The chefs chose their own ingredients and were [...]

The summer heat is here and it is time for a Cook-Off series. Food truck cuisine is one of the hottest trends around the country and it has been elevated with many classically trained chefs creating culinary masterpieces in their mobile kitchens. Watch four Orlando food truck chefs battle it out in the “Fill the [...]

Finding food trucks in your own city can sometimes be a challenge. However, with the new and improved Eat St. iPhone App, finding your favorite food trucks or discovering new ones in your area is now easier. With more accurate locations, more menus options, and new photo features, this is the App to help you [...]

The TECHmunch food blogger conference rolled into in Tampa, FL last month. This was my first time attending a TECHmunch event and I was excited to see this conference taking place in a nearby city. What made this conference different was that I was asked to speak at one of the segments. Jeff Houck, Food [...]

Today is National Grilled Cheese Day so we will take a nostalgic look at a favorite grilled cheese sandwich. Last year in April 2011, a deep fried grilled cheese sandwich was born in Orlando. It was the best of three worlds: a grilled cheese sandwich, with bbq brisket, and deep fried. The sandwich was called [...]

A group of University of Central Florida students organized a food truck event to help raise funds for Relay for Life. Uknighted for a Cure Food Truck Rally had several Orlando food trucks participate in the Relay Food Truck Rally event and portion of the proceeds will go to UCF’s Relay for Life 2012, sponsored [...]

When I found out there was going to be a food truck event at the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival this year, I knew I had to go. It was my first time making plans to attend the festival and since I was not able to get down to Miami until the [...]