Eau Resort & Spa
The big resort just south of the island: 309 rooms, seven oceanfront acres and a 42,000 square foot spa, owned since 2024 by Larry Ellison.
The 1926 courtyard hotel where the island goes to lunch: home of Cafe Boulud and a Leading Hotels of the World member.
The Brazilian Court has been part of the island's residential quarter since 1926: a low, courtyard-built hotel a few blocks from Worth Avenue that reads more like a compound of Mediterranean apartments than a resort. It is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World.
Its dining room is a destination in its own right. Cafe Boulud, from the New York chef Daniel Boulud, has made the hotel's courtyard one of Palm Beach's dependable tables, and the bar one of its dependable rooms. The hotel's pairing of private-residence quiet and a serious kitchen is the formula the island keeps trying to copy.
The big resort just south of the island: 309 rooms, seven oceanfront acres and a 42,000 square foot spa, owned since 2024 by Larry Ellison.
The island's quiet southern anchor: 196 rooms redesigned by Martin Brudnizki, with Mauro Colagreco's first American restaurant.
The comeback: 79 rooms and 21 suites on Royal Palm Way, returned to service by Iconic Luxury Hotels after a 17-year closure.
The island, read weekly in The Brief.
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