Hot Dish

Welcome to the Hot Dish, where OutSFL's food editor Rick Karlin explores the local cuisine and culinary delights. Have a tip to share? Email Rick at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

You leave town for a few days and the entire restaurant scene changes I came home to discover that the Fort Lauderdale landmark riverfront restaurant, The Downtowner and its next-door venue, Maxwell Room, will close on Sunday, Oct. 6 after 30 years.

Boy, you leave town for two weeks, and you somehow have six weeks of mail and emails accumulated when you return. There were so many goodies that I couldn’t include them all in my last column, so I’ll catch you up. But I promise to dine out and give you a review soon!

I’ve been up in Chicago for a couple of weeks getting my fix of the chow I can’t get in SoFlo (pan pizza, Italian beef sandwiches, Maxwell Street Polish, a decent banh mi, good Indian food) and while I’ve been gone my inbox has filled up with all kinds of dining news I need to share.

TacoWa in Boca Raton is part traditional Korean restaurant, part fusion and all of it is interesting, I just wish it was more exciting.

I’d been working at the computer all day and just didn’t feel like cooking dinner, so I suggested to my husband we check out a place I had seen several folks mention on Facebook.

One of the perks of being a food journalist (I hate the term restaurant critic) is that I sometimes get invited to tastings when restaurants are introducing their menus or adding items to their menus to members of the press.

Slap your palm to your forehead now and say, “Why didn’t I think of this?” Here are some brilliant brunch dishes, that have come across my desk (well, really my computer screen, but you get the idea).

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