Bathed in a warm, amber glow and bedecked with rose-filled vases, Rose’s Daughter in Delray Beach is one of those homey restaurants that makes you feel good the moment you step inside. “Good energy,” a dining mate said soon after we sat.

An open kitchen and a buzzing bar bookend the front dining room, and a hallway lined with canned Italian tomatoes and sacks of Caputo flour lead to a back room with leather banquettes and a rear patio with a bar.