The brag posted out in front of the new little 60-seat restaurant in Holmes Beach, Eat Here, is modest: "Second-best food on the island."
The boast is not in the waggish tradition of "warm beer and lousy food," but simply accurate. The best, owner Sean Murphy and most everyone on Anna Maria would agree, is the Beach Bistro, an intimate cafe two miles up the road, which has been a destination for epicures for 26 years. And which is also owned by the same Sean Murphy, a Nova Scotian law grad who settled in the local dining scene some 30 years ago.
Can't mistake one for the other if you look at the prices.