The Boulud Sud pop-up at Café Boulud offers a $35 four-course menu.
Summer Deals: Take a close-to-home getaway at bargain rates
By Jan Norris
Locals staying through summer are rewarded at area restaurants with no waits, meal deals, drink and wine specials and in some cases, new spots to try. Here are a sampling:
Raffaele Ristorante in Boca Raton’s Royal Palm Place has a three-course prix fixe for $28.50, Sunday through Thursday. Entree choices include a 12-ounce strip steak or housemade ravioli with lobster.
A new happy hour menu, served from 5 to 7 p.m. weekdays, features a number of appetizers and half or full portions of entrees all specially priced. (www.raffaelerestaurant.com)
Dine with the new general manager, Bruce Siegel, and new executive chef, Denise Girard, at the Sundy House in Delray Beach during their summer special “3 for $33” event. Dinner is served at the tables in the tropical Taru gardens overlooking the pool, or in the dining rooms in the historic old house. Favorite specialties from the previous menu such as crab cakes are still available, but new dishes, like lemon pepper seared mahi with a duo of mashed potatoes and seafood linguine have been added. (www.sundyhouse.com)
Another three-course special is offered at Rosario’s in Royal Palm Place. Italian comfort dishes like eggplant rollatini, chicken saltimbocca and baked clams oreganato are available as entrees on the menu served Sunday through Friday for $24.95. (www.rosariosristorante.com)
Pizza from Ovenella
Buy one, get two courses free at the summer deal at Ovenella in Boca Raton. Through Nov. 30, from 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, diners can order from 16 entrees, priced from $17 to $26 — salad and dessert are complimentary. Entrees include steak, veal, seafood or pasta. (www.ovenella.com)
La Stella’s in Boca Raton is participating in a summer wine series. Photos provided
A downtown Boca summer wine series, from 6 to 7 p.m. each Tuesday, moves among different restaurants. Diners taste three wines paired with three small plates from each menu for $25. Restaurants are Anatolia’s, Aug. 7; Ovenella, Aug. 14; The Spaniard, Aug. 21; Raffaele’s, Aug. 28; Chops Lobster Bar, Sept. 4; Yakitori Sake House, Sept. 11; Saquella Café, Sept. 18; La Stella’s, Sept. 25; and 4th Generation, Oct. 2. Diners can reserve a spot by calling the individual restaurants. (www.downtownboca.org)
Deck 84 in Delray Beach offers half-off bottles of wine Monday through Thursday.
Deck 84 in Delray Beach takes half off all bottles of wine Monday through Thursday during the summer and valet is complimentary on those days for lunch and dinner. An extended Happy Hour is from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Friday.
They sing, “When it rains, we pour!” — and happy hour prices apply at both bars anytime it’s raining. (www.deck84.com)
Diners can learn to cook on Friday nights in August at 32 East in Delray Beach. Chef Nick Morfogen teaches students how to create a different dish each week in a small-class format upstairs in the restaurant, followed by a three-course dinner that includes the lesson dish. Classes are $55 (tax and tip not included) and limited to 20 diners; reservations are required in advance. (www.32east.com)
A three-course dinner for two is $55 at Prime in Delray Beach if you dine from 4 to 7 p.m. Some of the restaurant’s signature steak dishes are included on the menu. Signature drinks — including the popular cucumber martini or Arnold Palmer martini — and select glasses of wine are $8 during happy hour, 4-7 p.m. (www.primedelray.com)
A “Culinary Tour of the Mediterranean” is the summer promotion at La Cigale in Delray, where diners can choose from several dishes representing the week’s regional cuisine in a four-course dinner. The meal includes tapas of chef’s choice, appetizer, main course and dessert — plus a glass of wine — for $30. The culinary tour prix fixe is served Monday through Friday, along with the regular a la carte menu. (www.lacigale.com)
The scallops at the Atlantic Grille
At the Atlantic Grille in the Seagate Hotel, a three-course dinner for two is $60 and includes a bottle of wine. It’s served Sunday through Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, a three course meal is $35 with wine extra. The menu changes monthly throughout the summer. Past entrees have included pan-seared corvina with a roasted tomato sauce; deconstructed Mediterranean pita plate with ground lamb, pork and beef; and barbecue chicken with a house-made sauce.
Algerian grilled lamb loin at Cafe Boulud’s Boulud Sud pop-up. Scott Simmons/The Coastal Star
In Palm Beach, Café Boulud has created Boulud Sud — a pop-up restaurant within the modern French space in the Brazilian Court Hotel. At Boulud Sud, a prix-fixe four-course dinner is served for $35. Appetizers such as a plate of falafel, pea hummus, babaganoush and lavosh or an artichoke, fennel, frisee and celery salad are paired with spicy lamb Merguez sausage or a chicken tagine or Algerian grilled lamb loin. Classics from Boulud’s traditional menu also are available as a la carte items. For an extra fee, wines can be paired to each course as a sampling menu. (www.cafeboulud.com)
Buccan, also in Palm Beach, offers a Sunday Summer Series of family-style menus, at $26. Past menus have included a New England style clambake, a Southern fried chicken dinner and a wood-roasted paella meal. The menu changes each week. (www.buccanpalmbeach.com)
The Ritz-Carlton’s Temple Orange Sunday Brunch features a fresh-squeezed-juice cart and for an additional fee, bottomless bloody Marys, mimosas and Champagne, along with traditional breakfast and brunch items. Cost is $38 for adults; $19 for kids ages 6-12.
From 4-10 p.m. Saturdays, wood-fired flatbreads are featured at the Stir Lobby Lounge for $14. (www.ritzcarlton.com)
The Four Seasons Palm Beach dishes up a summertime Beachfront BBQ menu on the weekends. From 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, the Atlantic Bar & Grill menu changes weekly to include grilled swordfish with tropical fruit salad or a barbecued half-chicken with sweet plantain potato salad or barbecued ribs with home-style potato salad, with other fixings. Cost is $20 and craft beers are sold for $5 extra. (www.fourseasons.com/palmbeach/)
Summer specials abound at The Breakers properties. At the Flagler Steakhouse, a two-course lunch menu is $20; a three-course dinner starts at $49.50. Sunday brunch at the Flagler Steakhouse Terrace is $35 for three courses — including the signature stuffed pecan French toast.
Bailey’s Cream soufflé and chocolate chips from The Breakers’ Echo
Three-course summer special menus are $39.50 at both the Asian-cuisine Echo and The Breakers Seafood Bar.
The Italian Restaurant in The Breakers features a three-course, $35 dinner that’s family friendly — kids can dine separately in the Family Entertainment Center.
At the Top of the Point at Phillip’s Point in West Palm Beach, the chef repeats the popular Summer Road Trip special — a culinary visit through U.S. regions. It’s Chicago in August, the Pacific Northwest in September and the Gulf Coast in October. The three-course meal is $39.50. (www.thebreakers.com)
Callaro’s is offering a $19.13 three-course menu that includes steaks, crab cake and double-cut pork chop. Photo provided
It’s 1913 at Callaro’s in Lake Worth. The former Manalapan restaurant is offering a three-course menu for $19.13, with 11 entrees to choose from including an 8-ounce strip steak, crab cake and a double-cut pork chop. The menu is available for both lunch and dinner. (www.callarossteakhouse.com)
For $19.95, diners can choose the Summer Menu offered Sunday through Thursday at Couco Pazzo in Lake Worth. Six entree choices include chicken Marsala, fettucine Bolognese, veal Milanese and a fresh fish of the day. (www.coucopazzo.com)
Note: Prices for specials quoted in the story do not include tax and tip.
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