New exciting restaurant featuring fresh seafood, scrumptious steaks opens in Boca Raton

Eddie Ritz, Palm Beach Post
Updated ·3 min read

Eddie V isn't an actual guy, but if it were, it'd be the guy who could boast he's got connections in the fresh seafood markets from here to there and a chef who can serve it up just right as you relax to live music in his place. And he just opened a spot near you at Mizner Park in Boca Raton.

Eddie V is really a name plucked from the names of business men and founders of Eddie V's Prime Seafood: Larry Edward Foles and Guy Villavaso. And it's the name that adorns restaurants in Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The Boca location, opened in September, is the fourth in the Sunshine State, behind openings in Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and Tampa.

Eddie V's focuses on creating a luxurious experience that mixes fine dining, creative cocktails and live music for a great night out.

On a mission to provide the finest seafood, the restaurant uses the freshest local catches, but is also known for flying in seafood from all around the world. Some of these imported selections include swordfish from Block Island, Rhode Island, Georges Bank scallops and yellowfin tuna from the Caribbean.

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Menu highlights at Eddie V's Prime Seafood restaurant in Boca Raton

Baked fresh daily in their pastry kitchen, the bananas foster butter cake, flambeed tableside and served with butter pecan ice cream, is a bit hit.
Baked fresh daily in their pastry kitchen, the bananas foster butter cake, flambeed tableside and served with butter pecan ice cream, is a bit hit.

In addition to fresh fish, Eddie V's menu also features a selection of prime steaks, hand carved daily by an in-house butcher and then wet aged for 40 days for maximum tenderness and flavor.

The restaurant's culinary style is classic American with a touch of modern Asian.

Some of the signature seafood dishes include Chilean sea bass, steamed Hong Kong style with a light soy broth; Mediterranean Branzino, roasted with artichokes, oven-dried tomatoes and olive tapenade; Norwegian salmon, featuring a mustard-rye whiskey glaze along with baby carrots and spinach and South African lobster, which includes two tails broiled with drawn butter.

On the "turf" side, there are multiple cuts of prime beef from 10 oz. center cut filet mignon to the impressive 22 oz. prime bone-in ribeye.

Some of the sides sound so good they could be entrees like the butter poached lobster and aged white cheddar mashed potatoes, the truffled macaroni and cheese or the crab fried rice with mushrooms and scallions.

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The jumbo lump crab cake appetizer at Eddie V's is sauteed Maryland style and served with a spicy chive remoulade.
The jumbo lump crab cake appetizer at Eddie V's is sauteed Maryland style and served with a spicy chive remoulade.

Great food requires great drinks and Eddie V's is no slouch when it comes to making a craft cocktail. The menu, promises 'Cocktails with Attitude,' including smooth creations with catchy names like "Private Plane," "Golden Hour," "The Elixir," "24 karat," "The Hope Diamond" and "With Love, Eddie."

There is also an extensive wine selection, featuring more than 300 acclaimed labels, for creating the perfect pairing with meals.

Keeping the mood light and swinging, the restaurant hosts live music trios every night featuring local musicians.

Rounding out the evening, there are several dessert options that are baked fresh daily in Eddie V's pastry kitchen. Some of these are the classic crème brulée, warm Belgian chocolate cake, and the Meyer lemon tart.

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Eddie V's Prime Seafood restaurant in Boca Raton

Fancy a classic cocktail? Eddie V's smoked old fashion is made with Basil Hayden's Bourbon, a dash of chocolate bitters and served on a smoked plank tableside.
Fancy a classic cocktail? Eddie V's smoked old fashion is made with Basil Hayden's Bourbon, a dash of chocolate bitters and served on a smoked plank tableside.

Where: 201 Plaza Real, Boca Raton

Hours: 4 to 10 p.m. Monday to Saturday, 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday; happy hour 4 to 6:30 Sunday to Thursday

Information: eddiev.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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