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Isan Thai continues to serve terrific Thai feasts for lunch or dinner. They are very busy with delivery and take-out, along with lovely authentic dining rooms.
from Belgium and Green's India Pale
Ale. To complete your ‘get away,’ for
dessert, try the black sticky rice with coconut milk (non-dairy), or mango sticky rice in season.
A true vegetarian delight, their dishes are prepared without the use of animal fats or meats. Only the freshest and finest ingredients are used in their preparation. Open 7 days a week with Lunch Mon-Sat 11:00 to 3:00, Dinner Mon-Thurs 3:00 to 9-ish, Fri-Sat 3:00 to 9:30- ish, Sunday - Dinner menu all day Noon to 9:00pm, www.IsanThaiRestaurant.com.
New to Anna Maria is entrepreneur Angela Albrecht who recently move to the Sunshine State from New Jersey to pursue a mix- ture of new businesses all at one cool location. In the hip, new Pineapple Market Place is where you will find Anna Maria Island Wines along with 30 other vendors offering a variety of neat and unusual goods and products. They are located at 425 Pine Avenue, Anna Maria (941-242-1772). Owners Tara and Marsha have done a wonderful job in building out the property behind the popular Waffle Press and have garnered quite a following in a short time.
Anna Maria Island Wines specializes in fruit-infused wines made with grapes from South America, Chile and France from a wine- maker called Aspirations in Tampa, who makes these fruit-infused wine in stainless steel vats with a lower sulfite percentage, that Floridians seem to love. All are locally made, for example the Tropical Splash, a Riesling base, infused with mango, guava, pineapple and banana while the Cabernet uses blackberry, black currants and cherry, while the Rosé is a strawberry infusion. A very different process and all have been extremely popular with locals and tourists alike at the store. The labels are designed by Angela as well as The Artist Robert Johnson of Anna Maria Island who did the Cabernet and Chardonnay labels.
Also coming here is the Anna Maria Island Cigars with a huge humidor containing over 4,000 cigars from a Cuban grown seed and
For a tasty selection of fruit-infused wines blended with grapes from France,
Chile and South America, Anna Maria Island Wines has it. Plus beer, coffee, teas,
bath products and more!
all will be rolled locally to
ensure freshness. Angela is
purchasing a tobacco planta-
tion in Nicaragua as well.
Wine, cigars, what else here? How about coffee? She is also investing in a coffee plantation in Honduras and in the meantime is working locally with Venice Roasters and they have procured a few blends of coffees to sell. The Beach House Blend is a mix of coffees from Guatemala, Columbia and Brazil that has been very popular. Also featured are a variety of teas from the Orlando Specialty Tea Company.
More? Of course as brews are also available from Florida Beer Co., Florida Avenue Beers, Cigar Brewing and Islamorada Beer, all are local so no beer shortages here! Look for their second location in Ft.Myers as well.
Finally be sure to check out their bath products for women and men, that are locally harvested, with salt from Florida beaches in their Anna Maria Bathtime Lotions that are thick, smooth and luxuri- ous! For the guys they feature Mistral from France in a variety of soaps and colognes along with the popular Duke Cannon line.
Along Cortez Road West is where you will find the unique and very, very popular Cortez Clam Factory at 10104 Cortez Road West, Bradenton (941-798-9898). “The Clam” as it is called by the locals, is a friendly honky-tonk near the historic Cortez Fishing Village. With live music all weekend under the Tiki 5:30-8:30, you can enjoy the great seafood and house smoked barbecue plus other delights. You’ll see why its referred to as a “Five Star Dive Bar.”
Located in the San Remo Shores area, about a mile up the road from Cortez Fishing Village, the Clam Factory draws a fusion of commercial fishermen and suburbanites. With Old Florida ambiance
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