Drive the three miles between The Pointe at Wellington Green and the Lotis site on State Road 7 and you are watching two very different versions of the same story. On one end, new restaurants are seating guests and posting weekend waits. On the other, a 52-acre mixed-use project keeps changing shape while residents wait for the anchor tenants they were promised two years ago.
If you already live here, the useful question is not "what's coming to Wellington." It is which of the coming-soon signs will actually feed you by Labor Day, and which will not. The gap between the announcement and the opening has become the real story of Wellington's 2026 dining scene.
The Pointe at Wellington Green Is Where the Openings Are Landing First
The clearest example is Lewis Prime Grill. It opened at the Pointe at Wellington Green on May 14, from the Lewis family, the multigenerational group behind Okeechobee Steakhouse in West Palm Beach and Lewis Steakhouse in Jupiter. The address is 10120 Forest Hill Blvd, and the concept is not a straight steakhouse copy of the family's other rooms. Expect eclectic decor with vibrant colors and whimsical artwork, a menu with shareable starters and entrées like chimichurri filet mignon skewers, macadamia-crusted snapper, and zoodles with shrimp, and a full selection of steaks with additions and enhancements.
Two operational details matter for how residents will actually use it. The restaurant runs Monday through Saturday 4 to 10 p.m. and Sunday 4 to 9 p.m., with a daily Prime Social Hour from 4 to 6 p.m. That is a dinner-only room with an early-evening bar window, which reads as a deliberate play for the after-work and pre-8 p.m. dinner crowd rather than the family lunch trade the Pointe already has.
The takeaway is not that one steakhouse opened. It is that The Pointe at Wellington Green added a full-service, chef-driven concept on a timeline that held, while the bigger project a few miles north is still explaining delays.
Lotis Wellington Is the Bigger Promise, and the Slower One
Lotis Wellington was approved in 2020 as the largest mixed-use project the village had greenlit in a decade. Lotis Wellington 1 was planned to include 372 residential rentals, 42,000 square feet of restaurants, 12,000 square feet of retail, 13,000 square feet of offices and 60,000 square feet of medical offices, with signed tenants including Cooper's Hawk, Lazy Dog, Cluck Face, and Garden Butcher.
Some of that has arrived. Kura Sushi celebrated its grand opening at Lotis Wellington, Bay 101, 1349 S. State Road 7, on Friday, April 10 after a soft opening on March 25, making it the brand's first location in the greater West Palm Beach metropolitan area and its fifth in Florida. The room runs a two-layered conveyor belt system with more than 100 dishes, drink delivery robots, and a prize machine at each table. If you have a family that wants a Friday night out with no reservation stress, this is the addition that actually changes the calculus.
The next confirmed piece is Garden Butcher. The company filed permit applications with the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation to open at The Lotus development at 1385 South State Road 7, its third South Florida location following its original café in Boca Raton and its West Palm Beach outpost, though an opening date has not been announced and the Wellington location is listed as coming soon on the company's website. The concept is made-to-order breakfasts, salads, wraps, sandwiches, grain bowls and smoothies alongside a market of grab-and-go meals, prepared without seed oils or refined sugar and using local, seasonal and organic ingredients whenever possible. A permit filing in late July puts a realistic opening somewhere in late 2026 or early 2027, not this summer.
Then there is the part of Lotis residents keep asking about. The partly finished project in Palm Beach County has devolved into developer infighting playing out in court, along with two lawsuits and a flurry of liens adding up to over $5 million of allegedly unpaid bills to subcontractors and a potential restaurant tenant. Part of the alleged debts include over $1.5 million to Cooper's Hawk, which sued Lotis Wellington in February claiming it was owed the funds plus 8 percent annual interest as part of a construction allowance and for building a service yard, allegations Lotis Wellington denied in court.
A signed lease and a construction allowance dispute are not the same thing as a table. If you had Cooper's Hawk on your summer calendar, move it to your fall or winter calendar and check back.
The second phase has also been reworked. Plans for Lotis Wellington 2, the 52-acre project under construction at 1105 South State Road 7, shifted after a mini-golf venture connected to Tiger Woods pulled out, and the village council approved changes that include an 8,500-square-foot Seasons 52 restaurant, while the question of how to use the three acres previously slated for PopStroke lingers. Council members were candid about how they felt about the churn. "We have a level of frustration as to what we thought we were getting for our residents and what we're winding up with for our residents," Napoleone said, and Councilman John McGovern said he did not believe the project would have been approved with all its current changes and tenant restrictions.
Read that as a resident, not a critic: Seasons 52 is a real addition and a familiar brand, but the entertainment anchor the village had been counting on for family nights is still an open question.
The Smaller Additions Filling the Gaps
Wellington has not been waiting on Lotis for everything. Two upscale independents opened in the same wave as Lewis Prime Grill. Tres Gallitos, in the heart of Wellington, offers a refined yet approachable menu that balances traditional flavors with contemporary presentation, aiming for a more elevated Mexican dining experience with a focus on bold, authentic flavor profiles. Alongside it, a heartfelt, family-owned pizzeria named after the owners' daughter Rosie has quickly gained attention across social media as one of Wellington's most buzzed-about new spots.
For a completely different room, Alacruz Grill is inspired by the culture of Argentina, with all dishes made on a 15-foot custom grill over a blazing open flame. That is a specific piece of equipment, not a marketing line, and it is the reason the room reads differently from the steakhouses on the same corridor.
None of these are life-changing openings on their own. Together, they explain why the Wellington dining conversation feels louder this year even before Lotis fully lands.
The Fall Anchor Nobody Is Talking About Yet
The single most interesting opening on Wellington's schedule is not a restaurant. Diadem Pickleball Complex is targeting a September 15 opening at 10570 West Forest Hill Boulevard, and the indoor pickleball facility will also include Cat 5, a restaurant and bar serving pizza, salads, beer and wine.
Pair that with what already exists at The Pointe and what is queued at Lotis and you can start to see the shape of Wellington's next twelve months. Dinner and drinks at Lewis Prime Grill, family sushi at Kura, and by fall a pickleball complex with its own kitchen a mile east. That is a real weekend, not a leasing brochure.
What Is Actually Open, What Is Not
| Concept | Where | Status as of August 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Lewis Prime Grill | 10120 Forest Hill Blvd, The Pointe at Wellington Green | Open since May 14, 2026 |
| Kura Revolving Sushi Bar | 1349 S. State Road 7, Bay 101, Lotis Wellington | Open since April 10, 2026 |
| Tres Gallitos | Wellington | Open |
| Alacruz Grill | Wellington | Open |
| Garden Butcher | 1385 S. State Road 7, The Lotus | Permit filed July 2026, no opening date |
| Cooper's Hawk | Lotis Wellington 1 | Signed tenant, construction dispute in litigation |
| Lazy Dog | Lotis Wellington 1 | Signed tenant |
| Seasons 52 | Lotis Wellington 2 | Approved March 2026, 8,500 sq ft |
| Diadem Pickleball Complex with Cat 5 | 10570 W. Forest Hill Blvd | Targeting September 15, 2026 |
Reading the Map This Summer
If you have been in Wellington more than a couple of years, you have watched projects announce and then quietly slide. The pattern to hold onto right now is this. The Pointe at Wellington Green is where things are opening on schedule. Lotis Wellington is where the leasing lineup is genuinely strong and the calendar is genuinely uncertain, and the smart move as a resident is to enjoy Kura, plan around Lewis Prime Grill and Tres Gallitos this summer, and treat Cooper's Hawk, Lazy Dog, Seasons 52, and Garden Butcher as fall-through-2027 openings until a firm date is on their own websites.
The broader signal, and it is worth paying attention to as a homeowner, is that Wellington is in an unusual development cycle. Related Ross's Village Landing, the 400-plus-acre equestrian project known as The Wellington, BH Group's Polo West plans, and Lotis are all active at once. The village that used to be defined almost entirely by the equestrian calendar is quietly becoming a place where the daily texture of neighborhood life, where you eat, where you meet friends on a Tuesday, where you take out-of-town family, is changing block by block.
For readers thinking about how these shifts affect the streets you actually live on, The Paiz Group is happy to talk through what is opening, what is stalled, and how the two hubs on Forest Hill are reshaping the village. Book a Consultation when you are ready.
