On the website for the new Doc Ford’s Jungle Terrace Rum Bar and Grille (8790 Bay Pines Blvd.), novelist Randy Wayne White – creator of the Doc Ford character, and spiritual advisor to the team that owns the restaurant chain – admits that it’s not, in the technical sense, where it says it is.
“My novels are fact-based, so I must also admit that this restaurant is not actually located in Bay Pines or Jungle Terrace,” White writes. “Nor are you. Not if you’re reading this. Bay Pines is across the bridge, an enclave of classy people surrounded by water on three sides. And, officially, the Jungle Terrace boundary lies 502-yards south where 40th Ave. attempts to lure inattentive drivers into Boca Ciega Bay before it dead ends.”
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