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Boca Italian Fest parties for 3rd annual festival. When you say “Italian,” and you mean music, food and wine, you have to head to the 3rd Annual Italian Fest in downtown Boca Raton Feb. 3. Head for the many Italian food booths, and stick around for the live entertainment, cooking demonstrations, grape stomping, rides, face painting, a sketch artist...

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How far should you drive for a good sandwich? In my case, the answer is 34 miles, the distance from my home to V & S Italian Deli in Boca Raton. People who appreciate sandwich artistry of the old-school Italian variety owe it to themselves to make the pilgrimage to this small sub shop in a strip shopping center on North Federal Highway. When I got...

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From the expansive outdoor patio seating to the ambiance of its long-legged bar and warm toned comfortable indoor dining enclaves to the eye-appealing finest meats dry-aging in the line of sight to the tastiest Italian dishes and oh so much salumi, Louie Bossi’s is enorme. Located on the first floor of Boca Raton’s first downtown hotel, the Hyatt P...

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A deli debacle has given way to a pizza and pasta revival in Boca Raton. Veteran restaurateur Burt Rapoport says he is bringing back Prezzo, his popular Italian restaurant from the 1990s, to the site where two New York-style delicatessens flopped this year. Rappy’s, a modern twist on the classic Jewish deli named in tribute to Rapoport’s father, sh...

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Burt Rapoport’s Rappy’s failed to catch on with area diners who wanted old-style cooking, not nouveau cuisine. Goodbye, pastrami. Hello, pasta. Rappy’s Deli closed in May after just five months at the new Park Placeshopping center in Boca Raton. The space subsequently reopened as a lower-priced deli, Park Place Deli. Now the prime location at...

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Saratoga, New York, native Matt Vinetti brought years of culinary experience to the kitchens of Northeast Pennsylvania when he transplanted to the area to oversee the Woodloch properties in Hawley. He then worked at Camelot Restaurant & Inn, Clarks Summit, before he took up the mantle of executive chef for Dupont eatery Arturo’s Restaurant. Since s...

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After seven years, this Rat Pack-themed, Southern Italian restaurant has moved from Deerfield Beach into the former Merlino’s with a startling design change from traditional to modern.“We think our core of clients are from Boca Raton, especially downtown,” co-owner Carlo Vaccarezza says. “Boca Raton has became a mini New York City with new restaura...

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Like its menu in Italian, the new Louie Bossi's Ristorante, Bar and Pizzeria intends to bring a new kind of authentic food and city vibe to downtown Boca. Three days after it opened its second location on the corner of Federal Highway and Palmetto Park Road, the place was humming inside and out. Large families with kids, couples, girls' night out,...

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April 23, 2017 ~ 3:00 p.m. With Emily Fenichel, Ph.D. Tickets Available Through Boca Raton Museum of Art, 501 Plaza Real ~ Boca Raton or JudyO@FriendsoftheUffiziGallery.org. Non-Member of Friends of the Uffizi Gallery ~ $10.00. Seating is Limited ~ Reservations are Recommended One of the most enduring relationships in Michelangelo's life was his pe...

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After close to 8,000 people turned out for the first Italian Fest last year, the city of Boca Raton has added more food and wine vendors and expanded the footprint to close off Federal Highway in front of Sanborn Square for the party from 4 to 10 p.m. Feb. 25. "We'll have 20 food vendors and multiple bars; last year we had one, this year we have th...

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