Dining

Marco has taste, Marco eateries have tasty treats, and if your taste in entertainment runs to sampling a smorgasbord of specialties, the Taste of Marco is for you.

Marco has taste, Marco eateries have tasty treats, and if your taste in entertainment runs to sampling a smorgasbord of specialties, the Taste of Marco is for you. The island’s signature food-tasting event returns to the Esplanade on Sunday (April ...

Perhaps the best thing about this Titanic dinner is that you won’t end up in icy water at the end of it.

I’m sharing my favorite crab recipes with the hope that sev­eral ambitious cooks will prepare a splendid feast.

Perhaps the best thing about this Titanic dinner is that you can pretty much count on living through it. Marco Polo, the upscale eatery on Marco Lake Drive, is hosting a special dinner party on Sunday, April 15, commemorating another ...

They’re definitely doing something right. While restaurants come and go with sometimes dizzying speed, Café de Marco came and stayed. The eatery is celebrating 29 years on Marco Island, under the same ownership and in the same location. The menu ...

Easter is a time of traditions. Some of them, like an Easter egg hunt, you need kids for. Some, like Easter sunrise service, require an alarm clock. One Easter tradition much beloved on Marco Island is going out to dine, ...

When considering Marco Island’s watering holes, more is always better. Recently, the Old Marco Pub has gone three better with its expanded pub area and new wraparound bar equipped with a fresh full liquor license the better for pub patrons ...

For the fourth consecutive year the two Rotary Clubs and the Kiwanis Club of Marco Island are working together to bring you the Marco Island Seafood Festival, one of the Island’s largest community events – Saturday (March 24) from 11 ...

Begorra, ’tis time again to celebrate the birthday of Ireland’s favorite St. Patrick in Marco Island’s pubs as well as the 20-year anniversary of Rookie’s Bar & Grill and the annual St. Baldrick Foundation fundraiser. Friends, leprechauns and wannabe’s are ...

Move over, wine: Craft beer websites and festivals have cropped up around the country to draw beer aficionados internationally. The Naples North Rotary Foundation in partnership with local distributor Coastal Beverage and local restaurant partners joined the parade with the ...

Kerry Fagan likes to cook and she loves to create. Her recipes at Kerry’s Cafe pull together decades of family knowledge from her Irish, German, Russian and Ukrainian heritage. She sprinkles in a bit of her passion for Italian, Mediterranean ...

Of all the art forms, none is closer to the hearts of men than the art of cooking. After all, it has a home just underneath the heart, in the stomach.

There’s no single theory on the exact origin of fudge, but many food historians agree the first mention of America’s iconic sweet was in a 1886 letter written by Vassar student Emelyn Battersby Hartridge, noting how a schoolmate’s cousin cooked ...

Marco Island restaurants are in tune with love’s sweet song on Valentine’s Day with romance on the menus of these fine restaurants and are sure to melt the heart of anyone’s sweet patootie or hunky cutie.