Restaurants and pigs.

One of the nice things about boating, is experiencing new towns, and what each has to offer.  We seem to concentrate in the food arena (pigs).  A sample:

• Mosaics-Sarasota.  Middle Eastern fare.  Great fish, mussels, lamb and duck.
• Marina Jack, upstairs Sarasota.  Dynamite view of Sarasota Bay, and great seafood (excellent crab cakes) and steaks.
• Tryst-St Pete.  As the name suggests, a trendy place with buff wait persons, and good food.  I had a great burger, with bacon...  Al fresco dining with a view of Tampa Bay.
• Parkshore Grill-St Pete.  Upscale with great seafood and steaks.  Also al fresco dining (we were run inside by not one, but four waterspouts)!  We had dessert at the bar inside, an apple cobbler to die for.  Superb wine list also. The wait staff were mainly college kids, and very fun.   
• Portafino Ristorante.  This is the restaurant at our marina on Longboat Key.  Great Italian fare, with homemade pizzas to boot.  I had the halibut, which was excellent.  Alexis had the mussels also good. 
• Tonight we are going to Pattigeorge, a local favorite here on Longboat.  John and Terry Spang, the loopers we met in St Pete, are at Longboat Marina for a few days, and we are joining them tonight to swap boat stories. 

So don't worry about us, we are not going to starve.  Perhaps go broke.....