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