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9763 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation FL 33324

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  • Austrian, Continental, European, Italian
    Tue-Sat 6pm-11pm
    $$$$ $$$$
    MasterCard, Visa, cash, ATM/Debit
  • business casual
    Private Party, Takeout
    Dinner, Lunch
    Full bar
  • Accepted, Recommended
    Lot Available
Description

This funky/elegant Plantation restaurant specializes in the Northern Italian fare of the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region; it's run by an Austrian chef and his American wife. This region of Italy was dominated by the Austrian Hapsburgs for years, and its cuisine incorporates Greek and Turkish elements as well. Shrimp casserole is laced with grappa and Edam; homemade spaetzle is tossed with speck, sage, and caramelized onions. A generous pounded and butterflied veal chop coated with bread crumbs, egg, and Parmesan and served with a simple, perfectly dressed green salad is simply one of the best veal dishes we have ever tasted. The menu changes seasonally. Splendid desserts include a puff-of-air apple strudel. A gift of the house, chocolate-covered strawberries end every meal here. One of the finest restaurants in Broward County.








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    | Palm Beach, FL | 139 Reviews

    Italian restaurants specializing in Roman, Sicilian, Corsican, and Milanese fare are a dime a dozen, but we have yet to run across another trattoria whose passionate love affair with the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of Italy is so intense. Perhaps that's because owners Beth and Josef Shibanetz, an American woman and her Austrian chef husband, came to that area as strangers and fell in love with its fusion of East and West. In Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, world cultures collide: French, Hungarians, Slavs, Celts, Austrians, and Italians — Catholics, Jews, and Muslims — have settled peaceably in the northeastern tip of Italy, and the evidence of cross-cultural conversation is part of the allure of this odd cuisine. Dishes such as ravioli filled with wild mushrooms and truffles in a light veal sauce or halibut cooked with mushrooms, spinach, and Riesling embody contradictory culinary impulses with delicious results. Dining at Josef's is like learning a delightful secret about one you love. The Shibanetzes also have chosen wines from the area, and the space is charming and intimate.

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  • Last Man Standing?

    Last Man Standing?

    "I don't know — maybe they're on a diet." I can't tell if Beth Schibanetz is kidding or if she's speaking metaphorically. These days, we're all on a diet, tightening our belts down to the last notch. The owner of Josef's, a fine-dining... More »

  • What Would Bruno Eat?

    What Would Bruno Eat?

    I should have been researching schnitzel and strudel recipes, but I got sidetracked by YouTube video clips: Sasha Baron Cohen's fey-gay Austrian fashion-victim "Bruno" interviewing homo-hating Pastor Quinn of Little Rock, Arkansas, about the... More »

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  • 2008 | Best Expensive Italian Restaurant

    Italian restaurants specializing in Roman, Sicilian, Corsican, and Milanese fare are a dime a dozen, but we have yet to run across another trattoria whose passionate love affair with the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region of Italy is so intense. Perhaps that's because owners Beth and Josef Shibanetz, an American woman and her Austrian chef husband, came to that area as strangers and fell in love with its fusion of East and West. In Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, world cultures collide: French, Hungarians,... More »

  • 2007 | Best Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale

    This modest little restaurant is probably not the kind of place you'd stumble into accidentally. What looks like a sullen strip mall transforms, as you walk through the door at Josef's, into a full-blown fantasy of a quaint, alpine inn. Nor does it resemble in form or spirit the grand eateries that tend to gobble up all the "Best" awards year after year. It's run not by a celebrity chef but by a taciturn, practically anonymous bear of an Austrian named Josef Schibanetz and his American wife,... More »

Main Menu
Appetizers & Salads
$8.75
She Crab Soup
$12.00
Sauteed Calamari
w/garlic, capers, shallots, parsley, red chili flakes, ev olive oil & lemon
$12.00
Escargot Bourguignon
baked with a shallot, garlic & herb butter
$10.50
Polenta Tart
w/chanterelles, smoked mozzarella & baby field greens
$12.00
Vegetarian Antipasto
grilled eggpant, zucchinni & peppers with hummus, olives, feta cheese, roasted garlic & grilled pita
$10.50
Farm House Pate
made w/ground veal, pork & liver, served w/fresh figs, berries & aged balsamic
$9.00
Grilled Feta Cheese
wrapped in speck, served w/artichokes, baby spinach & a red wine/shallot vinaigrette
$8.75
Josef's Salad
baby spinach, tomato, red cabbage, feta cheese, red onion, pine nuts & olives with a pumpkin seed oil/balsamic vinaigrette
$10.50
Hazelnut Crusted Warm Goat Cheese
on baby greens with citrus sections and a lemon honey vinaigrette
Pasta
$26.00
Fiocchi
petite pasta bundles filled with 4 cheeses and a bit of roasted pear, served w/a light parmesan cream sauce
$26.00
Risotto
w/wild mushrooms, glazed pork belly & red wine
$28.00
Seafood Linguini
sauteed shrimp & scallops, tossed with basil pesto
Seafood
$27.00
Whole Yellow Tail Snapper
w/lemons, capers, parsley & white wine
$27.00
Swordfish Scaloppini
w/lump crabmeat & a chive butter
$28.00
Seared Diver Scallops
on zucchinni fritters with a roasted red pepper sauce
$27.00
Monk Fish Osso Buco
on mushroom risotto w/smoked tomato sauce & fresh herbs
$28.00
Sauteed Filet Of Hog Snapper
w/ev olive oil, fresh tomatoes, olives & basil
Meat & Poultry
$37.00
Grilled Organic/grass Fed Veal Loin Steak
w/roman artichokes, baby peppers, olives & ev olive oil
$27.00
Veal Scaloppini
w/lemon, butter, capers, shiitake mushrooms & parsley
$27.00
1/2 Of A Crisp Roasted Duck
w/a fresh fig & orange sauce, pine nuts, served on sauteed butternut squash
$38.00
Filet Mignon
w/shallot & red wine reduction, french green beans & truffle mashed potatoes
$37.00
Roasted Venison Chop
w/braised red cabbage and a roasted pear w/lingonberries
$37.00
Pesto Crusted Rack Of Lamb
w/roasted polenta & vegetables with a red wine reduction
Sides
$5.50
Creamed Spinach
w/garlic, herbs and ev olive oil
$5.00
Roasted Zucchinni, Eggplant & Tomatoes
$5.50
Truffle Mashed Potatoes
$5.50
Brown Rice Pilaf
w/dried apricots, shallots & pistachios
Finale
$8.75
Josef's Apple Strudel
layers of delicate phyllo sheets dusted with sugar & cinnamon set between sauteed apples & raisins served with a vanilla bean sauce
$8.75
Warm Flourless Chocolate Cake
with a fresh berry compote & soft, fresh whipped cream
$8.75
Raspberry Linzer Torte
with a fresh raspberries sauce & fresh whipped cream
$8.75
Coconut/hazelnut Pie
served w/fresh whipped cream & berries
$6.50
Homemade Gelato's
vanilla; chocolate, peanut butter & cinnamon
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