The Hogfish Bar and Grill is a unique place where great
food, fun people and a fine atmosphere make it a one-of-kind
Keys experience. But, don’t just
take our word for it. Read any of the articles below to hear what everyone else
is saying about the Hogfish.
Best Seafood Restaurants in the U.S.
"On Stock Island, Key West's less rowdy neighbor, this low-key spot, tucked between a trailer park and the shrimp docks, is known for its pinks--Key West shrimp, distinguished by a pink dot in..."
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"Tropical Fare" ~
by Writer Jane Wooldridge
“…
Our fave: hogfish, caught only with a spear and served grilled at its namesake Hogfish Bar and Grill (6810 Front Street, Stock Island, 305/293-4041 or hogfishbar.com) on Stock Island, a short drive away.
…”
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The Washington Post ~
March 8, 2009 by Beth Schucker
“…Sitting at the full-service bar
by the pool table, you'll feel the whish of servers racing
to the waterside tables and tiki hut booths while customer
chatter marks time to the boom, boom, boom of the jukebox
and bandstand…” Click
here for whole article.
Gaff Magazine ~ By Capt. Chuck Simpson
“Like a conch hidden in its shell from the flood-tides
of tourists traveling to the southern most tip of the United
States, located in Key West, Florida, is a haven for vagabond
soles with a fixation on relaxation. An establishment where
culinary color is not just found in the fine flavors served
on platters, but in its 360-degrees of immediate universe.
Resting along a seawall at Safe Harbor Marina on Stock
Island is a place "Where the Locals Hang" - Hogfish
Bar & Grill.” Click here for whole article.
The New York Times ~ "Catching the History of Key West" by Cindy Price, March 14, 2008
At the Eaton Street Seafood Market in the historic district of Key West, Fla., a long glass case displayed a who's who of the city's seafood scene: plump piles of pinks (the local shrimp) snuggled next to a yellowtail snapper, a mound of stone crab claws and fresh slabs of grouper. I'd come to eat my way through Key West's delicacies, and here was my map. Click here for whole article.
Solares Hill ~ "Hogfish: New Center of the Universe"
According to Charles Kuralt, the late CBS correspondent who roamed the U.S.A. in search of Americana, the Schooner Wharf Bar was the center of the universe. But of late that center has shifted a few kilometers to Stock Island, to the Hogfish Bar and Grill. Click here for whole article.
Florida Travel + Life
Back on the fishing track, I find Billy Niles, a third-generation Keys fisherman, and Douglas Gregory, a marine scientist, at the Hogfish Bar & Grill, munching on conch fritters. Click here to read more.
 Hogfish filets and grills right
off the boat -- It's fresh as can be at relaxed waterside
eatery
There's a good chance most people haven't happened
upon the Hogfish Bar and Grill for their latest lunch
or dinner excursion, as downtown Stock Island isn't the
first place you think of when it comes to dining out...
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New York Times ~ April 27, 2007 by Cindy Price
The real Key West? It's not even on Key West proper anymore, but just over the Cow Key Channel Bridge, on the even tinier Stock Island. Click
here for whole article.
A Fish Sandwich Primer
For some people, visiting the Keys isn't about
taking a simple vacation. It's a quest to find the perfect
fish sandwich served in an authentic Keys restaurant
on the waterfront... Click here for
whole article.
Editor's Pick: Hogfish Bar & Grill serves
up a taste of the old Key West
Hogfish Bar & Grill, in Safe Harbor Marina
on Stock Island is as authentic as Key West used to
be. The reason may The that, as popalarity has driven
up real estate prices in the Southernmost City, many
Conchs have fled
the small island Just north of Key West, a workaday place of modest homes, practical
condos end marinas jampacked with shrimp and charter boats... Click
here for whole article.
Solares Hill ~ MAY
30, 2003 by Margit Bisztray
History~
Artists and yachts are not the things that came to my mind when
I think of Stock Island. I didn't know that the CIA's Bay of Pigs operation was
based out of Safe Harbor Marina, or that the ferry to Cuba departed from a dock
nearby, or that the Stock Island Yacht Club is 20-plus-members strong. Click
here for whole article.
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Unless you live
here, you only find The
Hogfish Bar and Grill on a tip. Once there, you know
instantly this is a local’s spot, where people
who fish eat fish. Hogfish is the way the lower Keys
used to be, before all the nightlife and carnivals.
Today, the Hogfish is an escape for those wanting to
see and smell the ocean while enjoying fresh seafood
in an old-Keys environment. It is the place to savor
that simple but memorable pleasure of peeling and eating
shrimp while watching shrimp boats dock, and to dig
into a top-notch grilled hogfish (a delicious, diver-caught
fish with a scallop-like Jiavor) sandwiched on Cuban
bread as fishing boats move in and out of port. The
adjacent marina used to be the headquarters of the
Bay of Pigs operation and in peaceful times the Cuba
ferry docked nearby. Today, artists and craft workers
have claimed this affordable and private area, creating
in their studio cottages lined up along the water.
There is a tranquil, out-of-time presence as if nothing
will change— as if the future lies in bringing
people back to easy seaside living and fresh local
food. Thanks to the restaurant’s new owner it
may. As pricey homes grow around the golf course and
professionals move to new offices on U.S. i, The Hogfish
could soon be the only place that looks like old Stock
Island, not an up- and-coming Key West... Click
here for whole article.
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