Ask any boater who has run a center console down to Lake Boca which restaurant lets you tie up and order dinner, and most will name SeaSpray Inlet Grill without hesitation. For years that was the right answer to a genuinely useful question. It's still described across dining roundups as the only restaurant in Boca Raton where the public can dock a boat and eat. If you keep a boat on a dock in Boca Bay Colony and have made that same run south toward Camino Real and Waterstone Resort & Marina, you've probably assumed the same thing.
That answer stopped being complete more than a year ago. Kasumi opened inside the same marina in early 2025, and its own site now advertises the identical service: Dock & Dine at Kasumi, your table will be waiting. Boca magazine's review of the restaurant calls it the Waterstone Resort & Marina's second waterfront restaurant, which is the detail that got buried under a wave of generic "best waterfront dining" lists written before anyone updated them. The marina at the end of a Boca Bay Colony run now runs two kitchens that will seat you straight off the dock, and they serve two very different nights out.
Same Dock, Two Different Reservations
SeaSpray keeps a boater's schedule. Breakfast starts at 7:30 in the morning, lunch runs until 4 in the afternoon, and dinner continues through 9 or 10 depending on the night, with happy hour from 4 to 6 Monday through Thursday. It's the kind of place you idle up to at noon in a bathing suit and order a sandwich, then come back for the sunset without changing plans.
Kasumi runs on a different clock. Dinner service starts at 5 and the kitchen closes by 9 or 10 depending on the day, with no breakfast or lunch menu to plan around, and the restaurant is dark on Mondays. James Beard award winning chef Takashi Yagihashi and restaurateur Jonathan Fox built the menu around sushi and small plates, and in August 2025 they added a nightly omakase experience: a multicourse tasting priced at $150 per person, crafted by master sushi chef Toyoji Hemmi and served from 5 to 8. If SeaSpray is where you take the boat for an easy Tuesday, Kasumi is where you take it for the night you actually planned around.
For a Boca Bay Colony dock owner, that's the real update. You're not deciding whether to boat to dinner. You're deciding which kitchen fits the night, and until recently most people planning that run didn't know there were two to choose from.
What the Bridge Actually Costs You
Getting to either restaurant means crossing the Palmetto Park Bridge, and the bridge does not run on your schedule. It's a bascule drawbridge that opens only on the hour and the half hour, and mariners are required to hail the bridge tender on VHF Channel 09 or signal with one long horn blast and one short one. Miss the window by five minutes and you're circling in the channel for twenty five.
That schedule turns a short run into a small math problem. Leave the dock at 6:40 for a 7:00 reservation and you'll likely catch the bridge at the top of the hour with time to idle up to the restaurant. Leave at 6:50 and you're waiting for the 7:30 opening, watching your reservation slip. Boaters who run this stretch regularly build the bridge into their departure time instead of their arrival time, which is the opposite of how most people plan a dinner reservation.
The Slow Water Before You Get There
Even after the bridge opens, the throttle stays down. The stretch from roughly 300 feet north of the Palmetto Park Bridge toward Silver Palm Park is posted idle speed, no wake, covering the water past Golden Harbour and Boca Raton Riviera. On weekends and holidays between 10 in the morning and 6 at night, a separate slow speed zone picks up south of the Camino Real Bridge and runs to the Broward County line, right past the marina both restaurants sit on.
None of this is a secret to anyone who's run the route before. But it explains why a trip that looks like ten minutes on a chart can take twice that on a Saturday evening, and why the smart move is leaving earlier than the distance alone suggests.
If You Want to Go Further
Not every waterfront restaurant on this stretch is actually open to you. Harbor House, inside The Boca Raton, sits right on the Intracoastal with a similar marina view, but access runs primarily through resort guests and club members rather than the boating public. Worth knowing before you plan a night around it.
If neither Waterstone kitchen fits the night, the next real dock-and-dine stop is a longer run south into Deerfield Beach. A family with roots in waterfront restaurants dating back to the 1940s bought the original Cove restaurant in 2010 and renamed it Two Georges at The Cove, and it's remained a casual, affordable stop with its own dock access ever since. It's popular enough with weekend boaters that showing up without a plan on a Saturday afternoon usually means a wait.
The Manatees Are Already Coming Back
One more seasonal detail worth building into a fall boating routine. Manatees are most visible in Boca Raton's tidal waters through the winter months, and the city posts the same bright orange and white signage on the canals every year to remind boaters to slow down where they're likely to be present. Late September is close enough to that shift that the idle speed habits worth building now are the same ones that keep a boat, and a manatee, out of each other's way once the water cools.
None of this changes where you live or what your dock is worth. It changes how you plan a Tuesday differently than a Saturday, which kitchen actually fits which night, and how early to leave the dock so the bridge doesn't decide your evening for you. That's the kind of detail that only shows up after you've made the run enough times to notice it, and it's the same attention we bring to representing homes along this same stretch of water. If you're thinking about a move within Boca Bay Colony or anywhere else on this waterway, the Matt & Nick Team knows this water as well as they know the market around it.
