Views of the Neighborhood

~ John W. Howell

The city of Port Aransas does not allow food trucks to operate within the city limits.  If you want a good meal, snack or drink on the quick and you want high quality there are some excellent places to go.

Tropical Snow

Here is one of the famous places. It is called Tropical Sno and is in the parking lot of a liquor store. As you can see, it is kind of busy. Yes, those are people standing in line. There are two cute signs in the window that you can read in this photo.

Tropic Sno

“Here I am. What are your other two wishes?” and “Making Mouths weird colors.”

Another outlet is the Lemonade stand. Here is one run by some young folks. They make a mean Arnold Palmer. (Of course, they never heard of  Arnold Palmer)

Lemonade stand

For some real down home cooking with a gourmet flair, you can’t beat John Shaw and his Hog Island Taco stand. Here is what he was cooking yesterday.

Menue

Sounds delicious and you can bet it is. John is a fabulous cook and puts out some satisfying, delicious food.

Here is a shot of the outside of John’s restaurant.

Hog Island Tacos

Inside was jam packed with folks waiting for their food. That’s Johh Shaw on the left doing the cooking.

John Shaw

When any of us get the craving for fresh shrimp, we go to the dock and check out when the next load of shrimp is do to arrive.

Shrimp sign

It looks like when you are reading this blog, I should be down standing in line for $5.00 a pound jumbo shrimp.

Here is the boat that brings it all in. The Polly Anna.

Shrimp boat

Well, that’s the View for this week.

44 thoughts on “Views of the Neighborhood”

  6. This was so fun and atmospheric, John. Delightful.
    If I got uber fresh jumbo shrimp at $5 a pound, I’d probably start sounding like Polly Anna (in stead of negative Nelly) — no wonder the boat got that name! 😀 Which reminds me… I need to take a blogging break and head to the grocery store before this neighborhood gets moving. Else I won’t be able to get a parking space when I get back. Have a sensational Sunday my friend! Hugs

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  10. Love this slice of your neighborhood, Mr. Rogers!! And waiting on the dock for fresh shrimp is a given all along the coast. Pretty hard to get the same experience inland, ha!

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  11. Hi John,
    I think my wife had snow cones [or is it sno cones?] at some time at the Tropical Sno. And we also got some shrimp – quite some time ago – at the Polly Anna. Shrimp are another of my wife’s favourites.
    Thanks for all the tips for other good places to eat, and have a wonderful week,
    Pit

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