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seafood

Organic produce and fresh fish shopping in St. Pete.

March 8, 2010
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Comments are often where the most interesting content is in a blog. I especially enjoy comments which are questions such as a recent one that asked how to find good produce locally. It prompted me to create an answer, which I posted as an answering comment, that summed up my favorite places for local produce. [...]

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Island Seafood Market & Bistro

August 15, 2009
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AMBERJACK PHILLY CHEESE SANDWICH
 
At a recent St. Petersburg community event, I saw a booth for a new fish market near downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. This, I had to know more about. The fish section of Publix isn’t all that bad, really, but nothing beats a small, good fish market with fresh fish. One good one, [...]

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Dockside Dave’s

April 22, 2009

GROUPER FRITTERS AND BLACKENED GROUPER SANDWICH
This is the place I take out-of-town guests to impress them with the quality of local seafood: Dockside Dave’s! It’s in my personal top 10 favorite places to eat in the Tampa Bay area.

PART OF MADEIRA BEACH DOCKSIDE DAVE’S INTERIOR
Why? Well…

the grouper is locally caught
the seafood is as fresh as [...]

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4th Street Shrimp Store

April 8, 2009

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The 4th Street Shrimp Store, which has a first rate website complete with menus and history and photos, is one of those places that’s all dolled up like a tourist trap but isn’t really: it serves pretty good seafood and is crowded with locals at all times. It is a “store,” [...]

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Hook’s Sushi Bar and Thai Food

March 25, 2009

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If you look back over the different Inkwatu food posts, you’ll notice three St. Pete restaurants I’ve covered that have sushi bars:

2009/01/31: BKK Thai Cuisine and Sushi Bar
2008/09/13: The King and I
2008/05/10: Ichiban Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar

Today’s post, Hook’s Sushi Bar and Thai Food, adds a fourth to that list. [...]

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German bread, pastries, and very fresh fish

March 11, 2009

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There are three booths at the St. Petersburg Saturday Morning Market that I didn’t cover in my earlier post about the market. These vendors have become important mainstays of my weekly shopping (the market is open [...]

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BKK Thai Cuisine and Sushi Bar

January 31, 2009

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SPICY LIME GROUPER
One of the most convincing reviews I ever read once was, “Just go!” I’m going to quote that author here regard the BKK Thai Restaurant (5267 Park St. N., Pinellas, Florida 33709; 727-545-1781): “Just go!”
BKK is the designation for the Bangkok airport. The last time I had Thai style [...]

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ABC Chinese Seafood Restaurant

January 10, 2009

SIGN AT ABC SEAFOOD
After having been totally spoiled from my years in Tampa with access to China Yuan, one of the first questions I asked upon moving to St. Pete was, Where’s your most authentic Chinese restaurant. At that time, an extremely authentic St. Pete Chinese restaurant (Lucky Star) was still out of business [...]

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Mid Peninsula Seafood Market and Restaurant

December 12, 2008

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It’s a good sign you’re in for ol’ time Florida fried seafood if your table has paper placemats featuring a map of Florida. That’s the Mid Peninsula Seafood Market and Restaurant (400 49th St. S., St Petersburg, FL 33707; 727-327-8309). Almost all Google reviews agree that fried fish is [...]

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N. E. Taylor Boatworks

October 25, 2008

N. E. Taylor Boatworks
In our last post, “Escape to Tahiti,” we began a theme about escaping from the cares of every day life. We continue that today with a look at the N. E. Taylor Boatworks in Cortez, Florida (4628 119th St. W., Cortez, Florida, 34215; 941-794-2802). This is where the big boats go, boats [...]

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