The Nora District's calendar this fall has no festivals or ticketed shows on it. It has four recurring weekly nights, Sunday through Wednesday, each hosted by a tenant already open on North Railroad Avenue. The weekday listings began in late September. The Nora Hotel is scheduled to open at 1135 N. Railroad Ave. on October 19, 2026, with Stephen Starr's Pastis on the ground floor.
The order matters. Haute Living describes Palm Beach season as running from October through April, and it framed the hotel's timing around that start. Nora's weekly specials give people who live in West Palm Beach a reason to come back every week, and they were on the calendar before the new hotel's first guest checks in.
Four Nights, Four Hosts
None of the weekly events uses an outside promoter. Each one is run by the business that hosts it.
| Night | Event | Host and address | Hours | What it offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday | Sunday Service | Sunday Motor Co., 805 N. Railroad Ave. | 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. | Cars and coffee |
| Monday | Happy Meal Mondays | Sports & Rec., 1035 N. Railroad Ave. | 4 p.m. to close | Weekly Monday special |
| Tuesday | Taco Tuesdays | Loco Taqueria & Oyster Bar, 840 N. Railroad Ave. | 11 a.m. to close | Half-off tacos and rotating specials |
| Wednesday | Wine Wednesdays | Del Mar, 1015 N. Railroad Ave. | 4 p.m. to close | Half off bottles under $100 |
The Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday listings first ran Sept. 21, 22 and 23, and the district lists all four nights as repeating weekly.
Three of the four hosts opened in 2026. Loco opened Feb. 28, Del Mar opened April 7, and Sports & Rec. opened June 16. Sunday Motor Co. is the oldest of the four. The Sun Sentinel reported its opening on Aug. 29, 2025. So most of this calendar runs on restaurants in their first year on the street, using weekly specials to build a repeat crowd before the hotel adds a new one.
Each host suits its night. Del Mar is Cameron Mitchell Restaurants' Mediterranean and coastal seafood concept. Its current hours show dinner from 4 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Wine Wednesdays starts at the same 4 p.m. opening. Palm Beach Illustrated describes Sports & Rec. as an elevated sports bar built around game viewing, cocktails, seafood, wings and American classics. Its weekday hours start at 4 p.m., so Happy Meal Mondays begins as the doors open. Taco Tuesdays is the only weekly special that runs from lunch, because Loco opens at 11 a.m. every day.
The Hotel Opens on a Monday
October 19, 2026, is a Monday, so guest service at the Nora Hotel begins on a Happy Meal Monday. The hotel has 201 rooms, including 14 suites. It is BD Hotels' first ground-up hotel outside New York City, from the group behind The Bowery, The Mercer and The Greenwich.
The hotel's dining is planned on a different scale from the rest of the street. Pastis covers more than 13,000 square feet on the ground level, with onion soup, escargots, steak frites and raw bar platters. Pastis Privé sits next to it as the hotel's private event venue. On the roof, Lillys comes from Mama Hospitality, the group behind Mary Lou's, with STARR Restaurants running the food. It splits into Lillys Pool by day, Bar Lilly in the late afternoon and Cafe Lilly for full-service dinner. The hotel also adds a Sisley Spa Paris, a fitness center and a lobby bar.
Only the hotel has a firm date. Nora's own page lists Pastis for October 2026, with hours to be announced, while Haute Living's October 1 report says Pastis has announced only a fall 2026 opening. Lillys' website says "Opening soon." No public opening party has been posted for any of the three. Treat October 19 as a check-in date, not as a date when every venue in the building will be serving.
So for the rest of the fall, the north end of Railroad Avenue gains a 201-room hotel and two large dining rooms on their own schedule. Meanwhile, the four weekly nights keep running down the block at numbers in the 800s and 1000s.
What the Calendar Leaves Open
The four specials cover Sunday through Wednesday. Nothing in the district's posted programming falls on Thursday, Friday or Saturday, and the events page shows no dated market, holiday event or live-music night for October through December. The weekend still has late hours. Loco stays open until midnight Sunday through Thursday and until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Sports & Rec. is listed at noon to midnight on weekends.
Several storefronts are also still waiting on tenants. Here is where each one stands as of early October:
- 875 N. Railroad Ave. Juliana's Pizza opened here Nov. 22, 2025, and closed in June 2026. On July 9, the Palm Beach Post reported that a new concept called Vesta would take the space. No opening date was given. Vesta is not yet in the district directory.
- Indaco. A regional Italian restaurant with wood-fired pizza and house-made pasta, listed by Nora for late 2026 at 1080 N. Railroad Ave. Indaco's own site still says "Coming Soon" and gives the address as 905 N. Railroad Ave., so expect the details to change.
- Onia, 835 N. Railroad Ave. Marked "Arriving Soon," with no date.
- Nami Nori. Announced in May for a 4,300-square-foot space on North Railroad Avenue across from IGK Salon, with no opening date.
- A possible piano bar. The same July Post report said Nora was in talks with the owners of Mary Lou's about a piano bar on the south side of the district. That was a discussion, not a signed deal.
The Juliana's space shows how fast this street turns over. A restaurant opened last November and closed seven months later. A thin end of the week and a handful of open storefronts are the reasons a regular weekly calendar matters right now.
Getting There, and Getting Home
The city's new West Palm Move shuttle is the cheapest way in. The fixed route began Sept. 8, runs between the Norton Museum of Art and Northwood Village every 8 to 10 minutes, and costs $1 per ride, paid by tapping onboard. It runs on Dixie Highway rather than Railroad Avenue, so you walk the last stretch. Northbound stops include Dixie Highway at 8th Street and at 10th Street. Southbound stops include 11th Street and 8th Street. On Saturdays, the downtown leg uses Sapodilla Avenue instead of Rosemary Avenue.
Service hours line up with the calendar in some places and not others:
- Sunday Service. The fixed route runs 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sundays, which covers most of the 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. event, just not the first hour.
- Monday through Wednesday evenings. Weekday fixed-route service ends at 9 p.m. Del Mar serves until 10 p.m. those nights, so a late Wine Wednesday dinner runs past the last bus.
- After 9 p.m. West Palm Move's on-demand rides run daily until 10 p.m. They cost $2, and you book by app, online or by phone at 561-264-0458.
If you drive, the district's parking page lists surface lots through ParkMobile. Every lot is free for the first hour. In the premium lots, the second hour costs $5 and the third $10, capped at $15 for three hours. The general lot charges $3 for up to two more hours, capped at $10 for 10 hours. Valet costs a flat $5 per day on North Railroad Avenue between 7th and 8th Streets, from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Parallel parking on 7th through 10th Streets west of North Dixie Highway is free. Valet stops at 9 p.m., the same hour weekday shuttle service ends.
The district takes its name from North Railroad Avenue, and its shops and restaurants fill a row of century-old railway warehouses. This fall, that row has a weekly schedule, a $1 shuttle stop a block or two to the east and a 201-room hotel opening at its north end.
The Nora Hotel's opening on October 19 is the latest big change on North Railroad Avenue, and changes like it shape how buyers and sellers price the blocks nearby. If you own property near the Nora District and want to know how this season is reflected in your home's value, Mark Cooper can give you a discreet, data-driven read. Request a Confidential Home Valuation.
