Downtown Delray Beach

Delray is my favorite city in south Florida. Delray is known for it’s dynamic environment. There’s an art district, a variety of restaurants and bars, boutiques and beach access.
Delray appeals to all ages. There a frequent family events including free Friday night concerts in the fall, the garlic festival and the annual Christmas tree lighting. Kilwins fudge and ice cream shop is located directly next to a make your own frozen yogurt shop which draws in all crowds. There is a giant candy shop áll about sugar’ that kids love to visit. There are painting classes and art festivals. At night the downtown area is packed with 20 – 40 year old people enjoying the outdoor restaurants and bars.
Parking is readily available if you know where to look. Street parking is limited however there are multiple parking garages, valets and private parking lots.
The major hotels in the area include the delray beach Marriott and the Seagate. Both are beautiful. If you’re visiting for the day I suggest a food crawl. Brunch at Max’s harvest, mojitos at cabana el ray or margaritas’ at roccos tacos, dinner at Dada’s and late night drinks at park tavern. There are a million combinations, something for everyone. If you’re traveling with children I recommend the burger at Burger Fi near the beach. They have veggie burgers or regular, French fries and shakes. (see my individual restaurant reviews for more details) For special occasions book a romantic quiet table at The Grove or for party consider 32 East or Tryst.
Feel free to message me for recommendations!

Downtown Delray has a lot to offer from the restaurants to the art, and of course the many unique people. Checking in here was just to check out the Saturday Art Galleries which were quite lovely and unique. Most of It is not my style, however I’m sure for many these unique pieces would fit quite lovely in someone’s homes. Walking the district it’s really not overly crowded where you can’t move they have a pretty set up nice and spacious and we found parking fairly quickly. So if you’re in the mood to check out some original art pieces I recommend you walking down town Delray off Atlantic.

This is my favorite South Florida beach. There is comfortable parking alongside the coast. The beach is clean and beautiful. I love skateboarding on the sidewalk just outside. The people here are a pleasure to be around. They aren’t too rowdy. This is definitely a calm, clean beach.
Nearby there are many restaurants and shops to choose from. There also have an occasional art festival nearby.
You could walk to those places from the beach but it’s definitely a longer walk than it is at Hollywood Beach. I prefer to skateboard or bike around the area.

It’s just the best experience around. Lots of restaurants, shops and street fairs, Delray is the only urban experience for miles around. The shops are mostly open during the day but the restaurants and bars stay open late unlike Boca Raton. The crowd is diverse, the music is everything, the food is from every walk of life. There’s lots of civic pride and it shows. Come visit and support the locals so they can support themselves.

Stayed for ten days and the beach is absolutely disgusting! Tons of used condoms, cigarette butts everywhere, plastic cups galore. We were shocked to see Delray Beach so dirty and disgusting. The chair rental place stops at 4PM well so you can’t even enjoy the beach from 3 – 8 the best time to be outside. That is if you can even find one of the employees to get you a chair. Overflowing trash cans every day obviously they don’t have enough garbage cans. One star. Save your money and go to St Pete Beach or Siesta Keys instead. They have super clean beaches.

If you’re a tourist, it’s great — many things to walk to.
Being a local. it’s been over developed.
Too many people and cars in too small an area and they’re still building!
Where they used to have lots of unique restaurants and shops… now it’s pretty bland.
Again, they’re catering to the tourists. I get it.

Best ocean town in Florida! I have been coming here my entire life! Great shops, restaurants, and beach!

One of my most favorite beach towns in South Florida is definitely Downtown Delray Beach. Downtown Delray is always a happening place to eat at a sidewalk café, or shop around the cute little boutiques. It’s the perfect place if you want to shop local, or you are looking for a present for your friends or family.
At different times of the year, they have different festivals going on. One Saturday I was there they had an arts festival throughout the whole downtown area. Just think you have cute little boutiques to go shopping, and the little art stands that have all of the fantastic original art works to shop around through.
They also have a farmers market that you can check out on the weekend. It was a little bit small than others that I have been to, but still a great find.
Keep walking down the street, and you will eventually hit the beach, or maybe just drive down to the beach. Delray is a beautiful beach, and if you are looking to refresh from the Florida sun, you are at the perfect place.
Parking by downtown is just a matter if paying attention to everyone leaving. Beach parking can be challenging. You do have to pay for parking, and they do have machines that accept your cash or card.

Gorgeous beach, very spacious and peaceful. The water was clean and refreshing. We had an excellent time there and even found some convenient parking in a lot not to far from the shore. The crowd seemed to be mostly people in their 30s and up which was great because we came with family and kids and we didn’t want to deal with a rowdy scene.
As I mentioned in my tip, a lifeguard drove up to us as we were taking our baby in the water and warned us of a pedophile epidemic at this beach. Apparently there have been numerous complaints from parents who caught these scumbags taking photos of their kids. So a word to the wise… make sure you kid is in their bathing suit the whole time. Crazy, but better safe than sorry.

I love downtown Delray .From its gorgeous beach and sand to it’s great restaurants .Kool boutique shopping and the friendly people themselves. It’s a very chic town and easy to get around. I love the downtowner golf cart service that takes you to restaurants and pick you up afterwards. More towns should have this its fantastic and free just tip. I love the bars, taco places, bakeries, ice cream shops, pizza places. Something for everyone and I like warm weather so I can beach it. At night fly my kite with my husband.

I absolutely love delray beach, I’m back in southern California and I cann’t find a place here that compares to this beautiful, fun, vibrant beach city. yes not even Hermosa beach, Manhattan beach, Santa Monica, or even venice can compare to delray beach.
I love the shopping strip, restaurants, young hot crowd, at Delray beach, and the people seem really nice. I can’t wait to visit this place again, this time I might just stay.

We had a great morning at the beach.
We stopped at the local Starbucks in town and picked up our continental picnic breakfast.
We walked the block or so down to the beach and borrowed a hotel chair.
It wasn’t busy at all but I can see if it were they would probably not like us borrowing their chairs.
It was a bit overcast with a breeze which was perfect to get our toes in the sand and soak up a little sea air.
The sand was clean and litter free.
It looks well maintained and there were a good bunch of people out.
Very cool beach area with lots of activity. People were out walking with and without dogs. Beach goers were hanging out and in the ocean swimming.
It was like 10am but already warm enough.
If you get a chance to visit Delray stop at the beach it’s beautiful.
The town looks super cute too! Lots of restaurants and shops.

As we have both Downtown Delray Beach and the City of Delray Listed, reviews of which would end up being pretty much the same, this review is duplicate of my other.
Of the towns or cities along the Coast of Palm Beach County, I’m a big fan of Delray Beach. Atlantic Avenue and the general downtown area are loaded with really good and interesting restaurants, many of them, totally unique in their food offerings. The area has come a long, long way up the ladder since 2007 when Jane Gross of the New York Times labeled it the drug recovery capital of United States since it had more drug recovery houses and relative number of drug addiction communities of any city in the United States; and I can assure you that a good number of those addicts were neither recovering nor there for the purpose of recovering. At that time, the City of Delray was in a crime infested downward spiral, but fortunately all of that has now changed for the better. The fact that they were able to clean it up, is a real credit to the city, as the downtown area now stands out as being a small but unique little culinary paradise having all sorts of good restaurants.

I love coming to Delray Beach for events!
So peaceful, so clean, so pretty. Everyone in this town is nice. :)
So many restaurants and cute little shops to visit while you’re here. I usually park in the garage off of the Public Library for events. It’s $ 5. A short walk East of the Library takes you to a small park where they often host Art Festivals.

I just love downtown Delray. It has it all — food, shopping and hot dudes. Living so close, I just wish that I had more time to spend down here. When I do have a free moment between work, and more work, I am dining on the Ave. I love there are tons of events that bring the community together.
They hold a variety of events for the arts, holidays, food and dining, parades and so much more. I also like that its such a mix of age groups around. The businesses in the area really just attract everyone in the community.
Growing up in Fort Lauderdale, and spending many nights in that downtown area, Downtown Delray is beyond comparison. The food is a hundred times better, tons of bars with drink specials and the dudes are much hotter. (seriously!)
In addition, USA Today recently named this little ball of fun «Most Fun Small Town in America.» I could not be more excited to call this my community!

Downtown Delray Beach, Village by The Sea is a shopping area and restaurant row in Palm Beach County. It is located on East Atlantic Blvd.
I’ve lived in South Florida for several years and on a Saturday night, I decided to checkout Downtown Delray Beach for dinner with some friends. Some Palm Beach Unilocalers and family members had given me a list of restaurants in Palm Beach County (the criteria, I didn’t want to go to a Senior Restaurant) and almost all of them ended up on Atlantic Blvd. First of all, I was shocked at the number of restaurants in this area and the large crowds of people. The Downtown strip is somewhat similar to both Riverwalk in Fort Lauderdale or Lincoln Road in Miami Beach (it has more Designer Stores). The Indoor/​Outdoor Seating and most of the restaurants was similar to Lincoln Road, with the one big difference that at peak season, you’ll need a reservation on the weekends. I understand most people book 7 – 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday night reservations two weeks in advance.
There is both valet parking and flat fee parking lots.