Captain Jim's Seafood

This market not only offers up "seafood from our boats to you," they'll cook it any number of ways or serve it up to you raw at the sushi bar. After the chewy, canned-tasting conch I'd sampled a few days earlier at another restaurant, the sight of fresh conch meat was too enticing to ignore. I eventually settled on a combo ($12.95) of grilled dolphin, grilled shrimp, and (at my waitress' suggestion) fried rather than grilled conch.

This is the most amazingly tender fried shellfish you'll ever try, and it's wonderful without any sauce or further seasoning. The dolphin and shrimp weren't bad, and the creamed spinach was excellent, as was the pink lemonade ($1.25), but if all I had in front of me was a plate of that fried conch, I'd be in seafood heaven.

Captain Jim's Seafood
12950 West Dixie Highway, North Miami
305-892-2812