Michael Tronn calls TIMBR, a high-concept dining experience in a century-old building in Fort Lauderdale, his masterwork. Coming from the multidimensional nightlife luminary who’s staged over 1,000 events for celebrities like Madonna and Gaultier, that’s saying something – and we’ll sit down with him for some table talk in our annual Food, Wine & Spirit Issue.
Having risen to notoriety as one of the flamboyant, petulant Club Kids of the ’80-’90s New York nightclub scene, and one of the founders of Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, Tronn has now set his innovative, experiential sights on a turn-of-the-century building on West Las Olas Boulevard. Its years-in-the-making, multimillion-dollar reincarnation as TIMBR constitutes his 34th launch of a specialty destination property.
The 8,000-square-foot TIMBR, scheduled to open this fall, “will elevate the hospitality industry, redefine the culinary landscape, and bring high design to Fort Lauderdale,” he says.
He and his story are just one of many features in our award-winning issue devoted to food and fine dining in South Florida. We’ll also meet David Bouhadana, a teen from Boca who had never eaten sushi who has now taken charge of a growing restaurant empire; get a sneak peek of the new Olive & Sea restaurant overlooking the Intracoastal in Fort Lauderdale; sample wines from some of music’s biggest names, who are bottling their enthusiasm for wine — and passing it around to a wider audience; meet Pompano Beach’s purveyor of pasta, a culinary Horatio Alger story, by way of South Florida; tour five homes where wining and dining are built-in luxury; and listen to a student who’s After Dinner and Humorous Interpretation speeches helped American Heritage win a state championship — and called out a bully in the process.
All of this — plus updates on City & Shore food & wine-related events you won’t want to miss — in the September issue, coming this weekend in print, online and digital, https://www.sun-sentinel.com/city-and-shore/
