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Welcome to Grandview Gardens Concierge, a Restaurant & Event Blog for the Palm Beaches! We welcome over 1000 guests annually to the Grandview Gardens Bed & Breakfast and Vacation Homes Resort. As is typical for a B & B, we only serve breakfast. For lunch and dinner, we send guests to all types of restaurants around the area for every imaginable occasion. When we're serving breakfast in the morning, we hear about the escapades and adventures from the night before... especially about the restaurants where everybody ate. As a result, our friends and neighbors regularly ask advice about the current "ins and outs" of the local restaurant and party scene. So Rick, Peter and Jan have put together a "short list" of our most often recommended restaurants, which you'll find in the side bar. You will notice that most of our recommendations are for West Palm Beach and Palm Beach, but we do have a few favorite restaurants included in neighboring cities and towns. In addition to the short list, we'll occasionally be posting blog articles about restaurants and local events which could be of interest to visitors and locals alike. If you become a "Fan" of the Grandview Gardens Facebook Page, you'll automatically get a notice when we post an article. Enjoy!
From tonight (May 16) through May 26th, the Cameron Mackintosh revamped version of Les Misérables will be showing at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach. The musical, based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel pitting the noble convict Jean Valjean against his relentless pursuer Inspector Javert, opened in 1985 in London and is the longest running musical in musical history. Click here to read an article about this production which was recently published in the Palm Beach Daily News.
Grandview Gardens is offering a last minute special offer for the remaining available rooms this weekend in conjunction with Les Misérables . $ 139 per room per night including breakfast, complimentary bicycles and wifi with a 2 night minimum stay or $ 159 for 1 night. The Kravis Center is 8 – 9 minutes walking distance from Grandview Gardens. If you want to book this special last minute deal online, just book at the regular rate and mention “Last Minute Special” in the notes section and we’ll reconfirm the reservation at the reduced rate. Call 561-833-9023 if you have questions or also to make reservations.
THE big party in West Palm Beach begins tomorrow! Founded in 1982, SunFest is Florida’s largest waterfront music and art festival. Held annually in downtown West Palm Beach during the first week in May, SunFest attracts more than 270,000 visitors. The 2012 Sunfest will be held from tomorrow, May 02nd through May 06th. National acts scheduled to perform this year include Counting Crows, Creed, Pitbull, The Fray, Snoop Dogg, Wiz Khalifa, Passion Pit, Paul Rodgers, Third Eye Blind, Girl Talk, Foreigner, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Herbie Hancock, Matisyahu, Coheed & Cambria, All American Rejects, NEEDTOBREATHE, SOJA, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Outlaws, Fab Four and more.
The BB&T Juried Fine Art & Craft show during Sunfest (from Friday evening) features the work of more than 165 national artists will be on display, including jewelry, painting, pottery & ceramics, photography, sculpture, wood, arts and crafts, and more. Artist demonstrations will be offered Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the Artist Demonstration Booth.
The wildly popular Sunfest fireworks show closes the Festival with a bang on Sunday, May 6 at 9 p.m. If you want to see the fireworks show but don’t want to be at Sunfest on Sunday, the best place to watch the show is from the Palm Beach Lake Trail near White Hall (The Flagler Museum).
1 day passes cost $ 35; 2 day passes $ 52; 5 day passes cost $ 67
For more information regarding Sunfest schedules, events and ticketing, go to www.sunfest.com.
At the time of this blog post, Grandview Gardens had one room available on Saturday and Sunday only ($ 159 Saturday / $ $ 145 on Sunday including breakfast and bicycles). Give us a call at 561-833-9023 for more information. This is a great weekend to visit West Palm Beach!
The 17th Palm Beach International Film Festival (PBIFF) will take place from April 12‐19 and will feature 25 World Premieres, 14 U.S. Premieres and 2 North American Premieres. PBIFF will present features, documentaries and short films from the U.S. and around the world, including Netherlands, Spain, Argentina, Tanzania, Italy, France, England, Israel, Thailand, Guinea, Bissau, Portugal, Australia, Canada, Romania and Sweden, and will play host to filmmakers, producers, and actors to represent and discuss their films. Films will be shown throughout Palm Beach County, but mostly at Muvico CityPlace and the Cobb Theaters at downtown at the Gardens.
On April 12th, opening night kicks off with Robot & Frank, directed by Jake Schreier and features and award winning cast including Academy Award nominee Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler and Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon. Opening Night festivities will take place at Muvico Parisian at CityPlace, followed by a party on the luxurious rooftop of Two City Plaza.
Additional highlights of this year’s PBIFF include:
1. The ever popular Weekend of Shorts at the Lakeworth Playhouse (Fri/Sun), as well as the Voices of Local Films which will screen at Mizner Park Cultural Arts Centre on Sunday, April 15.
2. Sunday night, April 15, the festival will present an evening of music videos along with a reception at the famed DeBilzan Gallery inDelray Beach.
3. On Sunday, April 15, at 5pm at the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Centre, there will be a Special Presentation of Violins in Wartime, featuring a performance by legendary violinist, Ida Haendel.
4. On Monday, April 16, PBIFF will present the World Premiere of Tiger Eyes, the first of iconic author Judy Blume’s novels to be brought to the big screen, directed by none other than her son, Lawrence Blume. Both director and the renowned author are attending.
The festival will also present the Lifetime Achievement Award to acress June Lockhart at the Silver Schreen Splash, a Sunday brunch event that will take place at The Lake Pavillion on the West Palm Beach Waterfront on April 15th. June Lockhart has appeared in many famous films such as the classic A Christmas Carol (at age 12), All This and Heaven Too with Bette Davis, Sergeant York with Gary Cooper and Adam Had Four Sons with Ingrid Bergman. Lockhart is best known for her starring roles in the iconic television series Lassie, for which she receive an Emmy, Lost in Space and Petticoat Junction.
A “pre-festival” event is already taking place tonight when Ethel Kennedy will be present for a special screening of “ETHEL”, an HBO Documentary Film by Rory Kennedy about her mother. The screening will take place at Muvico CityPlace at 7:30. Tickets can be purchased at Muvico.
For a complete schedule of events, films and ticket information, go to www.pbifilmfest.org.
The Grandview Heights Historic District in West Palm Beach will be hosting their 15th annual historic home tour on Sunday, April 01st, between 3 – 7 pm. This home tour will mark the 100th birthday of the oldest section ofGrandviewHeights, one of the oldest neighborhoods inWest Palm Beach. Located within walking distance to City Place and the downtown Clematis Street Historic District, the Grandview Heights Historic District has become one of the most desirable residential neighborhoods in West Palm Beach due to its superb location and eclectic, old southFlorida atmosphere. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the oldest section of the neighborhood having been established in 1912, this neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of historically significant architecture in the city, such as Spanish Mission, Mediterranean Revival, Florida Bungalow, Art Deco and Dutch Colonial Revival.
This year’s tour features 14 homes, the biggest ever, with various styles, such as craftsman bungalow, victorian italianate, spanish mission and Mediterranean revival in different stages of restoration. 11 of the homes have never been shown in the past, including one which dates back to 1912. Highlights of the tour this year include art exhibits by locally acclaimed artists at Grandview Gardens Bed & Breakfast, a complimentary street party including a full meal, wine, soft drinks and live entertainment by Samm, one of the areas most popular jazz singers.
Tickets can either be booked in advance for $ 25 (plus small booking fee) online at www.historichometours.com or by calling 659-6721. Tickets are $ 30 on the day of the tour and can be purchased in front of the Armory Art Center in Howard Park. Visit www.grandviewheights.net for more information.
At the time of this blog post, Grandview Gardens still had 1 room available for the weekend of the home tour. Call fast to reserve!
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