As the former corporate pastry chef for Hyatt Hotels for twenty-seven years and the former owner of The All Chocolate Kitchen in Geneva, Illinois, for seventeen years before I sold it, I know how tough it is to run a restaurant and maintain true consistency. At S E A G U I N I – in the Opal Hotel in Clearwater, they nail the three essentials every single time: atmosphere, service, and food. We’ve been there more than ten times and it’s always the same high standard. The homemade pizza is excellent, the pasta is truly made in-house, and every dish feels cared for. The view outside is beautiful too. It even holds a special memory for us, our son, an officer in the eighty-second Airborne, proposed to his fiancée here. Five stars without hesitation.”