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| Cuisine | Seafood | ||
| Hours | Daily 5:30pm-midnight | ||
| Address | 2765 NE 28th Court | ||
| Location | Lighthouse Point, Around Town | ||
| Transportation | To get to Cap's Place, motor-launch from I-95, exit at Copan's Rd and go east to US 1 (Federal Hwy). At NE 24th St, turn right and follow the double lines and signs to the Lighthouse Point Yacht Basin and Marina (8 miles north of Fort Lauderdale). From here, follow the CAP'S PLACE sign pointing you to the shuttle | ||
| Reservations | Reservations recommended | ||
| Phone | 954/941-0418 | ||
| Web site | www.capsplace.com | ||
| Prices | Main courses $14-$28 | ||
| Credit Cards | MC, V | ||
Frommer's Review
Opened in 1928 by a bootlegger who ran in the same circles as gangster Meyer Lansky, this barge-turned-restaurant is one of the area's best-kept secrets. Although it's no longer a rum-running restaurant and casino, its illustrious past (FDR and Winston Churchill dined here together) landed it a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. To get here, you have to take a ferryboat, provided by the restaurant. The short ride across the Intracoastal definitely adds to the Cap's Place experience. The food is good, not great. Traditional seafood dishes such as Florida or Maine lobster, clams casino, and oysters Rockefeller will take you back to the days when a soprano was just an opera singer.
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