When the Funky Biscuit opened in Boca Raton in mid-July of 2011, there were certainly no guarantees that the live music establishment and restaurant would still exist 15 years later.
Creative music in general, and full-band live music in particular, were just starting to slide in what’s become their slow declines in tourist-heavy South Florida. And the club, situated in a nook of the Royal Palm Place plaza amid shops and restaurants off Mizner Boulevard, isn’t easy to find and thus doesn’t exactly attract much drive-by or walk-in traffic.
Yet owner Al Poliak’s only hiatus during the 15 years since was a brief, COVID-19-induced shutdown in 2020…