Dining

The Phillies Headed to Town for Spring Training

Make no doubt about it – Phillies phans love spring training and they love their annual pilgrimage to Clearwater and Clearwater Beach. Here in Florida, we anxiously follow the Phillies’ Twitter and Facebook accounts. While we know the dates the players will report, the dominoes start to fall as soon as we see photos of…

How Many Different Ways Can You Prepare Grouper?

We took this question to Clearwater Beach area restaurants and this is what we discovered. Many of them offer a blackened grouper option. Each has their own secret herbs and spices that none seemed ready to reveal. Many also offer a jerk version that has nothing to do with repetitive motion or a relative no…

Jazz Holiday and Stone Crabs Converge in 2017

Most years, the opening of stone crab season precedes the annual Clearwater Jazz Holiday. This year is unusual as both events will occur at the same time – the third weekend in October. Both are long-standing traditions. While the jazz festival is no longer free and serves up a line-up of entertainment beyond it’s namesake style,…

Day-Tripping to Tarpon Springs

Just 40 minutes north of Clearwater Beach visitors can discover rich Greek culture and history. At the turn of the last century, Tarpon Springs was considered the largest sponge port in the U.S. Greek immigrants and divers followed and the industry and the community grew. The 1908 Sponge Exchange was the place where sponges were…

All Aboard for a Sunset Dinner Cruise

The Starlite Majesty offers a number of daytime cruises but its evening dinner cruise is by far its most popular. Cruisers will certainly be wowed by their ever-changing view and gorgeous sunset over the Gulf of Mexico. It’s the menu, however, that continues to receive favorable reviews on social media. The mouthwatering food is prepared to-order…

What’s Your Favorite Clearwater Beach Dessert?

We hear it often and we hear it said loudly … key lime pie. Take our quick poll and let us know what you think! [gravityform id=”1″ title=”false” description=”false” action=”polls” style=”green” mode=”poll” show_results_link=”false” display_results=”true” percentages=”true” counts=”true”]