Here, it's all about the gelato -- all 20 or so flavors made fresh daily. What most overlook, however, are the several Italian-style ices with fun flavors like sour apple and tangerine.
Entrees like grilled angus hangar steak with brandy peppercorn sauce and fingerling potato hash combine French elegance with American innovation.
Food follows a historical tone, with Old World dishes like crespelle aI quattro formaggi, a handmade crepe filled with fontina, ricotta di bufala, parmigiano, mozzarella, and delicate tomato sauce.
LaSpada's has hoagie engineering down to a science, starting with its fresh-baked rolls. These mammoth sandwiches are given a layer of cold cuts, with the proper ratio of meat-to-bun per bite.
Classic pizzas such as the margherita and the Toscana with tomato sauce, mozzarella, and Prosciutto di Parma Crudo are made in a traditional wood-burning oven with Neapolitan flour.
Jaxson's is perhaps most famous for its "kitchen sink" sundae -- because it includes a taste of everything -- but it's also a restaurant offering "country kitchen" fare, from wings to clam rolls.
Dishes like Barolo-braised short ribs with fingerling potatoes, cipolini, and spinach and whole branzino with lemon, caper, olive, tomato, and herb brodetto use only the best ingredients you can get.
It offers nearly two dozen flavors in all including a popular Mexican favorite like the bright pink besos de angeles -- "angels' kisses" -- a fruit flavored ice cream with chunks of dried fruit
The D'Pilgrim is without a doubt the best Thanksgiving meal between two slices of bread you will ever have. Pillowy-soft stuffing and pulled turkey between thick bread, cranberry sauce, and mayo.
Try a "Churchill," a Costa Rican specialty milkshake-style drink made with champagne kola ice cream and topped with powdered milk, an authentic Tico recipe brought stateside.
The Northern Italian cuisine -- including house-made pappardelle alla bolognese, Florida yellowtail snapper francese, and eggplant rollatini -- are served just seconds from the beach.
The Originale pizza (with hand-crushed tomatoes, Parmigiano-Reggiano, Mozzarella di Bufala, and olive oil) and the imported pear and four cheese tortelloni use only the best ingredients money can buy.
A favorite is the Cajun chicken sub, but they are most famous for their version of the Philly cheese steak hoagie, a melty-hot steak and cheese that comes with your choice of onions and hot peppers.
The top seller has thick-sliced turkey, thin-sliced roast beef, American cheese, chopped bacon, and house-made potato salad and coleslaw. One of the best bargains around for just $8.95.
The beer's the thing and J.G. McGuinness has enlisted the experts on that front as well. The draft system was designed by a former Dublin-based Guinness brewer who also supervised the installation.
Proudly advertised as a smoking lounge, the air is thick with the smell of cigarettes and booze. Stop by for the lunch special, priced at just $5.50 and offered from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Dishes like roasted beet salad with mascarpone, apple, hazelnuts, mint, shallots, and a vanilla vinaigrette take preconceived notions of traditional American Italian cuisine and turn them inside out.
The seasonally changing libations include new school options, such as the Whiskey 'N' Apples with Berentzen Apple, Tullamore Dew, agave, lemon juice, and cinnamon apple.
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Their rotating list of 18 taps includes American craft beer — even some made in Florida — right alongside Irish favorites like Harp Lager and England's Newcastle Brown Ale.
The Tsunami Club Supreme is a big boy sandwich, a combo of roast beef, Swiss, turkey, lettuce, tomato, and bacon layered perfectly atop fresh bread with all the fixings, including thin-sliced pickle.
There is quite possibly no better place in South Florida to find sangria than Havana Hideout there are so many flavors to choose from that you might just have to ask for a (free) flavor-tasting flight
Authentic Tuscan fare like Bistecca alla Fiorentina, oak-grilled dry-aged strip steak, marinated in olive oil, rosemary, and garlic served with vidalia onion and wild mushroom
The menu changes on a near daily basis with dishes ranging from wood-fired pizzas and homemade pasta to fresh seafood, grilled steak, and lamb. Beer and wine are not sold, but there's no corkage fee.
A special occasion -- an anniversary, birthday, trying to smooth over a forgotten anniversary or birthday -- may call for paella, while the crowd-pleasing seafood medley is reason enough to celebrate.
If you're thirsty for more than just a good time, the standard dirt-cheap beers, neon-tinged cocktails, and stiff drinks are offered at two-for-one during daily happy hour, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
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It has a Monday "date night" program that offers special dinner and drink packages for couples. A raw bar comes stocked with favorites, including oysters. (And you know what they say about oysters.)
There's just one seating offered each night and reservations required. You and your date will be rewarded with a five-course meal served all fancy-like with real china, crystal, silver, and linens.
Tim Finnegan's is a good honest bar for the good honest drinking man/woman. Friendly staff, live Celtic music, and fair prices: It's like a little pot of gold at the end of Delray's rainbow.
Maguire's has a utilitarian quality to it, in that it's a spot for all occasions: post-work happy-hour boozing, dinner with Mom and Dad, a solo pint to sit and contemplate life's dilemmas.
The bread: sesame-encrusted, it's fresh and flavorful, at once soft and crusty. The meat: specialty, high-quality cuts sliced thin and to order. Ask for an extra slab of their fresh-pulled mozzarella.
With more than 30 to choose from, each is topped with standard provolone cheese, green peppers, pickles, tomatoes, salt, and pepper. Our favorite is a sweet and tangy hot sub, the BBQ roast beef.
Prices are reasonable and good wines available by the glass, so you can resist the urge to keep a tally of the bill in your head. The cuisine is a mix of traditional French and other European fare.
Classy. Intimate. Sophisticated. The dishes tend to be adventurous but refined, and the mood lighting and small tables signal that this is a place for grownups.
This dive bar lives up to its name: specifically $4.75 domestic bottled beers, karaoke, $5 well drinks, and a happy hour that spans from noon to 7 p.m. It also has a full kitchen serving everything.
This is the dive bar of the spring breakers known as the Elbo Room. It was established in 1938, located at the corner of A1A and Las Olas, directly across the street from the waterfront boardwalk.
A combination of New American and global eclectic, dishes like the pork belly waffle dog, Shake-N-Bake pork chop, and habanero maple glazed salmon follow the delectable (and slightly peculiar) premise
The Delray Beach gastropub is all about new takes on traditional comfort food with soothing dishes like mac and cheese, PEI mussels and fries, and notorious burgers.
A tryst is an illicit meeting between lovers. If you love beer, small plates, and bistro classics, this should be love at first sight.
The menu changes everyday and has included oak roasted prosciutto wrapped Indian river peaches with upland cress, marcona almonds, cambazola, and gastrique.
The daily changing menu features interesting yet accessible dishes like sweetbreads, braised veal cheek with toasted garlic and a swank heirloom bean vinaigrette.
Dishes range from new American like Florida Pompano with heirloom carrots, beets and parsley to slightly molecular, such as the hot spiced chocolate with homemade marshmallows and chocolate ice cream.
Housed in a quaint Mediterranean-style building, the restaurant provides outdoor seating with views of the beach and an indoor space with dim lighting and cozy seating to set the mood.
Snuggle up on the loveseat with your dinner date and share a platter of Mediterranean fare (and a view of Pineapple Grove) and a bottle of red.
Dee Dee's island relatives bring the conch frequently, which is torn from the shell hours before delivery, pounded to tenderness and mixed with her special batter, a family recipe.
The enduring, elegant French bistro where you can get a juicy grilled chicken paillard, a lemon-drenched arugula salad, or an out-of-this-world duo of duck with a leg of confit and seared breast.
Sip on the owner-chef Chris Wilber's famous prickly pear margaritas. Enjoy the southwestern-style fusion menu featuring creative dishes with Asian, Southern and Central American influences.
While the menu is not 100 percent authentic, it's close. Top dish picks include the enormous soft tacos, chicken tortilla soup and the Mexi-burger.
Not breaking any new culinary ground, familiar dishes like spaghetti pomodoro, mozzarella salad, and beef tenderloin tend to be well executed examples of classic Italian comfort food.
At 7,400-square-feet, there's plenty of room to bring the entire gang and settle in for plates of fist-sized meatballs or the signature Sunday gravy.
At $90, Sunday brunch at this destination dining room will remain a once-in-a-blue-moon opportunity for most non-one-percenters. Nosh on lobster tail while overlooking the Atlantic.
