Other restaurants in Florida
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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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Campiello
Campiello is one of Naples’ most popular Italian restaurants. Not only does it have a lively alfresco bar scene and patio seating, it also serves delicious food. The lunch menu features a lot of salads and sandwiches not offered at dinner, as well as pasta entrées for less than they cost come evening. At dinner, the menu features lots of spit-roasted meat and fish along with pasta staples. People on a budget who are looking to experience Campiello’s fantastic ambience but can’t afford to shell out $42 for a steak, should try one of the single-serving wood-oven pizzas. Priced at $14 or less per pie, they are excellent value for this caliber of restaurant. There is often li…
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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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Dandelion Communitea Café
Unabashedly crunchy and definitively organic, this groovin’ hotspot of the ‘sprouts and tofu, green tea and soy milk’ variety serves up creative vegetarian fare with vibe that invites you to sit down and hang out. The focus is on Florida-grown produce, and it is 100% green. If it all sounds too healthy, try a Fluffer Nutter (wheat bread with almond butter, bananas and ricemallow fluff), its nod to junk food. Call about art openings, poetry readings and music. Co-owner Chris Blank runs the Enzian, Orlando’s only indie theater.
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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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Marina Jack’s Restaurant
There are great panoramic views of the marina, downtown and Sarasota Bay at nearly every table here, thanks to theater-style seating and a location at the tip of Island Park. The restaurant is divided in half – one side is an alfresco raw bar with covered patio seating, the other is an indoor dining room. The menu features lots of seafood, including Caribbean lobster tail (the house specialty), and chicken and steak staples. It has long been one of the top restaurants in the city.
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Taverna Opa
The waitstaff at this high-ceilinged Greek eatery crush up fresh hummus table-side and serve it with warm pita rather than just plopping down a basket of bread. While it can get kind of crazy at night, when the belly dancer shimmers and shakes from table to table and it isn’t unusual for folks to climb onto those solid tables and kick up their heels, the rest of the time it’s a pleasant, simple place for solid and tasty Greek classics, including plenty of vegetarian options.
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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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Rustic Inn
Don’t wear your Sunday best here – or bring a date you want to whisper sweet nothings to. Hungry locals at this messy, noisy crabhouse use wooden mallets at long, newspaper-covered tables to get at the good stuff served here. The house specialty is crabs – choose from Dungeness, blue or golden – drenched in garlic and a secret family recipe (think: butter). Not in a crabby mood? This hearty, happy family-style restaurant has schools of seafood and pasta options.
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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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Casa Tua
- Miami, USA
- Restaurants › Other
Casa Tua is way too cool to have a sign out front. You’ll know it by the oh-so-fabulous crowd streaming in, the hovering limos out front and what you can see of the beautiful building itself (much of it’s hidden behind a high hedgerow). If you manage to get a table in the magnificent, 1925 Mediterranean-style villa, you can linger over high-priced (but very delicious) lamb chops, steaks and pastas, in one of several classy and gentlemanly quarters.
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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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Ophelia’s on the Bay
Sarasota’s winner for most romantic restaurant in town, Ophelia is perfectly situated on the southern tip of Siesta Key, overlooking a sweep of sparkling water and mangrove trees. Dine outside on a dockside patio, and savor the scent of the perfumed gardens around you. The food is as delicious as the surroundings. Ophelia’s serves world-flavor-influenced haute couture North American cuisine, and has a lengthy wine and bubbly list.
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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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Collage
Inside the terracotta walls of this alluring place you’re transported far from St Augustine’s tourist commotion. The head chef, 24-year-old Melody, is a wizard in the kitchen, working her magic over (mainly) seafood and steaks. There’s a carefully assembled wine list and each course is separated by a homemade tropical sorbet as a palate cleanser. The wait staff can be a bit hovery, but service is impeccable.
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Hemmingway’s
Perched above the Hyatt’s resort pool, Hemmingway’s serves up crab cakes with big chunks of lump crab and very little filler, some of the best in Florida. Pare them with a salad and a glass of wine for a perfect little meal. Simple seafood dishes are clean, absolutely fresh and delicious. Ask to sit on the screened-in porch, nestled among the greenery and watched over by a bronze Buddha.
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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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Patrick’s
For all-American diner grub, you can’t beat Patrick’s. There are sports on the TV, super-sized burgers, sizzling steaks and potatoes cooked in all manner of styles. The atmosphere is just the right mix of low-key and downtown swank, the kind of spot where Sarasota’s suit set comes after work for dirty martinis and networking. Patrick’s stays open late.
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Tiki Waterfront 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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Aroma Coffee & Wine Bar
A neighborhood coffee shop and tiny wine-bar, this former house is a hangout for Thornton Park locals. There’s a limited menu, with tasty toasted bread with prosciutto and cheese, mascarpone and jam croissants, pastries and egg sandwiches for breakfast and Italian-influenced salads, appetizers and toasted sandwiches for lunch and dinner.
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