Bogart's Bar & Grill

Bogart's Bar & Grill is housed on the second floor of the Cinemark Palace 20 Theater here in Boca Raton. It is a great place to go for dinner just before or after a movie. We often pair this with the Premier movie experience at the theater. Tonight the Premier was booked so we went downstairs to see Secretariat. Great movie by the way!



We called early for reservations and they had none at the time we needed so we were quite pleasantly surprised to find we had only a 10 minute wait for a table. Ryan was our server and he was excellent. He was very attentive to our needs.



Carol had the Barbecue Chicken Pizza. She thought it was great. It had cheddar-Monterey jack
cheese, roasted peppers, fresh tomatoes, red onion and house made barbecue sauce.



I had the Organic Lemon Roasted Chicken which came with wild rice pilaf, broccoli and lemon thyme jus. So often when you get roasted chicken it comes quite bland. This had a ton of flavor. The rice pilaf was nutty and quite good as well.

We have frequented this restaurant in the past and we always find the food exceptional and the service great. Since it is a restaurant in a theater, they are always mindful of when your movie starts and get you out in time for the show.

We got there early thinking we would have quite a wait to get a table. Since we got in rapidly, we had enough extra time to have dessert so we shared the Turtle Ice Cream Sandwich which is layers of chocolate cake, vanilla ice cream, Heath Bar pieces topped with hot fudge and caramel sauce. The portion was enormous so we had more than enough to share. It was quite wonderful!

We think this is an exceptional restaurant that may be missed by many because of its venue. It is a wonderful treat to go with your movie. Do not miss it.

http://www.bogartsofboca.com/

The Cheese Course

An aged gouda

Oma




Cabbot Clothbound Cheddar

Winnemere

Tetilla

We had heard from friends about this shop/cafe and wanted to try it so were very excited when we learned that they were opening up a shop in Boca. We went there for lunch a couple of weeks ago then ordered a cheese platter for a luncheon we were hosting the following week. We were quite pleased with both experiences.



For lunch we ordered a 2 cheese cheese course and a Black Forrest Ham sandwich. The cheese course came with 2 cheeses, baguette bread, and one accompaniment. We ordered Winnemere cheese (a somewhat stinky, washed rind cheese) and Tetilla a semi-hard, very mild cheese. The accompaniment we choose was the raspberry/cranberry relish and we added a tapanade to go with. The Winnemere was rather mild and though I am not a huge stinky cheese fan, we both really liked it. The Tetilla was VERY mild and we felt lacking in flavor. The accompaniments and bread were all excellent. The sandiwch came with brie, raspberry/cranberry relish and greens. It was very good. They also had 2 different types if cheese for sampling. While we were there, we ordered a small cheese platter to go with a luncheon we were hosting the following week.



The platter came with 3 cheeses, 2 accompaniments, grapes and a baguette. For this, we ordered Cabbot Clothbound Cheddar (aged and rather sharp), Repenauer (an aged gouda also somewhat sharp) and the Winnemere with the raspberry/cranberry relish and sundried tomato pesto. During the week I received 2 calls from the folks there saying first that the Winnemere, being at the end of its season, may not be available and asking if she could substitute Oma, also a washed rind cheese. I said yes. She called again saying that though they had the Winnemere she was not satisfied with its quality (again because it was at the end of its season) and we agreed to substitute Oma. All cheeses were great as were the accompaniments.



The staff were extremely knowledgeable and great at customer service. Definitely this has become one of our favorites and we will return often.

The Brewzzi experience

We have always loved Brewzzi. The service at this restaurant is excellent and the food is great. We eat out a lot and service is always very important to us. It seems like it should be so easy for the wait staff to be alert as to what the customers want but it is rare to find a restaurant that makes service a priority. We have also found that it is obvious when they do make service a priority as every member of the wait staff are great at it. This is one where they care about their customers. We have never had a bad meal or bad service here. Tonight was no exception. We sat at the bar where we could see the kitchen action. To the right in front of us was the 'pizza guy' and a brick pizza oven. To the left were the grills, stoves and ovens. The pizza guy worked non stop all evening and turned out about 15 pizzas while we sat there. A special pizza tonight was Thai Chicken. Several orders of eggplant parmisan were cooked on the left as well as sandwiches, dips and many other meals. Somewhere down the line they cooked the burgers but we didn't see that.

We ordered burgers, I had a Swiss cheese and mushroom burger with smashed red bliss potatoes and Carol had the barbecue burger with cottage chips (potato chips made in house). Excellent as usual.

While we watched the chefs work, we were amazed at the amount of aluminum pie pans they went through and the amount of well used, oddly shaped frying pans that they used. This seems to be the norm at restaurant kitchens as every time we get to watch we see the same practices.

We took the 'opportinity' to eat out tonight as we lost power in our house early this morning and did not get it back until almost 9:00 PM. Brewzzi's was a nice, warm, break from a cold dark house.