
Phillip Valys
Arts and Entertainment Writer at South Florida Sun Sentinel
Arts and entertainment writer @SunSentinel. Author: "LAIR: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains" @SimonSchuster. Ashes to ashes, funk to funky.
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1 week ago |
sun-sentinel.com | Phillip Valys
If this were a cross-county competition for cleanliness, Palm Beach County eateries last month easily outshined their Broward County counterparts in the total tally of spotless kitchens. These “gold-star” restaurants and food trucks made the April 2025 list of perfect inspections because not one violation — minor, intermediate or high-priority — was red-flagged at the time of the surprise visit from Florida safety and sanitation inspectors.
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2 weeks ago |
sun-sentinel.com | Phillip Valys
Locals strolling Hollywood’s Young Circle may have noticed changes afoot within the aging La Piazza complex, a low-slung shopping strip crowned with apartments on Hollywood Boulevard. A Cricket phone retailer is shuttered. The FedEx facility is gone, too, having moved to Tyler Street. And one of La Piazza’s last holdouts, J28 Sandwich Bar — an 11-year-old Peruvian eatery and TV-famous favorite of “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” host Guy Fieri — is expected to close its location by the end of May.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Phillip Valys
Locals strolling Hollywood’s Young Circle may have noticed changes afoot within the aging La Piazza complex, a low-slung shopping strip crowned with apartments on Hollywood Boulevard. A Cricket phone retailer is shuttered. The FedEx facility is gone, too, having moved to Tyler Street. And one of La Piazza’s last holdouts, J28 Sandwich Bar — an 11-year-old Peruvian eatery and TV-famous favorite of “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives” host Guy Fieri — is expected to close its location by the end of May.
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2 weeks ago |
sun-sentinel.com | Phillip Valys |Rod Hagwood
Stay up to date with South Florida dining news:Sign up for our twice-weekly Eat Beat newsletter, filled with restaurant news, guides and more. Go to SunSentinel.com/newsletters to sign up. Join our “Let’s Eat, South Florida” Facebook group. NOW OPEN OR OPENING Fat Boyz Barbecue706 S.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Phillip Valys |Rod Hagwood
Stay up to date with South Florida dining news:Sign up for our twice-weekly Eat Beat newsletter, filled with restaurant news, guides and more. Go to SunSentinel.com/newsletters to sign up. Join our “Let’s Eat, South Florida” Facebook group.
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