![]() Grain’s first South Florida location (and 13th in the state) comes from co-franchisee Jeremy Dover, one half of Fort Lauderdale’s Demesmin & Dover law firm. This Tampa-based, build-your-own-bowl chain plans to plant its newest outpost this spring in Flagler Village, across the street from Holiday Park. CRU’s West Palm Beach location will join outposts in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Austin and New Orleans, with a Coral Gables location expected first in April. The lounge also serves Philly cheesesteaks, lollipop lamb chops, garlic shrimp skewers and lobster mac ‘n’ cheese. CRU, to be operated by local franchisee Stephon Williams, touts a hookah menu as sweet as its sugary cocktails, which include Liquid Hemp (coconut rum, pineapple juice) and Nyak Hulk (fruit juice, vodka, cognac, sour patch candy straws). This clubby hookah bar and small-plates franchise expects to shuffle this spring into West Palm Beach’s hip, mural-splashed Northwood Village district. This would be Voodoo’s second location after its flagship opened in Palm Beach Gardens in 2020. Voodoo Bayou is owner Curtis Peery’s (Calaveras Cantina in Boca Raton, Jupiter) vision of New Orleans cuisine, with entrées spanning Crescent City staples (gumbo, jambalaya, shrimp and crawfish étouffée, po’ boys) as well as inventive dishes (such as an 18-ounce, bone-in Cajun ribeye with bourbon jus, wood-fired redfish - and even gator tail). Radiating French Quarter cool with a wrought-iron balcony to match, this pandemic-delayed Southern Cajun cafe is expected to finally open on the Las Olas Boulevard drag this spring, replacing the former Café de Paris. The storefront, located in the open-air plaza where Bonaventure Boulevard meets Three Villages Road, will showcase a variety of huraideu-chikin (fried chicken wings without seasoning) and yangnyeom-chikin (chicken with a sweet-and-spicy sauce glaze). This new Korean fried-chicken restaurant, registered to Young Hee Kho and Seo Young Han, doesn’t have a menu or website available yet but is expected to debut this spring or summer inside the Weston Town Center. Raising Cane’s, shown here with chicken tenders, crinkle-cut fires and coleslaw, is planning to open four South Florida locations by this summer, starting with Boynton Beach in April. Other Florida outposts are coming in 2023 to Largo, Gainesville, Tallahassee and Port St. Federal Highway) on the former site of steakhouse icon Bobby Rubino’s. In August, a fourth is scheduled to debut in Pompano Beach (2501 N. State Road 7) in May and Cutler Bay (19705 S. Bay Drive) in April, followed by Royal Palm Beach (100 N. Four South Florida entries are slated to open by summer, the first of which is planned for Boynton Beach (4835 E. This fast-expanding national chicken chain from Baton Rouge, La., specializes in one thing: hand-battered tenders in several combo specials, from its three-finger deal to the Caniac Combo (six tenders with crinkle-cut fries, coleslaw and Texas toast). Although much of its menu isn’t finalized, it may borrow from the current lineup at Mace’s Tropical Smokehouse. The storefront’s no-frills setup will use a cafeteria-style line where customers pick sides and meats slow-cooked in a Texas-made smoker. Tropical Barbecue, his spinoff of Tropical Smokehouse, is expected to open inside the former Aioli space in downtown West Palm Beach sometime in April and to zero in on smoked meats, such as brisket burnt ends. Now the chef is doubling down on his philosophy that the Sunshine State - as with North Carolina, Tennessee or Texas - touts its own distinctive barbecue heritage. It’s a banner season to be Rick Mace, who in January notched a James Beard semifinalist nod for his Florida-style barbecue haunt Tropical Smokehouse in West Palm Beach. Two more Talkin’ Tacos are expected to open later this year in SoFlo, and franchise restaurants are slated for Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville and New York. Menu favorites include Birria Ramen, Southwest Chicken Tacos, Birria Pizza, Street Corn in a Cup, Churros, Tajin and Chamoy Gummies, as well as house-made lemonades, horchatas and mangonadas. ![]() to 2 a.m., the first 100 guests at the new Coral Springs eatery will get a free order of Talkin’ Tacos’ signature Birria Tacos. Their fast-casual Mexican restaurant brand is opening a fourth eatery, at The Walk of Coral Springs, this month - in addition to locations in Miramar and Miami-Dade County’s Brickell and Wynwood neighborhoods. They may have started out with a humble food truck in 2020, but the owners of Talkin’ Tacos, Mohammad Farraj and Omar Al-Massalkhi, have some ambitious plans. Here’s what’s coming soon to a city near you. When it comes to food, South Florida is a great place to be. ![]()
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