On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
Darbster Restaurant and Rescue
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Darbster is a bistro in West Palm Beach that encourages your pet to join the diners.
Darbster is a waterfront plant-based bistro in West Palm Beach, Florida, that encourages your pet to join the diners on the patio. Regulars and visitors alike love the vegan dishes and comfortable atmosphere.
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On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari is a local public television program presented by WPBT
Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council
On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari
Darbster Restaurant and Rescue
Clip: Season 7 | 2m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
Darbster is a waterfront plant-based bistro in West Palm Beach, Florida, that encourages your pet to join the diners on the patio. Regulars and visitors alike love the vegan dishes and comfortable atmosphere.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipIt's yappy hour, and we're headed to the popular waterfront restaurant Darbster, named for the owner's late poodle Darby, to enjoy vegan treats for you and your pup.
I found out your names are Ellen and Alan, and I thought, what a beautiful name for a restaurant.
And why didn't they call it "Ellen and Alan's?"
So what's the story with Darbster?
Tell me the name.
We had a rescue poodle when we first moved here in 2003, and Darby was her name.
And so then in 2009, when we bought this place, I thought, I don't wanna call it, "The Vegan Cafe," or "Earth Green."
Right.
It's just a turnoff.
Yeah.
So we figured we'll just call it Darter.
It's nice.
What's the involvement in the community, in the dog community?
Well, we opened the restaurant, we kinda did it as a hobby.
'Cause we wanted somewhere to eat.
And so we decided to put the profits into a foundation called Darbster Rescue.
So what we do is we now rescue dogs and cats from South Florida, and we move them up north to two brick and mortar shelters that we have in New Hampshire.
Yeah, so to date, we've saved about 17,000 animals, yeah.
Are you kidding me?
No.
[Frank] 17,000?
[Ellen] Yeah, 17,000.
[Frank] And it's all breeds, right?
[Ellen] Yeah, it's a lot of square hits.
Like our friend Poppy here.
[Frank] Yeah.
A lot of cats, a lot of kittens.
So a lot of animals that would be overlooked.
So we work with other rescue groups, we work with our volunteers, and we have a small staff that helps us out.
Are you just exhausted?
Yeah, yeah, we're exhausted.
What?
Yeah.
No wonder you opened up a place that you can just relax and eat!
We've been here for 14 years now.
[Alan] A lot of regulars.
And that's rewarding.
[Frank] Yeah.
Do you allow dogs in the restaurant?
[Ellen] We do.
You do?
We encourage it.
I know you had yours here, but I figured that was a perk of being an owner.
No, Sunday nights we actually give a discount if you bring your dog.
Do you really?
Yeah.
Why?
Why so passionate about it?
What is it?
I think if you are successful, you owe it to your community to give back.
You should change your names from Ellen and Alan to Superman and Wonder Woman.
Really!
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