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<p>I never said I was a chef, but I love to cook. Sometimes I&#8217;ll go all out to the depth of my knowledge and experience about food which at the end of the day, isn&#8217;t a lot! You don&#8217;t need to do that though to make some really good meals in your own kitchen. A [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Dolce And Salato (sweet and salty in Italian) is a restaurant in Naples, FL that serves Italian Cuisine. I had not eaten there for almost 3 years. Remembering how good it was, I was happy when my dining companion (DC) that day decided to meet me for lunch. Dolce and Salato has a very pleasant [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The American Culinary Federation (ACF) 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. The Southwest Florida Chefs of the ACF is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cochon Butcher   (CB) is a sandwich/takeout shop in the Warehouse Arts District of New Orleans, LA. CB is part of the Link restaurant group in the area which includes a number of James Beard Foundation awardee chefs and restaurants. These awards are sort of Oscars in the culinary world, and are generally a very good [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The American Culinary Federation (ACF) is a professional organization for chefs, cooks, food industry professionals, food enthusiasts and maybe a food blogger or two. Nationally, ACF has over 200 chapters and almost 20,000 members. ACF offers educational, training, certification and scholarship resources to enhance the professional growth of it&#8217;s members. It also represents the USA [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Restaurant August is a restaurant located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, LA and is part of the John Besh empire of Restaurants. As you go into the restaurant you enter the bar area where your reservation is taken or you can wait there for a table in the dining area. My dining companion (DC) [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fujiyama Steak and Seafood House/Club Sushi are sister restaurants inside The Gulfcoast Inn in Naples, FL  that serve Japanese Cuisine, or Japanese-inspired cuisine in their restaurants. As you walk in, there is Fujiyama Steak and Seafood House, which is a Teppanyaki restaurant. It was very crowded that night. My dining companion (DC) and I opted [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club is a hotel and golf resort in Naples, FL. They are practically an institution here and will be celebrating their 70th year of operations in 2016. They have a beachfront restaurant at the hotel, HB&#8217;s On the Gulf. HB&#8217;s is part of a consortium of local restaurants called [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Big Hickory Seafood Grille and Marina (BHSGM) is a seafood-themed restaurant on Little Hickory Island in Bonita Springs, FL. The name of the restaurant is a bit of a misnomer. It looks out towards Big Hickory Island but is not located on it, Big Hickory Island being one of the islands in the bordering Estero [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Dry Tortugas National Park is a 100 square mile marine preserve about 70 miles west of Key West, FL. There are 7 Keys in the park, the most noteworthy being Garden Key where Fort Jefferson  (FJ)  is located, but more on that later. The Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon was credited with discovering this area [&hellip;]</p>

<p>La Trattoria Cafe Napoli is a restaurant in Fort Myers, FL serving Tapas as well as Spanish&#8211; and Italian-inspired cuisine. The restaurant is located in a strip mall in Fort Myers that must be from the 1960&#8217;s and is sorely in need of a makeover. As I have said before, my Grandmother always told me [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fancy&#8217;s Southern Cafe is a restaurant located in Fort Myers, FL. The name seems to be at odds with the outer appearance of the restaurant, but as my grandmother would say to me &#8220;You Can&#8217;t Judge a Book By It&#8217;s Cover&#8220;. Fancy&#8217;s serves Southern Inspired Cuisine, which is a mishmosh of Southeastern American Indian and [&hellip;]</p>

<p> Island View Restaurant is a restaurant atop the Lani Kai Island Resort in Fort Myers Beach, FL. It is named Island View as you can get great views of Estero Island, where the restaurant is located as well as an island to the west, Sanibel Island. The Lani Kai Resort has had the reputation of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Three60 Market is a restaurant on Bayshore Drive in East Naples, FL. They have been open about 3 and 1/2 years. Three60 Market is part of a trend to turn a very undesirable area of Naples into a much more desirable one. This includes the efforts of The Naples Botanical Garden, a place I [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Stop by your local 7 Eleven on 7/11/15 for a free regular sized Slurpee from 11-7.</p>

<p>Keren is a restaurant in the Adams Morgan district of Washington, D.C. They serve Eritrean Cuisine. What is this you may ask? There is much similarity between Eritrean, Ethiopian and Somalian cuisines. Eritrean tends to have more Ottoman and Italian influences, incorporating Curry Powder and Pasta, respectively. Berbere, a spice blend, is used extensively in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Pig is a restaurant that an astute reader may guess, focuses on pork. They are located on a very cool part of 14th St. NW near Logan Circle in Washington, D.C. As with many parts of D.C., this used to be scary land, but has changed much in the past 10-20 years or so. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The American Culinary Federation  (ACF) is a group of chefs and food industry professionals. ACF has almost 18,000 members and 200 chapters in the U.S. Their mission is education, certification, scholarship and inclusion in international competition.The chapter in Fort Myers, FL is ACF Southwest Florida Chefs. Almost every month they hold a chapter meeting. This one [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Cafe Figaro is a restaurant located in the Wiggins Pass Crossing Plaza in north Naples, FL. It&#8217;s a bit hard to find as it&#8217;s located behind the buildings in the plaza that are adjacent to U.S. Route 41. The restaurant specializes primarily in Mediterranean Cuisine. They have an outside and of course an indoor dining [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Blu Sushi is having a 13th anniversary celebration for lunch all summer long. It&#8217;s all you can eat from their endless blu menu for $13.00, a real bargain. Lunch is served from 11:30 A.M.-2 P.M. (last order by 2:15) at their Mcgregor Blvd. and the new First St. location in downtown Fort Myers, FL. I wrote about this lunch special almost 2 [&hellip;]</p>