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Restaurants in Palm Beach
Palm Beach has some of the area's swankiest restaurants. Thanks to the development of downtown West Palm Beach, however, there is also a now a large selection of trendier, less expensive spots. Dress here is slightly more formal than in most other areas of Florida: Men wear blazers, and women generally put on modest dresses or chic suits when they dine out, even on the oppressively hot days of summer.
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Buccan
Buccan is the 21st century Palm Beach, a hopping, contemporary American eatery, with excellent lighting, a current soundtrack, and Clay Conley, a rock star chef with multiple James Beard awards. On the plates here: crudo including a fantastic Hamachi tiradito with Peruvian chiles,…$$Palm Beach - French
Café Boulud
Star chef Daniel Boulud’s eponymous restaurant in the Brazilian Court hotel is a beaut, with leather chairs and fine art on the walls inside, lovely garden seating out. It offers a light and (somewhat) reasonably priced breakfast, lunch and brunch menu of salads, burgers, omelets and…$$$Palm Beach - Continental
Cafe l'Europe
Is it the ginormous displays of fresh flowers around the blue velvet-clad dining room—or the fact that a pianist softly tinkles the ivories nightly—that makes this Palm Beach’s most romantic restaurant? Superlative service certainly puts patrons in the mood, as does the sexy,…$$$Palm Beach - American
City Cellar Wine Bar & Grill
If the Palm Beach–proper dining scene is too stuffy, head over to CityPlace to find this fun, casual brick-and-pressed-tin enclave. City Cellar offers a varied menu, from pizzas and pastas to steak and blue crab-crusted sea bass. Of note: the onion-and-mushroom soup with pinot…$$West Palm Beach - Gourmet American
Coolinary and the Parched Pig
As groovy as its name, you won’t get the same old, same old FL meal here. Instead, Chef Tim Lipman crafts palate pleasing dishes by combining a number of ingredients and cuisine types. Comfort food staple mac and cheese, for example, gets a welcome kick from the addition of hot…$$Palm Beach Gardens - Grill
Fern Street Wine Bar & Kitchen
On a quiet side street near the much louder, bustling scene at CityPlace is this very special wine bar and restaurant. It has a small, dimly lit dining room and humming bar, and a sprawling outdoor patio beneath the big buildings and new construction of West Palm Beach. The food…$$West Palm Beach - American
Green's Pharmacy
This neighborhood pharmacy offers one of the best meal deals in Palm Beach. Both breakfast and lunch are served coffee-shop style, either at a Formica bar or at tables on a black-and-white checkerboard floor. Breakfast specials include eggs and omelets served with home fries and…$Palm Beach - Diner
Howley’s
A hip diner with full bar, jukebox, tin ceilings, and retro 50s meets 21st century décor, Howley’s is where the cool kids eat all 5 meals a day (we’re counting brunch and late night snacks). Fun, friendly servers slinging comfort food including “snackaroos” like fried green tomatoes,…$West Palm Beach Okeechobee Steakhouse
Founded by the Lewis family and staking claim to the title of the oldest steakhouse in Florida, this old school meatery on a gritty block west of West Palm is known for its prime dry aged steaks, hand cut meats, 800 bottle wine collection, and even a free steak on your birthday! It’s…$$$West Palm Beach- Seafood
Old Key Lime House
This family owned, waterfront spot is a welcome respite from the bougie eateries that are popping up all over the Palm Beaches. Old Key Lime House brags that it has the largest tiki bar in South Florida—and we have no reason to doubt them. They also claim that it’s the oldest…$Lantana - Seafood
PB Catch
A nice, upscale neighborhood raw bar and seafood spot, PB Catch is an advocate for sustainable fishing and harvesting practices. Small plates or “seacuterie” include a delicious smoked mussel piperade, salmon pastrami, and a sensational cured white tuna with red miso-cured escolar,…$$West Palm Beach - BBQ
Pig Beach BBQ
A smoked meat sanctuary from Kentucky, you’ll smell this place well before you get there (a good thing). Chef Jeff’s salt-and-pepper-crusted brisket with pickles, crispy onions and his award-winning BBQ sauce is what keeps the crowds packing in as early as 9:30 on Sunday mornings.…$West Palm Beach - Eclectic American
Rhythm Café
This funky hole in the wall, set in a 1950’s drug store complete with lunch counter and stools, is where those in the know come to eat some of West Palm Beach’s most laid-back gourmet food. On the handwritten, photocopied menu (which changes daily), you’ll always find a fish…$$West Palm Beach - Modern Indian
Stage
A trip to suburban Palm Beach Gardens is worth it just for this fresh, modern, ‘integrated’ small plates restaurant with wood floors, open kitchen, and large, inviting bar. The restaurant’s name is pronounced “stah-ge,” not “stay-ge,” in reference to when a cook interns at a high-end…$$Palm Beach Gardens - American
The Honor Bar
What Houston’s and Hillstone is to your average American suburb, The Honor Bar is to Palm Beach. By which we mean a dark, cozy eatery that’s way less froufrou than many others in these parts. The menu here is small and simple: a bargain $22 burger or delicious prime rib sandwich,…$$Palm Beach - BBQ
Tropical Smokehouse
This James Beard-nominated spot features Chef Rick Mace’s magnificently smoked meats, seafood, and SoFlo-inspired sides and starters including smoky black beans, plantains, crispy yuca, chorizo queso, brisket empanada, and more. It’s a casual, order at the counter spot with long…$West Palm Beach



