Marco Island is a city and an island located off the southwest coast of Florida. Given its situation on the edge of the Everglades, outdoor enthusiasts flock here each year to enjoy activities such as boating, swimming, paragliding, tanning, sailing, cycling, rollerblading, tennis and golfing. Marco Island also provides a competitive culinary scene, with many restaurants offering fresh caught seafood and other specialties.
Café de Marco has received high marks from the likes of Frommer's. Seafood is the specialty here, with popular offerings of clams casino, shrimp cocktail, stuffed mushrooms, shrimp Lenny, crab cakes, lobster bisque, Caesar salad and ahi tuna. Café de Marco also boasts a fine wine list and an extensive menu of homemade desserts, such as New York cheesecake, Mississippi mud pie, chocolate suicide cake and key lime pie.
Café de Marco
244 Palm St.
Marco Island, FL 34145
239-394-6262
cafedemarco.com
Having received one of the highest ratings on Marco Island from Forbes Travel Guide, Konrad's specializes in seafood and Bavarian cuisine. It is all served up in a neoclassical but casual atmosphere. Choice menu items include chicken Roma, chicken Milanese, Bavarian style calf's liver and Gulf seafood aioli. There is also a children's menu.
Konrad's Seafood & Grille Room
Marco Walk
Marco Island, FL 34145
239-642-3332
konradsrestaurant.com
In 2008 Arturo's Italian Restaurant won the Southwest Florida Choice Award for Best Italian Restaurant. Arturo's offers Italian specialties in a fine dining atmosphere. Open seven days a week, reservations are strongly recommended, as locals and tourists alike are drawn in by menu items such as tortellini a la panna, eggplant Parmesan, penne rosa verde, spaghetti marinara, gnocchi gorgonzola, chicken francais, veal picatta, veal Parmesan, veal Sorrentino and fried calamari.
Arturo's Italian Restaurant
844 Bald Eagle Dr.
Marco Island, FL 34145
239-642-0550
arturosmarcoisland.com
Captain Brien's Seafood has won acclaim from the likes of the Marco Island Sun Times. The restaurant, which is open for lunch and dinner every day of the week, offers an array of seafood specialties, such as teriyaki salmon, Mexican oysters, shrimp scampi, snapper Santa Fe, sea scallops, coconut shrimp, champagne scallops, calamari fra diablo, Maine lobster alfredo and jumbo Gulf shrimp. There is also a comedy club on the premises, featuring live stand-up comics from around the nation.
Captain Brien's Seafood
599 S. Collier Blvd. Suite 218
Marco Island, FL 34145
239-389-6900
captbriens.com
