FIND OLD FLORIDA IN CEDAR KEY
The long drive, fresh
air and rustic setting lends itself to a powerful hunger.
Tony’s Seafood
Restaurant, in a restored brick building at the entrance to town in the Second
Street Historic District, sates all appetites with lunch specials.
The grouper
sandwich is huge, fresh and nicely blackened and on the dinner menu, a low
country boil of shellfish, finfish, potatoes and corn on the cob make for an
impressive Gulfside version of a classic New England lobster boil.
Speaking of New England,
neither of us care for creamy, colorless New England Style clam chowder. Tony’s
is famous for New England chowder, and we were skeptical.
Thankfully, Tony’s
award-winning version is a symphony of flavor.
They won’t reveal the secret
recipe, but there’s something in it that gives the bowl a pinkish hue and can
convert an anti-chowder person into a fan in about three spoonfuls.
Tony's is in an old,
historic building. But it has two accessible entrances and the wait staff is
outstanding about subtly clearing a path of maneuverability to a prime table.
STORY CONTINUES TOMORROW -- APRIL 5
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