Coral Gables, Florida, is home to four golf courses, three with 18 holes and one with nine holes. Home to its own museum, the University of Miami and parks on Biscayne Bay, the "City Beautiful" has plenty for non-golfers to do as well. Between Coral Gables and the nearby Miami neighborhood of Coconut Grove, there are many opportunities to enjoy a meal while savoring the view of the water.
Red Fish Grill
This seafood specialist is situated on the edge of Matheson Hammock Park in Coral Gables, overlooking Biscayne Bay. The stone dining room is open for dinner only. Its menu has a wide range of seafood and fish, from the seared tuna and conch fritters as appetizers to the pan fried red snapper and grilled mahi mahi as entrees. Landlubbers take heart, though, because you can choose from guava glazed chicken breast, grilled skirt steak and port braised short ribs.
Red Fish Grill
9610 Old Cutler Road
Coral Gables, FL 33156
(305) 668-8788
redfishgrill.net
Scotty's Landing
This casual, open-air restaurant has seawall docking just feet from its terrace for patrons. It doesn't get much more "waterfront" than this. The large menu features more than 15 appetizers, half of which are seafood, plus an extensive list of please-anyone basics, from salads to sandwiches to grill favorites such as hamburgers. That's not even counting the seafood main courses. There's also a wide selection of beers to wash down your meal, assuming you're not driving the boat. Live entertainment is offered on weekends.
Scotty's Landing
3381 Pan American Drive
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
(305) 854-2626
sailmiami.com/scottys.htm
Chart House Restaurant
The Miami/Coconut Grove outpost of this chain of upscale restaurants is just next to the Coconut Grove Convention Center and down the street from Scotty's Landing. It boasts that it combines local flavors with "a hint of the exotic." In addition to regular appetizers, it has a small raw bar selection. Entrees include dynamite salmon, snapper Hemingway, a seafood mixed grill and several steaks for red meat lovers.
Chart House Restaurant
3371 Pan American Drive
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
(305) 856-9741
chart-house.com/
Monty's Raw Bar
This mid-priced restaurant is heavy on the seafood, with a wide range of offerings from oysters and clams to shrimp, salmon and tilapia. The menu is several pages long, including sandwiches, salads, and pizzas. It boasts that Monty's uses "the freshest stone crabs available anywhere, all year." The drink menu includes numerous beers and wines, as well as "Monty's Famous Pain Remover."
Monty's Raw Bar
2550 South Bayshore Drive
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
(305) 856-3992
montysbayshore.com
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Denise Kelly is the copy editor for a small publisher in Paris, France. Before that she was a copy editor at daily newspapers, starting in graduate school. She has been writing professionally since 1996. She has a Master of Science in journalism and a Bachelor of Arts in political science.
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