5 best Lake Worth Beach restaurants to put on your radar during Palm Beach Pride festival

Eddie Ritz, Palm Beach Post
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If you're heading over to the Palm Beach Pride festival this Saturday, March 23, or Sunday, March 24, get ready for a colorful parade, musical performances, and live entertainment as Palm Beach County celebrates diversity and inclusion in the LGBTQ+ community.

And if you work up an appetite with all that merriment, there are many great restaurants to grab a bite in the downtown Lake Worth Beach area.

From fine dining to grab-and-go, there are many spots within walking distance of all the festivities that are perfect for fueling up.

Here are five Lake Worth Beach restaurants to try:

L-Dub Subs

Jameson Lordi enjoys the Lake Quirky Club served at L-Dub Subs in downtown Lake Worth Beach.
Jameson Lordi enjoys the Lake Quirky Club served at L-Dub Subs in downtown Lake Worth Beach.

Quitting their corporate jobs, Makayla and Danny Clanton opened L-Dub Subs in 2021. Using locally sourced ingredients almost exclusively, they make a tasty sandwich.

Tasty, and wonderfully named, like the toasted Hot Mess sub (ham, turkey, roast beef, provolone, toppings), the Italian Stallion (ham, salami, capicola, provolone, toppings), the toasted Redneck Cuban sub (ham, Swiss, Palm Beach pickles, barbecue slaw) and the Put Your Ham On My Thigh toasted sub (prosciutto, chicken, Swiss, toppings).

Another favorite that actually was picked as a Palm Beach Post favorite is the Lake Quirky Club sub. It comes with ham, turkey, roast beef, bacon, Monterey jack cheese, "dayonnaise", honey mustard, lettuce and tomatoes.

Have your idea for the perfect sandwich? They can build it!

16 S. J St., Lake Worth Beach. ldubsubs.com

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Mathew's Brewing Co. Scratch Kitchen

Officially opened Jan. 5, this eatery is right next door to the brewery itself (technically, it's just across the alley) and features a diverse menu that includes a mix of high-end bar and pub food. There are New York and Detroit-style pizzas (made in their 650-degree, gas-fired oven), tacos, bangers-and-mash, fish-and-chips, wagyu beef hot dogs, scotch eggs and their wildly-popular smash burgers.

Made with a custom blend of beef from Bush Brothers Provisions that includes chuck, sirloin and short rib, these beauties come with Cooper's white American cheese, lettuce, tomato and their secret, made-in-house burger sauce.

Oh, and if you're thirsty, the brewery makes some of the best, award-winning beer in the nation.

125 S. Dixie Highway, Lake Worth Beach. mathewsbrewingcompany.com; instagram.com/mathewsbrewingco; 561-812-3738

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UNA Bakery

Opened in November 2022, this bakery is your one-stop shop for savory and sweet oven-baked treats. Owned and operated by Azra Nahic, UNA features pastries, cakes, breads and more, all made from scratch, by hand, daily. Bringing some old-school goodness to Lake Worth, Nahic said she learned the art of baking from her mother and grandmother and that some of the recipes are over 100 years old. She uses only flour imported from Europe and the finest Belgian and French chocolates.

Though there are many sweets that will immediately tempt, two of their more popular, savory dishes include the focaccia, a flatbread with figs, porcini mushrooms, beef prosciutto, arugula and a balsamic glaze, and the burek, a Bosnian pastry filled with meat, cheese or spinach.

513 Lake Ave., Lake Worth Beach. instagram.com/unabakerypalmbeach; 727-330-0401

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Over EZ Café

This breakfast and lunch spot features classic diner fare and is especially known for their made-from-scratch biscuits and gravy, sloppy joe sandwich and the Hungryman breakfast, which includes three eggs, bacon, sausage or ham, home-fries or grits, half and order of biscuits and gravy or a short stack, and orange juice.

Though they opened in summer 2023, Over EZ is not really a newcomer to the area. Owners Darryl Goldberg and Barbara Milo operated Jo-Jo's Cafe in Lantana for 28 years prior to EZ, and Goldberg has lived in Lake Worth Beach nearly his entire six-plus decades (long before they added the "Beach").

Gaining a bit of fame at Jo-Jo's for staying open during the 2004-05 hurricanes, Goldberg and Milo have a devoted customer base.

15 N. J St., Lake Worth Beach. 561-444-3698

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Oceano Kitchen

Chef Jeremy Bearman cooks bing cherry jus in the wood fired oven to pour over a dish of Long Island duck served with stone ground polenta and charred scallion at Oceano Kitchen in Lantana, June 29, 2017.
Chef Jeremy Bearman cooks bing cherry jus in the wood fired oven to pour over a dish of Long Island duck served with stone ground polenta and charred scallion at Oceano Kitchen in Lantana, June 29, 2017.

Recently moved to downtown Lake Worth Beach from Lantana, this restaurant on Lucerne Avenue has brought their season-inspired dishes and decadent desserts to the city. Owned and operated by nationally-acclaimed chefs Jeremy and Cindy Bearman, Oceano specializes in shareable plates of modern American cuisine with a menu that changes daily and features fresh, seasonal ingredient.

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In case you need just one more nudge to check out Oceano, Hell's Kitchen winner Ryan O'Sullivan said it's one of his "go-to" restaurants in Palm Beach County.

512 Lucerne Ave., Lake Worth Beach. oceanokitchen.com

Eddie Ritz is a journalist at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at eritz@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.

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