Leaving for a vacation always prompts me to recall highlights of past trips, and I am going to share a few stories with you over the next two weeks. Today I am going back to June 2002. Our friends were going to be in France, so we decided to meet them […]
Outside the Florida Keys
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Friends were in town from New York recently, and we met them for dinner in the beautiful garden of Cecconi’s Miami Beach. I’ll get back to the dinner in a moment, but let me tell you how refreshing it is that I can make plans with someone three months ago […]
Last week a friend invited me to see Kinky Boots at the Broward Center. My first reaction was “Yes! Absolutely!“, and that was before I learned that there would be a backstage tour and lunch before the matinée performance. The event was sponsored by Funding Arts Broward (FAB!), a non-profit […]
The casual, island feel of Calypso Restaurant and Raw Bar is inviting and warm, but it is the food that keeps me coming back. Over sixteen years ago, when FKGuy started a job in Fort Lauderdale, a friend who worked nearby started listing all the decent places for lunch. There […]
When friends talk about a place with great burgers, I pay attention. In this case, friends had been talking about Gilbert’s for months. We finally tried it this week. Gilbert’s is an order-at-the-counter kind of place, with surprisingly good service. The first thing I noticed upon entering was the glass […]
We spent a whirlwind weekend celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of a friend’s son in suburban Washington, visiting friends, hanging out with family and generally having a good time. Monday morning, FKGuy headed home while I boarded a train for 24 hours in New York. After a balmy 60 degrees, and […]
It was a brisk morning. After a quick breakfast at Inn on the Beach, we were off to check out Fort De Soto park. This 1,100 acre park is an expanse of beaches, fishing piers, hiking trails and bike paths, made up of five interconnected islands. It was the bike […]
Two days before our arrival in St. Pete, I contacted some friends that live in the Tampa Bay area (not actually close to where we were, but whatever…) Imagine my delight when I found out they were free for dinner our first night in town. They drove in to meet us […]
Old Florida. Quiet. Charming. Slow-paced. Carefree. Inn on the Beach is all of these things. Located in the sleepy and beautiful Pass-A-Grille, the inn is an unassuming building at the end of a small street, located directly across the street from the beach. It is the exact opposite of a […]
The extent of my west coast of Florida travel has largely revolved around trips to Bern’s in Tampa, or to visit friends, with some outlet shopping thrown in for good measure. So, when I was offered a complimentary stay at the Inn on the Beach in St. Pete Beach, I gladly […]