Avoid long lines!!! Buy your tickets today!!

Alas, it's here! The Palm Beach Food + Wine Festival will take place tomorrow, Thursday December 10 from 7pm - 9pm at 150 WORTH. Avoid long lines by purchasing your ticket on-line!!! Trust us on this, it will make life MUCH easier!

Win 2 Free Tickets!!

CALLING ALL FOODIES!!

In 300 words or less, tell us which restaurant participating in this year's 3rd Annual Palm Beach Food Festival is your favorite and why and enter for your chance to win 2 Free General Admission tickets -- $100.00 value.

Our PBF&WF judges will select one lucky winner Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Here is a list of the participating restaurants:

Amici Ristorante
Bice Palm Beach
Cafe Boulud
Cafe Sapori
City Cellar Wine Bar and Grill
Cucina dell' arte
Dolce de Palma
Echo
Forte
Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach
Gratify American Gastro Pub
Grease Burger Bar
Hamburger Heaven
Johnny V
Michelle Bernstein's at The Omphoy
Nick and Johnnie's
Publix Apron’s Cooking School
Publix Greenwise Marekt
Reef Road Rum Bar
Rocco's Tacos and Tequila Bar
Shorty's Bar-B-Q
Smith & Jones Bar and Grill
The Sugar Monkey
Temple Orange at the Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach
TooJay's Original Gourmet Deli
Top of the Point, by The Breakers Hotel
Uncle Julio's Fine Mexican Food

For more information, please contact: 561-366-1226 or info@shaminabaspr.com

Flavor Spotlight

Four new restaurants added: A sampling of flavors to expect at the Palm Beach Food + Wine Festival

American Gastropub

Gratify

Coming soon! Downtown West Palm Beach’s newest dining experience
Created as a casual dining environment, Gratify will focus on food & atmosphere. The interior will feature a mix of vanilla, chocolate and dash of celadon, six 50” plasma TVs, an open kitchen – designed for an interactive experience between chef and patrons, and the original flooring from 1923. The exterior will feature 30+ tables for outside dining, six newly constructed windows providing a flow from inside-out, and city feel signage.

The menu will stay fresh and will reflect seasonal items throughout the year. A new drink concept will feature the area’s only “Adult Shakes” and freshly squeezed drinks. They will offer more than 40+ bottles of American wines from exclusive wineries that produce a limited amount of cases per year. With the doors staying open until 4am, the kitchen will serve food until 3am, making Gratify the ultimate late night destination.

Location: 125 Datura Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401

BBQ

Shorty's BBQ

1951 E.L “Shorty” Allen built and opened the familiar log cabin style restaurant, including family size picnic tables, screen windows and a concrete floor. Since those early days, Shorty's has been satisfying appetites with our famous ribs, chicken, homemade sauce, creamy cole slaw, and of course our delicious corn on the cob.

Location: 2650 PGA Blvd, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

Phon: (561) 624-7427

Seafood

Reef Road Restaurant & Rum Bar
Serving fresh, delicious and simply prepared seafood. Reef Road specializes in mojitos and carries over 120 bottles of barrel aged and premium rums. A casual, surfer, tiki, fish shack hang out.

Location: 223 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33444

Phone: (561)838-9099

Mexican

Uncle Julio's Fine Mexican Food

Uncle Julio's is committed to providing only the freshest and highest quality Border Style Mexican Food. With distinctive Hacienda decorating style, we created a unique restaurant concept around original recipes that demand only the freshest ingredients tailored after Uncle Julio's family tastes. Beyond tacos, enchiladas and tamales, Uncle Julio's specializes in marinated and mesquite grilled beef and chicken fajitas, ribs, quail, frog legs, and jumbo shrimp.

Location: 449 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432

Phone: (561) 300-3530

Holy Guacamole!

Do you love guacamole? Well, you probably haven’t really tried the avocado dip until you have noshed on Rocco’s Tacos’ World Famous Guacamole! Once you taste Rocco’s specialty you won’t just be in love with guacamole, you will be obsessed!

Just thinking about it makes us want to devour a whole mocajete full of the creamy, flavorful dip with Rocco’s seasoned chips.

Rocco’s Tacos has been pleasing the stomachs of West Palm Beach for about two years, but owner Rocco Mangel is opening a new location of the vibrant Mexican restaurant in Boca Raton on November 25. We can’t be selfish, West Palm Beach! Sharing is caring. Rocco even decided to share the recipe with us (see video below)...guacamole for everyone!

Visit http://www.roccostacos.com/ for more information.

Top of the Point to ya

Gone are the days of the stuffy suits and the silver foxes. Almost a year ago The Breakers Hotel took over The Governors Club revamped it with a new look, added a sophisticated menu and ushered in a hip new restaurant called Top of the Point. The restaurant offers a causal yet chic experience with a million dollar view of Palm Beach and the Atlantic Ocean. You may be thinking this place has been open for a year so why are we bringing it to your attention now? Well, it's a hidden gem that needs to be revealed and we LOVE a good deal. Top of the Point or TOTP as we like to refer to it, is offering some sweet summer happy hour deals that we just had to share with you.

In the lounge enjoy bar menu specials and half priced drinks, Tuesday thru Friday from 5PM-7PM. Each day offers varied delectable delights and tonight is half priced drinks and sushi! This is a golden opportunity not to be missed! If you have ever eaten at any of The Breakers restaurants you will know the food is amazing, the service is impeccable and the experience is out of this world.

So if you are a savvy foodie like us swing by Top of the Point tonight for some delicious treats and kick-off the weekend in top style.

TOTP
777 South Flagler Drive, Club Level, West Palm Beach, FL 33401 561.832.2424

2008's Best New Restaurant - Dolce de Palma's secret weapon

RENE MICHELENA - Excecutive Chef

One of Boston’s Best known chefs, Rene Michelena took the city by storm with the opening of La Bettola in 1998. His cutting edge Italian –fusion fare won him rave reviews by both press and patrons alike as well as national recognition.

From La Bettola, Michelena opened the critically acclaimed Centro in Cambridge, MA and initiated an Italian-Asian menu at The Vault in Boston. He then took a sabbatical and traveled around the world- Europe, Central America and Southeast Asia- before returning to Boston to open Saint Nitery and Domani Bar & Trattoria- both in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood.

Born in the Phillippines, Michelena moved to the United States when he was 15 years old. Initially, he wanted to study medicine, but after two years of pre-medical school, he enrolled and successfully completed the culinary program at Chicago’s Kendall College in Evanston, Illinois.

Rene’s star-studded resume includes stints at Charlie Trotter’s in Chicago and Las Vegas, Patina in Los Angeles and New York City’s The Sign of the Dove. Michelena was named one of Food & Wine Magazine’s “Top 10 New Chefs”.

Michelena has reunited with long time friend, Owner and Chef of Dolce De Palma, Anthony De Palma, to bring back the concept of food as a way to unite people together in a very social, communal kind of way. They have captured the essence of Mediter-Asian cuisine in their intimate-loungy atmosphere.

Dolce De Palma offers yummy tomato bisque

Dolce De Palma offers yummy tomato bisque

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