Summer restaurant deals: Where to find discount dining in Palm Beach County
When it comes to finding local dining deals, there is always good news for those of us who stay or visit Palm Beach County during summer. Hard to get tables open up. Fancy restaurants roll out specials and summer menus. Prix-fixe lunches and dinners pop up everywhere, like destination points on our summer dining roadmap.
Summer is celebrated in many ways at local restaurants: specialty cocktails, new happy-hour bites, date-night deals, multi-course meals, wine dinners, chef collabs, interactive cooking classes and more.
The list below includes tempting examples of all the above. The restaurants listed are in no particular order.
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Buccan’s Fried Chicken Sundays
Chef Clay Conley recently brought back his popular fried chicken Sunday dinners at Buccan restaurant in Palm Beach.
The meal: The crispy, on-the-bone chicken is offered with a batch of sides, including mashed potatoes and gravy, collard greens, barbecued baked beans and a scallion-cheddar biscuit ($34). The special does tend to sell out, so you may want to get there early.
Buccan: 350 S. County Road, Palm Beach, 561-833-3450, BuccanPalmBeach.com; reservations are suggested
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La Goulue’s summer prix-fixe
This buzzy French bistro has introduced a summertime prix-fixe menu. Priced at $65 per person, La Goulue's three-course menu is available Sunday through Thursday for dinner.
Menu highlights: An appetizer choice of salmon tartare, crusted pistachio country pâté or heirloom tomato salad with blue cheese crumbles and cured ham crisps. Main course options that include brook trout with almond-lemon-butter sauce, ham-and-cheese-stuffed chicken breast and fusilli with roasted eggplant. A choice of dessert, either dark chocolate mousse with Chantilly cream or crème brûlée.
La Goulue: 288 South County Road, Palm Beach, 561-284-6292, LaGouluePalmBeach.com; reservations strongly suggested
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Avocado Grill’s Spritz Saturdays
Chef Julien Gremaud, whose Avocado Grill hosts one of the liveliest brunches in the county, has added extra sparkle to summer weekends. He introduced a “Spritz Saturdays” promotion: two-for-one Aperol Spritzes as well as mimosas, Bellinis and sangria are served from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Also on tap for summer at Avocado Grill: half-price bottles of wine all day Wednesdays and $9.99 classic or specialty cocktails on Thursdays (from 6 p.m. on).
Avocado Grill: 125 Datura St., West Palm Beach, 561-623-0822, AvocadoGrillWPB.com; reservations encouraged.
The Regional’s Pig Pickin’ nights
Chef Lindsay Autry has brought back two of her popular summer specials at The Regional restaurant.
Her Pig Pickin’ barbecue series, which kicked off June 2, returns July 21 and September 1.
Menu highlights: Autry’s hickory-smoked, North Carolina-inspired pulled pork, served with traditional Southern accompaniments. Options include a pulled-pork sandwich with coleslaw and your choice of side ($20), and a pulled-pork “meat n’ three” platter ($29) that’s served with your choice of three sides. Side dishes include creamed summer corn, Brunswick stew, hand-chopped slaw, fried okra and collard greens and black-eyed peas.
Other treats for those Pig Pickin’ nights: a summer peach salad with lemon vinaigrette ($16), hush puppies with whipped Florida honey butter ($9), among other dishes.
Autry will also bring back her Low Country Boil ($32 per person) on Friday, June 16. The one-pot, family-style meal includes Florida clams, Key West pink shrimp, house-smoked sausage, sweet corn and potatoes in an Old Bay-seasoned broth. It’s served with cocktail sauce and drawn butter.
Other, a la carte treats that night include fried oysters ($22), she-crab soup ($16) and, for dessert, Autry’s dreamy Atlantic Beach Pie ($9), a lemony pie that’s served in a sea-salt cracker crust with fresh whipped cream.
The dinner events start at 5:30 p.m. nightly.
The Regional: 651 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, 561-557-6460, EatRegional.com; reservations are suggested.
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Coolinary’s summer spree
Summertime at chef Tim Lipman’s Coolinary brings a buffet of happenings and specials. Lipman, who combined his Coolinary Café and Parched Pig bar concepts into one expanded space in 2021, has rolled out a new bar-bites menu for happy hour (4 to 6 p.m. daily throughout the restaurant; closed Sunday).
Some bar-bite highlights: birria tacos stuffed with braised beef ($10), Coolinary’s chargrilled burger with tomato pistou ($12), pepperoni rolls with mozzarella and chili flake ($8) and s’mores candy bars ($5).
Lipman also will bring back his popular “Pickle and a Pig” pop-up sandwich shop on Tuesday, June 13, when Coolinary fans can enjoy a batch of made-to-order handhelds. (Think Coolinary “McRib,” pork cutlet, OG Chicken and butter ham-and-cheese sandwiches.)
On Sunday, June 25, Lipman will host a rare weekend brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. On the “Boozy at the Bar” menu: mushroom pizza with egg, fried Baja fish tacos, smoked breakfast sausage platter, fried green tomatoes, BLT sandwiches and shakshuka. The brunch event returns Sunday, Aug. 6.
Lipman also will host two travel-inspired dinners. The first on July 9, takes diners on a seven-course trip through Italy. The second on Sept. 10, features dishes from across Latin America.
Coolinary: 4580 Donald Ross Road, Suite 100, in Palm Beach Gardens, 561-249-6760, TheCoolPig.com; reservations recommended
Café L’Europe’s summer prix-fixe
Palm Beach classic Café L’Europe just unveiled its three-course summer menu, which is priced at $62 per person.
Menu highlights: Starter options that include prosciutto-melon salad, gazpacho, or a tartine. For the main course, a choice of crispy chicken cordon bleu, grilled swordfish or spaghetti with grilled shrimp and pesto. Dessert options that include vanilla ice cream with mango crumble or coconut sorbet with grilled pineapple.
Café L’Europe: 331 S. County Road, Palm Beach, 561-655-4020, CafeLEurope.com; reservations suggested
LoLa 41’s Sushi Sundays
This Palm Beach bistro brought back its Sushi Sundays in late May, offering all-day a la carte sushi rolls.
Menu highlights: the Capt’n Jose Roll stuffed with spicy salmon and cucumber and crowned with salmon, kiwi and sesame aji-mirin aioli, and the Yutaka roll, which features king crab and barbecued eel.
LoLa 41: 290 Sunset Ave., Palm Beach, LoLa41.com
Kitchen’s prix-fixe menus
Chef Matthew Byrne’s duo of upscale Kitchen restaurants kicked off their summer menus on May 1. Offered weekdays, the prix-fixe menus are $49 per person at Kitchen’s original location in West Palm Beach and its newer restaurant in northern Palm Beach Gardens.
In West Palm Beach, the summer menu is available Tuesday through Friday. In Palm Beach Gardens, it’s offered Monday through Friday.
West Palm Beach menu highlights: salmon carpaccio with hearts of palm, tomato, cucumber, dill and lemon to start, Byrne’s “Simple Chicken” with garlic spinach and truffle smashed potatoes as main course, and strawberry shortcake for dessert. His locally famous coconut cake is $6 (and worth the splurge).
Palm Beach Gardens menu highlights: crispy Reuben spring rolls to start, pan-roasted pork chop with chèvre whipped potato and apple-ginger jam as main, and warm apple-blueberry crisp with vanilla ice cream for dessert.
Kitchen: in West Palm Beach at 319 Belvedere Road, in Palm Beach Gardens at 5250 Donald Ross Road (Alton Town Center), KitchenPB.com
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1000 North’s early-bird dinner
This Jupiter waterfront restaurant has rolled out a summer prix-fixe menu with early-bird hours. Priced at $64 per person, the three-course dinner is served from 5 to 7 p.m. daily.
Menu highlights: Charleston she-crab soup for starters, petite filet mignon with pomme purée for main dish, and key lime mousse cake with lime curd, mango chutney and a graham cracker tuile for dessert.
1000 North: 1000 N. U.S. Hwy 1, Jupiter, 1000North.com
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