Delray Beach magazine Nov/Dec 2016

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Shiny Holiday Stuff THIS SEASON’S GOLD STANDARD

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Old School Square Amps Up

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REMEMBERING OLD DELRAY & PROJECT HOLIDAY

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contents november/december 2016 features

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chefs stock your pantry

Three area chefs tell you what every kitchen needs—and a few things it doesn’t.

BY LIBBY VOLGYES

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remembering when

Six longtime residents share a memory from the past—and evoke a simpler time in Delray.

BY RICH POLLACK

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coastal chic

This Delray home is a study in seaside living at its best.

LIBBY VOLGYES

BY BRAD MEE

ON THE COVER Rob Steele, President and CEO of Old School Square Photography by: Eduardo Schneider

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calendar/top five

If it’s holiday season, it means surf’s up, Dirty Bourbon arrives, a Wayans brother hits town and the 100-foot tree decks the Ave.

BY JOHN THOMASON

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social calendar

Your guide to this season’s parties and fundraisers.

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out & about

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dining guide

Delray is up late these days, from chef throw-downs and parties to events and fundraisers.

Our review-driven dining guide highlights the best restaurants in and around Delray.

BY BILL CITARA

BY STAFF

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editor’s letter

Revisiting the good old days with a few Delray locals is the perfect counterpart to the onslaught of a bustling holiday season.

head-to-toe shimmery holiday accessories.

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dine

Josie’s ramps up its menu and its food with a little help from super chef Mark Militello.

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BY BILL CITARA

Our great finds this time around include a place you can rent a board, become a superhero, grab a healthy açaí bowl and drift into a nightclub high above the rooftops.

BY DOROTHY MACDIARMID

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my turn

Forget the wine: Surprise the host of your next holiday party with some home-baked gratitude.

BY JOHN SHUFF

PHOTOGRAPHY BY AARON BRISTOL

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Delores Rangel’s Project Holiday captures the spirit of the season.

BY RICH POLLACK

up close

Old School edition: Meet Old School Square’s man of Steele and a family with an A+ award-winning prep school.

BY GARY GREENBERG AND JOHN THOMASON

Our readers are here, there and everywhere, socializing for good causes and good times.

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[ events ] DON’T-MISS EVENTS NOVEMBER WHAT: First Thursday Site Tours: Discover the

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WHEN & WHERE: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 3, 51 N. Swinton Ave. COST & CONTACT: $5, no reservations necessary. 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org WHAT: First Friday Art Walk, a self-guided tour

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presented every month, through art galleries and working studios where visitors can meet local artists.

WHEN & WHERE: 6 to 9 p.m. Nov. 4, Downtown Delray Beach Arts District: Atlantic Avenue, Pineapple Grove and Artists Alley COST & CONTACT: No cost, 561/2431077, downtowndelraybeach.com/events WHAT: Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro-Celeb-

rity Tennis Classic: This two–day celebrity tennis tournament hosted by Chris Evert helps raise money for at-risk families throughout Florida.

WHEN & WHERE: Various times, Nov. 18 to 20, Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave. COST & CONTACT: Various costs according to events and seating options; call for breakdown or visit website, 561/394-2400, chrisevert.org

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WHAT: Santa’s lighting of Delray Beach’s famous

100-foot Christmas tree kicks off a monthlong holiday celebration. Directly following the tree lighting, Santa will be available for photos, and kids can also ice-skate, ride the train, play mini golf or ride the carousel.

WHEN & WHERE: 5 to 9 p.m. Dec. 1 at Old School Square Park; tree lighting at 7:15 p.m.

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WHEN & WHERE: Dates TBD, open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday to Saturday, 5 N.E. First St. COST & CONTACT: $5, kids are free, 561/2749578, delraybeachhistory.org

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WHAT: “Cookie Cruise” with Santa on board the

Lady Atlantic complete with cookies, milk and hot chocolate as well as a craft activity.

WHEN & WHERE: 10 a.m. to noon Dec. 3, 10 and 17. The Lady Atlantic is moored at the Veterans Park dock (802 N.E. First St.); please arrive by 10 a.m.

COST & CONTACT: $20, children 2 years and younger sail free. Reservations are required, and tickets must be purchased prior to the event. Delray Yacht Cruises, 561/243-0686, delraybeachcruises.com

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WHEN & WHERE: 6 p.m. Dec. 10, along Atlantic Avenue from the Intracoastal to the Fire Department COST & CONTACT: Free, 561/2437277, beardsleyd@mydelraybeach.com

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[ editor’s letter ] B Y M A R I E S P E E D

Stories of Then & Now

Delray’s festive holiday season resonates with a simpler time.

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he holiday season in Delray is always one of my favorite times. I think it reminds me of how the town used to be when it was small and everyone knew everyone else. It is events like the holiday parade, with all the tiny baton twirlers and Santa arriving at the end in a fire truck, that take me back. Lights twinkling on houses, a glimpse of the 100-foot tree on my way home. I’m a sucker for nostalgia, and this time of year practically reduces me to Jell-O. Which is probably why I loved the stories we collected from longtime Delray residents in this issue. We weren’t asking for anything profound or life-changing or fraught with meaning. We just wanted a little slice of their lives from back in the day, a passing glance at an earlier time, something they alone could claim from their decades of living here. Together, these singular memories evoke a sense of place that is easily lost now—and one we love to revisit.

This issue also lets a few of our star chefs tell you what essentials you must have in the kitchen, and we show you a Delray home that has captured the coastal lifestyle. Add a few new hot spots, some festive style and the best things to go and do, and we’ve got you covered for the holidays.

We’ll be right there with you celebrating.

5 (MORE) THINGS I LOVE ABOUT DELRAY: [ 1 ] A window table at Delray Sands’ Latitudes [ 2 ] When the bougainvillea are in bloom along A1A in Gulf Stream [ 3 ] Shark feedings at Sandoway House [ 4 ] Karen Granger [ 5 ] Delivery Dudes

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Winning Silver

Beyond Fitness is a new gym designed exclusively for senior citizens, geared specifically toward helping the 65-and-older set feel their best through exercise and mind-body awareness classes. Delray resident Colleen Sturgess is the muscle behind Beyond Fitness. A graduate of FAU with 13 years experience as a teacher, trainer and manager, Colleen’s passion is helping people feel their best both physically and mentally. With a wide range of classes for all levels and different specialty groups, Beyond Fitness is a gym that shows you’re never too old to build strong bodies and flexible minds. 5850 W. Atlantic Ave., Unit 141, 561/441-4444, beyondfitnessdelray.com

THE EYES HAVE IT Our super-chic eyewear pick is DITA’s “Decade-Two” at the Elektrik Boutique—dazzling aviator-style shades with a sleek frame, a mesh bridge and 18-karat gold hardware. Each pair is handcrafted in Japan (and not cheap—at $1,000 a pop) and features UVA- and UVB-protected lenses with anti-reflective coating. Protect your peepers with a blast of coastal cool and urban style with this menswear staple.

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One of the hottest tastes on The Ave is now available for your own table. The El Camino Hot Sauce is a mouthwatering blend of peppers—made from scratch.

Since everything on their menu is made in-house, the El Camino hombres decided to keep going with one finishing touch to their authentic Mexican cuisine. The signature hot sauce is prepared fresh weekly and is complimentary on every table.

An eight-ounce bottle is available at the restaurant for $8.95—the perfect stocking stuffer this holiday season.

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HOMEGROWN HEROES

After Dark LOVERS OF DELRAY NIGHTLIFE are always looking for ways to elevate their experience, and Level 2 has literally raised the bar. On the second floor of the building topped by sexy sushi spot Buddha Sky Bar, this once private dining room is now an exclusive nightclub. Reservations are required. Leave your inhibitions at home, and slip an extra Benjamin in your wallet. Dress to be seen, and play a role in a scintillating nocturnal scene. Stepping into the elevator is like being transported to a cozy club in Vegas or South Beach. It’s standing-room only, so reserve a table to sit and sip your cocktail. Be entertained well into the night dancing to the DJ and people-watching. The upscale ambience and innovative location make it a unique nightlife destination in downtown Delray.

217 E. Atlantic Ave., 561/450-7557, level2delray.com

Crissi and Ed Boland, an entrepreneurial Delray couple with a conscience, are co-creators of HeroBoys, a collection of a half-dozen 18-inch action figures. (Think of it as the boy version of American Girl dolls.) Each Hero has his own story of his transformation into a superhero, and what makes these Heroes outstanding is that their powers focus on positive things like helping the environment, developing good manners and being kind to others. Each story is told with a periodic comic book subscription delivered right to kids in the mail. With honorable values and upstanding morals, the HeroBoys show kids “there is a hero in everyone.” Available at heroboys.com or on Amazon.com.

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Want to have a fleet of boards at your disposal but don’t have the space or money? The Board Club offers easy, manageable and affordable board rentals for locals and part-time residents. Skip the hassle of dragging big boards to the beach! With access to a large variety of surfboards and stand-up paddleboards, enjoy unlimited rentals of well-maintained boards for a low monthly cost. Delivery is available seven days a week. Discount options are also available for multiple and family rentals.

To join, visit The Drop In Surf Shop.

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SPOTLIGHT: Josh Lamothe

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osh Lamothe started Grassroots Consulting in 2009, a firm that supports entrepreneurs transitioning from careers working for others to following their passions and starting their own businesses. He and his wife moved to Delray Beach from Queens, New York to take care of her mother after she was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. The company helps its clients with branding, Web design and local marketing (online and offline).

The couple now lives in Lake Worth, and enjoys growing organic fruits, vegetables and herbs. They are in the process of adopting their first child.

WHAT MAKES DELRAY UNIQUE?

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Delray is such a cool town. It felt like home from the moment we arrived, and after exploring the downtown area we loved it even more. I am very passionate about local, independent businesses having an opportunity to thrive, and Delray is such an ideal place for this to happen.

The combination of locals, snowbirds and tourists makes it exciting, and there are always community events happening, which we love to both attend and create. The people are kind, helpful and very supportive of each other. I love the cooperative nature of the businesses here.

WHAT DREW YOU TO ESTABLISH YOUR BUSINESS IN THIS AREA? Honestly, fate. We had no plans to move to Delray, but personal circumstances brought

us here. From speaking to many locals, I sense that this is common with many people here. I believe Delray is a very special place, and it is attracting us all here for a very special reason. It is a perfect fit for the mission of my business.

WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE THING TO DO IN DELRAY?

Eat! It seems like every time my wife and I go downtown there is a new spot to check out.

Of course we have our favorites, but there is nothing like sitting outside enjoying a good meal in the Florida sun.

DO YOU HAVE A DREAM PROJECT YOU’D LIKE TO CREATE IN DELRAY?

My team and I have created the Grassroots Entrepreneur Community, a growing group of local business owners and highly creative people who gather together monthly to network, share and support each other. Our online and offline community is expanding rapidly, and in fact we are (at the time of this writing) in the process of becoming an official Delray Beach Holistic Chamber of Commerce Chapter. This is so exciting and will allow us to hold amazing events for our members and really add value to Delray Beach as a whole. The vision is to expand to large-scale gatherings and expos for all the members and their customers. Currently, our venue is Project Maté Bar, where we have both indoor and outdoor meeting space.

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Forget the perfect wave. Catch the perfect bite and say “Aloha” to a delicious and nutritious açaí or pitaya bowl at Surf Shack Subs. Owner/chef and big kahuna Mike Turowsky is whipping up killer made-to-order sliced subs, wraps and salads daily at this quaint spot on South Federal Highway. Tropical touches to each dish and smoothie provide a perfectly healthy complement to a day at the beach soaking up the sun and surf. Many selections are available as vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free.

916 S.E. Fifth Ave., 561/501-7868

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Fourth-annual Delray Beach Surf Festival

Marlon Wayans

Dirty Bourbon River Show

Where: Delray Beach (the actual beach) When: Nov. 19 About: Last fall, Sven Mautner, co-organizer of the Delray Beach Surf Festival, thought he would have to postpone his third-annual event, because the weather disagreed with his scheduling. But despite the battering rain and 25 mile-per-hour squalls, Mautner recalls, “the beach was packed with people soaking wet. Anthony’s Coal Fired Pizza was out there handing out pizza, and sub shops were there, and they all ran out of food.”

In other words, the salt life goes on, and so it will again this year, with or without clear skies.

This family-friendly festival includes a “Surf and SUP” (that means stand-up paddleboarding, for you indoorsmen) competition for all ages, and the event has attracted some of the top surfers from South Florida. But, as Mautner says, “the best surfer is the one that’s having the most fun.” To that end, eccentric awards for Best Wipeout and Funniest Face on a Wave will be granted alongside the winning trophy, and ancillary activities include a shark-tooth hunt, a beach relay race, a tug-of-war contest and even a comedy sketch involving local lifeguards. All proceeds will help Delray Beach Ocean Rescue provide “surf wheelchairs” so that handicapped enthusiasts can reach the shoreline.

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Where: Palm Beach Improv, 550 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach When: Dec. 9-11 About: It’s hard to believe it, but Marlon Wayans, one of the youngest siblings in the Wayans Brothers comic dynasty, only attempted standup about five years ago, in his late ‘30s.

But he’s been involved in every other aspect of Bringing the Funny to Gen-X and Millennial audiences since the early ‘90s, as a cast member on the groundbreaking sketch comedy series “In Living Color;” as a co-writer and actor in the ingenious parody film “Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood;” and as co-auteur in the ongoing “Scary Movie” franchise. He’s also proven to be a more subversive on-screen presence than his brothers—Keenen Ivory, Damon and Shawn— including an appearance in the uber-disturbing “Requiem for a Dream.” As for standup, he approached the time-honored medium as research for a role he hoped to land: a Richard Pryor biopic. He didn’t get the part, but he’s stuck with the form. Expect the material to be rated a hard “R.” Cost: $30 Contact: 561/833-1812, palmbeachimprov.com

Where: Arts Garage, 180 N.E. First St., Delray Beach When: Nov. 5 About: We’re not entirely sure what “New Orleans Big Brass Circus Rock” means, but that’s the invented style the Dirty Bourbon River Show inhabits. The fact that this Big Easy quintet needed to invent its own genre tells a lot about its eclectic style, which has been evident across a whopping nine albums over six years. At its most traditional, it’s a brass band, with trumpet, baritone sax and Sousaphone jazzily featured among the traditional electric guitars, bass and drums. But then again, grizzled frontman Noah Adams is an accordion virtuoso, and one of the group’s albums is a solo accordion LP. His voice also carries the gravel of Tom Waits, leading his ensemble through colorful and quirky material that conjures the Dirty Dozen Brass Band one minute and the Residents the next. The band’s song titles, like “Ballad of Oompa Soca Man and the Orangutan Factory” and “Jewish Girls Who Went to Art School Know All the Angles” further contribute to the circus-like humor of these singular showmen.

Cost: $30-$45 Contact: 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org

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“Cuddles”

Where: Crest Theatre at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach When: Nov. 18 About: A cappella choirs, which used to be popular mostly on college campuses—uniting the nerds and the frat brothers in four-part harmony—have spread to the mainstream and beyond, thanks to groups like Pentatonix and films like “Pitch Perfect.” Orlando’s VoicePlay, with its five charismatic goofballs, typifies the genre. The group began as a street-corner barbershop-style quintet and achieved national notoriety by lasting into the sixth round of NBC’s “The Sing-Off ” competition series.

The bandmates’ ability to simulate all the instrumental colors of an electro-rock symphony with only their vocal chords is tops in the genre, and their set lists are sprinkled with a variety of Top 40 hits (“Ride,” “Wrecking Ball,” “Get Lucky”), durable oldies and spirited cameos from Bollywood and Broadway. Their take on “The Phantom of the Opera” is downright majestic.

Cost: $15 students, $25 adults Contact: 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org

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Where: Theatre at Arts Garage, 180 N.E. First St., Delray Beach When: Nov. 13-Dec. 3 About: OK, so you’re over the whole vampire thing, and frankly, so are we. “Twilight” and “True Blood” were so early-2000s, and by the time hordes of blood-sucking coffindwellers were being bludgeoned by Abraham Lincoln, you could consider the vampire shark jumped. But British playwright Joseph Wilde’s “Cuddles” is no ordinary example of sex-andgore vampire schlock. It’s a psychologically disturbing character study and anti-fairytale that touches on themes of sacrifice, family bonding, overprotection and self-determination. Most older sisters look after their inexperienced kin, but not like the siblings in Wilde’s phantasmagoric drama: The younger Eve is a teenage vampire timelessly stunted with an adolescent mind, and she resides in a squalid, blood-spattered dungeon, trapped from sunlight and prying eyes by the elder Tabby, who opens her veins to feed Eve. By day, Tabby works in the corporate rat race, whose cutthroat implications parallel a vampire’s need to suck the world dry.

A scary, satirical and mordantly funny look at contemporary consumerism, “Cuddles” is biting in more ways than one.

Cost: $40-$45 Contact: 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org

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On & Off the Avenue ENJOY THESE OTHER FALL ACTIVITIES IN AND AROUND OUR FAVORITE CITY. NOV. 19: TURKEY TROT 5K RACE along A1A beginning at Anchor Park, 340 S. Ocean Blvd.; 7:30 a.m.; $7–$25; 451/243-7922.

Watch the sun rise with every step along the Atlantic coast at this 30th annual Thanksgiving run/walk.

NOV. 4: RUSTY YOUNG at Arts Garage, 180 N.E. First St.; 8 p.m.; $30-$45; 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org. Young, a founding member of the seminal country-rock pioneers Poco, brings his acoustic guitar duo to this intimate Delray performance.

This Grammy-winning axman is considered a virtuoso of the steel guitar, the twangy instrument that defined the sounds of Poco, the Byrds, the Eagles and more.

NOV. 12: JEFF LORBER at Arts Garage, 180 N.E. First St.; 8 p.m.; $30-$45; 561/450-6357, artsgarage.org. This veteran of the Portland jazz scene is considered a prominent figure in the jazz fusion movement, integrating elements of rock, R&B and funk into his sonic cauldron of complex harmonies and unusual time signatures.

ships, exploring topics such as first dates, dating services, gender differences and sex between married couples.

DEC. 4: SHANGHAI ACROBATS at Outdoor Pavilion at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 7 p.m.; $15-$25; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org. For more than 55 years, these award-winning governmentfunded entertainers from the People’s Republic of China have been dazzling fans around the world with a show combining acrobatic gymnastics, balancing, silk spinning, twirling, contortionism, world music and dance.

NOV. 26-27: THANKSGIVING WEEKEND ART FESTIVAL at downtown Delray Beach and Fourth and Atlantic avenues; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; free; 561/243-1077, artfestival.com.

This 17th annual juried art festival of handcrafted artwork—including glass, photography, painting, mixed media, fiber, jewelry and much more—hosts more than 300 artists exhibiting and selling their work in an outdoor gallery, offering a unique alternative to Black Friday madness.

DEC. 1: CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING at Outdoor Pavilion at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 5 to 9 p.m.; free; 561/278-0424, 100ftchristmastree.com. Enjoy one of the most celebrated holiday events in Palm Beach County: the lighting of downtown Delray Beach’s famous 100-foot Christmas Tree at Old School Square, complete with Santa Claus photo ops, ice skating, kids’ train rides, mini golf from Putt’n Around and more.

DEC. 3: CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT at Outdoor Pavilion at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 7 p.m.; $5-$100; 561/243-7922,

oldschoolsquare.org. Little River Band will perform holiday, pop and country music alongside other national and local bands in the Delray premiere of this traditional concert series, which began in San Diego in 1990. Proceeds will benefit local children’s programs.

DEC. 3-18: “I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE!” at Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 N.W. Ninth St.; 8 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays; $30; 561/272-1281 ext.

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This durable musical, which ran for 5,000 performances offBroadway, is composed of comic vignettes about modern relation-

DEC. 4: “EMPTY BOWLS” at The Fieldhouse at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; $25; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org.

The tagline of this inaugural charity lunch is “eat simply so others can simply eat.” Local potters will create original bowls to be filled with chef-donated soups, and bakers from Old School Bakery will provide rustic breads.

Guests can take home their bowls as a souvenir, with proceeds benefiting the Palm Beach County Food Bank.

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DEC. 15: “BLUE SUEDE CHRISTMAS” at Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 8 p.m.; $38; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare. org. Elvis Presley tribute artist Scot Bruce will perform the King’s yuletide classics, including “Blue Christmas” and “Santa Bring My Baby Back,” in Presley’s iconic style.

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DEC.8 “JIM CARUSO’S CAST PARTY”

DEC. 7: AMERICAN BIG BAND HOLIDAY SHOW at Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 2 and 8 p.m.; $32-$42; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org. The 11-piece American Big Band transports listeners back to the days of Sam Lanin and Duke Ellington with a new show featuring lush, majestic arrangements of Christmas favorites.

DEC. 8: “JIM CARUSO’S CAST PARTY” at The Fieldhouse at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 9 p.m.; $50; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org. Caruso’s Cast Party, a musical variety show hosted weekly at New York City’s legendary Birdland jazz club, tours Delray Beach.

Talented South Florida professionals will join up-and-comers onstage, with Caruso emceeing and his musical director Billy Stritch tinkling the ivories. Caruso himself will perform in the first hour.

DEC. 9: SARGE: “CHANUKAH CHUTZPAH” HOLIDAY SHOW at Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 8 p.m.; $44; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org. Triple-threat talent Sarge will combine his accomplished singing, piano playing and standup comedy at a “Just for Chanukah” showcase, backed by an all-star band.

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DEC. 10: HOLIDAY PARADE in downtown Delray Beach; 6 p.m.; free; 561/243-7277, mydelraybeach.com.

Santa will make a cameo atop a fire truck at this celebration of Christmas around the world, beginning east of the Intracoastal and continuing west to the fire department.

DEC. 16-18: “AVENUE Q” at Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 8 p.m.; $42-$52; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org. Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx’s Broadway sensation won the Tony “Triple Crown”—Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book—for its exploration of adult themes such as homophobia and economic hardship through the style of witty puppet theater.

DEC. 11: “WILL & ANTHONY: SHOWSTOPPERS” at Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 8 p.m.; $44; 561/2437922, oldschoolsquare.org. Twin brothers Will and Anthony Nunziata trained in improvisation with Upright Citizens Brigade, combining humor with powerful tenor voices in this combination of Broadway revue and comedy routine. Expect to hear show tunes from “The Impossible Dream” to “Some Enchanted Evening.”

DEC. 22-23: “STEVE SOLOMON: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS” at Crest Theatre, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 8 p.m.; $36-46; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare.org. Solomon, a longtime chronicler of family dysfunction famous for his one-man show “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish and I’m in Therapy,” returns with another solo production centered on his hilarious extended family, this time set at a holiday dinner at his grandmother’s house.

DEC. 12-22: “THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS” at Delray Beach Playhouse, 950 N.W. Ninth St.; 8 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays and 2 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays; $30; 561/2721281 ext. 4, delraybeachplayhouse.com.

This musical celebration of Irving Berlin focuses on his Broadway contributions beginning in 1908, and includes compositions from “Annie Get Your Gun,” “The Ziegfeld Follies” and “This is the Army.”

DEC. 26: THE STATE BALLET THEATRE OF RUSSIA at Outdoor Pavilion at Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave.; 7:30 p.m.; $20-$30; 561/243-7922, oldschoolsquare. org. Fifty of Russia’s top ballet stars will perform “The Tchaikovsky Christmas Spectacular.” Expect exquisite selections from “The Nutcracker” and more.

DEC. 31: FIRST NIGHT in downtown Delray Beach; 5 p.m. to midnight; $10-$20; 561/279-1380, visitdelraybeach.com. The city’s annual alcohol-free New Year’s Eve extravaganza includes a dance party, live music, movie screenings, holiday activities at the 100-Foot Christmas Tree, food trucks, family activities and more. Attendees must purchase buttons/wristbands for entry, available at the Christmas Tree, City Hall and the Delray Beach Library.

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Organization: Delray Achievement Center for Families & Children When: 6 - 9 p.m.

Where: Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach How Much: $75 general admission, $100 VIP Contact: 561/266-0003 Details: Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with shopping, massages, intuitive readings and more.

NOVEMBER 5, 2016 Hearts & Soles Gala Benefit Dinner

Organization: American Association of Caregiving Youth When: 6 p.m.

Where: The Polo Club of Boca Raton, 5400 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton How Much: $175 per person Contact: 561/391-7401, aacy.org, or email info@aacy.org Details: Dinner with Keith Byars; Rita and Frank Barbieri, honorary chairs; Debralyn and Ronnie Belletieri, co-chairs.

NOVEMBER 6, 2016 Keep Memories Alive— Walking with the Stars

Organization: FAU When: 9 a.m.

Where: Town Center at Boca Raton, 6000 Glades Road, Boca Raton How Much: $40 before the event or $50 on the day of the event Contact: Call 561/297-4066 or email nurchearts@fau.edu. To register online, visit fauf.fau.edu/memories.

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University’s Caring Hearts Auxiliary of the Louis and Anne Green Memory and Wellness Center within the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing will host the mall walk. The event will begin at the north entrance of the mall.

NOVEMBER 6, 2016 Moving Day Boca Raton

Organization: South Palm Beach County Chapter, National Parkinson Foundation When: 8 a.m.

Where: FAU Stadium How Much: Free (movingdaybocaraton.org to register) Details: Moving Day is the National Parkinson Foundation South Palm Beach County’s annual fundraising walk event.

This celebration of movement will feature a family-friendly walk course, a kids area, a caregivers relaxation tent and a special Movement Pavilion featuring yoga, dance, Tai Chi, Pilates, etc.

NOVEMBER 10, 2016 Women of Grace Luncheon

Organization: Bethesda Hospital Foundation When: 10:30 a.m. reception, 11:30 a.m. luncheon Where: Mar-A-Lago, 1100 Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach How Much: $160 Contact: bethesdahospitalfoundation.org/ index.cfm?fuseaction=events.details&content_id=76 Details: Join Chairwoman, Nicole Pasqual in recognizing women volunteers in the community for their selfless acts of kindness and service toward others.

NOVEMBER 16, 2016 The Alice & Pete Dye Golf & Bridge Invitational

Organization: Wayside House When: 9 a.m.

Where: St. Andrews Club, 4475 N. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach How Much: Golf—$800 per foursome or $200 per person. Bridge—$100 per person Contact: For more information, contact Ann Weinwurm at aweinwurm@waysidehouse.net, or visit waysidehouse.net.

Details: Includes lunch and prizes

NOVEMBER 18, 2016 Woman Volunteer of the Year

Organization: Junior League of Boca Raton When: 10:30 a.m. reception and silent auction/raffle, 11:30 a.m. luncheon Where: Boca Raton Resort & Club,

501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton How Much: Ticket levels are Silver, $95; Gold, $150; Platinum, $250. Tables: $1,140, $1,800 and $3,000. Each table seats 12.

Contact: Call the Junior League office at 561/620-2553 or email WVOY@jlbr.org for more information.

Details: This luncheon will celebrate local women in the community and recognize nominees from nonprofit organizations throughout Palm Beach County for their dedication and expertise as volunteers. The Junior League of Boca Raton promotes volunteerism and seeks to further the potential of women.

NOVEMBER 19, 2016 Chris Evert/Raymond James Pro-Celebrity Tennis Classic

Organization: Chris Evert Charities When: 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Where: Delray Beach Tennis Center, 201 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach How Much: Varies according to seat location Contact: chrisevert.org Details: Join Chrissie at the Delray Beach Tennis Center for a fun-filled day of great tennis action. Each year, well-known personalities join Chrissie for fun, fast-paced, competitive matches to raise money to help at-risk families throughout Florida.

NOVEMBER 19, 2016 27th Annual Pro-Celebrity Gala

Organization: Chris Evert Charities When: 6 p.m.

Location: Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton How Much: $750 Contact: chrisevert.org Details: Chrissie invites you to attend the 27th Annual Pro-Celebrity Gala. As well as showcasing great daytime entertainment, the Pro-Celebrity offers the elegant Annual Pro-Celebrity Gala with dinner, dancing and exhilarating live and silent auctions.

NOVEMBER 29, 2016 2016 Holiday Trunk Show Preview Cocktail Party

Organization: Boys & Girls Club When: 6 - 8 p.m.

Where: The Seagate Hotel & Spa, 1000 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach How Much: $85 Contact: Visit bgcpbc.org or email specialevents@bgcpbc.org for tickets and information.

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“empty bowls” in our community.

Organization: Boys & Girls Club When: November 29, 2016, 6 p.m. (Preview Party), November 30-December 1, 2016, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m (Holiday Trunk Show).

Where: The Seagate Hotel & Spa, 1000 E Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach How Much: Free Contact: Visit bgcpbc.org or email specialevents@bgcpbc.org for tickets and information.

Details: The three-day Holiday Trunk Show welcomes more than 30 specialty vendors featuring jewelry, clothing, accessories, crafts, toys, gourmet foods and more. Enjoy refreshments at the preview cocktail party and get a sneak peek at the vendors before the show opens to the public. There will also be a special performance by our club members.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016 Sandler Family Major Gifts Event

Organization: Ruth & Norman Rales Jewish Family Services When: 6:30 - 11 p.m.

Location: St. Andrews Country Club, 17557 Claridge Oval W., Boca Raton How Much: $500 Contact: ralesjfs.org/events/ jfs_2016_annual_gala Details: This night of cocktails, dining and entertainment will include an auction and recognize Jane and Alan Cornell with the Humanitarian of the Year Award and Christine E. Lynn/Boca Raton Regional Hospital with the Corporate Leadership Award.

Organization: Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: The Polo Club of Boca Raton, 5400 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton How Much: $135 Contact: 561/852-3160 or email erinm@bocafed.org Details: An elegant, informative and inspiring evening to celebrate donors with $10,000+ household contributions to the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s 2017 Annual Campaign.

DECEMBER 2, 2016 Wee Dream Ball

Organization: Florence Fuller When: 6 - 11 p.m.

Where: Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca W. Drive, Boca Raton How Much: $300 Details: FFCDC’s goal is to remain a premier provider of child and family education and support services for low-to-moderate-income families living in southern Palm Beach County and northern Broward County.

DECEMBER 4, 2016 Empty Bowls Hunger Relief Annual Event When: 11 a.m - 2 p.m.

Where: Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach How Much: $25 Details: Empty Bowls is a one-day event for local hunger relief at which amateur and professional potters join star chefs to help fill

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Organization: The Symphonia When: 3 p.m.

Where: Roberts Theater at Saint Andrew’s School, 3900 Jog Road, Boca Raton How Much: $50-$84 Contact: Series tickets are available now at thesymphonia.org or by calling 866/687-1201 or emailing tickets@thesymphonia.org.

Details: The Symphonia’s performances and educational outreach programs feature nationally and internationally acclaimed conductors and soloists.

DECEMBER 8, 2016 JFS 2016 Annual Gala: “Fly Me to the Moon”

DECEMBER 10, 2016 Annual Jacob’s Ladder Award Gala

Organization: JAFCO When: 7 p.m.

Where: The Polo Club of Boca Raton, 5400 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton How Much: $325 Contact: jafco.org/events/ annual-jacobs-ladder-award-gala/ Details: This evening is dedicated to raising funds for abused and neglected children and those with developmental disabilities in our community. The evening will feature a cocktail reception, fine dining, dancing, live and silent auctions and an awards ceremony.

DECEMBER 11, 2016 14th Annual Lynn Gingerbread Holiday Concert

Organization: Lynn University When: 3 p.m.

Where: Boca Raton Resort & Club,

501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton How Much: $35 Contact: events.lynn.edu/upcoming/event/ 14th-annual-gingerbread-holiday-concert Details: Kids of all ages will enjoy holiday classics performed by the Lynn Philharmonia.

This annual event raises scholarship funds for the conservatory’s deserving and talented student musicians from all over the world.

JANUARY 11, 2017 Lion of Judah Luncheon

Organization: Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County When: 10:30 a.m.

Where: The Polo Club of Boca Raton, 5400 Champion Blvd., Boca Raton How Much: $95 Contact: 561/852.6058 or email francescal@bocafed.org Details: This inspiring luncheon featuring Nancy Spielberg, documentary film artist and philanthropist, will celebrate the women who contribute $5,000 or more to the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County’s 2017 Annual Campaign.

JANUARY 21, 2017 55th Annual Hospital Ball

Organization: Boca Raton Regional Hospital When: 6:30 - 11:30 p.m.

Where: Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton How Much: $500 per person Contact: 561/955-4142, email kthomann@ brrh.com or register at donate.brrh/ball Details: Honorary Chair Joan Wargo will salute the Golden Guild, individuals whose support of the hospital have made its incredible growth possible: Jean Blechman, Louis and Anne Green, Irving and Barbara C. Gutin, Christine E. Lynn, Bernie and Billi Marcus, Harvey and Phyllis Sandler, Richard and Barbara Schmidt and Elaine J. Wold.

FEBRUARY 3, 2017 Laugh at the Library

Organization: Delray Beach Public Library When: 7:30 p.m. doors open; show starts at 9 p.m.

Where: Delray Marriott, 10 N. Ocean Blvd., Delray Beach How Much: $200 Contact: Kae Jonsons Details: This popular event, which always sells out, features dinner by the bite and a national comedian that will make your stomach hurt—

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FEBRUARY 4, 2017 Building Hope Gala

Organization: Food for the Poor When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton How Much: $300 Contact: 888/404-4248 or email events@foodforthepoor.com Details: The evening will feature cocktails, a silent auction, fine dining, dancing and the opportunity to change the lives of families in desperate need. The silent auction will feature unique designer jewelry, vacations, original art, golf foursomes and much more.

FEBRUARY 18, 2017 The Caridad Call to Heart Ball

Organization: Caridad Clinic When: 6 - 11 p.m.

Where: Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, 100 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan How Much: $350, VIP $500 Contact: 561/853-1622 or email gmarquez@caridad.org Details: This party benefits the beloved Caridad Clinic, which has offered medical and dental care and social outreach to the working poor in our community for more than 25 years through an army of volunteer doctors. The evening will feature cocktails, a silent auction, fine dining, dancing and stories from the heart.

FEBRUARY 17, 2017 Eat, Drink and Be Giving!

Organization: Child Rescue Coalition When: 6 - 10 p.m.

Where: The Seagate Country Club, 3600 Hamlet Drive, Delray Beach How Much: $275-$400 Contact: Call 561/208-9000 or visit childrescuecoalition.org/events Details: This inspirational evening will feature an elegant dinner, cocktails, awards presentation and live and silent auctions. After dinner, guests are invited to attend an intimate VIP after-party.

FEBRUARY 21, 2017 AVDA’s 10th Annual Heart of a Woman Luncheon

Organization: AVDA When: 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Where: Boca Raton Resort & Club, 501 E. Camino Real, Boca Raton

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How Much: $150 per person; tables, $1,500 Contact: Monique Force, 561/265-3797, mforce@avda-fl.com or avdaonline.org Details: AVDA’S Heart of a Woman Luncheon celebrates the courage of women overcoming abuse.This year’s event will feature Michelle Knight, the first of three women abducted by Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro, who will recount the story of her captivity.

FEBRUARY 20-23, 2017 2017 Spring Boutique & Trunk Show

Organization: Wayside House When: February 20, 2017 (Preview 6 - 8 p.m.)

February 21-23, 2017, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Where: Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach How Much: The preview party ticket is $100.

The actual show is a $5 entrance fee.

Contact: Ann Weinwurm at aweinwurm@ waysidehouse.net or waysidehouse.net Details: The ticketed wristband allows multiday attendance.

MARCH 2-12, 2017 11th Annual Festival of the Arts Boca

Organization: Schmidt Family Centre for the Arts Where: Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton How Much: Call for pricing Contact: Check festivalboca.org for full lineup.

Tickets on sale Nov. 1 at festivalboca.org or 866/571-2787.

Details: Dazzling and diverse performing arts and authors are featured at this 11-day festival.

MARCH 11, 2017 2017 Unicorn Ball

Organization: Unicorn Children’s Foundation When: 6 p.m. - midnight Where: Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton How Much: $300 per person Contact: Brett Dean, 561/620-9377, ext. 302 or email brett@unicornchildrensfoundation.org Details: The Unicorn Children’s Foundation is dedicated to building support, acceptance and opportunity for individuals and families challenged by neurodiversity.

MARCH 25, 2017 Boca Bacchanal

590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton How Much: From $125 Contact: bocabacchanal.com Details: A festive weekend that celebrates food and wine though a grand tastng and private vintner dinners. Proceeds benefit the Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum.

APRIL 1, 2017 FAU President’s Gala

Organization: FAU When: 6:30 p.m.

Where: Martin F. and Jane Greenberg Foundation Tower at FAU Stadium, FAU Boulevard, Boca Raton How Much: $250 Contact: faugala.info Details: The gala, which provides scholarship funds, will offer gourmet dining, an open bar and live entertainment on several levels of the tower.

APRIL 28TH, 2017 Celebration of the Arts

Organization: Lynn University When: 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Where: Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, 3601 N. Military Trail, Boca Raton How Much: From $15 Contact: lynn.edu/events Details: The sixth annual Celebration of the Arts showcases the talents of Lynn faculty, students, staff and alumni with live music, an indoor art gallery and Celebration Unplugged, an open-mic show of dance, poetry and contemporary music in the Schmidt Studio Theatre. The evening includes a performance

by Lynn’s Conservatory of Music.

APRIL 28TH, 2017 Men With Caring Hearts

When: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Where: Boca West Country Club, 20583 Boca West Drive, Boca Raton How Much: $125 Contact: Alana Lagerström at alagerstrom@ ffcdc.org or 561/391-7274, ext.134 Details: Our Men with Caring Hearts Awards Luncheon honors outstanding South Florida male volunteers nominated from more than 25 nonprofit agencies.

Organization: Boca Raton Historical Society and Museum When: 7 - 10 p.m.

Where: Mizner Park Amphitheater,

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The Gold Standard Shimmer your way through the holidays this season.

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Clockwise, from top: Co-owner Sebastiano Setticasi, Josie’s full house, wine selection, Mark Militello (inset), back truffle and pizza Caprino; opposite top, snapper Romesco and porcini ravioli salmon

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JOSIE’S

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1602 S. Federal Highway, Boynton Beach 561/364-9601 HOURS: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 4 to 10 p.m. Sunday PRICES: Entrees $18 to $34 WEBSITE: josiesristorante.com

JOSIE’S

Old-school Italian gets a new lease on life.

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es, that really was Mark Militello you may have seen in the kitchen of this old-school Italian joint in a sprawling East Boynton strip mall. One of the founding fathers of South Florida cuisine, before anyone considered that South Florida might actually have a cuisine, in recent years Militello has been something of a culinary doctor, applying his not inconsiderable skills to restaurants looking to move their dining needles upward.

Thankfully, for Josie’s longtime patrons and, indeed, anyone jonesing after the restaurant’s tried-and-true Italian-American staples, that doesn’t mean move the needle weirder (or, to put it more chastely, edgier).

You can still get a pair of beefy short-rib meatballs big enough to play soccer with, doused with a fresh-tasting tomato sauce and dollop of milky ricotta; the signature veal Bersaglieri, thin-pounded veal medallions enrobed in a lemony white wine sauce and gilded with artichoke hearts, olives and roasted red peppers; or the wickedly indulgent porcini november/december 2016

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ravioli, an umami-bomb of wild mushrooms, pancetta and a gallon or two of cream (just kidding about the cream) that’s rich enough to be taxed at the full 39.6 percent.

One dish you certainly won’t find on many South Florida menus is an upmarket version of cioppino, the real San Francisco treat and one of the country’s great excuses to eat Dungeness crab. (Not that an excuse is needed.)

Josie’s cioppino is a rather more refined take on its rustic San Francisco parent, dispensing with the original’s Dungeness and heavier, tomato-centric broth in favor of a bronze, saffron-burnished lobster stock, a whole lobster tail, scallops, clams and (tough, rubbery) calamari. Oh, and if you and your tapeworm work your way through all that seafood, there’s a tangle of linguine lurking beneath the shimmering broth.

But perhaps your sweet tooth is calling. Cannoli or tiramisu? Cheesecake or Key lime pie? Try crème brûlée instead, appropriately lush and creamy under a brittle caramelized sugar hat, itself hidden by a topping of syrupy Italian cherries. It’s a move of the needle, but you won’t get stuck. delray beach magazine

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[ up close ] B Y G A R Y G R E E N B E R G

The Laurie Family An education pioneer and two of his kids have created a true American heritage in South Florida.

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n an improbable turnaround, Bill Laurie used his own struggle with dyslexia to forge a career as an educator and founder of one of the top prep schools in the nation.

“It all began with Jimmy Hupp,” Bill, 86, says wistfully about his first South Florida remedial reading student in 1962. “He was a golf pro’s son, a bright kid but he couldn’t read.”

Laurie, who had conquered his own disability through endless reading, adds, “I have great empathy for that kind of child. But you should see Jimmy today. He’s very successful.”

That tutoring experience sent Bill on a path toward founding four schools for kids with mild learning disabilities and then the American Heritage School (AHS), a college preparatory academy with campuses in Delray Beach and Plantation.

Now, AHS is a family business. Two of Bill’s five children, Doug Laurie and Leslie Wood, help him run it. Doug, 47, specializes in curriculum development while Leslie, 56, focuses on administration and admissions.

But all three do a bit of everything, from giving tours for prospective students to teacher recruitment to attending sporting events, school plays and other activities.

“I have no plans to retire,” says Bill, who’s a little hard of hearing but still sports a boyish twinkle in his eye. “I love it too much. Every day is a real experience.”

Leslie and Doug feel the same way. “I’m having a fabulous time,” says Leslie, who once taught remedial reading like her dad. “I really enjoy working with my father and brother as well as being around educators who are so passionate about their profession.”

Adds Doug, “There are new challenges every day. The three of us are always brainstorming on how to make the school better.”

They can pretty much do what they want. Because AHS is privately

owned and accepts no donations, there are no board members or benefactors to please.

“If we want to do something, we just do it,” notes Bill. “For example, when our robotics team at the Boca/Delray campus needed a practice field, we just went ahead and built a facility. We didn’t have to go to anyone for approval.”

They’re equally bullish in hiring stellar teachers, making prospects audition for the job. “Someone can give a good interview, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be good in the classroom,” explains Doug, a onetime chiropractor who shifted careers 20 years ago. “So they all have to teach a class for us.”

Whatever the Lauries are doing, it seems to be working. AHS now has about 4,000 students, and the larger Plantation campus boasts more National Merit Scholars than any other private school in the nation. The class of 2015 at both campuses combined was offered a whopping $85 million in college scholarships.

“We have 300 different course offerings,” Doug says. “That’s more than some small colleges.”

The cost is comparable, too. Tuition ranges from $21,000 to $25,000 per year, but some scholarships are awarded, and the children of AHS employees get a free ride. “We like to keep good people when we find them,” says Bill, who founded AHS in 1971 at a former Presbyterian church in downtown Fort Lauderdale. He soon shifted operations to Plantation, “where the young families were.”

In 1999, AHS expanded to Palm Beach County with a campus near the Boca Raton/Delray Beach line. Bill, Doug and Leslie spend time on both campuses, and they don’t seem to have much of a life outside of school.

“We go to a lot of school events, from math and robotics competitions to mock trials to sports,” Doug says. “There’s always something going on.”

“It’s a lot of fun and fulfillment,” Leslie adds. “It’s a happy business.”

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AHS BRAGGING RIGHTS (BOCA-DELRAY CAMPUS)

• No. 1 private high school in Palm Beach County for highest number of National Merit Scholars • $13 million in college scholarships offered to the Class of 2015 • 83 percent passing rate on all Advanced Placement exams (52 percent passing rate in the state of Florida; 57 percent passing rate nationally); • AP average test score: 4 • No. 1 high school in Palm Beach County in math competitions • No. 1 private school in Palm Beach County in science competitions • First place in Palm Beach County and second place in the state at National History Day • First place in Palm Beach County Bar Association Mock Trial competition • No. 1 and No. 3 in the nation at Yale National Mock Trial competition for two consecutive years november/december 2016

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Rob Steele

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Steele is shaking things up. When he joined, the arts campus was still known as Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square, a mouthful that everybody only liked for about a week. He enlisted Woo Creative wunderkind Ryan Bolyston to rebrand the name—back to Old School Square—and devise a color scheme, associating the Cornell Museum with orange, the Pavilion with green, and so on. Steele has been working with lighting designers to enforce this color-coding.

“A lot of people drive by here, and at night it’s dark, and the buildings are old, and they probably think it’s a courthouse,” he says. “We can continue that branding by making at certain times the Fieldhouse red and the Crest Theatre blue and the Creative Arts School purple, and start getting people used to the idea that there are things going on here.”

Lighting changes were one of eight goals in a three-year strategic plan Steele established for the campus when he arrived in Delray Beach, and he describes his staff as “headlong into seven of the eight.” He’s renovating the Cornell Museum with new bathrooms and a paint job, adding a gift shop and transforming rooms currently devoted to a kitchen and storage into extra gallery space. He’s eying a retractable, weatherproof roof for the Pavilion and beefing up classes in the Creative Arts School. There are more events this season than ever before—42 shows with 73 performances, through May—and

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s president and CEO of Old School Square, all bucks ultimately stop at the feet of Rob Steele. In a job he describes as “replete with challenges,” he deals with issues of homelessness on the arts campus, wear and tear to the buildings, and the perennial effort to balance budgets.

Not to mention instances of stolen art.

In the early morning of June 3, 2016, a thief ascended a ladder and unbolted a resin gnome sculpture from its steel pedestal outside the main entrance of the Cornell Museum. The praying blue gnome, cast by Brooklyn artist Sam Tufnell, was part of the museum’s “Lit” exhibition. Steele had to decide how to approach the artist with the news.

“I thought, we can be serious-faced and grave about it, or we can say, it was a piece of art, but it was one of eight or so we had for that exhibit. I said, let’s reach out to the artist and see if we can get some bounce on social media.”

Steele and his team mocked up a $500 reward sign for the safe return of the gnome and plastered it on Facebook. Tufnell posted a message to the website artiholics.com to “please bring the gnome home. He is missed dearly by his family.” The mystery remains unsolved, but Steele has a theory about the criminal minds that snagged it.

“I played this out in my mind,” he says. “They were identified as a couple of kids, 18 to 20. So they took it and got home, and they were probably like”—Steele pantomimes smoking a joint—“‘dude, it lights up! What are we going to do with it? I don’t know, can we sell it?’”

Steele, 58, succeeded Joe Gillie as Old School Square’s president around this time last year, following a 10-year residency at the Williamsport Community Arts Center in Pennsylvania, where he doubled ticket sales and ballooned its endowment. He has a laid-back confidence and a welcoming sense of humor, and with his fashionably coiffed white hair, he’s a dead ringer for David Byrne. As he settles into his second season—the first he has fully programmed, along with Artistic Director Matthew Farmer—it’s clear that his social media-savvy approach is helping to reboot the quartercentury-old institution into the digital media age.

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he’s begun to curate additional programming year-round.

And he’s going after some of the big-name acts, like this past spring’s Everclear/Sister Hazel concert, which brought 2,500 people to the Pavilion.

This also means being a little more variable on the ticket prices. “Instead of having an artificial ceiling and saying, ‘We don’t sell tickets for more than $45’ … if it’s a $95 show, it’s a $95 show, and people know that. You’re going to pay more to see Tony Bennett than you are a blind Bolivian flute player.”

All of these initiatives support Steele’s overarching goal: to let residents of Delray and the surrounding communities know that Old School Square exists. “If you stay here for an hour and a half, a thousand cars will come down Swinton,” he says. “And out of those thousand cars, 10 of them know we have a Creative Arts School, and five of them know we have a museum, and maybe 12 know we have the Crest Theatre, and maybe two know we have the Fieldhouse. Maybe 25 know there’s a Pavilion here; they’ve been to a free concert.

“But when you’re able to say we have Tony Bennett or Willie Nelson or Styx in the Pavilion, all of a sudden it registers with more people. They say, wow, that’s a pretty big act for Delray Beach. We’re six blocks from the ocean, we have Atlantic Avenue right there, we’ll soon be surrounded by a beautiful park—what a great place to see a show!” november/december 2016

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Old School Square is expanding this season into more unusual programming than it has in the past—like these enticing events.

Dec. 16-18: “Avenue Q:” The greatest puppet show in the history of Broadway plays the intimate Crest Theatre for the first time.

Jan. 25, 2017: “Adam Trent: The Futurist:” Described as “David Copperfield meets Justin Timberlake,” this illusionist combines magic and comedy in a charismatic concert experience at the Crest.

March 5, 2017: Shotgun Wedding: This New York-based quintet, performing in the Pavilion, calls itself a “city-country band” combining rural twang with urban sophistication.

March 13-14, 2017: Leslie Odom Jr.: Fresh off his run as Aaron Burr in the Tony-winning phenomenon “Hamilton,” Odom is the crown jewel in the Crest’s cabaret season.

April 7, 2017: “Artrageous:” This special event on the Pavilion features live speed painters creating art onstage, complemented by live music and choreographed dance.

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t can be complicated, this cooking thing. Despite a million shows on

television trying to simplify the whole process, sometimes, after a 15-hour day, it just seems easier to make reservations than make dinner. To pick up a to-go bag than pick up a knife. You don’t have to tell me this.

I’m a food photographer and food writer. That means some days I come home with armfuls full of extra food, and some days my diet resembles the Real Housewives of Delray Beach: three espressos, two oysters and one plantain.

I know my struggle isn’t unique. So for answers on what to do on the days when I return at night, starving and despondent, I turned to some of our city’s hottest chefs. I thought, if they can’t help me, no one can.

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“I like simple things at home. I like vegetables, and I like salad.”

Chef Bruce Feingold and right, a simple tomato salad

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like simple things at home,” says Bruce Feingold, chef-partner of Dada. “I like vegetables, and I like salad. It goes against my pig reputation. I eat salads at almost every single meal.”

And then there’s the famous Seven Cheese Grilled Cheese. It’s been on Dada’s menu since 2012, and Feingold makes some sort of variation with his own family at least once a week.

“Obviously, we do seven cheese here (at Dada), but you can use whatever cheese you like,” Feingold says.

“We use a Munster (among the seven) because it melts really well and is really stringy. We put mayonnaise on the outside of the bread—it browns really well. Of course, you can always add bacon.”

Feingold recommends keeping your fridge stocked with a few kitchen essentials to make throwing together meals a bit easier: garlic at all times, bacon (no surprise there), onion, a hot sauce such as Cholula, Pickapeppa or sriracha

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and finally vinegar.

“A lot of my cooking is all classical French, so acid is a big thing. Us Americans, it’s all salt. If you add acid, you don’t need to add as much salt,” Feingold says.

And with those pantry essentials, he recommends putting together a pasta with sautéed garlic and onions, rendering the bacon, adding in a bit of sautéed shrimp to the bacon fat, deglazing with the vinegar, adding the hot sauce, finishing with a bit of butter and finally topping it with crisp bacon lardons. (Piece of cake.)

Over at Cut 432, Executive Chef Jarod Higgins can’t help but plan out his meals at home, just as in his smartly run kitchen.

“It’s in my nature, how I was built up as a chef,” Higgins says. “I like planning menus, and I take that home as well. So I set up meals for myself during the week.”

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Dada’s 7-Cheese Grilled Cheese Sandwich Makes 1 serving

INGREDIENTS 2 slices sourdough bread 2 slices each of cheddar cheese, Munster cheese, Swiss cheese and American cheese 1 ounce each of blue cheese, sheep’s milk feta and goat cheese 1 tablespoon mayonnaise 1/8 cup bacon or cooked chicken (optional) DIRECTIONS: ■ Soften the cheeses to room temperature. Drain the sheep’s feta. Combine the soft cheese together in a bowl.

■ Heat a griddle or sauté pan to medium heat.

■ Add all the cheese and make a sandwich. Butter the exterior of the sandwich with the mayonnaise.

■ Grill until lightly browned. Flip. Sandwich is done when golden brown and the cheese is melted.

DIRECTIONS: ■ Cook down tomatoes and basil for 1 hour.

■ In a separate pan, sauté onions and garlic.

■ Add onions to the pot of tomatoes with balsamic vinegar.

■ Finish with cream, and if soup is too thick, thin out with vegetable stock.

■ Strain through wire basket.

OVERRATED GADGETS “The kitchen has become a place of convenience, and I hate that,” says Cut 432’s Jarod Higgins. We asked him, Feingold and Malatesta to reveal the most unnecessary kitchen luxuries.

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Tomato Bisque Yields 8 servings 1 can tomatoes (not drained) 3 yellow onions (diced) 2 tablespoons raw garlic 2 bunches basil 1 ounce heavy cream 1/2 cup balsamic vinegar Salt and pepper

BOIL-OVER PASTA SPOON

ELECTRIC CAN OPENER.

“Why do you need that unless you’re opening 100 cans?” Higgins says.

GARLIC ROASTER

GARLIC PRESS

HERB STRIPPER

TOO MANY MEASURING SPOONS:

“You cook with your soul, you don’t need a measuring quart of this, a cup of this,” Feingold says. “Recipes are guidelines. When you start measuring, you get too particular and a little too hardcore, and it’s not fun.”

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Three Bean and Farro Salad with Lemon Sherry Dijonnaise 2 cups Marcona almonds, toasted ½ cup chervil, picked and chopped Salt and pepper to taste Lemon Sherry Dijonnaise: ½ cup whole grain mustard 1 cup mayonnaise ¼ cup Sherry vinegar 1 lemon, zested and juiced

DIRECTIONS: ■ Bring 4 small pots of salted water to a boil.

■ Simmer the beans and the farro in separate pots for 10 minutes or until tender but slightly al dente.

When done, cool beans and farro.

■ While beans and farro are cooking, make Dijonnaise by whisking all the ingredients together and seasoning with salt and pepper to taste. Once

Dijonnaise is made, set aside.

■ When beans and farro are cool, add all ingredients to a large mixing bowl.

■ Slowly fold in Dijonnaise sauce to the desired creaminess.

■ Adjust seasoning by adding salt and pepper to taste.

■ Refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight if you have time.

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INGREDIENTS 1 pound orca beans, soaked overnight and drained 1 pound red kidney beans, soaked overnight and drained 1 pound garbanzo beans, soaked overnight and drained ½ pound farro 10 each baby bell peppers, seeded and julienned 1 red onion, julienned

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Pantry Essentials some sort of salt

some sort of butter

eggs

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grains: pasta, farro, wheat berries, sorghum and freekeh

Cut 432 Executive Chef Jarod Higgins

He recommends keeping the pantry stocked with dried rice and dried grains (farro is one of his favorites) and an assortment of beans.

“I always have a variety of beans as well as rice: whole grain, jasmine, brown,” Higgins says. “I think a lot of people are scared of starches. They get freaked out about starches because of dieting. Carbohydrates are a good thing. They’re brain food. Everything in moderation, that’s what people have to remember.”

He likes to keep the beans in his fridge soaking (Guess what: They can soak longer than one night) so they’re always ready for him, then boiled to his preferred texture. Then he can readily throw them into a salad with some greens or just do a simple salad with garbanzo beans, olive oil and salt. The same can be true for the grains.

One of his favorite quick, easy meals is a three-bean salad with a lemon sherry Dijonnaise. The beans soak overnight (or longer) and then only have to simmer for about 10 minutes.

The salad comes together quickly with the addition of baby bell peppers, Marcona almonds, red onion and fresh chervil, brightened with an easy Dijonnaise that gives you enough to eat whenever you’re hungry.

Higgins also recommends keeping potatoes on hand.

“They’re super versatile and can sit for a while. Breakfast, lunch, dinner—I love sweet potatoes. I’m from North Carolina, and we hail the sweet potato.”

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white or yellow onion

vinegar (the more the better!)

fresh veggies

whole chicken (freezer essential)

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What great shortcuts do our local chefs recommend? This question brought a general round of scoffs. “There’s no easy way around anything,” Feingold reminded me.

Still, that didn’t seem quite the truth, as these guys did have a few tricks up their coats.

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“It’s always good to have a roux on hand. It’s equal parts flour and butter. Melt down the butter, add the flour and save it in your fridge. You can use it to make a gravy, cut off a bit from it and throw it in here and there. If you’re making a sauce and your sauce starts to separate, you can add a bit of roux, and the roux will save the sauce.” Jarod Higgins

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“Let your meat rest after cooking it. The worst thing in the world is to see someone grilling at home, and then they throw it on a cutting board and just start cutting into it. Resting is a fundamental part of cooking meat. It prevents drying out and promotes flavor, because all that sits on the cutting board is the flavor and tenderness.” Higgins

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“Put your chicken stock in ice cube trays, then just take out what you need.”

Blake Malatesta “I peel garlic by hand, but then I like to take a big clove of garlic, add oil to it, and that preserves it and it’ll last a bit longer.” Malatesta

When it comes to salting your beef, Higgins likes to coat the entire surface, then pick up the steak and shake it in the air. “Whatever sticks to it is supposed to be there. The steak will tell you what the steak needs. I like to season heavily and then shake the steak off.”

FANTASTIC UTENSILS TO HAVE AT HOME ■ A chef ’s knife (Every. Single. Chef. suggested this first) ■ Rubber spatula ■ A microplane (you can use it on garlic, ginger or lemon zest) ■ A good cast-iron pan ■ One good whisk

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Linguini Pomodoro Serves 2-4

INGREDIENTS 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 pounds fresh garden tomatoes, small/medium-sized, in large chunks (If you can’t get local garden tomatoes, buy the ripest tomatoes you can find at the grocery.)

2 tablespoons of each chopped fresh herb—tarragon, dill, parsley, basil 1⁄4 cup extra-virgin olive oil 4 ounces good-quality finely grated pecorino cheese 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 2 tablespoons dry white wine 12 ounces cooked linguini Fresh ground pepper Sea salt

Fresh garden tomatoes

Vinegar, salt and butter: “Those three things you use in a recipe are the three most important.”

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DIRECTIONS: ■ Heat olive oil over medium heat and add garlic and tomatoes.

■ Cook tomatoes and garlic for 1-2 minutes, then deglaze pan with dry white wine.

■ When white wine is reduced by half, remove pan from heat.

■ Add cooked pasta, fresh herbs and butter.

■ Toss gently until butter is melted, add half of grated cheese and toss again.

■ Transfer pasta into serving bowl/dish, garnish with the remaining cheese and serve immediately.

Like Feingold, Higgins is also a vinegar collector and may or may not have been known to drink it straight from the bottle on occasion.

“I am a very big vinegar fan: Sherry vinegar, apple cider vinegar,” he says. “They’re versatile with so many realms of things.”

Finally, he suggests we round out our pantry with good olive oils, a variety of peppercorns and some nice spices such as za’atar, Chinese five-spice powder and Togarashi. The za’atar makes an appearance with fish and his beloved sweet potatoes, and the Chinese five-spice can be used in pork dishes or in noodle bowls. As for the Togarashi?

“I like it with everything: poultry, beef, eggs.”

Famed chef Blake Malatesta, formerly of 50 Ocean, echoes Feingold’s and Higgins’ mad appreciation for vinegars.

“Vinegar is like my thing,” Malatesta says. “I’m a vinegar geek.

You always need some sort of vinegar.” (In case you were wondering, there’s Champagne, rice, sherry, white balsamic or the fruit route such as pear, fig, raspberry … the list goes on.)

Malatesta also recommends having some sort of salt and some sort of butter. “Those three things you use in the recipe are the three most important things.”

Okay, great. I can tell you that I personally always have vinegar, salt and butter in the house, but that doesn’t guarantee I’ve got dinner. What’s next?

Malatesta goes on: grains, a whole chicken, a white or yellow onion (they’ll keep at least seven to 10 days at minimum), then a bunch of fruit or vegetables.

Now we’re getting closer to a meal. But what does Malatesta like to cook at home when he’s coming off a 15-hour shift during season?

“I do super-simple stuff,” he says. “I cook eggs. I cook straight-up scrambled eggs or over-easy eggs and serve them with polenta leftovers.

It’s anytime. Scrambled eggs are the most delicious, perfect things possible. And they’re so hard to mess up.”

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Six longtime residents sift through their memories to recall stories from long ago that helped define Delray life back in the day.

By Rich Pollack

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tick around long enough and you’ll run into a local—which is far different than it used to be in Delray Beach. As recently as 10 years ago, you’d always run into someone you knew on the Avenue, or having breakfast at the Green Owl. Before then, it was Ken & Hazel’s or Neal’s Farm Stand or maybe at the Colony liquor store. We may have come a long way since those days, but now and then it’s nice to go back—way back—and have a longtime son or daughter of Delray reminisce about a little slice of life they remember from simpler times. Here are six people who indulged us with a story from long ago, when Delray was still a sleepy town by the sea.

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Woodie McDuffie

Paul Peterson

Rev. Marcia Beam, right, with her best friend Rose Marie Williams

Jarry Adam

Eddie Odom when he played for the Washington Senators

Mahlon and Joan Weir

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WOODIE MCDUFFIE

It was the fall of 1963, and Woodie McDuffie and his friends were not above getting into a little mischief every now and then.

“A good prank was always enjoyed, but it was never destructive,” says McDuffie, 70, a former Delray Beach mayor who is now retired.

One of the best pranks McDuffie and a few buddies from his Boy Scout troop ever pulled involved a 55-gallon drum painted like a Schlitz beer can and the flagpole in front of the local high school.

Back then, McDuffie says, the 55-gallon steel drums were easy to find, and when the teens came across one in a friend’s backyard, they hatched a plan to paint it like a can of beer. Just letting the makeshift brewski sit somewhere, however, wasn’t quite enough.

“We all decided, given the skills we learned in scouts, that we would hoist it to the top of the Seacrest High School flagpole,” McDuffie says. So on Halloween night, he and a dozen other friends hauled the drum to the school and set about lifting their beer can up the pole.

The plan would have worked if the rope on the flagpole hadn’t

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snapped as the drum was about two-thirds of the way up the pole.

Undeterred, the teens regrouped and decided to try again the Friday night of homecoming, just a few weeks later.

This time it worked. “We had successfully pulled it off,” McDuffie says.

Until that Monday afternoon, when they were called into Principal Robert Fulton’s conference room. Fulton, a much beloved educator, reminded the boys about the meaning of the flag and that friends of his had died defending it. Then his demeanor changed.

“He says, ‘After all the things that went through my mind, I thought it was a pretty good prank, but if you’re ever inclined to do anything like that again, don’t do it on my flagpole,’” McDuffie recalls.

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PAUL PETERSON JR.

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Born and reared in Delray Beach, Paul Peterson Jr.’s family ran S. Arthur Peterson, one of the many flower farms west of town that were once a mainstay of Delray’s economy. But his childhood revolved around the sea—not the land—and that’s where one of his most vivid memories took place. Peterson, now 55, was always on or near the water. Weekends and summers were usually spent swimming, diving, snorkeling and fishing. Which is what he was doing that winter Saturday 35 years ago when he embarked on a sail fishing trip with his good friend Tim Aterbery.

Everything seemed fine at first, until the 19-foot Robalo fishing boat ran into rough seas, the waves crashing over the gunwales. The boat started filling with water, but the boys weren’t worried; they started baling it out in between fishing. As the day went on, however, the water rose—high enough to short-circuit the boat’s electrical system.

“We just thought we would give it an hour and it would dry out,” Peterson recalls. “That didn’t happen.

“I wasn’t really concerned until the sun started setting,” he adds. “That’s when I really started to worry.”

As they drifted into the Gulf Stream and night began to fall, their biggest fear was that they wouldn’t be seen by one of the large freighters plying the current. It was dark, punctuated only by the sound of waves smacking the sides of the boat.

“We had a game plan, which was to jump and swim like hell,” Peterson says.

During the night Peterson slept in a big fish box while he and Aterbury kept baited lines in the water. At about 2 a.m. they reeled in a dolphin that they kept for food, just in case they weren’t rescued. During their second day at sea, as their boat drifted north in the strong current, the friends continued to try and flag down passing ships and search planes but failed to get spotted.

“We could see the Coast Guard planes flying over us. They just couldn’t see us,” says Peterson, adding that they waved orange life jackets at the planes.

During the long daylight hours, Aterbury and Peterson kept their hopes up knowing that searchers were looking for them, and would periodically try to start the engine.

Throughout the 24-hour ordeal, Peterson had been using a CB radio on board to periodically call for help but to no avail. It wasn’t until late afternoon the day after they started out, however, that the captain of a fishing boat heard their distress call and alerted the Coast Guard, which sent a cutter to rescue them.

“We were lucky,” says Peterson, who still spends as much time fishing and in the water as he can.

Peterson, who now runs Native Floral, a company that makes floral bouquets for mass markets, says that throughout the ordeal, he remained optimistic.

“We never lost faith,” he says.

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Jarry Adams having another treat 50-some years later at Doc’s

JARRY ADAMS

Jarry Adams, 72, is retired now after years of running the family business, but he remembers Delray when two-lane roads were the norm, and to place a phone call, you had to first speak with an operator who would then “ring you through” to the person you were calling.

It was also a time when you could ride your horse from Military Trail to the beach—as long as the horse wasn’t Adams’ Poco.

It was in the late 1950s that Adams’ parents bought him Poco so he could, as he puts it, “explore the lore of the inner cowboy inside me.”

One day in 1959, Adams decided he would ride Poco from the barn on Military Trail, where she was boarded, to the beach.

“That trip almost killed me,” Adams says. “It tested my ability to stay in the saddle.”

To get across town, he and Poco would ride through vacant lots on the north side of Atlantic Avenue, west of Congress Avenue.

“Back then you could almost ride as the crow flies,” he says.

As they crossed through one sandy area, they came across what Adams later realized was a burrowing owl nest, complete with an agitated owl that began flapping its wings to ward off the boy and his horse.

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“The horse didn’t like that at all,” Adams recalls. “If I hadn’t held on to the reins, she would have taken off.”

Despite the disruption, Adams and Poco continued on toward the beach, but first they would have to cross over the two-lane wooden bridge over the Intracoastal—and in Poco’s mind, that just wasn’t going to happen.

“Poco wouldn’t go,” says Adams, who tried everything to persuade her to move forward. “I thought of getting off and leading her over the bridge, but something told me if she was spooked about going over the bridge I should be too.”

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[the administration] did it,” she says. “They did it in front of the students.

They could have done it another way.”

An athlete and musician who ran track and played in the school band, Beam was a member of a student body that was drawn close at a time when schools in Delray Beach remained segregated. The decision for Beam and others to walk out was not just a show of support for Holliday. It was also a show of unity.

“We were a tight-knit community, and it showed,” Beam says, explaining that Holliday was well respected for his leadership and his caring for all the students.

Eventually, Beam says, Holliday was reinstated, but his removal and the walkout had ramifications for many of Carver’s graduating seniors. Beam received her diploma that year, but it didn’t include a principal’s signature, and there wasn’t even a prom that year.

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Rev. Marcia Beam remembers the day in 1964, during her senior year at Carver High School, when she and other students discovered that Principal Anthony Holliday’s office furniture had been tossed out and was sitting on the lawn in front of the school.

Not long after that, student body president Robert Wells called all of the students together to the gymnasium and informed them that Holliday had been pulled out of the all-black high school by the school board and replaced.

“It was a really emotional time,” recalls Beam, now the priest in charge at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach.

The students were never sure why Holliday had been replaced—and to this day Beam, 69, still doesn’t know the reason—but they knew it was wrong. With Wells leading them, they decided to take action.

“He says, ‘I’m leaving, and whoever wants to follow me can leave, too—and everybody left,’” she says. The students literally walked out, making their way to Mount Olive Baptist Church, where they stayed awhile before making their way home. Beam stayed out two more days before returning to class.

“It was something I did in the heat of the moment,” she says. Beam’s reaction may have come as a result of the times, when students in the all-black high school harbored a long-simmering resentment that they weren’t treated the same somehow as the white kids. “It was just the way

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his home in the predominantly white section of town at night, when he wouldn’t be seen visiting.

With the help of Little League district officials—and his wife, Yvonne— Odom was able to get the required paperwork in order and meet all the requirements. The league became official the next season.

“We already had everything in place, and we were ready to go,” Odom, now 72, says.

That first year the league had just four teams. Today it has 19 teams ranging from Tee Ball to a team for players 16 and younger.

Like its counterpart, the Delray Beach National Little League, the American League is open to kids of all races.

“We don’t have black and white issues,” says Odom, who adds that the creation of the Delray American Little League more than 40 years ago has made it possible for more kids to play the game, especially those from the neighborhood within walking distance of a field that is now named after the Odoms.

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Eddie Odom recalls that were it not for his visit to a baseball tournament played downtown, Delray Beach’s American Little League might never have been created.

Odom, who had played minor league baseball with both the Washington Senators and the then Milwaukee Braves, remembers going to the tournament and asking if he could field a team from the small recreational league he had created at what is now known as Pompey Park.

Odom, the first black player from Delray to be signed to a minor league contract by a major league team, was told that for teams from his program to be in the tournament he would have to start an official Little League—and to do that he would need a charter.

It was 1971, and Delray still struggled with the remnants of segregation.

Little League boundaries at the time included the entire city—with the exception of the area that was home to the black community.

Odom didn’t know what it took to get a charter, but he soon discovered there were people willing to help.

“There was always someone who noticed it was unfair,” he says.

To get the Delray American Little League started, Odom met with a man he’s reluctant to name who knew the ropes but would only invite Odom to

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JOAN WEIR

Joan Weir’s memory of earlier times in Delray is one from the heart. She remembers visiting Delray Beach with her family for the holidays during her freshman year of college in the winter of 1953, when she and her brother decided to walk down to the beach.

“The beach was where the action was back then,” she says. “All the young people were there, and that’s where you went to meet people.”

Weir had no idea at the time that the beach was where she would meet her future husband, Mahlon.

It was during a beach volleyball game that Mahlon Weir lunged for the ball and landed right in front of Joan.

“He fell at my feet,” she recalls, adding that Mahlon would joke that she actually tripped him. Later that day, he went home and made a prediction about the future.

“He told his best friend and his mother that he had just met the girl he was going to marry,” Joan, now 83, recalls.

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“For a northerner fighting the snow, going to West Palm Beach in a Jeep during the winter was very romantic,” she says.

The two would also return to the beach and ride along the sand in the Jeep, down to what is now known as Yamato Rock, just north of Boca Raton.

After the new year, Joan Weir returned to school in New York, and a short time later Mahlon entered the Coast Guard. Although they were hundreds of miles apart, the two stayed in touch thanks to the Postal Service, phone calls and the occasional Delray visit.

“There were lots of letters—romantic letters,” she says.

The two were married in August 1957 and returned to Delray Beach, where Joan began teaching at Plumosa Elementary School and Mahlon opened Weir Auto Electric, which became a successful business.

The two remained married for 23 years until Mahlon’s death in 1980.

“It’s a good story,” Weir says about the day she met her husband. “It was a very impressive beginning.”

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small wonder Delray Beach designer Erin Paige Pitts transforms a small, timeworn cottage with big style and even larger livability.

BY BRAD MEE | PHOTOS BY ROBERT BRANTLEY PHOTOGRAPHY

“The only thing we kept

TOP: Designer Erin Pitts and her husband Gregory chose the timeworn ‘40s Delray Beach home for its proximity to town, large lot and separate guest house that now doubles as Erin’s design studio. During the extensive remodel, the couple revamped the exterior by adding symmetrical bump-outs to the front façade, giving the dwelling a modern Caribbean look.

New landscaping adds to the home’s compelling curb appeal.

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was the existing concrete structure and the roof,” says interior designer Erin Paige Pitts, describing the 1946-vintage, 2,000-square-foot home she and her husband Gregory recently remodeled in Delray Beach.

Erin, principal of Erin Paige Pitts Interiors, focuses on coastal properties and has offices in Delray Beach as well as Maryland, where the Pitt family resides.

But these days, Florida’s sunshine and Erin’s expanding Florida clientele frequently draw the Pitts to Delray Beach, and they couldn’t be happier.

“We’re only a bike-ride from the water, and we absolutely adore the house,” Erin explains.

And why wouldn’t they? The one-time derelict dwelling—home to a choppy floor plan and plain-Jane features—is now a showcase of open, light-filled spaces and savvy small-house style that makes living there a treat for the Pitts’ young family.

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make an entrance >

The original home had no entry, but today a small foyer welcomes visitors inside with a modern, streamlined décor that provides a hint of the high-style interior that follows.

Erin purposefully kept the ceiling at its original eight-foot height to define the foyer and differentiate it from the interior’s loftier rooms. A cerused oak shelf, large painting and cube-shaped ottomans furnish the entry.

“The cubes provide additional seating for other parts of the house,” Erin says.

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“Texture adds warmth and depth,” says Erin, who used highly tactile elements and materials to infuse the home with character. From shell-filled bowls and wicker chairs to sisal rugs and woven mango light fixtures, texture thrives without creating the distraction that abundant colors and patterns often add. “If you include the visual interest of texture, you don’t need as much of the others,” the designer explains.

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keep it simple

“You can’t live in a small space with lots of clutter,” Erin says. Throughout the home, she chose a minimum of large, clean-lined furnishings (including functional sectionals and cocktail tables) rather than a multitude of smaller sofas, chairs and accent tables.

Simple forms, exposed legs and “floating” bases give these furnishings the clean, modern look Erin desired. “They help make the house feel light and airy,” she says. november/december 2016

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think neutrals

Erin favors neutral tones for the interior’s backdrop, surfaces and larger furnishings.

A consistent neutral palette allows the spaces to feel larger and flow seamlessly into each other, she contends. When it comes to pops of brighter colors, the designer is very calculating. “I use color sparingly and deliberately to connect the rooms,” she says, describing the teal tones woven throughout the décor.

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the right white

“There are huge differences in whites,” says Erin, who chose two of her favorites to foster the interior’s light-filled, open look and feel. Her preferred white is Benjamin Moore’s Super White, which is the color she chose for the walls, trim and millwork. For the ceilings, she selected Benjamin Moore’s White Dove, which is slightly warmer in tone. “I didn’t want the overhead surfaces to have a glare,” she says. She further explains that the way a white affects an individual interior depends largely on its spaces and light.

SUPER WHITE PM-1 Benjamin Moore

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Forget closed doors and bulky cabinets.

Instead, choose open shelves and exposed storage to make small spaces look and feel larger. In the tight master bathroom, for example, Erin floated a vanity topped with Calcutta Gold marble and created open shelves of cerused oak for towels. Below, woven containers hold everything from makeup and a hair dryer to toiletries and tissue. “I love baskets,” she says. “They’re as functional as they are decorative.” delray beach magazine

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“I love homes that you can see all the way through when you step inside,” says Erin, who removed the home’s original interior walls and reconfigured the floor plan to create this effect in the small 2,000-square-foot dwelling. “People enter and can’t believe how big the house feels inside.” The designer used honed-and-filled coral stone floors inside and out to create a seamless transition between the two areas and installed 20 feet of collapsible doors that open to the patio, expanding the home’s living space.

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“I have a love affair with the ocean,” says Erin, whose design firm focuses on coastal properties.

Using art, accessories and materials, she infused her home with references to the coast—its waves, sand and pebbles. “Because we aren’t on the water, I had to bring in as much as I could,” she explains.

reflect on it >

Erin was mindful of the expanding effect of reflective materials, and used them throughout the interior to make the space feel larger. In her daughters’ narrow bathroom, for example, she clad the walls and cabinet doors with a mirrored wallpaper by Phillip Jeffries. She also chose a large round mirror to generously reflect light, making the area seem more spacious.

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“Light wood tones work best in beach houses,” says Erin, who loves the look of cerused oak because it captures the natural shades of sand. “Walnut doesn’t feel as beachy,” she explains. In the dining room, she anchored the space with a light-toned wood table and surrounded it with a mix of white-and-straw-colored wicker chairs that foster the space’s casual charm. In the nearby kitchen, Erin chose cerused oak to form the base of the coral-stone-topped waterfall island.

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WHERE: Our Boat House, 820 S.E. Fifth Ave., Delray Beach

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Proceeds benefit the Milagro Center.

WHERE: Max’s Harvest, 169 N.E. Second Ave., Delray Beach

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Your resource for Greater Delray Beach’s finest restaurants

staff pick CHANSON

45 N.E. 21st Ave., Deerfield Beach, 954/857-2929

J

ust down the beach from Delray is Deerfield boutique hotel Royal Blues’ restaurant, Chanson, a beachside fine-dining spot just south of everyone’s fave, The Whale’s Rib. The hotel’s owner is Edward Walson, the jet-setting film producer whose credits include a handful of Woody Allen movies. The only Relais & Chateau property in Florida, the hotel seems more appropriate to Palm Beach than shorts-and-flips Deerfield, but it’s well worth a visit. Chef Michael Schultz is putting his stamp on the menu, which skews French and seasonal and expensive.

But come on—every now and then you have to go with the flow and order something like the ravishing duo of foie gras. Or the ahi tuna trio. Or a turf ’n’ turf pairing of Wagyu rib-eye and braised short rib. It goes on.

This is special-occasion Champagne-toasting wonderfulness.

You are welcome.

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HOURS: Daily 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Tues.-Sat. 5:30-9:30 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

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DINING KEY

Day boat fish tacos from 50 Ocean

$ Inexpensive: under $17 $$ Moderate: $18 to $35 $$$ Expensive: $36 to $50 $$$$ Very expensive: $50+

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 wicked-good 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. 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 nightly. 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 crisp-tender fried clam bellies to rock shrimp pot pie 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 nightly. 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 chickenturkey meatballs in Parmesan-enhanced broth, and Cremona pizza with a sweet-salty-earthy-pungent mélange of pears, pancetta, Gorgonzola, sun-dried figs and mozzarella. • Lunch Tues.–Sun. Dinner nightly.

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apeiro kitchen & bar—14917 Lyons Road. Mediterranean. West Delray diners have another reason to stay in their neighborhood with this stylish, contemporary Mediterranean eatery. Apeiro’s menu spans the entire Mediterranean, with dishes like Moroccanspiced 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 nightly. 561/501-4443. $$

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. $$

brulé bistro—200 N.E. Second Ave., Suite 109. American. This chic and casual bistro tucked away in the Pineapple Grove district of Delray Beach serves modern American cuisine, artisan wines, craft beers and handcrafted cocktails. This intimate neighborhood bistro has the culinary IQ of a very fine restaurant. It is local Delray at its best, with entrées like Snake River Kobe flank au poivre to Maine lobster bisque with fennel pollen. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Sun. 561/274-2046. $$

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-in-

fluenced 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 nightly. 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 nightly. Sunday brunch. 561/638-6380. $$$ cabana el rey—105 E. Atlantic Ave. Cuban tropical.

Little Havana is alive and well in Delray. The menu is a palette-pleasing travelogue, including starters like mariquitas (fried banana chips) and main courses such as seafood paella (think mussels, shrimp, clams, conch, scallops and octopus). • Lunch and dinner daily.

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. Try the restaurant’s famous avocado fries with garlic and cilantro, and finish off with Captain Crunch deep-fried ice cream. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/499-0378. $ november/december 2016

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[ dining guide ] 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 breakfast, indulge in a crab meat benedict, and for dessert, you can’t go wrong with the cheesecake imported from the Carnegie Deli. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sunday. 561/274-9404. $$ cena—9 S.E. Seventh Ave. Italian. Like death and taxes, heat and humidity, Italian restaurants are a certainty in these parts. Most prize comfort and satisfaction over ambitious feats of culinary derringdo, as does this small but stylish restaurant in a space once occupied by one of Angelo Elia’s stable of eateries.

Tender artichoke bottoms bathed in garlicky olive oil are a worthy starter, as is a salad of peppery arugula with figs and mild, creamy goat cheese. Sun-dried tomato-crusted halibut with Chianti sauce is a break from the familiar. Tiramisu, though as familiar as apple pie, is exceptionally well done. • Dinner Tues.-Sat. 561/330-1237. $$ city oyster—213 E. Atlantic Ave. Seafood. This stylish mainstay of Big Time Restaurant Group serves up reasonably priced seafood that never disappoints, such as shrimp and grits with jumbo crab cake and jalapeño cheddar grits. • Lunch Mon.–Sun. Dinner nightly. Outdoor dining. 561/272-0220. $$

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 nightly.

561/272-9898. $$$ dada—52 N. Swinton Ave. Contemporary American.

The same 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 shaken-bake pork chops with sweet-savory butterscotch onions, and a brownie-vanilla ice cream sundae with strips of five-spice powdered bacon. The wittily decorated 1920s-vintage house-turned-restaurant is, as they say, a trip. • Dinner nightly. 561/330-3232 $$ deck 84—840 E. Atlantic Ave. Contemporary American. Burt Rapoport’s ode to laid-back 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 stellar flatbreads, the thick and juicy 10-ounce special blend burger or

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homey seasonal cobbler. And the waterfront location just seems to make everything taste better. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Brunch Sat.–Sun. Dinner nightly. 561/6658484. $

fifth avenue grill—821 S. Federal Highway.

American. Since 1989, this upscale tavern has been a Delray favorite. The straightforward menu focuses on entrées like lamb osso buco and tenderloin brochette teriyaki. 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. $$ henry’s—16850 Jog Road. American. This casual, unpretentious restaurant from Burt Rapoport in the west part of town never fails to delight diners. Expect attentive service and crisp execution of everything— from meat loaf, burgers and fried chicken to flatbreads and hefty composed salads. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/638-1949. $$

house of siam—25 N.E. Second Ave., #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 nightly. 561/330-9191. $$

CHILL FACTOR Try a little fine dining—with a decidedly casual spin.

BURGERFI—6 S. Ocean Blvd.

American. Sometimes you just want to chill, and Burgerfi is a great way to do this. The burgers at this snappy oceanfront bistro—all-natural Black Angus beef—are a big hit, whether a single “All the Way” burger or the $10 Ultimate Cheeseburger, which is a pair of ground brisket burgers, plus Swiss and blue cheeses. You can customize your burger too, choosing from a roster of free add-ons like mayo, relish and grilled onions, and from a list of “premium” toppings.

• Lunch and dinner daily. 561/278-9590. $

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 elevate everything from the tangy tomatillo salsas to the world-class fish tacos 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. $$

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 more than three decades. The food is fine hearty Italian, with excellent service. Try the veal Kristy or the calves brains. • Dinner Tues.– Sun. 561/272-3566. $$

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

TAVERNA OPA—270 E. Atlantic Ave. Greek.

This bright and cheery taverna is a great way to have an evening on the Ave without breaking the bank. Enjoy hot and gold meze, Greek specialties like moussaka and pastitsio—or wood-fired lamb chops and artichoke chicken. Greek, Middle Eastern and Spanish music is specially mixed to give you that I’m-at-the-Plaka feel, and there is even the occasional belly-dancing show and some mean happy hour deals. Love this place! • Dinner nightly.

561/303-3602. $$

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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. $$

latitudes ocean grill—2809 S. Ocean Blvd., Highland Beach. Contemporary American/Coastal. This seaside restaurant at the Delray Sands has been given a new lease on life by Chef James King, who is delivering arguably the best coastal cuisine around. The “simply prepared fresh fish” choices alone are a breath of fresh (seaside) air. Combine near-flawless food with the jawdropping view, and we have a winner. • Breakfast, lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. Brunch Sun. 561/278-6241. $$

lemongrass bistro—420 E. Atlantic Ave. PanAsian. 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, 561/733-1344). $

mastino—25 N.E. Second Ave. Italian/pizza.

While pizza from the restaurant’s oak-fired oven may Park Tavern

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 nightly. 561/921-8687. $

max’s harvest—169 N.E. Second Ave. Contemporary American. Dennis Max, instrumental in bringing the chef and ingredient-driven 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 nightly.

Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/381-9970. $$

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

park tavern—32 S.E. Second Ave. Contemporary 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. • Dinner nightly. Brunch Sat.–Sun. 561/265-5093. $$

prime—29 S.E Second Ave. Steak/Seafood. 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 nightly. 561/865-5845. $$$

racks fish house + oyster bar—5 S.E. 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. $$$ scuola vecchia—522 E. Atlantic Ave. Neapolitan pizza. This bright pizza and wine place makes a certified and serious Neapolitan pizza—according to standards set forth by The Associazone Pizzaliola Napolentani (APN). That means light flavorful dough, spanking fresh imported ingredients—and about as far away as you can get from the American smeary cheesy greasy version. • Lunch and dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/865-5923. $

smoke—8 E. Atlantic Ave. Barbecue. With 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 porky-smoky-spicy heaven, the Sistine Chapel of rib-dom. Crisp-greaseless house-made potato chips, meaty baked beans and plush-textured bananacoconut 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. $$

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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. $$

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. $$$ tryst—4 E. Atlantic Ave. Eclectic. It’s tough to beat

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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 nightly.

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LANTANA the station house—233 Lantana Road. Seafood. 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. $$$ 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,

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prime catch—700 E. Woolbright Road. Seafood. Waterfront restaurants are few and 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. Creative, elaborate rolls are a specialty. • Lunch and dinner daily. 561/731-1819. $$

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.

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.” Among the newer items are panang curry and duck noodle soup.

Expect neighborly service and reasonable prices. • Lunch Tues.–Fri. Dinner Tues.–Sun. 561/588-7768. $ PALM BEACH 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 november/december 2016

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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 nightly. 561/833-3450. $

café boulud—The Brazilian Court, 301 Australian Ave. French with American flair. This hotel restaurant

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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.

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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 nightly. 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. Steakhouse. “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-nturf to a new level. Cast your diet to the winds and order the dessert sampler. • Dinner nightly. 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. Keep your wallet happy with five-dollar dessert specials. • Lunch and dinner Mon.–Sat. Breakfast Sun. 561/6553319. $$ 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 selfdescribed “American bistro” is less typical “American” restaurant or classical French “bistro” than it is poshcasual refuge for the see-and-be-seen crowd in and around Palm Beach. The eclectic menu offers everything from roasted duck with orange blossom honeyginger 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. $$$

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things interesting. The popular herb-and-Dijon-mustard 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 nightly. 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. The kitchen breathes new life into hoary old fried calamari, gives fettucine con pollo a surprisingly delicate herbed cream sauce and gilds snowy fillets of grouper with a soulful Livornese. • Lunch Mon.–Sat. Dinner nightly. 561/514-4070. $$

grato—1901 S. Dixie Highway. Italian. “Grato” is Italian for “grateful,” and there is much to be grateful for about Clay Conley’s sophisticated yet unpretentious take on Italian cookery. Anyone would be grateful to find such delicate, crispy and greaseless fritto misto as Grato’s, ditto

for lusty beef tartare piled onto a quartet of crostini. Spinach gnocchi in porcini mushroom sauce are a revelation, so light and airy they make other versions taste like green library paste. Don’t miss the porchetta either, or the silken panna cotta with coffee ice cream and crunchy hazelnut tuille. • Dinner nightly, Sunday brunch. 561/404-1334. $$

leila—120 S. Dixie Highway. Mediterranean. Flowing drapes and industrial lighting complete the exotic decor in this Middle Eastern hit. Sensational hummus is a must-try. 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 din-

ing 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. $$

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 housemade tortillas and a variety of proteins. Made-to-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, 561/4162131; 110 E. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, 561/808-1100; 5090 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, 561/623-0127) $ table 26°—1700 S. Dixie Highway. Contemporary American. Take a quarter-cup of Palm Beach, a

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

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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. $$$

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 nightly.

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. 561/3957462. $

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 nightly.

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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. 561/483-4949. (Other Palm Beach County locations: 1880 N. Congress Ave., Boynton Beach, 561/732-9142; 9897 Lake Worth Road, Lake Worth, 561/965-2663; 11658 U.S. Highway 1, North Palm Beach, 561/799-2965) $$

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Italian. The Boca outpost of this national chain does what it set out to do—dish up big portions of well-made, easily accessible Italian-esque 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 nightly. 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 grassfed, 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 palate-pleasing 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 nightly. 561/368-1077. $$$

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Prime—tender, flavorful and perfectly cooked under a 1,700-degree broiler. 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. $$$$

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

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 threecheese mousse, and a cookbook-perfect rendition of veal scaloppine lavished with artichoke hearts, sundried 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. $

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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. $$ the grille on congress—5101 Congress Ave. American. Dishes at this longtime favorite range from tasty chicken dishes and main-plate salads to seafood options like Asian-glazed salmon or pan-seared yellowtail snapper. • Lunch Mon.–Fri. Dinner Mon.–Sat. 561/912-9800. $$

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[ dining guide ]

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houston’s —1900 N.W. Executive Center Circle.

Contemporary American. Convenient location, stylish ambience and impeccable 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. $$$ 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. $$$

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josephine’s—5751 N. Federal Highway. 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. $$

AFTER

kapow noodle bar—431 Plaza Real. Pan-Asian.

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. $

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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.

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la ferme—9101 Lakeridge Blvd. French/Mediterranean. Classic style and classically oriented French cuisine come together at this elegant yet comfortable

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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 upside-down cake that takes a classic one better. • Dinner nightly.

561/654-6600. $$$

la nouvelle maison—455 E. Palmetto Park Blvd.

French. Elegant, sophisticated French cuisine, whiteglove 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, cookbook-perfect rendition of steak frites and assortment of desserts that range from homey apple tart to bananas Foster with chocolate and Grand Marnier. • Dinner nightly. 561/338-3003. $$$ 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. $$

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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. $$ la villetta—4351 N. Federal Highway. Italian. This is a well-edited version of a traditional Italian menu, complete with homemade pastas. Try the signature whole yellowtail snapper encrusted in sea salt; it’s de-boned right at tableside. Shrimp diavolo is perfectly scrumptious. • Dinner nightly. 561/362-8403. $$ 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. $$ november/december 2016

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A little homemade love Rethink your host and hostess gifts this holiday season.

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can’t believe the holidays are upon us—Thanksgiving followed four weeks later by Christmas and Hanukkah. My God, where does the time go? Where do the years go? Today, that’s a question we’re all asking, but there’s no answer. Makes me think of Einstein’s quote that “the only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.”

Too late, Einstein. When it comes to our jam-packed holiday season, everything does happen all at once. Even before Halloween is over we’re bodyslammed with an avalanche of advertising and promotions for Christmas.

Black Friday gets earlier and earlier. Rabid shoppers camp out Thanksgiving Day, claiming squatter’s rights at Walmart and Macy’s. These salivating bargain hunters have waited all night to lead the crush of shoppers into stores, creating an onrush of people that rivals Pamplona’s Running of the Bulls.

But the holidays wouldn’t be complete without those cheerful parties and events. Who doesn’t love being invited to one? I love connecting with old friends and meeting new ones. But the age-old quandary is what do you take to the host and hostess as a thank you? Usually it’s a last-minute decision, one that is made on the spur of the moment—like when you are leaving for the party.

Most of us slackers choose the line of least resistance by taking that old standby—a bottle of wine—to their host’s home as an appreciative gesture.

Mind you, it’s usually the carefully chosen “vintage” bottles that have been gathering dust in our basements. But we’re not fooling anyone. The discerning host will smile and thank you, but he or she knows the closest that bottle of wine will ever get to the table is via the crock pot—when it’s used for cooking the next coq au vin or the perfect one-dish beef bourguignon.

This holiday season, be a little more imaginative when you’re invited to a party. Break the habit of picking up the nearest bottle of wine before heading out the door. Instead, take a gift prepared in your kitchen. They’re inexpensive, can be prepared quickly and, most importantly, add a personal touch. A homemade goodie prepared with your own two hands is simply a nice way of letting friends know how much you care.

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Delores Rangel Founder, Project Holiday

THEN:

Delores Rangel first realized how much friends and co-workers wanted to help military service members while her daughter Melissa was serving in a war zone overseas. “I would come back from lunch, and there would be goodies on my desk,” says Rangel, who works for the city of Delray Beach as the executive assistant to city commissioners. “I found myself having a lot of things to send to Melissa.” Eventually the boxes got bigger, and Rangel’s daughter, who served five tours in Iraq, began sharing the boxes and sending back requests from others in her unit. With the number of requests growing, Rangel started Project Holiday in 2005, which each December now sends boxes of donated food, toiletries and other items to service members in war zones.

NOW: Word has continued to spread about Project Holiday, which

has grown from 145 boxes that first year to 483 boxes last year. This year, Rangel plans to send more than 500 boxes to service members in war zones as part of the effort, which is a collaboration between the city of Delray Beach and the nonprofit organization Rangel founded, You Are Not Alone. “Each year we get more volunteers and more donations,” she says. “People are just so happy to have an avenue to show their support for our soldiers.” To find out more about Project Holiday, contact Rangel at rangel@mydelraybeach.com.

“Project Holiday would not exist without the continued support of the Delray Beach community. People here understand our military members overseas are away from their families during the holiday and recognize the sacrifices they are making. They also know that a little kindness can make a big difference.”

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