FOOD & DRINK
Palm Bay Asian restaurant pulls most violations in Brevard this week
You can use the database to search by county or by restaurant name. Florida's restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So every week, we provide that information for you. For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring warnings or administrative action,...
Now serving: These new restaurants opened recently in Brevard
The dining scene in Brevard continues to grow. From Ramen to wine, Mexican to Japanese, there are plenty of options to pick from. The new restaurants also are spanning the county, beachside to mainland. Wondering where you’ll be eating this weekend? We’ll give you a sampling of some of the new Space Coast...
This Central Florida restroom is getting national recognition. Here’s what it looks like
MELBOURNE, Fla. – Cintas — a restroom products supplier in the U.S. — has released its annual “America’s Best Restroom Award” for 2023. Each year, Cintas announces which restrooms in the country are considered the “best” based on a public vote on Cintas’ website.
Meet, touch and go face-to-face with rhinos at the Brevard Zoo
MELBOURNE, Fla. — Not many people can say they take a rhinoceros for a walk nearly every morning, but it’s something Brevard zookeeper Cindy Watson does nearly every day. Visitors to the Brevard Zoo can meet and even touch a rhinoceros. The zoo’s Rhino experience takes you behind...
'This is a place where I can really help': Chef finds kids hungry to learn in cooking class
On a sunny Friday afternoon, he could be taking a few hours off or doing what it takes to market his business. Instead, on a recent smiling, congenial Kamal Philibert unloaded food products he brought onto a preparation table in the kitchen of the Dorcas Outreach Center for Kids — The DOCK — in Melbourne’s Booker T. Washington neighborhood.
A weedy problem: Commonly used herbicides can damage live oaks | Sally Scalera
If you have oak trees in your yard and a lawn service that applies broadleaf herbicides to your lawn, pay attention to the weather this spring. Oak trees can be harmed by some broadleaf herbicides during a hot, dry spring. The problem is usually described as sections of the tree, either large or small, turning brown, with the leaves staying on the limbs and not shedding. This same problem has occurred three times, years apart, over the last decade or more.
Playa Bowls leave everyone healthy, happy
Just a couple years ago, Jennifer and Eric Myers were in Cherry Hills, New Jersey where they ate at Playa Bowls for the first time. It was love at first sight — or bite. “We loved it,’’ said Jennifer Myers who, along with her husband, grew up in southern California. “You walk in with a feeling that this is a place that you’d like to call home. The food is healthy and it aligns with our lifestyle. We’re water people.’’
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