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Max's Harvest

Broward Palm Beach New Times - Best Palm Beach County Restaurant - 2012

There's a danger in getting too attached to any one dish at Dennis Max's "farm to fork" restaurant in Pineapple Grove. Although one may be tempted to develop a dependency on pan-seared gnocchi spiked with morel mushrooms and truffled fondue, or a tempura-battered squash blossom stuffed with creamy goat cheese, that would be a mistake.

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Chris Miracolo at Max's Harvest

Broward Palm Beach New Times - Best Palm Beach County Chef - 2012

Knowing the origin story of a food doesn't inherently make it taste any better. That's usually just a pleasant side effect. The lightly beer-battered squash blossoms from Max's Harvest are born at Green Cay Produce in nearby Boynton Beach, but it's not the proximity to the source that makes these so delicious; it's the preparation.

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Take Five at Max's

By John Tanasychuk

The Sun Sentinal

Max's Harvest has introduced a 5-7pm Monday to Friday Happy Hour.

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Happy Hour at Max's Harvest

The Palm Beach Post

Here's a happy tidbit for Happy-Hour loving folks: Max's Harvest has just launched a new one. That means $5 drinks and a $5 bar menu!

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The Restaurant Year in Review - "What a Year!"

examiner.com

Can you believe 2012 is almost over already? 2012 has already brought us lots of action on the restaurant front, and it promises to be another exciting year for our local dining scene. So as we look forward to what's in store this year, let's take a quick look back at where 2011 left us, shall we?

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Oysters, Squash Blossoms, Spare Ribs, and More: Readers Rank Favorites

By Melissa McCart

New TImes of Broward & Palm Beach

In tandem with our 100 favorite dishes for the New Times' Nest of Broward/Palm Beach 2012, we're asking readers to offer up their favorites. Today's roundup is from Patrick Jong, who offers these gems...

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Max's Harvest: Farm-fresh in Delray - Dennis Max's latest restaurant lives off the land.

By Chan Lowe

Sun Sentinel

Overall impression: It's disappointing when you want to give a restaurant four stars because its concept is so dead-on, its environment is so welcoming, its food is so well-prepard and its staff so friendly and professional, but you find yourself unable to overlook a few drawbacks that sully and otherwise flawless dining experience.

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Garlic Fest Takes Over Olfactories This Weekend in Delray Beach

By Jan Norris

Sun – Sentinel / JanNorris.com

Reigning champion Chuck Gittleman, of Deck 84 in Delray Beach will be competing against one of these chefs:
• Anna Marie Vocaturo, pastry assistant chef at Cafe L'Europe in Palm Beach
• Chris Miracolo, chef of Max's Harvest in Delray Beach
• Todd Holender, chef of Latitudes at Sunset Key, Key West
• Anthony "Radar" Risoli, chef of SoLita, Delray Beach.

Chefs will compete in a seed format, with the winner of each contest on Saturday advancing to the semi-final on Sunday; the finals are Sunday afternoon.

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Super Bowl Party Recipes from Area Chefs: Touchdown!

By Jan Norris

Sun – Sentinel / JanNorris.com

Serving your guests weenie dogs and chips and dip at your Super Bowl party is a surefire way to get them to leave by halftime. Instead, be the MVH (most valuable host) by whipping up these big game recipes from five football-loving local chefs.

Pittsburgher sandwiches with slow-cooked Italian beef: Patrick Broadhead, Max's Group, Boca Raton

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Sunday Brunch, Friday Jazz at Max's Harvest

By Bill Citara

Boca Magazine.

Max's Harvest (169 NE 2nd Ave., 561/381-9970), Dennis Max's delightful "farm to fork" eatery in Delray Beach, is rolling out a trio of new offerings.

Beginning this month there‟s Sunday brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring all the local products that make the food at this stylish and hugely popular Pineapple Grove restaurant some of the best in town. Wash down dishes like gouda-pancetta mac "n‟ cheese, red snapper tacos, crab and artichoke frittata, house-cured gravlax BLT, and pork belly eggs Benedict with a complimentary Mimosa.

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Chef du Jour: Chris Miracolo goes farm to fork to art

By CLAIRE PEREZ, Correspondent

Sun Sentinel.

Miracolo's first foray into the food world was bussing tables at his parents' coffee shop in Long Island. The family indoctrination continued at Tesoro Ristorante, his uncle's eatery, in Westbury, N.Y. After his parents divorced at 15, Miracolo moved to Florida and began working as a cashier at a pizzeria. Gradually, he made his way into the kitchen, helping out when short staffed. He considered the food business a means to make money but not a career.

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Enjoy a Testing Menu at Max's Harvest for $29

Dine Magazine.

The first time we stepped into Max's Harvest, we instantly became fans. With a creative menu and feel–good, farm–to–table cuisine, we knew that our first visit to this new addition in Pineapple Grove would certianly not be our last. Their latest promotion – The Harvest Tasting Menu – is just what we need, and it's so good to pass up.

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Guide Dining: Review - Max's Harvest

By BILL CITARA
Guide Dining.

Dennis Max has come full circle. It's a circle that began in Southern California in the 1970s, where, as young restaurant managers for the seminal Victoria's Station chain, he and buddy Burt Rapoport were seduced by "California cuisine" and its then–groundbreaking principles. The upshot was that there was such thing as qulity American cuisine, that restaurants could be casual and fun and still serve good food – and that the quality of ingredients and talent of the chefs should drive the menu.

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Bounty of farm-fresh favorites at Max's Harvest in Delray

By LIZ BALMASEDA
PBpulse.

Chris Miracolo, Executive Chef of Max's Harvest in Delray Beach. (Libby Volgyes/The Palm Beach Post)
Somewhere between the ooze of local, handmade burrata and the peppery edge of farm-fresh arugula, the
essence of Max's Harvest revealed itself: This is a place defined by exquisite simplicity.

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A harvest of delights at Max's newest creation

By ZIPPORAH
Champagne Living

I've been a fan of Dennis Max since I moved to South Florida from the Northeast. I've always been able to count on
wonderful food, ambiance and the perfect evening when I've visited Max's Grille in Mizner Park (or years ago at Café Max
and Maxaluna). My expectations were high when I stepped into his newest venture at the Grand Opening party and ribbon
cutting ceremony of Max's Harvest last week.

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A sneak peak at Delray's New Farm-To-Table Eatery

By LIBBY VOLGYES
Palm Beach Pulse

We stepped into Max's Harvest (which opens Thursday, June 9) last week in Delray Beach for a preview of the menu and barely recognized the space. Located in the former Taste Gastropub location, it seems brighter and zippier than before. Restaurateur Dennis Max's farm-to-table eatery features food directly from the producers.

This means the eggs used in executive chef Chris Miracolo's yummy, truffle-laden deviled eggs we sampled came from a local farm. (In fact, the farmer was on hand at the pre-opening party.)

We also had the pleasure of nibbling on roasted asparagus crostini with romesco sauce topped with a baked quail egg and sea salt, and a slow-roasted lamb ragù with English sweet peas and morel mushrooms topped with micro arugula.

A sneak peak at Delray's New Farm-To-Table Eatery

By LIZ BALMAZEDA
Palm Beach Pulse

MAX’S HARVEST, restaurateur Dennis Max’s “farm-to-fork” concept eatery, opens officially Thursday in Delray Beach’s Pineapple Grove district.

The menu features American fare inspired by local farms, hence the “Broward County Burrata” cheese served with a tomato-bread salad to the “Day Boat Swordfish” paired with roasted tomato farro. Executive chef is Chris Miracolo, most recently of Himmarshee Bar & Grille in Ft. Lauderdale.

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EatBeat: Restaurateur Dennis Max Getting 'Back to My Roots' with Upcoming Max's Harvest in Delray Beach

May 16th, 2011

Long-time South Florida restaurateur Dennis Max is back on the scene with his first opening in five years; and first "new" concept in more than a decade. Max's Harvest is scheduled to open in mid-June in the former Taste Gastropub space in Delray Beach's Pineapple Grove. I to Max about the new place, old restaurants, and a decade-long introspection.

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Pioneering restaurateur Dennis Max makes fresh start in Delray's Pineapple Grove

By ALEXANDRA CLOUGH
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 10:32 a.m. Monday, April 18, 2011
Posted: 10:58 p.m. Friday, April 15, 2011

Dennis Max is back.
Th e trendsetting restaurateur and founder of such venerable eateries as Max's Grille in Boca Raton has taken over a defunct Delray Beach restaurant in the heart of Pineapple Grove, just a couple of blocks north of the trendy Atlantic Avenue dining and entertainment district.

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Max's Harvest Is On Its (Delicious) Way

By MARIE SPEED

I was invited the other night to a "friends and family" tasting of Max's Harvest, Dennis Max's new farm-to-table restaurant that is slated to open in June in Pineapple Grove in Delray Beach. Some of the guests were indeed friends of Dennis Max, but the others, like me, were either foodie wannabes or real foodies, like Jan Norris, who kept us educated as the courses came out of the kitchen.

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Dennis Max to Make Delray Debut

By BILL CITARA, , Wed., Apr. 20 2011 @ 3:10PM

He helped make "California cuisine" popular in South Florida, now Dennis Max is spreading the farm-to-table gospel that originated in California to white-hot Delray Beach, where in June he expects to open his own outpost of that now-nationwide culinary trend, Max's Harvest.

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