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Originally Posted by tophcfa
OK, here’s my restaurant rant. Florida is a freaking peninsula, surrounded on three sides by ocean. Where is the fresh local seafood? I’m not talking about stuff one can get just about anyplace like Salmon, Cod, Haddock, Shrimp, Tuna, or Swordfish. Where is the good seafood, caught in local waters, like Red Snapper, Grouper, Red Fish, Mahi Mahi, Rock Lobster, or Sea Bass? The few seafood places in the bubble (Costal Del Mar, BlueFin, Bonefish) have the usual stuff on the daily menu, and if you’re lucky, they sometimes have one local fish as a special (and they typically run out of it before closing). And why do most places have to fry their very limited seafood selection.
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I grew up going to areas of Florida along the gulf coast where even decent bars would bring in fresh gulf shrimp, snapper and grouper almost daily.
It seems to me like FMK and their competitors here are content to just use whatever they can get from Sysco and Cheney Bros instead of dealing with whatever logistics are required to get an abundance of fresh "local" seafood from another source. It's a very poor sign with all of the delicious fish available in Florida that some places are serving poor quality frozen fish from Asia like Basa or Tilapia to cut down on costs. I would be thrilled if I could go to a restaurant in one of the squares and order fresh bass or catfish caught from Lake Harris, but I doubt that will ever happen.