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By FL Keys Girl, on August 30th, 2010%
 Over the weekend, we went to Tampa to visit some friends and celebrate her 40th birthday, or as she likes to put it: the first anniversary of her 39th birthday. Friday evening was at Sidebern’s, the “creative” restaurant owned by the same people as Bern’s, the steakhouse.
The food was good, including the heirloom tomato salad, the gnocchi, which were tiny little fluffy pillows; our friends had both the foie gras and “chicken fried” sweetbreads. The food, however, was secondary to the wines. Continue reading The Big Four-Oh
By FL Keys Girl, on August 27th, 2010%
 Wine dinner does not adequately describe Saturday night. Yes, there was dinner. Yes, there was wine – and a lot of it. But mostly, there were good friends and a whole lot of laughs. Of course, it never hurts to have a vertical of Grange to keep things fun.
Florida Keys Guy and I arrived several hours early to help prepare for the festivities. Continue reading The Hosts with The Mosts: Wine Extravaganza
By FL Keys Girl, on August 25th, 2010%
 Imagine relaxing on a cool, breezy day, palm trees swaying, sitting in the shade with a view of the beach and a cocktail in hand. OK, it felt like it was 200 degrees outside and I was drinking iced tea, but you get the idea. Like many other businesses in Key West, everyone thinks they are the Southernmost something-or-other. For the Southernmost Beach Cafe, the name is accurate at least for the moment – they are the cafe that is furthest south on the actual beach.
It is a typical on-the-sand type of place in that the lunch menu consists of mainly salads, sandwiches, burgers and big, fruity cocktails. Continue reading Restaurant Review: Southernmost Beach Cafe
By FL Keys Girl, on August 23rd, 2010%
 With the opening of new wine bars faster than you can say “Cabernet” I have been on a quest to try them all. So, we went to try Grand Vin. I had not been there in a very long time. When I walked in, the overwhelming stench of stale smoke embedded in the walls and carpet reminded me why. The wine store part of the place had nothing I would be inspired to buy, yet there were three large Vinotemps, each with signs that said “Ask us for a list of the stuff that is in here”. We strolled over to the bar area and perused what was on offer. None of the wines on the limited list were of interest to me. During the entire time we were there nobody could be bothered to acknowledge our presence. I guess they thought we were tourists who would never come back. Well, they were half right. Continue reading More Key West Wine Bars: The Good and The Dreadful
By FL Keys Girl, on August 21st, 2010%
Good morning! This is just a note to let you know that I have given you yet one more distraction from work during the week. I will continue to post three times per week, at least, but they will be on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays.
So if you need a little extra break, just pop over here . . . → Read More: New Posting Schedule
By FL Keys Girl, on August 19th, 2010%
When people come to visit us – which is generally every weekend in the winter, and only slightly less frequently in the summer - they often ask what they should do while they are here. I have pointed out the Hemingway House at least 100 times on a map, yet have never gone. Until today. Continue reading Things to Do in Key West: The Hemingway House
By FL Keys Girl, on August 17th, 2010%
 I was called out on my post last week on The Porch for it not actually being the newest wine bar in Key West. In fact, at the time of posting, it was the newest wine bar, but that was last week.
This week, the newest wine bar is d’Vine, at The Gardens Hotel. The gimmick is the Enomatic machines “First in the Keys” announced the grand opening flyer. But will it live past the gimmick? Continue reading d’Vine: The Wine Bar
By FL Keys Girl, on August 14th, 2010%
 Key West has a lot to offer. But sometimes, especially in the summer, you just want to be in air conditioning. The Eco-Discovery Center, located through the Truman Annex gate on the way to Fort Zachary Taylor beach, is the perfect way to spend some time on a hot afternoon, before or after the beach. It is free, air conditioned and has parking, which are all things that are sometimes hard to come by in Key West. Not only that, but the bathrooms are clean, too. Continue reading Key West’s Best Kept Secret
By FL Keys Girl, on August 12th, 2010%
 On the one hand, I am kind of horrified by a business hosting what is essentially a fundraiser in order to open. On the other hand, this is Key West, and it is a community of people that support each other, so rock on. Details of the Buy Your Own Barstool pre-opening dinner can be found here.
You have to know about The Porch because, at least when we were there, a sign was nowhere to be seen. Continue reading The Porch: Key West’s Newest Bar
By FL Keys Girl, on August 10th, 2010%
By now you should have a pretty good idea of the perfect places to pee while heading southbound on the Overseas Highway. Have you found some favorites of your own? Some places that don’t make the cut? Leave a comment and let me know, I’d like to add them to my list.
In the interest of oversharing, you should know that I make a point to pee before I leave the house. I will assume you do too, and thus will save the Best Places to Pee in Key West for another day.
Heading northbound, which I generally do very early in the morning, I try to time the bathroom breaks with the places that have decent coffee and/or breakfast, so the bathroom ratings may be slightly skewed.
Normally I can make it at least until Islamorada before needing a break, but every once in a while I need to stop in Marathon. I stop at the McDonald’s. It is on the right side of the road, open early and they have coffee. Bad coffee, but coffee nonetheless. The bathrooms are usually clean in the pre-dawn hours, but as it is up a flight of stairs and the coffee sucks, they get a Bathroom Convenience Ratio (BCR) rating of 6.
In Islamorada there are many choices. Continue reading The BCR: Bathroom Convenience Ratio – Northbound Edition
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Over the weekend, we went to Tampa to visit some friends and celebrate her 40th birthday, or as she likes to put it: the first anniversary of her 39th birthday. Friday evening was at Sidebern’s, the “creative” restaurant owned by the same people as Bern’s, the steakhouse.
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