Fine dining mecca

amid upscale ambiance,” according to AAA. Dates in parenthesis denotes when restaurants first received the designation.

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Five Diamond restaurants

Palme d’Or, inside in The Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables (2014)

Victoria & Albert’s, inside Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spain Orlando (2000)

Salt, in The Ritz-Carlton on Amelia Island (2012)

Israel moon.

And if it’s successful, the small nation of about 9 million will only be the fourth to successfully deliver a robotic lander to the lunar surface — after the heavyweights of China, Russia and the United States.

The mission has been long and the road arduous for Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL, which has, in some iteration or another, been working on the concept of a lunar lander for nearly a decade.

Now, that work culminates this evening, when a SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with SpaceIL’s lander in tow. The 32-minute launch window opens at 8:45 p.m.

From the beginning, the goal for SpaceIL was to induce an “Apollo effect,” capturing the imaginations of the next generation of scientists in Israel, and encouraging kids to enter into the fields of science, engineering, technology and math, much like the Apollo missions in the U.S. did in the 1960s.

“This mission is a source of inspiration for people around the world, and we are looking forward to making history and watching as the Israeli flag joins superpowers Russia, China and the United States on [the] moon,” said philanthropist and businessman Morris Kahn, SpaceIL’s president, who has contributed $40 million in financing to the project.

SpaceIL’s mission began in earnest in 2009, when founders Yariv Bash, Kfir Damari and Yonatan Winetraub registered for Google’s Lunar X Prize — a is heading to the