Flounder's Chowder & Ale House

Frommer's Review

Floundering around for a place where you can get fresh fish cooked any way, accompanied by live reggae almost nightly? Then you need to be at Flounder's Chowder & Ale House, on the boardwalk overlooking the Santa Rosa Sound, where you'll find great food for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, or late-night snacks. The best of the offerings include the Maine lobster and the chargrilled tuna, grouper, and mahimahi. If you're lucky, a big smoker grill outside will be producing more fish and exceptional ribs. Burgers, salads, and sandwiches are offered all day. The dining room is cool and not at all what you'd expect from a fish house; its bookshelves, confessional booth walls straight from a New Orleans church, and stained-glass windows imported from a convent, of all places, contribute to a cozy, Nantucket-in-the-winter kind of feel. But when the weather's warm, you'll definitely want to be outdoors.

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