Go for big fun at the bar or the big menu of well-prepared fish and shellfish.

The Scene
This ramshackle restaurant feels like a Florida Keys seafood shack plunked down in the gritty heart of industrial Miami. You can sit indoors (like anyone would want to), but the best seats are outside at tables fronting the Miami River or the bar built around a large banyan tree. With cars clattering across a nearby drawbridge, tugboats hauling big ships down the river, MetroRail cars zooming overhead and airplanes blasting their way through the sky, the place literally reverberates with urban energy.

The Food
The kitchen doesn't excessively gild the seafood lily, instead presenting food simply, in large portions and with minimal garnishes. Succulent shrimp, served with creamy white beans and wilted spinach, are ever-so-Italian. Crab cakes are among the best in town; good, too, is a slab of delicate sea bass in a thin, wine-filled, herb-flecked sauce. Deep-fried whole yellowtail is tasty but dry. Believe it or not, "gourmet" key lime pie really is