Months after new and legacy restaurants wiped out on Las Olas Boulevard, four new eateries around Fort Lauderdale’s luxe restaurant row are getting ready to take their place.
They include:
- ELBA , a Mediterranean sit-down and live-music hub from the former owner of La Bonne Crepe, opening in November
- Howl at the Moon , a dueling-piano chain with food and cocktails that once brought the house down at Fort Lauderdale’s Beach Place, returning in late November
- Sixty Vines , a Texas chain with 60 wines on tap, pizza, Cabernet-infused burgers and charcuterie plates, opening in March 2025
- Earls Kitchen + Bar , a Canada born, steak-and-seafood chain with 70 locations, opening in winter 2025
These new openings on (and slightly off) Las Olas offer a counterpoint to the rash of closings on Fort Lauderdale’s ritziest restaurant corridor — and across South Florida — in recent months. The remarkable whiplash effect of local eateries shutting down paired with casual chains declaring bankruptcy, one after another, tripped alarm bells earlier this year on social media, where commenters voiced expressions of shocked grief and I-told-you-so anger.