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The Rod and Reel restaurant is located in Anna Maria City, Anna Maria Island Florida. The restaurant sits out on the end of the most Northern Pier on Anna Maria Island. It is extremely quiet and the Rod & Reel is typically a top 3 foodie choice for visitors and locals alike. The great food, great views and reasonable prices make a must stop.

The restaurant is on the second floor and provides indoor and outdoor seating. In the high season it can get pretty busy and waiting an hour for a seat is fairly common place. The great thing about waiting is that you stop by the bar on the first floor, grab a beverage and sit on the pier people, fish, dolphin, bay and manatee watching. It is great to get the strong bay breeze coming to shore while you catch up with friends and family.

The Rod & Reel serves breakfast, lunches, and dinners. For lunch their are plenty of sandwiches and for dinner lots of fish and specials. You never can go wrong with Grouper. For more Anna Maria Island Information visit Island Real Estate’s attractions website and view the video below.

Anna Maria Restaurants

Anna Maria Island continues to make headlines in world wide press. Sure, I suppose if we looked hard enough anyone could find some headline about Anna Maria Island once a week. Perhaps your in Firestone, Colorado, or Bristol, Rhode Island or New York City and fall upon an article about Anna Maria Island. Ok, not so much of a big de…al? Wait a second, New York City is a pretty big town last I checked.

Yup, that is right. A few weeks ago in the end of July 2009 the New York Times Travel section headlined Anna Maria Island Restaurants. The New York Times writer Cindy Price got it “write.” She captured Anna Maria Island with accurate “taste” tests of Anna Maria Island. The article featured many of the great Anna Maria Island restaurants that we all know and love. Cindy writes about stumbling across such a phenomenal place that you want to pinch yourself to be sure it is real.

“Just when you think you’ve seen everything under its proverbial sun, you stumble across a place like Anna Maria Island — a seven-mile slip of cushy white sand tucked in the Gulf of Mexico where you can dump the car, rent a bike, swim in smooth, teal waters and eat remarkably well.” New York Times.

Not to be critical but Price did miss one great resource for restaurant information. Island Real Estate’s Anna Maria Island Restaurant informational page. It lists at least 25 restaurants on it’s page with links of pictures and real descriptions of what you can expect with comments from other travelers. Click the link for Anna Maria Island Restaurant Information.

For now, Ms. Cindy Price is my new hero. Thank you New York Times as well as Ms. Price. For the full New York Times Article….more.