Last month I did a blog post about my sister Susan and I getting together with our cousins and their husbands at Conkey Joe's Seafood Restaurant and Bar in Jensen Beach, Florida. We all had a nice time, and the food was pretty good, too. I was at Conkey Joe's only once before, for lunch with my mother Mary, maybe 15 or 20 years ago, where someone took the photograph on the left of us. It was a much smaller operation back then. Recently, they added a 5,000-square-foot waterfront tiki bar and restaurant. The owner of Conkey Joe's, Fritz Ayers, now owns a number of other restaurants in the area, including the Dolphin Bar and Shrimp House, located on the Indian River and the former home of actress and singer Frances Langford's Outrigger Resort and Polynesian Restaurant , as well as The Catch in Sewall's Point, which used to be The Prawnbroker Grill, another one of our favorite restaurants back in the day.
A few years ago, Ayers purchased the building that used to house The Admiral's Table, still another one of our favorites before it was destroyed by a hurricane back in 2004. It has been boarded up ever since. I read in the Stuart News that he planned to restore the building and open Conkey's on the Bayou: Brewery and Kitchen, a microbrewery featuring Southern food. I kept waiting for the place to open, but every time I passed by it, it was still boarded up. The recent article in the Stuart News about Conkey Joe's expansion also mentioned that Ayers has decided against going forward with the Conkey's on the Bayou plan. Bummer. The photograph on the right is of my sister Susan posing at the bar back in August of 1995. What will become of that location is anybody's guess, but don't plan on stopping there for an IPA anytime soon.
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