Flavor Palm Beach returns with countywide, summer restaurant deals

Liz Balmaseda, Palm Beach Post
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That summer month of restaurant deals and nice-price multicourse menus approaches. The countywide dining promotion known as Flavor Palm Beach returns Sept. 1, bringing dozens of reasons to explore local restaurants in the off-season.

This year’s participating restaurants, expected to be announced Tuesday, Aug. 8, range from fine-dining steakhouses such as star chef Jeremy Ford’s Butcher’s Club at PGA National Resort to more casual spots like Kapow Noodle Bar, which has locations in West Palm Beach and Boca Raton.

The prix fixe lunch and dinner menus range in price from $35 to $85, according to Flavor Palm Beach, which is the county’s most established summer restaurant-deals promotion.

The dining program enters its 15th year with renewed purpose.

Galley restaurant at the Hilton West Palm Beach is one of 2023 participating Flavor Palm Beach restaurants.
Galley restaurant at the Hilton West Palm Beach is one of 2023 participating Flavor Palm Beach restaurants.

“Every day is an uphill battle for the hospitality industry, and it’s important that we support our local restaurants as much as we can,” Flavor Palm Beach CEO Kerri Paizzi said in a news release. A veteran hospitality marketing executive, Paizzi took over Flavor Palm Beach last year.

Paizzi predicted local diners will be “blown away” by this year’s menus and participants.

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About 51 restaurants have signed up for the promotion so far. They include Jupiter newcomers Blackbird, a Chinese-inspired hotspot, and The Jupiter Grill, a modern steakhouse, West Palm Beach’s chic, new Felice and Delray Beach’s Le Colonial Vietnamese-French restaurant.

So far this year, the number of participating restaurants is lower than it was this time last year, when more than 60 local eateries had signed up for the promotion.

How to Flavor PB

General Tso's "Tikka Masala" Chicken is on the menu at Jupiter's Blackbird restaurant, which is taking part in the 2023 Flavor Palm Beach dining program.
General Tso's "Tikka Masala" Chicken is on the menu at Jupiter's Blackbird restaurant, which is taking part in the 2023 Flavor Palm Beach dining program.

∎ To try a Flavor Palm Beach menu, choose one of the participating restaurants listed on the promotion’s website, FlavorPB.com. The restaurants’ menus should be linked there as well.

∎ Check for any restrictions or blackout dates that may be listed by the restaurants. (For instance, “available only Sunday through Thursday”.)

∎ Make a reservation by contacting your restaurant of choice if the restaurant requires reservations.

∎ There’s no need to reserve the Flavor menu. If it’s available during your visit, you can simply order it.

Farewell, Palm Beaches Restaurant Month

Delray Beach's Lionfish was one of the eateries taking part in The Palm Beaches Restaurant Month. That dining-deals promotion is no more.
Delray Beach's Lionfish was one of the eateries taking part in The Palm Beaches Restaurant Month. That dining-deals promotion is no more.

There will be no Palm Beaches Restaurant Month this year. After a two-year run, county tourism marketing leaders at Discover The Palm Beaches have called off the dining promotion this year.

The program, which included prix-fixe menus and other summer dining specials at local restaurants, launched in August 2021 as a two-week promotion. It expanded to a full month last year, bringing in more than 130 participating restaurants.

The agency says it will support the county's culinary scene in other ways.

Heather Andrews, assistant vice president for community engagement at the tourism-marketing office, says “new and innovative programs” — such as a recent appearance by Palm Beach County chefs at the James Beard Foundation’s Platform in New York — will be a new focus.

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