Any smoking friends near the Clearwater, FL area?

[classicrockgriller]

Gee Whiz monty!

I got hunry 3 times looking at those pics!

Those rock.

[begolf25]

Marc,

Never been here but I have heard some good things about this place. Heard the buffalo chicken dip is money. Not sure how far this is from where you will be staying.

http://www.back9bbq.com/index.php

Bryan

[hal4uk]

Was just looking at this again, and noticed you're going to be there for TWO WEEKS...
If you have a rental car, I have a couple of other places for ya...

First, is Fat Willie's Fish Camp in Valrico (just a little ways East);  Looks like a dump (and it sorta is), but the food is GREAT.
It's an OLD place with a friggin' JUNGLE growing up against one side of it.  If you sit by the windows in the back room, everything is just grown up AGAINST the windows, with all kinds of reptiles gawking at ya...  It has a rusty tin roof --- Now, lots of new "cool" places put on a tin roof and make it rust "for the effect"...  Fat Willie's is just that way.  They have a GIANT live oak in the (gravel) parking lot that shades the whole building AND the parking lot.  If you can't park there, you can park in the grass by the railroad tracks.

Second, if you like Greek food, try Hellas in Tarpon Springs (just a little ways North); the gyros are FANTASTIC.  Tarpon is a Greek community and they have sponge docks there.  Very interesting place if you've never been --- well worth the short drive.

Sea Critters Cafe (that I mentioned before) is just a short drive SOUTH.

[Oldman]

Casual Clam

(727) 895-2526
Northeast St Petersburg
3336 9th St N
St Petersburg, FL 33704
www.casualclam.com

[Smoking Duck]

Thanks all......my hope is that the incredible food will make up for a fat man being in FLA for two weeks.  I hope to gain every pound back that I sweat off while I'm there :-)