If you have had enough of the holiday shopping and preparations, you can leave the cooking to the chefs. A number of Palm Beach restaurants will be open on Christmas, offering special holiday menus sure to impress your guests. Christmas Eve and day hours may vary from the norm, so we would recommend advance planning as well as reservations. Here is an assortment of restaurants to choose from:
From Palm Beach to the frying pan - that is where one local pastry chef has landed. The frying pan just happens to be a huge baking competition on the Food Network channel. We are fans of all the competitive baking shows the channel hosts. It doesn’t matter which competition - it can be cakes, cookies, or pies, holiday themed or not. So we were glued to our seats for the premiere of season three’s “Best Baker in America” last Monday.
Palm Beach is one of the most romantic cities in the country, according to Brides magazine. While we may have already known that, the Condé Nast online publication has just named us to their “10 Most Romantic Cities in the U.S. For Your Next Couple’s Getaway” list.
Your table is waiting. How to decide?
At Charley’s Crab, there’s a Butternut Squash Salad followed by grilled Chicken Tuscano (with tomato basil relish, green beans, artichoke hearts and lemon beurre blanc), capped off with Chocolate Silk flourless torte.
Travel+Leisure readers have spoken, and they’ve decreed The Brazilian Court to be one of Florida’s 10 best resort hotel properties.
It can’t hurt that the condominium-hotel is home to Daniel Boulud’s Café Boulud. But readers of the venerated travel magazine ranked hotels based on service, location and amenities as well as food & beverage.
Your beachfront table is ready... at Eau's Breeze Ocean Kitchen.
It’s time to eat.
You can dine well on the island at any time of year. But summertime on Palm Beach lets us dine well starting at about $7 per course, which is very friendly indeed.
Here’s a look at some of this summer’s dining opportunities:
Iron Chef. Knife Fights. And now, Chef vs Chef.
Hosted by Max’s Harvest in Delray Beach, the weekly culinary throwdown pits 16 of South Florida’s finest chefs against one another in a series of weekly eliminations.
Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa, at 100 South Ocean Boulevard in Manalapan (pictured above and below), has earned the coveted fifth star from the prestigious Forbes Travel Guide, and the Eau Spa retained the five-star rating it earned last year.