August 28, 2008 – To the swamps!
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.28, 2008, under Florida Restaurants
We headed south to be a part of the Clyde Butcher Muck-A-Bout. We took backroads to get there. A stop we made was at The Cool Place, an ice cream shop in Bartow. There Sandra and I had sundaes (See above).
For dinner we stopped at the 75 year old Flora and Ella’s in LaBelle. I had great Southern fried chicken and Sandra loved the chicken and dumplings. We also finally found pecan pie. we’ve been looking for a year and a half for home made pecan pie throughout Florida and during our trips to North Carolina, New Orlenas and throughout Arkansas. All of the restaurants we stopped at had pecan pie provided by a store of food service. Flora and Ella’s has folks come in at 4:30 every morning to make new pies. It was great!
Above is one of the antique cash registers and adding machines at Flora and Ella’s.
We later settled in Everglades City to get ready for swamp trompin’ Friday.
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