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Winter 2021 Florida's #1 Visitors Guide DESTINATIOlNTM FLORIDA Palettes in Paradise The Art of Living Key West in the Keys Food & Wine Festival + Tons of Other Events & Activities What’s On the Menu? Your Guide to the Key’s Top Restaurants FLORIDA KEYS & KEY WEST SunsetSunset JustJust GotGot UpgradedUpgraded DAY SAILS · SUNSET SAILS · PRIVATE CHARTERS · SPECIAL EVENTS LOCATED IN 305-293-7245 HISTORIC KEY WEST BIGHT WWW.SAIL-KEYWEST.COM Nothing Can Top It WINE TASTING TIPS 12th Annual Key West Food & Wine Festival See: First, look at the wine. Is it clear or opaque? What sort of hue does it have? Does it have amed one of the chef collaborations; to any sediment? All of these things 10 Best Food local funky events that are can tell you more about the wine. Nand Wine uniquely Key West. Swirl: Then swirl your glass Festivals in the country, the Some of our favorite gently. This will help awaken some Key West Food & Wine standout happenings of the aromas of the wine. Festival roars onto the include the indulgent Sniff: Once you’ve swirled your glass, smell the wine. What kind island on Wednesday, “Grand Tasting” on of aromas can you pick up? Any January 27 and lights up Thursday, January 28 where fruits, florals or herbal notes? Does the town through Sunday, you can taste over fifty it smell like it was aged in oak? January 31. specially selected wines on Sip: Start with a small sip of The festival attracts thousands of the beach; “The Absinthe of Ernest” a the wine. Let it coat your tongue culinary explorers from around the brand new event on Friday, January 29 and palate (don’t swish it like country who descend on the tropical that revolves around the sampling of five mouthwash!). This can help you island to escape the winter and delight distinctive Absinthes; and the Original pick up on some more nuanced their senses. Shrimp Boil on Saturday, January 30 at flavors of the wine. Now in its twelfth year, our own Matt’s Stock Island Kitchen & Bar. Savor: When you’ve got a home-grown culinary arts celebration Of course the list of fun things to do good taste, savor the wine. You includes over thirty fun and delectable goes on and on. can either swallow or spit. Ask events: from extravagant waterfront For complete details and how long the wine lingers on your tastings during the famous Key West late - breaking news, go to palate. This is the finish. sunset; to intoxicating winemaker and keywestfoodandwinefestival.com. 4 DESTINATION FLORIDA Florida Keys & Key West WINTER 2021 5 10-15 Arts Scene 33-42 Xplore 43-62 Good Eats DESTINATIOlNTM FLORIDA what’s inside... Florida Keys & Key West Publishers 4 Flip Flops Required 38 Fly Like Iron Man Karen L. Davis/Pamela Childs Key West Food & Wine Festival High - Octane Fun At Barefoot Billy’s Comptroller 8 - 9 Top Picks 41 High Seas Romance in Key West Karen Davis The Best of the Florida Keys & Key West Classic Harbor Line Takes You There Marketing/Creative Director 11 - 15 Arts Scene 43 - 62 Good Eats Pamela Childs Gallerie s & Museums you won’t want to Cool spots to eat, drink and party miss Art Director/Brand Manager 46 The Pulse of Islamorada Marsha Michaels 14 Walk this Way Lorelei Restaurant & Cabana Bar Gallery Walks & Openings Account Manager Key West 54 Bite Peter Arnow 15 It’s a Stock Island Happening Ziggie’s Honey Grilled Chicken Recipe Collections Key West Adventure Contributor 55 Elegant Bite Size Pieces of Art Mayor Gonzo Mays 16 - 17 Time Travel Cupcake Sushi Museums that Fascinate Photographer At Large 58 Signature Recipes and Noteworthy Peter Arnow 18 - 19 Footlights Restaurants Here’s What’s Happening On Stage New KEYS EATS Cookbook Webmaster Lance Belew 20 - 32 What’s Up 60-62 What’s On The Menu? Happenings from Key West to Key Largo Sample menus from the Keys’ top restaurants PUBLISHED QUARTERLY 22 All I Want for Christmas… P.O. Box 1233, Key West, FL 33041 Key West Holiday Fest 63 - 66 Shop Where to discover lots of great finds Online Edition @ 24 Behind the Hidden Door 61st Annual Key West Home Tour 64 Hello Gorgeous! destinationfloridakeys.com Zero Dress Code facebook.com/destinationfloridakeys 28 Bring a Big Appetite! Original Marathon Seafood Festival 67 - 69 Nest twittter.com/destinationkeys Scope out your own home in paradise destinationflorida.com 33 - 42 Xplore Top attractions around the Keys 70 - 72 Sleep Tight To become a Marketing Partner Recommended Lodging Properties 35 Close Encounters of the Cool Kind or to order complimentary copies Fins Are Optional At Aquarium Encounters 73 - 74 Getting Around for your lodging property, please Local area maps contact us at 305-849-3482 36 Hoist the Sails! Key West’s Wrecker Race Series [email protected] ABOUT THE COVER With three Pulitzer Prizes to his credit, the late Jeff MacNelly is arguably the world’s greatest 119 Trees Planted This Issue editorial cartoonist and the most critically acclaimed of the 20th Century. One of Key West’s most famous snow birds, MacNelly’s political cartoons were frequently reprinted in Newsweek Member of the Lodging Association of the Florida Keys and the Magazine and the Sunday New York Times and also syndicated in thousands of newspapers official in-room visitors guide for the Keys top lodging properties. around the world. DESTINATION Florida is privileged to feature MacNelly’s work on our winter Additional distribution at high traffic areas throughout Monroe County including: Key West Chamber Of Commerce, cover. You can see an exclusive collection of his fine art reproductions, original canvases, pen Key West Business Guild, Marathon Chamber Of Commerce, & inks, sculptures and Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoons at Key West’s acclaimed Gallery Islamorada Chamber Of Commerce, Key Largo Visitor Center. On Greene, 606 Greene St. Info: 305-294-1669; galleryongreene.com. Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Special thanks to Key West’s Gallery On Greene 6 DESTINATION FLORIDA Florida Keys & Key West TOP PICKS BEST PORTERHOUSE STEAK Ziggie & Mad Dog’s BEST Wedding Cake - Not! Truth be told, you can’t go wrong with anything Cupcake Sushi Let’s face it, coming up with innovative wedding ideas is no easy task, especially when it comes to the cake. So when we on the menu of this legendary discovered Lori Shubert’s “Cupcake Sushi” in Key West, we knew that we had stumbled upon something really special. With options Keys’ landmark because all the food here is like salted caramel, red velvet and key lime, these elegant bite size pieces of art are deliciously creative and are unlike anything truly world class. Steak lovers will revel in the we’ve ever seen. Lori and her team can roll the cupcakes on location, create a custom centerpiece for your reception, or have an tender 12 oz. Center Cut Filet, tasty 16 oz. New assortment of your favorite flavors dropped off. If you really want to “wow” your guests, Cupcake Sushi is the frosting on the cake. York Strip and full flavored 21 oz. Bone-In Rib Find it at 1114 Truman Avenue in Key West or hit them up at cupcakesushi.com. Info: 774-627-8703. Eye, but it’s the 28 oz. “Czonka” Porterhouse that is totally over the top. Team one up with a linebacker-size baked potato and you’ve got yourself a winning combination. Find it at BEST HAPPY HOUR & BEST REGIONAL ART BEST SUSHI MM 83 Bayside, Islamorada. 305-664-3391; Ambrosia TAPAS COLLECTION Chef/Owner Masa and wife Noriko are ziggieandmaddogs.com. Tavern N’ Town The Gallery On Greene making waves at Key West’s hip, vintage Santa No one personifies the Key West art Maria Hotel where their edgy Japanese BEST LOBSTER BLT BEST ISLAND CHIC This favorite local hang scene more than Nance Frank, Gallery restaurant and sushi bar is renowned for its Key Largo Fisheries has not one, but two, Snook’s Bayside Director at Gallery On Greene in Key authentic, artfully crafted plates including terrific daily Happy Until recently, we always thought there Hidden away at the end of a private lane, West’s Historic Seaport. Her meticulously Masa’s premium bluefin tuna creations and Hours with generous was nothing like a great Maine lobster just off US 1, this chandeliered Grand Tiki curated collection of authentic, historic and other full-flavored dishes like the Spicy Seafood 2 - for - 1 libations from roll. Of course that was before we with its flickering torches, lush plantings and museum-quality regional art is an absolute Carpaccio with fresh jalapeño, sweet onion and 5 - 7pm and again from 9 - discovered the Lobster BLT at the “Take BEST KEYS SUNSET SOBE-style sofa lounges is oh-so-chic! A visual delight. Here you’ll find Pulitzer Prize Yuzu pepper paste. Tradition and innovation 11pm. The early Happy Hour Away Cafe” on the docks behind Key CELEBRATION gorgeous, open-air dining area, sprawling winners like political cartoonists Jeff MacNelly, collide with all kinds of intriguing signature also features a revolving lineup of Largo Fisheries. Perfectly cooked, firm- 5,000 square foot patio and multiple bars all Mike Peters and Tony Auth; poet/writer/visual rolls and Japanese specialties. Find it at 1401 Lor-e-lei Restaurant & top notch entertainment that draws a tender lobster (not fried - Sacre Bleu!) have unobstructed views of the Bay, giving artist, Annie Dillard; and photographer David Simonton St, Key West. 305-293-0304; Cabana Bar big local crowd. But what really hits is generously heaped on a buttery you a ringside seat to one of the best sunset Hume Kennerly.