It was worth the wait.
The 16th annual Florida Keys Seafood Festival cooked its catch for all of Key West on April 2-3 at Bayview Park.
Sponsored by the Florida Keys Commercial Fishermen’s Association, the festival had to be postponed from its usual January schedule due to COVID. But the April date didn’t diminish the hungry crowds.
Food booths lined the park serving peel-and-eat shrimp, conch chowder, conch fritters, stone crab claws, lobster tails, ceviche, smoked fish dip and fresh local fish. Attendees washed it all down with cold beers and margaritas, then finished up with gelato, Italian ice and acai bowls. Burgers and hot dogs were also available for landlubbers.
Nonstop music filled the festival grounds, with Majesty of Rock, a Journey tribute band, sounding as if a DJ was playing songs by the popular ’70s group. Vendor booths sold everything from beachwear and sunglasses to perfume, handmade artwork and jewelry.
The Keys Weekly and Overseas Media Group proudly produced and distributed the festival guide from its booth at the event, where more than 2,000 attendees placed a pin in a giant map to mark their hometown, and had their “front-page photo” taken behind our mock newspaper cover.
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