For those uninitiated, Dine Out Lauderdale is basically Fort Lauderdale's answer to Miami Spice. It runs at the same time, August 1 through September 30, with similar price points: $35 lunches and dinners at $45, $60, or $75. We read through the menus, and these seven are the ones worth booking.
Casa Sensei
The Latin-Asian spot at the east end of Las Olas is doing three courses for $35 at lunch, Tuesday through Friday from 11:30 to 3, and $45 at dinner, Monday through Thursday from 5. Lunch leans sushi, with a shrimp tempura Las Olas Roll and Korean BBQ beef kimchi fried rice among the entrées, plus miso soup or a house salad on the side, while dinner features picanha with yucca fries and wasabi butter, Mongolian beef, or a sweet soy-glazed duck over fried rice. Plus, the dockside tables sit on the canal where Casa Sensei runs its gondola dinners.
@casasensei // 1200 E Las Olas Blvd, Suite 101, Fort Lauderdale
Daniel’s, A Florida Steakhouse
A name many would recognize in Miami, Daniel’s, is running its three-course, Florida-sourced menu at $75, Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday, plus early Golden Hour seatings Friday and Saturday. The meal starts with Sullivan Street sourdough, then to hamachi crudo with strawberries or a strawberry gazpacho, and finishes on Keys red snapper, a Florida wagyu bolognese, or a 6-ounce prime filet, with a 45-day dry-aged cowboy ribeye available for a $45 supplement. Dessert is soft serve or sorbet.
@danielssteakhouse // 620 S Federal Hwy, Fort Lauderdale
Le Bistro
The Lighthouse Point French stalwart — it survived Kitchen Nightmares and is still here 25 years later — prices its three course menus by entrée: $45 gets the slow-braised lamb shank, the mixed grill, or the dorade, $60 the lobster risotto, and $75 the whole Dover sole or a Beef Wellington for two. Every tier includes a first course and dessert, with a chocolate marquise among the choices at Le Bistro. Dinner runs Tuesday through Sunday.
@lebistrolighthousepoint // 4626 N Federal Hwy, Lighthouse Point
MAASS
Fort Lauderdale’s only Michelin-starred restaurant is running three Dine Out menus: a $60 three-course with burrata salad, brioche-stuffed chicken, and chocolate cake, a $95 five-course that brings in the Foie Gras Nutter Butters, Wellfleet oysters with plum mignonette, and a lamb belly with butter lettuce emulsion, and a $155 seven-course, with wine pairings starting at $55.
@maass_ftl // 525 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale
Timpano Las Olas
Timpano, the Las Olas mainstay, is doing three courses for $60, available every day of the promotion. Starters run semolina-dusted calamari, arancini, or a butter lettuce salad, mains are fettuccine alla vodka, the Pork Chop Florentina, or chicken marsala, and it closes with gelato or tiramisu.
@timpanolasolas // 450 E Las Olas Blvd, Fort Lauderdale
Vitolo
The Italian spot inside the Conrad, from Emilio’s Ballato’s Anthony Vitolo, features four courses on its menu instead of the standard three for $60, Sunday through Thursday. Vitolo goes from Caesar, polpette, or calamari into a house-made pasta course (tagliatelle bolognese, spicy paccheri alla vodka, or lobster ravioli), then chicken parm, pollo limone, or snapper piccata, closing with tiramisu, cannoli, or sorbet.
@vitoloitalian // 551 N Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, Fort Lauderdale
The Wagyu House by Meat N’ Bone
The Hallandale Beach steakhouse from Miami butcher Meat N’ Bone has a $35 three-course lunch Tuesday through Friday, with filet mignon kebabs or glazed salmon at the center, and a $60 dinner Tuesday through Thursday plus Sunday. Dinner at The Wagyu House starts with burrata, tuna tataki, or wagyu picanha crostini, then a G1-certified ribeye or Mediterranean branzino, and ends with churros or tiramisu.
@thewagyu.house // 601 N Federal Hwy #113, Hallandale Beach