Longboat Key, Florida
I am here to state
Judy Garland
I’m here to relate
To explain
and make it plain:
I`m just wild about Harry…
Harry’s Continental Kitchen‘s opened on Longboat Key in 1978 and numerous customers must agree because Harry’s remains a wildly popular eatery. The restaurant corner buzzes as a beehive of activity with local residents, returning snowbirds and visitors to the Sarasota area.
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The moment you drive up to this little diner you know the place is special. First of all, their parking lot stays full, always a sign of good food. And the diner’s exterior, a hodge-podge of signs, slogans and placards, grabs your attention and pulls you in.
The 17 stool lunch counter grill was opened in 1974 making it the oldest diner on highway 72 in Corinth, Mississippi. Abe and Terri Whitfield are the worker-bee owners and operators of the establishment. Just enter and Abe will fly over and make you feel part of the hive.
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La Fonda on the Plaza sits at the corner of the Old Santa Fe Trail and East San Francisco Street in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The location is one of the oldest hotel corners in the United States hosting an inn or fonda for more than 400 years. In the past cowboys came to water their horses in the fountain, Russian spies supposedly lurked the grounds during the days of the Manhattan Project bomb development, and guests have always mingled with locals at La Fonda’s bar. The hotel’s signature restaurant, La Plazuela, is “the gathering place” in Santa Fe and I decided to make a visit.
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