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Nestled between the beaches of Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale Beach, Boca Raton has become one of the most affluent communities in South Florida. Boca, as coined by the locals, appeals to its residents as it offers pristine beaches, golf courses and parks that are open for all to casually enjoy. In fact, according to 24/7 Wall Street online, Boca Raton ranks #11 in “America’s 50 Best Cities to Live.”

This honor is enhanced in part from the exclusive Mizner Park that contributes to Boca’s allure. Its high fashion boutiques, fine dining options, museum and amphitheater cater to a wide variety of individuals.

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ORAL REPRESENTATIONS CANNOT BE RELIED UPON AS CORRECTLY STATING THE REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DEVELOPER. FOR CORRECT REPRESENTATIONS, MAKE REFERENCE TO THIS BROCHURE AND TO THE DOCUMENTS REQUIRED BY SECTION 718.503, FLORIDA STATUTES, TO BE FURNISHED BY A DEVELOPER TO A BUYER OR LESSEE. These materials are not intended to be an offer to sell, or solicitation to buy a unit in the condominium. Such an offering shall only be made pursuant to the prospectus (offering circular) for the condominium and no statements should be relied upon unless made in the prospectus or in the applicable purchase agreement. In no event shall any solicitation, offer or sale of a unit in the condominium be made in, or to residents of, any state or country in which such activity would be unlawful. This is not intended to be an offer to sell nor a solicitation of offers to buy real estate to residents of CT, ID, NJ, NY and OR, unless registered or exemptions are available, or in any other jurisdiction where prohibited by law, and your eligibility for purchase will depend upon your state of residency. For correct representations, reference should be made to the documents required by section 718.503, Florida Statutes, to be furnished by a developer to a buyer or lessee. All images and designs depicted herein are artist’s conceptual renderings, which are based upon preliminary development plans and are subject to change without notice in the manner provided in the offering documents. All such materials are not to scale and are shown solely for illustrative purpose.

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features REASONS 86 25+ TO EAT HEALTHY How many different opportunities are there to enjoy health-conscious cuisine in and around Boca Raton? From farm-fresh menus to energyboosting smoothies, we count the ways. by libby volgyes

100 POLITICS, AS USUAL

If you think Florida’s reputation as a political freak show begins and ends with hanging chads, think again. We’ve been making the wrong kind of headlines for decades. by randy schultz

EVERY 108 CLIMB MOUNTAIN

Visitors from around the world seek the metaphysical wonders and jaw-dropping splendor of Sedona. by john thomason

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course races and meet a woman whose clinic brings affordable health care to low-income patients. by lisette hilton

71FLORIDA HOME

Homeowners are being as clear as possible when it comes to Florida decor, which explains why Lucite is making a design comeback. by brad mee

77CITY WATCH

As Boca’s population nears 100,000, the question becomes whether our city needs a strong-mayor system. by randy schultz

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FACE TIME

Meet the president of our local Habitat for Humanity, a Boca entrepreneur turning heads in the tech world, and the president of a coalition bent on ridding the country of child predators. by allison bowsher, carol brzozowski and john thomason

Readers comment on articles in recent issues of Boca Raton.

Don’t leave home without it! Our comprehensive guide to the best restaurants in South Florida includes new reviews of Taverna Opa in Delray Beach and Little Chalet in Boca Raton.

by kevin kaminski

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reviews by bill citara

What’s the April buzz in and around Boca? We touch base with someone teaching farm-to-kitchen classes, a financial expert who dishes on relationship building and the area’s most creative sandman.

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You might just see some familiar faces in our snapshots from talked-about social events in and around Boca.

by kevin kaminski, marie speed, taryn tacher and john thomason

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Meet a local reflexology expert whose celebrity client list includes Oprah, find out how to train for this season’s run of obstacle

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Our award-winning A&E department spotlights the hottest happenings in April. In addition, we take a peek at the Delray cultural hub that found a home for some displaced artists—and we Take 5 with the new director of the Palm Beach Film Festival.

125 DINING GUIDE

After an award-winning decade with Boca Raton, the editor bids a fond farewell.

by lindsey swing and taryn tacher

115 BACKSTAGE PASS by john thomason

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In honor of Earth Day, our style mavens check out the latest eco-friendly fashions, as well as a host of all-natural beauty products. We also show you how to keep your doggies sitting pretty.

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When it comes to her most memorable case of spring fever, nothing beats the author’s cross-continent college trek through Europe. by marie speed

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The season of renewal produces memories of hitchhiking, Opening Day and starry-eyed walks with a certain dream girl.

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bocamag.com WEB EXTRAS Check out these bonus items unique to bocamag.com, related to stories in the April issue of Boca Raton or pertaining to events in our area:

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THE DISH AT DADA: Food editor Bill Citara loves what our friends at Dada in Delray do with their pork chops, which is why he deconstructed the entrée for our readers (page 140). But thanks to chef Bruce Feingold, we also can share the step-by-step secrets of this signature dish with butterscotch onions.

Visit Web Extras for all the delicious details.

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LET THERE BE ROCK: It’s been a season of standout shows in South Florida—from Billy Joel to Madonna—and the hits keep on coming with major concerts set for this spring. Catch the view from the front row with photographer Ron Elkman, who delivers up-close shots of the biggest shows; click on the “Concert Photos” link under the A&E tab for day-after images.

CITY WATCH: Randy Schultz keeps our readers in the know when it comes to the news, issues, controversies and debates that most impact our community. Check out his “City Watch” blog every Tuesday and Thursday.

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DINNER IS SERVED: High season may be coming to an end, but the foodie scene remains busier than ever. Blogger Lynn Kalber has the lowdown on the latest restaurant news; check out the former Palm Beach Post writer’s reports under the Dining link at bocamag.com every Monday, Tuesday and Friday.

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Boca Raton’s social media platforms are the place to be when it comes to special giveaways this season. Check our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages for alerts and instructions—and you may be one of our lucky winners.

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Toward the end of the number, Madonna climbed on top of one of the nuns and swung around the pole herself.”

—Kevin Studer, A&E link, review of the Madonna concert in Miami

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ers inside the arts with concert, exhibition and movie reviews, cultural news and special profiles every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Also, check out our catalog of South Florida concert images, courtesy of Ron Elkman.

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This is how far we’ll go to get Afib patients off blood thinners.

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It’s called the left atrial appendage. For patients with atrial fibrillation, it can become a reservoir where blood clots form, migrate and cause stroke or other serious problems. That’s why afib patients require blood thinners that, while effective, can impact quality of life.

What if you could eliminate that appendage and thus eliminate the need for blood thinners? At Boca Raton Regional Hospital we can.

Boca Regional’s Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery, Richard Cartledge, MD, FACS, is one of a select group of surgeons nationally to be performing ultra-minimally invasive ligation of the left atrial appendage. Using two microscopic incisions, he seals off the appendage and closes it from circulation so clots no longer can be formed in the structure. It is then reabsorbed by the body.

No left atrial appendage. No risk of forming clots. No need for blood thinners.

And Dr. Cartledge does the procedure using incisions that are 1/5 of an inch compared to traditional minimally invasive openings of 2.5 inches. That means most patients require only over-the-counter pain medication, require no post-operative chest tube and can go home the next day.

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In 1987 my brother, John, was horribly injured in a car accident that left him forever broken. At 23, he suffered massive and permanent brain damage, paralysis, incontinence, speechlessness and with no short-term memory. As soon as critical care ended, my parents brought him home. Since then, they have provided complete care for him. We lost my dear father this year, so now my mom is the sole caregiver—responsible for feeding, bathing, toileting, dressing, transferring and keeping John company 24-7.

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I read with great excitement [Kevin Kaminski’s] “Editor’s Letter” in the [February issue of] Boca mag. You had mentioned [the birth of daughter Lyla] at a [December holiday] party, and now it’s come to life with the picture and great story! Wishing your family nothing but the best for 2016.

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Once again, “Speed Bumps” and “My Turn” were my favorite parts of the [February] magazine! Yes, hope! But, John [Shuff], your 1973 decision was what one would have expected from an accountant, so not really callous. … And Marie [Speed], I loved your article on love!

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As always, Randy Schultz’s recent “City Watch” blogs at bocamag.com have elicited plenty of feedback from members of the community. Here are some excerpts.

On city council/mayor salaries: [The salaries currently paid to the city council and the mayor] are ridiculous for all the work they do. Whether you agree with their decisions or not, we operate in a representative democracy; the mayor and city council members spend countless hours promoting the city. I made more money in 1981 as a parttime bartender in the summer than [the] current city council/mayor.

Glenn Gromann bocamag.com On the University Park murder: It’s important not to overreact about the University Park situation. Nobody seemed to look into whether that rap sheet of police calls is typical for an apartment complex of that size in this area, which is vital information for analysis.

This murder, though tragic, was one event where the student gave the intruders access—and he was unfortunately killed over marijuana. The students there are not at increased risk. It’s not like there are drive-by shootings, random break-ins and rapes occurring there. Don’t make this about students as a danger because every age group could potentially be a danger to Boca citizens.

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Tickets: Individual, $250; table sponsorships, $5,000 Contact: Alicia DeLuca, 561/650-0124, ext. 5124

CORRECTION In the FaceTime section of the March issue, John Weisberg, a student at Lynn University’s Conservatory of Music, was misidentified. We regret the error. To read about this talented and wildly creative music student, visit the Web Extras section at bocamag.com.

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his marks the 75th consecutive issue that I’ve had the honor of penning the “Editor’s Letter” for Boca Raton magazine. During the nearly 10 years that I’ve sat in the editor’s chair, our skilled teams in production, sales, editorial and art have produced 16,442 overall pages of this publication for your viewing and reading pleasure. I spent a good hour starting to add up how many millions of words I’ve personally edited during that span, but my calculator spontaneously combusted.

Along the way, we’ve added to the rich legacy of JES Media, totaling a combined 52 Florida Magazine Association awards over the past eight years alone—including an unprecedented run of five nods in seven years for Boca Raton as the “Best Overall” magazine in the state.

But it’s not the accolades or the cover battles or the endless parade of foodie events or even the outdated (but much beloved) Associated Press Stylebook that I bequeath to the next editor that will stay with me when I think about my tenure at Boca Raton, which ends with this issue.

It’s the people of this community—more than a thousand of which have shared their stories with our readers over the past decade—that have made a lasting impression.

People like Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus, who, back in December 2007, invited me into his living room for a wildly candid discussion that veered into the Iraq War and Middle East policy. At the end of the interview, I asked him if he ever considered running for office. “You can’t be honest with people and be a politician. It’s an oxymoron. I wouldn’t last 20 minutes.” This Bernie, it seems, was ahead of his time.

Six months after a 2010 earthquake in Haiti claimed the lives of four Lynn University students and two faculty members, president Kevin Ross opened up about the moment the search officially ended. “I went home that night and was sitting with my son Graham, watching SpongeBob on TV. I felt guilty for being there. I felt that I should be doing something. And then it washed over me: All that the parents of the missing students wanted to do was sit on the couch with their children.”

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For our story in 2011 about the 10-year anniversary of the football program at Florida Atlantic University, I spoke with former school president Anthony Catanese about his first meeting with future head coach Howard Schnellenberger. “We met at Uncle Tai’s. I told him that I was thinking about starting a football program at FAU. He got this little twinkle in his eye and said, ‘I’ll take the job.’ I hadn’t even told him what the job was yet.”

Recalling the day he sold the educational software giant Blackboard, Daniel Cane, currently the CEO of Modernizing Medicine in Boca, explained back in 2012: “It’s very anticlimactic to sell a company that you build with your hands and heart. It’s not about the financial events; it’s about the journey, the people and the culture.”

The same can be said about the decade I’ve spent at Boca Raton. I’m humbled by the opportunity that group editor Marie Speed first discussed with me over a few beers at Two Georges in Boynton Beach. I know that being a Florida Gator counted for about 85 percent of my hire in her eyes, but, hey, whatever gets you through the door.

Seventy-five issues later, it’s time to pass the baton. My sincere thanks to publishers John and Margaret Mary Shuff for trusting me with the content and direction of their flagship magazine, to my co-workers over the years for their talent and dedication, and to you, our loyal readers, for your support and, in several cases, your friendship.

The journey really has been the reward.

Until we meet again …

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FRESH FACE Her official title is director of community outreach

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and education, but as those who’ve attended her cooking classes at Farmer’s Table can attest, Abigail Nagorski just as easily could be known as Boca’s ambassador for healthy eating. Her foodie passion, which blossomed as a child while feasting on multicultural cuisine in Abu Dhabi (where her father worked for nearly a decade), led to an eightyear stint with Whole Foods as culinary director of its Lifestyle Center. At Farmer’s Table, she’ll host weekly courses on everything from cutting calories out of your diet to seasonal cooking—all with a farm-tokitchen spin. Visit farmerstableboca.com for details.

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home town [ BOCA BY THE NUMBERS ] What’s the buzz in and around town this month?

These numbers tell part of the story.

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Local WPTV news anchor Kelley Dunn recently celebrated her 30-year anniversary with the NBC affiliate. The six-time Emmy winner sat down with us for an in-depth interview back in November 2014. Check it out by clicking on Web Extras at bocamag.com.

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Expect upward of this many vendors set up along 12 city blocks at this year’s Delray Affair, the venerable outdoor festival slated for April 8-10 that features everything from beer gardens and foodie stands to arts and crafts.

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Congratulations to Devin Barkey, a senior at American Heritage School, who was one of only a dozen students in the entire world to earn a perfect score on the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) Calculus AB exam.

$15 million:

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That’s the estimated economic impact of SunFest, the annual music festival along the Intracoastal in West Palm Beach that’s set for April 27 to May 1.

Visit sunfest.com for ticket info and this year’s slate of performers.

That’s the square footage of the recently opened Clive Daniel Home showroom on Glades Road, a two-story, $12 million project built from the ground up to feature the company’s luxury CHRIS SALATA

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here are no absolutes when it comes to investing your money. That’s why it’s crucial, when it comes to financial advisors, to work with someone you trust.

Just ask ERIC GLASBAND of Glasband Stempel & Associates. The managing director of wealth management and senior financial advisor for the Merrill Lynch branch uses his vast knowledge of the markets to help his clients obtain their long-term financial goals. But more than that, he takes into consideration the lifestyle, background and financial personality of each client to ensure that he develops a specifically tailored plan.

Glasband has been named one of Barron’s top 1,200 financial advisors every year since 2012 because of that commitment to providing individualized guidance to maximize the financial success and happiness of his clients.

“The best part of my career is the relationships that I get to cultivate with my clients,” Glasband says. “I consider them to be part of my family, and I truly cherish the faith and trust that they bestow in me.”

Glasband adheres to these five principles when it comes to managing successful relationships with his clients.

Your approach must be disciplined and thorough.

You must be extremely sensitive to the need of managing risk.

Personalized attention is critical.

Communication is the pillar of a service commitment.

Understand what is important to each individual.

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What’s the Buzz?

We’ve got big events, big hats and a big deal at the Boca Resort.

WHAT YOU’LL BE TALKING ABOUT THIS MONTH (AND WHERE YOU MIGHT BE GOING) ✔ Final Four, college basketball tournament, Houston, April 2 & 4 ✔ Major League Baseball, Opening Day, April 3 ✔ Boston Marathon, April 18 ✔ Coachella, Indrio, Calif., April 15–24 ✔ New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, April 22 to May 1

JOHN TOLBERT: THE SEQUEL John Tolbert was the wonder boy of sales and marketing at the Boca

Resort from 1994 to 2002—and now he’s back, named as president and managing director of the Resort. We’ll be talking to him at length in a later issue, but we had to ask him why he elected to make a return trip to Boca Raton.

“Leading this amazing team in serving the most discerning guests and club members in the world is something I feel I prepared my entire career for—and is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that I simply could not pass up! My passion for the resort, our team, our clients and Boca and Palm Beach County is immeasurable.”

Tolbert was tapped to serve on the boards of the Palm Beach County Tourism Development Council, the Boca Chamber of Commerce and the Boca Bowl within 60 days of his return. We’re hoping that means he’s not going anywhere.

Put a Lid On It

A woman can never have too many hats, a fashion truism that has persisted through the ages. Nowhere is this more true than here, with polo season and ladies’ luncheons and Easter parades and Lord knows what else. So may we suggest a delicious trip to Hats Etc. in Boca? There you will find everything from embroidered ball caps (some with Swarovski crystals, naturally, in infant to adult sizes) and all kind of fascinators, picture hats, cloches, you name it. We are especially partial to the large flowery, feathery wide-brimmed extravaganzas, the kind that make you feel like you stepped out of a race day at Astor or Churchill Downs. Who can resist a hat store like this? We say it’s time to get fitted with a custom chapeau. (6501 N. Federal Highway, Suite 4, 561/997-7900)

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SPRING FEVER?

T.S. Eliot may have said April is the cruelest month, but we think the only thing cruel about it is going into the office when you’re battling a mean case of spring fever. So we asked a few people how they deal with it— and what springtime means to them.

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The Boca Bacchanal’s Grand Tasting on Friday night returns to Mizner Park Amphitheater (thank you) and promises to be even bigger and better than its earlier Sunday afternoon incarnation (tickets are $125). A slew of local restaurants will be featured, along with a zillion wine and beer tastings. The vintner dinners at private homes on Saturday night, always a big hit with Boca’s well-heeled foodies, feature acclaimed chefs from Florida and beyond, including rock stars like Jeff Tunks from DC Coast and Passion Fish in Washington, D.C., and Robert Carter from Charleston’s Barony Tavern. Vintners include B.R. Cohn Winery and Benziger Family Winery.

■ “My symptoms of spring fever typically begin with a growing desire to explore! I start by satisfying my brain with a marathon viewing session of the finest independent films in the world. (This is a definite perk of being chair emeritus of the Palm Beach International Film Festival and an appointee to the Governor’s Film and Advisory Council.) After being fully inspired by these global visionaries, that wanderlust kicks in and I pack my passport to take off to some place I have never been. (Cruising is my way of chillaxing!) My goal is to return fully restored, as late spring will be busy as I set off to receive my second honorary doctorate degree from Daemon College in New York.”

— Yvonne Boice, businesswoman/philanthropist

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April 8–10: Delray Affair

The 54th Delray Affair, sponsored by the Greater Delray Beach Chamber of Commerce, is still big; in fact, it’s billed as “the largest arts and craft festival in the Southeast United States.” The event stretches from Swinton and Old School Square to the Intracoastal, while meandering up Northwest Second Avenue. The signature Gladioli (it began as the Gladiolus Festival when glads were still grown in this area) are long gone, but you can find just about anything else. Last year, artists and crafters from 30 states and 12 countries exhibited at the Delray Affair.

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April 24: Polo Championship final

Polo has come back in a big way over the past few years as lots of pretty people dressed to the nines flock to International Polo Club Palm Beach in Wellington (3667 120th Ave.) for Champagne and divot-stomping—and the occasional glimpse of polo.

The grand finale of the season is the 112th U.S. Open Polo Championship final on the last Sunday in April. Enjoy the sport however you want, from sponsor boxes (if you know someone) to grandstand viewing, field tailgating, stadium seating or a sumptuous field-side Champagne brunch at The Pavilion. We also suggest a very fabulous hat (see opposite page). Call 561/204-5687.

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■ “Springtime for me means spring break with my kids—either a week of Saturdays or a special trip. This year maybe a cruise. It also means flipping burgers at the chamber’s community cookout at the YMCA and launching one of my favorite chamber programs, Leadership BOCA!” — Troy McLellan, president and CEO, Boca Chamber

International Polo Club Palm Beach

■ “Spring fever makes me feel like I am ready to take the bull by the horns and embrace the race.

This year, however, it is more like spring delirium: I’m starting my first book! As a young widow raising three boys, I feel compelled to share what I’ve learned on this journey. I hope my words will encourage those who are facing challenging circumstances.”

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THE SANDMAN COMETH DELRAY SCULPTOR LEE STOOPS MAKES EVERY GRAIN COUNT.

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n a characteristically sunny morning, Lee Stoops is crouched near the shoreline of Delray Beach next to his latest sand sculpture: a Florida panther, lounging stoically on a rock— also made of sand—its glass eyes gazing upward atop sandy whiskers. The work is unfinished, but his focus has been diverted by a bikinied beauty from Portugal who, like most beachgoers who stumble onto his art, thinks it’s just awesome.

“Miss Portugal doesn’t have to work as hard as I do to please people at the beach,” Stoops says later, curls of wily white hair barely restrained by a baseball cap.

“Me, I gotta work.”

The Pennsylvania native, 65, is used to the attention his sculptures attract. He estimates that hundreds of thousands of visitors have snapped photos of his transient masterpieces over his five or six years of active sculpting.

His work includes everything from a vibrant animal kingdom to figures from pop culture—from lions, tigers and bears to the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion.

He’s sculpted violin-playing mermaids, St. Paddy’s Day leprechauns and Where’s Waldo (“Found him on the beach!” Stoops jokes). Local news outlets and USA Today ran an image of his touching tribute to Cecil the Lion, the beloved felid slain last summer, and every year, he takes home the trophy for Best Sand Sculpture at Fort Lauderdale’s Great American Beach Party.

While professional sand artists often work with an array of tools the size of a surgeon’s palette—like wedge hoes and margin trowels and detail shapers and finishing shapers and bull-nosed scrapers—Stoops’ only tools are a couple of buckets of wet sand and a plastic hotel room key. He makes his technique sound easy.

“You start with a pile of sand and then you take away everything that’s not what you want,” he says. “There’s a lion or tiger or man inside everything.”

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What’s so glamorous about garbage?

According to Kristen Alyce, plenty— especially this month, as we celebrate Mother Earth. The West Palm Beachbased artist and entrepreneur launched Garbage Gone Glam in 2009 to help raise environmental awareness. But instead of following more traditional eco-friendly practices to create clothing and accessories, she turned trash into style statements. She created her first dress out of magazines and plastic bags—and never looked back, drawing interest for her “upcycled” designs in markets from New York to Switzerland, and even turning heads at Milan Fashion Week. (garbagegoneglam.com)

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As the eco-friendly fashion market grows, we’re noticing a new branch of labels taking the industry by storm. In honor of Earth Day, we’ve rounded up some of our favorite looks and brands that refuse to surrender their sense of style for sustainability.

H&M JACQUARDKNIT PONCHO This piece from H&M’s Conscious Collection comes in jacquard-knit fabric with wool content and recycled polyester; $49.99, Boynton Beach or Wellington malls

H&M JERSEY DRESS Also from the Conscious Collection, this fitted, knee-length dress is made with organic cotton jersey materials; $17.99, Boynton Beach or Wellington malls

KATE SPADE GLASS & GLITTER SILICON BOTTLE Accessorize your wardrobe with this eco-friendly alternative to plastic bottles; $30, Kate Spade, Town Center at Boca Raton

STELLA MCCARTNEY FALABELLA CROSSBODY BAG McCartney’s commitment to going green without compromising style is evident in this faux leather bag with a signature ruthenium diamond-cut chain; $1,190, Nordstrom, Town Center TOMS SLIP-ONS Part of TOMS’ Natural Crochet Women’s Classics line, these eco-friendly slip-ons will match your environmentally chic looks perfectly this season; $58.95, Nordstrom, Town Center

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LUCAS CORDUROY HEADBOARD DOG BED IN LIGHT BLUE, Bed Bath & Beyond, Boca Raton, $99.99

MINI BEADED LEATHER COLLAR, Lap of Luxury Dog Spa, Delray Beach, $52

LOUIS VUITTON BAXTER DOG COLLAR, Louis Vuitton, Town Center at Boca Raton, $345

CHEWY VUITON DOG BED, Love My Puppy, Mizner Park, Boca Raton, $179

BOW TIE COLLAR, Chewy Chic, Boca Raton, $29.25

Doggie Style If staying on top of style trends wasn’t challenging enough for humans, now there’s dog fashion to consider. Not to worry: Your Shop Talk experts will have your pup sitting pretty!

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feelgood In the Spotlight:

REFLEX ACTION

AARON BRISTOL

Though many of her celebrity clients request anonymity, worldrenowned reflexologist Laura Norman can share enough names to give her résumé ample star wattage—Regis Philbin; the late Joan Rivers and her daughter, Melissa; actresses Hilary Swank and Demi Moore; and the radio team of Howard Stern and Robin Quivers. Not to mention Oprah Winfrey.

“I worked on Oprah’s feet many years ago, when I was interviewed on her first TV talk show in Baltimore,” says the part-time Delray Beach resident.

The best-selling author describes reflexology as a unique and powerful therapeutic modality. Practitioners, she says, can affect every part of the body by stimulating the corresponding reflex areas (using specific thumb and finger techniques) and soothing the thousands of nerves in just the feet, hands, face and ears. “[Reflexology] can induce a state of profound relaxation, the key to better health,” says Norman, who has practices in New York City, Stockbridge, Mass., and Delray. “My method is unique because it combines life coaching with the power of reflexology to place a client in a positive state of mind where they can manifest their health, relationship and career goals. ... My practice is holistic; I work with the whole person—body, mind and spirit.”

Norman charges $150 for a 60-minute session; she also offers two-hour sessions (561/272-1220, lauranorman.com). Turn the page to learn more about the benefits of reflexology.

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Life’s Little Obstacles

Joe Falcone

If monster climbs, rope swinging, rock walls, low crawls and fire leaping sound like a good way to spend an afternoon, then obstacle-course racing is just the sport for you.

As evidenced by the aforementioned elements (which can be just the tip of the obstacle iceberg, depending on the type of course), these are no ordinary races. Local extreme fitness coach Joe Falcone, owner of Boca-based Mountain Bound Training (561/702-5231, mountainboundtraining.com), is a personal trainer to ultra-marathoners, obstaclecourse racers and extreme adventure competitors.

He offers the following obstacle-race training tips: [1] Make the outdoors your gym. Grab a friend and create an adventure utilizing natural obstacles found in a park. You’ll be surprised by the amount of fun an outdoor workout can be.

[2] Remove “I can’t” from your vocabulary.

With proper training and preparation no obstacle is too great. Start by setting small goals and take off from there.

[3] Learn how to be a kid again! Running, jumping, crawling and climbing is what obstacle-course racing is about. It’s a personal adventure that will reboot you physically and mentally.

Upcoming races in our neck of the woods include the April 24 Rugged Runner Challenge at Dreher Park in West Palm Beach. Visit ruggedrunner challenge.com for details.

REFLEXOLOGY BENEFITS

What can reflexology do to help people? According to Laura Norman, there are countless therapeutic benefits. Among them:

ü Reduces and releases physical, mental and emotional stress ü Relieves pain ü Increases energy, creativity and productivity ü Assists in weight management ü Improves circulation

ü Detoxifies impurities ü Strengthens immune system ü Promotes restful sleep ü Eases pregnancy ü Enhances athletic performance ü Improves overall health and well-being

“Many clients experience positive results after only one session,” Norman says. “Others may require, or desire, a series of sessions, depending on what the issue is, how long they’ve had it, their overall physical condition and their readiness to feel better.”

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GENESIS COMES TO BOCA There’s a new DeAnna medical and Warren dental clinic in Boca for the nearly 35,000 lowincome people that live in the city. Thanks to a $1,028,722 federal grant, which is part of $169 million in Affordable Care Act funding for new U.S. health centers, Genesis Community Health opened its doors this past December.

DeAnna Warren, CEO of Genesis Community Health in Boca, answers a few key questions about its services.

Why do you think Boca, known as an affluent area, was chosen as one of the sites to receive funding under the Affordable Care Act? Boca Raton was already designated as a medically underserved area. We were chosen to receive the grant funding because we were able to illustrate the stark contrast between the uninsured and insured, and we showed them how medically needy the area was and highlighted the lack of primary care within the city limits for the low-income populations of Boca Raton.

What types of services do you offer?

Family practice, well-women care, well/sick child, men’s health. We want to be people’s medical home. They can come when they

have the sniffles, or when it’s time to get their Pap smears or cholesterol checked.

Do people have to pay when they receive care at Genesis?

We are not a free clinic. The services we provide to the low-income patients are on a sliding-fee scale. If there is a discount, it is dependent upon their demonstrated income, which is determined by pay stubs, tax returns and Social Security wage printouts. We also welcome patients who have health insurance through the usual payers and Medicare patients, as well as those on Medicaid.

Genesis Community Health is at 30 S.E. Sixth St. To make an appointment, call 561/4303629 or visit gencomhealth.org.

Cheers to Good Health

Is drinking reasonable amounts of alcohol—whether it’s wine, beer or spirits—good or bad for your health?

According to Boca Raton internist Elizabeth Cabrera (7301-A, W. Palmetto Park Road, Suite 100B, 561/9555761), while there are no studies indicating a direct causal relationship between alcohol consumption and specific health benefits, moderate alcohol use has been associated with decreased risk of death and lower levels of heart disease in some populations of people.

“People who have certain medical conditions, take certain medications and women who are pregnant should not drink alcohol,” Cabrera says. “It’s best to discuss with your personal physician about whether you can safely consume alcohol.”

As to whether wine might be better than beer, or if beer is healthier than spirits, that’s still a mystery, the doctor says.

“Research has yielded conflicting results about whether certain types of alcohol are more beneficial than others,” she says. “At this time, there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that red wine is superior to other types of alcohol.

Quantity and pattern of alcohol use seem be to more

important in health … than the type of alcohol consumed.”

The doctor says she does not recommend that patients consume alcohol purely for health benefits. “However I do advise my patients who drink to stick to the recommended daily allowance of two drinks for men and one for women,” Cabrera says.

THE BIG NUMBER As part of Alcohol Awareness Month, bear this in mind: Any number below limit in all states, including Florida.

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Everyone’s touting transparency and, these days, it’s hitting home. Consider our soaring love for Lucite. Having fallen in and out of favor over the decades, see-through furniture pieces made of acrylic resin (aka Lucite) are back in the design spotlight. From shapely chairs to chic chandeliers, Lucite furnishings add modern flair and panache without detracting from an interior’s colors, patterns and textures. What’s more, they foster a light and airy vibe, perfect for South Florida homes.

Lucite bar stools make a great choice for a kitchen island open to dining and living areas. These nearly invisible stools add seating without visually imposing on the traffic area leading to the dining table.

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Consider furnishings that feature a combination of Lucite and an opaque material like brass, leather, wood or chrome. The combinations look fresh and can help decoratively link an acrylic fixture or furniture piece with others in your room featuring the same solid material.

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LET THE DEBATE BEGIN ABOUT WHETHER IT’S TIME FOR BOCA TO CONSIDER A STRONG-MAYOR SYSTEM.

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t is a question that Boca Raton has discussed but never formally debated: Should the city have a strong mayor?

Under the current system, voters choose Boca’s policymakers but not those who run the city. The CEO is the unelected city manager, Leif Ahnell, who has had the job since 1999. Like Diana Grub Frieser, the city attorney, Ahnell serves at the pleasure of the mayor and city council. All employees except for those in the legal department report to the manager.

Mayor Susan Haynie does set the agenda for council meetings, in conjunction with the manager, and runs the meetings. Mayors can use those powers to influence decisions. After that, aside from being paid $1,800 more than the four council members, the mayor’s job differs only in ceremonial ways. Example: The mayor signs city documents on behalf of the council.

Though all council members praise Ahnell’s ability, their impatience can show during council meetings, especially when discussing progress on the council’s goal-setting agenda.

Two recent issues, though, especially demonstrated the weakness of the weak-mayor system in a city that has grown more complex as the population pushes toward 100,000.

The first issue is Boca’s protracted struggle to agree on downtown architectural design guidelines. A year ago, the city held an all-day gripe session about The Mark at Cityscape.

Boca had anticipated a pleasing look. Instead,

some compared the mixed-use project to a prison.

What happened?

Who was to blame?

The architect? City staff? Advisory review boards? The city’s consultant? All the meeting lacked was Inspector Clouseau. The culprit or culprits remain unidentified. A strong mayor, taking direction from the council and the public, might have completed the guidelines and the accompanying Pattern Book years ago.

The second issue is negotiations for a restaurant on the Wildflower property. Securing a lease has been a council goal for two years. When Hillstone Restaurant Group broke off negotiations last November, the decision surprised Haynie and every council member. None had known about the city staff’s counter-offer to Hillstone. Negotiations resumed, but at press time the city and Hillstone had not reached a deal.

Compare what happened with the Wildflower property to what happened when West Palm Beach put together the land that became CityPlace.

In March 1991, after a citizen petition drive got the question onto the ballot, voters changed the city from a manager-commission system to a strong mayor with a fouryear term. Because of weak leadership, West

Palm Beach’s downtown hardly had changed for two decades. In November 1991, Nancy Graham became the city’s first strong mayor.

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Haynie, who was elected in 2014, acknowledges that Graham could not have performed such municipal gymnastics with limited power. Regarding the Wildflower site, Haynie also acknowledges, “It’s very difficult to negotiate a contract” while abiding by Florida’s open-meetings law.

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city watch Like the two mayors who preceded her, however, Haynie does not favor such a system for Boca Raton. “In a city as diverse as ours,” she says, “we need the continuity of a professional staff.” A new mayor could bring in a new manager, thus causing uncertainty among department heads. That uncertainly could distract from city priorities. A new mayor could run off the police chief.

Susan Whelchel was mayor from 2008 until 2014, having served previously on the council. She “would not have run” if the city had a strong mayor. “I had been a schoolteacher for 20 years. I think you’d be asking for real trouble” if the system changed. “There would be potential for a lot of damage.”

Steven Abrams was mayor for the seven years before Whelchel. Despite the limits, Abrams believes that he “achieved a lot of consensus” and “could achieve what people expected.” Abrams cited his “close relationship” with Ahnell. “I never thought about wishing to change the system when I was mayor.”

Since Boca Raton has become such a jobs

center, one possible advantage of a strong mayor is the ability to guarantee CEOs what they could expect from the city—and when— if they moved their business. “They expect you to have authority to make that commit-

[Troy] McLellan says that dialogue among chamber members about a strong mayor “has not bubbled up, but it’s always there.” ment,” Abrams says.

Yet Haynie, Whelchel and Abrams argue that the current system doesn’t hurt corporate recruiting. When Boca was courting Applied Card Systems, Abrams says, “I made commitments and crossed my fingers that my colleagues would back me up.” They did. Haynie

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Ceremonial or not, the mayor can become the face of the city during a crisis. It happened to Abrams after the anthrax attack at American Media International 15 years ago.

Abrams, not Ahnell, had to face the news crews and microphones. Abrams had to plead with his fellow Republican, Jeb Bush, to visit Palm Beach County despite Bush’s resentment of the county from the previous year’s presidential recount.

Spoken and unspoken during my interviews for this commentary was the worry about whom the voters might make Boca’s first strong mayor. “With a good person,” Haynie says, “it might work.”

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has just six employees on its payroll, and for its technology to remain free for law enforcement, it survives through community support. “We’re looking for more private foundations and grants to keep us going ... and to stay a step ahead of the bad guys,” Yoost says. “We’re constantly trying to expand and grow into more networks.” n Support the CRC with a

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Carly Asher Yoost THE DAUGHTER OF A DATA-MINING LEGEND BUILDS A TECH-DRIVEN COALITION AGAINST CHILD PREDATORS.

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n electronic world map projects from a flat-screen in the offices of the nonprofit Child Rescue Coalition (CRC). It’s littered with multicolored dots—blue, green, yellow and red. To the untrained eye, it looks like a meteorologist’s canvas, but the dots track activity far more insidious than the weather.

Each color represents a different network disseminating child pornography, and each dot signifies an IP address currently accessing it. The U.S. has its share, but at the time of my visit, Europe was so blanketed with dots that its borders were no longer visible. Even in China, with its draconian Internet restrictions, a couple of dots sprouted from the screen like toxic mushrooms. “Wherever there is an Internet connection, it’s a problem,” says Carly Asher Yoost, 33, president and founder of the Boca-based coalition.

Possession of each individual pornographic image or video of a 12-year-old or younger is a felony, and the map is an ever-changing reminder of the increasing enormity of the CRC’s mission: to work with law enforcement to arrest the users and rescue their victims. Since 2013, when the Coalition’s data tracking technology came into use, investigators have used it to rescue 1,509 children and make 6,561 arrests at the time of this writing—often kicking down doors and placing captive children in the safety of squad cars, like in the movies.

The technology is being used in 57 countries worldwide, and 8,000 investigators are trained to use its service, which is free to law enforcement. A collage of donated badges in the company’s office—from the Salem Police, New Scotland Yard, the Eau Claire Police, the Fort Lauderdale Police and many more—testifies to its scope.

Significantly, the suspects their officers arrest are not recognized on the National Sex Offender Public Website—they are, instead, the Jared Fogels of the world, whose illegal activity has remained under the radar.

“There’s around 800,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., and we have 44 million people we know about in our system in possession of child pornography,” Yoost says. “So there’s a huge amount of people who do have this interest in children sexually who haven’t been caught and convicted. Once they are, they will be a registered sex offender.”

Victims of child pornography have Yoost’s father, Hank Asher, to thank for the CRC’s existence. Nicknamed the “father of data fusion,” Asher developed several tech companies, such as Database Technologies, that have become essential tools for journalists, private investigators and police officers. He died in 2013, but his final creation, TLO—“The Last

One”—contains the nuts, bolts, ones and zeroes that allow its licensed users to home in on specified child-porn networks and capture the keyword searches that child predators use to download the material (mostly through the so-called “dark web”—Google has been flushed of this stuff).

Then, it’s a matter of contacting the pedophile’s Internet service provider for his name and address, obtaining a warrant, and making an arrest.

Yoost and her sister, Desiree, stepped in to run TLO after their father’s abrupt passing and ushered the company through a “scary time” that included a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, a sale of TLO to the credit information firm TransUnion, and a transitioning of TLO’s technology into CRC and its sole purpose of busting sex offenders. Comprised of pie charts, bar graphs and lists, the CRC server divides predators into region, type of pornography and volume of files; it also indicates whether the user has downloaded “grooming materials.”

For instance, in the last year, according to the CRC, 6,437 Floridians possessed child pornography. Two hundred and thirty-five of them lived in Palm Beach County, with one IP address totaling nearly 5,000 unique images of a child younger than 12.

“Usually the investigators go after the worst of the worst,” Yoost says. “This isn’t someone who stumbled upon a file by accident.”

It’s a tough business to be in, especially for Yoost, who is a recent mother. She hears frequently about offenders arrested from authority positions in all walks of life—doctors, lawyers, teachers, coaches. One man adopted a child with cerebral palsy to have an easy victim at his disposal; another predator was a pediatric oncologist, preying on his vulnerable patients.

Hope lies in the continued progress of the CRC. Most of the server’s entries in Palm Beach County were highlighted in red, meaning an investigation is currently in progress or an arrest has been made. The county, which has embraced the CRC more than any other region in the world, has seen a sharp reduction in child porn cases.

Representatives from government agencies have visited the CRC office to inquire about using its technology for other purposes, such as tracking terrorist activity. For now, the organization remains laserfocused on its goal of improving its arrest numbers. The CRC is developing a forensic tool that will allow investigators to scan devices even for material that has been deleted.

“We’re not just maintaining the technology; we’re really growing the coalition,” Yoost says. “We think we’re the best proactive tool to prevent abuse from happening, and if it’s already happened, to put a stop to it.”

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Geno Roefaro

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eno Roefaro grew up in the Tampa area, the son of a construction company owner (Roefaro Contracting in Oldsmar). In the sense that he now runs his own business, Roefaro did follow in his father’s entrepreneurial footsteps. But even though he’s always been “interested in creating things,” the sites he currently builds have nothing to do with bricks and mortar.

After early ventures into desktop applications, the former Florida Atlantic University student launched and sold a software business called Due Collector. From there, he started Boca Web Design with an investor and partner (which eventually became WebDevelop. com). The company invests and partners with cutting-edge tech startups to develop high-end websites, custom mobile applications and Internet marketing.

Roefaro, 29, bought out his partner and now owns 100 percent of a company that employs 15—and brings in revenues exceeding $1 million.

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From his neatly appointed office of glass and grey walls on Yamato Road, Roefaro’s days are spent seeking new business and strategizing with existing customers. Clients bring ideas for mobile applications or websites to his company, which provides assistance from conceptualizing it with wireframes and designs to building the product and marketing it.

“We work on really cool projects, exciting startups,” he says. “Several of them have done really well. We’re looking for the next ‘whatever it is.’”

Roefaro says he’s learned over the past eight years what it takes to create a successful Internet product: due diligence on his company’s part to create long-term success and taking an equity piece of select clients’ projects.

“If you can help shape someone’s idea a little better, they end up having a business for a while—and we’ll have a client for a while,” he says.

In developing an app or Web project, many clients have failed multiple times before reaching out to his company, Roefaro says. To mitigate that, Roefaro’s company starts with a multi-week planning phase before quoting the job, which flies in the face of industry practices, where it’s in the interest of software

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developers to “keep building and changing things,” he says.

“If you want to build a house, you go to an architect first,” Roefaro says. “You can’t go to a general contractor and ask them to start building a five-bedroom house. By the time people come to us, it’s the third or fourth time around.

They have no money, they’re upset and they hate the developers.”

A second consideration: Look beyond app or website development to attracting and retaining customers. If the product remains successful, Roefaro’s company makes money by creating updates in subsequent years. A third consideration: Find a strategic partner with an existing customer base that adds more value, such as content.

Roefaro says his company has built a system in the last four years in which everyone has a role—designer, developer, project manager, executive and client—and everyone is privy to progress details in real time. The system addresses the challenge of how to scale a service business and repeat high quality over the span of several dozens of projects.

Roefaro plans to open offices in Miami, where he sees growing tech opportunities, and New York, where some of his clients reside parttime. Boca Raton will remain headquarters because of the significant presence of businesses, particularly techs and startups, he says—but also because he loves and lives on the beach.

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Mike Campbell

OUR LOCAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY AND ITS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CONTINUE TO RAISE THE ROOF FOR FAMILIES IN NEED.

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n South Palm Beach County, 39,000 residents are living in unsafe or uninhabitable homes. For the past 25 years, Habitat for Humanity of SPBC has worked tirelessly to put a dent in that number.

The organization, which celebrates its silver anniversary this month, built its first two homes in Boca Raton back in 1991. For its first 16 years, Habitat of SPBC was volunteer-run, building 60 homes and serving 60 families during that time.

In 2007, Habitat of SPBC opened its first of three ReStores. The sales from donated furniture and building materials allowed the organization to hire Mike Campbell as its executive director and first full-time staffer. As ReStore sales grew, so did the Habitat staff—and the organization’s ability to make a greater impact. Over the past nine years alone, Habitat has built 65 homes and served more than 200 families.

“We provide homes for hardworking families that haven’t had a break,” Campbell says. “It’s hard to catch a break when you are working as a service employee in Palm Beach County making a little more than minimum wage.”

Homeowners who move into Habitatbuilt houses are just that. The average house price ranges between $130,000 and $140,000; homeowners pay a 30-year, interest-free mortgage to Habitat of SPBC. With an impressive 0.87 percent default rate, Habitat’s success in helping community members become homeowners is undeniable.

Just ask Charles Rahming. The military veteran spent his career as a blockmason, building homes for other families. When his eyesight began to deteriorate, Rahming was no longer able to perform his trade.

After teaming up with Habitat of SPBC, Rahming and his wife of 45 years, Mary, finally had a house to call their own—with room for their five children, 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren to visit.

Haitian immigrants Greg and Guerdie Deneus moved from New York to Delray in 1996 and worked hard to afford the two-bedroom apartment that housed the couple and their three young children. Even with job and family commitments, Greg still managed to find time on weekends to help with the construction of a friend’s Habitat house.

His dedication to the community was paid back when he and his wife qualified for a Habitat house.

“I would bring five to 10 people from church out with me every

weekend to work on the house,” Greg says. “We would go there like a family and everybody had fun. We couldn’t wait until the next weekend to come out again.”

The family moved into their Habitat-built home in November 1999 and thrived. One daughter, Janez, is now pursuing her Master’s in Education at Florida Atlantic University; another daughter, Dina, just graduated with her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of Florida. Greg and Guerdie’s son, Necky, passed the Florida Bar this winter and plans to work in tax law.

“Owning my own home through Habitat for Humanity took a load off my shoulders,” Greg says. “I don’t know how I would have made it with three kids if I had a large mortgage payment to make every month.”

Although Habitat is best known for its work in new home construction, the organization also helps those already in homes. “The hardest part is getting people to understand that Habitat is not just a construction company,” Campbell says.

“It’s about expanding how we serve.”

A big part of the service, one Campbell estimates will make up 75 percent of Habitat’s work in the next five years, is the Neighborhood Revitalization program. The program addresses the needs of both Habitat- and non-Habitat-built homes that are in disrepair.

Volunteers help with everything from roof repairs to fixing sprinkler systems. With 20 to 30 families at any time waiting for one of the 10 new homes built every year, the Neighborhood Revitalization program is another way Habitat can help people live in a safe environment.

“We don’t want to leave anybody behind,” Campbell says.

Habitat of SPBC also has a Veterans Repair and Disabled Program.

Homer Goddard Jr. is an 89-year-old veteran living in the home he built in Lincoln Port. After five Habitat homes were constructed in his neighborhood, Goddard’s house got some much-needed attention.

Thanks to funds raised by the Wells Fargo and Home Depot foundations, and volunteers from Habitat, the World War II veteran’s roof, windows and air conditioner were replaced—and a wheelchair ramp was built to enable Goddard access to his newly landscaped yard. The project served to help Goddard remain comfortably in his home, but Campbell believes it did even more.

“It built trust in that community that was lost a long time ago.”

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Over the past nine years, Habitat for Humanity of SPBC has built 65 homes and served more than 200 families.

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Happy Anniversary Habitat for Humanity of SPBC is celebrating 25 years throughout 2016. A blitz build is taking place in June, where local vendors and contractors will donate their time and supplies to build two homes in six days. For the annual July meeting, the Habitat of SPBC is encouraging people to donate $25, $250, $2,500, etc., to celebrate its silver anniversary. For more information, visit habitatsouthpalmbeach.org.

Mike Campbell stands outside the home of Greg and Guerdie Deneus.

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The paella from Max’s Harvest in Delray includes a host of locally sourced ingredients—from rabbit and shrimp to turmeric.

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Reasons to Eat Healthy From organic cocktails and gourmet farm-to-table cuisine to cold-pressed juices and raw vegan dishes, health-conscious options abound for diners in and around Boca.

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Svetlana and Her Chickens

Marty and Svetlana Simon’s adorable 15-acre Heritage Hen Farm, tucked neatly away in bustling Boynton Beach, offers incredibly fresh, delicious, USDA organic Heritage eggs; raw dairy; and a Saturday green market. This Animal Welfare Approved farm raises the happiest chickens in the world. Given a diet of native pasture, organic legumes, nuts and seeds donated by Whole Foods, and organic feed, the chickens lay according to nature, not hormones—so during about five months of the year, not many eggs are produced. And when the time comes when they can no longer lay, the Simons keep them around to teach the young chicks the ropes.

But this is just the beginning for this urban-ish farm that’s celebrating its eighth year of daily miracles rippling through the community. The Simons’ farm is a beacon for those fighting cancer, who “flock” to the farm stand to purchase the raw dairy for all of its disease-fighting properties. Note: The raw dairy is sold “for pet consumption only.” Do your own research.

CONTACT: 8495 S. Haverhill Road, Boynton Beach, 561/767-9000, heritagehen.com

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Alex and his brother Felipe Celis threw open the doors on their little produce market in August 2015, carefully curating the highest-quality products from vendors they adored. You can stop by Celis Produce for a fresh juice and buy all your produce for the next few days. On one side of the store, the brothers sell all-organic, all-beautiful produce, and lining the other wall are their favorite products— from spices to olive oils to greeting cards. Alongside their brother Camilo, they work the juice bar every morning and keep the groms filled with the good stuff. “(We’re) mainly trying to connect people to their food and introduce new products and new varieties of produce to people,” Alex Celis says. “That’s the overall goal—connecting people to more food variety and where it comes from.”

CONTACT: 2814 S. Dixie Highway, #D, West Palm Beach, 561/4105735, celis-produce.com

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So Nice They Named it Twice

We can’t mention all the local farmers, but we’d be remiss if we left out Kai Kai Farm. Diane Cordeau and Carl Frost are quintessential—as in they work all the time, know each curve of every row of every field, and believe tenaciously in what they’re doing. Married in 1988, they got into farming 12 years ago. Since then Kai Kai has provided area farms with fresh produce and area families with great vegetables to cook with.

Find them at the West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens and

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Stuart green markets, a superflexible Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group and a farm stand, as well as in local restaurants or at the farm for tours, dinners and now weddings.

CONTACT: 8006 S.W. Kanner Highway, Indiantown, 772/597-1717

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Swank Digs

There are many ways to get in on Swank Farms’ hydroponic glory—from its CSA farm to

its farm-chic Sunday dinners, which are THE place to be once a month throughout high season.

Or you can simply stop by the West Palm Beach GreenMarket for a warm greeting and some beautiful microgreens. However you decide to participate, get to know Jodi and Darrin Swank.

They have single-handedly brought glamour to the farm while introducing the community to the importance of eating locally grown food.

CONTACT: 14311 North Road, Loxahatchee, 561/202-5648, swankspecialtyproduce.com

Clockwise from top: Cabbage from Kai Kai Farm, Jodi and Darrin Swank of Swank Farms, and Seckel pears from Celis Produce

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Diver scallops with black “forbidden” rice from Max’s Harvest

FARM-TO-TABLE, TO THE MAX Max’s Harvest is pretty much the quintessential place for farm-to-table dining in Delray Beach. Chef Eric Baker manages to use produce from as many local farms as he can find, grabbing product from Green Cay, Boutique, Farmer Jay and Swank Farms. By working closely with these farmers, he creates exciting dishes based on seasonality of ingredients, which can and does change from month to month.

“You cultivate these relationships with these farmers, and they have a lot of certain things, and you need to find a way to use it because you’re sustaining each other,” Baker says. “So sometimes you put things on the menu that are not necessarily what you want them to be but what they need to be.”

That concept has come to life in pickled, stuffed, shaved and raw versions of okra— just not all at the same time. “We incorporated it and really pushed the boundaries on one specific vegetable, and it added to my repertoire as a chef,” Baker says.

CONTACT: 169 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach, 561/381-9970 maxsharvest.com

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The Mama and the Pastas Making pasta is hard. That’s why everyone needs a “Mama” in their life. Come up to Mama Gizzi’s darling, Italian-blessed store off Dixie in Lake Worth for as much love as your real mama provides—without any of the guilt or chores. Grab dinner for tonight (perhaps her No Drama Mama dinner kits) and then stick some of her fresh pasta in the freezer for the next time you don’t know what to cook.

Produced with no additives, it’s made only with imported Italian semolina flour and Fiji water; it’s the healthiest pasta you can eat.

You’ll thank me later.

CONTACT: 2212 N. Dixie Highway, Lake Worth, 561/642-9996, mamagizzipasta.com

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Rediscover the Mango

We know that mango season seems like a distant memory, but soon you’ll be reaching for your swimsuits—and not long after that, mango season descends on our little area. There’s something divinely special about Hatcher Hill’s mangos. The farm has been around for more than 50 years, and its mangos’ large, luscious taste beguiles customers year after year.

CONTACT: 1908 Hypoluxo Road, Lantana, hatchermangohill.com, 561/588-6098

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Top Seed

We might come to The Seed for its insane coffee, but we stay for its wicked-good juices and smoothies. How does a basilblueberry smoothie sound— filled with blueberry, banana, basil, spinach, almond butter, bee pollen and almond milk? Spoiler alert: It’s damn near perfect.

CONTACT: 199 W. Palmetto Park Road, Suite E, Boca Raton, 561/430-5640, theseedboca.com

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Top: Mama Gizzi Above: Acai bowl from The Blind Monk

Forget the beer and wine: We’re obsessed with The Blind Monk’s acai (pronounced ah-sigh-ee) bowl. It’s served super-cold with the consistency of ice cream and tastes a bit like a chocolate dessert you’d have out with the girls. And you’re eating it for breakfast. The Monk tops it with kiwi, bananas and coconut with a bit of granola.

You’ll feel hip, healthy and a bit naughty, all at the same time.

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No Dairy Necessary

Gosh dang it, we feel so fantastic after eating at Christopher’s Kitchen. It might not be the cheapest salad we’ve ever had, but it’s like you can feel the growing season on every bite—and that’s saying a lot. Christopher’s all-vegan Palm Beach Gardens restaurant churns out delicious salads, curries and pizzas, and definitely save room for his raw desserts.

CONTACT: 4783 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/318-6191, christopherskitchenfl.com

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Pop Culture

If you’re thinking popsicles aren’t healthy, you’ve never had popsicles like Mom’s Pops. Think artisan popsicles handcrafted with love—and all-natural, seasonal ingredients. When in season, you can enjoy strawberry balsamic, tangerine carambola or lime basil. “Mom” will even get a little crazy with “Poptail” flavors such as Limoncello and Mimosa. Visit her at a local green market or hire her to come to your wedding or bar/bat mitzvah.

CONTACT: momspops.com

Vegetable platter from The Cooper

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A Platter for All Seasons

It’s super-easy to come to The Cooper and order a steak or cheeseburger (guilty!). But consider instead the vegetable platter. Executive chef Adam Brown only uses the best seasonal and farm-fresh ingredients available, relying heavily on Farmhouse Tomatoes, Kai Kai Farm and Swank

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Farms. This means in the fall and winter look for acorn squash, and in the spring and summer there’s eggplant, zucchini and bell peppers. “It’s definitely something a vegetarian [can] look forward to,” Brown says. “It’s an experience with a lot of textures, colors and flavors that are all intertwined.”

CONTACT: 4610 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/622-0032, thecooperrestaurant.com

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The Veg That Never Dies

When it comes to kale, there’s a reason it never becomes passé: because it’s a nutritional powerhouse. The Kale Yeah Salad has been on Farmhouse Kitchen’s menu since it opened. Studded with goat cheese, a trail mix concocted of granola and pumpkin, chia, sesame, and hemp seeds, fava beans and a little bit of superiority, it’s downright delicious.

CONTACT: 399 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/826-2625, farmhousekitchenboca.com

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ORGANIC COCKTAIL FROM FARMER’S TABLE You might be thinking, how can a cocktail be healthy for me? Let’s start with the basics of Farmer’s Table: They use two-thirds less salt than other restaurants and cook with no cream or butter. They source from local farms as much as possible, buy the dirty dozen organic, and only serve sustainably caught, captured or raised seafood. Almost all of their herbs are grown on-site.

“We try to keep our footprint as small as possible,” says coowner Joey Giannuzzi.

Now let’s get to the drinks – the mixers are made in-house with fresh juices and organic syrups. There’s both a juice menu and a “Garden to Glass” menu.

“We grow a lot of stuff out front [of the restaurant] for our cocktail program—the rosemary, the basil—anything that goes into our drink is truly gardento-glass. When the bartender comes in, the first thing they do is snip the herbs for the evening,” Giannuzzi says.

Of all the tempting libations, the Spa Day cocktail is the most popular. “It’s a refreshing drink— and well-balanced,” Giannuzzi says. “We actually juice the cucumbers that go into it and the mint is grown in the garden.

It’s a pretty big production here.”

CONTACT: 1901 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton, 561/417-5836, farmerstableboca.com

SPA DAY 1.5 ounces Crop organic cucumber vodka 4 ounces Spa Day mix (made with cucumber puree) 3 sprigs mint Line inside of pilsner glass in spiral pattern with a cucumber ribbon. Fill glass with ice. Fill shaker with ice and all ingredients. Hard shake for 10 seconds to mix components. Garnish with full mint sprig.

CUCUMBER PUREE 1 cup water 4 unpeeled cucumbers Cut ends off cucumbers and discard.

Chop up cucumber into large chunks and add to Vita Mix blender with water.

Blend on high for 15 seconds. Pour into squeeze bottle, label and date. Expires in three days.

SPA DAY MIX RECIPE 2 cups Farmer’s Lemonade 1 cup coconut water 1 cup cucumber puree Add to 1-quart squeeze bottle and stir until well diffused. Bottle, label and date. Will expire in five days.

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We should probably strike a yoga pose of gratitude for Bee Organics: part yoga studio, part smoothie maker, part afternoon office, all beautiful and peaceful and delicious. Try the raw pad Thai made with kelp and zucchini noodles, vegetables, lime juice, peanut sauce and a cilantro-cucumber vinaigrette.

CONTACT: 123 Datura St., West Palm Beach, 561/651-9796, thebeewpb.com

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The Tomato Rainbow

If you’re an obsessed foodie like me, you might spend a lot of time thinking about why tomatoes don’t have much flavor anymore.

Good thing there’s an antidote to that, and it goes by the name Farmhouse Tomatoes. You’ve probably seen them before— funky shaped and almost neon in the lovely red, purple and yellow hues, and bursting with a flavor so obscene it puts all other tomatoes to shame. Local chefs are grateful that owner Walt Ross and his hydroponic greenhouses exist, adding flavor to plates throughout South Florida. Because honestly, can you imagine a burrata salad without a burstingly delicious tomato?

CONTACT: 561/968-6971, farmhousetomatoes.com

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Cold (Pressed) Comfort It’s easy to write off Apura Juicery and Coffeehouse as “just another juice bar,” but it’s more like a little slice of healthy heaven.

While they do have the coldpressed juices to go, that’s just the beginning. Think of this as the quintessential juice bar, complete with a smoothie menu, an acai bowl menu, fresh salads and a veggie burger some swear is lifechanging.

CONTACT: 22191 Powerline Road, Suite 20B, Boca Raton, 561/430-3596, apurajuicery.com

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We love Bee Unique Everything Raw Honey & More, which sells raw honey (that’s the key here, folks). Four of its eight varieties are from local hives. Whatever flavor you choose (Sea grape? Wildflower? Orange Blossom?), as long as you’re buying local, raw honey, you’re off to a great start. The store also offers powerful bee pollen, which you can slip into smoothies and fight off allergies while boosting your immune system.

CONTACT: 3311 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, 561/379-4404, worldsfinestrawhoney.com

Growth Industry Jason McCobb, aka Farmer Jay, is a farmer of many (woven) hats. He got his start by designing the farm at The Breakers—a half-acre plot of land that took in more than 3,000 pounds a week of vegetable waste while continuously supplying the hotel with vegetables and microgreens. He also designed the gardens for Max’s Harvest, Pine Jog Environmental Center, Sublime, iPic, Green Gourmet, Kapow! and various Palm Beach County public and private schools.

Then there’s the Farmer Jay Junior Sprouts program, where he’s currently visiting schools and teaching children where food comes from. His goal? To reconnect kids with agriculture and food growth.

“We’re so disconnected with growing food that kids think food comes from Publix,” McCobb says. “I think that’s why they don’t like eating it—they don’t know much about it, they don’t know why we’re supposed to eat our vegetables.”

In Junior Sprouts, the students learn about seeds, insects, composting and chickens. Since starting the program in 2010, he’s had more than 3,000 kids go through it.

When he’s not teaching the next generation how deep to plant a seed, he’s still planting gardens all over town—doing what he can seedling-by-seedling to make a difference.

“I know as a single farmer I can’t get the job done, but I think recruiting other people, we can do this,” McCobb says. “That’s why I push so hard to put in gardens and teach.”

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One Kombucha to keep away the colds, hangovers and vampires.

CONTACT: firecider.com

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Since 2009, Darbster has been serving up legitimately delicious vegan food while donating 100 percent of the profits to the Darbster Foundation. In 2015, the Darbster Foundation funded the spay and neuter of more than 600 community animals and facilitated the adoption of more than 200 kittens and some very lucky pooches as well.

Named for the owners’ dog, Darby, who was rescued from a puppy mill years ago, Darbster is a treat to people and pets alike—it’s

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one of those spectacular restaurants that you can take your dog to for dinner, and it’s also one of the few places to enjoy fantastic vegan food in a “waterfront”-ish environment.

CONTACT: 8020 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, 561/5862622, darbster.com

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Shroom Shroom

The darling New Vegan (with 20 seats!) has been serving fantastic vegan food made with love for the past three years. Stop in for breakfast, lunch or dinner, but try the porcini mushroom burger: It’s known for convincing meat eaters to order more veggie burgers.

Made with chickpeas, fajita and garlic seasonings, it’s formed into a patty and cooked to perfection.

Get yours topped with avocado, lettuce, tomato, vegan cheese and maybe some Boom Boom Sauce.

CONTACT: 528 N.E. Second St., Delray Beach, 561/404-5301, thenewvegan.com

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We could almost make a meal out of Rocco’s Tacos delicious, tableside guacamole. (OK, we have.) And hey, avocados are chock full of fatty acids.

CONTACT: 110 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/808-1100, roccostacos.com

I discovered Fire Cider while nursing both a cold and a hangover in the Florida Keys. It’s based in apple cider vinegar, with oranges, lemons, onions, ginger, horseradish, habanero pepper garlic and turmeric added with a bit of raw wildflower honey. I swear by this stuff in the winter months. Pick up your bottle at Bee Organics or

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Dine Like Hippocrates

Rather than a buffet, the all-you caneat raw vegan lunch at Hippocrates Institute is considered an “educational experience” for those pondering a raw food diet. The entire buffet is organic, raw, vegan and plantbased, with a big focus on sprouts, which are grown on the premises. “If it’s not organic we won’t have it,” says sous chef Renate Wallner. The cost is only $25—which includes as many trips to the buffet as you can make.

CONTACT: 1466 Hippocrates Way, West Palm Beach, 561/471-8876, hippocratesinst.com

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If You Can’t Take the Heat

13 American Table’s Josper, a beast of a grill-oven combination imported from Spain, cooks food at an obscenely high temp, locking in the flavor and juiciness and reducing the fat. This fantastic, tucked-away restaurant gives much of its meats the Josper treatment, on entrées like grilled pork chop or roasted half chicken.

CONTACT: 451 E. Palmetto Park Road, Boca Raton, 561/409-2061, 13AmericanTable.com

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BLAKE MALATESTA OF 50 OCEAN 50 Ocean, in addition for being known for its gorgeous waterfront dining, is also an oasis for healthy eating. We caught up with executive chef Blake Malatesta for the lowdown on how he manages to incorporate delicious food with nutritious dishes.

How do you incorporate healthy eating into 50 Ocean?

We start with the ingredients. All the meats are antibiotic-free, free-range, hormone-free and organic. The meats are grass-fed. Grass-fed beef tends to be leaner than normal beef, so it’s bulked up on hay and alfalfa sprouts and it’s all organic. Same thing with our vegetables: We’re bringing in organic vegetables, and we try to keep it as local as we can. With our seafood I look for whatever is running. Nature provides.

What is the healthiest way to prepare ingredients?

You definitely want to be as minimal as possible. There’s nothing wrong with butter, but a little bit goes a long way, and you want beautiful, natural butter. Or a nice olive oil or saffron oil or sunflower oil— anything to enhance the natural flavor of the vegetable itself.

What’s one healthy dish you’ll be serving in the spring?

I’ll be seeing some really nice fresh artichoke dishes, [and] definitely asparagus, fennel, and fennel heads.

Salmon tartare from 50 Ocean

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THAT’S A WRAP! The lettuce wraps from FARMHOUSE KITCHEN are made with bison, but don’t be alarmed; the meat is high in protein and low in fat. Farmhouse then fills the lettuce with butternut squash, cabbage, cilantro, lentils and a seasonal hummus; the generous appetizer-portion manages to be both interactive and filling.

Win-win.

CONTACT: 399 S.E. Mizner Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/826-2625, farmhousekitchenboca.com

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A Perfect Fit

The good folks at Fit Foodz Café not only cater to your daily dietary needs—with perfectly portioned and healthy options—they’ll take care of you for an entire week.

With its weekly “10 Meal Deal,” customers can order from a menu that includes low-cal gourmet

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dishes (think chicken stir fry), lean gourmet (Cajun shrimp bowl) and vegetarian gourmet options (quinoa veggie chili). If you place the order by 10 a.m. on Sunday, you can pick it up Sunday night—and have meals for the entire week, all for $80.

CONTACT: 9704 Clint Moore Road, A-108, Boca Raton, 561/451-1420, fitfoodzcafe.com

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Your New Favorite Fizz Kombucha is a fermented tea loaded with probiotics and vi-

tamins. Zingy, zesty and slightly fizzy, it will easily replace soda and juice as your favorite beverage while packing you full of cleansing properties.

“It’s kind of like a carbonated, probiotic semi-tart, semi-sweet beverage,” says Danny Mancini, owner of One Kombucha Raw, the only kombucha taproom in the Southeast. With up to 10 flavors on tap including a few seasonal taps, it’s a great place to fill a growler or grab a six-pack of your favorite flavor. Mancini’s fave is the Apple Spice, made with organic apple juice, cinnamon, ginger and cloves.

CONTACT: 9475 Alternative A1A, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/4698478, onekombucha.com

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A Guiltless Margarita Made with Swank Farms basil, fresh strawberries, Corazon Blanco and Cocchi Rosa, the Strawberry Basil Margarita from El Camino packs a nutritional wallop with some, um, medicinal qualities as well.

CONTACT: 15 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach, 561/865-5350, elcaminodelray.com

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Steamed Treat bar and dinners-to-go. Take the golden beet salad and savor.

CONTACT: 7434 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, 561/3667741, aioliwpb.com

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Cleanse Crafters

Sure, we’d prefer the steamed Brussels sprouts at Smoke were fried instead. But still, this is a pretty good way to eat your veggies.

CONTACT: 8 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/330-4236, eatbbqnow.com

Juice Java’s cold-pressed juice program is extremely popular with the Boca crowd for good reason: it’s delicious, affordable and no-fuss. Pick up five 32-ounce green juices and five shots of wheat grass for $55 a week. If you prefer something a little more intense, choose a three-day cleanse with six 16-ounce juices for $55 a day with a complimentary shot of wheat grass each day.

CONTACT: 21316 St. Andrews Blvd., Boca Raton, 561/852-2230, juicejavacafe.com

Chef Michael Hackman spent enough time cooking at The Breakers, The Four Seasons and Café L’Europe to learn his way around a kitchen. These days, he’s highly visible at the rustic-chic Aioli. With his wife, Melanie, he slings sandwiches and sides with style. The locavore restaurant is complete with a bustling juice

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The official Palm Beach County “butterfly” ballot from the 2000 election.

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Flori-duh is about more than hanging chads; our legendary political mishaps go back decades.

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lections. Florida. They go together like ... a cruise and food poisoning.

What is it about this state that we have so much trouble holding elections and so many bad results?

The focus has been on Florida since 2000, when a faulty ballot in Palm Beach County led to a five-week recount that ended with George W. Bush winning the state and the presidency. In fairness, any state might have looked bad under such scrutiny. The recount showed us that running an election smoothly is harder than it looks, and the results are less precise than they seem. Still, it’s another presidential year, and Florida again is the largest swing state. Whichever candidate you support, every Floridian wants the state to have nothing but happy

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returns. That’s mostly been the case since Bush-Gore.

Still, dig around Florida’s political past, and you’re bound to kick up plenty of dirt.

The U.S. Senate campaign of 1950, for example, matched incumbent Claude Pepper and Rep. George Smathers in the Democratic primary. Time magazine quoted Smathers as saying of his opponent, “Do you know that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy.”

No other news organization reported the quote.

Smathers, who died in 2007, probably didn’t say it.

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a seat in Congress 12 years later, served in the House for more than two decades as a champion of the elderly—and even received a campaign contribution from Smathers.

Fortunately, it’s been decades since some of the worst episodes in Florida politics. During the 1950s and ‘60s, the notorious Johns Committee—named for state Sen. Charlie Johns of Starke—tried to link the

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If everything about elections in Florida was Mom and apple pie, what would we have to talk about?

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epper, who died in 1989, confirmed only his anger at Smathers calling him “Red Pepper,” to make Pepper look soft on communism.

Yet the quote lives on as the beginning of Floriduh when it comes to elections. This being the state of second chances, however, Pepper won

civil-rights movement with communism. Failing in that effort, the committee then went after homosexuals in state universities. Johns’ son had told his father that the University of Florida was “a campus of evil activities.” Then-Gov. Claude Kirk tried to take over the Manatee County School District in April 1970. He wanted the district to defy a judicial order on school busing. It’s also been 40 years since a corruption scandal tainted so many members of the Florida Supreme Court that voters changed from a system of electing justices to one of governmental appointment.

Still, reforms sometimes mean that the crooks just use different methods. And if every-

thing about elections and politics in Florida was Mom and apple pie, what would we have to talk about? This month, Boca magazine reviews how politics on all levels have shaped Florida. The menu isn’t always appetizing, but there are some healthy choices.

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You think illegal immigration is a big issue now? Try Florida three decades ago.

Peeved by drug smugglers using the Keys as a transit point, the Border Patrol on April 23, 1982 set up a driver checkpoint on U.S. 1 at Florida City, the point at which it narrows to the two-lane road, the only way in and out of the Keys. Traffic

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WHY IS THE CAPITAL IN TALLAHASSEE?

One of the few issues on which there is bipartisan agreement in Tallahassee is that Florida’s capital shouldn’t be in Tallahassee. For those who live beyond reasonable driving distance, getting there is a hassle. From South Florida, some airline connections go through Atlanta. At one point, the Legislature discussed whether to use state money to subsidize more convenient flights.

The capital is in Tallahassee because the city is halfway between Pensacola and Jacksonville. They were the respective capitals of West Florida and East Florida, the Spanish colonies of the early 19th century. Territorial delegates got tired of making the nearly one-month journey from one end of the Panhandle to the other. When Florida became a state in 1845, the location also made sense. The state had only about 55,000 residents, most of whom lived in the northern third. Orlando had all of 73 residents. Tampa had about 600. As for South Florida, Henry Flagler hadn’t yet built his railroad.

Today, however, Florida has 20 million residents, most of whom live far from Tallahassee. The distance isn’t just a problem for legislators and lobbyists. It’s a problem for citizens who want to petition their government. Moving the capital is “the best good idea that won’t happen,” says Kevin Wagner, an associate professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. “The capital is better situated for Alabama than Florida.” The most logical shift would be to Tampa, a large city that has a fine airport and is near Florida’s population center.

When a campaign to move the capital gathered steam in the 1960s, the Legislature—which North Florida representatives then dominated—appropriated money for the new, awful-looking Capitol. Given the inability of the Legislature to deal adequately with the normal issues facing the state, it’s hard to imagine how a new campaign to move the capital could succeed.

Isolated state capitals, however, better lend themselves to insider government. Combine that with fewer reporters covering Tallahassee—because of newspaper cutbacks—and you have not just an inconvenient setting in which to conduct the third-largest state’s business. You have a dangerous setting.

remained linked to the rest of Florida in one way.

Wardlow got indicted for vote buying. And he was acquitted.

Monkey Business Gary Hart was not from Florida. This state, though, ended his 1988 presidential campaign.

A U.S. senator from Colorado, Hart drew comparisons to John Kennedy, from his chiseled good looks to the way he jabbed the air with his hand during speeches. There was another proper comparison—women.

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backed up for more than 10 miles. Tourist operators panicked.

The owner of a bar near the checkpoint called Key West mayor Dennis Wardlow. When he arrived, Wardlow declared that the Keys had seceded in protest, to form the Conch Republic.

Jimmy Buffett might have released “Margaritaville” five years earlier, but the mock secession better captured the spirit of the Keys. Having seceded, Wardlow then surrendered—to apply for foreign aid.

Despite that separation, the Conch Republic

Gary Hart sits on a dock with Donna Rice in 1987.

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The "butterly ballot" debacle hurt Theresa LePore's chances of re-election.

The 2002 elections in Broward were a mess. ... [The new supervisor] ran off experienced employees and replaced them with, among others, a homeless man.

In 1987, shortly after he announced his candidacy, Hart took a trip from Turnberry Isle to Bimini aboard a boat appropriately called Monkey Business.

On board was a woman named Donna Rice.

The Miami Herald then got a tip about Hart’s extramarital affair. The paper sent a team of reporters to Washington.

They staked out Hart’s townhouse, saw Hart and Rice—they didn’t yet know her name—come and go, and then confronted Hart.

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page story, a Washington Post reporter asked Hart, “Have you ever committed adultery?” The question was a sign that the Post had a story about another woman. Days later, Hart withdrew.

It was a time of pay phones. There was no social media.

The Hart story, however, showed that the look-the-otherway days of the press during the Kennedy era when it came to sex were over.

Theresa “Butterfly Ballot” LePore isn’t the only elections supervisor in Florida’s Hall of Shame.

The 2002 elections in Broward County were a mess. Polling places opened hours late. Ballots were lost. The office was running a million-dollar deficit. New supervisor Miriam Oliphant had run off experienced employees and replaced them with, among others, a homeless man.

In late 2003, then-Gov. Jeb Bush suspended Oliphant for misfeasance. As a white, male Republican, Bush took heat for removing a black, female Democrat. Yet it was the right move. Brenda Snipes, the black, female Democrat whom Bush appointed, remains in office.

In 2008, Arthur Anderson was the lame-duck supervisor in Palm Beach County. He beat LePore in

the 2004 primary because Democrats were so angry with her for the 2000 election. Anderson so mismanaged the office that he asked for the county’s help in running the election. It went off problemfree.

In 2012, the St. Lucie County elections office failed to count all the early votes in the close congressional race between Patrick Murphy and Allen West. The office doublecounted other early votes.

A recount confirmed Murphy’s victory.

During the recount, elections supervisor Gertrude Walker checked herself into a hospital.

Illness unknown. She remains in office.

Crime Pays in Hialeah

When Hialeah Park was among the country’s most prestigious racetracks—a scene from “The Godfather: Part II” was filmed

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Office of Ineptitude

Arthur Anderson, former Palm Beach County supervisor of elections

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Former Miami mayor Julio Robaina The Pork Choppers during a 1956 special session in the Senate

there—its slogan was “Hialeah: A Legend.” Slot machines and poker get more action at the track now, but the city remains a political legend.

Raul Martinez served as Hialeah’s mayor for 24 years. In 1991, a jury convicted him of influence peddling. He got 10 years.

As Martinez appealed, voters kept returning him to office. One election required a do-over because of what a judge called absentee ballot fraud. After retrials ended in hung juries, the U.S. attorney dropped the charges.

Julio Robaina followed Martinez as mayor. Like Martinez, he beat a criminal charge—tax evasion.

As The Miami Herald reported, however, Robaina also made $800,000 secretly for brokering a sale of land to the MiamiDade County School District. Current Mayor Carlos Hernandez drew an ethics fine last year

for lying—in English and Spanish—about loans to a Ponzi schemer.

In Hialeah, the city hall and a street are named for Martinez. He had a key role at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. And Hernandez paid his $4,000 fine with 28 buckets of coins.

Cleaning the Corruption

Until 2007, most people in Palm Beach County knew nothing about a line in Title 18 of the U.S. Code. The “honest services fraud” law stated that elected officials owed their constituents ethical conduct. (What a concept.)

Between 2007 and 2009, three county commissioners pleaded guilty to violating that law. Tony Masilotti went to prison for illegally profiting from land deals. Warren Newell

WHO WERE THE PORK CHOPPERS?

From the 1930s to the 1960s, a cabal of North Florida legislators, conservative Democrats, controlled Tallahassee and thus controlled the state. A Tampa newspaper editor labeled them "The Pork Chop Gang," or "Pork Choppers" for short. Their control lasted even as Florida boomed after World War II and population grew in the central and southern parts of the state. As historians have noted, the outdated Florida Constitution still apportioned legislative seats in a way that allowed just 18 percent of the population to elect a majority in Tallahassee.

Money thus went disproportionately to rural areas. Interstate 10 across the Panhandle was finished long before Interstate 95 in South Florida. Not until 1987 was the 43-mile “missing link” of I-95 between Palm Beach Gardens and Fort Pierce completed.

The patron of the Pork Choppers was Ed Ball, who ran the Alfred I. duPont Trust, which controlled the Florida East Coast Railway, Florida National Bank and St. Joe Paper, among others. During that time, the most important office in Florida likely was not in Tallahassee. It was Ball’s suite in a Jacksonville hotel.

A series of court rulings that began in 1962, however, gave reformers enough legal leverage to challenge the Pork Chop Gang. The state’s new constitution, which Florida adopted in 1968, codified those reforms and created representation that was more geographically balanced and more bipartisan. Though the Pork Choppers remained relevant for another decade, the new Legislature became a model for the nation with its progressive actions, especially regarding Florida’s environment.

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reacted so strongly and effectively. By 2009, the county had an ethics commission and an office of inspector general, to investigate everything in local government from potential corruption to general mismanagement.

Out of that reform came a recommendation that the Legislature enact a Florida version of the honest services fraud law.

The Legislature has not done so.

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Below: Tony Masilotti.

Right: Mary McCarty.

Bottom: Warren Newell (right) with his attorney, Michael Salnick

went to prison for illegally profiting from votes he cast on projects without disclosing his financial interest. Mary McCarty went to prison for illegally helping her husband get bond underwriting business and for accepting free hotel rooms from a company that had a contract with the county.

Compared to some counties—Miami-Dade, most notably—our run of corruption was mild.

No county, however,

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With all the [2000 election] attention focused on Palm Beach, fewer people paid attention to Duval County, which recorded about 26,000 invalidated ballots, four times the total in 1996.

On the day Ray Sansom became speaker of the Florida House, he accepted a six-figure job with Northwest Florida State College. The college considered no one else for the new position. Accord-

ing to subsequent news reports, in 2007, as chief House budget writer, Sansom had inserted $6 million for what the college called an “operations center” but what a Leon County grand jury concluded was a hangar for a Sansom political patron who owned a jet leasing

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MYTHS FROM THE 2000 RECOUNT

The only ballot problem was in Palm Beach County.

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The world long will remember Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore’s “butterfly ballot.” She crammed all presidential candidates onto one page, in two facing columns, with staggered holes to punch.

company. Sansom also had steered $25 million to the college’s leadership institute he was supposed to run.

According to the grand jury, the college president planned it all. Sansom, the patron and the president were indicted on charges related to the $6

million appropriation. A judge dismissed the most serious charges, saying other legislators should have stopped Sansom’s generosity. In essence, the judge sanctioned business as usual in Tallahassee.

The state dropped the remaining charges after

Above: A supporter of George W. Bush protests outside the Washington, D.C. residence of Vice President Gore in 2000. Below: Officials hand-count Palm Beach County's dimpled ballots on Nov. 24, 2000.

According to reporting by The Palm Beach Post, Gore lost about 6,600 votes in Palm Beach County because of ballot confusion.

Bush carried the state by 537 votes. With all the attention focused on Palm Beach, fewer people paid attention to Duval County.

There, the supervisor dealt with the plethora of presidential candidates by putting the names on two pages—the “caterpillar ballot.” Democratic operatives mounted a big get-out-the-vote effort, and told first-time voters to vote on every page. Oops. The county recorded about 26,000 invalidated ballots, four times the total in 1996. Most were for picking two presidential candidates.

Gore might have lost more votes in Duval than he did in Palm Beach. The mistakes in both places explain why exit polls called the state for Gore. Many who thought they had cast ballots for him never had their votes recorded. But if history always will link LePore to the election, few recall the name of Duval’s supervisor at the time—John Stafford. Gore probably does.

the judge ruled that the president couldn’t take a deal to testify against Sansom. He resigned in 2010, as House members were debating whether to remove him.

At last report, Sansom wanted the state to pay his roughly $1 million in legal bills.

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“Stealing” an election means doing something illegal. One can argue that some of the Bush team’s tactics amounted to intimidation. Example: Republican operatives besieged the Miami-Dade County elections office, demanding a stop to the recounting of ballots. And, obviously, the candidate’s brother controlled the executive branch of state government. On the ground, George W. Bush had the home-field advantage.

But whatever one thinks of the rulings, every action that affected the outcome in Florida ran through the courts. Despite fierce arguments over whether to count certain punch-card ballots, no ballots suddenly disappeared or emerged.

The only illegal actions occurred in Martin and Seminole counties, long before Election Day. Elections supervisors—both of them Republicans—allowed GOP campaign workers to fill out absentee ballot applications. State law required that the voter fill out the ballot. A lawsuit sought to throw out all absentee ballots from both counties. Had that happened, Al Gore would have won Florida and the presidency.

The courts ruled for Bush, saying such a move would have tossed out many valid ballots and thus would have been unconstitutional.

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The view from Sedona’s red rock mountains

Climb Every Mountain Hollywood came and went, but Sedona, with its metaphysical reputation and jaw-dropping landscapes, continues to attract visitors worldwide.

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or a while, Sedona, Ariz. was a perfect surrogate for the Old West. Prizing its prehistoric mountain ranges, chalky footpaths and Technicolor sunsets, Hollywood directors filmed 43 movies there between 1931 and 1985, from “Riders of the Purple Sage” to “The Quick and the Dead.” The city is proud of its widescreen heritage: Stills from Sedonan Westerns decorate local hotels, and a quaint Motion Picture Museum catalogs every reel. In uptown Sedona, visitors can compare handprints with those of Clint Walker and Randolph Scott.

It’s a fine legacy, but why have no movies been shot in Sedona for the past three decades? As an employee at the Motion Picture Museum deadpanned, “They figured Burger King wouldn’t look so good in a Western.”

Yes, modern commerce has reached this nostalgic desert outpost, and with it the inevitable Taco Bells and PetCos. But make no mistake: The natural splendor of Sedona’s towering red-rock mountains, untarnished for centuries, is still the main attraction, encompassing 1.8 million acres of national forest land. View them enough, and you’ll start to recognize shapes among the sandstone formations—fingers and animals and men with hats. That’s why many of the famously photographed ranges have official names, like Snoopy, Batman, Kachina Woman and Sphinx.

Metaphysical pilgrims the world over visit Sedona to meditate among the four “energy vortexes” clustered in these mountains. These regions are recognized for the invisible yet, for many visitors, palpable spiritual energy spiraling from the earth. The region’s spiritual history dates back millennia, when the Sinagua people treated Sedona as sacred ground.

As Pete Sanders, the area’s preeminent “Vortex Scientist,” says, “The vortexes are geographical/topographical sites on the Coconino National Forest that can enhance prayer, meditation, mind-body vitalization, stress reduction, healing hurts from your past, and outside-thebox creative thinking and problem solving.

“They are not electric or magnetic sites,” Sanders adds. “It is more accurate to describe the vortexes as upflow or inflow sites and match that to the topography and the type of prayer/meditation you seek.”

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he most beautiful and accessible vortex visit is at Cathedral Rock, an uptown landmark, and you needn’t summit its 4,921 feet to feel the effects. Just ascend a few rocky steps toward the open, craterous slabs and look around you: The intoxicating view is either post-apocalyptic or pre-human, with enormous rocks towering like sentinels in every direction. At sunset, the canvas is painted with an ever-shifting palette of yellows, and the soundscape is silent save the distant barking of dogs and—you can’t avoid them anywhere—the omnipresent buzz of mosquitoes.

You might feel the whip of wind on your face even in a windless sky, and you might feel a gravity shift.

You may as well be traversing the surface of Mars. Could this really be a part of the United States?

IF THE SPIRIT IS WILLING Because of Sedona’s vortexes—according to a guide at its visitor’s center, four of the world’s seven vortexes are within Sedona’s 50 square miles—the city in Arizona’s Verde Valley has

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become Valhalla for spiritual tourism. That’s how most of the locals arrived: As one resident told me, “nobody’s from here.” The 2010 Census found a population of just over 10,000 residents in Sedona, with the city drawing 3 million tourists annually.

Countless psychics, aura readers and crystal healers have put up shingles in and around Sedona’s walkable, 2-mile uptown stretch of shops, restaurants, art galleries and boutique hotels known as “Gallery Row.” Some estimates have tallied more than 170 New Age stores offering gemstones, incense, essential oils, hookahs, meditation CDs, tarot decks and artisan jewelry. Earthbound Trading Company (300 AZ-89A), the best of the bunch, also sells Ouija Board drinking glasses, Dalí-style “melting” wall clocks and plateglass decorative hamsas (they also sell kitschy Arizona tchotchkes and sweets, like crunchy “scorpions” embalmed in lollipops).

Mystical Bazaar and Crystal Magic, two other must-visit stores, are like toyshops for gemologists. It’s safe to say that in the heart of Sedona, it’s easier to find a cluster of sparkling amethyst or an emergency reiki healing than an oil change or a dry cleaning.

So it’s no surprise that many activities on a recent press trip to Sedona involved tapping into the mystical energy of the air, the land, the body, the soul. Sheryl Rogers, an artist who trained under a Persian mystic in Los Angeles for a dozen years before relocating to Sedona, teaches “intuitive painting” under her Paint N Play business, although “teach” might not be the right word. “I don’t tell you a whole lot, because it’s all about your self-discovery,” she says. “It’s amazing what people do when they get out of their heads and into their heart and their creative center.”

Working in the tranquil backyard of the craft beer emporium Vino di Sedona (2575 AZ89A), Rogers kicks off each session with a brief head-clearing meditation, then provides canvases, paints and brushes. If she sees students

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Millions of tourists visit Sedona each year to see its dramatic redrock formations.

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At sunset, the canvas is painted with an ever-shifting palette of yellows.

using too much logic in their strokes, she stops them, but otherwise anything goes, and each participant leaves with a masterpiece.

The method worked on a first-timer like me: Though my result looked like a primitive child’s painting, a ghost with seven chakras emerged among the abstract waves and circles. Sedona’s metaphysical buzz was clearly affecting me as much as the organic stout I chased at the bar.

On the grounds of L’Auberge de Sedona (301 Little Lane), one of the area’s loveliest boutique resorts, Katie Love (yes, that’s really her name) helps guests “spend time in nature to connect in a healing way through exercises based on the five senses.” The program, titled Connecting With Nature, is set among the hotel’s natural rocky river, under the squall of cicadas.

It’s structured as a series of “invitations” (nobody is required to do anything) that range from wandering the riverside in slow motion and taking stock of “everything that moves” to isolating yourself among the rocks, asking the universe a question, and recording the answer in the notebook Love provides.

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Glass-blowing at The Melting Point

Be sure to include a multi-hour visit to The Melting Point (1449 W. State Road 89A, 928/5544754) in your Sedona itinerary.

The gallery of this blown-glass incubator is impressive enough, offering glass sculptures ranging from pinky finger-sized lizards to artist Bandhu Dunham’s kinetic and towering Rube Goldberg-like marble mousetraps. Even better is the glass-blowing studio, where for a variable fee (about $65 to $165), the Melting Point’s Hot Shop team, Jordan Ford and Austin Littenberg, will help you create your own blown-glass souvenir.

Laid-back hipsters with a dry wit, Ford and Littenberg carefully guide novices on the best way to insert scorching staffs into 4,000 pounds of liquid gas and then to use jacks, tweezers and diamond shears to shape your amorphous amber bulb into a bowl, or cup, or paperweight, or cactus. Truth be told, they do all the hard stuff for you. Still, Sedona is all about Be Here Now—and there’s no better way to live in the moment than to work within inches of material that’s as hot as lava.

where to stay

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a city twice its size, from budget pueblos to extravagant resorts nestled in nature. The boutique Amara Resort and Spa (100 Amara Lane, 928/282-4828), situated amid the bustle of Uptown Sedona, features such whimsical lobby flourishes as a chandelier of chiming bells, oversized board games and “locally infused” citrus water. There’s a fire pit and more giant games on the sprawling lawn overlooking the infinity pool and hot tub, hot cocoa served alongside tea and coffee each morning, and a free happy hour with wine, sangria, chips and house-made dip at 5 p.m. weekdays.

Spa treatments are copious and extravagant, but there is no charge to partake in the spa’s Eucalyptus Steam Room,

where to dine

Deviled eggs at SaltRock Kitchen

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energy-charged crystals jutting from a central rock fountain. Guests meet there for guided meditation and chanting rituals, which is appropriate: If there’s any U.S. city that can bring out your inner monk, it’s Sedona.

an intense and rejuvenating assault on your sweat pores. But the best part of all is Amara’s restaurant, SaltRock Southwest Kitchen, whose imaginative chef, Massimo de Francesca, is a master at juxtaposing sweet and savory, from the tart pomegranate seeds that spike a chicken entrée to the Mexican chocolate that plays off an oyster mushroom appetizer.

On the other end of the scale is Enchantment (525 Boynton Canyon Road, 844/244-9489), a true city within a city and Sedona’s answer to the Boca Raton Resort & Club; we’re talking six restaurants, five tennis courts, two golf courses, three pools and a spa ranked among the world’s best, comprising 70 acres in the heart of Boynton Canyon.

(It takes a golf cart ride, and not a short one, to travel from the junior suites to the lobby and restaurants, and the resort’s friendly and ever-present staff is always there to accommodate.)

On-site activities run from sunrise yoga to twilight stargazing and everything in between, and one of Sedona’s vortexes is right around the corner: a private trail to the Boynton Canyon vortex begins at Enchantment’s Mii Amo Spa. My favorite Enchantment destination is the Crystal Grotto, a spherical room in the spa with

No visit to Sedona should be complete without a visit to Rene (336 AZ-179, 928/282-9225), a revered purveyor of continental cuisine for more than 35 years. The impeccable servers treat you like their personal houseguests, the cooking is worldly, and the portions are generous. The mushroom and spinach salad provides more flavor with these simple ingredients than other salads accomplish with a full vegetable garden, and the mushroom strudel (for an infrequent carnivore like me, Rene does a lot with ’shrooms) is a comfort-food knockout.

The wine/cocktail list is a veritable Russian novel, but try the restaurant’s signature prickly pear concoction, made from the Arizona fruit described by our host “as if a cherry and a pineapple had a baby that grew up on a cactus.” Rene is in the heart of Tlaquepaque, an arts and crafts village modeled off the Plaza de Armas in Guadalajara, Mexico, that is filled with galleries, a kinetic art garden, fountains and waterfalls.

Nightlife is scant in Sedona— most places close up shop by 9—but Sound Bites Grill (101 N. State Road 89A, 928/282-2713) offers live music in a supper club atmosphere six nights a week, presenting standards, rock, jazz, blues and tribute acts, with a patio overlooking Snoopy Rock. The memorabilia on the walls, like the autographed guitars by John Lennon and Ozzy Osbourne, rival any Hard Rock Café, and the food is a cut above most music-club fare. The salads are Herculean achievements, and the flatbreads are mountainous.

For breakfast, Indian Gardens Oak Creek Market (3951 AZ-89A), at the city’s northern tip, offers superlative egg-driven dishes with top-shelf ingredients—at prices that somehow rival Denny’s.

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You might see a purple cane cholla cactus among Sedona’s flora.

and afterwards, you’ll feel as relaxed and refreshed as if you’d just enjoyed a massage at a high-end spa.

BEWARE BUMPY RIDES Other attractions, it must be said, are not so soothing. Sedona’s majestic red rocks can be appreciated by foot, car, train, helicopter or balloon, but the most popular method of sightseeing is from the confines of a jeep, one of the few four-wheeled transports capable of navigating the harsh terrains. We joined Sedona Offroad Adventures on a one-and-a-half-hour tour up Bear Wallow Canyon, and our guide wasn’t kidding when he warned us, to paraphrase Bette Davis, that it would be a bumpy ride.

“Pretend you are a marshmallow or a limp noodle,” he said. “Don’t fight it.”

It was brutal experience, even at a lumbering 5-mph speed. Were it not for the seatbelt, I would have bounced down the mountain walls within a quarter-mile of riding the rockclogged pathways. The stomach-churning discomfort ultimately outweighed the grandeur of the surroundings, and by the end, my buttocks felt like they’d sat through “Les Miserables” twice.

Don’t make my mistake—instead, try a jeep tour that avoids the toughest mountains.

Sedona’s most popular tour company, Pink Jeep Tours, offers more pleasant options.

But the only thing you really need to appreciate Sedona’s great outdoors is a good pair of walking shoes, whether you’re climbing the mountains are just hiking the (usually) well-marked trails. In his book Favorite Hikes: Flagstaff & Sedona, author Cosmic Ray describes nearly 30 hikes in Sedona, from the 10-mile Woods Canyon trek to the Airport Mesa Vortex Loop, which Ray calls “the lazy man’s vortex. … Just pile out of the car, follow the crowd up the short hill and breathe in the view and vibe.”

Not every vortex ascender will feel the metaphysical effects. If you’re like me, you’ll be breathing so heavily by the time you reach the vortex site that you’ll need some time to orient yourself. But as I rested on a slab of red rock in Boynton Canyon on my last evening in Sedona—my familiar fear of heights preventing me from fully appreciating the breathtaking views—I took a moment to meditate in the vortex.

The phobia vanished. After just five minutes, I might as well have been casually strolling the streets of Mizner Park.

Vortex energy or not, that’s the magic of Sedona.

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WARHOL PRINTS FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARC BELL THROUGH MAY 1, 2016

WARHOL ON VINYL : THE RECORD COVERS, 1949 - 1987 THROUGH APR. 10, 2016

BOB COLACELLO : IN AND OUT WITH ANDY THROUGH MAY 1, 2016

Support for these exhibitions is generously provided by Beatrice Cummings Mayer; Peter & Christine Raimondi; and Saks Fifth Avenue, Boca Raton. Media sponsor, Boca Raton Observer.

Andy Warhol, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom [from Reigning Queens], 1985. Š 2015 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Courtesy the collection of Marc Bell.

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As these images (clockwise from left) of Igor Stravinsky, Salvador Dalí and Pierre Boulez suggest, photographer Arnold Newman’s approach to portraiture was as unorthodox as the writers and artists he shot. Read more about Newman’s reinvention of the celebrity portrait on the next page, in advance of his upcoming show at Boca Raton Museum of Art.

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“ARNOLD NEWMAN: MASTER CLASS” WHEN: April 21–July 3 WHERE: Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton ABOUT: Photographer Arnold Newman was the Annie Leibovitz of his day: You weren’t a notable celebrity, artist or leader until you sat for him. And sitting for Newman didn’t just mean posing like a monarch, with the light accentuating your best side. Newman introduced the now commonplace concept of “environmental photography,” or immersing the subject in his or her natural habitat, without ornamentation. This process resulted in iconic images of Igor Stravinsky, in which the composer’s tiny head is dwarfed by the abstract shadow-like presence of his grand piano; John F. Kennedy staring pensively from a balcony in the White House, with the building’s pillars towering behind him; Woody Allen in bed scribbling into a notebook, pausing to meet the camera’s eye; and Truman Capote in a literally self-effacing gesture, reclining in a chair with a straw hat and his right hand covering half his visage.

Newman’s famed public-figure portraits, which include Bill Clinton, Salvador Dalí, Marilyn Monroe and countless others, form the bulk of “Master Class,” the first museum survey of his work since his 2006 death.

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WHEN: April 15–17 WHERE: Fort Lauderdale Beach ABOUT: Last year, this environmentally conscious country music jamboree sold out its starstudded weekend, prompting organizers to add a third day and even more performers for its fourth-annual incarnation. Thousands of toes will line the sands of Fort Lauderdale Beach for another unassailable lineup of country and roots music, headlined by “The Voice” prankster and tabloid bait Blake Shelton, three-time Grammy-winning actor-singer Tim McGraw and Arizona singer-songwriter Dierks Bentley (“Drunk on a Plane”). But the deeper you delve into the lineup, the more genre variation it contains: The indefatigable Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd, the hip-hop/funk/reggae fusers Michael Franti & Spearhead, the sensational alt-rock siren Elle King (“Exes and Ohs”), and the Jacksonville blues-rock outfit JJ Grey & Mofro will join country singers like Sam Hunt, Thomas Rhett, Kip Moore, Chris Janson and at least 17 other artists. And when you buy tickets, know that you’re helping to save our oceans: Tortuga has donated more than $250,000 to the nonprofit partners in its “Conservation Village.”

COST: $199–$899 CONTACT: tortugamusicfestival.com

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JAMES CARVILLE

WHEN: April 16 WHERE: Parker Playhouse, 707 N.E. Eighth St., Fort Lauderdale ABOUT: If David Cross’ only accomplishment was his trailblazing HBO sketch series “Mr. Show With Bob and David,” he would still earn more than a footnote in the pop-culture history books, for helping hatch the genre we now identify as “alternative comedy.” But the actorcomedian is most in his element on the stand-up stage, where he satirizes the form’s clichés, challenges his audience’s perceptions on religion and politics, and isn’t afraid to be deadly serious when the mood is right. Cross promises to bring his “patented, fart-inducing laugh winces to a town near you”—a tease that undersells his gifts with trademark sarcasm.

Judging by the title of the tour—“Making America Great Again!”—he’ll once again hold nothing back.

COST: $26–$36 CONTACT: 954/462-0222

WHEN: April 6 WHERE: Broward Center, 201 S.W. Fifth Ave., Fort Lauderdale ABOUT: When he was a chief architect of Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, James Carville wrote three bullet points on a sign hanging in his staff’s Little Rock headquarters: “Change vs. more of the same,” “The economy, stupid”

“THE PASSENGER” WHEN: April 2–9 WHERE: Arsht Center, 1300 Biscayne Blvd., Miami ABOUT: This controversial opera by Mieczyslaw Weinberg is surely the only operatic work based on a radio play written by a concentration camp survivor. Weinberg adapted Zofia Posmysz’s harrowing radio play “Passenger from Cabin 45” as an opera in the late 1960s, but its provocative subject matter ensured that it remained unperformed for 40 years. “The Passenger” is set on a luxury ocean liner, where a diplomat’s wife, who was once a warden at Auschwitz, thinks she spots a survivor among the vessel’s passengers. The encounter resurrects memories of pain and shame, and the time-shifting action rotates between the opulence of the cruise ship and the squalor of a death camp. Sung in no less than seven languages, from English to Yiddish to Czech, this South Florida premiere with a 10-piece cast is being justifiably hyped as one of the don’t-miss musical events of the season.

COST: $21–$225 CONTACT: 305/949-6722, fgo.org

“THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” WHEN: April 26–30 WHERE: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach ABOUT: The Bridges of Madison County, James Waller’s 1992 novel, has not aged well. Though it sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, it’s been torpedoed by critics, who decry its sentimental pabulum and bored-housewife erotic fantasies.

Ben Brantley, of the New York Times, recently dismissed it as “50 Shades of Vanilla.” But Waller’s tale of a repressed Italian wife in 1960s Iowa who engages in an affair with a hunky National Geographic photographer has enjoyed an artistically vibrant afterlife, first as a more-nuanced Clint Eastwood film and then as a 2014 Broadway musical that’s now on tour. Romantic longing in a small Midwestern town—without 76 trombones, anyway—doesn’t exactly scream for stage lights and playbills.

But composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown transformed the intimate romance into a splashy big-ticket production on the strength of his score—an eclectic goulash of styles ranging from folk and country to pop and opera— and a plum, demanding role for any leading lady. The show, which went on to win two of its four Tony nominations, concludes the Kravis Center’s 2015-2016 “Kravis on Broadway” series.

COST: $32–$72 CONTACT: 561/832-7469, kravis.org

and “Don’t forget health care.”

Twenty-four years later, these fortune cookie-sized fragments of political insight remain key factors regarding which candidate assumes the Oval Office and which one spends the next four years on memoirs and talk shows. The middle meme, “It’s the economy, stupid,” has become such Beltway gospel it may as well have originated with Moses. Known for his thick Louisiana accent and selfdeprecating humor, Carville—aka the “Ragin’ Cajun”—has continued to enjoy an eminent position on campaigns both here and abroad, advising leaders ranging from England’s Tony Blair and Israel’s Ehud Barak to Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani. Still a staple of the cable-news chattering class, the longtime husband of GOP political strategist Mary Matalin must possess nimble skill at separating his personal and professional lives; hopefully he’ll discuss both at this timely election-year lecture.

COST: $50.85 CONTACT: 954/462-0222, browardcenter.org

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DON’T FORGET POMPANO Prior to his work at Arts Garage, Byron Swart oversaw Creative City Collaborative’s other venue, Bailey Contemporary Arts in Pompano Beach, increasing its art patronage from around 20 to more than 250. He was also tapped to curate storefront and pop-up exhibitions at the city’s long-awaited, 47,000-square-foot Pompano Beach Cultural Arts Center. Currently in postconstruction, the facility is expected to open this fall, offering a flexible space for dance and theater, an exhibition gallery, a digital media center and a library.

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ARTS GARAGE’S NEW CURATOR HELPS THE ‘DANG’ REFUGEES OF DELRAY’S ARTISTS ALLEY.

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his past September, a mini exodus struck Artists Alley, the popular art colony formed from blighted warehouses near downtown Delray Beach. That’s when Saxena White, a Boca Raton-based law firm that purchased the foreclosed property at auction last June, enforced new lease requirements for the Alley’s tenants that several found too stringent. Five of the 19 gallery lessees packed up their spaces for a more hospitable clime, among them “Project Runway” fashion designer Amanda Perna; the Linda White Gallery, which had relocated to Delray after 14 years in Mizner Park; and Adriana Picot’s AR Gallery, which represented 30 artists.

According to Vincent Cacace, media representative and an Artists Alley gallerist, the colony is continuing apace, with new leases being signed and art walks continuing on the first Friday and third Thursday of each month. “Art is being created here, art lovers and collectors are visiting and purchasing the work, and there’s a whole lot of optimism here for a great season,” he says.

That said, it’s axiomatic that local artists fleeing a community they helped build because of money issues is bad public relations for the city. It creates a perception that art and capitalism are at odds, a result hardly befitting the Most Fun Small Town in America.

Delray should be gaining creatives, not losing them. For the Artists Alley refugees, the issue is still a sore spot: None would speak to Boca Raton about the financial particulars.

But two silver linings have sprung from this cloud. Many of the vacated artists quickly organized into a coalition with the appropriately frustrated acronym of DANG: Displaced Artists Negotiate Galleries.

The collective is comprised of 28 local artists searching for new opportunities to showcase their art, efforts that have resulted in pop-up shows in Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, Lantana and Boca Raton.

“A pop-up venue is a difficult point of sale and an impossible [way] to court a customer base,” says Picot, who spearheaded DANG. “But DANG thinks art which is not shown to the public will never sell. We continue, because it is better than fizzing out and silencing the artistic groove.”

The other important development, emerging simultaneously with the creation of DANG, is the hiring of Byron Swart as the artistic director and curator of Arts Garage. Swart, a South African émigré and former competitive dancer with big ideas and a soft-spoken delivery, helped develop ArtServe into the eminent Fort Lauderdale gallery it is today.

Arts Garage’s parent company, Creative City Collaborative, brought Swart on board last fall, and he’s been hosting pop-up shows with DANG members every third Thursday since October, in effect competing with the artists’ former district for eyeballs and wallets. The pieces remain on easels for a week.

“We’re taking them under our wing, because we knew that they needed a space,” Swart says. “It happens everywhere in the world, and unfortunately the artists are the first ones to move into an area [and] redevelop [it]—and the first ones pushed out. It’s always the overhead that gets them. … That’s one thing I love about what we’re doing; [the artists] don’t pay for the wall space. We do all the marketing for them.

We are here to support their careers, and that’s a big deal for them.”

Swart’s influence also can be seen in the day-to-day revitalization of Arts Garage’s gallery space, which nearly doubled in size last year when it absorbed the adjoining space formerly occupied by the Puppetry Arts Center of the Palm Beaches. Visual art, once relegated to Arts Garage’s small lobby, now fills the 10,500-square-foot space. It has a new name—gallery nine | four—and a mission to provide a space where “the unconventional wakes the soul.” Swart has hosted exhibitions of cutting-edge international artists and, gradually, has generated a clientele at a venue that has been mostly associated with music and theater.

“The great thing about art patrons, whether they are performing art patrons or visual art patrons, is they respect any form of the arts,” Swart says. “So you do see acknowledgement slowly starting to build.

“In the visual arts, there’s always an underlying meaning, a story behind why the artist created that piece,” he adds. “I often stood at county commission meetings where they’re cutting funding, and you hear those few words that make you cringe: ‘It’s just a pretty picture on the wall.’ It’s not. Each artist we bring in has a story, and that’s why I love to have these receptions. You get to find out those stories.”

Abbey Funk, a conceptual artist who was among the handful to leave Artists Alley, did not join DANG. She is hoping to strike out on her own but has fond memories of the Alley.

“The essence of the Alley cannot be bought and sold,” she says. “We each walked away with a piece of its magic, and we will all re-create our unique and vibrant locations elsewhere. This is what artists do.”

EDUARDO SCHNEIDER

“We continue, because it is better than fizzing out and silencing the artistic groove.”

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AFTER 20 YEARS, THE PALM BEACH FILM FESTIVAL HAS A NEW LEADER—AND A NEW HOME.

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First of all, how did Randi Emerman end up leaving the festival?

There’s a lot of hearsay about Randi and the festival. Randi ran the festival for like 19 years. She had a fulltime job with Silverspot Cinemas.

She couldn’t really be here. It’s not a year-round job to run the festival, but it actually is. And she moved to North Carolina. Her contract expired at the end of last year’s festival, and we just didn’t renew it. Twenty years is enough. She got us to where we’re at, and we’re looking for another 20 years of growth.

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Are there new directions you hope to take this festival?

We want to turn it into a student school, not just a film festival for 10 days. We want to involve high school and elementary students. I’ve been in touch with G-Star [School of the Arts].

Greg [Hauptner, the high school’s founder and CEO] and I have decided to work together. The original charter of the Palm Beach Film Festival was for the benefit of student film, and we’re going back to that.

Q3

But during the festival, you’ll still be bringing in new films from around the world?

We’re bringing in films from Iran and Iraq, which have been entered

for acceptance. We’re getting the Jury award winners from the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and a couple of Sundance award winners. They’re all starting to come to us. We want to go one level up—we want to bring it back to a world-class festival.

Q4

You’ve also been involved with programming the Hoboken International Film Festival the past four years.

How is the Palm Beach market different?

Your clientele is different. The Hoboken International Film Festival is in Middletown, N.Y. It’s a rural, upstate audience. Here, it’s a higher-class audience. They’re more demanding in their tastes and their wants.

So we need to have better films. We want local films, Jewish films, Iranian films, Egyptian films. We want a combination of everything.

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This venue was not able to sustain its previous two tenants in the long term. What convinces you that it will flourish now?

Florida Stage and the Plaza Theatre made this only a playhouse. I’m hosting concerts, lectures, we have a conservatory, we’ll do a summer camp.

We’ll make it a multi-use house, not just a live theater. You have to crawl before you can walk, and we’re going to do it slowly; we’re going to do it smartly.

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eff Davis is hoping that the third time is a charm for one of Palm Beach County’s most star-crossed venues: the 246-seat theater in Manalapan’s Plaza Del Mar. After the notorious bankruptcy of its premier tenant Florida Stage, in 2011, the space was revived by a company called the Plaza Theatre. But that lasted just two seasons, with a paucity of ticket sales sealing its fate in 2014.

Since then, plenty has been happening inside the two-story theater. Davis, a Broadway and film producer who began leasing the space last year, invested an undisclosed amount into its rebirth. “This poor little theater was beat to hell,” says Davis, who lives in Boca. “I had to redo the plumbing, the electric—it took me six months.”

Last year, Davis reopened the venue as The Palm Beaches Theater, screening a movie by a local filmmaker and, two months later, hosting a four-day festival of cancer-related films. Talent has begun to take notice: The Palm Beaches Theater has hosted improv acts, cabaret performers, classical musicians, one-man plays, a Hungarian cantor and even Pauly Cohen, the nonagenarian trumpeter and bandleader who performed with the original Count Basie Orchestra.

Now, the theater is ready for its grand re-introduction into the cultural scene. From April 6-14, it will be the host theater for the Palm Beach International Film Festival (pbifilmfest.org), which Davis spearheads as president and CEO. “I said to myself, ‘Wouldn’t it be a great place to take the Palm Beach Film Festival and do what Sundance, Tribeca and Toronto do, and give it a home?’”

Though this year’s 21st annual festival will be Davis’ first—replacing the event’s longtime public face, Randi Emerman—he brings decades of entertainment experience to his position, with producing credits on films like “Rock of Ages” and “Hesher” and musicals such as “Legally Blonde” and “Tommy.” He spoke to Boca Raton about re-branding both a storied venue and a storied fest.

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“The film festival, the theater— sometimes you take two parts and make a whole. That’s what we’re doing.

We’re looking to let the world know we’re here.”

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Boca Ballet Theatre Presents

Spring Mix Mixed repertory concert featuring excerpts from Napoli and Flower Festival at Genzano, a tribute to the Danish ballet master and choreographer, August Bournonville.

Artistic Directors Dan Guin & Jane Tyree

This concert will also include Jennifer Vanucchi Dolan’s neo-romantic ballet, Moonlight Concerto, and Ella Sang, Co-Artistic Director Dan Guin’s tribute to the late, great Ella Fitzgerald.

This concert truly offers something for everyone!

Sat., May 7, 2016 at 7:30pm Sun., May 8, 2016 at 2:00pm Countess de Hoernle Theatre at Spanish River High School

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The Big Dipper

AARON BRISTOL

Restaurant patrons in Boca have rediscovered the joys of fondue—in all its good-to-the-last-drop splendor—at The Little Chalet. Turn the page to read food editor Bill Citara’s review.

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485 S. Federal Highway, Boca Raton, 561/325-8000

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The quaint interior at The Little Chalet Below: Tools of the fondue trade

HOURS: Sun.–Thurs. 5–10 p.m., Fri.– Sat. 5–11 p.m.

WEBSITE: thelittlechalet.com small flame underneath. This pot, though, is brimming with deeply flavored consommé, the better for cooking your dinner of thumbsized rolls of raw filet mignon, squares of partially cooked chicken and plump little shrimp. To keep it all interesting is an array of seven different sauces, from garlicky aioli to wild mushroom, horseradish, peppercorn and even nubbins of fresh pineapple dotted with chili flakes.

It’s fun mixing and matching protein to sauce, stabbing the former with a long-handled fork, plunging it into the pool of broth and then dabbing it with whatever sauce might tickle your taste buds. Cooking takes only a minute and the barest minimum of culinary acumen, though if you wind up with a mouthful of beef, chicken or shellfish sawdust you have no one but yourself to blame.

Finally, dessert beckons. Dessert fondues are all about the chocolate, whether straight up dark or more elaborate stylings featuring

hazelnuts, Oreos or (we have a winner!) peanut butter.

This decadent marriage of nut and bean does wonders for cubes of pound cake, brownie, grapes, strawberries and sliced bananas. What it does for your waistline is probably better left unspoken. Even so, it’s tempting just to dunk your head in the pot and inhale—but that would be about as gauche as that old lava lamp.

—BILL CITARA

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emember the hula hoop? Transistor radios? Ouija boards? Lava lamps?

Then you probably remember fondue.

First popularized in Switzerland in the 1930s as a means of increasing the consumption of cheese, fondue has since evolved from a pot of melty cholesterol into just about anything cooked and/or dipped in a communal pot of cheese-oil-broth-chocolate. In the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s it was as trendy as Sputnik toys and go-go boots.

Now, fondue is back. At least a little. At least at The Little Chalet. This clubby faux chalet from a family of Brazilian restaurateurs also touts its high-end designer beef, but with steak houses as common as dirt and bad drivers in South Florida, it’s the fondue that will give you an experience rather less typical than one more slab of expensively pedigreed animal protein.

The best way to get that experience is the Chalet’s three-course fondue orgy for two. It costs a hundred bucks and change, and begins with a pot of the classic cheese, then segues into a roster of proteins that you DIY cook in a mahogany-colored red wine consommé. The meal finishes with a seriously decadent bath of molten chocolate that can be tricked out with various and sundry flavorings.

First-course cheese options range from the “Swiss Alps Original” (Emmental and grand cru cheeses spiked with kirsch and white wine) to the quattro (which adds Parmesan and blue cheeses). The most popular fondue, though, is the margherita. Channeling Italy’s famed margherita pizza, it enhances the basic cheese blend with more Parm, cherry tomatoes and a healthy chiffonade of fresh basil.

The Parm is a nice touch, giving a nutty character to the mix, while the basil contributes a grassy freshness and the tomatoes help sustain the illusion you’re consuming something other than a monster bowl of runny, booze-infused cheese.

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A Brunch with Greatness.

DELRAY’S PREMIER SEAFOOD DESTINATION | OPEN FOR DINNER DAILY HAPPY HOUR 4:00 – 7:00 PM | LIVE ENTERTAINMENT TUESDAY – SUNDAY

Discover Delray’s Best Brunch Saturday & Sunday 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM Offering sweet, savory, or seafood selections, our decadent brunch is sure to please every appetite. Dine alfresco in tropical tranquility amidst the breeze, or indoors surrounded by our stunning aquariums and live acoustic guitar stylings each Sunday.

For reservations, visit TheAtlanticGrille.com or call 561-790-8568.

Gift cards are available at TheAtlanticGrille.com/GiftCards Located at The Seagate Hotel | 1000 East Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach

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Clockwise from above: Moussaka, baklava and bronzino

review TAVERNA OPA

270 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/303-3602

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air or not, the outposts in this minichain of Greek restaurants have something of a reputation as party spots, places where your saganaki and moussaka and baklava come with a side order of napkin tossing and belly dancing.

I didn’t see any napkins being abused or exposed female bellies wiggling like fleshy gyroscopes (although it does happen here from time to time). I did, however, eat some pretty good food, served up by a good-humored staff doing its best to keep up with the weekend crush in a bright, cheery (and very loud) room packed tighter than normal with diners fleeing the untypical sub-arctic temperatures outside.

The ambience was festive but not frat party, a blessing to those of us who go out to restaurants to, you know … eat. And with a menu half as long as a hose, there’s plenty to eat at Taverna Opa. We plowed through a selection of traditional Greek appetizers: a fine tzatziki, thick and creamy Greek yogurt spiked with garlic, fennel, cucumber and dill; silken melitzanosalata, whipped eggplant with roasted red pepper and orange zest; tarama, a bread-based emulsion of olive oil, lemon and salmon roe; and dolmades, little grape leaf cigars stuffed with citrusy, herb-tinged rice.

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The belly dancing can be contagious at Taverna Opa in Delray.

Entrées included a surprisingly delicate version of moussaka, layers of smoky pureed eggplant, potatoes and ground beef crowned with an airy, almost souffle-like béchamel. Whole bronzino got a boost from a unique cooking method, first grilled, then anointed with lemon and orange juices, olive oil and herbs, and finished in the oven. The result was fish that was moist, flaky and lightly imbued with citrus.

Opa’s baklava is a better, lighter and less diabetes-inducing version of this ubiquitous Greek dessert. My favorite, though, was the tongue-bumbling galaktoboureko, a Greekstyle pie of golden, brittle phyllo dough enriched by a creamy vanilla custard presented with a tangy-sweet lemon-honey syrup.

It will make your belly dance, and I don’t mean on the table.

—BILL CITARA

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$ Inexpensive: Under $17 $$ Moderate: $18–$35 $$$ Expensive: $36–$50 $$$$ Very Expensive: $50 +

PALM BEACH COUNTY BOCA RATON 13 american table —451 E. Palmetto Park Road. Contemporary American. This cozy, artfully rustic spot is one of the few restaurants in the U.S. that has a Josper oven, a pricy, charcoal-fired grill-oven hybrid that cooks foods quickly at high heat to retain maximum flavor and texture. It works like a charm on chicken, resulting in remarkably crisp skin and tender meat, as well as on fist-sized shrimp you can customize with one of several sauces.

Don’t miss feather-light profiteroles filled with caramel and pumpkin mousse. • Dinner nightly. 561/409-2061. $$

abe & louie’s —2200 W. Glades Road.

Steaks. This outpost of the Boston steak house cooks up slabs of well-aged, USDA Prime beef like nobody’s business. Two of the best are the bone-in rib-eye and New York sirloin. Start with a crab cocktail, but don’t neglect side dishes like steamed spinach and hash browns.

• Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. Brunch Sun. 561/447-0024. $$$

Yes, It’s Kosher

Observant carnivores can assure they’re keeping the faith while dining at this West Boca steak house—which now opens Saturday nights a half-hour after Shabbat ends.

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arturo’s ristorante—6750 N. Federal Highway. Italian. Arturo’s quiet, comfortable dining room; slightly formal, rigorously professional service; and carefully crafted Italian dishes never go out of style. You’ll be tempted to make a meal of the array of delectable antipasti from the antipasti cart, but try to leave room for main courses like fresh jumbo shrimp grilled in hot marinara sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/997-7373. $$$ biergarten—309 Via De Palmas, #90. German/Pub. Part vaguely German beer garden, part all-American sports bar, this rustic eatery offers menus that channel both, as well as an excellent selection of two-dozen beers on tap and the same number by the bottle. The food is basic and designed to go well with suds, like the

giant pretzel with a trio of dipping sauces and the popular “Biergarten burger.” • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-7462. $

boca landing—999 E. Camino Real. Contemporary American. No Hollywood celebrity has gotten a better face-lift than Boca’s aging Bridge Hotel, now the sleek, contemporary Waterstone Resort & Marina. The hotel’s new signature restaurant, Boca Landing, is equally stunning, showing off its prime waterfront location and views. The mostly small-plates menu features Asian-inflected tuna tartare, green curry mussels and fried calamari. Probably the best dish, though, is the thoroughly continental filet mignon with crab and béarnaise, with wickedly luscious house-made hazelnut gelato coming in a very close second.

• Dinner daily. 561/368-9500. $$

bonefish grill—21069 Powerline Road.

Seafood. Market-fresh seafood is the cornerstone—like Chilean sea bass prepared over a wood-burning grill and served with sweet Rhea’s topping (crabmeat, sautéed spinach and a signature lime, tomato and garlic sauce.) • Dinner nightly. Lunch on Saturdays. 561/4834949. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-9142; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/9652663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$ brio tuscan grille—5050 Town Center Circle, #239. Italian. The Boca outpost of this national chain does what it set out to do—dish up big portions of well-made, easily accessible Italianesque fare at a reasonable price. If you’re looking for bruschetta piled with fresh cheeses and vegetables or house-made fettuccine with tender shrimp and lobster in a spicy lobster butter sauce, you’ll be one happy diner. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/392-3777. (Other Palm Beach County locations: The Gardens Mall, 3101 PGA Blvd., 561/622-0491; CityPlace, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., 561/835-1511) $$

butcher block grill—7000 W. Camino Real, #100. Steak house/Contemporary American. This casual steak house with a Mediterranean twist and a local, seasonal, sustainable

ethos gives the stuffy old-fashioned meatery a swift kick in the sirloin. Beef here is all-natural and grass-fed, delivering big, rich, earthy flavor; the New York strip is 12 ounces of carnivorous pleasure. Seafood, whether raw (tuna crudo) or simply grilled (wild-caught salmon), is palatepleasing as well. Don’t miss the fresh mozzarella, made and assembled into a salad at your table. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/409-3035. $$$

the capital grille—6000 Glades Road.

Steaks. This is one of more than three dozen restaurants in a national chain, but the Boca Grille treats you like a regular at your neighborhood restaurant. Steaks, dry-aged if not Prime, are flavorful and cooked with precision, while starters from Wagyu beef carpaccio to a lighter version of the hardy chopped salad are nicely done too.

Parmesan truffle fries are crispy sticks of potato heaven; chocolate-espresso cake a study in shameless, and luscious, decadence. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/368-1077. $$$

casa d’angelo —171 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. Angelo Elia’s impeccable Italian restaurant is a delight, from the stylish room to the suave service to the expansive wine list, not to mention food that’s by turn elegant, hearty, bold, subtle and always delicious. Dishes off the regular menu make excellent choices, like char-grilled jumbo prawns with artichoke, arugula, lemon and olive oil. But pay attention to specials like pan-seared snapper and scallops in a spicy, garlicky cherry tomato sauce. • Dinner nightly. 561/338-1703. $$$ the cheesecake factory—5530 Glades Road. American. Oh, the choices! The chain even has a Sunday brunch menu in addition to its main menu, which includes Chinese chicken salad and Cajun jambalaya. Don’t forget about the cheesecakes—from white chocolate and raspberry truffle offerings. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-0344. (Other Palm Beach County locations: CityPlace, West Palm Beach, 561/8023838; Downtown at the Gardens, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/776-3711) $$

chops lobster bar—101 Plaza Real S., Royal Palm Place. Steak, seafood. Steaks are aged USDA Prime—tender, flavorful and

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There’s all manner of fish and shellfish, but you’re here for the lobster, whether giant Australian tails flash-fried and served with drawn butter or sizable Maine specimens stuffed with lobster. • Dinner nightly. 561/395-2675. $$$$

service are all hallmarks of this local outpost of the Hillstone restaurant chain. There are plenty of reasons why this is one of the most popular business lunch spots in all of Boca, including menu items like crab cakes, the mammoth salad offerings and the tasty baby back ribs.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/998-0550. $$$

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cuban café —3350 N.W. Boca Raton Blvd.

josef’s table —5030 Champion Blvd.

Continental. Though the kitchen does have a timid hand with sauces and seasonings, there’s no quibbling about the execution, whether a light, refreshing “tower” of lump crabmeat with mango, cucumber and tomato; rosy-rare double-cut lamb chops with port wine-mint sauce; pan-seared hogfish with orange beurre blanc; or the richly decadent half-moon chocolate tart. • Dinner nightly. Lunch Mon.–Fri. 561/353-2700. $$$

have a place to flock with the debut of Boca Resto Lounge (3360 N. Federal Highway, 561/430-5639), where the food, drink, music and dancing go on nightly until 2 a.m.

Taking over the space formerly home to Pellegrino’s, BRL channels a vibe that’s more hip SoBe hang than clubby Italian restaurant, though unlike those Miami Beach spots it touts itself as a source of “affordable luxury.” In any event, BRL boasts both indoor and outdoor bars, low-lit dining areas brightened by vivid red walls hung with Pop Art-style graphics, and rooms for private dining.

DJs and dancing continue into the wee hours, along with a menu of small plates and the requisite designer cocktails. Late night options range from fried pickles and Thai-style sweet chili calamari to several different flatbreads and wings in a variety of guises.

A pre-10 p.m. dinner menu reprises many of those dishes while adding entrées like grilled salmon with mango salsa and Argentine skirt steak with chimichurri.

There’s a daily happy hour too, from 4 to 7:00 p.m.

Cuban. Diners pack this traditional Cuban restaurant for lunch specials that start at $7.95, including slow-roasted pork served with white rice and black beans. Other highlights include the Cuban sandwich and (on the dinner menu only) lechón asado. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/750-8860. $

davinci’s of boca—6000 Glades Road.

Italian. Expect carefully prepared Italian fare that will satisfy both traditionalists and the more adventurous. The former will like crisp, greaseless fried calamari and hearty lasagna made with fresh pasta. The latter will enjoy creamy burrata with prosciutto, tomato jam and arugula and a branzino served with spinach, clams and shrimp. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/362-8466. $$

Culture Pays

Dorsia offers a “pre-theater special” with the nearby Wick Theatre. Present your ticket for 15-percent off your bill from 5-6 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.

dorsia—5837 N. Federal Highway. Continental.

The simple pleasures of the table—good food, personable service, comfortable ambience—are what this modestly stylish restaurant is all about.

The menu has a strong Italian bent, evidenced by dishes like a trio of fried zucchini blossoms stuffed with an airy three-cheese mousse, and a cookbook-perfect rendition of veal scaloppine lavished with artichoke hearts, sun-dried tomatoes and a tangy lemon-white wine sauce. • Dinner nightly 561/961-4156. $$ farmer’s table —1901 N. Military Trail.

American. Fresh, natural, sustainable, organic and local is the mantra at this both tasty and health-conscious offering from Mitchell Robbins and Joey Giannuzzi. Menu highlights include flatbreads, slow-braised USDA Prime short rib and the popular Buddha Bowl, with veggies, udon noodles and shrimp. • Breakfast Mon.–Fri. Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly.

Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/417-5836. $

grand lux cafe —Town Center at Boca Raton. American. The Cheesecake Factory’s sister brand is an upscale take on the original formula, with an atmosphere inspired by the great cafes of Europe. The menu offers a range of international flavors, and the specialty baked-to-order desserts are always a big hit. • Lunch and dinner daily; breakfast on Saturday and Sunday. 561/392-2141. $$ the grille on congress —5101 Congress Ave. American. Dishes at this longtime favorite range from tasty chicken dishes and main-plate salads to seafood options like Asian-glazed salmon or pan-seared yellowtail snapper. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/912-9800. $$

houston’s —1900 N.W. Executive Center Circle. Contemporary American. Convenient location, stylish ambience and impeccable

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Italian. Tradition trumps trendy, and comfort outweighs chic at this Boca favorite. The ambience is quiet and stately but not stuffy, and the menu is full of hearty dishes to soothe the savage appetite, like three-cheese eggplant rollatini and chicken scarpariello. • Dinner nightly. 561/988-0668. $$

kapow noodle bar—431 Plaza Real. PanAsian. This wickedly stylish Asian-inspired gastropub delivers a delicious and inventive punch to the taste buds. Among the hardest hitters is tuna poke with sesame citrus soy-marinated ahi tuna, crispy wontons and habanero cucumber cream—not to mention cheesecake springrolls with a banana caramel dipping sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/347-7322. $

kathy’s gazebo café —4199 N. Federal Highway. Continental. This local stalwart smoothly rolls along with its signature blend of French and Continental dishes. The ornate, formal dining room and equally formal service are anomalies these days but are comforting nonetheless. Classic dishes like creamy lobster bisque, house-made duck paté, broiled salmon with sauce béarnaise and dreamy chocolate mousse are as satisfying as ever. • Lunch Mon.– Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/395-6033. $$$

ke’e grill—17940 N. Military Trail.

American. The attraction here is carefully prepared food that is satisfying, flavorful and reasonably priced. The fist-sized crab cake is a good place to start, followed by sea bass with a soy-ginger-sesame glaze. • Dinner nightly.

561/995-5044. $$$

la ferme—9101 Lakeridge Blvd. French/

Mediterranean. Classic style and classically oriented French cuisine come together at this elegant yet comfortable restaurant in a west Boca shopping mall. Though there are a few Asian and Italian-inflected dishes on the menu, at its heart Le Ferme (“the farm”) is as French as the Eiffel Tower. Start with gougères, cheesy pastry puffs filled with béchamel; don’t miss the unconscionably savory cassoulet; and finish with a tux-n-tails version of pineapple upsidedown cake that takes a classic one better. • Dinner daily. 561/654-6600. $$$

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la nouvelle maison—455 E. Palmetto Park Blvd. French. Elegant, sophisticated French cuisine, white-glove service and a trio of (differently) stylish dining rooms make Arturo Gismondi’s homage to the Boca’s storied La Vieille Maison the home away from home to anyone who appreciates the fine points of fine dining. The cuisine showcases both first-rate ingredients and precise execution, whether a generous slab of silken foie gras with plum gastrique, posh lobster salad, cookbookperfect rendition of steak frites and assortment of desserts that range from homey apple tart to bananas Foster with chocolate and Grand Marnier. • Dinner daily. 561/338-3003. $$$

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f you’re making a list of the world’s great pasta dishes, pad Thai has to be right up there. Capturing the beguiling blend of sweet, sour, salty and savory flavors that characterize Thai cuisine, it’s one of the most popular dishes both in and outside Thailand.

Its origins, however, have less to do with cuisine than with politics. Pad Thai owes its creation to one Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the military ruler of Thailand, who in the 1930s and 1940s issued a variety of edicts intended to modernize the country and strengthen national pride. So he took what, according to some accounts, was an old family recipe and declared it the national dish of Thailand, encouraging street vendors to start preparing and serving it.

The rest, millions of miles of rice noodles and buckets of tamarind paste later, is history.

For this Challenge we judged three different shrimp pad Thais for their overall flavor, their ability to balance the four main flavor groups, and the quality and preparation of individual ingredients and value. We averaged those scores to come up with a total. We also tipped our toques to old Plaek Phibunsongkhram; thank Escoffier he wasn’t from a family of bad cooks.

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Portion size really stood out here; a large portion was easily enough to feed two. All the ingredients were well-cooked, but the flavors were more Chinese than Thai, perhaps not surprising as in Thailand it’s considered a Chinese-style noodle dish. $10.99

LEMONGRASS

Eight plump shrimp, fresh and perfectly cooked, graced a big pile of al dente noodles with carrot threads, bean sprouts, egg and crushed peanuts. By itself, the sauce was very sweet, but a few squeezes of lime took care of that. Pricy but worth it at $16.

PEI WEI

This was another version whose flavors were more Chinese than what we’ve grown to expect as Thai. It adds cubes of tofu to the shrimp and sprouts but omits the peanuts. The sauce doesn’t really balance the four flavors, with a funky heat predominating. $9.69

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Lemongrass: 101 Plaza Real S., Boca Raton, 561/544-8181

excellent

Pei Wei: 1914 N.E. Fifth Ave., Boca Raton, 561/226-0290

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dining guide details of preparation and service that make Matteo’s stand out. Baked clams are a good place to start, as is the reliable chopped salad.

Linguini frutti di mare is one of the best in town. • Dinner daily. 561/392-0773. $$

A hot pie, fresh out of the oven at Nick’s

max’s grille —404 Plaza Real. Contemporary American. After 24 years in Mizner Park, Dennis Max’s modern American bistro is a true local classic. The food and decor are both timeless and up to date, the ambience is that of a smooth-running big city bistro. Service is personable and proficient. The menu is composed of dishes you really want to eat, from grilled artichokes with rémoulade to wild Alaskan salmon with citrus beurre blanc to the wickedly indulgent crème brûlèe pie. It’s a classic.

Just like Max’s Grille. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat–Sun. Dinner daily. 561/368-0080. $$

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merlino’s —39 S.E. First Ave. Italian. Promis-

la rosa nautica—515 N.E. 20th St. Peruvian. Expect no ambience, no pretensions, low prices and food that satisfies on a very high level. Good starters include antichuchos, chunks of grilled beef heart, and causa, a terrine-like layering of mashed potatoes and chicken salad.

Ceviche and the lomo saltado are among the best in South Florida. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/296-1413. $$

la tre —249 E. Palmetto Park Road. Vietnamese. For almost two decades, this elegant little spot has been celebrating the delicate, sophisticated flavors and textures of traditional and contemporary Vietnamese cuisine. A house signature, shrimp tossed with coriander curry pesto, is an inspired riff on Vietnamese classics.

Service and wines match the refinement of the cuisine. • Dinner nightly. 561/392-4568. $$

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Le Rivage’s desserts are works of culinary art, including the “Floating Island”: delicate baked meringue on vanilla crème anglaise.

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la villetta—4351 N. Federal Highway. Italian. This is a well-edited version of a traditional Italian menu, complete with homemade pastas and other classic dishes. Try the signature whole yellowtail snapper encrusted in sea salt; it’s de-boned right at tableside. Shrimp diavolo is perfectly scrumptious. • Dinner nightly. (closed Mon. during summer). 561/362-8403. $$ le rivage —450 N.E. 20th St. French. Don’t overlook this small, unassuming bastion of traditional French cookery. That would be a mistake, because the dishes that virtually scream “creativity” can’t compare to the quiet pleasures served here—like cool, soothing vichyssoise, delicate fillet of sole with nutty brown butter sauce or perfectly executed crème brûlee.

Good food presented without artifice at a fair

price never goes out of fashion. • Dinner nightly.

561/620-0033. $$

madison’s —2006 N.W. Executive Center Circle. American. This location is something of a Bermuda Triangle for restaurants, with at least four eateries preceding this local outpost of a Canadian chain that styles itself a “New York grill and bar.” What Madison’s has going for it is an exceedingly handsome and capacious space, as well as service that is as professional as it is personable. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-0808. $$

maggiano’s —21090 St. Andrews Blvd.

Italian. Do as the Italians do and order familystyle, sit back and watch the endless amounts of gorgeous foods grace your table. In this manner, you receive two appetizers, two salads, two pastas, two entrées, two vegetables and two desserts. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/361-8244. $$

mario’s osteria—1400 Glades Road.

Italian. This popular spot is swanky in its reincarnation, but the rustic Italian and ItalianAmerican fare keeps with an osteria’s humbler pretensions. Signature dishes like the garlic rolls, lasagna and eggplant “pancakes” are on the new menu, as are butternut squash ravioli and thick, juicy rib-eye served “arrabiata” style.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/239-7000. $$ matteo’s —233 S. Federal Highway. Italian.

Hearty Italian and Italian-American food, served in giant “family style” portions, needs no reinventing. Though there is no shortage of local restaurants cooking in that genre, it’s the

ing to bring a little South Philadelphia swagger to the local dining scene, this handsome but not ostentatious restaurant got its initial buzz from the sometime involvement of reputed Philly mob boss Joey Merlino. The more long-lasting buzz should be about its first-rate Italian/Italian-American cuisine, which can satisfy both delicate (cheese-stuffed zucchini blossoms, simply roasted whole branzino) and hearty (classic pasta fagioli, lusty veal South Philly). • Dinner daily. 561/756-8437. $$$

morton’s the steakhouse —5050 Town Center Circle. Steak house. There’s seemingly no end to diners’ love of huge slabs of high-quality aged beef, nor to the carnivores who pack the clubby-swanky dining room of this meatery. The star of the beef show is the giant bone-in filet mignon, which trumps with unusually deep and meaty flavor. The side of Grand Marnier soufflé is a cloud of luscious, citrus-y beauty that says while beef may be what’s for dinner, I am what’s for dessert. • Dinner daily. 561/392-7724. $$$ new york prime—2350 N.W. Executive Center Drive. Steak house. This wildly popular Boca meatery packs them in with swift, professional service, classy supper club ambience and an extensive wine list. And, of course, the beef— all USDA Prime, cooked to tender and juicy lusciousness over ferocious heat. The bone-in rib-eye is especially succulent, but don’t neglect the New York strip or steak-house classics like oysters Rockefeller, garlicky spinach and crusty hash browns. • Dinner daily. 561/998-3881. $$$$ nick’s new haven-style pizzeria—2240 N.W. 19th St., #904. Italian. Cross Naples (thin, blistered crust, judicious toppings) with Connecticut (fresh clams and no tomato sauce), and you’ve got a pretty good idea of the pies coming out Nick Laudano’s custom-made ovens. The “white clam” pizza with garlic and bacon is killer-good; Caesar salad and tiramisu are much better than the usual pizzeria fare. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-2900. $

ninja spinning sushi bar—41 E. Palmetto Park Road. Japanese/sushi. “Whatever floats your boat” isn’t just a saying at this hipster

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The Office is a modern American gastropub that serves delicious, gourmet comfort food, in a setting reminiscent of a luxurious home office. Menu favorites include an array of juicy burgers, inventive salads, swell sandwiches, wonderful appetizers, mouthwatering seafood, chicken and beef entrees.

Vic & Angelo’s serves up delectable, rustic Italian cuisine, including soulsatisfying house-made pastas, crispy, thin-crust pizzas, refreshing salads, fresh fish and seafood, and enticing veal and chicken dishes, in a warm and welcoming setting.

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pellegrino’s —3360 N. Federal Highway.

Italian. The bold, brash flavors of New Yorkstyle Italian-American cuisine are as in your face as a Manhattan cabbie at this low-key favorite of chef-owner Bobby Pellegrino, nephew to the clan that owns the legendary Rao’s in East Harlem. Pungent smells of garlic, anchovies, tomatoes and peppers fill the air; dishes like the rarely seen spiedini alla Romana, chicken Scarpariello and seafood spaghetti in Fra Diavolo sauce fill your belly. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/368-5520. $$$ p.f. chang’s —1400 Glades Road. Chinese.

There may have been no revolution if Mao had simply eaten at the Boca outpost of P.F. Chang’s—the portions are large enough to feed the masses—and the exquisite tastes in each dish could soothe any tyrant. We particularly like the steamed fish of the day, as well as the Szechuan-style asparagus. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/393-3722. (Other Palm Beach County location: 3101 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/691-1610) $$ piñon grill—6000 Glades Road. Contemporary American. The menu seemingly lists every recent trendy dish to come out of modern American restaurant kitchens, but Piñon succeeds with spot-on execution, mammoth portions and reasonable prices. Try the grilled artichokes with a zippy Southwestern-style rémoulade, a pair of giant crab cakes with more of that good rémoulade or a chocolate waffle with raspberry sauce that is the irresistible definition of lusciousness. • Lunch and dinner daily.

Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/391-7770. $$

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Sushi Ray has been awarded Best Sushi Bar in Boca six times since 1992, according to readers and writers from several publications.

racks downtown eatery + tavern— 402 Plaza Real. Contemporary American.

Though the menu generally falls under the heading of modern American comfort food, that can mean anything from elegant presentations like the jaw-dropping lobster cobb salad to homier offerings like burgers and pizza, fiery Buffalo-style calamari, succulent chicken roasted in the wood-fired oven and an uptown version of everyone’s campfire favorite, s’mores.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/395-1662. $$ rafina—6877 S.W. 18th St. Greek. If you find the ambience of most Greek restaurants to be like a frat party with flaming cheese and ouzo, this contemporary, casually elegant spot will be welcome relief. Food and decor favor refinement over rusticity, even in such hearty and ubiquitous dishes like pastitsio and spanakopita. Standout dishes include the moussaka, the creamy and mildly citrusy avgolemono soup and the precisely grilled, simply adorned (with olive oil, lemon and capers) branzino. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/409-3673. $$

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ristorante sapori—301 Via de Palmas, Royal Palm Place. Italian. Sapori features fresh fish, veal and chicken dishes imbued with subtle flavors. The grilled Italian branzino, the veal chop Milanese and the zuppa di pesce served over linguine are especially tasty, and the pasta (all 17 kinds!) is available in full and half orders, with your choice of 15 zesty sauces.

• Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/3679779. $$ ruth’s chris —225 N.E. Mizner Blvd. Steak house. Not only does this steak-house favorite emphasize its New Orleans roots, it also distinguishes itself from many of its competitors by just serving better food. The signature chopped salad has a list of ingredients as long as a hose but they all work together. And how can you not like a salad topped with crispy fried onion strings. Steaks are USDA Prime and immensely flavorful, like a perfectly seared New York strip. The white chocolate bread pudding is simply wicked. • Dinner daily. 561/392-6746. $$$$

sapphire indian cuisine —500 Via de Palmas. Indian. Raju Brahmbhatt’s modern, sophisticated restaurant will smash any negative stereotypes of Indian cuisine or the restaurants that serve it. It’s sleek and stylish, with a well-chosen wine list and a staff that’s eager to please. The food is elegant and refined and alive with the complex blend of spices that makes Indian cuisine so intriguing. Try Bagarey Baigan, plush-textured, thumb-sized baby eggplants in a lush coconut-curry sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/362-2299. $$

seasons 52 —2300 Executive Center Drive.

Contemporary American. The food—seasonal ingredients, simply and healthfully prepared, accompanied by interesting wines—is firstrate, from salmon roasted on a cedar plank to desserts served in oversized shot glasses. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/998-9952. (Other Palm Beach County location: 11611 Ellison Wilson Road, Palm Beach Gardens, 561/6255852) $$ sushi ray—5250 Town Center Circle. Japanese/Sushi. Impeccably fresh and exactingly prepared sushi and other Japanese specialties are on display. The Nobu-esque miso sea bass gives a taste of this modern classic at a fraction of the price of the original, while the chef’s sushi assortment offers a generous arrangement of nigiri and maki for a reasonable $20. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/394-9506. $$

tanzy—301 Plaza Real. Italian. Part of the swanky iPic Theater complex (though it does not service the theater), this handsome spot relies on quality ingredients and careful preparation instead of culinary special effects and car chases. The Parma Bar, a sort of sushi bar for meat and cheese fanatics, also does terrific quattro formaggio fiocchi and spiced pear.

Savory grilled skirt steak and massive bone-in veal chops are excellent, as are the braised Angus beef short ribs with toasted pearl barley and collard greens. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/922-6699. $$$

BUZZ BITES II KITCHEN EXPANDS: Kitchen (319 Belvedere Road, West Palm Beach, 561/249-2281), the two-year-old restaurant from Tiger Woods’ former chef Matthew Byrne (inset) and wife Aliza, has expanded its tiny, perpetually packed dining room by taking over the nextdoor space.

Dubbed The Den at Kitchen, the small but airy space features a diminutive bar with a trio of stools, as well as five tables in a long banquette fitted with striped upholstery. It’s the perfect spot for a pre-dinner cocktail or more casual meal, as well as the restaurant’s signature four-course, prix-fixe dinner of homey yet sophisticated contemporary American fare.

Though the menu changes frequently to keep up with the season and the best products on the market, some dishes are just too popular to let go, among them a witty take on bacon and eggs (prosciutto, asparagus, goat cheese and poached egg); the chuck-brisket-short rib burger topped with foie gras; vanilla cake with coconutlemon curd icing; and the chef’s favorite, chicken schnitzel with a green salad and fried egg.

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sushi bar. Your sushi really does float on a boat, one of many bouncing along a channel cut into the top of the restaurant’s large, square sushi bar. High notes are the Mexican roll with tempura shrimp and avocado, and the sneakily fiery jalapeño-laced tuna tartare. If sushi doesn’t float your boat, gingery gyoza and crispy fried shrimp with a drizzle of spicy mayo probably will. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. 561/361-8688. $$

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Only the best: Feingold uses only heritage pork from heritage breeds, mostly Berkshires. It’s free-range, and raised without hormones and antibiotics. “It has the flavor of actual pig,” he says. “Not generic white meat.”

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Size matters: There’s a reason Dada serves 5-ounce pork chops about one-half-inch thick.

They’re just the right size to cook quickly to medium or medium-rare, getting a nice golden sear on the outside while maintaining moist and tender meat inside.

Thicker chops take longer and are more difficult to cook all the way through without drying out.

dishes, so much so that the chef wouldn’t dream of taking it off. It would almost be like banishing bacon.

Get over it: Speaking of cooking all the way through, the still-prevalent fear of eating pork that isn’t cooked to the texture of shoe leather is way overblown. “You [have a better chance of getting] a food-borne illness from improperly handled food than from trichinosis in the United States,” Feingold says. So don’t worry if your chops are cooked medium or even medium-rare.

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Low and slow: The only “trick” to getting sweet, soft, golden-brown caramelized onions is to take your time. It’s the long cooking over low heat that brings out the onions’ natural sugars and makes the aggressively flavored bulb as gentle as a baby.

You can, the chef says, add a little sugar to the onions to give them added sweetness and color.

Leftovers: Since you’re making a fairly big batch of onions, feel free to use them with meats other than pork.

Feingold recommends lamb or fatty cuts of beef like skirt steak.

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f bacon is the best thing that ever happened to the pig, then Bruce Feingold’s balsamic butterscotch onions have to be the second.

The chef-partner of Delray’s delightfully eclectic Dada (52 N. Swinton Ave., 561/330-3232) created this inventive porcine complement as a riff on his mother’s caramelized onions. It’s always served with pork chops and “always overcooked,” Feingold says. At Dada, the pork chops—cooked moist and juicy—are a whimsical homage to another childhood culinary staple, Shake-n-Bake seasoned coating.

In its two years on the menu, Feingold’s pork chops with balsamic butterscotch onions has become one of the restaurant’s most popular

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dining guide licked postage stamps that are larger than Ron and Rhonda Weisheit’s tiny jewel box of a restaurant, but what it lacks in space it more than makes up for in charm, sophistication and imaginative, expertly crafted food. Virtually everything is made in-house, from the trio of breads that first grace your table to the pasta in a suave dish of tagliatelle with duck and chicken confit. Don’t miss the jerk pork belly and grilled veal strip loin. • Dinner daily. 561/990-7969. $$

uncle julio’s—449 Plaza Real, Mizner Park.

Mexican. Taking Tex-Mex cuisine gently upscale with better-quality ingredients and more skillful preparation, this colorful restaurant offers more than the usual suspects. You can get honey chipotle chicken fajitas, as well as beef fajitas, and one of the only palatable tamales around. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/300-3530. $ Grilled calamari from Vino

tap 42 —5050 Town Center Circle. Gastro-

uncle tai’s —5250 Town Center Circle.

pub. This hugely popular nouveau-Industrial gastropub is not for the faint of eardrums when packed, but don’t let that discourage you. The kitchen here executes the hell out of a short, simple all-day menu. Grilled salmon chopped salad with tomatillo ranch dressing is delightful, as is guacamole studded with fat chunks of bacon and charred corn. Same goes for decadent shrimp mac-n-cheese. The wicked-good chocolate bread pudding with salted caramel sauce would be the envy of any Big Easy eatery.

Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner daily. 561/235-5819. $

Chinese. In an area with more cookie-cutter Chinese restaurants than cookies, Uncle Tai’s stands out for the elegance of its decor, the professionalism of its service and its careful preparation of familiar and less-familiar dishes. The “specialties” section of the menu has exciting dishes, like the Hunan vegetable pie, finely minced veggies sandwiched between sheets of crispy bean curd skin, and Hunanstyle lamb, whose seared and succulent meat shows off the kitchen’s skill in the use of wok qi.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/368-8806. $$$

taverna kyma —6298 N. Federal Highway.

Real. Italian. The classic Italian comfort food at this Mizner Park establishment is served with flair and great attention to detail. The reasonably priced menu—with generous portions—includes all your favorites (veal Parmesan, Caesar salad) and some outstanding seafood dishes (Maine lobster with shrimp, mussels and clams on linguine). There is a full wine list and ample people-watching given the prime outdoor seating. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561-447-2257. $$

Greek/Mediterranean. Few present Greek cuisine better. Expertly prepared dishes cover the spectrum of Mediterranean cuisine, from cold appetizers (dolmades—grape leaves stuffed with rice and herbs) to hot starters (spanakopita, baked phyllo with spinach and feta cheese) to mouthwatering entrées like lamb shank (slow-cooked in a tomato sauce and served on a bed of orzo), massive stuffed peppers or kebobs.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/994-2828. $$

trattoria romana—499 E. Palmetto Park Road. Italian. This local mainstay does Italian classics and its own lengthy list of ambitious specials with unusual skill and aplomb. The service is at a level not always seen in local eateries.

Pay attention to the daily specials, especially if it includes impeccably done langostini oreganata and the restaurant’s signature jumbo shrimp saltimbocca. • Dinner daily. 561/393-6715. $$$ truluck’s —351 Plaza Real. Seafood.

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The Pig’s exhaustive craft beer list is an emporium of the weird and hoppy, such as the Evil Twin Femme Fatale Yuzu Pale Ale.

This stylish and sophisticated Mizner Park restaurant applies the steak house formula of classy, clubby ambience, formal service and an extensive wine list to seafood from across the nation, with great and consistent success. Crab is the specialty here and there are myriad versions—stone, Dungeness, Alaskan, soft-shell and more. Crispy soft-shells stuffed with crab and andouille are very good, if served without a drizzle of ketchup-y sauce on top. • Dinner nightly. 561/391-0755. $$$

twenty twenty grille—141 Via Naranjas. Contemporary American. You’ve probably

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vino —114 N.E. Second St. Wine Bar/Italian.

An impressive wine list of some 300 bottles (all available by the glass) offers a multitude of choices, especially among Italian and California reds. The menu of “Italian tapas” includes roasted red peppers with Provolone, as well as ricotta gnocchi with San Marzano tomatoes.

• Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/869-0030. $

WEST BOCA city fish market—7940 Glades Road.

Seafood. A multimillion-dollar remodel of the old Pete’s has turned it into an elegant seafood house with a lengthy seafood-friendly wine list, impeccably fresh fish and shellfish cooked with care and little artifice. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/487-1600. $$ sybarite pig—20642 State Road 7. Contemporary American. A labor of love, pork and beer, everything at the Pig but the coarse-grain mustard is made in-house, from the bread for sandwiches to the eclectic sauces to the variety of terrific sausages. Roasted bone marrow and

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HABIT FORMING: As if you didn’t have enough choices to feed your burger habit, now there’s a new Habit Burger to fill the bill (not to mention your belly). This one is in Royal Palm Beach (280 S. State Road 7, 561/784-4011) in the giant Buckingham Plaza shopping center. It joins older siblings in Miami and Delray Beach.

Going up against the likes of Five Guys, BurgerFi and other upscale-casual burger joints, Habit brings what it calls the Charburger to the battle. Grilled over an open flame, Charburgers come in basic form (LTO, mayo and pickle) and tricked out with everything from teriyaki sauce and grilled pineapple to sauteed mushrooms and American cheese.

If burgers aren’t your habit, there are also several composed salads, from chicken Caesar to Santa Barbara Cobb, as well as sandwiches of line-caught, teriyakiglazed tuna, marinated tri-tip steak and grilled pastrami. wagyu duck fat burgers, along with subtly spicy “Hellswine,” are among the standouts. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. Brunch Sun. 561/883-3200. $

tempura house—9858 Clint Moore Road, #C-112. Japanese/Asian. Dark wood, rice paper and tiles fill the space. An appetizer portion of Age Natsu, fried eggplant, is a consummate Japanese delicacy. Don’t miss the ITET roll with shrimp tempura and avocado, topped with spicy mayo, tempura flakes and eel sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/883-6088. $$

villa rosano —9858 Clint Moore Road. Italian. You can be forgiven for imagining yourself in some rustic Italian hill town as the smells of

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and baked grouper topped with blue crab. The cinnamon-dusted beignets are puffs of amazingly delicate deep-fried air and should not under any circumstances be missed. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. Brunch Sun. 561/278-3364. $$

angelo elia pizza • bar • tapas —16950 Jog Road. Italian. Nothing on the menu of Angelo Elia’s modern, small plates-oriented osteria disappoints, but particularly notable are the meaty fried baby artichokes stuffed with breadcrumbs and speck, delicate chicken-turkey meatballs in Parmesan-enhanced broth, and Cremona pizza with a sweet-salty-earthy-pungent mélange of pears, pancetta, Gorgonzola, sundried figs and mozzarella. • Lunch Tues.–Sun. Dinner daily. 561/381-0037. $

apeiro kitchen & bar—14917 Lyons Road. Mediterranean. Burt Rapoport has another winner and west Delray diners have another reason to stay in their neighborhood with the debut of this stylish, contemporary Mediterranean eatery. With former Chicago toque David Blonsky as chef and partner, Apeiro’s menu spans the entire Mediterranean, with dishes like Moroccan-spiced lamb ribs, 14-ounce double-cut pork chops, and fluffy meatballs adorned with tomato sauce, ricotta and pesto. The apple crostata, baked in a wood-burning oven, is one of the best desserts in town. • Dinner daily. 561/501-4443. $$ garlic and tomato sauce waft through the air.

Start by sopping up the house olive oil with slices of crusty bread, then move on to a stellar version of clams Guazzetto and delicate fillets of sole done a la Francese. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. 561/470-0112. $$

BOYNTON BEACH bar louie—1500 Gateway Blvd., #100. Eclectic. Attempting to split the difference between happening bar and American café, Bar Louie in the sprawling Renaissance Commons complex mostly succeeds, offering burgers, pizzas, fish tacos and a variety of salads, all at moderate prices and in truly daunting portions. In South Florida’s world of trendy and expensive bistros, this is a welcome relief. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/853-0090. $

Burt, Max prime catch—700 E. Woolbright Road. and Smoke Seafood. Waterfront restaurants are few and

For $45, cigar aficionados can enjoy one cigar, six whiskey tastings and an array of top apps on Wednesday nights at this west Delray favorite.

far between in our neck of the woods, and those with good food are even more rare. Prime Catch, at the foot of the Woolbright bridge on the Intracoastal, is a best-kept secret. The simple pleasures here soar—a perfectly grilled piece of mahi or bouillabaisse overflowing with tender fish. Don’t miss one of the best Key lime pies around. • Lunch and dinner daily, Sunday brunch. 561/737-8822. $$

sushi simon—1614 S. Federal Highway.

Japanese. It’s been called “Nobu North” by some aficionados, and for good reason. Local sushi-philes jam the narrow dining room for such impeccable nigirizushi as hamachi and uni (Thursdays), as well as more elaborate dishes like snapper Morimoto and tuna tartare.

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Creative, elaborate rolls are a specialty. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/731-1819. $$

DELRAY BEACH 3rd and 3rd—301 N.E. Third Ave. Gastropub. This quirky, individualistic, obscurely located little place is one of the most important restaurants in Delray. The menu changes frequently, but hope the evening’s fare includes plump scallops with caramelized mango sauce, stunning delicious roasted cauliflower with Parmesan mousse and bacon, and wickedgood espresso panna cotta on it at your visit. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/303-1939. $$ 32 east —32 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. There are trendier, flashier, more celebrated restaurants than this beacon of vibrant modern American cuisine in downtown Delray, but there are no better restaurants anywhere in South Florida. Thank chef-partner Nick Morfogen, who turns out food that’s consistently as inspired, inventive and up-todate as it is thoroughly delicious. The menu changes weekly, but still look for items like the sublime black truffle-Gruyère pizza and the venison-wild boar sausage duo, which is the stuff of carnivorous fantasies. For dessert, the chocolate-peanut butter semifreddo is truly wicked in its unabashed lusciousness. • Dinner daily. 561/276-7868. $$$ 50 ocean—50 S. Ocean Blvd. Seafood. The former Upper Deck at Boston’s on the Beach is now the more upscale, seafood-oriented spot.

The menu ranges from familiar to slightly more inventive, from a classic lobster bisque and crisptender fried clam bellies to rock shrimp pot pie

atlantic grille—1000 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood/Contemporary American. This posh restaurant in the luxurious Seagate Hotel & Spa is home to a 450-gallon aquarium of tranquil moon jellyfish and a 2,500-gallon shark tank. Savor inventive cuisine that takes the contemporary to the extraordinary. Bold flavors, inspired techniques and the freshest ingredients make every meal a culinary adventure. • Lunch and dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/665-4900. $$ buddha sky bar—217 E. Atlantic Ave. #3. Pan Asian. Don’t miss a meal at this stylish Asia-meets-industrial chic spot with a view of the Delray skyline. Chinese-influenced dim sum is inspired, while rock shrimp tempura and Tokyo beef skewers with twin chimichurri sauces touch the heart and the taste buds. Veggie fried rice is exemplary thanks to the kitchen’s application of wok chi. • Dinner daily. 561/450-7557. $$

burt & max’s—9089 W. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport and Dennis Max have struck gold with their first collaboration in years, bringing an accessible and affordable brand of contemporary comfort food to west Delray. A few dishes from Max’s other eatery, Max’s Grille, have made the trek, like the hearty chopped salad and bacon-wrapped meatloaf. Other dishes are variations on the comfort food theme, including a stellar truffle-scented wild mushroom pizza. • Dinner daily. Sunday brunch.

561/638-6380. $$$ cabana el rey—105 E. Atlantic Ave. Cuban tropical. Little Havana is alive and well in Delray.

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561/274-9090. $$

cabo flats—Delray Marketplace, 14851 Lyons Road. Mexican. Mexican cuisine often has more personas than Madonna. This highly stylized cantina adds another—that of California’s Chicano culture. All your favorite Mexican dishes are there, as well as enormous margaritas, but also niftier items like the crispy tuna tacos. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/499-0378. $

caffé luna rosa—34 S. Ocean Blvd. Italian.

This favorite is always lively, and alfresco dining is the preferred mode. Entrée choices are enticing, but we went with the housemade pasta with pancetta, tomato and basil. Also delicious was the costoletta di vitello, a center-cut 14-ounce veal chop lightly breaded and served with San Marzano tomato sauce. For dessert, you can’t go wrong with the cheesecake imported from the Carnegie Deli. • Dinner daily. Brunch Sunday.

561/274-9404. $$

History Lesson

The handselected, perfectly aged Allen Brothers beef used at Fifth Avenue is courtesy of the fifth generation of family stewards at this Chicagobased company.

city oyster—213 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood.

This stylish mainstay of Big Time Restaurant Group serves up reasonably priced seafood that never disappoints, such as shrimp and grits with jumbo crab cake and jalapeño cheddar grits. • Lunch Mon.–Sun. Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining. 561/272-0220. $$ cut 432 —432 E. Atlantic Ave. Steak house.

Hipper decor, a more casual vibe and an inventive take on steak-house favorites make this sleek restaurant just different enough to be interesting. Starters such as ceviche (prepared Peruvian style) and ultrarich oysters Rockefeller are first-rate, while the wet-aged beef is appropriately tender and tasty. • Dinner daily. 561/272-9898. $$$

dada—52 N. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. The same provocative, whimsical creativity that spawned Dada the art movement infuses Dada the restaurant, giving it a quirky charm all its own. The comfort food with a moustache menu has its quirky charms too, like shake-n-bake pork chops with sweetsavory butterscotch onions, and a brownie-vanilla ice cream sundae with strips of five-spice powdered bacon. The wittily decorated 1920svintage house-turned-restaurant is, as they say, a trip. • Dinner daily. 561/330-3232 $$ d’angelo trattoria —9 S.E. Seventh Ave. Italian. Don’t go expecting the tired old “Italian” culinary clichés at this wickedly stylish spot. Open your palate to more authentic and exciting Roman-style cuisine, like roasted veal bone marrow with brisk caper-parsley pesto, creamy-dreamy burrata with roasted fava beans and watercress salad, the classic tonnarelli cacio e pepe (“cheese and pepper”) and the best gelato this side of a real Roman trattoria. • Dinner daily. 561/330-1237. $$

deck 84 —840 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport’s ode to laid-back

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tropical dining is like a day at the beach without getting sand between your toes. Though the restaurant is casual, the kitchen takes its food seriously, whether the steallar flatbreads, the thick and juicy 10-ounce special blend burger or homey seasonal cobbler. And the waterfront location just seems to make everything taste better. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner daily. 561/665-8484. $

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el camino —15 N.E. Second Ave. Mexican.

This sexy, bustling downtown spot is from the trio behind nearby Cut 432 and Park Tavern.

Fresh, quality ingredients go into everything from the tangy tomatillo salsas to the worldclass tacos of fish clad in crisp, delicate fried skin and set off by tart pineapple salsa. Cinnamon and sugar-dusted churros are the perfect dessert. And do check out the margaritas, especially the half-and-half blend of smoky mezcal and blanco tequila. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/865-5350. $$

fat rooster—204 E. Atlantic Ave. Southern.

Southern cookery is not for the faint of diet, but if you’re willing to splurge a little there’s lots to like at this Gary Rack outpost. Tart, crunchy fried green tomatoes topped with blue crabstudded rémoulade, for one. Crispy fried chicken and lusty shrimp-n-grits for another. You can count calories some other time. • Breakfast and lunch weekdays. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner daily.

561/266-3642. $$ fifth avenue grill—821 S. Federal Highway. American. Since 1989, this upscale tavern has been a Delray favorite. The straightforward menu focuses on entrées, especially the famed Allen Brothers beef; choose from numerous cuts and preparations—and add a lobster tail for good measure. • Lunch and dinner daily.

561/265-0122. $$

the grove —187 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Chef-partner Michael Haycook and chef Meghan O’Neal change their menu biweekly, turning out dishes exhilarating in their freshness, creativity and elegant simplicity. An appetizer of octopus with olive oil, crushed potato aioli and lemon is outstanding.

• Dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/266-3750. $$ henry’s —16850 Jog Road. American. This casual, unpretentious restaurant from Burt Rapoport in the west part of town never fails to delight diners. Expect attentive service and crisp execution of everything—from meat loaf, burgers and fried chicken to flatbreads and hefty composed salads. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/638-1949. $$

HEALTHY GOES FAST CASUAL: In the “Who Says Irony is Dead” department, the co-founder of Outback Steakhouse and creator of the gut-busting, 800-calorie Bloomin’ Onion has opened a healthy eating, fast-casual restaurant in Royal Palm Beach.

Veteran restaurateur Tim Gannon says his new Bolay (250 S. State Road 7, 561/899-0111) allows customers to create their own bowls from a roster of “nutrient-rich superfoods and tasty proteins,” washed down with coldpressed juices, infused teas and craft beers and wines.

What that means in your mouth are bowls that begin with bases like Peruvian quinoa, forbidden black rice or gluten-free cilantro noodles, to which are added assorted veggies (smoky cauliflower, mapleroasted butternut squash), proteins like Caribbean-spiced steak or ponzu tuna, and sauces from spicy Thai to romesco to cilantro pesto.

Former Wolfgang Puck chef Martin Oswald helped create the menu, which Gannon hopes will be popular enough to allow for expansion in Palm Beach County and throughout South Florida.

house of siam—25 N.E. Second Ave.,

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#116. Thai. The normally riotous flavors of Thai cuisine are muted at this family-friendly downtown spot, but that seems to suit diners just fine. Dishes, well-prepared and generously portioned, include steamed chicken and shrimp dumplings with sweet soy dipping sauce and crisp-fried duck breast in a very mild red curry sauce. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/330-9191. $$

E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American.

Blessed with a solid-gold location that offers Intracoastal views and plenty of parking, this bistro-esque eatery in the former Old Calypso spot starts off with a couple big advantages.

“Kitchen Nightmares” victor Paul Niedermann has given the food a shot in the arm, especially entrées. Roasted chicken is a dish that challenges a xkitchen’s skill, and the kitchen aces it. Even better are fillets of crisp-skinned local

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il girasole —1911 S. Federal Highway.

Northern Italian. This South Florida classic is not trendy, but it offers a level of comfort and consistency that has been bringing people back for 30 years. The food is fine hearty Italian, with excellent service. Try the veal Kristy or the calves brains. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/2723566. $$

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Max’s Social House takes a trip down memory lane on “Wayback Wednesdays” from 8 to 11 p.m. with DJ Fono.

j&j seafood bar & grill—634 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood. This local favorite on Atlantic Avenue—owned by John Hutchinson (who is also the chef) and wife Tina—serves up everything from burgers and wraps to a menu brimming with seafood options. Don’t forget to inquire about the stunning array of 10 specials—every night. • Lunch and dinner Tues.–Sat. 561/272-3390. $$

jimmy’s bistro —9 S. Swinton Ave. Eclectic. Best bets are a lovely salad of ripe tomatoes and fresh, milky house-made mozzarella; a rich, elegant version of lusty Cajun etouffee; and caramelized bananas in puff pastry with silken vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. • Dinner daily. 561/865-5774. $$

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la cigale —253 S.E. Fifth Ave. Mediterranean. True culinary professionals turn out gently updated and classically oriented dishes notable for the quality of their ingredients and careful preparation. Sweetbreads in chanterelle cream sauce are glorious; a barely grilled artichoke with mustardy remoulade is gloriously simple. Watching your server skillfully debone an impeccably fresh Dover sole is almost as satisfying as eating it. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/265-0600. $$

lemongrass bistro —420 E. Atlantic Ave. Pan-Asian. Casually hip ambience, friendly service, moderate prices and a blend of sushi and nouveau pan-Asian fare make this a popular destination. The quality of its seafood and care in its preparation are what gives Lemongrass its edge. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/2785050. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 101 Plaza Real S., Boca Raton, 561/544-8181; 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/7331344). $ mastino —25 N.E. Second Ave. Italian/pizza.

While pizza from the restaurant’s oak-fired oven may be the focus, Mastino also dishes an array of small plates, from an achingly rich mac-n-three cheeses to a hearty “Old School” meatball with tomato sauce and ricotta to plump littleneck clams in a garlicky white

wine-olive oil broth. • Lunch Fri.–Sun. Dinner daily. 561/921-8687. $

max’s harvest —169 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Dennis Max, instrumental in bringing the chef and ingredientdriven ethos of California cuisine to South Florida in the 1980s, is again at the forefront of the fresh, local, seasonal culinary movement.

Max’s Harvest soars with dishes like savory bourbon-maple glazed pork belly. • Dinner daily. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/381-9970. $$

max’s social house—116 N.E. Sixth Ave. Gastropub. Dennis Max has hit on a winning formula at this residence-turned-restaurant that has seen its share of incarnations. Expect inventive farm-to-fork small plates, artisan cocktails and craft beers, and a hip, urban vibe.

Highlights include house-made pimento cheese with pickled tomatoes, the Wagyu beef hotdog, thick and juicy all-American burgers, and gum-tender braised short rib with killer macn-cheese. Banana cream pie is so ridiculously luscious you’ll wish they served it in a gallon bucket instead of a mason jar. • Dinner daily.

561/501-4332. $$

the office —201 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Your office is nothing like this eclectic gastropub, unless your office sports

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more than two dozen craft beers on tap and a menu that flits from burgers and fries to mussels. Don’t miss the restaurant’s winning take on the thick, juicy Prime beef burger and simply wicked maple-frosted donuts with bacon bits and two dipping sauces. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/276-3600. $$

the porch—85 S.E. Sixth Ave. Italian. The

out of denmark—2275 S. Federal Highway.

Danish/Continental. Reprising the restaurant he closed in 2006 to care for his ill wife, chef-owner Jorgen Moller is back with his signature brand of Danish-inflected and continental dishes. The look, feel and menu remain very old school, the way his loyal patrons like it. The restaurant is perhaps best known for its Danish koldt bord, an array of small bites served on a three-tiered stand.

Entrées are more familiar; both rack of lamb and Wiener Schnitzel are well-prepared and flavorful.

Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/276-2242. $$$

prime —29 S.E Second Ave. Steak/Seafood.

park tavern—32 S.E. Second Ave. Con-

Second Ave. Seafood. Gary Rack, who also has scored with his spot in Mizner Park, certainly seems to have the restaurant Midas touch, as evidenced by this updated throwback to classic fish houses. Design, ambience and service hit all the right notes. Oysters are terrific any way you get them; grilled fish and daily specials are excellent.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/450-6718. $$$

temporary American. The guys from Cut 432 have done it again with this hip, casual modern American tavern. The menu is tightly focused and tightly executed, whether Maryland crab cakes featuring fat chunks of succulent crab or the behemoth slab of tender, juicy prime rib for a near-saintly $29. Don’t miss the decadent soft pretzel bites. • Dinner daily. Brunch Sat.– Sun. 561/265-5093. $$

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concept is simple: fresh, honest, inviting food.

The husband-wife team of Heinrich Lowenberg and Pamela Lomba delivers with classic and creative dishes, alike. Highlights include house-made capellini and the cocoa-dusted tiramisu. • Dinner daily. 561/303-3647. $$

Prime is aptly named for its heart of the action location, classy neo-supper club decor, extensive wine list and roster of designer steaks.

Starters and desserts fare better than entrées, especially plump, crabby Maryland-style crab cakes and indecently luscious chocolate bread pudding. Service is a strong suit too, so with a bit of work this good-looking restaurant will fully live up to its name. • Dinner daily.

561/865-5845. $$$

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famed pit master Bryan Tyrell manning the smoker, this joint smokes every other barbecue spot in South Florida. Pretty much everything that comes out of Tyrell’s three-wood smoker is good, but his competition-style ribs are porkysmoky-spicy heaven, the Sistine Chapel of rib-dom. Crisp-greaseless house-made potato chips, meaty baked beans and plush-textured banana-coconut pudding are also excellent.

The ambience is an inviting blend of Southern hospitality, urban chic and sports bar. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/330-4236. $$

sundy house—106 S. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American. It’s fine dining served in arguably the most beautiful restaurant and gardens in Delray. Menus are seasonal and imaginative. Try any of the fresh local fish dishes. • Lunch Tues.–Sat. Brunch Sun. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/272-5678. $$

terra fiamma—9169 W. Atlantic Ave. Italian.

The pleasures of simple, hearty, well-prepared Italian-American cuisine are front and center at Wendy Rosano’s latest venture. Among the pleasures you should enjoy are delicate, pillow-y veal meatballs in Marsala sauce; lusty chicken Allessandro with mushrooms, spinach and artichoke hearts; and a finely crafted tiramisu that’s as satisfying as it is familiar. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/495-5570. $$

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dining guide tramonti—119 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. In a world where restaurants chase trends with the relentlessness of Casanova in full Viagra heat, Tramonti stands out as a classy, classic outpost of authentic Italian cookery. Not trendy hardly means stodgy, however, as evidenced by expertly crafted, robustly flavorful dishes like the signature spiedini di mozzarella Romana, spaghetti al cartoccio and braciole Napoletana. Torta della nonna is a triumph of the highly refined simplicity that lies at the heart of true Italian cuisine. Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily. 561/272-1944. $$$

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tryst —4 E. Atlantic Ave. Eclectic. It’s tough to beat this hotspot with the lovely outdoor patio, well-chosen selection of artisan beers and not-the-usual-suspect wines, and an eclectic “gastropub” menu of small and large plates. Try the fried green tomato caprese. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/921-0201. $$ vic & angelo’s —290 E. Atlantic Ave. Italian. Giving old-school Italian eateries a modest jolt of more contemporary cuisine and more youthful ambience has proved a winning formula for V&A. Best bets include succulent little baked clams, lusty and hugely portioned rigatoni with “Sunday gravy,” and lemon and caper-scented chicken cooked under a brick. Tiramisu is delicious, as is the Italian version of doughnut holes, zeppole. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner daily. 844/842-2632. $$

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LAKE WORTH couco pazzo—915-917 Lake Ave. Italian. Despite the name, there’s nothing crazy about the cooking at this homey eatery. It’s the hearty, soul-satisfying Italian cuisine we’ve all come to know and love. Spaghetti Bolognese is a fine version of a Northern Italian classic. • Dinner nightly.

(Tues.–Sun. during summer). 561/585-0320. $$

paradiso ristorante —625 Lucerne Ave. Italian.

A Tomasz Rut mural dominates the main dining room, and there is also a pasticceria and bar for gelato and espresso. Chef Angelo Romano offers a modern Italian menu. The Mediterranean salt-crusted branzino is definitely a must-try. Plus, the wine list is a veritable tome. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/547-2500. $$$ safire asian fusion —817 Lake Ave. Pan-Asian.

Early Dinner

This stylish little restaurant offers food that gently marries East and West, plus a roster of more traditional Thai dishes and inventive sushi rolls. Menu standouts include tempura-fried rock shrimp or calamari cloaked with a lush-fiery “spicy cream sauce.” Expect neighborly service and reasonable prices. • Lunch Tues.–Fri. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/588-7768. $

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If you’re hungry for Maine lobster, plucked live out of giant tanks and cooked to order, this modest replica of a 1920s train station is the place to go. Lobsters come in all sizes (up to 6 pounds) and are so reasonably priced that getting a taste of one without reservations is highly unlikely. • Dinner nightly. 561/547-9487. $$$

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bice—313 Worth Ave. Italian. Bice continues to hold the title of favorite spot on the island. The venerable restaurant offers a marvelous array of risottos and fresh pastas and classic dishes like veal chop Milanese, pounded chicken breast and roasted rack of lamb. The

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wine list features great vintages. • Lunch and dinner daily. Outdoor dining. 561/835-1600. $$$

buccan—350 S. County Road. Contemporary American. Casual elegance of Palm Beach meets modern culinary sensibilities of Miami at the first independent restaurant by chef Clay Conley. The design offers both intimate and energetic dining areas, while the menu is by turn familiar (wood-grilled burgers) and more adventurous (truffled steak tartare with crispy egg yolk, squid ink orrechiette). Dinner daily. 561/833-3450. $$

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café boulud—The Brazilian Court, 301 Australian Ave. French with American flair. This hotel restaurant gives Palm Beach a taste of Daniel Boulud’s world-class cuisine inspired by his four muses. The chef oversees a menu encompassing classics, simple fare, seasonal offerings and dishes from around the world. Dining is in the courtyard (not available during summer), the elegant lounge or the sophisticated dining room. • Dinner daily.

561/655-6060. $$$

café l’europe—331 S. County Road. Current international. A Palm Beach standard, the café has long been known for its peerless beauty, the piano player, the chilled martinis and the delicious Champagne and caviar bar. Try one of its sophisticated classics like Wiener schnitzel with herbed spaetzle, grilled veal chop and flavorful pastas. • Lunch Tues.–Fri. Dinner nightly (closed Mon. during summer). 561/655-4020. $$$

chez jean-pierre—132 N. County Road. French.

Sumptuous cuisine, attentive servers and a see-and-beseen crowd are hallmarks of one of the island’s premier restaurants. Indulgences include scrambled eggs with caviar and the Dover sole meunière filleted tableside. When your waiter suggests profiterolles au chocolat or hazelnut soufflé, say, mais oui! • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/833-1171. $$$

cucina dell’ arte —257 Royal Poinciana Way. Italian. The wide range of items on the menu and the great quality of Cucina’s cuisine, combined with its fine service, ensures a fun place for a casual yet delectable meal—not to mention being a vantage point for spotting local celebs. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

Outdoor dining. 561/655-0770. $$ echo —230A Sunrise Ave. Asian. The cuisine reverberates with the tastes of China, Thailand, Japan and Vietnam. The Chinese hot and sour soup is unlike any other, and the sake list is tops. This offsite property of The Breakers is managed with the same flawlessness as the resort. • Dinner nightly (during season). 561/8024222. $$$

hmf—1 S. County Road. Contemporary American.

Beneath the staid, elegant setting of The Breakers, HMF is the Clark Kent of restaurants, dishing an extensive array of exciting, inventive, oh-so-contemporary small plates. Don’t depart without sampling the dreamy warm onion-Parmesan dip with house-made fingerling potato chips, the sexy wild boar empanaditas, chicken albondigas tacos and Korean-style short ribs. The wine list is encyclopedic. Dinner daily. 561/290-0104. $$

imoto —350 S. County Road. Asian Fusion/Tapas. Clay Conley’s “little sister” (the translation of Imoto from Japanese) is next to his always-bustling Buccan. Imoto turns out Japanese-inspired small plates with big-city sophistication, like witty Peking duck tacos and decadent tuna and foie gras sliders. Sushi selection is limited but immaculately fresh. • Dinner daily. 561/833-5522. $$

Come discover a hidden gem filled with pastries, cookies, espresso, gelato, cappuccino, Italian imports, daily lunch menu, wine and an authentic Italian family!

We change our menu daily!

Visit our site to see what mamma is cooking today: www.cosaduci.com

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As much as we love the maincourse fare at Café Chardonnay, the deep-dish apple pie with caramel sauce and cinnamon ice cream is worth the drive in and of itself.

jové kitchen & bar—2800 S. Ocean Blvd.

Contemporary Italian. Jové is named for the Italian god of the sky, and when the folks at the tony Four Seasons decided to remake their premier restaurant, they reached high to offer the kind of food, service and ambience that would appeal to both their affluent older clientele and a younger, hipper, foodie-oriented crowd.

Mission accomplished with dishes like the inventive take on octopus marinated and grilled with baby fennel, red pepper sauce, artichoke and olives. Desserts sparkle too. • Dinner daily.

561/533-3750. $$ leopard lounge and restaurant— The Chesterfield Palm Beach, 363 Cocoanut Row. American. The restaurant offers excellent food in a glamorous and intimate club-like atmosphere. In fact, it’s advisable to make early reservations if a quiet dinner is the objective; the place becomes a late-night cocktail spot after 9. The menu is equally decadent. • Breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner daily. 561/659-5800. $$

meat market—191 Bradley Place. Steak house. “Meat Market” may be an inelegant name for a very elegant and inventive steak house but there’s no dissonance in its food, service or ambience. Multiple cuts of designer beef from multiple sources can be gilded with a surprising array of sauces, butters and upscale add-ons. Whole

roasted cauliflower is an intriguing starter, while a meaty Niman Ranch short rib atop lobster risotto takes surf-n-turf to a new level. Cast your diet to the winds and order the dessert sampler.

• Dinner daily. 561/354-9800. $$$$

nick & johnnie’s —207 Royal Poinciana Way. Contemporary American. Expect flavorful, moderately priced California-esque cuisine in a casual setting with affordable wines and young, energetic servers. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. Breakfast Sun. 561/655-3319. $$ renato’s —87 Via Mizner. Italian with continental flair. This most romantic hideaway is buzzing in season and quietly charming all year long with Italian classics and a Floridian twist—like the sautéed black grouper in a fresh tomato and pernod broth with fennel and black olives and the wildflower-honey-glazed salmon fillet with crab and corn flan. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/655-9752. $$$

ta-boo—2221 Worth Ave. American. This self-described “American bistro” is less typical “American” restaurant or classical French “bistro” than it is posh-casual refuge for the see-andbe-seen crowd in and around Palm Beach. The eclectic menu offers everything from roasted duck with orange blossom honey-ginger sauce to dry-aged steaks and an assortment of pizzas. •

Lunch and dinner daily. 561/835-3500. $$

trevini ristorante —290 Sunset Ave. Italian. Expect a warm experience, complemented by a stately but comfortable room and excellent food. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly.

561/833-3883. $$$

PALM BEACH GARDENS café chardonnay—4533 PGA Blvd. Contemporary American. This longtime stalwart never rests on its laurels. Instead, it continues to dish finely crafted American/Continental fare with enough inventiveness to keep things interesting. The popular herb-and-Dijonmustard rack of lamb, regular menu items like duck with Grand Marnier sauce, and always superlative specials reveal a kitchen with solid grounding in culinary fundamentals. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily. 561/627-2662. $$

WEST PALM BEACH café centro —2409 N. Dixie Highway.

Italian. There are many things to like about this modest little osteria—the unpretentious ambiance, piano Thursday through Saturday during season, the fine service, the robust portions and relatively modest prices. And, of course, the simple, satisfying Italian cuisine.

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The kitchen breathes new life into hoary old fried calamari, gives fettucine con pollo a surprisingly delicate herbed cream sauce, gilds snowy fillets of grouper with a soulful Livornese. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner daily.

561/514-4070. $$

leila—120 S. Dixie Highway. Mediterranean. Flowing drapes and industrial lighting complete the exotic decor in this Middle Eastern hit. Sensational hummus is a musttry. Lamb kebab with parsley, onion and spices makes up the delicious Lebanese lamb kefta. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sun. 561/659-7373. $$ marcello’s la sirena—6316 S. Dixie Highway.

Italian. You’re in for a treat if the pasta of the day is prepared with what might be the best Bolognese sauce ever. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. (closed Memorial Day–Labor Day). 561/585-3128. $$

pistache —1010 N. Clematis St., #115. French.

Pistache doesn’t just look like a French bistro, it cooks like one. The menu includes such bistro specialties as coq au vin and steak tartare. All that, plus guests dining al fresco have views of the Intracoastal Waterway and Centennial Park. • Brunch Sat.–Sun. Lunch and dinner daily. 561/833-5090. $$ rhythm café —3800 S. Dixie Highway. Casual American. Once a diner, the interior is eclectic with plenty of kitsch. The crab cakes are famous here, and the tapas are equally delightful. Homemade ice cream and the chocolate chip cookies defy comparison. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/833-3406. $$

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rocco’s tacos—224 Clematis St. Mexican. Big Time Restaurant Group has crafted a handsome spot that dishes Mexican favorites, as well as upscale variations on the theme and more than 200 tequilas. Tacos feature house-made tortillas and a variety of proteins. Madeto-order guacamole is a good place to start. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 561/650-1001. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 5250 Town Center Circle, Boca Raton, 561/416-2131; 110 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/808-1100; 5090 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/623-0127) $

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table 26°—1700 S. Dixie Highway. Contemporary American. Take a quarter-cup of Palm Beach, a tablespoon of Nantucket, a pinch of modern American cookery and a couple gallons of the owners’ savoir faire, and you have Eddie Schmidt’s and Ozzie Medeiros’s spot.

The menu roams the culinary globe for modest contemporary tweaks on classically oriented dishes. Try the fried calamari “Pad Thai.” • Dinner daily. 561/855-2660. $$$

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COCONUT CREEK nyy steak—Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 N.W. 40th St. Steak house. The second incarnation of this New York Yankees-themed restaurant swings for the fences—and connects—with monstrous portions, chic decor and decadent desserts. The signature steaks, dry-aged for 21 days, are a meat lover’s dream; seafood specialties include Maine lobster and Alaskan king crab.

Don’t miss the NYY Steak 151 volcano for dessert. • Dinner daily. Brunch Sun. 954/977-6700. $$$$

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dining guide DEERFIELD BEACH tamarind asian grill & sushi bar —949 S. Federal Highway. Asian. Quiet and soothing, this multicultural venue serves sushi, sashimi, yakitori and wide-ranging Japanese appetizers. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/4288009. $$

FORT LAUDERDALE 15th street fisheries —1900 S.E. 15th St. Seafood. Surrounded by views of the Intracoastal, this Old Florida-style restaurant features seafood and selections for land lovers.

We love the prime rib. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/763-2777. $$

3030 ocean —Harbor Beach Marriott

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Café Emunah offers more than a dozen specialty sushi rolls, all priced at $14.

Resort, 3030 Holiday Drive. American. Now led in the kitchen by Adrienne Grenier of “Chopped” fame, the new-look 3030 has a farm-to-table focus, along with an emphasis, as always, on locally sourced seafood. • Dinner nightly. 954/765-3030. $$$

bistro 17—Renaissance Fort Lauderdale Hotel, 1617 S.E. 17th St. Contemporary American. This small, sophisticated restaurant continues to impress with competently

presented food. The menu is surprisingly diverse. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

954/626-1748. $$

bistro mezzaluna —1821 S.E. 10th Ave. Italian. The bistro is all Euro-chic decor—mod lighting, abstract paintings. It also has good food, from pastas to steaks and chops and a wide range of fresh seasonal fish and seafood. Don’t forget the phenomenal wine list. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/522-9191. $$

bongusto ristorante —5640 N. Federal Highway. Italian. This is a well-kept secret, featuring dishes that will meet the standards of those who savor authentic Italian. Involtini capricciosi—tender-rolled veal stuffed with spinach, prosciutto and fontina cheese—is satiating, while the whole yellowtail snapper is an equal delight. • Dinner daily. 954/7719635. $$

café emunah—3558 N. Ocean Blvd.

Kosher, organic. Don’t let the New Age “spirituality” throw you off. Focus on the fresh, organic ingredients that are incorporated into inventive sushi, soups and salads and (mostly) Asian-influenced entrées. • Lunch and dinner Sun.–Thurs. Lunch Fri. 954/561-6411. $

café martorano —3343 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Italian. Standouts include crispy calamari in marinara sauce and flavorful veal osso buco.

Our conclusion: explosive flavor, attention to all the details and fresh, high-quality ingredients.

Waiters whisper the night’s specials as if they’re family secrets. • Dinner daily. 954/561-2554. $$ canyon—1818 E. Sunrise Blvd. Southwestern. Billed as a Southwestern café, this twist on regional American cuisine offers great meat, poultry and fish dishes with distinctive mixes of lime, cactus and chili peppers in a subtle blend of spices. The adobe ambience is warm and welcoming, with a candlelit glow. • Dinner nightly. 954/765-1950. $$ casablanca café—3049 Alhambra St. American, Mediterranean. The restaurant has an “Arabian Nights” feel, with strong Mediterranean influences. Try the peppercorn-dusted filet mignon with potato croquette, Gorgonzola sauce and roasted pepper and Granny Smith relish. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/764-3500. $$ casa d’angelo —1210 N. Federal Highway, #5A. Italian. Many dishes are specials—gnocchi, risotto and scaloppine. The marinated grilled veal chop is sautéed with wild mushrooms in a fresh rosemary sauce. A delightful pasta entrée is the pappardelle con porcini:

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This Passover, whether you choose to celebrate with us or in the comfort of your own home, let TooJay’s do the preparation for your holiday meal. Call ahead and we will have your order ready; ask about our express pick-up options. To dine in on Friday, April 22 or Saturday, April 23, please call to make a reservation for the 5:00 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. seating.

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thick strips of fresh pasta coated in a light red sauce and bursting with slices of porcini mushrooms. • Dinner nightly. 954/564-1234. $$

chima—2400 E. Las Olas Blvd. Steaks. The Latin American rodizio-churrascaria concept—all the meat you can eat, brought to your table—is done with high style, fine wines and excellent service. The sausages, filet mignon, pork ribs and lamb chops are very good. • Dinner daily. 954/712-0580. $$$ eduardo de san angel—2822 E. Commercial Blvd. Mexican. Try master chef Eduardo Pria’s pan-sautéed Florida blue crab and yellow corn cakes. As far as soups go, there’s the pasilla-chile-flavored chicken broth with fresh “epazote” (fried corn tortilla strips, sliced avocado, sour cream and homemade cheese).

The pan-seared beef tenderloin filet mignon is sublime. • Dinner Mon.–Sat. 954/772-4731. $$$ il mulino —1800 E. Sunrise Blvd. Italian.

This modest, unpretentious Italian restaurant doesn’t attempt to reinvent the culinary wheel. Instead, it dishes up big portions of simple, hearty, flavorful food at extremely reasonable prices. Zuppa de pesce is a wealth of perfectly cooked seafood over linguini in a light tomato-based sauce. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/524-1800. $

indigo—Riverside Hotel, 620 E. Las Olas Blvd.

Seafood. Enjoy delightful al fresco dining while sampling fresh seafood and exotic specialties.

Dependable choices like ahi tuna are joined by more intriguing seafood dishes; landlubbers will enjoy a selection of steaks and chops. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 954/467-0671. $$ johnny v—625 E. Las Olas Blvd. American.

Johnny Vinczencz made his mark at Boca’s Maxaluna and Max’s Grille and (the former) De La Tierra at Delray’s Sundy House. Now in his own restaurant on Las Olas Boulevard, Vinczencz has evolved. As for the impressive wine list, Johnny V has more than 600 selections.

• Lunch and dinner daily. Outdoor dining.

954/761-7920. $$

sea watch—6002 N. Ocean Blvd. Seafood.

For a right-on-the-beach, welcome-to-Florida dining experience, there’s Sea Watch. Decked out in a pervasive nautical theme, this is definitely tourist country, but it’s pretty and on the beach. The perfect entrée for the indecisive: The broiled seafood medley brochette, with lobster tail, jumbo shrimp and scallops, yellow squash, zucchini, mushrooms and pineapple. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/781-2200. $$ sublime —1431 N. Federal Highway.

Vegetarian. Not only does the menu offer an

alternative to animal agriculture, the company’s profits support animal welfare. The haute vegetarian cuisine delivers with dishes like mushroom ravioli. • Dinner Tues.–Sun. 954/615-1431. $

sunfish grill—2775 E. Oakland Park Blvd.

Seafood. Think inventive, sophisticated food, the kind that made the original Pompano Beach restaurant a major destination. Its take on tuna tartare is still the gold standard, and you can’t go wrong with entrées like onioncrusted salmon or the grilled Atlantic swordfish. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 954/561-2004. $$

timpano italian chophouse —450 E. Las Olas Blvd., #110. Italian. Sink yourself into oversized booths with elegant white tablecloths and prepare to dive into excellent signature bone-in steaks. The menu includes chops and a diverse array of fresh fish and pasta dishes. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner daily.

954/462-9119. $$

HOLLYWOOD lola’s on harrison—2032 Harrison St.

New American. Chef-owner Michael Wagner reinvigorates quintessentially American dishes with exacting technique and inventive flavor combos. Short ribs braised in Coca-Cola come

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Don’t be surprised when your waiter pulls you up on the table to dance. • Dinner nightly. 954/929-4010. (Also: 270 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/303-3602). $$

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seafood world—4602 N. Federal Highway. Seafood. This seafood market and restaurant, more suited to a pier, offers some of the freshest seafood in the county.

Its unpretentious atmosphere is the perfect setting for the superb king crab, Maine lobster, Florida lobster tails and much more. Tangy Key lime pie is a classic finish. • Lunch and dinner daily. 954/942-0740. $$$

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calypso restaurant —460 S. Cypress Road. Caribbean. This bright little dining room and bar (beer and wine only) has a Caribbean menu that is flavorful, imaginative—and much more. Calypso offers a spin on island food that includes sumptuous conch dishes, Stamp & Go Jamaican fish cakes and tasty rotis stuffed with curried chicken, lamb or seafood. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Fri. 954/942-1633. $ darrel & oliver’s café maxx—2601 E. Atlantic Blvd. American. The longstanding institution from chef Oliver Saucy is as good now as when it opened in the mid-1980s. Main courses offer complex flavor profiles, such as the sweet-onion-crusted yellowtail snapper on Madeira sauce over mashed potatoes. Parts of the menu change daily. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sunday.

954/782-0606. $$$

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Steaks. Michael Mina’s elegant steak house in tony Turnberry Isle features impeccable service, an encyclopedic wine list and a roster of USDA Prime Angus, Wagyu and Kobe steaks. Try the feather-light beignets accompanied by cookbook-perfect crème brûlée and chocolate pot du crème. • Dinner nightly. 786/279-6600. $$$$ 2/29/16 3:25 PM

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BAL HARBOUR the palm— 9650 E. Bay Harbor Drive. Steaks.

The portions are giant, but you’ll surely clear your plate of 3- to 7-pound jumbo Nova Scotia lobster or a tender filet mignon. S&S cheesecake shipped from the Bronx is pure heaven. • Dinner nightly. 305/868-7256. $$$

COCONUT GROVE bizcaya grill—Ritz-Carlton, 3300 S.W. 27th Ave. European-American. The versatile menu features “simply grilled” items. The boldly flavored menu also offers “house specialties,” contemporary takes on bistro fare. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. 305/644-4675. $$

CORAL GABLES caffe abbracci—318 Aragon Ave. Italian. The dining room is handsome and understated, a fitting ambience for Miami’s movers and shakers. That’s just part of the draw of Abbracci, though the regional Italian fare has achieved its own status as some of the best in the Gables. You can’t go wrong with the porcini risotto or the pounded veal chop “tricolore.” • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner nightly. 305/441-0700. $$ la palme d’or—The Biltmore, 1200 Anastasia Ave. French. Chef Philippe Ruiz emphasizes modern French fare from the southern regions of France, doing so with classic technique and light-handed manner. The portions are relatively small, encouraging five courses, and guests may design their own custom tastings, with a wide variation in price. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 855/969-3084. $$$$

ortanique on the mile —278 Miracle Mile. Caribbean. Menu highlights include tropical mango salad, spicy fried calamari salad, Caribbean ahi tuna with wasabi potatoes and jerk-spiced Cornish game hen. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 305/446-7710. $$$

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pascal’s on ponce—2611 Ponce de Leon Blvd.

French. When Pascal Oudin ran the kitchen at the Grand Bay Grand Café, his tropical take on French cuisine earned him national acclaim. Now, he offers a more streamlined, but still contemporary, French menu. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 305/444-2024. $$$$

MIAMI azul—500 Brickell Key Drive. Contemporary FrenchAsian fusion. This award-winning restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental serves jaw-dropping fare, from wild Maine scallops with parsnip and Brussels sprout to Kurobuta pork belly with braised cabbage. While looking out over the stunning expanse of Biscayne Bay from the chic, elegant dining room, check out the equally stunning wine list, which reads like an encyclopedia of the world’s great vintners. • Dinner Tues.–Sat. 305/913-8288. $$$$

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cena by michy—6927 Biscayne Blvd. Contemporary American. Dishes like creamy truffled polenta with poached egg and bacon are lovely. The wine list is exciting and exceptionally well-chosen, and service is on a level rarely seen in South Florida restaurants. • Dinner Tues.– Sun. 305/759-2001. $$$

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WHERE: Arturo’s Ristorante, Boca Raton WHAT: The Unico Highland Beach chapter enlisted Arturo’s, Seminole Casino, Vince’s Smoke Inn, Babione-Kraeer Funeral Home and Kings Cigars to help sponsor an affair that raised funds for scholarship and charity programs.

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WHERE: Place of Hope at the Leighan and David Rinker Campus, West Palm Beach WHAT: The third annual Bash raised money to benefit Florida’s foster youth. Arthur Adler, chairman of the Boca West Charitable Foundation, was named the Jay DiPietro “Hero of Hope.”

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WHERE: Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach WHAT: This dinner for Nat King Cole Generation Hope raised more than $100,000 for music education. Nat King Cole’s twin daughters, Timolin and Casey, started Generation Hope to honor their father and his love of music.

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and generally ignoring financial constraints to complete West Palm’s city hall-library complex. Jeri Muoio, who won a second term last year, is more bureaucratic.

Troy McLellan, director of the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce, calls the strong mayor “an awesome question. It depends on who the mayor is. If it’s someone who’s pro-business, we’d like that. If not …” His unfinished thought runs to Anthony Majhess, who ran against Haynie in 2014 as an anti-development candidate. BocaWatch publisher/council critic Al Zucaro, who ran unsuccessfully for mayor of West Palm Beach in 2007, regularly asks the council to convene a charter review committee that would examine the strong-mayor topic.

Among Florida’s largest cities, the trend has been toward consolidating power in an elected chief executive. The five most populous cities—Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Orlando—have strong mayors. Fort Lauderdale, which ranks just below them, does not. Ironically, the only other

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Widespread community support would be necessary before any referendum on changing Boca’s charter. Making the job more attractive also might not necessarily attract better candidates. Some people might run just for the money. Muoio’s salary recently increased to $150,000. One could argue that Boca Raton’s growth since 1980 shows that the current system works.

Only a formal debate, however, could bring out all the possible benefits and risks. Saying

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THAT SHIVERY SEASON BETWEEN WINTER AND SUMMER IS WHEN DREAMS ARE MADE.

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Back in those days you could actually indulge it a little. You weren’t stationed every day in front of a computer screen, or fighting traffic or eating quinoa salads for lunch at your desk while scrolling through Facebook.

Nope, you were most likely riding your tricycle very, very fast on a lumpy sidewalk or rolling down a grassy hill because it made you dizzy. There was cloud watching to do, ice cream trucks to chase, books to read and Bazooka bubblegum fortunes to unwrap.

But maybe the best spring-fever caper I ever pulled off was my sophomore year in college when I took off to Europe with two of my best girlfriends. I had enlisted the help of my humanities teacher, who testified that a trip like this would be valuable to my education. My parents bought it. We were ostensibly buying Euro rail tickets, but we really planned on hitchhiking, a strategy that became clear when the first batch of pictures sent home and developed at Eckerd clearly showed one of me with my thumb out holding a sign that said “Paris.”

But hitchhike we did, from London to Paris to Germany, Austria, Spain and Italy, back to Amsterdam, then on to the Greek Islands. One month turned into three, then into five and all the time I felt as if I had never been so alive. Like I had never eaten real food before my first French omelet.

How scary Venice was on a rainy night when hollow footsteps followed you in the dark. The way the lacy Chartres Cathedral glowed lavender in the early spring light, or the sound of tinkling bells each morning as an old man herded goats across the beach at dawn on the island of Ios. It was all like that: full-blown adventures interspersed with endless cathedrals and art museums (we loved that humanities teacher). Like the day a German surgeon picked us up and invited us to dinner with his family, after a history lesson at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. Or the time we happily unrolled our sleeping bags in the Lyons apartment of a woman we had befriended while hitchhiking.

She kept unusual work hours; it wasn’t until she came home near dawn that we realized she was a prostitute.

Every day was something new; you unfolded a map of Europe and decided where to go—and then, the next day, you plotted another adventure. You met kids from all over the world doing the same thing—from Britain to Canada to South Africa—some on the hashish trail to Morocco, others just winging it like we were.

That was the year April spring fever propelled me across a continent—and into a lifelong love of traveling and discovery.

That’s what I am daydreaming about now, as the trembly damp breezes start ruffling the papers on my desk, and the days get longer and the air is soft and uncertain. It’s time to conjure up an adventure, a way back into the real world. After all, that may be the only way to cure spring fever: by giving in to it.

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[ by john shuff ]

Spring Recollections THE SEASON OF RENEWAL NEVER GETS OLD.

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ll of us have our favorite times of the year, the seasons that bring a smile to our faces, invigorate our spirits and ignite memories that have been locked in the vault for a lifetime. Mine is spring, a time of year that for me is all about renewal, rebirth and hope. It’s a time when trees, flowers The author and his girl, and plants awaken, when the days are Margaret Mary longer, when farmers sow their fields for the fall harvest and TV commercials tout Miracle-Gro rather than Viagra. Historically, it’s also the time of year when people write sonnets and songs about Easter bonnets and are generally prone to all kinds of romantic escapades.

As I get older, this season prompts plenty of recollections, bringing a smile to my face and the realization that time has gone by much, much too quickly: w Washing winter off the family car and turning the hose on my shirtless little brothers. w Raking up soggy leaves left over from fall. w The blooming magnolia tree in our backyard in Cincinnati. w My dad planting his barren garden and pruning his naked rose bushes. w Mom’s spring cleaning, which began with opening the windows and screened doors to welcome in the fresh breeze. w The first grilled hot dog at “Ted’s in the Park” after the brutal Buffalo, N.Y. winter.

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Hitchhiking over spring break from South Bend, Ind. to Cincinnati through the budding Indiana countryside and stopping at the McDonald’s on Route 100 in Indianapolis with its sign that said, “Over 1 Million Sold.” w The Cincinnati Reds’ home opener at Crosley Field. w Watching The Masters on TV with my dad.

But the best memories of spring were those with my girl, Margaret Mary Scanlan, a coed at St. Mary’s College.

Spring is the perfect background music for amping up starry-eyed love. And that was the case with us. We couldn’t get enough of one another, going out to dinner at least four nights a week, walking everywhere, talking about everything. Occasionally, I’d sneak a kiss or just hold her.

When I left her each evening and walked back to my dormitory at Notre Dame all I could think of was when I would next see her.

I don’t know where the time has gone, but 56 years have passed since those early wistful springtimes and the year we got married. Our love is different now—not as intense—but still steady and quietly passionate about the things that deeply matter to both of us: our children, our friends, our family and, yes, one another.

And that is the best gift: That even in this season of my life, springtime is here again, and so is that girl I married. w

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