Triad Seafood Cafe

Everglades National Park


Triad is famous for its stone-crab claws, but they serve up all kinds of coastal seafood that you can enjoy on picnic tables perched over the waterfront. Should you impress the friendly owners with your ability to devour crustaceans (their claws anyway), you get the dubious honor of having your picture hung on the Glutton Board.


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