The Flip Flop Dockside Eatery is the perfect place
to relax, enjoy the water, watch the boats pass by, while not sitting under the
hot sun, unless you want to, enjoying the a/c inside without  anything blocking
the way. The tables are different colored pastels with aluminum chairs and salt
and pepper shakers with dashes of pastel colors on the outside.

You enter through a dimly lit hallway which opens
into the main dining room. Outside on the dock are a couple of tables plus 2
wood patio chairs where you can sit and watch the boats go by, including the
water taxi that stops by to let off and take on riders.

There is a bar in the front left hand corner and a
counter like table near the right wall. The restaurant just opened after having
been a Greek restaurant prior to this. Parking can be a problem if you don't
know there is an empty lot where you can park for $5 and be reimbursed by the
restaurant or a parking garage across the street. They are a few doors down from
a landmark restaurant in Fort Lauderdale called Shooters with which they share
the same inter-coastal views and are not as crowded, for now.

We were promptly greeted by our server who took out
drink order and brought them to the table with a basket of chips a little
thicker, more along the lines of dry Chinese won-ton chips, served with a
tomitillo salsa, both very tasty. I gave him our $25 off coupon and he explained
that we had to buy $35 worth of food, drinks not included. It seems he had
problems regarding this before.

Allen ordered the Chicken Bruschetta ($15.95) which
consisted of a grilled chicken breast topped with mozzarella, fresh tomatoes,
red onions and garlic served on a bed of sauteed spinach. I had the Festivalia Pasta ($9.75) adding grilled shrimp ($6) served with tomatoes, mushrooms,
olives, garlic basil tossed into Penne Pasta with a tomato-cream sauce. Both
tasted good but werent' served hot but at room temperature. On the way out when
I mentioned it to the cook who was was standing behind the kitchen counter he
just shrugged his shoulders. Along with this, the two owners who sat at the
counter along the wall near us, never came to our table, or the three other
occupied tables, which wasn't a smart move for owners of a new restaurant.

For dessert we shared a Banana Burrito and a Lava
Chocolate cake with ice cream, neither which were standouts. The latter, having
been nuked, melted the ice cream before it even got to the table.

The check, including the coffee and soda ($2.50)
plus tax and tip came to $54.28 before the $25 deduction coming to $15 each for
lunch.

I would recommend the Flip Flop Dockside Eatery for
a pleasant afternoon, or evening, enjoying a drink, the Florida weather, maybe
an appetizer to nibble on and as a stopover taking the water taxi up and down
the inter-coastal.