Best restaurant news: All-day brunch café. Farmhouse BBQ. Pizza for a sports star.
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Lots to dish about in this week’s local dining news: New restaurants are on the way. There are new bites to know about. And a local collaboration might have many of us driving west to follow the barbecue smoke.
Let’s start with the upcoming restaurant openings.
New all-day brunch café in the Gardens
A grand-opening date has been set for the Palm Beach Gardens location of Jupiter’s popular Berry Fresh Café, a daylight restaurant featuring brunch all day. (Vodka-spiked coffee drinks and all.) It’s July 31.
The family-run café, known for its scratch-made dishes, debuts at the Shoppes of Oakbrook plaza at 7 a.m. that Monday. The Publix-anchored plaza is on U.S. 1 at PGA Boulevard.
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The new, 200-seat Berry Fresh location boasts 5,400 square feet of space, an outdoor seating area, a full cocktail bar and a menu that ranges from breakfast classics to lunch favorites. The café will be open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and weekends from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays. Address and phone: 11658 U.S. Hwy 1; 561-486-7580.
Read all about the Berry Fresh backstory with details of the newest café!
Tangerine dream on Dixie Highway
A groovy new restaurant with a citrus-inspired name will take over a prime space in a trendy West Palm Beach neighborhood. The casual healthy-foods café, called Pixie on Dixie (Pixies for short), will open in the former SoSo café space sometime before mid-September, a co-owner told me this week.
Hess Musallet, who also co-owns local Field of Greens (FOG) restaurants, says the café’s name came to him when he saw a reference to the Pixie variety of mandarin oranges on social media. As it happens, there’s citrus decor at a couple of FOG locations.
FOG fans will recognize more than the citrus touches at Pixies. The new counter-service café will serve variations of FOG favorite dishes as well. And fans of The SoSo can expect to see a few dishes from that café, which closed in April after a year in business. But Pixies will be very much its own brand, Musallet told me.
Read all about Pixie on Dixie in this week’s story!
Follow the BBQ smoke
The fragrant smoke from an Okeechobee Prime Barbecue stand has filled a popular Jupiter Farms restaurant and live music yard in recent weeks. Now, that weekend pop-up at Taylor Farmhouse will be a permanent feature, Okeechobee owner Ralph Lewis told me Thursday.
Lewis, who heads his family’s Okeechobee Steakhouse group of restaurants and food concepts, will take over the food service and operations at the country-style Farmhouse starting Monday, July 24.
There’s more to come on that early next week, when my full story posts. In the meantime:
Here’s my list for the best new barbecue restaurants in Palm Beach County!
Christmas doughnuts in July
The Salty Donut conjures the Christmas mood this weekend via two early-holiday treats. Both will be on the specials menu Saturday (July 22) and Sunday. They are:
The Salty’s Reindeer Food Donut Holes, brioche orbs dusted in sugar-cookie crumbs and red-and-green sprinkles ($3.25 for a batch of six holes).
The Eggnog Cinnamon Roll, brioche dough rolled with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and butter. It’s filled with an eggnog custard and covered in a cream-cheese glaze. (The roll is sold by the wedge at $4.25 each.)
The Salty is at 460 S. Rosemary Ave., Suite 170, in The Square plaza, West Palm Beach, 561-933-1522.
Read all about the Wynwood-born doughnut shop in this story.
Meet the ‘Boy Wonder’ pizza
Boca Raton’s Mister O1 Pizza has been serving a tribute pie inspired by Miami Heat star Tyler Herro since mid-July. The Boy Wonder Pizza is shaped like a star, its points filled with ricotta, and topped with fresh burrata, tomato sauce, spicy Calabrese salami, basil, black pepper and honey ($18.99 plus tax per pie).
The Miami-founded pizzeria is known for its star-shaped pies.
Boy Wonder pie will be offered for dine-in and takeout through Aug. 14. (No word on whether Herro will still be a Heat team member then, as recent trade rumors swirl about the 23-year-old guard.)
A portion of the pizza’s sales will be donated to the T. Herro Foundation, which promotes physical activities and wellness for kids.
Read all about this pizzeria with a name inspired by a specialty U.S. visa.
Have a delicious weekend!
Liz Balmaseda
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