On a Wednesday night in July, someone who has lived off Cocoanut Row for a decade could, for the first time, walk through the same complex twice in one evening. Once for a jazz set. Once for dinner. Without leaving the block. That is not a figure of speech. Glazer Hall and Tutto Mare share an address, 70 Royal Poinciana Way, inside the restored Playhouse building at Royal Poinciana Plaza. A few years ago that address hosted almost nothing. Now, through the hottest months of the year, it hosts a jazz series and a full dinner service running seven nights a week until 9:30pm.
For as long as most current owners can remember, the operating assumption on the island was that summer meant shuttered restaurants and empty sidewalks, a season to get through rather than one to plan around. That assumption held because it was mostly true. The venues that made winter feel occupied simply were not open in August. What changed by the middle of 2026 was not a marketing campaign. It was three specific properties, built or reopened within months of each other, that gave residents an actual reason to stay.
The Address Doing Double Duty
Tutto Mare opened January 2, 2026, and it remains the only restaurant in the Town of Palm Beach built directly on the Intracoastal, a distinction that has mattered on this island for longer than most residents can articulate. The room seats 200 across a main dining area, a private dining room, two wine rooms, and a 1,200-square-foot terrace facing Lake Worth Lagoon and the Palm Harbor Marina. It comes from Gabby Karan de Felice and her husband Gianpaolo, the pair behind Tutto il Giorno in the Hamptons, and it now occupies the same waterfront room that once held the Playhouse's Celebrity Room, restored mural of Clark Gable and company included.
A short walk away in the same complex, Glazer Hall opened as Palm Beach's first nonprofit performing arts center in more than sixty years. The 24,000-square-foot venue seats 400 under a glass wall facing the Intracoastal Waterway, in a building architect John Volk designed in 1958 and that had sat largely empty for years before this redevelopment. Between the two rooms, that one address now holds 600 seats of evening programming where a few years ago it held none.
This July, Glazer Hall ran its first Summer Jazz Series in partnership with the Palm Beach International Jazz Festival, three Wednesday nights spread across five weeks:
- July 8: the Yvette Norwood-Tiger Jazz Ensemble
- July 22: the Copeland Davis Ensemble
- August 5: Troy Anderson and the Wonderful World Band
Cabaret tables replaced fixed theater seating for the run, with drinks and snacks served from the lobby bar. Glazer Hall executive director Allison Stockel described the intent plainly:
"an easy night out after work"
She went further, calling the goal a room where a resident could "feel like you're in a jazz club in New York City."
With the series now finished for the season, the question shifts from whether this was a one-time event to whether it returns. Royal Poinciana Plaza's ownership already answered that with branding, not just booking. This year's push carries its own name, the Royal Riviera, a platform running through September under a stated idea: "Palm Beach, senza fretta." Without hurry. A retail and dining complex does not typically invent a three-month identity for a season it expects to sit empty.
The Second Anchor, Off Worth Avenue
The island's other new fixture sits at 363 Cocoanut Row, inside a Mediterranean Revival building that first opened in 1926 and spent decades after as The Chesterfield. Oetker Hotels reopened it in early 2026 as The Vineta, the German hospitality group's first managed property in the United States, choosing the island over Miami or the Hamptons for that debut. The renovation trimmed the room count from the low fifties down to 41, trading rooms for larger suites and more generous public space.
The part residents actually use is the restaurant. Coco's seats 96 across a terra cotta dining room and a jasmine-scented courtyard, split 64 seats indoors to 32 outside, and it has run close to capacity since its February 28 opening. Managing director Emanuela Setterberg Di Vivo has described "a line out the door on the first night to get into the bar." The kitchen, led by chef Sebastian Broda, carries over dishes like Steak Diane and sea bass with fennel puree from sister property Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc, which gives longtime Riviera regulars on the island something new: a French Riviera kitchen they can walk to from Worth Avenue rather than book as a trip.
What This Actually Changes
None of this changes what the island looks like on a map. The beach clubs are still private and most of the Intracoastal frontage is still residential docks, which is exactly why Tutto Mare's arrival stood out the way it did. For anyone weighing an Intracoastal-facing property against an ocean-block one, that scarcity is a real variable in how the two locations live day to day, and it now comes with an actual restaurant attached to one of them. Our primer on oceanfront versus Intracoastal living goes deeper on how that distinction plays out beyond a single new dinner reservation.
The larger point is simpler than a list of openings. A resident who kept the keys through August this year had, for the first time, a dated calendar to work with: three Wednesdays of jazz, seven nights a week of Intracoastal dinner service, and a courtyard restaurant running at capacity since February, all within a few minutes of each other. That is not the island most current owners have spent years describing to friends who asked why anyone bothered staying past May.
If you're weighing how a location on Royal Poinciana Way, Cocoanut Row, or elsewhere on the island fits a year-round life rather than a five-month one, that shift is worth walking through in person. Limitless LMK can help you see how it's already showing up in demand across the island. Arrange a Private Viewing to talk it through.
