After a four-year overhaul, Marina District mansion The Montecito has a $27.5 million asking price
Also: Park Tavern's final day, a CFO exit with two explanations, and a Halloween food drive at Deck 84.
Two blocks from Atlantic Avenue, behind iron gates and a roughly 200-foot driveway, a seven-bedroom Marina District house has spent four years being taken apart and rebuilt from the inside. Now it has a price.
Behind the gates sit 120 feet of Intracoastal frontage in a no-wake zone, a dock with a 24,000-pound boat lift and floating docks for three jet skis, all two blocks from Atlantic Avenue. The seven-bedroom house covers 12,778 square feet and dates to 2010. Los Angeles firm Warwick Design Group finished a four-year overhaul in June 2026, rebuilding the staircase and adding a wine room, music room and media room with a 115-inch screen. A 10-foot fence and hedge wrap the grounds; listing materials say current code would no longer permit that height, and it stays because it is grandfathered. The work also had to clear the Marina Historic District's design and permit rules. Senada Adzem of Douglas Elliman has the listing.
Park Tavern pours its last on Sunday, and sister Cut 432 is already gone
Park Tavern, the happy-hour and from-scratch-kitchen spot at 32 SE Second Ave. just off Atlantic Avenue, serves its last day Sunday, Oct. 18. Brandon Belluscio, Brian Albe and chef Anthony Pizzo opened it in 2012, and within weeks it was drawing weekend waits. The restaurant has not said publicly why it is closing; some commenters on its farewell post blamed rising rents and landlords along the Avenue. The same partners' Cut 432 has closed its longtime location after 18 years. Its website promises news on a new location but names no address or opening date.
Le Colonial Delray Beach adds private dining and catering menus for the holidays
Office parties and family dinners now have starting prices at Le Colonial: lunch packages begin at $65 per guest, and dinner starts at $100 per guest. The French-Vietnamese restaurant has added new private dining and catering menus ahead of the holidays. Space scales with the group. A dozen people fit in the Parrot Room, while the Lounge seats 40 or holds 80 standing, with its own bar. Up to 70 can use the covered patio. For 80, the whole main dining room is available as a buyout on request. Catering menus handle groups of 10 to 45. Meals come family style in three or four courses, or as the Le Colonial 1993 tasting. Halal dishes are available with advance notice, and the kitchen handles other dietary needs.
Preface Wine celebrates its grand opening in Pineapple Grove Oct. 22-25
- When
- Oct. 22-25 · Kickoff seatings 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. Oct. 22; hours 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday
- Where
- Preface Wine
- Address
- 279 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33444
- Price
- Complimentary Champagne welcome pour; kickoff $145 per guest
By day Preface is a wine shop at 279 NE 2nd Ave.; at 4 p.m. the shelves slide back and the 28-seat room turns into a wine bar with flights and charcuterie, and any bottle can be opened on the spot. For its grand opening weekend, Oct. 22 through Oct. 25, every guest gets a complimentary pour of Champagne. The paid kickoff on Thursday, the eve of the World Series, pairs six wines with six baseball legends and moments at a single eight-seat table, with seatings at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for $145 per guest through OpenTable. With 16 seats total, the free pour is the easier way in. The bar and tastings are 21 and over. Regular hours run 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Kids in costume eat free at Deck 84 on Halloween with a food donation
- When
- Oct. 31 · Noon to 9 p.m.
- Where
- Deck 84
- Address
- 840 E Atlantic Ave.
- Price
- Free kids' meal (12 and under) with a costume and a nonperishable food donation
Peanut butter, canned meat, canned fruit and mac and cheese top the most-needed list at the CROS Ministries Delray Beach Food Pantry, and on Oct. 31 a donation from your pantry buys a kid a meal. Kids 12 and under who come to Deck 84, 840 E. Atlantic Ave., in costume with a nonperishable item get a free kids' meal. The event runs noon to 9 p.m., with brunch from noon to 2 p.m. and the Chase Stites Trio playing from 2 to 5:30 p.m.
Delray's CFO Henry Dachowitz resigns; two anonymous newsletters disagree on why
The Delray Gazette, in an Oct. 4 email, tied Chief Financial Officer Henry Dachowitz's exit to a heated exchange with Mayor Tom Carney at the city's final budget hearing, as he walked the commission through financial figures. Two days later, the rival Delray Guzzette, which calls the Gazette Casale's own newsletter, called that "only part of the story." In its version, Commissioner Juli Casale provoked Dachowitz into insulting the commissioners and the city manager, who is the CFO's direct supervisor. That account came with no documentation. Both newsletters are anonymous, and Boca Post, which compared them, has not confirmed either one. The Gazette also said Jeri Pryor, the Neighborhood and Community Services director, recently resigned; Boca Post has not confirmed the circumstances. Whatever the reason, the city needs a new finance chief.