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Posted: 5:05 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, 2012

Hotel concierges get tour of best of Lake Worth, Lantana



By Willie Howard

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

LAKE WORTH —

Concierges from hotels and vacation-planning firms toured bed and breakfasts, restaurants, bars, bakeries and art galleries Monday to get a better understanding of what Lake Worth and Lantana have to offer.

The 21 hospitality professionals, representing hotels such as The Breakers, the Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach and Marriott hotels in Delray Beach and Fort Lauderdale, came by bus on one of the Taste of History Culinary Tours led by Lori Durante, executive director of the Museum of Lifestyle and Fashion History in Delray Beach.

At the Sabal Palm House Bed and Breakfast on Golfview Road, the concierges sampled scones and tea in the courtyard on a cool, breezy morning. The bed and breakfast, operated by John and Colleen Rinaldi, is based in a 1936 house built of cypress that overlooks the city golf course and the Snook Islands Natural Area.

Colleen Rinaldi said Durante’s Taste of History tours, which have included Lake Worth since April, are showing what the city has to offer to a new audience.

“People are finding out about our downtown,” she said. “It sells the city.”

The concierges also toured the Mango Inn — a 10-room bed and breakfast based in a 1915 wood-frame house on North Lakeside Drive that is billed as Palm Beach County’s oldest and largest bed and breakfast.

At the Mango Inn, they sampled mango-stuffed French toast, made with mangoes grown on the property. Durante spoke about the history of mangoes and the origins of French toast, developed as a way to make use of crunchy stale bread.

Monday’s concierges tour, longer than Durante’s standard tours, included South Shores Tavern, the Lake Worth Art League Gallery, the Java Juice Bar, Brogues Downunder, the Maryanne Webber Gallery and Tortilleria Gallo de Oro. Stops in Lantana included George’s Meat Market and Le Petit Pain French Bakery.

Durante said the historical culinary tours of Lake Worth and Lantana, offered the second Saturday of each month and by appointment, have been popular.

“For most people, Lake Worth is a curious unknown,” Durante said.

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