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About Us
Looking for a place built on decades of experience in Florida's shrimping tradition? Located along U.S. 41, our restaurant in Fort Myers serves shrimp, fish, crab, oysters, and other local favorites for lunch and dinner. Guests can dine in, shop fish, shellfish, prepared foods, and seasonings in our market, or arrange shipping for select products. Among the restaurants on 41 in Fort Myers, Skip One stands out for its long-standing connection to Florida's fishing community. The story behind us begins long before the restaurant opened, with owner Dennis Henderson's lifelong involvement in the state's commercial fishing industry.
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Shop fish, shellfish, prepared foods, and seasonings in our dedicated market. Visit our larger market with a separate entrance from 9am to 5pm, or browse the market counter inside the restaurant from 9am to 9pm.
'Can't praise this little dive enough!'
From a review in Urban Spoon
Skip-One-41 Owner Dennis Henderson has worked in Florida's shrimp industry since he was a boy unloading boats for the fish houses. His father was a welder who worked on docks and boats; as he grew, he followed his father's example and started his own boat welding and repair business.
In time he and two partners began buying their own boats. They named their enterprise TriCo and spent years going back and forth to Texas for shrimp, unloading their catch at fish houses. (In 1980 the third partner was bought out.)
When St. George Packing went up for sale, Dennis Henderson and George Gala bought everything - the building, the waterfront property and Beach Seafood & Gulf Shrimp; their trucking company ships the fleet's catch to the big processors.