Cap's Place — Lighthouse Point (Fort Lauderdale area)

This is the kind of Florida story you can't make up Cap's is the oldest restaurant in the state still sitting on its original site, and you can only get there by boat. You park at the dock, they ferry you across, and suddenly you're eating at a place that started as a rum-running speakeasy in the 1920s. Winston Churchill ate here. FDR ate here. And now Jamie's eating here telling everyone within earshot about the hearts of palm salad like he discovered it himself. The fresh fish is always excellent, the Old Florida atmosphere is unlike anything else you'll experience, and the whole thing the boat ride over, the history in the walls, the food on the plate feels like a time capsule that somehow survived the condo boom.