Letting it Flow

After 8 days of Florida sand beneath my feet it was nice to hear the sound of my own gravel driveway crunch under my tires.  And after 8 hours of cramped driving in my wife’s Honda Civic I felt relief as I stood, unfurled my spine, and let the blood circulate once again through my numb rear end.  But at that very moment, when I yearned to sprawl out on my soft living room carpet and be an ESPN zombie, if my wife had said, “Hon, let’s drive back to Apalachicola and eat at the Seafood Grill”, I’d have responded with a decisive…”Get in.”

I may have even slid across the hood like Bo and Luke Duke.

Few meals are worth a 430 mile drive, but the Coconut Shrimp dinner at Apalachicola’s Seafood Grill may just be one of them.  I waited a full year to get back for those shrimp, and it didn’t take much to persuade my fellow vacationers that we needed two trips to the Grill during this year’s stay on nearby St. George Island.  My in-laws and I made it easy on the waitress…”Coconut Shrimp dinner please” (My wife did branch out and try a burger on the 2nd trip…I negotiated a shrimp for a couple bites…of course it was delicious too.).

But anyway…this post has a question to it, WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANT MEAL? Maybe it’s right down the road, or maybe you’d have to fill up the gas tank, but WHAT MEAL GETS YOU EXCITED JUST THINKING ABOUT IT? Share if you dare (And just for the record, the second best restaurant meal on Earth is the Pesto Pizza at Mama G’s Italian Restaurant in Clayton, GA,…which thankfully for me is a much saner drive of only 27 miles!)

The Seafood Grill (Apalachicola, Florida)...well worth the drive.