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<p>Poke bowl, Poke Bowl Cafe, Fort Myers, FL   Poke Bowl Cafe (PBC)is an eponymously named cafe in Fort Myers, FL that serves poke bowls.  What are these you may ask and how do you pronounce it? Poke is like okay with a &#8220;p&#8221;. Also, traditionally, poke is raw tuna, octopus or other seafood that [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ti-kreyol (TK) is a food truck in East Naples that serves Haitian cuisine. They stay permanently on the 11000 block of Tamiami Tr. E., in the parking lot where Garibaldi Bakery and Mexican Restaurant is located. Ti-kreyol Restaurant Ti, in Haitian Creole means tiny and kreyol is the proper Haitian Creole spelling of Creole, which [&hellip;]</p>

<p>TaKote meal platillo TaKote is a restaurant/latin food market in Fort Myers. They were formerly known as Latinos Market, but were closed for 15 months due to hurricane Irma in 2017. They now occupy the former Chamber of Commerce building on San Carlos Blvd. Their name is a play on the word taco with the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ember Korean Steakhouse Ember Korean Steakhouse is a restaurant that serves sushi, sashimi, Korean dishes in addition to Korean BBQ. What is Korean BBQ you may ask? This is a BBQ grill incorporated into your dining table where you can prepare, or have prepared your own meats, poultry and seafood. The restaurant had been open [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dana Hillis, proprietor and instructor, Big Papa&#8217;s Country Kitchen, Naples, FL I have written about BBQ before and used these introductory paragraphs that follow.  As an introduction to barbecued food, I don&#8217;t think it will get any better than this, especially having the permission of the author to paraphrase his original text. I hope you [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Celebration Park, Naples, FL Food courts have been said to originate in the United States in the early 1970&#8217;s. The Concept of varied cuisines in a central location serving cheap and sometimes local dishes had been established many years earlier in Southeast Asia. They are known in Asia as hawker centers. This concept did not really [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Brian Howe Band, Holy Water Rotary International is a world wide group of business owners and other professional individuals that perform charitable and humanitarian functions. They have at present over thirty five thousand clubs with a membership well over one million. Locally, the Rotary Club of Bonita Naples, was founded in 1992, and their contributions [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Beach Road Wine Bar and Bistro (BRWB) is a restaurant serving lunch and dinner in Englewood, FL about forty five minutes north of Fort Myers. It has been about 4 years since I had dined there and my traveling companion had never been. I have blogged about BRWB Before, and was very impressed by the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Em-On&#8217;s Thai Cafe Em-On&#8217;s Thai Cafe is a restaurant, as the astute reader may surmise, that serves Thai Cuisine. The restaurant has been open under the same ownership since 1996. Whenever I hear something like this regarding a restaurant it is generally without exception a very good sign. I had Blogged about Em-On&#8217;s almost 5 [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Sizzle, Fall 2018 This is the Fall 2018 issue of Sizzle, a free quarterly publication by The American Culinary Federation for students of the culinary arts. There are always good articles on culinary trends as well as recipes and cooking techniques. Enjoy! <a href="https://www.acfchefs.org/downloads/Sizzle/201810_Fall.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.acfchefs.org/downloads/Sizzle/201810_Fall.pdf</a></p>

<p>Foodie Camp Naples is an event bringing together chefs and food aficionados for two charitable causes. Proceeds from this event benefit culinary scholarships at FGCU&#8217;s Resort and Hospitality Management Program in addition to help feed the needy at St. Matthews House in Naples.  The event is made possible by Naples Originals, a marketing group promoting [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ninja Thai and Sushi Bar Ninja Thai and Sushi Bar is an Asian-themed restaurant in Fort Myers, FL serving Thai and Japanese cuisine. They have been open for about five months and occupy the former space of the restaurant Koreana. My dining companion and I had not been here and decided to take a peek. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>El Gran Taco Loco  (Taco Loco) is a fast food restaurant serving Mexican food. El Taco Loco taco, torta and quesadilla menu They are located in the back of historic Benson&#8217;s Grocery. The grocery started business in the early part of the twentieth century and is still in business today. Taco Loco is the result [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tony Ridgway, Proprietor, Ridgway Bar and Grill Tony Ridgway is a progenitor of modern Naples, FL cuisine, truly a Naples culinary vanguard. He opened his first restaurant here in 1972 after being influenced by European cuisine while traveling. One of his present restaurant concepts in his Old Naples location, Ridgway Bar and Grill (Ridgway), opened [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Bokamper&#8217;s Sports Bar and Grill, Naples, FL With Southwest Florida Forks, my food blog, I am largely on my own and at my own expense to document the culinary fruits of Southwest Florida. It is more a labor of love, and reflects my interests in food, photography and writing. Every once in a while, I&#8217;m [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Lan Xang (LX)  was one of the largest ancient kingdoms in Southeast Asia for almost 350 years. From the mid fourteenth to early eighteenth centuries, Lan Xang was the progenitor of modern Laotian culture. In contemporary Southwest Florida, LX is an Asian-themed restaurant serving a mixture of Laotian, Vietnamese and Chinese food. They have been [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Tropical Creole Restaurant Tropical Creole Restaurant (TCR) is an establishment that serves Haitian cuisine, but more on that later. What exactly is creole anyway? Linguistically, it developed from the interactions of people whose languages are totally different, most notably in agricultural or trading interactions as a consequence of colonization. It starts off as a rudimentary [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Los Taquitos Mexican Food (LT) is a food truck and food tent in Fort Myers. They have been around about four years now. They are located on the Northeast corner of Palm Beach Blvd. and Marsh Ave. in the parking lot of a gas station. During the week, they operate out of their food truck. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Indian Grocery Store (IG) Indian Grocery Store, Fort Myers, FL is an eponymously-named establishment in Fort Myers, Florida that sells Indian groceries. They have been in the area  sixteen years and only started serving meals one year ago. I had heard about them serving Indian food on Friday and Saturday afternoons and evenings from their kitchen [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The American Culinary Federation is a professional organization of chefs, cooks, food industry professionals, food enthusiasts and a food blogger or two.  They have about 200 chapters and almost 20,000 members. They offer training, accreditation, scholarship and certification to foster professional growth in the culinary arts. They publish a free quarterly periodical for students of [&hellip;]</p>