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@Gulfstream -In the 1930s, the spot was originally named "Jackass Crossing," a reference to the burros that ranchers rode to Desert Inn.

As early as 1889, the Desert Inn was a bar room and brothel for cowboys and lumber workers. The Desert Inn also didn't install full-service water and electricity :lol:
 

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So I had to drive down to WPB today and found a place that I thought would fit into this somewhat dead discussion.

My day started out in central Fl.. The early morning drive took me down hwy 27 thru Avon Park and to the south side of Sebring where I picked up hwy 98 to Okeechobee. Once thru Okeechobee I took CR 710 down thru Indiantown and on to WPB.

After my meetings I headed back in the same direction I had come from. During my drive back my stomach started informing me of its need for nourishment.

As you can probably imagine there aren't too many places to eat between West Palm Beach and Okeechobee Florida as the only thing between the two is the city of Indiantown. I remembered all my Drive South of catching a glimpse of an old run-down hotel in Indiantown called the Seminole Inn and catching a glimpse of a chalkboard sign on the sidewalk that said Country Buffet.

After a phone call to a few co-workers of mine who live and work down in this area they assured me that the restaurant did in fact have a buffet, and it was in fact very good I decided to stop in and check it out for myself.

Upon arriving in walking up the steps and into the lobby of the old hotel which by the way still rents rooms you could certainly see the Nostalgia in this place. I wandered into the restaurant area which did in fact have a salad bar and food bar.

The salad bar was filled with fresh cut vegetables and clean Romaine lettuce. the food bars lunch for the day was fried chicken, goulash, zucchini and squash, homemade biscuits,and the famous Seminole Inn peach cobbler.

After indulging myself in too much of everything I spent 10 or 15 minutes walking through the restaurant and the hotel lobby admiring the old photos and paintings on the wall.

Built in 1926 and while not much to look at on the outside, the inside was full of character. In 2006 the location was placed on the National Registry of historic places.

Before you beat me up too much about eating at a place called the Seminole Inn please note there were no FSU affiliations of any kind on display in the hotel or restaurant. ;)

Seminole Inn - Wikipedia
 
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So I had to drive down to WPB today and found a place that I thought would fit into this somewhat dead discussion.

My day started out in central Fl.. The early morning drive took me down hwy 27 thru Avon Park and to the south side of Sebring where I picked up hwy 98 to Okeechobee. Once thru Okeechobee I took CR 710 down thru Indiantown and on to WPB.

After my meetings I headed back in the same direction I had come from. During my drive back my stomach started informing me of its need for nourishment.

As you can probably imagine there aren't too many places to eat between West Palm Beach and Okeechobee Florida as the only thing between the two is the city of Indiantown. I remembered all my Drive South of catching a glimpse of an old run-down hotel in Indiantown called the Seminole Inn and catching a glimpse of a chalkboard sign on the sidewalk that said Country Buffet.

After a phone call to a few co-workers of mine who live and work down in this area they assured me that the restaurant did in fact have a buffet, and it was in fact very good I decided to stop in and check it out for myself.

Upon arriving in walking up the steps and into the lobby of the old hotel which by the way still rents rooms you could certainly see the Nostalgia in this place. I wandered into the restaurant area which did in fact have a salad bar and food bar.

The salad bar was filled with fresh cut vegetables and clean Romaine lettuce. the food bars lunch for the day was fried chicken, goulash, zucchini and squash, homemade biscuits,and the famous Seminole end peach cobbler.

After indulging myself in too much of everything I spent 10 or 15 minutes walking through the restaurant and the hotel lobby admiring the old photos and paintings on the wall.

Built in 1926 and while not much to look at on the outside, the inside was full of character. In 2006 the location was placed on the National Registry of historic places.

Before you beat me up too much about eating at a place called the Seminole Inn please note there were no FSU affiliations of any kind on display in the hotel or restaurant. ;)

Seminole Inn - Wikipedia

I could eat peach cobbler til I popped.
 

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THE Best seafood in St. Augustine is at O'Steens just over the East side of the Lions Bridge. The place ain't much to brag about but you can't get fresher, or better, food unless you catch it yourself.

And Lonnie, the owner, is as good as they come.

I’ll have to check it out. My favorite was Barnacle Bills. But they shut it down a while ago.
 

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I just got a fresh 1/2 gallon of butter pecan im gonna get into after I eat these two porkchops on the grill
 

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Breakfast at Angel's Diner
The Angel's experience is, quite simply, genuine. Breakfast is served all day, and the air is electric with the sounds of waitress-customer banter and short-order cooks dinging a bell when an order is ready. (On days when the cook has a sense of humor, the waitresses ding the bell right back at him.)

Marvin Kimbro, a frequent customer who graduated from Palatka High in 1958 and still stops by to read the morning paper over breakfast at Angel's, says the place has barely changed. "It was the place to gather," Kimbro says. "We'd park cars outside and sit on our hoods."

The menu features down-home, difficult-to-find favorites. Besides the burgers, fried okra, fried green beans, frog legs and hand-breaded onion rings are among the signature dishes. And then there's the "Black Bottom" – a mixture of scrambled eggs, bacon and ground beef, all served on a bun.
Palatka Fla.
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I’ll have to check it out. My favorite was Barnacle Bills. But they shut it down a while ago.

I'm not surprised you liked that place. Barnacle Bill's owner was Chris Way and he, as a kid, worked for Lonni Pomar at O'Steens and learned all the recipes. He left there to open Barnacles. I worked for Chris as a kid before I joined the A.F. and two of my friends did to Chris what Chris did to Lonni as they learned everything at Barnacles and then moved on to open very successful restaurants of their own as "Schooners" on US-1 North in St. Augustine at the city limit line and the other as "Musselwhites" at the South end of the bridge over the St. Johns river in Palatka.

BTW, Chris sold Barnacles to a lady that worked there most of her life and she recently sold it to an Indian that is opening a bunch of Hotels across the street from Ripley's Believe it or Not, so it's gone even though the name is the same and it's been moved to inside one of his Hotels.

P.S. Chris also started the original Dat'l Do It hot sauce recipe and we made that stuff in the kitchen until he sold it. Now they've added mustard, dried powder, t-shirts etc.
 

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I'm not surprised you liked that place. Barnacle Bill's owner was Chris Way and he, as a kid, worked for Lonni Pomar at O'Steens and learned all the recipes. He left there to open Barnacles. I worked for Chris as a kid before I joined the A.F. and two of my friends did to Chris what Chris did to Lonni as they learned everything at Barnacles and then moved on to open very successful restaurants of their own as "Schooners" on US-1 North in St. Augustine at the city limit line and the other as "Musselwhites" at the South end of the bridge over the St. Johns river in Palatka.

BTW, Chris sold Barnacles to a lady that worked there most of her life and she recently sold it to an Indian that is opening a bunch of Hotels across the street from Ripley's Believe it or Not, so it's gone even though the name is the same and it's been moved to inside one of his Hotels.

Yeah – I think I read somewhere that it’s inside of a Holiday Inn now. I don’t know if the quality is still the same though.
 

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Yeah – I think I read somewhere that it’s inside of a Holiday Inn now. I don’t know if the quality is still the same though.

I have not eaten there so I can't say but my gut would say that the food isn't the same. Even though part of the selling transaction included three recipes.

Also, ck out the P.S. I added to my original post.
 

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I have not eaten there so I can't say but my gut would say that the food isn't the same. Even though part of the selling transaction included three recipes.

Also, ck out the P.S. I added to my original post.

The dat’l do it is fantastic. Nothing else I’ve found is even close.
 

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When my daughter was doing the sporting clays/skeet, we took her to a camp down in Palatka a couple of summers and we ate breakfast at this place. Wife and daughter got an omelet that was really good. I got the biscuits and sausage gravy. Really good breakfast fare. Both trips we ate at Corky Bell's. Food was good and there was a guy playing and singing out on the deck that we enjoyed while having a couple of cold ones after our meal.

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The address says "...at Gator Landing." What's not to like about that?
 

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So I had to drive down to WPB today and found a place that I thought would fit into this somewhat dead discussion.

My day started out in central Fl.. The early morning drive took me down hwy 27 thru Avon Park and to the south side of Sebring where I picked up hwy 98 to Okeechobee. Once thru Okeechobee I took CR 710 down thru Indiantown and on to WPB.

After my meetings I headed back in the same direction I had come from. During my drive back my stomach started informing me of its need for nourishment.

As you can probably imagine there aren't too many places to eat between West Palm Beach and Okeechobee Florida as the only thing between the two is the city of Indiantown. I remembered all my Drive South of catching a glimpse of an old run-down hotel in Indiantown called the Seminole Inn and catching a glimpse of a chalkboard sign on the sidewalk that said Country Buffet.

After a phone call to a few co-workers of mine who live and work down in this area they assured me that the restaurant did in fact have a buffet, and it was in fact very good I decided to stop in and check it out for myself.

Upon arriving in walking up the steps and into the lobby of the old hotel which by the way still rents rooms you could certainly see the Nostalgia in this place. I wandered into the restaurant area which did in fact have a salad bar and food bar.

The salad bar was filled with fresh cut vegetables and clean Romaine lettuce. the food bars lunch for the day was fried chicken, goulash, zucchini and squash, homemade biscuits,and the famous Seminole Inn peach cobbler.

After indulging myself in too much of everything I spent 10 or 15 minutes walking through the restaurant and the hotel lobby admiring the old photos and paintings on the wall.

Built in 1926 and while not much to look at on the outside, the inside was full of character. In 2006 the location was placed on the National Registry of historic places.

Before you beat me up too much about eating at a place called the Seminole Inn please note there were no FSU affiliations of any kind on display in the hotel or restaurant. ;)

Seminole Inn - Wikipedia

I know I’ve passed through there and saw that place...got a client in Okeechobee and fly in and out of WPB when going there...might have to check that out next time
 

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Indian Pass Raw bar was always a favorite of mine. Fresh, locally caught seafood from St. Joe bay, Apalachicola bay, and Gulf of Mexico. Great Atmosphere, could even bring your dog as long as the dog's parents were well behaved. Sadly, washed away by hurricane Michael.
 

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Wasn't there one of these in St. Joe as well? Haven't been down that way but once since the storm. Wondering if the St. Joe version is still open?
 

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THE Best seafood in St. Augustine is at O'Steens just over the East side of the Lions Bridge. The place ain't much to brag about but you can't get fresher, or better, food unless you catch it yourself.

And Lonnie, the owner, is as good as they come.

Restaurant we’ve been going to is schooners. Very osteen like without the two hour wait. Located on 1 just before entering the gates of st Augustine
 

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