The Lazy Flamingo II
West of Causeway Blvd
Cuisines: Seafood
About
The Lazy Flamingo is a down-homey type of place where the food is consistently good. Locals and visitors alike become repeat customers, flocking here for the reasonably priced food, a wide choice of beers iced down in a huge box behind the bar, and the sports TVs. Some of that beer is used to steam shrimp and a collection of oysters, clams, and spices known as "The Pot." Best pick, however, is grouper from the charcoals, as either a main course or a sandwich. The flamingo-pink menu has sandwiches, burgers, fish platters, and atomically spicy Dead Parrot Wings (they're so hot they can raise the dead). Fillet your own catch, and the chef will cook it to order for you. Happy-hour prices prevail whenever football games are on. A sister institution, the Lazy Flamingo I, 6520-C Pine Ave., at Sanibel-Captiva Road, a quarter-mile south of Blind Pass (tel. 239/472-5353), has the same menu and hours.
