Sea Sea Riders Restaurant 221 Main Street, Dunedin. 727.734.1445. SeaSeaRidersDunedin.com


Photo above left: Scallop Ceviche; Roots salad;Tasso Mac ‘N Cheese; Florida Grouper with pecan crust, sweet potato mash and bourbon brown butter. Photo above right: Kelly Rhodes, jazz singer and musician. Photo below right: Soft shell crab sandwich with fried green tomato, arugula and pickled red onion.


Oh, and there’s the great food, prodigious beverages and excel- lent service Sea Sea Riders has become famous for over the last 21 years. With its beautiful new bar and updated menu items made fresh daily, it’s a cozy, yet vibrant venue, accentuated by tasteful live music that complements the atmosphere without dominating it. Music to soothe the savage beast (your dog) so to speak. We pretty much always have to start with at least one-pos- sibly two-rounds of Conch Fritters. Wow! For this review, we also sampled the Scallop Ceviche-mango, chipotle, lime and red onion with tortillo chips; and our server’s recommendation-the Tasso Mac ‘N Cheese-house smoked, white cheddar and corn bread crumble. Suffice it to say, neither survived the attack. With room still left for the main course (of course), there appeared to be both seafood and steak in our future. Ahhh, the pecan crusted Florida Grouper accompanied by sweet potato mash and bourbon brown butter was a teachable moment on how this noble fish should be prepared. And having been down this road before, finding the 1855 New York Strip, my raison d’etrê, was no surprise. Ably complemented by the house SSR steak sauce,


and wedge potatoes the chef flew in from culinary heaven — made this moment seem like that’s exactly where we were. The Roots, a dish featuring roast beet, charred carrot, radish, mixed greens, crushed peanut and bacon buttermilk ranch, simply overwhelmed the senses as visions of key lime pie danced in our heads. In a good, very good in fact, way.


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*Thanks to Chuck Willis for 1957’s C.C. Rider. **Thanks to Lloyd Price for 1959’s Stagger Lee.


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