M.E.A.T. Eatery & Tap Room (Islamorada, Boca Raton)
* M.E.A.T. Eatery & Tap Room.
In recent months, a number of people “raved” to Jeff Eats about M.E.A.T. Eatery & Tap Room in Islamorada, Florida. The raves–great burgers, fries, beer, bbq.
Just so we are straight, Jeff Eats has never been to– nor eaten in M.E.A.T.–but I will tell you, it’s an absolute pain in the ass to type M.E.A.T.
Anyway,
This afternoon, Jeff Eats learned from his buddies at BurgerBeast www.burgerbeast.com that- in a couple of weeks, M.E.A.T. is opening a second location in Boca Raton at 980 North Federal Highway. After getting the “scoop” Jeff Eats visited the Boca site-which is on the ground floor of an office building/booths & tables are actually in the lobby…real cool configuration-but I’m not so sure this “setup” is gonna work in Boca Raton-time will tell! One other thing- nothing for nothing, based on what Jeff Eats saw- there is no way that this “construction site” will be ready in two weeks… But then again, Jeff Eats thought that McGovern was going to trounce Nixon. We’ll see!
You now know as much as I do about M.E.A.T.
You can check www.meateatery.com for menu/prices/other stuff.
The Boca M.E.A.T is now open and quite good! I met a friend who works at Cendyn in the offices upstairs for a dinner and truly enjoyed the truffle fries and the eclectic menu. will be back for more. The office atrium concept is interesting – it remains to be seen if it will work for the dinner crowd but for an office lunch it was a fun and fresh concept.
I went to the grand opening party.
Talk about cheapskates.
They had some bs mini meatballs which were so over spiced that you could start a fire with them and some lobster salad in a bun that had so much bread that you couldn’t find the salad. You had to buy drinks.
This idea of opening in an office building sucks. They’ll get some lunch business but no one is going to go there at night. The location sucks.
Another disaster coming.
Just read what Louie K wrote and have to agree. I also wen to opening and the concept is doomed. No one is going to sit in a lobby for dinner. This restaurant won’t be around for long. By the way the meatballs and lobster rolls they served stunk.
MEAT is a dead man walking.
How anyone could think that this concept could ever work is a fool.