Eat & Drink

Here is the short answer. The seafood on a South Florida menu is only local if the season says it can be, and most visitors never check. Stone crab claws run October 15 through May 1. Spiny lobster opens August 6 and closes March 31. Hogfish is legal in Atlantic waters only from May 1 through October 31. Learn those three windows and you can read any menu on this coast in about ten seconds. Then go eat: Whale's Rib in Deerfield Beach for the unfussy version, JB's on the Beach

Miami is really a collection of neighborhoods wearing one famous name, and the trip changes completely depending on which ones you pick. This guide covers the neighborhoods that matter, where our guests actually eat, how to do the beach and the water without the headaches, and when to come. Everything here is a place we send our own guests, or a city institution you can verify in thirty seconds. Use it as your home base plan and build the trip around it. Why we wrote this We

West Palm Beach is the rare Florida city where a real downtown, a real waterfront, and real neighborhoods all sit within a ten minute drive of each other. This guide covers where our guests actually eat, the beach access worth knowing, the boat days worth booking in advance, and when to come for the best mix of weather and value. Everything here is a place we send our own guests, or a city institution you can verify in thirty seconds. Use it as your home base plan and build t