“Eat Your Heart Out,” Fort Lauderdale’s favorite food and “fun”raiser featuring gourmet creations, fresh libations and live entertainment returns to Galleria Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, October 13, from 6 – 8:30 p.m. This year’s highly anticipated event that benefits the Heart Gallery of Broward County, a respected nonprofit organization committed to finding loving families for the hardest to place foster children, will honor City Furniture as its Child Advocate of the Year. Eric Yutzy, WPLG Local 10 morning news anchor, will host this year’s social occasion.

City Furniture, this year’s “Eat Your Heart Out” honoree, is a leading furniture and home accents retailer with 20 statewide showrooms and an online presence dedicated to style and value. Through its #CITYCARES program, the company gives 5% of its profits, annually, back to nonprofit organizations that foster a sense of home, service, education, health and diversity.

An impressive roster of dining venues will spice-up the event as they show their support for Heart Gallery. Past restaurants providing guests with a dazzling array of epicurean bites have included Boatyard, The Capital Grille, Cooper’s Hawk Restaurants & Winery, Culinary Republic, Eddie V’s, Lips Fort Lauderdale, MOKSHA Indian Brasserie, Press & Grind Café, Riverside Market and Café, Seasons 52, Sicilian Oven and Tarpon River Brewing. This year’s participating restaurants will be named at a later date.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to win a variety of raffle prizes including a three-night Lago Mar suite stay including breakfast for two each morning and dinner plus additional gifts.

Tickets are $150 per person and include complimentary valet parking. Tickets will go on sale August 15 at www.heartgalleryofbroward.org. For sponsor opportunities or more details, call (954) 918-3008.