Skipper's Smokehouse — Tampa

Part restaurant, part live music venue, all Tampa and there's nowhere else like it in the entire state. Skipper's has been the beating heart of Tampa's roots music and food scene for decades, serving smoked fish, gator bites, and that Blackened Grouper Reuben that Adam Richman put on the Travel Channel as one of the Best Sandwiches in America. You eat under a canopy of oak trees with string lights while blues, reggae, or zydeco plays on the Skipperdome stage, and for a minute you forget you're in a city of half a million people. Jamie says Skipper's is the kind of place that could only exist in Florida it's weird, it's wonderful, and it doesn't care what you think because it's been doing its thing since before anybody asked.