Food + Lifestyle Blogger Shaina Wizov’s Downtown Delray Beach

Why do you love where you live/what makes your neighborhood special? I love that Downtown Delray is such a tight knit community. There are so many family and locally owned small businesses, and everyone does their part to support one another. For the most part, it’s so much more about community here than it is about competition.

Favorite Restaurant(s)?  This is such a hard question. Elisabetta’s and City Oyster are my go-tos, but I also love Brulé, Rose’s Daughter, Cabana El Rey, and my current favorite is the new Taru at Sundy House.

Favorite Place to meet friends? There’s no way I’m going to answer any of these questions with just one restaurant haha. Deck 84, Death or Glory, The Wine Room, The Blue Anchor, and Beer Trade.

Favorite place to grab coffee? I’m not a big “go out for coffee” person, but if I do, it’ll be at Coffee District.

Favorite place to have a business meeting on the go? Again, Coffee District, or sometimes PurGreens inside Purlife Fitness Center.

Favorite specialty store?  Surf District and Vintage Tess (although sadly, that still has not reopened yet.)

Hidden Gem?  There are a few, but I’m going to say Begformore Izakaya. It’s not too far off the Avenue, but it’s far enough that it doesn’t always come to mind first over other places to eat. So you sort of forget about it, and then one day you do decide to go, and are like “Why don’t I come here more often?!”