Walking into this place gave us a really good feeling right away. It's warm and woodsy, homey, quite funky, and very casual. There are loads of colorful oil paintings on the walls all by the same figure artist, Debra Kerly who once lived in the neighborhood. Had they been for sale, I would have been inclined to buy a few! We were shown right to our table...the only round table for six nestled in a cozy corner and away from the maddening crowd which was nowhere to be seen this quiet weekday night!  The place is very well kept and clean for an old building and you have to experience the ladies room!

They have a bar at which one can have a meal as well as an outdoor patio. The lunch menu has a nice variety of homemade soups, salads, and sandwiches, but we were there for dinner. The menu makes a point of telling you that all salad dressings are made in house and there are daily specials.  Each day brings another specially priced "come on" to get you in the door including live music on Saturday nights.

We shared a few appetizers, one standout being a special that evening of sacchetti in sage and brown butter sauce. The "pillows" of cheese stuffed pasta were sublime in texture...pillows is the only word I would use. It reminded me of a so, so, soft down pillow. The part that disappointed me was the brown butter and sage sauce...not enough of that nutty brown butter and crispy fried sage to taste like anything much. Oh well... Eddy had a very pretty and crispy fresh house salad and other Eddie had a grilled veggie gazpacho, which he pronounced a 9 out of 10. We had a hilarious ten-minute dissertation about the bread (after all, bread is the staff of life!) Then there was a revised rating on the gazpacho: "outstanding"! Other Ed kept refilling his martini with olives. They have served him about 12 olives already.

Eddy's red snapper arrived with a ginger cilantro sauce. Most entrees were served with a nice variety of vegetables; Laura had black and white sesame seed-crusted tuna, served in a big hunk. It was ordered very rare, but came over-cooked. There was a grilled mahi-mahi that Elaine did not love...she was eyeing Eddy's snapper. I had sunset crab cakes, tasty but very mushy, mostly filler. (I was searching hard for some jumbo lump crab, to no avail.) There was another 5-minute discussion on the vegetables and the bread. The baby green beans were tasty but too soft and more grey than green...was it from being roasted or over-cooked???? The carrots were "baby, cut by machine to look like baby carrots, but not really babies. You know, you've seen them in plastic bags in the super markets. Rodney's duck was beautifully crisp, lean, a tad dry, and a beautiful mahogany brown with a yummy sweet sauce on the side.

There was a nice variety of house made desserts. We shared a couple of excellent desserts. The chocolate bread pudding was awesome.  A gold brick sundae was unremarkable, however. Prices were reasonable. Service was very good. The consensus on the place averaged about an 8.5. You be the judge.

2500 Broadway

West Palm Beach, FL 

561-832-2722