There's a bar and restaurant delicately stuck on the end of the Rod and Reel Pier -- alongside the rod hiring and bait shop. The pier itself is a narrow, rickety looking, sun-bleached collection of planks. There's a great deal of ambling done here -- ambling, standing, and sitting still.
On the first floor, pleasantly shadowy, is a small bar. It serves cold beer. There seems little else to say -- its clientele demand little else of it. Upstairs is a cafe/restaurant. There's a small, covered outside area where you can catch the pleasant sea breeze -- this as far as we got although there is inside seating too.
The staff are really friendly and welcoming -- they had plenty of time for us funny-talkin' British folk. The pace is gentle but not too slow -- the cold beers kept coming.
As for the food, well it was a fairly broad lunch menu with all the usual suspects well represented. There was a good range of salads, burgers, sandwiches and seafood. The blonde continued her search for the finest peel-and-eat shrimps in Florida and declared these to be "sublime". I checked the dictionary and concurred.
I had a very tasty hamburger -- the accompanying salad and fries were all of a good standard too. Far more food than you can eat, particularly at lunch on a hot day, and all for a very reasonable price considering the tourist potential of the place.
This is a simple and agreeable place to wile away a long hot day. Far less crowded than the restaurant at the end of the larger City pier, we heartily recommend it. Just a warning about the bathrooms -- if you have issues about toilet facility standards, best wait til you get home.