The Friday Scoop
One more thing you should know before the weekend: The Continental is celebrating 12 years in Naples with a rather fitting $12 summer bar menu. Through October 12 (in keeping with the theme), the Third Street South steakhouse is offering a short menu of $12 bites and drinks exclusively at the bar.
The menu includes deviled eggs with caviar, oysters gratin, steak sandwich sliders and watermelon gazpacho with shrimp. The most enticing item may be the Wagyu Hot Dog Cuban Sandwich, which takes a Wagyu sausage and piles on the usual Cuban sandwich fixings, then toasts it to perfection. Drinks follow the same $12 theme: a Wheatley Vodka Martini, Buffalo Trace Old Fashioned, Chemistry Lesson and Aperol Spritz, plus generous 9-ounce pours of Zenato Pinot Grigio and Guigal red blend.
The only thing to remember is the parameters: the menu runs noon–2 p.m. and again from 5–9 p.m. daily, and you have to be seated at the bar to order it.
But for $24, you can pair a vodka martini with caviar-topped deviled eggs, and toast 12 years on Third Street. Do with that information what you will.
The Continental
1205 Third Street South, Naples • Summer Bar Menu daily, noon–2 p.m. & 5–9 p.m. • Through October 12 • continentalnaples.com
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Why It Matters
Naples weekends are often best when the plan stays simple. A seat at the bar, a good drink, somewhere worth lingering, and maybe a new reason to revisit a place you thought you already knew.
The Continental turning 12 is a good reminder of that. Even familiar Naples favorites can give us something new to try, and sometimes all it takes is a $12 martini and a plate of deviled eggs to make the weekend feel properly underway.
Have a great weekend, Naples.
Elizabeth Bellotti
Editor-In-Chief
Naples, Florida
The Naples Florida Review
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