Wishes and Fishes

I hate the new Seven Fish building on Truman. A friend ate there and described an experience akin to dining in the Hall of the Mountain King with noise reverberating around the room. I miss the intimate old Seven Fish on Olivia, now a boarded up empty building.

I find sometimes a successful restaurant can overdo the expansion and even  though I have no desire to eat in an airport waiting lounge Seven Fish has always been a good place to go if you could get a table.

The problem of seating availability is solved, but at what price? I guess efficiency trumps charm in our modern world.

The old Seven Fish was the modest  white building behind my motorcycle in the picture above. I wish they could have moved into a building more in keeping with the Old Town style with lots of room to work but a design that looked less garish, less suited to Miami Beach. 

Life is like that, things are going well and sometimes we make changes that derail our plans and a derailed plan can set our teeth on edge. I wish them well and I am sure the cooking will be up to their usual high standards but I liked the small intimate space that must have been inconvenient to work in. In a town where everyone knows everything and nothing is off the beaten path, Seven Fish was. Now it's not.

Key West Town

I'm not sure if the Conch Republic flag is any more representative of Key West than the palms that surround the house which is, naturally painted white and enjoys a lively decoration of the balcony railings.

 Off street parking - a pearl beyond price in Key West housing. I've never understood the mad passionate and almost universal need to convert garages into bedrooms. The they complain when there is nowhere to park their cars on the street near their homes. 

Parking is an issue that gets everyone worked up in Key West. Even people without cars complain about people with cars. Ride a bicycle if you can, ride a scooter if you can't. Lots of two wheeled parking and it's free. 

I enjoy living up the Keys for the quiet, the ample parking if not  the architecture which does not resemble this:

 But there again living in Key West and struggling with the planes flying overhead and drowning out conversation, with parking, with bums, with crowded sidewalks and all that does mean you are closer to the action. If action in the form of art galleries coffee shops and music and theaters of all sorts are your kind of action.

The photographic opportunities can be more varied too. 

 On the whole I like the suburbs, a canal fro swimming, and the chance to sleep during the day.

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