South Pinellas beaches

When locals talk about the Hurricane, they almost always get a little grouchy and/or wistful about how it used to be, back when it was small and uncomplicated. After a massive renovation in 1991, it's neither now. There's the outside deck on the ground floor with its picnic tables, crisscrossed fishing line overhead to thwart opportunistic gulls, the gulf across the street. There's a third-floor rooftop club, and the bustling indoor dining room downstairs is done up in a shambling Florida Keys style. But that doesn't mean the culinary focus has shifted much. Still a solid grouper sandwich, fried, grilled, broiled, blackened or jerked.