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The Little House restaurant will reopen as Fork Play with 30 additional seats and an enclosed porch.

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By Jane Smith

    The Little House will become Fork Play when the Boynton Beach eatery opens later this year.
    Its owners received commission approval to add an enclosed porch to increase the restaurant space by 525 square feet with 30 additional seats. The City Commission unanimously approved the request without discussion on June 21.
    The eatery already has 21 seats inside and plans to have 24 seats outside, which will need an outdoor café permit from the city.
    The restaurant will serve small plates called tapas and craft beers and wine.
    A company formed by Ocean Ridge Commissioner Richard Lucibella and his business partner Barbara Ceuleers, paid $335,000 for the 936-square-foot structure at 480 E. Ocean Ave. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency had owned the building.
    Lucibella plans to lease the restaurant space to Lisa Mercado, who runs the Living Room restaurant on Congress Avenue. He left the naming to Mercado.
    She wants to rename the Little House as Fork Play. It was the original name for the Living Room, she said, because she wanted to serve tapas. She had to change the Living Room’s menu shortly after opening and Fork Play wouldn’t have described the restaurant’s offerings.
    “But now that people understand the concept, it will work out perfectly,” she said.
    Mercado asked Living Room customers about the name Fork Play and another she was considering. “Everyone said they loved Fork Play,” she said.
    In other action, the commission unanimously approved spending $28,100 to repair two picnic shelters at Oceanfront Park and make them wheelchair-accessible.