Food

Restaurateurs want the community to know that Sanibel is still very much alive and needs their support to thrive. Here's how the annual Sizzle Dining event is drawing attention to spots, like Cielo, on Sanibel.

National Watermelon Day was celebrated with, what else, Florida watermelons Thursday, at Florida Gulf Coast University, courtesy the Florida Watermelon Association and the Lutgert College of Business Center for Agribusiness.

Twenty-five competitors chowed down on the Florida Keys’ signature dessert July 4 in Key West -- without using their hands -- but no one did it faster than Joshua Mogle, a 38-year-old tire manufacturing manager from Altoona, Iowa.

Southwest Florida is no exception to what a slew of stories in the past few days have reported about the popular green-capped, red, spicy Huy Fong brand sauce — sirachais difficult to find, expensive when found, and likely not going to be back to former availability for some time.

A look at the "white people food" trend that's caught on with millennials in China.(Story aired on Weekend Edition Sunday on June, 25, 2023.)

The plan in Cape Coral for Slipaway Food Truck Park and Marina, on steroids, calls for 10 food trucks, an open-bar pavilion that will seat 154 people and six more pavilions that will seat an additional 150.

Nice Guys Pizza in Cape Coral has been open for 10 years this month. To celebrate, the beer and pizza lounge pulled off a musical reunion for the ages, by bringing together nine Southwest Florida-based bands who helped shape the local music scene of today.

An inaugural food festival had curious eaters saying, “I can’t believe it’s not cod,” and learning the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle during Cape Coral’s first-ever Vegan Street Food Fest.

Chick-fil-A is testing out a chicken-like sandwich ... made from cauliflower, while McDonald's is going the plant-based route on it's nuggets.