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May 26, 2013 By cheryl

La Crêperie (Key West, Florida): A Little French on the Island

Ask anyone in Key West about lunch and you’ll likely get the question: “Have you been to the crêpe place?”

Admittedly, this island is not a place I’d think of for crêpes — seafood, yes. (Perhaps even a boozy lunchspot with a view.) Crêpes? Silly as it sounded, it didn’t seem local enough for one of the few meals out I was allowing myself during my month of writing.

After a few weeks of getting this question though, I decided to investigate. So off we went one morning on a jaunt to a little corner in Bahama Village …

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Filed Under: Breakfast, Brunch, Florida, French, Restaurants, Tales From the Road, Travel Tagged With: Creperie, Crepes, Florida, French, Key West, La Creperie, Sylvie Le Nouail, Yolande Findlay

April 13, 2013 By cheryl

White Street Sandwich Shop (Key West): A Cuban Coffee Must

First night in Key West and the locals are determined to school this food writer. The most important advice?

“The best places to get Cuban coffee are attached to laundromats.”

Sure, there’s Sandy’s — a place so well-known it’s got sleek rides pulling up all day to pick up trays of coffees to go along with giant bags of sandwiches and a fleet of delivery cars whizzing in and out as you wait 20 minutes for your order. But the one that people keep saying is the must is a little less celebrated.

Beloved as this place is, its name escapes them. “Just go to the corner of Union and White,” I am told.

And so on a sunny Saturday morning, taking a little break from my writing desk, I do …

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Filed Under: Coffee, Cuban, Florida, Sandwich, Tales From the Road Tagged With: Cafe con leche, Coffee, Cuban, Florida, Key West, Sandwich, Sandy's, White Street

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