When it comes to tasty information to know, the native meals and eating scene is the reward that retains on giving lately. There are new restaurant openings to report, new menu gadgets and domestically made treats to discover. For Passover, which arrives Monday night, there are household meals, dine-in or takeout, to plan.
First, let’s speak about what’s new.
Jupiter will get a Pura Vida café
One of many healthy-minded cafés at The Sq. plaza in West Palm Seashore has welcomed a sister restaurant in Jupiter. Greater than 4 years after opening at The Sq., Pura Vida debuted its Jupiter location at Harbourside Place on April 10.
The pure meals spot introduced a contemporary, stylish look to the three,000-square-foot former BurgerFi house, which sits throughout from Jupiter’s Intracoastal Waterway.
On the menu: all-day breakfast gadgets, natural acai bowls, smoothies, salads, bowls, wraps, empanadas, giant major plates (that includes free-range hen, wild tuna, oven-roasted salmon and fixings), specialty coffees, teas, lattes and frappes.
The café model with 2012 Miami Seashore roots has grown to incorporate practically two dozen South Florida places. In Palm Seashore County, Pura Vida has cafés in downtown West Palm Seashore (at The Sq.), West Boca and Royal Palm Seashore (recognized as Wellington on the restaurant’s web site).
Which brings us to a different little bit of Pura Vida information. The chain plans to open a Delray Seashore oceanfront location in early June, says a restaurant rep. The Delray Pura Vida café will slip into the prime house most just lately occupied by BurgerFi, at 6 S. Ocean Blvd., throughout the road from the seaside.
“These openings are a testomony to our dedication to creating healthful, nutritious meals accessible to extra communities,” mentioned Omer Horev, Pura Vida co-founder and CEO, by way of information launch. “Our intention has all the time been to foster areas the place people can come collectively to take pleasure in not simply nice meals, however a life-style centered round well being and wellness.”
Hours: Monday via Saturday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Pura Vida Jupiter: 147 Soundings Ave., at Harbourside Place, Jupiter,PuraVidaMiami.com
Delray Seashore will get a Paris Baguette
An expansive, worldwide French bakery chain simply opened a Delray Seashore café on Federal Freeway (close to Dealer Joe’s). The Delray location of Paris Baguette will have fun its official grand opening on Thursday, April 25.
The Paris Baguette idea seeks to carry a “neighborhood bakery café” really feel to its many franchise places (greater than 4,000 throughout the planet), in accordance with the corporate’s media releases.
The idea’s local-gem goals had been born a world away from any Parisian nook. Paris Baguette was based practically 4 many years in the past in Seoul, South Korea. In 2015, it made its first foray into the US, the place it continues to increase.
On the menu: French breads and pastries, sandwiches and wraps, salads and specialty coffees and teas.
Hours: Open every day from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Paris Baguette: 1911 S. Federal Hwy, Delray Seashore, 561-303-1748,ParisBaguette.com
Serena Pastificio has a brand new menu
This stylishly set Mizner Park restaurant has rolled out spring dishes value noting.
Highlights on Serena Pastificio’s new menu: Crispy, truffle-scented Brussels with Parmesan and prosciutto ($17). Bucatini carbonara with shaved asparagus, kale gremolata, pea tendril and egg yolk bottarga ($23).
New drinks embody Serena’s Cease & Scent The Roses cocktail, which mixes Meyer lemon vodka, hibiscus, rose liqueur, elderflower and orange blossom foam.
Serena Pastificio is positioned on the primary flooring of the iPic theaters.
Hours: Monday via Thursday from 3 to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 3 to 10 p.m., Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Serena Pastificio: 301 Plaza Actual, Boca Raton, 561-922-6699,Serena-Pastificio.com
La Gringuita will get into Complete Meals Market
La Gringuita, the West Palm Seashore-based cookie model impressed by an English trainer’s travels and childhood reminiscences, just lately expanded its native market footprint by leaps.
Now you can discover the fats, overstuffed, bake-at-home cookies at 17 Complete Meals Market shops in South Florida, Naples and Fort Myers.
Complete Meals places in Palm Seashore County embody Palm Seashore Gardens, West Palm Seashore, Wellington, Delray Seashore and Boca Raton.
The shops carry La Gringuita’s core flavors: Brown Buttah, El Churro, The Jammy and Chocolate Soufflé.
The impressed thoughts behind the cookie model is Caroline McGinley, who would make the cookies for her dorm pals some years in the past in Montevideo, the place she taught English. You will have seen her and La Gringuita cookies on the West Palm Seashore and Palm Seashore Gardens inexperienced markets.
I really like her story and entrepreneurial spirit, and I’m not shocked in any respect that she hit the Complete Meals huge time.
Right here’s the primary story I wrote about Caroline and her cookie-making goals.
La Gringuita Cookies: Gringuita-Cookies.com
Fast Bites
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I discovered it to be a stunning spot with good water views. Right here’s my story on the brand new Bar Capri!
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My colleague Eddie Ritz just lately wrote in regards to the wine bar’s new downtown digs. Right here’s his story!
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Liz Balmaseda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Palm Seashore Put up, a part of the USA In the present day Community. She covers the native meals and eating beat. Comply with her on Instagram and Put up on Meals Fb. She could be reached by e mail at lbalmaseda@pbpost.com.
