Shooters

We went to the famous Shooters in Fort Lauderdale for dinner tonight. We didn't plan on going there, we were looking for another restaurant on the intercoastal that Manny had found when he was here in May. We couldn't find it, so started to just head for the intercoastal and see what we could find. Almost like magic, as we crossed the bridge towards A1A, there we saw Shooters on the east side of the intercoastal. This was the place that we had tried to go to when on vacation, but never made it. Its a known hot spot in Lauderdale, and a really fun social scene. People come by boat and car and it has been featured on travel channel. There are 3 restaurants in a row, Shooters and the middle one, La Playa are owned by the same person, and the 3rd one is Charleys Crab. The La Playa is more of a club like place (it may have a menu, not sure) with a pool and is 21 and over. You can sit either inside or outside by the dock, which is nice to watch the boats go by and look at the boats docked. Shayna liked when a boat went by playing loud dance music. Here are Shayna and Skyler at dinner with a big boat behind them:

Afterwards we took a short walk, looking at the boats and enjoyig the ambience. There were all kinds of fish swimming in the dock and boat lights, and it was fun to watch them. We also saw a school of maybe 15-20 big fish, Manny says they were redfish. The La Playa was all lit up in bluish lights (very pretty) and was playing really good music as we walked by. In the lobby area where you wait for valet to get your car there is a big aquarium where Skyler and Shayna enjoyed looking at a lionfish and a big Dorrie and a little Dorrie fish (from Finding Nemo).

Oh if Manny wants to get me off the beach a little faster he just says "lets go out to dinner."

Shooters web site:

www.shooterscafe.com