Because regional cuisine in so important to the life of regional cookbooks I want to continue my features on Florida restaurants that my family enjoyed on vacation. The entire area around Destin is chock-full of great seafood and most are good at buying fresh seafood from the locals and featuring it on their menus.
This year, as is custom, we had one night at Cuvee Bistro which I posted recently. Another Kempf family tradition is a meal at
Stinky's Fish Camp. Now most are probably reading this and saying, "no one would name a restaurant Stinky's". However that is exactly what Jim Richard did.
I have gotten to know Jim a little over the past few years and I describe him laughingly as a "left over Hippie Cajun". Jim is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet and totally ego free. With Jim, what you see is what you get and boy can he prepare seafood.
Jim's specialty is a meuniere sauce which is a type of buttery gravy that he uses over fish. The word meuniere means "miller's wife" as the fish is dredged in flour and then sauteed in the sauce made of brown butter, lemon and chopped parsley. It is close to heaven for the taste buds. Jim's menu is not huge but everything is great to eat. If you go the Highway 30A near San Destin be sure to put Stinky's on your list. But get there early because the place is sure to be packed.
I still have a few more places to tell you about in the next blog post--I hope you will do yourself a favor and keep a note of these places in case you visit the area because you will not be disappointed.
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