![]() ![]() And, lets not forget "It Was Fifty Years Ago Today." so help us celebrate the 53rd anniversary of most famous and influential rock 'n' roll record ever made, Sgt. Their past Beatle Tribute Shows had Parrot patrons swinging from the rafters as they danced, laughed, and sang-along to a set-list pulled from decades of Lennon-McCartny hits. Registration can be done in advance at, or enter in person the day of at General Horseplay on 423 Caroline Street staring at 12:00PMĪ GREEN PARROT BEATLES TRIBUTE Well, Love, and Tony Baltimore, Chris Thomas, Hiram Garzaro, and Oren Polak, as they kick off Fantasy Week and re-create a Fab Four Show with "THE BEATLE BAND, All You Need is Love" at The Green Parrot with shows at 5:30 and 9 and 11 p.m. All you have to do to qualify is show up with hair on your face! All genders may register for the contest. Ron Wolek is looking for the most creative Beardos to strut down Caroline street show with their far out Fantasy Build-A-BeardsĪnd down to General Horseplay to become the 2022 Champions. You can make one or buy one to enter! Capt. Beardsmen and Whiskerina’s will be invited nationwide to compete for prizes, trophies, and bragging rights from Wolek’s Famous Beard Championship. Watch as exotic beards of all types are paraded on stage at General Horseplay for a hair-raising pageant that will make Blue Beard himself shave inĮnvy. Come one! Come All! See the greatest Beard show on earth at the 1st annual Fantasy Fest Beard Championship. ![]() The phone number is 40.FANTASY BEARD CONTEST presented by CAPTAIN RON WOLEK at GENERAL HORSEPLAY Hosted by Elle Taylor from 4:00PM - 8:00PM and benefitting Sister Seasons. It is open for lunch Monday through Saturday and dinner daily. Lee & Rick’s Oyster Bar is at 5621 Old Winter Garden Road, Orlando. They were good enough, and sufficiently messy.īut again, don’t come here for the hot food, come for the cold oysters. My friend had a half pound of steamed Peel and Eat Shrimp, a surprisingly large serving of shrimp sprinkled with bay seasoning (on the outside of the shells that were to be peeled away) served with something that for argument’s sake we’ll call drawn butter. Meanwhile, we watched the shuckers shuck, and every now and then someone would use a long handled tool to rake shells and other debris down the concrete trough through a hole with a galvanized can under it.įor my kitchen food I ordered the Fried Fish, a fish and chips style serving of pollock with a beer batter coating served with fries, both undistinguished. We were also presented with a whole sleeve of saltines (I have to admit I’ve never quite understood the saltines and oyster connection) and some cocktail sauce. The beers were appropriately cold and the oysters were delightfully plump and chewy, but not at all tough. We ordered a couple of beers and a dozen oysters and some “kitchen food” as well. ![]() There are more than nine stools now, but they’re all usually occupied - and the only acceptable place to sit here. ![]() My companion and I stopped by on a recent rainy evening and lucked out with a couple of just-vacated stools at the oyster bar. In fact, oysters on the half shell may be the only reason to go to Lee & Rick’s. So he decided that’s what they would specialize in.Īnd they still do to this day as the restaurant continues under the ownership of the Richter’s oldest son, Gene. But as odd as it may seem today, oysters weren’t common inland. Rick had been in the navy and discovered oysters in Florida’s panhandle. They raised their family in the back part of the building. Husband and wife Lee and Rick Richter opened the restaurant in 1950 as a nine-stool business that only sold oysters. From the cheesy boat facade to the concrete bar with big hunks chipped away from years of shuckers banging their knives on it to pry open oyster shells, this Orlando institution is a delight for the senses. And while it is scheduled to reopen soon with a new owner, its diveyness will have to be determined.īut Lee & Rick’s, now in its sixty-ninth year, is still around and just as unrefined as always. Wally’s, as those still in mourning know, closed last year. Whenever anyone asked about Orlando dives - and you’d be surprised how often people ask - there were always two immediate answers: Wally’s and Lee & Rick’s Oyster Bar. Orlando Classics is an occasional look at Central Florida restaurants that have been in business for at least 25 years. ![]()
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