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Address: 91 Coastal Hwy, Panacea, FL 32346
Phone: (850) 984-3474
Website: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TropicalTrader/about/?ref=page_internal
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Be aware that the prices online are not correct so when you visit, expect to pay one or more dollars per item. I understand inflation, but restaurants need to update their online photos.
We had learned on a previous trip, that the grouper was not grouper but a nasty substitute, very fishy smell and taste. So we stayed away from the fish options.
My husband had the shrimp tacos. Tiny shrimp, fried, drowned in teriyaki sauce. Ordered onion rings as a side, cost an upcharge of $3 for 4 rings. What a joke. Tacos do not get teriyaki sauce. Tacos get a cabbage slaw for crunch and color. There was at least an 1/8 of an inch of sauce on the plate. And the onion rings we paid for were limp from sauce.
For my third try, I went with the Tropical Trader Burger, which had a large patty, “mounded high with bacon, jalepenos, a onion ring, pickles, and pepperjack cheese. Dressed with mayo, mustard, ketchup, lettuce, tomato”. The patty was large, but when the waitress asks how I want my burger cooked and I request medium, I expect medium. I received a burger patty that was cooked until it was as dry as the Sahara Desert and as grainy as sand and gray. Mounded high with bacon must mean a different thing in Tropical Trader language. I had a half a piece of bacon which tasted great but would have been greater still if I had a taste of bacon with at least every other bite. The main reason I ordered this burger was for the added flavor of jalepenos and pepperjack cheese. I received no jalepenos, zero, zilch, none. And the cheese on the burger was the right color of pepperjack, white, but was more like a white american cheese, no pop of heat. The lettuce was limp and gross. But hey i got a whole pickle round. The mustard was non existent and when I asked for mustard, the waitress said there was mustard on the burger. How would she know unless she took the burger apart. But if she did, she would have noticed an over cooked piece of meat, no jalepenos, no mustard, the wrong cheese.
Oh yeah. After all that, the fried cheese was very good. The price was higher on the menu than online. Over $3.40 per stick.
Also, our waitress was not attentive. We waited and waited for her to return to ask for a box. After ten minutes, I got one from the waitstaff section. Then had to ask another waitress to get our waitress for our check.
Well, anyway, wont return. Third time was not the charm. It was the closing of a chapter.
The bar has to do a lot of business by looking at the parking lot. Too bad we dont drink.
Good service, fast drinks.
As for being in a small “fishing town” it should have a better appeal with foods as it being on the coast and driving distance from Tallahassee. (Unlike where we reside on the “Manatee Capital” in Citrus County where things are widly abundant of choices in foods yet a “small” big town yet not a “fishing town.”)
Recommend to rotate menus and have more “flavors” to the place like Hamakockers BBQ.(different category of culinary.)
Also, I know there are some nice real estate around but don’t target them as they bring “money” as the town isn’t moving “fast” and/or improved since Hurricane Mike. (8 years ago) It was our 1st “mini- honeymoon/Birthday” vacation to there and ever and saw it was only a small disappointment due its “viability” on the economic side and such. Seafood is found all over that area but not “harnessing” it sustainably and choices.
If only want to be “home bodied” with nothing to do then it is good for that but that’s not for me or wife.
(And 2 dogs.)
**Note, Posey’s Up the Creek has better priced of the similar “restaurant” classification and they rank 4 stars on my expectations. (Even wife agrees and approves this comment.)