Why is Barry O’Brien, a Daily News reader and former Warwick, Rhode Island, resident who now lives year-round in Ave Maria, eating a hamburger at the newest outpost of Flo’s Clam Shack?
His two favorite Flo’s dishes, fried clams or fish and chips, were sold out by noon when he arrived Feb. 2, the official opening day.
The joint opens at 11 a.m.; when an item sells out, that’s it until the next seafood shipment arrives.
O’Brien’s first Flo’s visit was 29 years ago in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
He wants his fellow readers to know, “They always have excellent food. You can never go wrong at Flo’s.”
He also explained that drizzling his fries (and the fish and chips he didn’t score) with vinegar is a Rhode Island thing.
What to know about Flo’s
The Naples outpost is Flo’s first-ever franchise location, but chef-owner Will Walker is no stranger to the shack; he started as a busser at 17 after asking his childhood buddy Yanni, whose dad Komes Rozes has owned Flo’s in Portsmouth since 1978 and expanded to a second location near Walker’s Middletown neighborhood in 1990, about a summer job.