Contact Palm Beach Business.com by phone: 561 450-8258. By email.

Dinner in the sky spotlights Delray's dining scene

By Palm Beach Business.com

DELRAY BEACH — Dinner in Delray Beach was up in the air Saturday night. Way up in the air.

Eighty-eight patrons paid upwards of $500 a pop for the exceedingly rare privilege of dining on a platform suspended by a crane 180 feet above Old School Square Park in downtown Delray Beach. The 88 were divided four hour-long shifts of 22 diners each.

Caffe Luna Rosa and Candyfish provided the grub; Dinner in the Sky, which holds events like this worldwide, provided the lift.

The Delray Beach Marketing Cooperative sponsored the event and the timing, with the 2,000 to 3,000 media descending on the area for Monday’s presidential debate at nearby Lynn University, was no accident.

“The purpose was to provide PR for Delray Beach as a dining destination,” DBMC Executive Director Sarah Martin said.

 Martin estimated the event cost between $60,000 and $70,000, offset by ticket sales — the last tickets were sold Saturday — and sponsorships provided by the two participating restaurants and other businesses, including Lamborghini Palm Beach, which offered the use of a car for 24 hours as a raffle prize.

Lamborghini Palm Beach also sold one of the vehicles it had on site during the evening.