Daniel to Open New Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach, FL

[MartyL]

An article in Crain's reports that Daniel Boulud plans to open a 135-seat branch of Cafe Boulud in Palm Beach's Brazilian Court Hotel in December. A link to the report follows below:

Crain's

[Rachel Perlow]

I think this would best be moved to the Food Media or Florida forum.

[MartyL]

Sorry---no idea how I ended up posting this here. If an Admin could please move this, that would be great. Thanks.

[Fat Guy]

Do we have a Florida forum?

[Varmint]

Nope, we in the Southeast are linked with the Southwest and the South Central (whatever that might be). To combine North Carolina with Arizona is a bit of a stretch, but again, this is a fairly metro-NYC-centric site. We're used to putting up with you.

Florida, however, is a different world altogether.

[Fat Guy]

I propose that "Post it on the Florida board" become our official eGullet euphemism for "Your post sucks."

[MartyL]

Fat Guy,

I am disappointed in your reaction to my post.

[Rachel Perlow]

I didn't say it sucks, in fact I thought it should be in the Media forum. With regards to linking the whole south, our theory for opening new forums is when there is significant activity that warrants it we will. We don't want this to be NYC centric, it just is. But if we see a significant rise in Florida postings we may consider giving it its own board.

[Jaymes]

Why are all these people posting on the Texas board??

[Beachfan]

I thought Florida was on the Carribbean/South America board.

[Fat Guy]

We've pretty much been trying to protect the territorial integrity of the United States and several other nations even though it doesn't make much sense from a culinary perspective. For example Vancouver is really more a part of the Pacific Northwest culinary region than it is part of any Canadian culinary region. But once we go down that road things get even more confusing than they are already, so we've kept Vancouver in Canada and Florida is, well, it's on the Florida board if you get my meaning.

Thanks for the post by the way MartyL -- does the L stand for wise ass? -- I hadn't heard about this venture until you posted the link.

[Rail Paul]

Has this restaurant, planned for the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach, opened?

it was scheduled for December of 2002, then January of aught three, then "late winter," I believe.

[joiei]

I will add the Cafe B to my list of places for my next trip to the south of Florida. Some of us grew up in Florida and love the eccentricities of the place. My mom's family lived there prior to statehood, the first time. All those northerners can keep on going down to the lower regions. The northwestern panhandle is the best part. Next time your in Pensacola, eat at Jackson's. It is located on the plaza where Andrew Jackson accepted the surrender of Spanish Florida to the United States as a territory.

[richw]

What I would do for a board dedicated to Florida...