Today we rode south just a bit and had lunch at the 15th Street Fisheries at Lauderdale Marina. It is an old established eatery located right on the Intracoastal Waterway. They have a website with their menus, check it out. http://www.15streetfisheries.com/index.html
People arrive by boat, personal water craft, and water taxi as well as cars and two wheels. We took a picture of someone’s Kymco scooter, brand new, nice silver one, with a case on the back that had a sticker saying Tow Away US so we think it probably belonged to one of the guys that worked for one of the many towing companies that park at the marina. We saw about a half dozen tow boats hanging around, guess they are waiting for someone to need their services.
Along with great food you can watch the boat traffic on the waterway, admire the mansions and the happenings at the marina.
The restaurant is quite large and has several unique areas. We ate at one of the outdoor patios. It has glass squares in the flooring so one can watch the fish swim under your feet. Pretty neat! And a wide open view of the Intracoastal waterway and the 17th Street Causeway bridge.
There are upstairs dining rooms that are more formal with great views of the Intracoastal. And a downstairs dining room as well as another outside patio dining area on the other side of the restaurant.
We started with an order of oysters on the half shell and have to say that they were some of the best we have had this season. Then we had grilled shrimp and lobster kabobs with small whole mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and pineapple pieces served over rice. Very tasty. Then we could not resist a chocolate torte for dessert. We are sure that we left there several pounds heavier, fortunately our Vespa 150’s had no trouble hauling us home.
Just outside the front entrance is a small fish pond with beautiful Japanese Koi fish. Some of them are quite large and so very colorful. We took a few photos of them.
This weekend we have a nice long 3 days so hopefully we can get some riding in. The weather is not too great in the afternoons so we try to ride in the mornings. Today we were lucky in that we got home right before 4PM and the bottom dropped out with thunder and lightening at 4. Talk about good timing.
5 comments:
Hey that Kymco has my topcase!
Hey Conch,
Evidently you have good taste! We don't have cases yet, but are thinking about adding them. The Vespa cases that are the same color as our scooters are so expensive that we have not felt the urge to splurge.
You're starting to worry me. That part about "starting out with oysters on the half shell" along with the pictures of luxury has me thinking you're getting pretty high class. You'll soon not be wanting scruffy riders like me hanging about!
If a person were to motor up to the restaurant in a boat, are there "boathops" to serve them? :)
Could you drop ship a couple of them Kabobs for me? My mouth is watering just thinking about it! It's been fun catching up on your blog.
Hey irondad, The oysters were actually pretty cheap! And yes there are "boathops" to help people dock their boats and get out and then again when they leave. Don't think they are called "boathops" but we like that title.
kano, We are sooooooo happy you are back.
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