Food Network: Guy Fieri’s new 'Best Bite in Town' show picks best PSL restaurant (2024)

Food Network found the best bite in Port St. Lucie.

The cable network features the Treasure Coast city in the season finale of its new show, “Best Bite In Town,” whose executive producer is celebrity chef Guy Fieri, from the popular show "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives."

The episode will premiere at 9 p.m. Friday, May 31.

Show host Noah Cappe and two of his Bite Club crew members — chefs Joe Sasto and Aarti Sequeira — fanned out across six restaurants in Port St. Lucie. Each went to two restaurants and chose their one favorite dish. They brought the three winning dishes to a panel of Fieri's culinary judges to choose an ultimate winner. Here are the six restaurants featured in the episode:

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Francesca’s Pizza

Husband-and-wife team John and Tori Fuoco opened their pizzeria in 2019 and named it after his late mother, Francesca Fuoco, and her late grandmother, Frances Rodriguez. He grew up in the pizza business in Syracuse, New York, before he helped friends open a pizza shop in Colorado. Then he opened another location in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he hired his future wife as a bartender. They moved to Florida and searched for a year before they found their current location.

3961 S.W. Port St. Lucie Blvd., 772-344-4748, website, Facebook, Instagram

Ketch a Fire Jerk and Seafood

Husband-and-wife team Shaquille and Prema Palmer park their Jamaican food truck at the Sunoco gas station on the corner of Airoso Boulevard and St. James Drive. He opened Ketch a Fire Jerk and Seafood in 2018 and traveled across the Treasure Coast before parking at its current location. They specialize in Jamaican jerk cuisine and seafood dishes, such as jerk chicken, jerk pork and red snapper fish.

550 N.W. Airoso Blvd., 772-281-1992, website, Facebook, Instagram

Ramen Hana & Wings

Chef-owner Hana Kaewsathiwong, who trained under Japanese chefs in New York City, opened the Japanese eatery at the beginning of 2020 on U.S. 1, just south of Kitterman Road. Its specialty ramen bowls include Hinageshi Hakata Tonkotsu — pork broth and thin noodles topped with chashu, kikurage mushroom, scallion, nori and an egg — and Himawari Shoyu — with chicken soy sauce broth, noodles, chicken, bamboo, nori, scallion and egg. It also serves other traditional Asian eats, such as chicken katsu, fried rice and edamame.

6935 Heritage Drive, 772-444-7891, website, Facebook, Instagram

My Brother’s BBQ

James Thompson Jr. and Sabrina Allen startedMy Brother’s BBQas a food truck in 2019 at the Sunoco gas station on Port St. Lucie Boulevard before they opened a permanent location in 2021 on Tulip Boulevard in Port St. Lucie, west of Florida’s Turnpike. The menu features brisket or pulled pork sliders, catfish nuggets, chicken wings or boneless wings, smoked or fried ribs and homemade lemonade and sweet tea. Sides include baked beans, candied yams, collard greens, corn nuggets, fried okra and green beans.

302 S.W. Tulip Blvd., 772-475-4966, website, Facebook, Instagram

Babalu’s Cuban Café

Cuban-born Lester Marcio, whose nickname is Babalu, and his wife, Lane, who's the chef, opened their Port St. Lucie restaurant in 2018 at the current location of My Brother's BBQ. After he closed Babalu's Cuban Café for 15 months, he reopened in a new location on Port St. Lucie Boulevard in 2022 with an expanded menu and a walk-up window similar to Versailles in Miami. His El Cubano is a traditional Cuban sandwich.

1002 S.E. Port St. Lucie Blvd., 772-207-5165, website, Facebook, Instagram

Think Greek

Stella Koufalis started her restaurant as a food truck in 2014, sold it in 2017 and opened a permanent location for Think Greek off Port St. Lucie Boulevard in 2018. She’s the sole cook, making food that’s as authentic as it gets, thanks to her mom’s and grandma’s recipes. She puts fries on sandwiches instead of lettuce, which she said is more traditional. She also puts an American twist on some menu items: Greek nachos, Greek quesadillas and Greek wontons. The latter won Yelp’s “Best Bite on the Beach” at the 2020 South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

644 S.W. Port St. Lucie Blvd., 772-800-3128, website, Facebook, Instagram

Laurie K. Blandfordis TCPalm'sentertainmentreporterdedicated to finding the best things to do on the Treasure Coast. Email her atlaurie.blandford@tcpalm.com. Sign up for her What To Do in 772 weekly newsletter atprofile.tcpalm.com/newsletters/manage.

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