Prix-fixe season: Flavor Palm Beach, Palm Beaches Restaurant Month coming up

Liz Balmaseda, Palm Beach Post
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This year, Downtown Delray Beach Restaurant Month runs throughout September, one month later than last year's dining promotion.
This year, Downtown Delray Beach Restaurant Month runs throughout September, one month later than last year's dining promotion.

Hospitality promoters have a message for Palm Beach County diners as we head into South Florida’s hottest months: Get ready for a larger array of summer savings and prix-fixe menus.

The minds behind the county’s largest restaurant-month promotion campaigns are planning expanded offerings for August and September.

The most established of the annual dining-deal programs, Flavor Palm Beach, returns in September under new management and with a more extensive list of restaurants. Also that month, Downtown Delray Beach’s Restaurant Month makes its value-minded run.

Before those two kick off, The Palm Beaches Restaurant Month, organized by the county’s tourism marketing arm, Discover The Palm Beaches, celebrates its second year by taking over the month of August. The promotion began as a two-week campaign.

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“Here comes restaurant season,” says local marketing executive Kerri Paizzi, who is Flavor Palm Beach’s new owner and manager. She says there has been considerable collaboration between Flavor and Discover The Palm Beaches for this year’s campaigns. “We’ve been working behind the scenes.”

Kerri Paizzi is Flavor Palm Beach's new owner/director.
Kerri Paizzi is Flavor Palm Beach's new owner/director.

Whatever the promotional nuances might be, the months sum up to 61 days of prix-fixe and other options for diners in Palm Beach County – and 92 days, if you count Paizzi’s inaugural Flavor Martin County, which runs throughout October.

“Martin County has such a hometown feel. It’s a completely different animal than Palm Beach,” says Paizzi, a former Jupiter resident who now lives in Hobe Sound. “I know Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens people are already coming to Martin restaurants.”

A veteran of hospitality marketing, Paizzi says she hopes the promotional months help lift restaurants from what she describes as the off season’s early doldrums.

“So far, this June has been very slow for many restaurants,” she says, citing staffing issues sparked by returning COVID cases. “It’s their slowest since 2019 is what I’m hearing.”

Here’s a quick look at the upcoming restaurant-promotion months. (Full rosters of participating restaurants, their menus and prices have not been announced.)

AUGUST

The Palm Beaches Restaurant Month

Breeze Ocean Kitchen at the Eau Palm Beach Resort has joined the August lineup for the newly expanded Palm Beaches Restaurant Month.
Breeze Ocean Kitchen at the Eau Palm Beach Resort has joined the August lineup for the newly expanded Palm Beaches Restaurant Month.

When: Aug. 1 to 31.

What to know: Launched last year as The Palm Beaches Restaurant Week, although it ran for two weeks, this ambitious new promotion will now run for the full month of August. The promotion will feature prix-fixe menus and other specials and discounts at more than 100 participating restaurants throughout the county.

Restaurants that have signed up so far include:

  • North county spots like The Butcher’s Club and Honeybelle at PGA National Resort, Stage Kitchen and Coolinary.

During the month, diners who check in via app at four participating restaurants are eligible to win a staycation.

Find more information at PalmBeachesDining.com.

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SEPTEMBER

Flavor Palm Beach

Sassafras restaurant in downtown West Palm Beach is part of this year's Flavor Palm Beach lineup.
Sassafras restaurant in downtown West Palm Beach is part of this year's Flavor Palm Beach lineup.

When: Sept. 1 to 30.

What to know: The most established promotion, Flavor Palm Beach enters its 14th year. Last year, founder Briana Beaty sold Flavor to hospitality marketing exec Kerri Paizzi. But Paizzi is no newcomer to the program – she was active in the promotion when she oversaw marketing efforts at Old Port Cove and The Capital Grille.

With weeks yet to go before the sign-up deadline, Paizzi says she already has enlisted 60 restaurants for this year’s campaign. That’s 15 more than last year, when Flavor returned after a 2020 pandemic break.

While prices and menus have yet to be released, Flavor restaurants already posted on the promotion's website include La Masseria in Palm Beach Gardens, Sassafras in West Palm Beach, Almond in Palm Beach, Atlantic Grille in Delray Beach and others.

Find more information at FlavorPB.com.

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Downtown Delray Beach Restaurant Month

A majestic banyan tree anchors the front yard of Dada restaurant in Delray Beach.
A majestic banyan tree anchors the front yard of Dada restaurant in Delray Beach.

When: Sept. 1 to 30.

What to know: This is downtown Delray’s seventh annual restaurant-promotion month, a hyper-local spree of multi-course lunches and dinners, plus brunches, social hours and other happenings.

So far, Downtown Delray Beach Restaurant Month has brought in more than 50 restaurants and shops throughout the areas covered by the city’s Downtown Development Authority. That area spans east along Atlantic Avenue from I-95 and to some surrounding districts.

Organizers have not yet announced this year’s participating restaurants, prices or menus.

Find more information at DowntownDelrayBeach.com/restaurantmonth.

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