Other restaurants in Florida
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Clark's Fish Camp
Sample Florida's Southern 'Cracker' cuisine of gator, snake, catfish and frog's legs while surrounded by the surreal animal menagerie of 'America's largest private taxidermy collection.' This swamp shack is unforgettable. It's far south of downtown Jacksonville.
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Sprinkles
In this fashionable yet laid-back place, beach bums sit shoulder-to-shoulder with heiresses and enjoy the sandwiches, soups and knock-out gelato.
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Atlas Oyster House
This new and instant favorite – paired, right on a breezy dock, with the slightly more upscale Fish House (mains $15 to $25) – is packed nightly with a range of locals who come for the outdoor seating, live blues and fresh-from-the-sea menu featuring everything from burgers and oysters on the half shell, to gulf shrimp and fish of the day served in a variety of ways, including pecan encrusted. The Fish House is known for its signature dish: World Famous Grits Ya Ya, which serves spicy gulf shrimp, bacon and garlicky veggies over steaming gouda-cheese grits.
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Michy's
- Miami, USA
- Restaurants › Other
Blue-and-white pop decor. Organic, locally sourced ingredients. A stylish, fantastical bar where Alice could drink before painting Wonderland red. Welcome to Michelle 'Michy' Bernstein's culinary lovechild – one of the brightest stars in Miami's culinary constellation. The emphasis is on good food and fun. The 'half plates' concept lets you halve an order and mix up delicious gastronomic fare, such as foie gras on corn cakes, chicken pot pie with wild mushrooms, white almond gazpacho, and blue-cheese croquettes.
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The Oar House
This tucked-away haven, right on Bayou Chico at the edge of a marina, is an alfresco dining spot with tables under a huge palapa roof. Between the sand volleyball court and wispy palmetto trees, you’ll feel like you’re really on holiday – but it’s especially true when you taste the food at this festive spot: seriously fresh oyster baskets, crab cakes, blackened fish sandwiches and fish tacos, paired with sides like black-eyed peas or garlic green beans. It’s a special, friendly kind of place.
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Forté de Asprinio
Launched by wunderkind Stephen Asprinio, a contender on the first season of Top Chef, Forté is a sleek, Jetsons-esque palette of whites and pinks and lavenders featuring a carnival of rotating Italian-ish menu items, ranging from the mostly traditional (butternut squash mezzaluna) to the curiously exotic (pasta with braised rabbit). With its emphatically South Beach vibe – nearly more nightclub than restaurant – it’s almost too cool for Clematis.
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Primanti Brothers
Don’t come here if you’re (a) a prissy eater or (b) only sorta hungry. Primanti serves traditional Italian dishes, but what really makes famished diners salivate is the sandwiches. Served on Italian bread piled high with slaw, cheese, your choice of meat and a mountain of steaming fries, the whole thing’s smashed flat and wrapped in butcher paper. This greasy double-fister is the perfect antidote to the hangover you’re about to start nursing.
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Cap’s on the Water
Overlooking the Matanzas River, the setting sun streaks through an unobscured sky offering the region’s best sunset. Featuring new coastal cuisine (Southern dishes with Asian-European influences) in an Old Florida setting (this former fish camp was built in 1947), this restaurant has three seating areas (inside, waterfront, oyster bar). You’d think that’d be enough, but the wait often exceeds two hours. Arrive early or be prepared to linger.
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Restaurant BT
Tampa’s hottest restaurant is worth the hype. Serving gourmet French-Vietnamese fare in ultrachic environs, everything on the menu is fresh, delicious and authentic. If you like hot, you can’t go wrong ordering hot pepper squid with chili paste and jasmine rice. Reservations are recommended – it’s not unheard of for Floridians to drive five hours north from Miami just to try Chef Trina Nyugan-Batley’s innovative creations.
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The Boathouse
Rated by Naples’ residents as the most romantic spot for sunset cocktails, the Boathouse is an eclectic place right on the water. It has a fabulous deck, a long list of tropical cocktails and an interesting menu that includes elk, buffalo and local seafood. Eat between 4pm and 6pm and you’ll get an entrée, appetizer and dessert for around $15. Singles congregate at the big bar for drinks and sunsets; dress to be seen.
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Bella Bravo
Authentic northern Italian cooking, a 1000-bottle wine list and lots of atmosphere in a building, whose frontage sports bright-orange-and-yellow checkered tiles, all combine to make Bella Bravo a top Tampa eating experience. Whether you’re indulging in thin-crust Roman pizza on the downstairs patio or house-made potato gnocchi on the upstairs balcony, you can bet that your nouveau Italian meal here will be delicious.
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Seasons 52
This sophisticated grill prepares market-fresh, seasonal meals – like sea scallops with roasted asparagus or grilled boneless trout with new potatoes – using natural cooking techniques to provide the best taste and the least guilt. In fact, every nutritionally balanced menu item has no more than 475 calories – including dessert. Plus, they have 140 kinds of wine. Wow.
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S&S Restaurant
- Miami, USA
- Restaurants › Other
Step back into the past at this classic ’40s-style diner (located right across the street from the Miami city cemetery, by the way). It’s popular with cops, has downright sassy service (‘Keep yer shirt on, hon!’) and serves great old-fashioned, comfort-food choices like burgers, meatloaf, and baked macaroni and cheese, plus more adventurous entries like shrimp Creole.
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Tiki Waterfront Sea Grill
Nestled inside the Riviera Beach Marina, this hidden gem is pure Florida. Open-aired, thatch-roofed and right on the water, it has a rowdy but friendly feel and live music Thursday through Sunday. In addition to hearty pre-boat-ride breakfasts on weekends, this divine dive dishes up the best Buffalo shrimp and Baja-styled fish tacos on the east coast.
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Taquerías el Mexicano
- Miami, USA
- Restaurants › Other
This casual, friendly joint serves tasty and authentic Mexican food from enchiladas to chilaquiles – a breakfast dish that consists of tortilla chips simmered in green sauce, mixed with scrambled eggs, and covered with cheese and sour cream, then served with rice and beans. Wash your dinner down with a Mexican beer like Bohemia or Negra Modelo.
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Shula’s
Owned by former Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula, this elegant (if slightly stuffy) steakhouse is a must-visit if you’re a fan of either the Dolphins or steak. Their thing is certified Angus beef, cut thick and seared fast – and they do it impeccably. They also serve seafood, but vegetarians may be wild-eyed at the shortage of options.
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White Lion Cafe
Not just a restaurant but a bit of a social center, as well, the always-lively White Lion Cafe has BBQs, patio parties and karaoke, and the inside is still cute enough to bring your grandmother for lunch. The diverse menu includes a $200 peanut-butter-jelly sandwich served with a complimentary bottle of Dom Perignon.
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Timpano’s
Be sure to bring your tommy gun when you come to this Italian-flavored martini bar and chophouse. With its heavy velvet draperies, starched white tablecloths, oversized chandeliers and swooping, question-mark-shaped bar, you’ll feel like you’re in the mafia when you cut into your dry-aged hand-cut filet or bass aqua pazza.
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Joey’s Brooklyn Pizza Place
Big Apple transplants swear by the pizza at this small downtown restaurant – yep Joey’s knows how to make New York–style pies just right. Dine alfresco under the date-palm trees or grab a take-away pizza to feast on in your hotel room. Joey’s caters to the late-night crowd on weekends. Calzones, pasta and salads are also offered.
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Pizza Girls
Pizza Girls’ huge, innovative pizzas named mostly after the Big Apple (the New Yorker sports portobellos, roasted peppers, spinach, onion and toasted goat cheese) are slices of heaven in earthly downtown West Palm. There are only five tables inside, so order a slice, trot to the Intracoastal and watch the water lap at your feet.
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Jane’s Café on 3rd
Jane’s is popular for its fabulous breezy courtyard dining and reasonably priced sandwiches and wraps stuffed with fresh ingredients – we were addicted to the tuna and avocado wrap. The salad list is long and creative and can be paired with a cup of homemade soup. The breakfast menu features the usual assortment of egg dishes.
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Echo
This ultramodern Asian restaurant, simultaneously slick and inviting, offers dishes grouped according to the five elements: wind (small plates), fire (the wok), water (sushi, seafood, shellfish), earth (meat, game, poultry, produce) and – since the options in this last ‘element’ are, indeed, heavenly – flavor (desserts).
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Dessert Lady Café
Ask Patti Schmidt how she became Orlando’s first and only Dessert Lady and she’ll tell you that it all started with a carrot cake. Now enjoy desserts from fruit cobbler to bourbon pecan pie over coffee or a glass of wine. And if you really must have a meal with your dessert, you can get a piece of quiche. But that’s it.
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Middle East Bakery
In an unassuming little building, Adib Salloum and his gang prepare fresh Moroccan, Lebanese and Mediterranean cuisine. Even if you just come to browse their olive barrels and hummus selection, this place’s warm, spicy aroma will compel you to grab one of their takeout options, like falafel sandwiches or shistawooks.
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Exquisito Restaurant
- Miami, USA
- Restaurants › Other
For cheap coffee, casual atmosphere and home-style food, this place is exquisite (ha ha ha). Order any combination of steak, french fries, sausage, ham, eggs, toast and café con leche (coffee with milk) and you’re not even breaking a fiver. The full desayuno (breakfast) will keep you going all day.
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