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Susan Salisbury
Special to the Daily News
Henry Morrison Flagler was a visionary, but even he probably could not have imagined what The Breakers, now a premier resort known worldwide, would become when he founded it 125 years ago.
Flagler, who made his fortune as a partner in the Standard Oil company and as a developer and railroad pioneer, opened the Palm Beach Inn on Jan. 16, 1896. It was the only oceanfront hotel south of Daytona Beach and attracted the famous people of its day including the Astors, Rockefellers, Carnegies and Vanderbilts.
Regular guests from his other nearby hotel, the 1,100-room Royal Poinciana, asked for rooms “down by the breakers.” When Flagler doubled the size of the inn for the 1901 season, he renamed the oceanfront resort The Breakers.
M.M. Cloutier
Special to the Daily News
Prix-fixe meal deals, which proliferate during the summer in Palm Beach, generally are scarce during high season, but Almond bistro has a deal available nightly.
A special three-course menu is $40 at the indoor-outdoor Royal Poinciana Way restaurant. It’s offered until 6:30 p.m., but on Tuesdays, it’s in play all night.
The three-course prix-fixe menu at Almond, which debuted last winter at 207 Royal Poinciana Way, is featured in addition to the restaurant’s regular menus. Almond is a sister eatery to same-named restaurants in New York City and Bridgehampton, N.Y., where Almond was founded 20 years ago by restaurateur Eric Lemonides and executive chef Jason Weiner.
Bill DiPaolo
Special to the Daily News
Jewelry made in Palm Beach, furniture built in Lake Worth – and a dash of international art – are on display in the high-ceilinged Haven Palm Beach home and art gallery on Royal Poinciana Way.
“Local artists are on display. We’re selling one-of-a-kind jewelry, sculptures, paintings and furniture,” said Anthony Burroughs, sitting at a sidewalk table in front of the gallery on a recent Monday morning.
Opening a business during the coronavirus pandemic – in the close-knit art world, no less – seems a formidable task.
But Burroughs and his wife, Stephanie Kantis, did it anyway. The couple opened Haven, just east of Via Flagler, right before Thanksgiving.
The aroma of doughnuts and fresh-ground coffee wafted through Via Flagler on Friday morning, signaling another step in the revitalization of Royal Poinciana Way in Palm Beach.
“We envisioned what this area once was. Now we are bringing the energy and fun back,” said David Frisbie, a partner with The Breakers in the new café and contemporary boutique called Main Street by The Breakers.
Frisbie and his wife Suzanne were the first customers when doors swung open at 6:30 a.m.
Via Flagler is a 1.3-acre, mixed-use development on the site of the former Testa’s restaurant. The Testa’s building, along with an adjacent empty gas station and shopping area, was demolished and replaced by Via Flagler, which also includes The Breakers Henry’s restaurant.