Drive past the gatehouse on Saddle Club Road and the signage does what gatehouse signage is supposed to do. It tells you this belongs to somebody else. Through the fence you can see the pickleball courts, the pool deck, the tennis nets, all of it clearly built for people who already live in Bonaventure and already pay the assessment that comes with it. If you live in Windmill Ranch or Tequesta Trace or anywhere else in Weston that isn't Bonaventure, the instinct is to keep driving.
That instinct is only half right. The gym, the pools, the courts and the bowling lanes at Bonaventure Town Center Club are genuinely closed to anyone outside the community. But the club's newest restaurant isn't, and neither is a second dining room elsewhere in Bonaventure. Weston residents who have never once needed a Bonaventure address can walk into both.
What the Membership Actually Buys
Bonaventure Town Center Club runs on a structure that's more HOA than country club. According to the Gables at Bonaventure homeowners association, if you own a home in Bonaventure, you're automatically a member. The annual assessment that comes with your mortgage or your HOA bill is what pays for access to the pools, the gym, tennis, pickleball, basketball, bowling and bocce, along with children's arts and music programs and adult classes like Jazzercise. Renters can get in too, but only if their lease or their landlord grants it.
None of that requires anyone to apply, interview or wait for a membership slot to open. It also doesn't open to a Weston resident who happens to live a mile away in a different HOA. That part of the club is exactly as closed as the fence makes it look.
The Two Doors That Aren't Locked
Two categories of the club's offerings break from that pattern. The Salon & Spa takes walk-in and appointment business from anyone, member or not, and the summer camp program accepts children who live outside Bonaventure. Both have been open to the public for years, which is part of why they don't register as news to most Weston residents. They're not new, and they're not dinner.
The dining is what changed. Sardinia by Zona Blu, the newest tenant inside the club at 16690 Saddle Club Road, describes itself on its own site as open to the public, full stop, despite sitting inside a building that otherwise requires a Bonaventure address to use. A few minutes away, at 200 Bonaventure Boulevard, Bonaventure 19th serves Spanish and international dishes under the same understanding: you don't need to live in the neighborhood to get a table.
The Restaurant Weston Already Trusted
Sardinia by Zona Blu isn't a stranger walking into Bonaventure. It's the third stop for a team Weston diners have already had more than a decade to form an opinion about. Zona Blu opened on Weston Road in September 2015, founded by four Sardinian partners who built the menu around Sardinian cuisine rather than the mainland Italian food most diners expect. Executive Chef Andrea Fadda has kept that distinction: fresh pasta, wood-fired pizza, and dishes like culugiones, potato and pecorino dumplings finished with mint, that reviewers keep coming back for specifically. Seven years after opening, in 2022, the concept proved durable enough to expand, with a second location, Zona Blu WPB, opening in West Palm Beach.
Sardinia by Zona Blu is the version of that same team and that same island's cooking, relocated inside a private club and still open to anyone who calls for a table. Diners describe grilled octopus with a good char, bronzini cooked simply and well, and a wine list built around Vermentino, the white grape most associated with Sardinia. In the colder months, the original Zona Blu has built a small tradition around truffle season, finishing Cacio e Pepe tableside with shaved black or white truffle over pasta tossed in a wheel of Pecorino Sardo. Whether that seasonal touch carries over to the Bonaventure location isn't something either restaurant's public materials confirm, but the kitchen team and the sourcing relationships are the same ones that built it at the original address.
What's Actually Behind the Gate
| Inside Bonaventure Town Center Club | Open to Bonaventure residents only | Open to any Weston resident |
|---|---|---|
| Pools, gym, tennis, pickleball | Yes | No |
| Bowling, bocce, basketball courts | Yes | No |
| Children's/teen/adult recreation programs | Yes | No |
| Salon & Spa | No | Yes |
| Summer camp | No | Yes |
| Sardinia by Zona Blu | No | Yes |
| Bonaventure 19th | No | Yes |
The split isn't arbitrary. It tracks with what actually costs the HOA money to maintain for its own members versus what functions as a leased-out business that happens to sit on HOA property. A pickleball court has to be reserved for the people paying the assessment or it stops being worth the assessment. A restaurant lease works differently: more covers, not fewer, is the point.
Why This Changes a Friday Night, Not a Sunday
None of this requires paperwork on the diner's end. Sardinia by Zona Blu takes reservations through Resy like any other restaurant in the market, and its phone line runs through the main number for the property. The one adjustment is logistical rather than social: getting there means passing through whatever gate or check-in point governs the property, the same way a guest headed to a wedding reception or a spa appointment there already does. It's a small friction compared to the assumption most Weston residents outside Bonaventure seem to be operating on, which is that there's nothing on the other side of that gate for them at all.
That assumption is the thing worth correcting. Weston is a city built out of individually gated and HOA-managed communities, Bonaventure among the largest and oldest of them, and the boundaries that matter for pool access and tennis court booking are not the same boundaries that matter for where you can get dinner. A Sardinian restaurant with more than a decade of local reputation behind it now operates from an address that looks, from the road, like it belongs to somebody else's neighborhood association. It doesn't, not for this.
If you're weighing what's actually open across Weston's private clubs and gated communities versus what only looks that way from the street, that's the kind of neighborhood detail The Scarberry Group tracks as a matter of course. Reach out if you want the fuller picture of how Weston's individual communities work, whether you're already living in one or just trying to figure out what's behind the next gate over.
