Restaurants in Sunrise

According to The Boca Raton Tribune, Café Auribeau is a perpetual work-in-progress as owner and chef Allan Seiler constantly evolves his menu to reflect his love of French cuisine and the response he gets from his clientele. Serving up a combination of authentic French dishes and American staples, Café Auribeau gives locals an opportunity to taste French cuisine, without having to wait for their meal to get its own passport. "Auribeau" is French for "beautiful surroundings"—a fitting name for an eatery with large, airy windows, weathered wooden booths, colorful potted flowers, and bright white tablecloths in the outdoor seating area.

When Giuseppe and Rita Brusco sailed from Calabria to Ellis Island in 1954, they toted their trove of family recipes along with them. Today, owner Frank Brusco upholds this culinary legacy at Brusco's Italian Restaurant & Pizza. Homestyle sauces are central to their menu: chefs simmer vine-ripened tomatoes with fresh garlic, extra virgin olive oil, white wine, and butter before ladling the thick, preservative-free marinara atop pastas and Sicilian-style pizzas.

In addition to the authentic cuisine, Brusco's pays homage to its founders’ Italian roots with a trattoria-style dining room. Antique copperware festoons the brick walls, and murals of the Italian countryside treat guests to idyllic representations of rolling foothills populated by free-roaming meatballs.

After a reported two-day binge on Isabella's Italian dishes, underground rapper Home$lice is said to have created a series of mixtapes dedicated to the pizza and pasta hub. Though the artist is known for his secrecy, an undisclosed source has recovered the following lyrics in a marinara-stained notebook: "Isabella's in the club, mad subs in the bun fold, veal parmigiana? marsala, now you’ve been told. Crust gold like championship rings, rising high as a Benz hop, marinara sauce in that ricotta mozzarella drop top. Stay for a soufflé or carry out an entree, gonna’ go with merlot as though it were my birthday."

In a space described by the owners as "rustic chic," Saporissimo’s chefs knead and roll out fresh pasta dough, shave pungent truffles, and prepare wild game to populate a menu that celebrates traditional Tuscan cuisine. Named a defender of Italian culinary excellence by the Italy-America chamber of commerce and praised in the Sun Sentinel for its “unobtrusive, yet attentive” service, Saporissimo seats its guests in chocolate-hued chairs next to white tablecloths in the dining room of what used to be a private house. From the muted yellow walls, sunlight streams through windows during the day to alight on plates of Italian cuisine that Miami's Italian consul general has recognized as authentic, including antipasti of duck-breast carpaccio or a truffled polenta with wild-boar ragu.

Strings of party lights along the ceiling create a warm, low-lit atmosphere at night, encouraging intimate conversations and clandestine swaps of microfiche between bites of pappardelle with wild-boar sausage or wild rabbit braised with wine, garlic, and peppers. Inset into an exposed-brick wall, a six-pane window augments the feeling of dining in a private Tuscan home.

Situated in the Lighthouse Cove Resort—just a cool breeze and a warm beach away from the Atlantic—Seaside Grill brings natives and vacationers together over plates of fresh-from-the-sea Floridian fare. Executive chef Sharif Thomas whips up broiled lobster tails and Gulf shrimp scampi served over linguini, which doubles as a mermaid wig. After digging into chef-made desserts and downing a few frosty beers, diners can set messages adrift in the Atlantic inside pint glasses.

Underneath a blazing red banner in the year-round Yellow Green Farmers Market, chefs at Crepe Creations fill delicate dough wraps with savory and sweet fillings. After spreading the dough out to sizzle on hot plates, they top them with hearty meats such as chicken, roast beef, and crab; vegetables such as peppers and squash; or sweets such as strawberries, bananas, and Nutella.