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Is brought to you by Grandpa’s Cafe in Dana hold the Mayo it’s time for Mike Mayo’s lunchbox find out what’s being served with Mike defo and Luby the only show that covers food Sports and the proper maintenance of your car and now a man who had the distinction of having an
Entire Health Clinic named in his honor Mike Mayo I want the F FR sauce with the awesome f with chaa on the good afternoon everybody and welcome to another edition of Mike Mayo’s lunchbox boy it sounds exceptionally clean today uh we areer my engineering I think you’re on
Some great things are gave you some of his stuff and you took it my auditory clean are you experiencing right now no it’s great to be you know what grandpa I say this is your happy place May yeah really all my happy places that’s the
Problem Jewish sty in you I mean it goes way back to your roots you start thinking about your father and you start almost waxing poetic here whenever you come to Grandpa’s and then you start stuffing your face and I have to say this mushroom barley soup now normally
When they tell you the soup of the day is mushroom barley I make a face I go Mayo I make a little face I’m like okay you make a Mayo face yeah yeah like I’d rather have anything else this is delicious absolutely amazing mushroom barley Sou a sucker for a good mushroom
Barley soup and the thing is we’re usually here for our monthly visits on Wednesdays uh and usually on that day it’s split PE and then I make the face because I’m not a big split PE fan just saying the word split PE uh it makes me feel uncomfortable like I’m going to the
Urologist or something like that um I like split P I love it uh but when it’s Tuesday is mushroom barley day is there anything better even in the Florida weather I mean when it’s cold outside and you’re up north and it’s like 30 degrees to get a nice hot thick bowl of
It’s like a porridge and it makes me feel like um back in the old country like in Romania and Hungary and Poland I go that far back but I mean you know it’s a good bowl of soup let put that way the fact that you’re on hallucinogenics today Mayo I mean uh
Your descriptions of virtually everything that’s happen Trace elements I have not taken anything fresh but Trace elements always somehow oh yeah no those humbo county gummy bears are fantastic there’s no doubt about nor um I’ve beening for like two weeks now yeah that’s not obious so we’re here at Grandpa’s it’s
In daa Beach very conveniently located for myself because it’s around the corner and we did the daa double this week we had Shenanigans yesterday with Pat utter and that was great although you know the news landed in the middle of the show about Christian Wilkins leaving the Dolphins and he was gutted
You could tell he was just he turned into a Dolphin fan uh depression mode with a very bring view on all of this and oh and by the way they just sound shine sha Barrett who is not the same player but he’s definitely better than Andrew van GLE that’s I just like saying
Van GLE can’t we say van GLE and I understand Dave Hyde’s idea and we had him this morning and we’re not gonna talk a lot of sports but Pat left us P left very depressed yesterday and oh sh no that’s we’re on show the she is I got no seats for you
But there’s like the Dolphins it’s weird to say this but it feels like they do have a plan let’s not spend a ton of money for guys that don’t deserve it let’s get guys better for less and okay this is happening um and and so good for
Them and uh it’s right in line with being here at grandpas as they do everything right it feels like and they always have a plan my high school buddy the Sheik just showed up he’s he looks very lost and lonely um but he’s going
To take a share not join us on how how did he gain the name the Chic okay so again this is one of these great um College stories and we went to college as well as high school and uh it was given to him by a Iranian friend it was
Actually shiku is I guess a far SE word for one who wanders into the kitchen and nibbles so it doesn’t stand for wandered into the show where one the out yeah and he’s gonna probably start nibbling start nibbling up again he also lives like an
Arabian Chic he he lives high on the hog and he has his Peaks and valleys and um but right now he is uh you know living the High Life a snowbird that has a house actually permanent residency here in Florida always good to see him and uh
You know we were also going to have allegedly in the show um Mark Goldberg proprietor you know it’s always a little what’s the word uh faka here not faka it’s uh sometimes I get fabled lost yeah but it’s uh a show where we set it up to
Be here Tuesday at 12:30 because Mark freed like gets cionic though because of the crow well yeah and freed says oh I like to get out of here early let’s do the show early I it’s not our normal time it’s like usually he plays golf on Tuesdays and then it turns out yesterday
He said he couldn’t come here today so Mark Goldberg is GNA come on his proprietor co-owner and Goldberg Shin you also uh well Goldberg L they are slamed I mean every day of the week every hour of the day it seems like people are just pouring in here and
I’m going to give credit to The Lunchbox effect and the you know you know what there’s a good buzz in here it’s always great and I’m thinking of this place like at this hour as sort of a breakfast place and I’m seeing a lot of great breakfast and lunches out there on the
Table but you sort of get a feeling about a place as soon as you walk in yep and you get the feeling this is going to be a good place if you’ve never been here before the minute you walk in the joint and you see like the variety of
Stuff that’s at the tables and the way that the people are enjoying themselves anywhere any place that you can walk in and get a of brown di black cherry yeah that is they probably kill you this stuff I don’t know I me is it any good for you sodas in general fantas they
Brew an excellent cup of coffee here and I drink it black and it’s smooth as silk and I this was generally regarded as among the best of diet sodas ever though the diet black cherry of uh Dr Brown number one I’m a guy I sometimes go on
The Cream side of the street I like their cream and cream soda yep uh Cel soda this is a topic that some people um find a little bit discomforting have you ever tried the Cel soda which is based soda made with celery but I think they
Put sugar in it not salt or I I would say the word rhymes with ducks as in sus that would be it although what is this kacha or something it’s like I’ve been drinking a bunch of that hor it’s horrible yeah do it my cloudy what are they make it at there’s
Different kinds of stuff that goes into the kambucha it’s supposed to cleanse you and clean you purify kind you know those like hippies the ones that have what what’s the p smell and stuff like that I think kombucha is made from the socks and underwear of those hippies
That play hacky sack and with the pachuli and then they seep it like a tea I I think it was the Yahweh that developed this particular drink back in the day I don’t know when they I’m not a kombucha fan by the way yeah uh you know
What at first you drink it and you’re thinking my God I’d rather have consume my own urine sample but after a while you get used to it it’s not bad kuch it sort of is a little refreshing I have to say I would be the last guy I mean it
Been a Coca-Cola guy my whole life I used to love sodas to a fa yeah and uh yeah I mean I can’t imagine that I would ever find this even remotely appealing but but it it grows on you know my drink of choice uh def uh is two cents plane
Uh is sel yeah even when I get charged $5 like over at the Hard Rock Casino uh which I are you still sorry about that that’s a long time the other night and you’re still bitching about the $5 selt is really kind of it just offends my
Sensibilities growing up as a New York you know Brooklyn Jew and it was two cents plane back in the day most places would give it to you when I went to the midd Bas in Delhi growing up you would just ask for Selter and it was like
Asking for water there was no charge I was going to say it’s usually right along with water they’re like do you want water do you want here I think they charge reasonable rates probably something along the lines of soda but it was a big staple of especially the Jewish population’s diet back then
Though I mean we used to get the seler delivery at our apartment in Brooklyn where they brought the blue bottle bot those are heavy cases can you imagine those guys slepping it up right and then he would dump them all so he could play Punch ball for a while
With the kids and then uh go right back to delivering the Seltzer like I love that old days with those Seltzer bottles and I love Seltzer because I like drinking water hydration is the key to life my friend I think you know that walks of life hydration is definitely a
Key have you been on it what what I’ve been doing well I uh I didn’t make yeah all weekend long and all that stuff so you know I’m I’m struggling you know I had a little um so this morning I realized I do have a cardiologist visit
That was on the books for beginning of April and it turns out that’s when we’re going to be taking the uh College tour with my daughter so I had to reschedule this cardiologist appointment now I last saw him in September and he looked slightly alarmed and that’s when he
Wanted to give me the full body scan to see if I had any uh plaque buildup and things like that uh and we originally had an appointment scheduled for January 1st he upped the dosage on my lipat tour and was going to see where I was at in
January well lo and behold ble that his office called and said he had something going on so they rescheduled me for April because you know these guys like so I called today and I said you’re not on Medicare obviously no and I said otherwise you would have been in the
Next day that’s right and I I said I need to reschedule I’m going to be away you know and they said oh our next appointment is guess what month from April April 9th uh to September exactly august 19 really August August and I said you know he was a little bit I said
I saw him last SE I mean I hate to say it but let’s face it if there was something wrong yeah you must be fine you need to get this checked out by now and I was like you know he wanted to see me in four months and that was back in
September now we’re making this like an annual visit and I think I’m at the point where might be a little bit more than the numbers are saying got to get on the right path you look good today yeah black is very SL you look good no you look good
Today got some appointments later on going to try to get some things done you look no I’m feeling good today and again got a couple of bites of the mushroom barley little shitz going I I finished one I mean uh you know that that took no
No time at all and soon we’re going to be graced hopefully with Mark Goldberg if it ever settles down here and we’ve got uh a couple things coming for okay people might not think of a Jewish Bagel Deli place as a St Patrick’s Day stop but if you’re looking for corn beef and
You know corn beef sandwich corn beef hash and eggs great job you know I say before you go down a pat utter and shenanigans on Sunday for a St Patrick’s Day celebration like no other down there down the block stop off here on Federal Highway UT got to be doing it right
Andig you could party with like uh you know you get a a Reuben sandwich we’re gonna get coming out you get I bet they might even do corn beef and C nothing wrong corn beef and sauerkraut at least I’m sure and celebrate with the MC schwarzes you know that’s the the great
Irish Jewish Family the MC schwarzes will be here on Sunday um what do we got going in the world of uh well I know let’s eat is a total mad house as usual but the uh I wanted to talk about the Sun Sentinel has been doing these competitions of best blank in South
Florida you don’t sound like a big fan of the results I’m not a fan of the results at all I think it’s I’m not going to say it’s rigged uh but I’m going to say that it doesn’t align hey just drop it down here thank you sir
Look got sir we got a Reuben sandwich in the house for St Patrick’s Day we’ve got we’ve got all kinds of things we’ve got uh iced tea um don’t let him do it man no so again they had grab that ketchup I’ll put it on the other table
They conducted the best bagel contest this looks great uh and Grandpa’s was one of the finalist as it should have been and actually should have been the winner but you know I’m a little biased I live around the corner and that’s fair but I’ve been a bunch of bagel places
Their bagel’s as good as any bagel in town but they did not win and the winner was a place in pompel called Bagel Snack which I’ve never been to on Power Line Road and I need to get up there to do an assessment I’ve been to the other places
That was on the finalist list and again my objective pallet uh ranks grandpas above all the other ones that were in it including this new cumber called bagels and Company uh that’s in downtown Fort Lauderdale but The Bagel Snack I don’t know if anybody have you ever heard of
It you’ve been there how’s the he’s heard he’s never been there okay well I need to get up there Flo on the list they make a nice B I know and I I put in two uh entries and Flake witz was not I was a little bit surprised
They do a good job um there’s a bagel speaking of bagels award winning Bagels we’ve got an everything bagel toasted for Lu with his plate um but flak wits I think should have been on the finalist list wasn’t I was surprised but uh in my mind grandpa I think they should have a
Judged component along with the popular that’s what I’m saying like how are they doing these things because just by Fried Chicken one was weird like it’s a popularity contest and whoever has the best social media that gets as many of its uh customers and fans to just vote I
Know the sun sental is limiting like they’re not allowing Bots you know they they have the IP address uh uh identifiers so that you can only vote once per IP address who’s in charge of the voting Matt gets I mean how does this work with the sun now it’s a guy
Named David shes who’s one of the admins and you know co-founders of the let E Group who’s been doing it today they announced those kind of surveys often come up with a place though that uh not not that they’re fugazy but where you know you’re thinking here’s a guy people
You know should respect your opinion on Bagels no mayo I mean come on you’re a Jewish says they make a great Bagel what Bagel snacks I’ve heard very widely conflicting opinions about Bagel Snack I’ve heard from people that it’s good I’ve heard from other people that it’s
Terrible so people have said it’s not good just not good and that right Goldbergs are very similar obviously I don’t know they’re one and the same tremendous simar Bagels on Commercial a great job lewitz I’ve always been happy anytime going in there and I’m sure there are
Others well now it’s on to the barbecue competition so the Sun Sentinel was collecting people’s nominations and they released their list of five finalists for best barbecue in South Florida and I was a little bit shocked at the list because while some of them are worthy and they’re good I was shocked because
Like one of my favorite places which is in Fort Lauderdale Smoke Barbecue which I think does an excellent job and they’re one of the few PL besides having good brisket and ribs and uh uh they’re kind of like a real Texas kind of smokehouse they have the jalapeno
Cheddar sausage that they put on a brisket sandwich it’s a it’s a fantastic sandwich but um they also do an in-house from start to finish pastrami so oh wow even though it’s not a classic Jewish pastrami at one point I think their Pam was like so good a barbecue Pam it’s
Well it’s what they do is they brine it in a bath of all kinds of you know uh spices and uh and herbs and and pink Himalayan salt for about um I think it’s like a six day brine oh wow then they take it out they dry it they pat it off
They coat it with all the coriander and pepper around the exter and then they smoke it for a long time like 14 hours and then they let it rest and then they slice it up and it’s like a I think it’s an eight day uh start to finish process longer than Passover it
Is about as long you could start a pamy there and by the time Passover is done you could put it on Ry yeah so um anyway I was shocked that they didn’t even make the list they did not make the finalist list I was told by insiders David shutz that it was very
Tight for the number five spot and smoke just got edged for the number five spot you need that guy jool AR so here are the five here are the five finalists looks like Sheik got himself a turkey club and we got to make room she went
Nuts well the Sheik the Sheik not just for Arab Arabian Chic and lives like a sultan but also Shamu one who wanders into the kitchen or sometimes one who wanders into Grandpa’s at the table for The Lunchbox and just sits down and starts eating now this
Man wild Mayo free to he’s done more cocaine than you have he spent five years in Costa Rica I was thinking about that today I was thinking how the hell did I survive so our friend Brian asked about Tom Jenkins where like wait so let me get to the
Five I’ll just do it real quick in alphabetical order apocalypse barbecue in Miami which is fantastic I have not made it to their brick and mortar yet they started as a food truck and they won the competition at the visit Lauderdale food Festival their annual uh barbecue battle poolside barbecue battle
That we attended you were there this year you had the apocalypse that was that rib with coffe uh apocalypse just um universally praised by critics and the uh a lot fun different things and people like that it’s down in Miami all right that’s number one number two place that we’re
Familiar witho licky sticky barbecue that’s great our friend Juliet congrats to her because we do love her no the food’s great the only issue is the way she does pricing not even that pricing is high it’s just the way she you know I don’t know if she’s revised anything yet
But the quality of her CU excellent that jerked pork uh was outand everything was great and everything there her size there was nothing that you bu everything was fantastic apocalypse licky sticky then we got Mr Lee’s smoking good barbecue which is a food truck apparently is going to be going brick
And mortar but up in the Bon Beach Del Rey Beach area guy named Lee seagull I I think it’s it’s he is strongly supported by the folks at the red meat lovers Club because uh Evan Darnell knows uh some of the backers of Mr Le so they are very
Popular and they do a very good job they have some excellent brisket I’ve tasted Mr Lee so you know that’s uh that one was to me a little bit of a surprise because it’s relatively new and it’s also on the um just newer side of the street and then the other two are
Um Tom Jenkins Tom Jenkins did okay that Tom Jenkins a longtime Fort Lauderdale favorite our friend Brian voted for my dad would have voted for them to me I haven’t been in there been like a decade so I don’t know what I was in there
Around the time of Co like when we for people it was like 20 2021 and they were doing takeout only I think it’s slipped a little bit and I hate to be brutally honest it used to be run by two guys that formerly worked at IBM and they did
Uh barbecue uh smoking on the side on the weekends as a side hustle they then became so popular they opened their own place well they hit I guess retirement age and they left it to the kids and I just think it had slipped a little bit
But they still do a mighty fine job with their uh St Louis style ribs so again very popular with the fort lell crowd and that’s the biggest base for the uh Sun Sentinel people oh and the last but not least a friend of the show friend of
Let’s Eat South Florida pigy barbecue in Boon Beach a guy Nam that’s a great name Tom radm who is active on the group and he makes an outstanding he also does a pastrami and uh I’d say that’s worthy I mean these are all worthy finalists our friend Lisa asked about Georgia pig is
There any also RS or anything like that Dixie Pig Dixie Pig and Georgia Pig I would put them in this category barbecue is such a thing that’s specialized that I I say with barbecue you can have seven different competitions you ribs you could do chicken you could do pulled
Pork in the pulled pork category pulled pork sandwiches Georgia Pig and Dixie Pig I think are top of class that’s the thing like what are you looking for too like each meat is handled brisket bris better te really tea I I don’t know I think went by the wayside I think fire
One of locations Li you’re not gonna have any potatoes left start diving in I was a little surprised also our friend uh Geral uh with the fat boy boys barbecue has a couple of locations and I thought he does a mighty fine job with his brisket I think his stuff is worthy
Of inclusion in the final make barbecue one thing that’s tough it’s tough because people do brisket well some people do the chicken well some people do the ribs well you you like the uh Place u swich in pompo the um span the hog the hog does a nice job J you’re
Span the hog fan I know there’s a lot of fans of Rob’s barbecue out in Davey um used to be scrobes which was nice SC but I don’t think they do the full smoking think they do little shortcuts there some boiling oh we got more stuff
There’s a Kish for the man there’s a yeah that’s that’s a def’s got his Kish give an old Jew a Kish and he’ll be happy it looks a little smoosh today right like I sat on it lookss a smash B like KES panis it’s it’s changed its
Whole composure okay well you know I’m sure the flavor is still great I’m sure it’ll be great I’m sure it be aome I just think you know there might have been Mayo might have had a little looks like somebody oh look my cardiologist calling he must have heard the show he must have
Seen me I got to get in next week we got to do that scan real soon um so anyway that’s the barbecue uh yeah I mean look it seems like the top five is a solid top five knowing it’s at least like with the bagels they threw some randoms in
There that people really hadn’t heard of at least those are all places that we’ve heard of that have a nice reputation it’s hard to do five I just I think doing barbecue without differentiating it sort of you know like Italian okay like how many p and there’s pars you
Know or or you know like it’s this there’s different levels of Italian there’s different styles of it like it’s just you’re sort of minimizing I guess they’re just going for the whole shebang which does the most meats and the most sized best um but you could go online
Now at let’s eat South Florida on Facebook or sunsentinel.com and uh cast your ballot for the final five and if you don’t think any of those uh you know are worthy and well they are all worthy but if your favorite was a right in candidate if yeah right in candidate or
Just uh sit out the election like a lot of people are going to do this November good good so we’ll see um let’s talk about our friends at Tropical Acres and we’ll take our first break um we’re here I’m so blessed to be in daa beach
Where it’s the home of so many greats I mean besides but for you to roll over here is I mean and call his work is a joke I no it is a joke yeah it really is I mean you love Grand like you know whether they were part of
The show’s sponsor roster or not you’ve always loved this place regular you love the Proprietors here they’re fantastic and uh wow I mean they do a great job like like we said everybody you look around everybody’s happy I’m gonna dig into the good sign of there’s no grumpy
Pieces no no no I’m usually a Rachel guy I like the pastrami more than the corn beef but in defference to the holiday week St Patrick’s I will go corn beef crazy I do like their corn beef hash here uh I think we did a good job of
Hiding the ketchup from Luby so he can’t uh desecrate you know what we we should let Luby dive into that 100% On The Break we’re going to let him just squirt as much ketchup as he wants on the corn beef hash but I would suggest that if
You go to Tropical Acres and you get their beautiful prime rib or F Monon do not defile it with ketchup it only needs maybe a little salt and pepper uh sometimes to get St would never do it but he should throw you out by the collar he would never he allows be a
Horse collar as he throws your ass out of there he allows people to be both their best cells and their worst cells if you want to put ketchup on your prime rib I would you’re not more heartily suggest his beautiful horseradish cream sauce or maybe straight up horse radish
With the aou these are the things I love at Tropical Acres and you’re going to love it too if you’ve been there before you know what I’m talking about if you’ve never been there what are you waiting for tonight is a half priz wine night and you know me here’s how I roll
Def and this is what’s causing my Y is just much conation I roll in there at about 4:30 when happy hour begins get myself a badier martini half price is like eight bucks insane then you get like some of that coconut fried shrimp on the happy hour menu think it’s
$ sirine sliders six bucks for two of them nice sirloin ground up then after you have your little snack you go over to the dining room you order a half price bottle of wine on Monday or Tuesday they got some really nice really nice wine and then uh you get yourself a
Prime rib or a filet Minon with comes with a salad and a side dish so once you go into the bar for the happy hour and get your little nibble you don’t even need to order an appetizer you could if you want and then you get out of there
And you look at the bill and like this can’t be right you’re missing a digit where’s the leading one there is no leading it’s so you would think Studio PR on the menu love them and they’re great people and they will give you great service go in there oh get on the
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The Lunchbox at you all right coming back with more got a lot of good stuff here how’s the Sheik making out he’s not saying much about the turkey club which looks Fantastic’s all over that everything bagel I mean he schmeared that up pretty good and he barely made a dent in it’s
So hongas yeah you may have shown a ridiculous restraint so far’s wrong with you I’m I’m I’m feeling fit and trim today and I don’t want to MWI I’m also scared what my cardologist is probably saying I need you in here next week so well it might be
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You hey it’s Mike Mayo when the Brooklyn boy and me wants a good bagel with Nova or some matsal soup homemade condition or a great deli pastrami sandwich on rye you know where I go Grandpa’s Cafe in daa Beach it’s been around a long time an institution but a little over a year
Ago a pair of New Yorkers came in bought it and refurbished the place it’s beautiful and they are now serving great breakfast brunch lunch they’ve got the omelets they’ve got eggs benedict they’ve got all kinds of great baked goods like rugi grandpa is just off Federal Highway on Southwest First
Street in daa Beach it’s open 7 Days Go in there tell them that The Lunchbox sent you all right we’re back on The Lunchbox we’re Bagel Cafe and in daa Beach just south on Federal Highway one block south of daa Beach Boulevard it’s crazy in here it is High season and you think
Like oh you know Saturdays and Sundays just get mobbed but uh in the middle of the week you know people have breakfast maybe a little bit of a lunch crab they just come in waves here Y and Mark Goldberg cannot break away from the front counter they so swamped that he’s
And you got to love this def when you see a proprietor an owner actually working you know that that he’s going around and he’s scurrying he’s sharing Bagels he’s throwing stuff in the bag that happens with a lot of our guys but I was going to say every because
Literally when I went we’re going to be their Thursday at batch when I went to brunch Kevin the proprietor was at the front uh our friend Brandon who’s their GM was bringing food out to tables like same thing happen tomorrow Delaware with Doug will get behind there and do the meat and host
Thanksgiving morning at 7 in the morning out4 years when I was at tacos in Tequila Joe basa runs the thing he’s director of hospitality he’s literally setting up tables because they were they were short on tables I just think it’s really cool when they do that a good
Place when you have Hands-On ownership not some absente and you have engaged management y it’s again this is these are the qualities that the gambling Gourmet and Mike Mayo’s lunchbox looks for in quality places it seems to be a common theme and I was at batch over the
Weekend also for brunch with a big group Kevin was there at the front U he was seating all people you know ins nice light breakfast here was a nice my God what did you eat I know at that City uh it was good and Brandon stopped by we
Chat a little bit I mean these people uh you know and again Mark Goldberg Mark freed there he is the man of the moment finally able to break away from the maddening crowds here at Grants they keep pouring in welcome back to The Lunchbox Mark Goldberg let’s get this up
Right way get that there come on slide in I’ll let you get in here before I start chopping down on this uh nice Ruben sandwich how are you today very well thank you what’s going on here are you giving away free food or something no it’s it’s seasoned in Fort laale yeah
Uh Season Fort Lauderdale it’s season and you love High season because uh when the sun shines you got to make the hay or make the bagels in your case whatever um tell us how things are going here and are you U I swear I have nothing to do
With the folks at the on Sentinel anymore I don’t know what those voters were thinking I don’t know how anybody could rate your bagels anything but the best not just in Brower but in all of South Florida maybe a whole state I don’t know I think it’s fixed it
Is we demand the recount want file lawsuit n it’s all right come on in and check it out for yourself you do the comparison yourself that’s the way to go and uh I know you have another place and freed will kill me if yeah we won’t talk about that
Place at all thank you um um well let me ask you because it’s funny we always talk about the season down here you guys got your start in New York yes what is is it the op like summer season there is that what it is because the winner you hibernate like
How does it work up there well I have plac in the Hampton and that runs from uh from May 1 to the end of the year okay interesting since covid okay okay all right it it’s it’s spread out and I think the same thing’s happened here okay I think it’s
Um start to Jewish holidays in September yeah and goes all the ways to Mother’s Day okay so it doesn’t end at Passover no no it goes It goes a lot a lot of people left the city yeah and they Florida and the Hampton yeah this is one
Of them my high school and college buddy mark schwier this is Mark Goldberg how are you sir and uh he uh he also is a big Bagel fan and he was touting me on this place when you guys first took it over it was saying you had your reservations well you know because
Anytime there’s a change in ownership Grand wasn’t main state Florida like it’s it’s been and you guys of course kept it going yeah and uh we kept the name Grandpa for car Grandpa she that’s one of the things she wanted is her tradition pres her and her husband to
Carry on and again it was such a high quality place since they started in I think it was the early 60s late yeah and uh now you’re carrying on that great tradition quality food Great Value great service all these things yes um do you guys and I was saying you know
We ordered a little corn beef today corn beef hat a Reuben sandwich because um not many people realize it but there was a branch in Ireland the M schwarz’s that was the Jewish Family the in Ireland no I just made but but an old partner of mine
Opened up um we had a kosad Deli in Rockland County and he opened up O’Reilly’s kosad Deli that’s classic and he lasted not too long so um well you know the corn beef here obviously topnotch you use the products yeah has the feedback on your Sal because a lot of people obviously
Your bagel are fantastic and the breakfast platters are but um when you first started off here did you think it was going to be as much of a lunch place or that it would tail off after breakfast no I knew I knew it would be breakfast lunch and listen we even open
For dinner we would do a big dinner trade but uh I want to have a life okay I like to go out for dinner 12h hour days are better than the 16 hour days where do you like to go out uh I always love to see what restaurant tours like
To do because you guys are really good about getting out there and trying to things yeah I you know I live in Fort Lauderdale so uh Runway 84 uh D’Angelo nice okay Kasa calabrio so you like like me I’m I’m a Jew that should have been Italian because every every other day I
Could I could eat pasta every day and clues when I want American food nice it’s good setting yeah um so it’s funny you mentioned Runway obviously we love Anthony Bruno and Pat Marzano and and Mark faletto now faletto and gang have come on board with the taco craft band
Correct as sponsors on The Lunchbox which we appreciate but I did a little tally I was looking because it’s tax time and I printed out my AMX report for last year um and we’re gonna make it this week’s tiebreaker on Friday is like how much did I spend in 2023 on my AMX
Bill on restaurants and that will dispel all the people out there who think I just snore my way through life and I never pay for yeah you have to figure Mark at least half of the places he went to he ate for free no this is not true I
Spend it’s taxu yeah tax seduction that’s the beauty and yes when we do the shows promotional consideration is given but I come in here on the weekends and I’m picking up bagels and locks for my friends and you know I’m you know does he go to his wet or just his daughter
Makes sure she’s our bodyguard she charges me double yeah she’s our bodyguard and I sometimes tip or two no um it’s all good but all right guess what I’m not going to give you the total yet we might use that for Friday’s show but guess what my number one restaurant
In terms of expenditure for 2023 was money Yeah you mentioned it oh anthy yeah Runway 84 was my top I was gonna say that the poker table the Chinese place at the poker that was one of my top three All I’m gonna give you the top three um and
Number one was Anthony’s Runway 84 number two was Council Oak at the Hard Rock and number three was our friend Pat Shenanigans makesense because it’s my local and all those playoff runs at the the Heat and the Panthers had last year they killed me I was in there like every
Other night and uh you know there’s only only so much snoring only so much texting I could do to Pat to try to get it’s always good to support local business yeah no and I love our locals you guys do a great job um anything coming up uh in terms of obviously
Passover you guys what you guys do with passing is there oh we’ll have um you know Passover a menu out yeah it’s April 22nd it’s uh the saders are late late this year I think it’s a next Sunday we have corn beef and cabbage you do I was
Making a joke that before you go to shagans to drink uh in the afternoon they’re not opening till 11: come on into Grandpa’s get yourself a breakfast you get yourself a corn beef hash or a corn beef last year I took all my extra green bagels and I brought it down to
Pat oh you do green Bagels oh that’s fun oh like that uh you know what I might do a triple header on this is hard to believe def cuz another another good friend of the show and and past sponsor Southport rawbar buddy he makes a really
Good corn beef and cabbage uh at the Southport and uh so maybe I might do the corn beef and cabbage at Southport three different places Grandpa Shenanigans and then I’ll hand out medals gold silver and bronze bronze and everybody will be a winner that’ll be great that’s it um
What’s your story I guess do you um go back to New York for the Summers entirely you come back and for a little I come back and forth yeah a week like a couple like almost a week a month how many Jet Blue Points do you have right I
Don’t know I don’t even know is it JetBlue or Delta cuz both of them well actually I use Frontier because it flies into IC oh one of those guys guys yeah going T right in TP how is Frontier these days not bad not bad okay that’s
It you know you pay for a little better seat and that’s good I didn’t even realize that’s the play if you’re going out to the Eastern shores of Long Island uh always good uh Mark Goldberg it’s always great to see you thank you for stopping by I know it’s crazy and I just
Uh I love to see it like this hear nothing but good things and smiling faces and keep up the great word thanks guys thank you hey let’s take our next break but before that I want to talk about visit Lauderdale the Food and Wine Festival they’re having a international
Whiskey Day dinner barbecue specialty a I’m sorry March 27th it’s a Wednesday night snoring I’ve already tried to schnore yeah for this one Don actually it wasn’t Mayo who was the schnore in this Festival I asked before it even became a thing we were promoting can you
Get me tickets so I was a schnore for this one because it sounds like a ridiculously cool event um and it’s gonna be a really cool event because it’s going to be outdoors it’s hopefully going to be a beautiful night at house on the river right on the New River in
Walk sou in that area in downtown pale it’s really nice aant art center and it’s a beautiful Loc was going to be great people great food four course dinner $99 it’s going towards benefiting the Joe de magio children’s hospital so it’s eating and drinking for the kids which we always
Love to do here on The Lunchbox yes sir uh award-winning mixologist miles Robinson is going to be uh creating some great bourbon and whiskey based cocktails and of course the two pit Masters uh Jeremy and uh there’s Ron dmlm with his Big Green Egg uh that we
Did a show there a couple weeks ago uh uh it’s going to be fantastic including the what they call the beef rib yeah like the massive Dino ribs brontosaurus beef rib uh it’s going to be great go online vlood wine.com right now get your tickets uh the supplies are limited
They’re keep they’re making this like everything else that Phil and Kate do the right size it’s not going to be a big crowd it’s going to be an intimate Gathering enjoying high quality food and then of course we’ve got uh it’s never too early to buy your tickets for next
Year’s Festival the grand tasting early bird pricing still in effect you you don’t even need a promo code the pricing half price for your VIP tickets and your general admission it’s never going to be lower so good time to get it right now for the food lover in your life you know
Never too early to get your Christmas and Hanukkah gifts right defo because we love to plan ahead what are the odds on me making it to January Jes no you’re going okay good uh vlood wine.com and uh yeah we’ll see you there on the 27th at house on the river for the international
Whiskey Day dinner good Ruben sandwich outstanding and everything here great as always Grandpa Daniel Beach we’ll be back with more of Mike Mayo’s lunchbox with the Chic in a moment to me and say Mike where should I go out to eat I got guests coming from
Out of town where should we go Cafe Seville that’s the answer 2768 East Oakland Park Boulevard it’s a Fort Lauderdale perennial serving the finest in Spanish and Continental cuisine in a cozy friendly comfortable setting Joey Esposito and Sally his better half they’ve been running the place for a
Long time it’s been open since the 1980s they got great Spanish Classics like PA shrimp with garlic saw and all kinds of great seafood dishes the stuffed B shop G that’s my favorite go to Cafe Seville it’s open every day but Sunday at 5:00 p.m. for dinner tell them that The
Lunchbox May own defo sent you do you like burgers do you like wings do you like late night food and Sports on big screen TVs and cold beer and friendly Vibe and great people then you want to check out Shenanigans 1300 South Federal Highway in daa Beach go to Shenanigans
You get yourself all the good stuff the fresh fish every day the black and grilled wings and of course the kitchens are open lat and go there tell them that The Lunchbox mayo and defo sent you for Gilbert’s 17th Street Grill you know me I love family run places with quality
Food at fair prices served with passion and pride and that’s why I love Gilberts for more than a decade Lenor Beth and Richie Gilbert have been serving up the best burgers Wings ribs salads and desserts it’s a fast casual spot everything prepared fresh to order from an Immaculate open kitchen they at 1821
Cordover Road in Fort Lauderdale in the Cordova shops just south of 17th Street open every day but Sunday one of my favorite burgers in South Florida big round juicy pucks of 100% Angus beef char grill to Perfection and don’t miss the sweet sweet potato fries on the side
They’re legendary go to Gilbert’s feast and be happy tell them The Lunchbox sent you when I’m looking for some wicked good food for a wicked good lunch there’s only one place to go that’s wicked cheese steaks in Fort Lauderdale it’s at 4824 North Federal Highway just south of Commercial Boulevard and across
From Holy Cross hospital my friend Brian there he will hook you up with some really tasty treats they’ve got cheese steaks just like the best you can find in Philly along with lobster rolls cuz that where he’s from Maine originally and they have wings and pizza and
Everything you want to have a really good time wicked cheese steaks they’re open every day but Tuesday check them out online wiked cheese.com tell them The Lunchbox sent you if you’re looking for a great place for steaks seafood and more go to Tropical Acres Steakhouse and butcher shop it’s at 2500 Griffin Road
In daa just west of I95 in the airport they’ve been there a long time since 1949 that means they’re doing something right you’ll get old school Hospitality from the studi allei family along with great value for tremendous service of course you could also go into the bar
For happy hour everyday 4 to 6 and they have great value all night long also a butcher shop that’s open every day from 10:00 a.m. to 600 p.m. except Sunday the dining room is open every day at 4:30 except Sunday go to Tropical Acres tell them the lunch boox sent
You all right we’re back on the lunch box we’ve got lubby we’ve got def we’ve got the silent Chic off to the sides he’s munching on his turkey club and uh she a very discriminating uh critic well he’s like me me and him he we were the
First uh you know this is where I kind of got my pathology from me and Sheik used to run around in Manhattan when we were high school students and like we would say oh let’s go on a pizza crawl today and have like five different slices of pizza and compare which one is
Best we would do Chinese food and we would and then go eat Chinese food bang bangs yeah this we met in high school St High which was in young slim may I was and I could really like kobashi I could just pack it away without putting it on and things
Changed but meanwhile Sheik belongs on let’s eat South Florida he’s he’s complaining the sandwich has too much meat is he getting a lot of chicks chicks chicks is anything I mean no back in high school I was not I was not into the whole uh dating scene I wasn’t a
Player sprouted young handsome kid he really was no I did all right I did all right in college what’s funny is though his criticism which isn’t a Critic that’s a compliment to a place that they give you a lot of me is something that
If he said it on the the page yeah tons of people would agree oh my God they they just do too much no and then and then if it was just a single layer of you know I guess talking about balance on club sandwiches and should it be
Double meat or should it you know be just one big thing of meat and then to me it’s like if it was one and then you post a picture and people would say there’s not enough meat you know so I feel sorry for these restaurant tourist
Because can’t win they can’t win so I always win every day especially when I’m chomping on one of these beautiful Reuben sandwiches should I do a big bite I think you should yeah it’s been a while I’ve already kind of nibbled during the break uh but we’ve got the
Beautiful layers it’s a really nice sandwich it’s not too lean I didn’t ask for lean have you seen this activity this behavior before he has he has okay all right here we go a little bit alarming but we’re going to go in for a big bite on sandwich in celebration of [Laughter]
Oh my God the people lady’s looking she’s horrified this guy just laughed what’s don’t do this at home yeah that we should have a disclaimer kids please please do Tik Tock is banned already I mean so what’s next a male lunch boox it’s inflicting pain on America let’s talk about the dolin yeah
They yeah right oh didn’t talk about any of that but there were body bags all around the facility today did you see that yeah they couldn’t take it anymore let me ask on a Reuben it’s supposed to have Russian dressing right cuz it does yeah they call it Russian yeah yeah
Mhm I still miss the mustard component would it be mustard I squirt a little mustard on the Reuben with the Russian I always add mustard you also sometimes I know I ruin it too but I have mustard good mustard would help you need mustard with corn
Beef I don’t know it just goes face I don’t know she is saying he likes open face I’ve never seen an open face I like an open face Bagel it’s my contention that nobody should ever squish two sides of a very my wife does that again she is
A gentile you got a little mustard I probably do my wife does that it makes it a sandwich my sister she’s Jewish but I’ve it just to me need that like a bagel you put the stuff on and then you just eat it I get it’s harder to eat it
And your hands get dirty but okay like that’s the part of eating a bagel or eating eating some of this tell you the sharpness the vinegar of the mustard you have to is essential Y and even though you got the creamy and the Russian dressing on there I think there’s no
Such thing as as too much when it comes to the condiments on a Ruben sandwich well then the S has a bitterness too so the mustard goes with that with the yeah it’s a nice bread with the butter and they Grill the bread that’s a good sandwich right there um a place that
Gives you the stuff to make good sandwiches will be there tomorrow actually oh right chicken month I think it’s because I’m going to New York for a stretch next week and uh some of the uh again the our sponsors we you know aim to please so when a sponsor
Wants to have it on a particular day we pencil it in on the calendar this we this month Delaware chicken we usually there on a Thursday but because of the approaching holidays Good Friday and all that stuff um this is the uh time that works we’ll be there tomorrow you should
Be there today tomorrow the day after that they’re open 7 days a week Delaware Chicken and Seafood Market 4191 North State Road 7 in Hollywood right across from the old seminal Bingo paror now known as seminal classic Casino there’s a big chicken on the roof the chicken is
Not big enough for SAR but it’s big enough for me I can see it when I’m down the road what’s up with son is right I you know I we heard from I’ve seen him back on Facebook so he must a day to get back to me but he says he’s okay he’s
Just he getting is he out yet or is he he was still in it he’s still recovering from his little procedure and uh we wish him nothing but the best and get better soon and a way to get better is to go pick up some of that Health fresh
Healthy fresh seaf turkey chili too and turkey chili that’s again heart healthy I’m picking some up tomorrow out stone crabs fresh fish grouper Snapper uh they got the fresh salmon coming in Swordfish beautiful from local Waters anything you want go to Delaware uh they are going to
Be the place to go to get your holiday meals whether it’s the lamb and the ham for upcoming Easter or next month with Passover they have a full array of the poultry the chicken lamb they have great chop liver there they make for the holidays they also make housemade gavil
The fish oh they do how do you feel about gavila fish I think it sucks I mean what’s so funny is my wife was it and I don’t like it you haven’t had the the fish Catholic Dominican wife loves yeah I could I love that jelly and
You put a little bit of that hot spice hor got to use the purple horseradish bright it’s like glows when you have toet the flavor of something with you know harsh elements that tells you they gives off radiation I mean come on well they do a fantastic job with their
Housemade gilter fish and if you’re not into that just pick up the poultry and all that stuff it’s going to be great uh for all your holidays Delaware Chicken and Seafood tell them The Lunchbox sent you if you were going to have good filter fish this would be the place to
Have it they would probably do a great would imagine have a decent think you’ve had good fil to fish and then you taste theirs and you realize that crap that drek inar it’s night and day it’s like having sushi at que and kaisen it’s just it’ll ruin you for everything else you know
You have a little Anthony Bourdain in you and I think bouraine himself would have had this stain for good we coming he would have looked at it well what’s this coming back with more we’re gonna wrap up this edition of Mike Mayo’s a very festive addition of Mike Mayo’s lunchbox in a
Moment for an Exquisite Sushi experience kaisen Sushi Bar and Grill in Fort Lauderdale is the place to go 5640 North Federal Highway just north of Commercial Boulevard Chef owner wh lamb he’s a sushi Savant slicing and serving pristine fish and seafood flown in directly from Japan and around the world
Niri Sashimi special rolls and omasi dinners he’s ruined me from going anywhere else it’s that good open seven days for dinner and also for lunch on week weekends even if you’re not a sushi fan they have great cooked options including Steaks Chops Rice and Noodles and other Japanese dishes it’s fantastic
For reservations and information go to kaisen florida.com tell them Mike Mayo in The Lunchbox sent you delicious Mexican food with Innovative twists margaritas with a medley of tongue tingling flavors I’m talking about Taco craft takaria and tequila bar the place to go on Taco Tuesday and every day it’s
Located at 510 Federal and Highway in Fort Lauderdale and also in Lauderdale by the Sea at Plantation walk and soon in Coral Springs Taco craft has specials every day including bonless drinks for a Sunday brunch and taco Tuesdays with their $4 premium tacos including their new Berea tacos with bone marrow broth
Oh it’s so good they’ve even made a taco lover out of me and they’ve got so much more including FAS that open face smashed cheeseburger tortilla that’s new and a guacamole sample that’s an explosion of flavors kitchen is open late there’s delivery and takeout for more information go to tacocraft tocom
Tell them Mike May on the lunch local fish a sophisticated setting I’m talking about Corvina Seafood Grill it’s at 110 Plaza roale South in Baton just south of palmm Metal Park road it’s the place to go for the freshest and local seafood and fish some of it with a Peruvian
Twist like their great ceviches it’s open seven days for dinner they also so have happy hours 7 days a week you don’t want to miss it it’s a great place Corvina bone.com for more information and reservations tell them The Lunchbox sent you all right we’re back on the lunch
Boox we’re going to wrap up I do have one quick topic and we’re here with my friend off camera the Sheik is enjoying his turkey club big fan of grandpas from the beginning and uh we appreciate you coming out and supporting our sponsors um speaking of sponsors uh you just saw
The ad for Corvina is our latest getting out there I’m actually curious it look great try to lock up a we’re going to have one of those kind of off time uh specials because they’re not open for lunch it’s dinner every day but they have happy hours seven days a week
Including the weekend at Corvina Seafood Grill up in boa Raton uh really classy place you know like uh we have obviously our friends at even Keel which is like casual environment with upscale Seafood this is like high-end Seafood with a sophisticated setting yeah so we’re
Going to get in there on scheduled to be Thursday uh March 21st at 4 p.m. a special 4M happy hour edition which is going to make it a little tight a little tight for you and your uh land lovers no we couldn’t but we’re gonna be
There’ll be a hard out at 455 and uh you’ll make it down to land lovers for your uh trivia as usual but um my question was this um Facebook group somebody wrote something about a restaurant and it turns out the person person who wrote it was a friend of
Somebody who had gotten fired or a friend of a mother of somebody who gotten fired from The Establishment and I guess my question is this uh at that point the owner who restaurant was disparaged did a little digging on Facebook and saw that one of their friends was the both the person who’
Gotten the the friend of the person who left the post was uh the person who had gotten fired and the mother of the friend who gotten fired is that a little bit of a the convoluted thing so his conclusion was oh you know the person who got fired and you’re just leaving a
Disrupt thing what do you think is the appropriate respon like should a business owner respond to it and defend his business from unfair um maybe uh punishing or it doesn’t hurt to insert or you know somehow Infuse a little bit of what may be the truth right into the
Equation before just getting hammered yeah and I I think it’s okay that’s fair pointed that out I mean it could have been a disal person who was going to condemn the place and we see how that goes I mean it’s easy to write a scathing indictment about a place and uh
If the majority of people agree I I guess that that’s what you would have to go by but and usually when somebody writes something negative then then the people that you know they come out of the woodwork all of a sudden here’s a million people that hated the place all
Along and and that always disturbs this one got a lot of supporters defending the place so that that means you know the owner probably was right to State his position yeah I mean it’s a uh it’s one of those things where you know in this day and age the truth you know
Sometimes is the last thing that anybody considers and it’s like uh you just have to kind of consider the source a lot of times and in this case the woman was alleging that she found a hair in one of her dishes and that she was trying to
Flag somebody down and couldn’t even get and then she go up to the bar to complain and and that the the place has gone downhill blah blah blah but to me with the group and with phones now I want to see pictures I want to see photo
Evidence you know me I’m Barry Sheek I want to take DNA of the hair you are whose hair is it was it a planted hair or was it you know maybe an inadvertent hair that got uh placed there by somebody not how about Shea who got all of these people uh you know
Justly acquitted of various crimes they didn’t commit years after the fact but then when OJ was involved it was all of a sudden this was the biggest BS science that he’d ever heard of DNA talking how one’s position can change depending on who’s uh the client and
Paying the bills but in any event um if you are going to be making allegations about hair hair happens in restaurants say it’s one of those unfortunate things but take don’t don’t no don’t ruin my sand think you put a hair take it okay a hair wouldn’t stop him but that’s my
Thing like it is what it is I’m sure there’s a middle ground there where maybe they were busy and they tried to flag someone but they were busy like that doesn’t mean that they’re being rude unresponsive like hair happens they should bring you a new dish if it wasn’t
Your hair and I’m sure they would you know it’s one thing when it’s just laying on top and then if it’s actually cooked into the dish that’s a little off putting dis gruntled it feels like they disgruntled that’s they yeah uh I’m gruntled because I’m enjoying my excellent sandwich and uh another fine
You’re happy as I’ve seen you fine time as usual Grandpa’s come on out here they’re open for breakfast and lunch every day until 4:00 they open I believe at 6:00 a.m. it’s a pretty early uh breakfast stop for those who are into getting their day started right all
Right that’s going to do it for today we’ll be at Delaware chick tomorrow until then enjoy every Rachel and Ruben sandwich