The restaurant offers a Mediterranean-inspired menu in Royal Poinciana Plaza, next to the new Glaser Hall.
M.M. Cloutier
| Special to Palm Beach Daily News
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Tutto Mare officially opened Jan. 3 in the former Celebrity Room space at the landmarked Royal Poinciana Plaza.Featuring “coastal” Mediterranean cuisine, the menu is overseen and executed by executive chef Agostino Petrosino and chef de cuisine Carmine Nozzolino.The co-owners are husband-and-wife duo Gianpaolo de Felice and interior designer Gabby Karan de Felice, who helm the Tutto Il Giorno restaurant group.No other Palm Beach restaurant has such a direct-lakefront perch and only a few others sport ocean views.Tutto Mare has sibling restaurants in the Hamptons in New York.
A dining room filled with enthusiastic diners welcomed the Jan. 3 debut of the much-anticipated Palm Beach restaurant Tutto Mare, located next door to the new Glazer Hall and facing the Intracoastal Waterway in Royal Poinciana Plaza.
With a 64-seat lakefront terrace, Tutto Mare had been due to debut on Jan. 2 in the plaza, 340 Royal Poinciana Way, but an unforeseen delay pushed the opening to Jan. 3, when eager diners were ready to take their seats, including fans of Tutto Mare’s sister restaurants in the Hamptons.
The long-awaited, 200-seat restaurant — approved by the town in 2023 and 2024 — features an interior design executed in part by co-owner Gabby Karan de Felice and famed fashion-designer Donna Karan.
The menu, overseen and executed by executive chef Agostino Petrosino and chef de cuisine Carmine Nozzolino, features “coastal” Mediterranean cuisine with such dishes as branzino, fritto misto, insalata di mare, and paccheri con frutti di mare.
Palm Beach resident Merrie Harris attended to a “soft” opening night prior to the Jan. 3 public opening at the Palm Beach restaurant, she said.
“It was so delightful,” Harris said.
She added: “It singularly has the best view in Palm Beach with the lights of downtown West Palm Beach, the (Flagler Memorial) bridge and the boats going by on the Intracoastal.”
Calls from the Palm Beach Daily News to Tutto Mare on Tuesday were met with a recorded message that said the restaurant is open seven days a week for dinner and that two-weeks-in-advance reservations were available on Resy.com.
Given its waterfront location — no other Palm Beach restaurant has such a direct lakefront perch and only a few others sport ocean views — observers say Tutto Mare’s ambiance is as much a draw as its Mediterranean-cuisine menu featuring seafood and more.
The restaurant space was the former home of the famed Celebrity Room, which closed years ago. The Celebrity Room was designed by the late revered Palm Beach architect John L. Volk, who also designed the landmarked Royal Poinciana Plaza and the old Royal Poinciana Playhouse, which is now Glazer Hall.
Tutto Mare restaurant is co-owned by husband-and-wife duo Gianpaolo de Felice and interior designer Gabby Karan de Felice.
They helm the 2008-founded Tutto Il Giorno restaurant group, which also owns restaurants in Southampton and Sag Harbor, New York.
Drawing on the view and Palm Beach’s subtropical palette, Tutto Mare features oak, travertine and teak complemented by textured materials and layered lighting that evolves throughout the day.
Aiming for a look that “feels both chic and welcoming” and “celebrates good food and wine and embraces the art of living well,” Gabby said, the interior also was designed in collaboration with Dominic Kozerski and Enrico Bonetti of Bonetti Kozerski Architecture.
The main dining room features 12-foot vaulted oak-beamed ceilings and opens directly to the 1,200-square-foot terrace, carefully designed as an extension of the dining room.
At the heart of the restaurant is a centerpiece once featured in the Celebrity Room.
The 1950s-era trompe l’oeil mural by New York artist Robert Bushnell has been restored and showcases caricatures of more than 100 actors and celebrities that frequented the Celebrity Room, including Clark Gable, Joan Crawford and Fred Astaire.
The opening of Tutto Mare adds another “best-in-class” vision for Royal Poinciana Plaza, Samantha David, president of WS Development, a division of plaza manager Up Markets, said in a prepared statement.
The new restaurant, she said, marks “an exciting new chapter of dining and gathering on Palm Beach.”
Entrees range from branzino with vegetables ($68); cioppino ($75) with a half-lobster, scallops, squid, mussels, clams and shrimp; an aged New York strip steak ($82) with heirloom tomatoes, arugula and balsamic; and a cauliflower steak ($36) with red-beet puree.
More information is available at TuttoIlGiorno.com or by calling Tutto Mare at 561- 855-0021.
This is a developing story. Check back for any updates.
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