Lake Worth High Graduate to take over Taboo site

Thomas Keller is coming home

The award-winning chef and restauranteur will be taking over the space previously occupied by Ta-boo, which closed last Sunday after 82 years in business.

And for some trivia--He opened the famous French Laundry in 1994, the place where Newsom dined during Covid.

During the Covid period, The French Laundry received more than $2.4 million from the Paycheck Protection Program in April, according to ABC7's Stephanie Sierra and Lindsey Feingold. Both PPP loans were approved on April 30 and went toward retaining a total of 168 staff members, the publication reports. ABC7 said the French Laundry's PPP loan total was 17 times more than the average restaurant in California's Bay Area received. Read about it

Laura Saldarriaga, a publicist for Keller's restaurants, confirmed to WPTV on Thursday that the 67-year-old chef will open a new restaurant at the Palm Beach Taboo site.

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