Food Vacation food pr0n.

I've posted a few of these in other places on the board, but I wanted to lump everything together in one spot in a public forum for those interested, so please forgive the double posting if you've seen some of these elsewhere. We recently went on vacation to the South Walton County/30A area of Florida, on the Gulf Panhandle. I made it a point to get lots of pics of the places we went to eat to share with my fellow food nerds here.

Feel free to comment, or add pics of your own meals while on vacation or weekend getaways.



My wife's yellow tailed snapper the first night out. Not for the faint of heart!

My bone-in ribeye with crab meat on top. We also had some great bacon wrapped, horseradish stuffed giant shrimp I forgot to get pics of.

Mushroom and spinach side we shared.

A half shrimp/half oyster po' boy, from the next day.


The next night I grilled out:



One of the other nights we went to this outdoor restaurant that had several pools and a cool setting.


They had these private little cabanas where we had drinks and apps.

Those truffle fries were some of the best fries I've ever had. The bacon, crab guacamole was simply awesome.

Dinner seating at the place.

Surf and turf:


A dessert at some point in the week. Yes, it is exactly what it looks like.

Our view for lunch one day. This place was a 2-3 minute walk down the beach, awesome drinks and lunch food, we visited multiple times.

Here are some of the things we got there.



Those scallops in the last picture were some of the biggest, best tasting (sometimes big scallops are chewy or hard to cook properly) I've ever had.
Also, a random set of filet medallions.


There were at least as many other meals that I wished I'd have though to take pics of in time, but at least you get the idea. We had a blast, though I did gain almost 5lbs. :fatnana:
Tonight is beef tenderloin, then back to the real world.
We also polished off an entire bottle of Pappy's last week.

Oh, and a great sign at a hole in the wall pizza joint we visited. :jest:

 

bleu cheese on a burger is awesome love that stuff!

 

That particular burger also had a bottle of Guinness dumped over it and was steamed in it for the last 90 seconds or so. Was a nice fusion with the bleu cheese.

 

maybe you can "pour some for your TFP homies"

 

Good eye! It was garlic.

I apologize that I don't know more about how it was prepared though.

It appeared to be lightly roasted, probably either prior to being cut, or with the cut side up. I only pulled a few cloves out to add to my meal, as it was very strong, though tasty.

 

I'm guessing it was cooked in an oven, fairly low temp, for a long time.


And yes, I do smoking. All the smoking I do is over wood and or lump charcoal (the real stuff, not the briquettes like Kingsford or the like). I've never smoked heads of garlic though. *hmm*

Hah! Get in line.