Café des Beaux-Arts


Housed in the Pavilion alongside Flagler's private railroad car is this period café, built in the style of a 19th-century iron-and-glass railway palace. Here you can daintily dine on finger sandwiches, scones and custom-blended teas looking out over Lake Worth. Pinkies out!


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