A wave of new restaurants coming to Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, including new Mexican eatery

Kimberly Miller, Palm Beach Post
·2 min read

A Mexican restaurant is headed to the former Blue Front BBQ restaurant space in Lake Worth Beach.

Martin Sprock, co-founder of Moe’s Southwest Grill and Planet Smoothie, said he is going into “overdrive” on getting the signature building at 1132 N. Dixie Highway ready for a RuRu’s Tacos and Tequila — the first in a medley of new restaurants he plans to launch in the area.

RuRu’s Tacos and Tequila is a brand Sprock created around 2015 with the first restaurant opening in Charlotte, N.C. He opened another location in Charleston, S.C., in 2019. The restaurants are known for having creative pop-culture names for dishes such as "You Got No Legs Lt. Dan!" from the movie "Forrest Gump" and "Shirley You Can’t Be Serious," which is from the 1980 movie "Airplane."

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Lake Worth's Blue Front Bar and Grille is closing July 4 and reopening the next day as a catering business. (Kevin D. Thompson/The Palm Beach Post)
Lake Worth's Blue Front Bar and Grille is closing July 4 and reopening the next day as a catering business. (Kevin D. Thompson/The Palm Beach Post)

Additonal restaurant planned for Antique Row: a two-story Kid Cashew eatery

A Mediterranean-themed restaurant called Kid Cashew is expected to be newly built on a vacant lot in West Palm Beach’s Antique Row district on Dixie Highway, and Sprock has his eyes on finding a property closer to downtown West Palm Beach for his Flying Biscuit Café.

The land on the corner of Edgewood Road and South Dixie Highway was formerly the antique car service station Chappy's Imports in West Palm Beach, Florida on June 9, 2022.
The land on the corner of Edgewood Road and South Dixie Highway was formerly the antique car service station Chappy's Imports in West Palm Beach, Florida on June 9, 2022.

“We think West Palm Beach is one of the best cities in America for real people, from bankers to contractors to plumbers to restaurant workers, and we want to be part of that,” Sprock said. “Half my friends are moving from New York to Florida.”

Sprock, who bought a home near Worth Avenue in Palm Beach in April 2021, has also been investing in real estate in some of West Palm Beach’s historic communities and in Lake Worth Beach.

“I love a challenge and I also love old homes,” said Sprock, which is one reason he was attracted to the former Blue Front restaurant.

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This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: West Palm Beach restaurants on the way: Mexican food, Kid Cashew