We sat at the counter.


We drove from Orlando to Fort Lauderdale (three hours!) to have lunch at The Floridian. Good job the food is good. This place is an institution on Las Olas Boulevard and attracts locals on both sides of the money fence. I've never had a better chili-burger and the gigantic piece of home-made apple pie a la mode took two of us to polish it off. Las Olas has been devastated by the hurricane season. Some shops are still boarded up and the lack of greenery in this once lush and overgrown avenue is pitiful. You know when you see someone without their spectacles and you can't quite figure out what looks different about them? Well, that was what it was like when we drove down Las Olas. It looked familiar but very different.