The Floridian
As hard as it is to find a native Floridian, it's even harder to find a restaurant that's wholly devoted to the cuisine and ingredients of the state. Enter the appropriately named The Floridian, which takes its moniker very seriously, right down to using purveyors that source from northeast and north-central Florida. Menus are seasonal and change often so a dinner might include small plates of rice flour dusted local shrimp served with miso tomato aioli and drizzled with house Datil jam or maybe the house will be serving the Florida Sunshine Salad, with your choice of blackened protein served over mixed greens with Florida strawberries, roasted sweet potatoes, candied pecans, house pickled beets, local honey, and Sweet Grass Dairy’s Asher blue cheese. Entrees include the Not Your Mama’s Meatloaf Sandwich: Florida-grown, all-natural beef, baked with sweet onions, topped with spicy Datil ketchup and served on Jax Bread Co. ciabatta. You can also go full southern and add pimento cheese. Local and regional organic craft beers and biodynamic wines are also on the menu. And you gotta love the kooky, Floridian country-style décor, which is both rustic and kind of nuts, complete with a canoe hanging upside down from the ceiling. The no-reservations policy makes The Floridian even more of a hot ticket, but if you call in advance you may be able to snag what they call "priority seating.”
As hard as it is to find a native Floridian, it's even harder to find a restaurant that's wholly devoted to the cuisine and ingredients of the state. Enter the appropriately named The Floridian, which takes its moniker very seriously, right down to using purveyors that source from northeast and north-central Florida. Menus are seasonal and change often so a dinner might include small plates of rice flour dusted local shrimp served with miso tomato aioli and drizzled with house Datil jam or maybe the house will be serving the Florida Sunshine Salad, with your choice of blackened protein served over mixed greens with Florida strawberries, roasted sweet potatoes, candied pecans, house pickled beets, local honey, and Sweet Grass Dairy’s Asher blue cheese. Entrees include the Not Your Mama’s Meatloaf Sandwich: Florida-grown, all-natural beef, baked with sweet onions, topped with spicy Datil ketchup and served on Jax Bread Co. ciabatta. You can also go full southern and add pimento cheese. Local and regional organic craft beers and biodynamic wines are also on the menu. And you gotta love the kooky, Floridian country-style décor, which is both rustic and kind of nuts, complete with a canoe hanging upside down from the ceiling. The no-reservations policy makes The Floridian even more of a hot ticket, but if you call in advance you may be able to snag what they call "priority seating.”
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