Dada

The Restaurant

Dada occupies the Tarrimore House, a wood-frame Florida cottage built around 1924 and one of the oldest surviving residential structures in Delray Beach. The restaurant opened in 2000 and the original floors, windows, and bathrooms remain intact. The setting is unmistakable: front parlour bar with a working fireplace, three small connected dining rooms inside the house, and the prized outdoor patio under a hundred-year-old Banyan tree strung with festoon lighting.

The kitchen runs as New American with a small-plates orientation: deviled eggs three ways, a duck confit tostada, a sweet-corn agnolotti, a daily-changing flatbread, a herb-marinated half-chicken, the long-running miso-glazed salmon, a pan-seared scallop dish with cauliflower puree. Portion sizing is built for sharing — most parties order four or five plates for two — and the price point is the most accessible of the Delray serious-dining set. Brunch on weekends draws a queue at 10am.

The crowd is the city's most varied: a mix of long-time Delray locals, hotel guests in the know, and a younger after-work bar contingent. Live music plays in the front parlour most nights from 8pm onwards. The Banyan-tree patio in cool weather (December through April) is one of the most photographed outdoor dining rooms in South Florida and the reason most birthdays in Delray end up here. For its $35–$80 per-person band, Dada delivers the highest atmosphere-to-price ratio in town.