It was billed as a limited-engagement dining opportunity last season, but Swifty’s Palm Beach, modeled after a former well-known New York society bistro, is set to return to The Colony this fall.

The Colony has announced that Swifty’s Palm Beach will reopen Oct. 29, when the boutique hotel at 155 Hammon Ave. is slated to reopen its doors after temporarily closing in late March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Like last year, when it was billed as a one-season pop-up, Swifty’s will evoke the look and feel of the New York original with banquette seating and menu illustrations by artist Tom Snell, officials said.

But until The Colony’s main dining room reopens, likely in mid-December, seating for Swifty’s first will be al fresco around the hotel’s swimming pool. As such, that area is slated to be called Swifty’s Pool.

The planned Swifty’s revival at The Colony follows its mastermind’s assessment of how the bistro fared last season after its December debut: it was a “smashing success,” Robert Caravaggi said.

“It was such a pleasure (last season) to see so many familiar faces and wonderful friends,” Caravaggi said in a press release. “I’m elated to evolve the restaurant to meet the times with the launch of Swifty’s Pool,” which later will expand with Swifty’s in the hotel’s dining room.

Caravaggi co-founded the original Manhattan Swifty’s, known as “a club without dues” in 1999. It closed in 2016.

When Manhattan Swifty’s first opened on Lexington Avenue near 72nd Street in the Upper East Side, it was a successor to Mortimer’s, a former New York society mecca where Caravaggi had been maître d’.

Regulars at included Michael Kors, Martha Stewart and Aerin Lauder, whose eponymous lifestyle brand and family have long had a connection to Palm Beach.

When Lauder heard a Swifty’s pop-up was opening at The Colony last season with Caravaggi at the helm, she was “very excited,” she said.

“Swifty’s (In New York) had always been one of my favorite restaurants. The classic American food, mixed with a buzzing clientele, made it a destination.”

Swifty’s Palm Beach debuted to the public in The Colony‘s then-redesigned main dining room on Christmas Day.

The debut came after Caravaggi worked with a team that included the hotel’s co-owner and CEO Sarah Wetenhall and executive chef Tom Whitaker, who boned up on such Swifty’s favorites as meatloaf made with a recipe from famed couturier Bill Blass.

The team is preparing to ready The Colony’s dining areas around the pool for the first phase of Swifty’s return.

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Starting Oct. 29, lunch, dinner and cocktails will be served by the swimming pool as well as among socially distanced tables in the hotel’s bar/lounge area, according to The Colony.

Whitaker will lead day-to-day culinary activities, including turning out such Swifty’s favorites as twin burgers and crab cakes with creamed spinach. Like last season, chef Stephen Attoe, who co-founded the original New York Swifty’s with Caravaggi, will serve as a consultant, according to The Colony.

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The Colony will offer other dining opportunities this coming season, including breakfast and other service by its CPB restaurant, but Swifty’s is of special interest.

As Wetenhall has said, “Swifty’s and The Colony are establishments that evoke a special kind of belonging. To bring this cherished New York perlieu to life on Palm Beach is a gift to our community”.