CityPlace’s latest venue to feature seafood, live music
CityPlace will welcome its fourth new restaurant this year when Bowery Palm Beach makes its debut in the former BB King’s/ Lafayette’s space.
Bowery, which combines an upmarket seafood restaurant and live music club, opens Thursday.
T h e m e n u d e s c r i b e s dishes with some refine - ment: snapper panzanella ( bre a d s a l a d) wi t h f r i e d capers and tomato confifit, black cod served with olive oil poached potatoes and watercress pesto, octopus with Meyer lemon gel and smoked potatoes.
Starters include steamed bao (buns) stuffed with a variety of fifillings, including fried gator tail with pickled jalapeño. The dessert menu includes a black sesame ice cream sundae with kiwi, mocha, passion fruit and caramel. Specialty cocktails include the “Bowery Red,” 567 Hibiscus St. (CityPlace), West Palm Beach; 561-420-8600 vodka mixed with Giffard grapefruit syrup, Aperol and fresh lime juice.
The Bowery Palm Beach concept includes two parts, the Bowery Coastal restaurant and the Bowery LIVE music venue. It is the brainchild of restaurateurs and reality TV stars Joe Cirigliano and Karena Kefales, whose search for a “dream bar” in St. John’s was featured on HGTV’s “Caribbean Life” property-hunting series last year.
The couple, who went on to appear on other cable reality shows, named the upcoming West Palm Beach restaurant after their home street in New York City.
Ci r i gl i ano and Kefal e s h a v e b r o u g h t o n C h e f Anthony “Theo” Theoca- ropoulos to design the menu and head the kitchen.
A n a t i v e N e w Yo r ke r, Theocaropoulos is a graduate of the now-defunct Lincoln Culinary Institute. His career includes stints at Chef Michael White’s Ai Fiori and Mario Batali’s Eataly New York La Pizza & La Pasta.
The chef was the culinary mind behind Cooklyn, the now-closed Prospect Heights restaurant that had served as inspiration for a Palm Beach outpost. That Cooklyn Palm Beach concept, once destined for the 150 Worth shopping plaza, was scrapped.
Bowery Palm Beach will be the fififth restaurant opening at West Palm’s centerpiece dining and entertainment plaza in the past year, following the opening of The Regional Kitchen, City Tap House, Brother Jimmy’s BBQ and Cabo Flats (which opened in December 2015).