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Big Time Restaurant Group To Open Second ElisabettasOn West Palm Beach Waterfront In January

Boca Raton, FL Elisabettas Ristorante, Bar and Pizzeria, led byBig Time Restaurant Groups Corporate Culinary Director Lisabet Summa, will open its second location in early January on the West Palm Beach waterfront. The first Elisabettas opened in July 2019 on Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach.

The 300 seat, 10,000 square foot restaurant, located at 185 Banyan Boulevard in West Palm Beach, includes a massive multi-tiered patio overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway. The patio will feature a regulation sizebocce ball court, a 25 tall fireplace, an indoor/outdoor bar, a 19th century gelato cart, an outside pizza oven, and two vintage gazebos. In addition, the restaurant will feature a 12-seat private dining room.

Elisabettas Executive Chef will be Andris Salmanis, a Big Time Restaurant Group veteran who most recently served as the executive chef at the Delray Beach location. The General Manager will be Drew Shane who also joins the restaurant from Elisabettas in Delray Beach.

As a sister restaurant to Louie Bossis, Elisabettas has a scratch kitchen and the menu features many of that restaurants classic dishes, like in-house dry-aged steaks, but also includes expanded seafood, chicken and salad options, as well as housemade pasta dishes.

Everything at Elisabettas will be made from scratch including all pasta, breads, sauces, baked goods and gelatos. Elisabettas dry ages its steaks in house and cure its own salumis. The restaurant features three pizza ovens made in Naples, Italy, two located inside the restaurant and one outside. The restaurant will offer 70 wines by the glass and a 400 bottle wine list featuring classic and less known but great value Italian wines and proseccos. The bar will serve classic Italian cocktails from Negronis to Aperol Spritzes. Elisabettas makes all breads and desserts in house, including several kinds of gelato.

Menu items will include the Roman Lunch, a pizza hearth baked bread with burrata and prosciutto di parma, the Cacio e Pepe, and a white pizza topped with Pecorino Romano. Gelato toppings include honeycombe, salted Marcona almond and chocolate brittle.

Elisabettas interior features a salumi bar faced with cool Calacatta marble, two gold tiled beehive shaped Neapolitan pizza ovens.

The dining room features a beamed wood ceiling above rustic basket weave brick walls. The bar tops are pewter, where guests can sink into their drink on red or gold leather custom bar stools. The restrooms are graced with spectacular entry doors with hand molded glass panels and feature Italian mosaic terracotta floors. The womens restroom is donned with ornate vintage mirrors and a hand-painted textured wall covering.

The original tableware was commissioned for Elisabettas and designed by Sarah Campbell of Collier & Campbell. The restaurants interior was designed by Karen Hanlon along with Big Time partner/co-founder Todd Herbst.

The beverage director for Elisabettas is Ervin Machado. He is a level 2 sommelier with a deep knowledge of Italian cocktails and liquors. He also serves as beverage director for Louie Bossis.

The restaurant will serve dinner seven nights a week, lunch Monday-Friday, and brunch with unlimited mimosas, Aperol Spritzes, Bloody Marys and Froze, served Saturdays and Sundays. Elisabettas will offer valet parking and is also within 100 feet of three public parking garages. The restaurant will have all of the latest sanitizing equipment and will operate beyond what the CDC requires to be Covid safe.

Elisabettas Ristorante and Pizzeria is located at 185 Banyan Boulevard, West Palm Beach. For more information, visit Elisabettas.com.

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