Gator Bay Marina Restaurant Leesburg

We really enjoyed our lunch here. Small out of the way restaurant/bar. Inside seating was limited to about 20, it does have a bar to sit at also. It does have plenty of out side seating both covered and out in the sun. It is on the river, you can bring your boat into the marina if you are in the area. We did get to see 2 small alligators swimming in the water by the dock. For appetizers we had the chicken wings, gator pretzel and cheese curds. The wings were the mango habanero, big wings, I would not want to fight one of their chickens. Great flavor, cooked perfectly, sweet flavor for about the first 2 seconds before the habanero kicks in but it was not over powering. The cheese curds were hot and squeaky, and if you have never heard your cheese curds squeak then you have never had good cheese curds. The pretzel was as big as the plate, hot crispy on the out side put soft in the middle. Plenty to share with your friends. For lunch we order the slaw dog and philly steak and cheese. Sorry did not get pictures of these. Started eating as soon as it hit the table. The hot dog was an all beef cooked in the deep fryer. Great flavor, the frying did not dry it out. All I can say about the Philly is that my wife said it was good. She would not share with me so I will have to take her word. The one thing for me was the live music, to me it was just a little to loud, it was hard to hear the people talking at the table at times but besides that definitely a must try place. Almost forgot, we had the fried pickles also, they are the spears not slices, really good came out so hot we had to wait a little before eating.

We went and saw a really great band called REL. This is a little hole in the wall Marina and bar with limited parking space. It's called Gator Bay where you literally are just feet from the water! The food was delicious but getting it took an extremely long time. 84 degrees in February? Yes please!!!