As the name implies, Skyway Jack's Restaurant is located near Tampa Bay's world famous Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Now that there are bigger suspension bridges in the world, one might question if the restaurant has become the more famous of the two. How are the prices? On a recent trip to St Petersburg I took eight people for breakfast and got off for less than sixty bucks, including the tip. Don't get all dressed up thinking this is a fancy place. The fanciest thing in the restaurant are the ceramic pigs lined up on one wall. They also have a giant chicken and pig out by the road. The walls are adorned with handmade posters, bumper stickers and all sorts of kitsch. The fanciest thing I could find on the menu was eggs Florentine. The breakfast menu has just about everything and anything your heart desires including stuffed French toast, all kinds of sweet breads, corn muffins, grits, and even scrambled pork brains. There are lots of treats for those of you that enjoy good old Southern cooking. Bound and determined to see if Skyway Jack's would get the southern cooking right, I ordered biscuits and gravy and my nephew ordered corned beef hash. The table also included poached eggs, pancakes topped with strawberries, eggs sunny side up, lots of toast and even a couple of items from the lunch menu including a hot turkey sandwich with gravy and mashed potatoes. There were no complaints from anyone and if you're looking for some kind of revelation about the food, your missing the point, this just isn't that kind of place. Having eaten at Skyway Jack's several times I can say this, the food is delicious and reliable. There is very little variation in the quality of the food or the service from one time to the next, and I think that's why we keep going back.
