Pop-up wine dinner, wine & food from Portugal
Off Dixie Highway, and across the side street from Table 26 is the Serenity Garden Tea House & Restaurant (316 Vallette Way, West Palm Beach, 561/339-2444). Known for its delectable teas and accompanying lunches, we are also finding regular wine dinners offered, created by Master Chef Michael Ober, who owns Cordon Bleu Catering. Coming up from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on June 2 is a four-course Portuguese dinner featuring sliced yellow potato with chive sour cream with truffle-infused egg yolk and caviar, then poached red mullet, classic Portuguese seafood casserole and more. Paired with a vinho verde, a rose, a reserva red and a tawny port. The cost is $65 per person, and reservations are required.
Avocado Grill starts special summer bar dishes
To celebrate the locals staying here in the sticky heat, Avocado Grill (125 Datura St., West Palm Beach, 561/623-0822) has started Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday bar bite specials that are beckoning me in, for sure. These include the $5 specials crispy fish taco (pictured), grilled steak taco and rock shrimp/chorizo taco. Those join the spiced lamb slider, grilled zucchini and more, for $5, but only at the bar. Mondays have half-priced oysters, Tuesdays have half-priced bottles of wine, and happy hour is two-for-one cocktails from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Summer is looking up!
