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Sunset and Sushi on St. Pete Beach

August 6, 2011

One of our favorite Thai restaurants, Banana Leaf is closing their Pasadena Ave location and has opened the Basil Leaf out on St. Pete Beach. We tried Basil Leaf Friday night. I ordered my usual Tom Ka Gai soup and a spider roll. Suzy also ordered a Tom Ka Gai and a dynamite roll. Both [...]

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Mango Run – A Summer Tradition

July 17, 2010

We made another run to Pine Island today for mangoes. It’s a tradition I started nearly 20 years ago. A new fruit stand has opened for business in a grove I’ve been driving past for years. Instead of wholesaling their mangoes this year they decided to open a retail stand on their property. Today they [...]

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Great Service at Sandy Hook Fish and Rib House

May 26, 2009

By David McRee of BlogTheBeach.com It’s amazing what giving really great service can do for a business. Customer loyalty is the number one benefit. After a long hot day on Cabbage Key and Cayo Costa Island State Park, I was starving. First I stopped at the Lazy Flamingo (one of my favorite restaurants in Bokeelia), [...]

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Peace River Seafood & Crab Shack

April 18, 2009

Five minutes outside of downtown Punta Gorda, a stone’s throw from the Peace River, is a Florida Cracker house that has found new life as a relaxed, informal seafood restaurant. On a huge lot shaded by giant oak trees, Peace River Seafood began in 2003. Owners Jimmy and Kelly Beall have something really great going [...]

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Breakers Restaurant New Smyrna Beach

July 25, 2008

I just spent a couple of days exploring the beaches between New Smyrna and Vero Beach with my old high school buddy Alex Kerr. Don’t get to see him often since he lives on Guam, but he happened to be in Florida for the Coral Reef Symposium and an echinoderm conference at the Florida Technical [...]

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