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Category Archives: Treasure Coast Fun and Businesses

The Diamond Tea Room & Bistro

American Press Travel News- November 8th,–Its not often we are pleasantly surprised when visiting a new food emporium. This time we were, big time!

First off, the way to enter into, and leave the Tea Room & Bistro is through Diamonds By Terry Jewelry Store. After passing all the handmade, one- of- kind, gold and silver pieces crafted by Terry, you step into a beautifully appointed and decorated restaurant. Real themed table ware and cloths, teapots, and super comfy chairs, and get ready for a surprise. The surprise is their foods. Barb and I tried spectacular squash and broccoli soups, lobster cakes (lobster flown in from Maine, weekly) and a chicken Picatta. Fresh fruited sangria and peach tea. Of all the restaurants we dine out in (60-at last count in PSL, Ft. Pierce and Stuart) this amazing restaurant “took and gave the cake.” From the soups, salads, Tuscany bread, and the terrific personality of Terry, the owner, and Jewelry Manager Dea, we could not have been more pleased and happy! For dessert we had home made hot carrot cake and I slid my spoon into homemade Spumoni chock full of pistachio and cherries. On a 1-10 this tea room was a 20!

www.diamondsbyterry,com Call 772-781-1133.
See all pictures at www.AmericanPressTravelNews.com Bob and Barb- “On the Road Again.”

Papa Louie’s Italian Restaurant

American Press Travel News- Papa Louie’s, PSL, FL.-Bob and Barb “On the Road Again.”From the pizza, to the garlic chicken wings, the shrimp parmesan, spectacular veal parm, cabbage-potato soup, garlic knots, salad with custom created Italian dressing, spaghetti with lemon-garlic, great wines-WOW! What a meal!–Italian, real Italian cuisine is what we found, dined on, and thoroughly enjoyed here.

Big comfortable tables, the feeling you get when your in a truly practiced Italian eatery-Highly recommended!  Papa Louie’s Italian Restaurant  7240 South U.S. Hwy. 1, Port St Lucie, FL 34952 772-340-3755

Throw-back Monday– 1989-The Conch Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge

Twin Rock Lobster Tails broiled to perfection, some Saffron Rice, real butter from Wisconsin. What can be better?

American Press Travel News-March 25th–Bob and Barb “Remembering great places to dine and visit! Today, the Conch Restaurant is gone. Whoever bought it after Allen Stoki passed, changed names and then new owners changed names again!

When Barb and I were pleasantly researching our book in 1988: “The Best Restaurants in The Florida Keys”, of course, we visited the Conch Restaurant and Cocktail Lounge in Islamorada, owner operated by Allen Stocki. We’d been there before and on another date, I also joined Ted Williams there for dinner when I was creating the International Gamefish Release and Enhancement Foundation. I had hoped Ted would become a Board Member-he did!

OK! I Just heard Conch prounounced “konsch” not Konk; I straightened that lure-maker out at the ICAST giant fishing show. He is now “Konk” prepared when he visits to try out his lures in the Keys!
One of the very personal specialties Stocki taught his wait personnel, was to learn by heart the more than 80-ways he could prepare a Keys Lobster. They would tick off “lobster Hawaiian, Parmesan, Lobster cheesy and Florentine, en cruet sauce, and my favorite Lobster prepared at that sorely missed by many; their Lobster Imperial!” This dish required the lobster to be taken out of the shell, sautéed in butter and then covered with Crab Imperial. The dish would be baked and served with Béarnaise Sauce. Stocki’s Chef then garnished this masterpiece with Key lime slices and parsley and served with fresh homemade bread. A dish you just never could forget! This, and more than 60-restaurants in my book, are gone now, but fortunately, many other very fine restaurants have stepped up to the plate, so-to-speak!  We miss that great restaurant in our original book: “The Best Restaurants in the Florida Keys” I still have about 45-books from that first printing. Just email us for your half price signed copy!!!

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Fishing Burns Calories

American Press Travel News–March 10th,-Bob and Barb “On The Road Again.”  Probably have not thought about this, but fishing does burn calories. If standing on shore and casting for two hours how about 470-calories “gone?” Fly fishing as you walk in a stream, how about 670-calories an hour. In a boat, not moving around much but jigging on the bottom, about 500-calories  Bank fishing, sitting on your butt after a cast of bottom baits. About 360-calories for two hours. 

When your fishing, your moving, thinking, bending, casting, walking to your location and if your hooking up with scaled or unscaled critters, your burning calories. 

Of course hunting and other sports burn more calories, just as brisk walking does too, but it turns out just about anything you do out in the outdoors on a sustained minute by minute basis, burns that fuel you have stored.

So, its Sunday today and I’m heading out behind my home to our bass pond for some fly fishing activity. Or maybe casting with my new/old reel I bought at a yard sale yesterday to try it out. Its not that I don’t have about 90-reels, its just I love to sell duplicate reels and gear on ebay, so I can buy more gear at yard sales-boy do I have a two car garage that just hasn’t seen a car in ages!!