Every month, Roy’s Restaurant in Bonita Springs holds cooking class dinners where cutting edge and classic culinary techniques are demonstrated against the backdrop of mood lighting, clinking wine glasses and Hawaiian-inspired art.

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Traditions on the Beach is a restaurant, bar and lounge located at the Island Inn off of West Gulf Drive on Sanibel

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Located on McGregor Boulevard at Cypress Square in Fort Myers is where you'll find Lush Food and Wine -- local celebrity Chef, Shannon Yates, latest venture.

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Each evening, as dusk arrives in America, connoisseurs of the high art of beef steak preparation trek to their favorite local steakhouse to take part in a time-honed tradition.  They’re escorted to spacious tables, fine vintages are uncorked, and prime cuts of steak are prepared to their exacting standards.  Somewhere between the tasty char of seared meat, the thought provoking complexity of big red wines, and the joviality of fellow diners — the night becomes a pleasant blur, a memory to be looked back upon fondly, an experience begging to be repeated.  Nowhere does the phrase “Eat, drink, and be merry” hold more sway than within the walls of a celebrated steakhouse.

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