Restaurants in Hobe Sound

Contemporary and classical styles mingle across Gazebo Cafe’s menu of shareable plates and French-influenced entrees, including duck-liver pâté, balsamic confit, and roasted rack of lamb. The meshing of new and old also surfaces in the dining room, which elegantly sports sleek, cobalt blue chandeliers and antique chinaware. Floor-to-ceiling windows illuminate servers as they float from table to table, pouring wines from a list of more than 200 bottles and training silverware to perform intricate song-and-dance routines.

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Guests walk by book-lined walls, take their seats in red leather chairs, and open envelopes filled with silverware. It's just another day at The Office, an American gastropub that serves classic comfort foods remixed with a modern flair. Executive Chef Nick Troisen—who's worked under James Beard Award–winning Chef Mark Militello—teams up with Chef De Cuisine Zack Orsini to craft an eclectic selection of dishes, such as certified-humane beef burgers and lemongrass-glazed sea bass. The chefs use ingredients from local vendors and produce grown in The Office's hydroponics area, as well as unique preparation methods including molecular gastronomy, sous-vide cooking, and burgers extracted directly from visitors' dreams. In keeping with its chic workplace-inspired motif, the restaurant also features a front desk in lieu of a hostess booth.

75 Main in Delray Beach opened in April as the southern outpost of 75 Main, a three-year-old hotspot in Southhampton, New York that attracts celebs such as Jodie Foster and Pierce Brosnan, according to Boca magazine. Like its parent venue, the Delray Beach version blends a restaurant serving European-influenced seafood with a nightclub-like atmosphere after dark. The restaurant's 31-year-old founder, Zach Erdem, has sprinkled the modern space with abstract art pieces whose richly colored paints evoke the bold sauces blended by chef Walter Hinds.

Sliding into a cushy white booth, diners can nosh on appetizers such as sautéed mussels, pan-fried crabcakes, and truffle-accented mushroom risotto. Mahi mahi, swordfish, and shrimp sauté in garlic wine sauce as salads toss with fresh fixings of crumbled blue cheese and shaved parmesan. After finishing off the last Little Neck clam, guests can retreat to the outdoor patio and enjoy a sunrise cosmo in a cushioned lounge chair, or impress a date by ordering a signature midnight cocktail at exactly 11:59.

The airiness of pale exposed brick and blond wood contrast with the heartiness of the traditional Italian fare at Vic & Angelo’s, helping explain why Zagat rated the Delray Beach and Palm Beach Gardens locations highly for both food and décor. In the kitchen, chefs douse pastas with rich toppings such as crab meat and white-wine sauce or slow-cooked beef ragu. The coal oven blasts pizzas with 900 degrees of heat, and all-natural steaks arrive from Chicago after being dry-aged for 21 days. To accompany meals, diners can choose from a long list of mostly Italian wines, or venture onto an outdoor patio to fill glasses with complimentary moonbeams.

The chefs at Tapas Lantana source produce from an Indiantown farm and also dry-age their own beef in-house. These local ingredients help lend homey flavors to the menu of Spanish-influenced small plates such as sliders with ground beef, chorizo, and shoestring plantains. The chefs can also customize paella for a whole table of guests by infusing the rice dish with paprika, garlic, and the diners' choice of four ingredients, such as chorizo, scallops or wild mushrooms.

Dark wooden tones, candelabras with drips of dried wax, and an immense marble-topped bar help to create a rustic ambiance inside what Boca Raton magazine described as "one of the prettiest dining rooms this side of the Mississippi." Along the sunset-orange walls, an extensive selection of Spanish, Italian, and South American wines rest in cubbies, like pet dragons during first-grade naptime.

By night, Breathe's dining room transforms into a Levantine hookah lounge. Smoke rings dissipate into the air as patrons pull wispy flavors such as watermelon mint or guava from hookahs. In the background, resident DJs Johnny Ramirez and Dean Michaels spin high-octane tunes, keeping hips and extras from the "Thriller" video swaying until the wee hours.

By day, though, Breathe is an upscale Mediterranean eatery, with pita wrap lunches and sumptuous dinners of grilled steak kafta and fresh Mediterranean salmon. Patrons can pair their dishes with pours from an extensive wine list or sip specialty cocktails and liqueur-infused dessert drinks. Like their late-night counterparts, day diners can also delight their postmeal palates with hookah.