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mrabinow

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  1. Actually, the Island Way Grill seems like it has a pretty spectacular wine list.
  2. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound rude. I was hoping for some unique type of place which one would have to try when in Clearwater. While the restaurants sound good, they seem like typical seafood restaurants that you can find in a lot of places along the two coasts. Please let me know if I am wrong about this assumption. My guess is that there are no must-go type of restaurant in Clearwater. Amazing chef, creative dishes, unusual ingredients, etc...
  3. This does not sound good at all!!!!
  4. What type of restaurant are you looking for. Innovative high end, good seafood cooked correctly, beachy with good sunsets and your feet in the sand or casual dinning that's decent,? Give me a little more to go on. Grew up in Clearwater and live in Dunedin, just north of Clearwater. edited to add, how far are you willing to drive and where are you staying? ← Sorry, I was away. I am going to be down there for a conference. People from the conference always go out together and there are dinners arranged at local restaurants. The restaurants that are chosen are usually okay in that they need to satisfy a wide variety of people. I have been assigned to try and find a restaurant for foodies. The unusual place - maybe a bit more creative, expensive, one that has a good wine list, etc... so I guess innovative high end or maybe excellent seafood cooked correctly... Also, staying at Sheraton Sand Key Resort - don't know about cars yet... Thanks for your advice.
  5. Thanks. I appreciate it. Still, now 91 viewings and no recs.... interesting.
  6. This is a BAD sign.... 46 viewings and not 1 recommendation.
  7. Are there any restaurants in Clearwater that are especially worth checking out? Thanks in advance.
  8. Thank you - I'll check them out. Do they have good wine lists?
  9. Did a quick search of the forum and didn't find anything that really helped. What are the top, most interesting restaurants in the area? Do any of these restaurants have good wine lists with REASONABLY priced wines? It seems like San Antonio is a culinary desert. Please prove me wrong. Thanks in advance.
  10. Thanks Jamie. Do you know if August is hurricane season?
  11. I'm not sure that this is the correct forum but... My wife and I are thinking of going to Bermuda (sans kids) in the off-season (August). Our goal is to relax and sit on the beach and eat good food and drink good wine - no excessive exercise on this one. We have never been there before so we are looking for lodging and eating recs. We are looking for a place that we can relax - good service - not too noisy (e.g., not a lot of kids) etc. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.
  12. OK - I went to the following restuarants so far Sole Proprietor - fantastic tuna... Really enjoyed it. I wish they had a more extensive red wine list but I understand why they don't. 111 Chop House - very good. We enjoyed it also. Sonoma - We enjoyed the food but were taken back by the decor and atmosphere. Seemed very out-of-date to us. Also, more expensive but not better than the others.
  13. Thanks for your response. I certainly didn't get the impression from your description but rather from their website. Actually, Friends Lake Inn used to have that policy also. A number of years ago, before the owners had kids they explicilty said no children allowed to stay overnight at the inn. This did not apply to the restaurant however and I assume that the same applies in this situation. However, I had the feeling that Friends Lake Inn got the message across in a nicer way.
  14. My point is really not kids vs. no kids. Rather, it is about the ability of a really good restaurant to make a person feel confortable regardless of whether you are the type of person they would prefer to serve. I have seen Jean George's kitchen adopt their menu for kids; the same at Gramercy Tavern. This relates to the discussion that was had earlier about what makes a 4 star restaurant where most people seem to think that service was part of the rating. My point is that if the restaurant makes this point up front then it lacks the ability that really good restaurants have of making people feel at home and comfortable.
  15. I personally have a problem with this establishment. I say this even though I haven't visited it or tasted the food or experienced the environment. I am about to make a drive from NYC to Montreal and saw this thread. I thought that this might be a nice stopping off point for dinner and so I went and checked out their website. On their website I found: The Inn is not appropriate for children Outside visitors are discouraged from entering any guest room Now, I am not advocating bringing children to fine restaurants and I have been personally given a tee-shirt with the Mae West sayig "Any man you loves whiskey and hates children can't be all that bad" (or something like that - I'm writing this @ 2 in the morning), but I think that great restaurants are ones that can make people (adults and children) feel confortable. I know that I have brought my children to a number of the best restaurants in NYC and they have been made to feel more than welcome (and they have not bothered the other guests in the restaurant). I really question evaluating a restaurant solely on the basis of the quality of the food. An additional feature is how comfortable you feel in the restaurant. I would wonder about any restaurant or inn that feels the need to specify that children are not welcome. The really good ones don't seem to have this problem. It sounds extremely stuffy to me. I'm not sure that I would feel confortable there with or without children.
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