Local Favorites
Explore the best of the Restaurants, Entertainment, and Culture.
Restaurants
Dada
Located in the heart of downtown Delray Beach and serving award-winning new-American cuisine, Dada is an eclectic restaurant set in a historic home styled in the work of local independent artists, and featuring an intimate outdoor dining area and garden.
Deck 84
A casual waterfront restaurant situated on the intracoastal, Deck 84 is a popular al fresco dining experience that offers a variety of American favorites, sushi, and seafood, and live music every weekend.
Caffe Luna Rosa
Situated just across the street from the beach, Caffe Luna Rosa is the oldest outdoor/indoor restaurant in Delray Beach. The menu features fresh seafood, housemade pastas, an award-winning weekend brunch, and a daily happy hour.
Avalon Beach House
Avalon Steak & Seafood, a beachy, coastal-inspired steakhouse by acclaimed New York City restaurateurs Host Restaurants, brings a robust premium hand-selected of prime dry-aged and wet-aged meats to Delray Beach’s flourishing Atlantic Avenue.
Johnnie Brown’s
A long-established, open-air bar and grill on Atlantic Ave, known for its casual dining and live music seven nights a week. Johnnie Brown’s features a classic American menu with staples like burgers, wings, and ribs.
El Camino
Lively Mexican restaurant and tequila bar known for its authentic cuisine and craft cocktails. The restaurant makes its own tortillas and sauces from scratch, and every dish is made of fresh, organic, local ingredients. Evenings are always packed with high-energy crowds pouring into the street from the open-air restaurant.
Entertainment & Nightlife
THRōW Social Delray Beach
Named the new “IT” Bar by Boca Magazine, THRōW Social offers live music and entertainment on its outdoor stage, four bars, darts, light-up ping-pong, VIP lounges, and great happy hour specials.
SIlverball Retro Arcade
With over 100 arcade-style games, parents are guaranteed to enjoy this retro arcade bar just as much as the kiddos. Their arcade museum displays games that date back to the early 1900’s. Combine lunch or dinner with some game time as the Silverball Retro Arcade features a full-service restaurant.
Putt’n Around
This 36-hole mini golf course is nothing short of an institution in Delray Beach. Featuring two themed 18-hole courses- The Ocean and The Everglades- Putt’n Around is less than a mile from Delray’s downtown Atlantic Avenue and offers hole-side delivery of family-friendly food as well as over 50 craft beers, wines, and other beverages.
Goodnight John-Boy
A 70s-themed nightclub and restaurant located just off Atlantic Avenue inspired by the TV show “The Waltons.” Goodnight John-Boy offers a retro, disco-era atmosphere and experience with music, decor, and themed cocktails.
Bounce
An upscale sports bar and restaurant located in the Delray Beach Market, offering a mix of sports, dining, and nightlife. Bounce features a 360-degree bar, large TV wall, and a DJ stage for live music or nightly DJ, and serves a menu of modern American classics.
Culture & Nature
Sandoway Discovery Center
Sitting directly across from the beach, just steps from Crane’s, you’ll find Sandoway Discover Center. Sandoway offers everything from shark and stingray feedings, to an aquatic touch tank filled with urchins and sea stars- among other aquatic life, to places to observe and learn about Everglade reptiles and tortoises, to name a few experiences.
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens is celebrated as the center for Japanese arts and culture in South Florida, complete with rotating exhibitions, a permanent museum space, and breathtaking, sprawling Japanese gardens and strolling pathways. There are a variety of programs for children throughout the day, as well as a tea house with tea ceremonies for everyone in the family to enjoy.
Spady Cultural Heritage Museum
The Spady Museum is dedicated to educating and celebrating black history in Palm Beach County and beyond. The museum maintains an educational center, ongoing art exhibitions, and conducts regular historic walking and bus tours of the city.
Pineapple Grove Arts District
just off Atlantic Avenue on NE 2nd Avenue. Here, you will find dozens of local galleries, independent restaurants, murals, and sculptures around every corner and Delray’s Artists Alley- a warehouse community that houses 30+ artists in various studio spaces. Pineapple Grove is also the home of Arts Garage, which houses both an art gallery and maintains an ongoing schedule of live music, as well as adult and youth performance art classes.
just off Atlantic Avenue on NE 2nd Avenue
Arts Garage
Delray’s cultural hub that presents Grammy award-winning musicians, award-winning theatre, arts education and outreach programs, and a spacious visual art gallery that displays emerging local talent.