Chez Marie French Bistro, tucked into a sprawling strip center close to the Delray Beach-Boca Raton border, is worth seeking out for an evening of satisfying Gallic-inspired dining with friendly service By ALAN J. WAX The Polo Club Shoppes strip mall in Boca Raton isn’t exactly the Champs-Élysées. But in this sprawling suburban-style, supermarket-anchored shopping strip […]

By ALAN J. WAX There’s more to Turkish food than kabobs. That’s obvious from the menu at Happy Lavash, Inspired Mediterranean, a modern, fast-casual eatery open since the latter part of 2020 on Gateway Boulevard, just west of I-95. The menu at Happy Lavash, to be sure, doesn’t cover the gamut of foods that might […]

21 years since its founding, this purveyor of upscale comfort food is meeting the challenges of the times, serving well-executed dishes while providing a safe outdoor dining experience. The result: a hesitant diner becomes a fan. By ALAN J. WAX There’s a lot of love online for Henry’s of Boca Raton, which despite its name […]

Casual dining, inside or out, at Wood & Fire on Atlantic Avenue in western Delray Beach There is a long page of menu choices for diners at the stylish, but casual Wood & Fire in Delray Beach.  And there are two choices of noise: earsplitting music combined with the din of the crowd inside, or […]

THIS RESTAURANT HAS CLOSED Up-selling, out-of-date menus, a missing knife, a salty pork chop, and desserts that lacked sweetness suggest that the early  positive reviews, perhaps, were wrong Square-1, also known as Back to Square One and Cube 21, is a puzzle similar to the Rubik’s Cube. The Boca Raton restaurant Square One also is […]

A casual strip-center eatery  on US-1 focuses on Chicago-style hot dogs, game sausages. How about some hoisin sauce on your dog? To a New Yorker raised on Nathan’s Famous hot dogs, Hebrew National franks from a foil-covered grill at the local kosher deli or dirty water dogs from the corner Sabrett cart, chowing down at Hotdog-Opolis […]