Bill Clinton Chows Down at Cafe Boulud

Bill Clinton, escorted by a group of secret service agents, walked into Cafe Boulud last evening at around 9:30 p.m. for an intimate dinner with 14 friends. According to the Palm Beach Daily News, Clinton and pals dined at a courtyard table at the tony restaurant inside the exclusive Brazilian...

By Laine Doss

November 14, 2012

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Bill Clinton, escorted by a group of secret service agents, walked into Cafe Boulud last evening at around 9:30 p.m. for an intimate dinner with 14 friends.

According to the Palm Beach Daily News, Clinton and pals dined at a courtyard table at the tony restaurant inside the exclusive Brazilian Court hotel.

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The former president was in town for a Bank of America presentation with

George W. Bush. In typical diplomatic fashion, the President said the

two men who both share the same title as once leader of the free world

said "we had a good time", when asked about the evening.

Dinner guests

received a same-day invite by Clinton aides. The impromptu dinner party

included Palm Beach locals Nancy and Bill Rollnick, who served as special envoys during Clinton's

second term, Michelle and Howard Kessler, and Elaine and Jerry

Schuster.

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Laine Doss is the food and spirits editor for Miami New Times, covering the restaurant and bar scene in South Florida. She has been featured on Cooking Channel’s Eat Street and Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race. Doss won an Alternative Weekly award for her feature on what it’s like to wait tables. In a previous life, she appeared off-Broadway and shook many a cocktail as a bartender at venues in South Florida and New York City. When she’s not writing, you can find Doss running some marathon then celebrating at the nearest watering hole.

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