Flavor Palm Beach Participants

Don't have a cow: The list is finally here

Flavor Palm Beach, which runs through the month of September, has posted its list of participating restaurants offering a three-course dinner for $30, lunch for $20. The line-up is so disappointing, so baffling, it's given me an ice-cream headache. Hardly any of our best restaurants -- Four Seasons, Breakers, Cafe Boulud, Paradiso, Saporissimo, 32 East, Cafe Europe, Solu, Cafe Chardonnay, and only Cafe Joley in Boca, are in on the deal. You'd think with the recession restaurateurs would be all about getting people through the doors. The paltry participation strikes me as practically surreal -- or maybe so many restaurants ran summer specials that they're all specialed out. Could this be a partial list? Anyway, starred restaurants are our recs. There's a lot of chaff here to filter out.

Hit the jump to see the bad news
-- Gail Shepherd

iii Forks
Dinner
4645 PGA Boulevard
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410

***Café Joley Lunch & Dinner
187 S.E Mizner Blvd
Boca Raton, FL 33432

City Cellar Lunch & Dinner
700 S. Rosemary Ave
West Palm Beach FL 33401
561-366-0071

City Oyster Lunch & Dinner
213 E. Atlantic Ave
Delray Beach FL 33444

***Forte di Asprinio Dinner
225 Clematis Street
West Palm Beach FL 33401
Our local Top Chef. Definitely worth a trip north for you southerners. Food prices at Asprinio were already moderate; this makes those pricey martinis even easier to swallow.

I Bar Lunch
Located in PGA National Resort & Spa
400 Avenue of the Champions
Palm Beach Gardens, Fl 33418
561-627-2000

Ironwood Grille Dinner
Located in PGA National Resort & Spa
400 Avenue of the Champions
Palm Beach Gardens, Fl 33418
561-627-2000

???Metronome Lunch & Dinner
5090 PGA Blvd
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
I've heard good things about Metronome, but haven't eaten there.

Oakwood Grill Lunch & Dinner
4610 PGA Blvd
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
561-776-5778

***Pistache Lunch & Dinner
101 N. Clematis Street
West Palm Beach FL 33401

Rocco’s Tacos and Tequila Bar Lunch Dinner
224 Clematis Street
West Palm Beach FL 33401

***Seasons 52 Lunch Dinner
On the Intracoastal at PGA Blvd
11611 Ellison Wilson Road
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33408

***Strip House Lunch Dinner
Ste 2105
11701 Lake Victoria Garden
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
(561) 296-4900
My favorite steak house.

Spotos Oyster Bar PBG
Lunch & Dinner
4560 PGA Blvd
Palm Beach Gardens FL 33418
776-9448

Spotos Oyster Bar Downtown Lunch & Dinner
125 Datura Street
West Palm Beach FL 33401
835-1874

***Sushi Jo Boynton
Lunch & Dinner
640 E. Ocean Ave
Suite 4
Boynton Beach FL 33435

***Sushi Jo PBG Lunch & Dinner
5080 PGA Blvd
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418

***Sushi Jo WPB Lunch & Dinner
319 Belvedere Road
West Palm Beach, FL 33405
One of my two favorite sushi restaurants

Too Jays Lunch & Dinner
*OFFERING 2 for 20 lunch and 2 for 30 dinner
various locations