The 12 Best Places in Palm Beach
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The best places in Palm Beach, according to the experts: Forbes Travel Guide, Michelin Guide, and The 50 have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. The Spa at Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach comes out on top.
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Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach and The Spa at The Breakers hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Forbes Travel Guide close behind.
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
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The beach here is the widest strip of sand on the island, and the resort knows it, orienting everything around that fact. This is a Forbes Five Star, Michelin two-key property done in pistachio and rose, with a spa, multiple pools, and a beach club that quietly absorbs most of your plans. Mauro Colagreco runs the flagship restaurant, Florie's, where South Florida produce meets his Italian and Argentine instincts. Palm Beach is already the opposite of hustle.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Five Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 2 Keys
- The 50 The 50: 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Five Star
- Michelin Guide 2 Keys
- The 50 2025 · Most Admired Hotel Group Award
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The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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The lobby ceiling drips with Murano glass, modeled after a Renaissance castle in Genoa, which is exactly the kind of sentence that prepares you for The Breakers. This grand oceanfront resort covers 140 acres and runs to two golf courses, a tennis complex, a sprawling spa, and a beach club where uniformed concierges deliver cold drinks to guests in private poolside bungalows. It holds a Michelin Key and a Forbes Four Star.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
- Miami New Times Miami New Times: 2025 · Best Weekend Getaway · Best of Miami New Times
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- Michelin Guide 1 Key
- Miami New Times 2025 · Best Weekend Getaway · Best of Miami New Times
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A coral-hued Mediterranean landmark on Royal Palm Way that sat empty for nearly two decades before reopening as Palm House, a boutique luxury hotel with a Michelin Key. The sixties-inspired rooms lean cheerful rather than stuffy, with Juliet balconies and marble soaking tubs, while the suites go full Art Deco curves. The Palm Bar's pink Murano glass chandeliers do a lot of work, and the pool deck with its palm-framed courtyard suggests Palm Beach at exactly its most Palm Beach.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
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The pink stucco facade has been Palm Beach's most recognizable silhouette for generations, and the current owners kept it that way, restoring the scalloped headboards, patterned wallpapers, and retro-tropical palette rather than neutralizing them into something safer. Swifty's restaurant and the pool bar draw a lively local crowd year-round, so it never feels like a museum. Worth Avenue is minutes away, and the beach is closer still.
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Recommended
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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Rank 7. Florie's Bar
Southern French Mediterranean
The awards
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Travel Guide: Forbes Four Star
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Rank 8. būccan
Contemporary American
A short rib empanada with aji amarillo sauce has been the anchor of this Palm Beach restaurant's menu long enough that regulars would riot if it disappeared. Chef Clay Conley runs a contemporary American kitchen where crudos, pastas, and small plates rotate with the seasons, though a handful of signatures stay put. Half-orders of pasta let you try more than one, which is the kind of quiet generosity that keeps locals coming back.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
- James Beard Awards James Beard Awards: 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: South
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Rank 8. Café Boulud
French
The awards
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A Mediterranean Revival building in Palm Beach's historic town center, the White Elephant is a boutique hotel that runs to just 32 rooms, all renovated in a style that quietly flatters the old bones of the place. The pool sits in a palm-lined courtyard, a shuttle runs to the public beach, and the neighborhood is walkable enough that you may not need a car. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Key
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The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels
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A Mediterranean Revival building on Cocoanut Row, The Vineta is Palm Beach's introduction to the Oetker Collection, the European group behind Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc. The 41 rooms were designed by Tino Zervudachi, who kept the grand-hotel bones while letting in enough eclectic detail to avoid feeling like a museum. Three bars and lounges means you're never far from somewhere to be seen, which in Palm Beach is less optional than it sounds.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Hotels